He did, after all, go to India for spiritual enlightenment, and had seriously considered going to Japan to a Zen monastery. I think this side of Steve Jobs is the side that gives him his "vision", and India was most likely the place where he was taught in the ways of "Reality Distortion".
Not much of that could be said about Balmer, who reminds me more of the typical arrogant businessman, who's only where he is now because of Bill Gates.
By default, those benchmarks are biased against certain languages simply because not all languages had programs done for all types of speed tests. For example, if you give 0 to the weight of those tests/algorithms that were not done on Java (10 in total), you will see that it actually outperforms C++. Depending on the weight you give certain tests, you will be able to put almost any language into a favorable light.
You can see, however, that the language "D", is number one most of the time because it had programs made for it for all of the tests.
I understand you're joking, but listening to the interview reveals that he did not find any information in regards to anti-gravity. However, he claims to have found plenty of evidence for UFOs, mainly in the form of very high-resolution images. Whether or not the owner of that particular system he was on intentionally left those images there for conspiracy theorists like him to find remains unknown...
The problem with that argument is that what he "did" was browse file systems, change a desktop picture, and attempt to persuade system admins to secure their systems by leaving notes on the desktop. How is 70 years in prison a justifiable sentence for these actions?
Sorry to say this, but I just don't understand what's so appealing about standing in line on a hot day for hours to go on some stupid ride; and actually having to pay to do it too!
Alright, I see your point, but I still consider actuallying incorperating various devices out there into your product and making that a standard to be innovative. Apple has done that and invented things. They've also improved upon things as well, such as the creation of two-finger scrolling on their laptops when competitors used a separate, designated area on their trackpads. My point is that innovation is a broad concept. It does not just mean inventing something, but it means being the first to make something better than other competitors; to think outside the box.
The thing that made me post originally is that saying Microsoft is not innovative is just plain fucking stupid when they have the most successful desktop OS on the planet. By many of these definitions of innovation that come up, that would seem to qualify.
You really don't back this up. Being the most successful has absolutely nothing to do with being innovative.
For instance, Apple are often described as innovative for producing things like the iMac, integrated wifi, bringing high quality industrial design to their products, etc. (Even not putting a floppy drive in the iMac was seen as innovation. Still trying to work that one out.)
Yet these things are not new. Apple didn't invent wifi, nor the idea of integration (ask Adam Osborne), and designing things well is not new either. But they did them anyway, and they're all good things to have that weren't being done in a widespread way before. This seems to be the only definition of innovation that I can come up with that matches most people's ideas of innovation (when they rant about it on slashdot).
While those specific examples may be true, I think you're stretching the truth a bit there with Apple. They really are an innovative company, sometimes inventing completely new things, sometimes enhancing something that's been done before. But if you're going to tell me that turning a circular stone into a plastic tire is not innovative, then you've got something else coming to you.
Now I don't have a very great memory, but here's a very incomplete list of the innovative things Apple has done:
First handwriting recognition with the newton
Invented Firewire (also known as i.Link or IEEE 1394)
First to bundle optical mouse with computers
First to use USB
First to incorperate built-in ethernet ports
First to have trackpads on their laptops
First 17" laptop
First to embrace Wifi with its Airport products
First to have DVD burners
iPod. 'nuff said. (Don't argue, remember what I said about the wheel)
Most advanced OS that has plenty of innovative features not seen in any other OS
The point is that while Apple invented some things, they were also the first to actually use many other things, and I think leading the industry and making bold moves such as getting rid of the floppy is innovative.
Any other examples or corrections are welcome.
That's really strange actually. Your system is faster than mine (dual 867 Mhz G4 with 768 MB ram) and I've never experienced such behavior with Dashboard. The only time there is a delay is when you first access dashboard because at this time all of the widgets you have selected are loaded into memory, but after that everything is instant. My guess is that you have something else going on, try using the Activity Monitor in/Applications/Utilities to see if there's some process hogging your CPU.
Heh I admit I forgot about that (I hardly use it), but in my defense I'll say that you can't use Google if you have no internet connection.
The point is that Dashboard makes your life easy by making frequently used things easily accessable at the touch of a button. It really is great, I'm not just saying it because I worship Steve Jobs:-p
To see what I'm talking about, what these widgets look like, and what kinds there are, just click here.
What really is there that is superior to Windows (besides FreeBSD underneath)? And don't you dare say Spotlight... it's a resource pig too (and one it seems you can't turn off either, much like Dashboard.)
Sorry you took my comment as an insult, it wasn't meant to be. It's just that you really have very little clue of what OS X is.
FreeBSD underneath - You say this as if it's a tiny feature; more evidence you know very little about OS X, and FreeBSD. I have access to virtually all of the command line programs on most linux distros, even apt-get! Many linux programs are easily runnable along side OS X apps using X11. Simply put, the Terminal application in OS X blows the "Command Prompt" in windows away.
Intelligent filebrowsing with the finder. I was using list view in Windows Explorer the other day and renamed a file in it. I was shocked to discover it didn't automatically reposition itself in the list based on its new name. Quick and convenient file search is available in a search box in every finder window. You can easily force-quit the Finder without having to worry about OS X crashing.
Security. I don't have the link on me but it's been shown that OS X and other FreeBSD derivatives are the most secure operating systems on the planet. There was an article on slashdot a few months ago about this, but I'm too lazy to search for it. Windows security... heh, oxymoron.
iApps - Free. Buy a mac and get many aplpications for free (iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand, Mail, etc). If you've actually used these, you'll realize how great they are. They're not simply little toys, but they are real, near-professional quality applications that can do amazing things. Get a windows box, and you will have none of this (Windows Movie Maker, a poor rip off of iMovie, is so crappy it does not count).
Built in Java VM. It makes Java developers happy (like me).
Built in Python. It makes Python developers happy.
Intelligent file sharing with permissions; in windows you have to go through hell to get this working.
System Preferences application. This is similar to the Windows "Control Panels" folder, except it is so much better. Try getting windows to run an FTP server, or an HTTP server, or an SSH server, or...:-) All with two clicks! (Sharing -> click checkbox for the service of your choice). Easily protect yourself with a powerful firewall (even though you really don't need it, heh).
No viruses or spyware. 'nuff said.
Quartz Extreme - automatic hardware rendering for virtually all of the user interface.
Aqua. (not the ugly University colors of XP).
Spotlight. There, I said it.
NO REGISTRY! I've seen many a 3.4 Ghz P4 system cripled to the equivalent of a 300 mhz Celeron because their registry (an unbelievably stupid concept) was fscked.
Instead of the registry, OS X has an intelligent method of organizing users's preferences. They're all located in a... single folder.
Intelligent user organization scheme - Because OS X has real, actual unix permissions (unlike windows), it is by default very secure on a multiuser system, with excellent user home folder organization. There's a System Library folder where system prefs are located (protected by permissions), and a Library folder in each User's home directory. This makes moving from one system to another and backing up data really easy.
I could go on... but like I said in the other post, you should just learn more.
So my question is, why not just use the browser? IT ALREADY DOES THESE THINGS!
Sorry, a web browser cannot do all the things as quickly and conveniently as Dashboard. Say I'd like to leave a note for myself with a list of groceries, while I'm not sure how you'd do with with a web browser, you can easily use the built-in "sticky note" widget to jot down several items.
What if you want to know the 5 day forcast for this week? You could launch up firefox and go to an easily memorizable website like weather.com, navigate through it, and find your forcast among the puddle of advertisements, or you could just press F12 and instantly see it in a very clear, simple interface.
Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.
In class and listening to a boring lecture? Press F12 and quickly play a few games like Pacman, chess, and Snake, right in the dashboard - no internet connection required!
Umm... so how would you do all that with a web browser, especially if you have... no internet connection?;-)
There isn't one of them that gives you functionality that your browser doesn't already afford. Sure, they're pretty, but what's going to happen is that as people amass more and more of these widgets, the dashboard becomes cluttered and slow (it already is painfully slow on my MDD 1.25GHz G4, and that's just with the stock widgets, with the default set active only). Then there's going to be the question as to how to organize them all... the faux dock at the bottom is already insufficient. I know, let's stick a menu in there! Great idea!
Widgets take up very little memory and all of the default ones take up 0% of the CPU most of the time (check with top if you don't believe me). You've got something else going on there if you say it's sluggish.
Your "Widget Menu" is coming though, and although it's already available in the form of many third-party tools, Apple will be releasing one built into the Dashboard in their upcoming update: 10.4.2
As for the rest of your post, you clearly seem to have a very poor understanding of OS X. I suggest reading up on it to find out "a ton of examples as to how, say, Mac OS X is so much more beautiful, exciting and uplifting?".
Hmmm... yet for some reason I recall live actors in Buffy the Vampire Slayer stabbing people in the face, and in the X-Files I remember seeing some guy screaming and watching blood pour out of his arms after a sword-wielding woman cut off his hands. Heh, yet these graphic images are displayed on regular (read: not even cable) television daily!
So it seems to me there's a certain amount of hypocricy among American television networks. Personally, I'd rather my children watch FMA than Pokemon or Mucha Lucha, or any of that other shit; they'd be much better off mentally.
Well you may be exposed to it by the person I replied to certainly didn't seem to be.
I do understand, however, where you're coming from. There is a lot of Anime, just like there are many books and movies, that have very poor story lines and poorly made characters. It's interesting to me though that of the shows that you listed, I've seen only Lain and Evangelion (the movies), and have got to say that I did not enjoy those either.
Sometimes I will watch anime that does have a crappy plot, but great characters, or vice versa. I watch these for simple entertainment (like I would watch Batman Begins). Not for their artistic merit, but simply for the entertainment value that they provide. I will also watch some anime that lacks a strong plot if it is unique in some other aspect (such as Ghost in a Shell). You have to admit, you will not find anything close to most of the Anime in Japan, here in America.
For you however, I would recommend the likes of "Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke", and "Grave of the fireflies". Those three movies have excellent plots, and great characters. Have you seen them? If you haven't, watch them before giving up hope; they are the Japanese equivalents to "The Lion King", "Fern Gully", etc (in the sense that they are classic animated features).
That's interesting, I didn't think of that. However, Adult Swim is not exactly Cartoon Network, it's like a sub department. However, the important part is that for some reason Full Metal Alchemist is considered "Adult" material when it is most definitely not. Very few people watch Adult Swim when compared to the daytime shows of Cartoon Network, and I don't think the poster to whom I replied watched it, but that's just judging by his comments.
Btw, I realize that Pokemon is imported from Japan and is considered Anime, but the point is that the only anime networks will allow on American TV is stupid filth. American TV provides plenty of its own filth too (Mucha Lucha, Static Shock, Ed ed and Eddy, Powerpuff Girls, etc).
(Not to say it was always this bad, but as time progressed American networks seemed to have a hatred for anything remotely intelligent; shows like Pinky and the Brain, Hysteria, Bill Nye, Magic School Bus, Reboot, etc. all were slowly cancelled or moved to bad time schedules)
It seems like you simply haven't been exposed to some of the great Anime out there and are using the poorly dubbed filth on Cartoon Network as the basis for your argument. Sorry, but if you think Anime is "Dragon Ball Z" or "Sailor Moon", clearly you need more exposure to it.
However, this isn't entirely your fault. A lot of this ignorance has to do with American culture in general. One of the major reasons that 99% of the anime out there isn't shown on Cartoon Network is because it doesn't conform to what's "socially acceptable" in the United States. Great shows like Outlaw Star were first stripped of their original voice acting, and then butchered of entire episodes because they revolved around "adult" material that the fat cats at Cartoon Network did not consider to be appropriate for children.
A lot of the anime out there would most likely shock 80% (figure pulled out of ass) of American mothers to tears. There would be so many lawsuits and complaining that Cartoon Network would run into a corner and try to disappear to protect itself from the hordes of broom-weilding angry mothers.
Over the years American children have been steadily conditioned into stupidity and happy fairy tail lands where battles are not fought by people but by little creatures called "Pokemon", and I'll be damned if I ever see a single speck of blood on ol' Pikachu even though he was just smacked by 200 tons of solid rock.
Americans would best understand the nature of Anime if they thought of it as "cartoons for mature people" (even though a lot of it is watched by children in Japan). My suggestion to you would be to search Netflix or something similar (or *cough*bittorrent*cough*) and grab yourself a few DVDs of shows and movies like "Princess Mononoke", "Full Metal Alchemist", "Hellsing", "Cowboy Bebop" and "Spirited Away".
In the end floating point numbers are still represented by 1's and 0's. We'll have to wait until computers can represent data in 2's and 3's and 4's and 52.5234's ("shades of gray") before they'll be more like us.
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Their "dylithium crystal" based transceiver, at least the one on the left, looks really familiar...
He did, after all, go to India for spiritual enlightenment, and had seriously considered going to Japan to a Zen monastery. I think this side of Steve Jobs is the side that gives him his "vision", and India was most likely the place where he was taught in the ways of "Reality Distortion".
Not much of that could be said about Balmer, who reminds me more of the typical arrogant businessman, who's only where he is now because of Bill Gates.
They'll be joined by my good friends Mike Oxbig, Oliver Closoff, Harry Weiner, and Ima Ho. ... oh man... this brings me back... like... a week...
By default, those benchmarks are biased against certain languages simply because not all languages had programs done for all types of speed tests. For example, if you give 0 to the weight of those tests/algorithms that were not done on Java (10 in total), you will see that it actually outperforms C++. Depending on the weight you give certain tests, you will be able to put almost any language into a favorable light.
You can see, however, that the language "D", is number one most of the time because it had programs made for it for all of the tests.
I understand you're joking, but listening to the interview reveals that he did not find any information in regards to anti-gravity. However, he claims to have found plenty of evidence for UFOs, mainly in the form of very high-resolution images. Whether or not the owner of that particular system he was on intentionally left those images there for conspiracy theorists like him to find remains unknown...
The problem with that argument is that what he "did" was browse file systems, change a desktop picture, and attempt to persuade system admins to secure their systems by leaving notes on the desktop. How is 70 years in prison a justifiable sentence for these actions?
I'll be sure to use that one at my next party
I don't know why, but when I read this I couldn't help but imagining Larry Page yelling, "Oh be nicee!" in that homosexual lisp...
Yeah, and some people watch movies every weekend. Go figure.
Sorry to say this, but I just don't understand what's so appealing about standing in line on a hot day for hours to go on some stupid ride; and actually having to pay to do it too!
You really don't back this up. Being the most successful has absolutely nothing to do with being innovative.
Now I don't have a very great memory, but here's a very incomplete list of the innovative things Apple has done:
The point is that while Apple invented some things, they were also the first to actually use many other things, and I think leading the industry and making bold moves such as getting rid of the floppy is innovative. Any other examples or corrections are welcome.
That's really strange actually. Your system is faster than mine (dual 867 Mhz G4 with 768 MB ram) and I've never experienced such behavior with Dashboard. The only time there is a delay is when you first access dashboard because at this time all of the widgets you have selected are loaded into memory, but after that everything is instant. My guess is that you have something else going on, try using the Activity Monitor in /Applications/Utilities to see if there's some process hogging your CPU.
Heh I admit I forgot about that (I hardly use it), but in my defense I'll say that you can't use Google if you have no internet connection.
:-p
The point is that Dashboard makes your life easy by making frequently used things easily accessable at the touch of a button. It really is great, I'm not just saying it because I worship Steve Jobs
To see what I'm talking about, what these widgets look like, and what kinds there are, just click here.
I could go on... but like I said in the other post, you should just learn more.
What if you want to know the 5 day forcast for this week? You could launch up firefox and go to an easily memorizable website like weather.com, navigate through it, and find your forcast among the puddle of advertisements, or you could just press F12 and instantly see it in a very clear, simple interface.
Need to do some quick multiplication? Instead of searching google for a bloody online calculator, press F12 and out of nowhere pops up a calculator instantly.
In class and listening to a boring lecture? Press F12 and quickly play a few games like Pacman, chess, and Snake, right in the dashboard - no internet connection required!
Umm... so how would you do all that with a web browser, especially if you have... no internet connection?
Your "Widget Menu" is coming though, and although it's already available in the form of many third-party tools, Apple will be releasing one built into the Dashboard in their upcoming update: 10.4.2
As for the rest of your post, you clearly seem to have a very poor understanding of OS X. I suggest reading up on it to find out "a ton of examples as to how, say, Mac OS X is so much more beautiful, exciting and uplifting?".
Hmmm... yet for some reason I recall live actors in Buffy the Vampire Slayer stabbing people in the face, and in the X-Files I remember seeing some guy screaming and watching blood pour out of his arms after a sword-wielding woman cut off his hands. Heh, yet these graphic images are displayed on regular (read: not even cable) television daily!
So it seems to me there's a certain amount of hypocricy among American television networks. Personally, I'd rather my children watch FMA than Pokemon or Mucha Lucha, or any of that other shit; they'd be much better off mentally.
Well you may be exposed to it by the person I replied to certainly didn't seem to be.
I do understand, however, where you're coming from. There is a lot of Anime, just like there are many books and movies, that have very poor story lines and poorly made characters. It's interesting to me though that of the shows that you listed, I've seen only Lain and Evangelion (the movies), and have got to say that I did not enjoy those either.
Sometimes I will watch anime that does have a crappy plot, but great characters, or vice versa. I watch these for simple entertainment (like I would watch Batman Begins). Not for their artistic merit, but simply for the entertainment value that they provide. I will also watch some anime that lacks a strong plot if it is unique in some other aspect (such as Ghost in a Shell). You have to admit, you will not find anything close to most of the Anime in Japan, here in America.
For you however, I would recommend the likes of "Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke", and "Grave of the fireflies". Those three movies have excellent plots, and great characters. Have you seen them? If you haven't, watch them before giving up hope; they are the Japanese equivalents to "The Lion King", "Fern Gully", etc (in the sense that they are classic animated features).
That's interesting, I didn't think of that. However, Adult Swim is not exactly Cartoon Network, it's like a sub department. However, the important part is that for some reason Full Metal Alchemist is considered "Adult" material when it is most definitely not. Very few people watch Adult Swim when compared to the daytime shows of Cartoon Network, and I don't think the poster to whom I replied watched it, but that's just judging by his comments.
Btw, I realize that Pokemon is imported from Japan and is considered Anime, but the point is that the only anime networks will allow on American TV is stupid filth. American TV provides plenty of its own filth too (Mucha Lucha, Static Shock, Ed ed and Eddy, Powerpuff Girls, etc).
(Not to say it was always this bad, but as time progressed American networks seemed to have a hatred for anything remotely intelligent; shows like Pinky and the Brain, Hysteria, Bill Nye, Magic School Bus, Reboot, etc. all were slowly cancelled or moved to bad time schedules)
It seems like you simply haven't been exposed to some of the great Anime out there and are using the poorly dubbed filth on Cartoon Network as the basis for your argument. Sorry, but if you think Anime is "Dragon Ball Z" or "Sailor Moon", clearly you need more exposure to it.
However, this isn't entirely your fault. A lot of this ignorance has to do with American culture in general. One of the major reasons that 99% of the anime out there isn't shown on Cartoon Network is because it doesn't conform to what's "socially acceptable" in the United States. Great shows like Outlaw Star were first stripped of their original voice acting, and then butchered of entire episodes because they revolved around "adult" material that the fat cats at Cartoon Network did not consider to be appropriate for children.
A lot of the anime out there would most likely shock 80% (figure pulled out of ass) of American mothers to tears. There would be so many lawsuits and complaining that Cartoon Network would run into a corner and try to disappear to protect itself from the hordes of broom-weilding angry mothers.
Over the years American children have been steadily conditioned into stupidity and happy fairy tail lands where battles are not fought by people but by little creatures called "Pokemon", and I'll be damned if I ever see a single speck of blood on ol' Pikachu even though he was just smacked by 200 tons of solid rock.
Americans would best understand the nature of Anime if they thought of it as "cartoons for mature people" (even though a lot of it is watched by children in Japan). My suggestion to you would be to search Netflix or something similar (or *cough*bittorrent*cough*) and grab yourself a few DVDs of shows and movies like "Princess Mononoke", "Full Metal Alchemist", "Hellsing", "Cowboy Bebop" and "Spirited Away".
In the end floating point numbers are still represented by 1's and 0's. We'll have to wait until computers can represent data in 2's and 3's and 4's and 52.5234's ("shades of gray") before they'll be more like us.
I bet that "Brad" character is one of the few thankful for lackluster /. editorialship.