The philosophical question of the day. What is Microsoft protecting more- it public "image" or it treasure trove of bullshit (that is so 80's- the new word is spin)? They may want to reuse some of this for Windows 7 as oppose to actually do some actual software engineering.
I don't think the Bible writers were flying on a spaceship at near the speed of light. The events that occurred in the Bible would of have to occur on something moving near the speed of light and not Earth. However, obviously the book was written here in the same reference frame as you and I and those telescopes exist. Thus, they are wrong and the theologians are wrong. Why is it hard for people to believe that modern scientists know more about the universe than a bunch goat-herders roaming in the desert?
That was always the gripe I had with integrated graphics chipsets. IGV take away the system memory and the OEM's "innocently" forget to do the subtraction when quoting the actual system memory in their marketing material.
Will we also have figured out how reignite the Earth's core when all the radioactive elements decay in 1 billion years.The dyanmo will shutdown, the stellar wind will erode the atmosphere, and the Earth will look like Mars. Either we are going to need a really big cyclotron or collect uranium from a really big supernova.
It should contain utilities that perform administrative tasks... maybe a few tiny applications for things like migration, disk partitioning, and other very basic tasks... but it should not contain what would be considered non-administrative applications.
Why not port it to Linux they have a win and mac version of it.
An obscure reason there is not Linux version is that Photoshop relies heavily on the hardware to perform its functions. Adobe developers have to interact closely with both Apple and Microsoft engineers to correct bugs in the API's and to get the best performance for Photoshop. Photoshop is a professional product where companies make money using it. Thus, it has to work efficiently or the Adobe customers lose money. Unfortunately for the Linux users, there no single entity that controls the OS. So, Adobe engineers would find optimizing Photoshop for Linux platform an awkward challenge. I suspect that a Linux version would never run as well as a Mac or Windows version and consequently would not sell.
Perceived costs has nothing to do with Linux's popularity problems. Firefox is free to use and it is doing quite well against Internet explorer. The value of the OS to the user and not the price tag is the critical source of the problem. Computer geeks (present company and all that) values Linux. The platform is an excellent platform for learning. People pursuing Computer Science degrees can study anything part of the platform with having to sign a contract. Companies have built fortunes on using Linux (Google anyone). However, Linux is not an easy tool to use and make productive. For those whose career and talents have nothing to do with computers yet need computers, they may just want something that works out of the box with no fuss. They want something with a large pool of software written for it that they are trained to use. Maybe, they just rather that the OS be there when they take the computer out of the box. The doctors, lawyers, stock brokers, and artists in the world just don't value Linux the same way the author does.
Oh my dear friend,you have refuted nothing. You have never used Mac OS X, have you? BeOS and AmigoOS more analogous to OS/2 than OSX. They like OS/2 are interesting in that they are different but largely irrelevant today. OS X is definitely a good workhorse OS (you know- using it for actual WORK!). All the goodness of Unix with better usability than Windows. After years, Mac OS X runs just as well as it did when its first install. Analyzing data, typing in Office, writing routines in Matlab, use command line to access Linux server, drawing in Canvas... BeOS? Pfft... not even in the same ball park.
The closer star is the one with the planets. The one 21000 years provided the light however, the closer one acted like the lens. You can read this article for more information. Basically, the perfect alignment of the two stars produces a magnification of the furthermost stars light. If the intensity of the outer star is plot against time, the graph will show a hump when the stars aligned. If there is a planet around the "lens" star that is pretty far away, the planet will cause a deviation in the light intensity curve when it aligns with the stars. Thus, the planet acted as another lens in the system further magnifying the light from the furthermost star.
a government controlled national broadband infrastructure. Looks like Time Warner just added another "tax" and all the users in return Texas got was the same 3Mb/s. That is much better than paying taxes to the federal government and getting 100 Mb/s. When greed (oh, wait I mean bottom-line) becomes dominant, business are the most unethical entities in the country. I have no idea why anyone put their trust in them or market forces to provide the best outcome. All I can say is I am lucky Verizon isn't involved in Hollywood yet.
With all the bickering that characterize the last couple of debates, spending an hour on youTube did little to persuade me on way or the other. They candidates seem too focus on telling me what the other candidate said that they neglected to speak to me. I guess that is politics nowadays but it does not help me. So I decided to look at the candidates beyond their campaign to make my decision.
Hillary Clinton is certainly a intelligent and strong woman. Not many First Ladies have decide to move on in politics after their husbands departed the Oval Office. She certainly is no quiet housewife. I would support Hillary except for one problem- her vote on the Iraq War. I am not so much focus on the vote itself by why she made that decision. If she had read the pre-war assessment, she would have obviously concluded that military action was not needed. I wonder if she voted for the war so as not to look too weak (to womanly?) in a post 9/11 Rovian politics. In any rate, when Americans were scared and confused, she failed to provide any leadership or objectivity. I haven't found any other examples where she has provided leadership to get something done for Americans. With a recession looming, I don't believe she can provide leadership when we face uncertainty.
Barack Obama has not done much yet either in his tenure as Senate. But paradoxically, his very lack of season among other things is why I believe he should be President. Barack Obama is an African American in a country that has never came close to electing a black President. Four years ago, I didn't even know his name. Yet, in those years, he has gone from a local phenomenon to a serious contender for the Democratic nomination. He has been able to inspired fellow politicians, donors, and followers to create strong national campaign despite being so new and inexperience. His ability to do that is unique amongst those who had ever vie for the White House and is what sets him above Hillary Clinton. We,as a country, need person that can build great things with very little in a short period of time. His charisma has already given me hope for the future.
I have no faults with Hillary Clinton but I do have concerns with her as President. Her very supposed strength had yielded very little accomplishment in her time in the Senate. I don't know how she is going to get any of her well-planned promises enacted by Congress. Barack Obama has little credit to his name as well but that is not what I expect from him. I expect him to create a broad coalition to help move this country forward. I believe that he can break Rovian politics and unify this country. His lack of experience can be mitigated by a well chosen administration that will develop strong plans to deal with our issues.
There is nothing in the GPL that say by using one piece of open source software requires a company to release all its software under GPL. GPL allows software developers to create and maintain for a much smaller monetary investment than would otherwise be needed. By Canonical integrating Policy Kit, aptitude, Nautilus,etc. into Ubuntu, Canonical is actually helping the original developers even if they don't contribute any code back. Investment in open source projects is directly related to how widespread it is used. The non-trivial of taking a program from redhat based distro and bring it to a debian-derived distro increases its userbase. Ubuntu definitely helps the Debian project by making the distribution easy to install and used. I don't think Dell and others would have ever considered Debian without the efforts of Canonical. The door swings both ways.
Republicans have terrible long term memory. Bush did not heed his father's caution about invading Iraq. Likewise, in forging this do-nothing policy, he forgot about another Republican- Dwight D. Eisenhower. One of Eisenhower's greatest achievements was a Interstate Highway System. The highway system was completely funded by the US government and had tremendous impact the economy that lasts till this day. Goods and workers trek across that system everyday creating the life we have the today. The things we take for granted today would not exist without those roads. A national broadband network can have similar impact for the 21st century. Instead of cybertrekking across small roads like we do todays, we can move across superhighways.
The US economy and society would benefit from this system great. Huge broadband pipes makes sending any form of data across that network practical. Advertising, entertainment, and commerce would get more opportunities. For those who don't like DRM, broadband could cut out those media companies behind the RIAA and MPAA that sit between the consumer and the artist. Scientist and student can have access to huge libraries all from their computers. Our economy grows on ides and such network would allow those ideas move efficiently.
With a recession oncoming, private businesses aren't likely to build such a system anytime soon. Banks are still licking their wounds from the housing fiasco. I can imagine that they will be too shell shock to give loans for a broadband network. The US government is the biggest spender in the world and it doesn't matter if it wastes money on a technology that would be obsolete. I believe that governmental investment is the only way to get a broadband system off the ground.
If you think Vista is a dud, why not choose a competing OS. Does anyone find it odd that the only recourse for a "dud" OS is to write a superficial article why Vista sucks and hope MS makes a better one in 3 years? Just, buy Mac or a PC with Linux and get on with your life.
Anyway, what did Apple really do? They switched their OS9 for one of the oldest OS'es still around? Apple did NOT write new code, they used existing code, existing ANCIENT code
.
Then, OS X gives credence to the saying, " they don't make it like they use to!"
You hit right on the nail buddy. If it takes one person 70 hrs a week to do a job, then maybe the company should hire two people. This profit driven ideology is driving our society into the ground. Even though they are doing well financially, the ones doing the 70 hrs are neglecting their lives and their family. They are more likely to breakdown or have family troubles. The others struggle making ends meet with lower paying jobs working the same hours and have the same problems. All the while, America is decaying and heading straight towards recession.
I don't agree with observation that the metal casing of the pro notebooks are prone to deformation. True, it was like that when Apple released the titanium notebooks but the aluminum casing they now use is very sturdy. God knows I drop this aluminum PB notebook enough times to warrant a dent if your statement were true. But, they do have a policy of not repairing under warranty if there it signs of damage on the casing. That has always been that way.
then every american can read the email of every politician and bureaucrat in the US government. Our votes put them in office. Our taxes pay their salary, the computers they use, office supplies, etc. Any email they send on our time and through our equipment must be open to any American and thus be preserved for future investigation and historical study. Especially the top secret stuff that for reasons of national security are restricted from contemporary open examination. Anything else and the government is not ours and thus its mandate to govern us is nulled.
Come on, Apple! I'll take the same form-factor as a MacBook! Heck I'll take the same specs, just put a real keyboard on it and get rid of the glossy screen! I'll still pay $1,799!
Ah, dude just get an Macbook and save $300 dollars. I am not seeing your argument. Apple thin light notebbok by basically gutting the damn thing. I am not saying its a good thing but its their choice. I will wait to see how the early adopters react to it
My first gaming experience began with arcades in the cornner when I was 8. I was absolutely addicted to Karnov and Rush 'n' Attack. Since the corner arcade was not a good place for a kid to being hanging out, my parents bought me an Atari 2600. However, it was my first Nintendo that finally wrested me from that den.
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The philosophical question of the day. What is Microsoft protecting more- it public "image" or it treasure trove of bullshit (that is so 80's- the new word is spin)? They may want to reuse some of this for Windows 7 as oppose to actually do some actual software engineering.
I don't think the Bible writers were flying on a spaceship at near the speed of light. The events that occurred in the Bible would of have to occur on something moving near the speed of light and not Earth. However, obviously the book was written here in the same reference frame as you and I and those telescopes exist. Thus, they are wrong and the theologians are wrong. Why is it hard for people to believe that modern scientists know more about the universe than a bunch goat-herders roaming in the desert?
That was always the gripe I had with integrated graphics chipsets. IGV take away the system memory and the OEM's "innocently" forget to do the subtraction when quoting the actual system memory in their marketing material.
Will we also have figured out how reignite the Earth's core when all the radioactive elements decay in 1 billion years.The dyanmo will shutdown, the stellar wind will erode the atmosphere, and the Earth will look like Mars. Either we are going to need a really big cyclotron or collect uranium from a really big supernova.
Wow, we have to go through that much effort to get what we want. Sad.
It should contain utilities that perform administrative tasks... maybe a few tiny applications for things like migration, disk partitioning, and other very basic tasks... but it should not contain what would be considered non-administrative applications.
That would be nice!
Why not port it to Linux they have a win and mac version of it.
An obscure reason there is not Linux version is that Photoshop relies heavily on the hardware to perform its functions. Adobe developers have to interact closely with both Apple and Microsoft engineers to correct bugs in the API's and to get the best performance for Photoshop. Photoshop is a professional product where companies make money using it. Thus, it has to work efficiently or the Adobe customers lose money. Unfortunately for the Linux users, there no single entity that controls the OS. So, Adobe engineers would find optimizing Photoshop for Linux platform an awkward challenge. I suspect that a Linux version would never run as well as a Mac or Windows version and consequently would not sell.
Perceived costs has nothing to do with Linux's popularity problems. Firefox is free to use and it is doing quite well against Internet explorer. The value of the OS to the user and not the price tag is the critical source of the problem. Computer geeks (present company and all that) values Linux. The platform is an excellent platform for learning. People pursuing Computer Science degrees can study anything part of the platform with having to sign a contract. Companies have built fortunes on using Linux (Google anyone). However, Linux is not an easy tool to use and make productive. For those whose career and talents have nothing to do with computers yet need computers, they may just want something that works out of the box with no fuss. They want something with a large pool of software written for it that they are trained to use. Maybe, they just rather that the OS be there when they take the computer out of the box. The doctors, lawyers, stock brokers, and artists in the world just don't value Linux the same way the author does.
Oh my dear friend,you have refuted nothing. You have never used Mac OS X, have you? BeOS and AmigoOS more analogous to OS/2 than OSX. They like OS/2 are interesting in that they are different but largely irrelevant today. OS X is definitely a good workhorse OS (you know- using it for actual WORK!). All the goodness of Unix with better usability than Windows. After years, Mac OS X runs just as well as it did when its first install. Analyzing data, typing in Office, writing routines in Matlab, use command line to access Linux server, drawing in Canvas... BeOS? Pfft... not even in the same ball park.
how do we know we not the scaled experiment?
I personally don't care. I really have no need for playing around with relics. My guess is no but that their real value- to give hobbyists a hobby.
The closer star is the one with the planets. The one 21000 years provided the light however, the closer one acted like the lens. You can read this article for more information. Basically, the perfect alignment of the two stars produces a magnification of the furthermost stars light. If the intensity of the outer star is plot against time, the graph will show a hump when the stars aligned. If there is a planet around the "lens" star that is pretty far away, the planet will cause a deviation in the light intensity curve when it aligns with the stars. Thus, the planet acted as another lens in the system further magnifying the light from the furthermost star.
but does it run Mac OS X? I just cannot be saddle with Linux and (shudder!) Windows Vista.
a government controlled national broadband infrastructure. Looks like Time Warner just added another "tax" and all the users in return Texas got was the same 3Mb/s. That is much better than paying taxes to the federal government and getting 100 Mb/s. When greed (oh, wait I mean bottom-line) becomes dominant, business are the most unethical entities in the country. I have no idea why anyone put their trust in them or market forces to provide the best outcome. All I can say is I am lucky Verizon isn't involved in Hollywood yet.
With all the bickering that characterize the last couple of debates, spending an hour on youTube did little to persuade me on way or the other. They candidates seem too focus on telling me what the other candidate said that they neglected to speak to me. I guess that is politics nowadays but it does not help me. So I decided to look at the candidates beyond their campaign to make my decision.
Hillary Clinton is certainly a intelligent and strong woman. Not many First Ladies have decide to move on in politics after their husbands departed the Oval Office. She certainly is no quiet housewife. I would support Hillary except for one problem- her vote on the Iraq War. I am not so much focus on the vote itself by why she made that decision. If she had read the pre-war assessment, she would have obviously concluded that military action was not needed. I wonder if she voted for the war so as not to look too weak (to womanly?) in a post 9/11 Rovian politics. In any rate, when Americans were scared and confused, she failed to provide any leadership or objectivity. I haven't found any other examples where she has provided leadership to get something done for Americans. With a recession looming, I don't believe she can provide leadership when we face uncertainty.
Barack Obama has not done much yet either in his tenure as Senate. But paradoxically, his very lack of season among other things is why I believe he should be President. Barack Obama is an African American in a country that has never came close to electing a black President. Four years ago, I didn't even know his name. Yet, in those years, he has gone from a local phenomenon to a serious contender for the Democratic nomination. He has been able to inspired fellow politicians, donors, and followers to create strong national campaign despite being so new and inexperience. His ability to do that is unique amongst those who had ever vie for the White House and is what sets him above Hillary Clinton. We,as a country, need person that can build great things with very little in a short period of time. His charisma has already given me hope for the future.
I have no faults with Hillary Clinton but I do have concerns with her as President. Her very supposed strength had yielded very little accomplishment in her time in the Senate. I don't know how she is going to get any of her well-planned promises enacted by Congress. Barack Obama has little credit to his name as well but that is not what I expect from him. I expect him to create a broad coalition to help move this country forward. I believe that he can break Rovian politics and unify this country. His lack of experience can be mitigated by a well chosen administration that will develop strong plans to deal with our issues.
There is nothing in the GPL that say by using one piece of open source software requires a company to release all its software under GPL. GPL allows software developers to create and maintain for a much smaller monetary investment than would otherwise be needed. By Canonical integrating Policy Kit, aptitude, Nautilus,etc. into Ubuntu, Canonical is actually helping the original developers even if they don't contribute any code back. Investment in open source projects is directly related to how widespread it is used. The non-trivial of taking a program from redhat based distro and bring it to a debian-derived distro increases its userbase. Ubuntu definitely helps the Debian project by making the distribution easy to install and used. I don't think Dell and others would have ever considered Debian without the efforts of Canonical. The door swings both ways.
Republicans have terrible long term memory. Bush did not heed his father's caution about invading Iraq. Likewise, in forging this do-nothing policy, he forgot about another Republican- Dwight D. Eisenhower. One of Eisenhower's greatest achievements was a Interstate Highway System. The highway system was completely funded by the US government and had tremendous impact the economy that lasts till this day. Goods and workers trek across that system everyday creating the life we have the today. The things we take for granted today would not exist without those roads. A national broadband network can have similar impact for the 21st century. Instead of cybertrekking across small roads like we do todays, we can move across superhighways.
The US economy and society would benefit from this system great. Huge broadband pipes makes sending any form of data across that network practical. Advertising, entertainment, and commerce would get more opportunities. For those who don't like DRM, broadband could cut out those media companies behind the RIAA and MPAA that sit between the consumer and the artist. Scientist and student can have access to huge libraries all from their computers. Our economy grows on ides and such network would allow those ideas move efficiently.
With a recession oncoming, private businesses aren't likely to build such a system anytime soon. Banks are still licking their wounds from the housing fiasco. I can imagine that they will be too shell shock to give loans for a broadband network. The US government is the biggest spender in the world and it doesn't matter if it wastes money on a technology that would be obsolete. I believe that governmental investment is the only way to get a broadband system off the ground.
If you think Vista is a dud, why not choose a competing OS. Does anyone find it odd that the only recourse for a "dud" OS is to write a superficial article why Vista sucks and hope MS makes a better one in 3 years? Just, buy Mac or a PC with Linux and get on with your life.
Anyway, what did Apple really do? They switched their OS9 for one of the oldest OS'es still around? Apple did NOT write new code, they used existing code, existing ANCIENT code
.Then, OS X gives credence to the saying, " they don't make it like they use to!"
You hit right on the nail buddy. If it takes one person 70 hrs a week to do a job, then maybe the company should hire two people. This profit driven ideology is driving our society into the ground. Even though they are doing well financially, the ones doing the 70 hrs are neglecting their lives and their family. They are more likely to breakdown or have family troubles. The others struggle making ends meet with lower paying jobs working the same hours and have the same problems. All the while, America is decaying and heading straight towards recession.
I don't agree with observation that the metal casing of the pro notebooks are prone to deformation. True, it was like that when Apple released the titanium notebooks but the aluminum casing they now use is very sturdy. God knows I drop this aluminum PB notebook enough times to warrant a dent if your statement were true. But, they do have a policy of not repairing under warranty if there it signs of damage on the casing. That has always been that way.
then every american can read the email of every politician and bureaucrat in the US government. Our votes put them in office. Our taxes pay their salary, the computers they use, office supplies, etc. Any email they send on our time and through our equipment must be open to any American and thus be preserved for future investigation and historical study. Especially the top secret stuff that for reasons of national security are restricted from contemporary open examination. Anything else and the government is not ours and thus its mandate to govern us is nulled.
I get shocked by my Powerbook if I use it on my desk but only that desk. odd
Come on, Apple! I'll take the same form-factor as a MacBook! Heck I'll take the same specs, just put a real keyboard on it and get rid of the glossy screen! I'll still pay $1,799!
Ah, dude just get an Macbook and save $300 dollars. I am not seeing your argument. Apple thin light notebbok by basically gutting the damn thing. I am not saying its a good thing but its their choice. I will wait to see how the early adopters react to it
My first gaming experience began with arcades in the cornner when I was 8. I was absolutely addicted to Karnov and Rush 'n' Attack. Since the corner arcade was not a good place for a kid to being hanging out, my parents bought me an Atari 2600. However, it was my first Nintendo that finally wrested me from that den.