Re:What about Terrasoft? Can't their machines run
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Well, reverse engineering is protected by almost every free trade law in existance. Besides, large companies could always open an office in another country without that draconian law and do the work there. The US government could try to prevent them from selling their products here, but I doubt that they would be very successful in other countries.
They do that to _everybody_. That's what they were designed to do. If anyone hears those tones, they immediately know that it is a Bad Thing (tm).
I almost had a heart attack the first time I heard them. My PowerBook 5300c had just come back from Apple Service (with System 8.6, no less) and I was attempting to get my ethernet card to work. I put the drivers where they went in System 8 and re-booted. For some reason, when it boots into System 8.6 now, it garbagizes the System file.
Anyway, it said that it couldn't find an operating system (disk with the flashing '?'). When I tried to do a soft reboot from the keyboard, it did the Chimes Of Death. I tried to look up the hex codes on the Dead Mac screen, but I couldn't find them anywhere.
I still don't know what was going on, but I had System 8.1 in a folder on the HD. I got Disk Tools PPC and set it to boot from the 8.1 folder. It works now, but I really want System 8.6 again.
Assassin: One who murders by surprise attack, especially one who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person.
These people were hardly assassinated. If you don't stop at military checkpoints, they WILL shoot you. It's that simple. In fact, if you pose a potential threat and don't follow orders that you are given, then you get shot.
Similar things happened when we were fighting in Vietnam. Children would run out to hug the soldiers. Unfortunately, some of the children had live grenades that they would use to kill them. Our troops started gunning down anyone running towards them in self-defense.
Well, the Iraqis aren't the ones with the Patriot missle batteries. We are. They probably have some, but most of their anti-air fire seems to be from guns as opposed to missles. Bullets don't seek their targets.
Also, the success rate of anti-aircraft fire is usually quite low. Iraq seem to be depending on saturation to down planes. If you shoot 50,000 bullets at a plane, at least one of them will probably hit it even if each only has a.001% chance.
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
They fought _against_ individual rights. The land was privately owned. They were complaining that he had set up a code of conduct (it included dress, among other things) and that he would have people thrown off for violating it. It was all simple stuff like "don't use profanities". There was also a prohibition on "overly revealing attire". Stuff that is really easy to obey. He didn't require suits and ties for the man and dresses for the women, just no see-through clothing.
(sarcasm) The ACLU decided to fight for every American's God given right to swear his mouth off! That and to walk around in public without clothes on! (/sarcasm)
Well, the ACLU has been hacking away at our freedom to control our own property for quite some time now. They told some people I know that they couldn't enforce a dress code on their own property. I agree that the ACLU is useless.
Well, maybe everyone with a junior-high education knows that, but if so, tons of pre-junior-high students have graduated from my high school.
You would be amazed at some of the things that people don't know. "An acorn grows into an acorn tree!" kind of stuff. Even in my government class, the teacher never said that we live in a republic. He made it a point to use the word democracy.
Well, that would be funnier to me if I didn't know that punchcards are still in use today. The space shuttle computers need to be programmed in-flight with boxes of punch cards. Sad, isn't it? I have more computing power in my pocket calculator than the entire space shuttle has. My desktop is more powerful than all of the space shuttles put together. NASA should really upgrade their hardware.
I, personaly, like the Newton MessagePad 2100. It has a 160 MHz processor, two Type II PCMCIA card slots, a battery that lasts through 24 straight hours of use, and a 320*480 screen. The screen is only grayscale, but I don't care. It's much better than any PalmOS device for my purposes. It's like having a full desktop computer in your pocket. With VNC and an 802.11b card, you CAN carry your desktop with you in your pocket! Its OS is very easy to use and it recognizes real handwriting over its entire screen.
Now, the tablet form-factor is what I really want, but they have to come down in price before I buy one. The UI would also need a total overhaul as every UI I have used on a tablet style device has been a desktop UI. Pen-based use is fundamentaly different. The desktop metaphors don't work nearly as well as others.
The Windows xp UI is much more efficent for working than any CLI will ever be.
Personaly, I find some of the features to be quite useful. Locking the taskbar, for instance, prevents me from accidentaly moving it around or somesuch. It's surprising how many people drag slightly as they click the mouse.
The mouseover effects make it much easier to tell whether what you are about to click on is a control or just some graphic. It even gives you a good idea about what kind of control it is.
Lastly, the larger window controls make life much easier for anyone with a portable computer.
All that said, I still don't like Windows and would vastly prefer to work with OSX. Windows xp Pro has managed to bluescreen me three times in the past week. I finaly traced the problem to the USB drivers that it automaticaly installed with my wireless client.
I applaud Microsoft for their efforts in usability. They have reached the level of MacOS 8 in my mind.
Just because a UI is better than yours is no reason to pan it.
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Well, Mac OSX already does that. Quartz Extreme uses your graphics card to accelerate the display of UI elements such as shadows. Of course, the entire UI is rendered into a PDF, triple buffered, and then the PDF is displayed fullscreen. It's really quite an interesting system and it practucly eliminates flicker if you have a decent video card.
It also frees up the processor for faster SETI@Home crunching!
So just microwave your clothes as soon as you get home and keep them in a faraday cage until then. It's really not that hard to completely destroy an RFID tag. I don't know what everyone's so mad about or afraid of.
Multilateral force, eh? I seem to remember the world trying that once before. This was recorded in the '50s IIRC.
Sleep, baby, sleep, in peace may you slumber, No danger lurks, your sleep to encumber. We've got the missiles, peace to determine, And one of the fingers on the button will be German.
Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads? England says no, but they all are soreheads. I say a bygone should be a bygone, Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon.
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, But that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918 And they've hardly bothered us since then.
So, sleep well, my darling, the sandman can linger. We know our buddies won't give us the finger. Heil - hail - the Wehrmacht, I mean the Bundeswehr, Hail to our loyal ally! M L F Will scare Brezhnev. I hope he is half as scared as I!
If by "works great", you mean "somebody broke the preferences sheet in Phoenix so that it only works with the left mouse button", then yeah, it does work great!
Seriously, I would use the optimoz gestures, but for some reason, Phoenix won't let me change them from the left mouse button and I frequently highlight while I read webpages. Imagine my frustration when suddenly, the mouse gestures were flinging me all over my history.
Abortion is a bad thing and completely unnecesary. The only reasons for it to exist are to terminate babies that are the product of rape (in this case, the mother had no say in the matter) and to protect stupid people from their mistakes. We should stop protecting idiots from everything. We are obviously failing as a society if murder of the helpless is ever seen as necesary.
Actually, it's more like this.
FACT: If one percent of the Earth were covered with plants that were one percent efficent, we would be able to produce enough food to feed 50 billion people at 3500 kilocalories per day. That's enough to get fat on. If we would stop wasting good farmland on stuff that actively kills us (tobacco, alcohol, etc), then the US could feed the rest of the world singlehandedly. The reason people starve is greed. Warlords use starvation as a weapon against their own people.
FACT: If we mined even a small asteroid for minerals, we wouldn't need to mine most things from the Earth for quite some time.
All we need to do to support far more than 50 billion people is get our act together and start developing technologies that will help us to get the resources we need.
I do, however, support the death penalty for horible criminals. There is no reason for us to support them in prison for any longer than we must. Why should they be allowed to live off of our work? If they can be rehabilitated, then go for it, but otherwise, they are simply eating food that could help someone more deserving.
I have always wondered why the Neutron Bomb (which kills people and leaves buildings intact) was against the Geneva Convention. I suppose they prefer plain old nuclear bombs that both kill people *and* destroy buildings.
I only had to pay $150 for my programming materials and such and that was in '95.
Apple refused to use Grafitti because it is bad. It's that simple. The recognizer doesn't force you to use cursive, so that is simply a lie! In fact, the print recognizer was far better for new users, but if you took the time to train caligrapher, then it approaches 99% accuracy.
Apple put out their own C compiler for the Newton. Of course, it is easier to use NewtonScript, but DYLAN was never even an option. I don't know where you get your information about the programming languages, but it is entirely wrong.
The Newton was cool and high-tech. I'm both an electrical engineer and a software engineer and this is the single best platform for which I have ever developed. I love writing NewtonScript applcations. It is much easier than C and just as powerful. The only reason to even have C on the Newton would be to write system level drivers because C can't handle graphical interfaces at all, let alone pen-based interfaces.
One last question. If Apple is so bad, why do you develop for them? Seems kind of masochistic to me.
The point is that that was a dev conference. Apple or Newton Inc. could have added support for color in prototype units, but those weren't Newtons. They were prototypes.
Also, no revision of the OS that was ever published on anything but prototype devices supports color.
You're an idiot. HIV is constantly evolving. In fact, HIV evolves fast enough that each host has a different strain by the time it finaly kills them. And don't tell me that HIV just randomly mutates. That is exactly what evolution is. Random mutations that improve survivability.
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Well, reverse engineering is protected by almost every free trade law in existance. Besides, large companies could always open an office in another country without that draconian law and do the work there. The US government could try to prevent them from selling their products here, but I doubt that they would be very successful in other countries.
They do that to _everybody_. That's what they were designed to do. If anyone hears those tones, they immediately know that it is a Bad Thing (tm).
I almost had a heart attack the first time I heard them. My PowerBook 5300c had just come back from Apple Service (with System 8.6, no less) and I was attempting to get my ethernet card to work. I put the drivers where they went in System 8 and re-booted. For some reason, when it boots into System 8.6 now, it garbagizes the System file.
Anyway, it said that it couldn't find an operating system (disk with the flashing '?'). When I tried to do a soft reboot from the keyboard, it did the Chimes Of Death. I tried to look up the hex codes on the Dead Mac screen, but I couldn't find them anywhere.
I still don't know what was going on, but I had System 8.1 in a folder on the HD. I got Disk Tools PPC and set it to boot from the 8.1 folder. It works now, but I really want System 8.6 again.
Assassin: One who murders by surprise attack, especially one who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person.
These people were hardly assassinated. If you don't stop at military checkpoints, they WILL shoot you. It's that simple. In fact, if you pose a potential threat and don't follow orders that you are given, then you get shot.
Similar things happened when we were fighting in Vietnam. Children would run out to hug the soldiers. Unfortunately, some of the children had live grenades that they would use to kill them. Our troops started gunning down anyone running towards them in self-defense.
Well, the Iraqis aren't the ones with the Patriot missle batteries. We are. They probably have some, but most of their anti-air fire seems to be from guns as opposed to missles. Bullets don't seek their targets.
.001% chance.
Also, the success rate of anti-aircraft fire is usually quite low. Iraq seem to be depending on saturation to down planes. If you shoot 50,000 bullets at a plane, at least one of them will probably hit it even if each only has a
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Kudos if you know where that came from.
Did you not read anything I wrote?
They fought _against_ individual rights. The land was privately owned. They were complaining that he had set up a code of conduct (it included dress, among other things) and that he would have people thrown off for violating it. It was all simple stuff like "don't use profanities". There was also a prohibition on "overly revealing attire". Stuff that is really easy to obey. He didn't require suits and ties for the man and dresses for the women, just no see-through clothing.
(sarcasm)
The ACLU decided to fight for every American's God given right to swear his mouth off! That and to walk around in public without clothes on!
(/sarcasm)
Drop it and time it's fall. Be sure to account for the speed of sound or light depending on how you detect it breaking.
You can also go to the owner of the building and say, "I'll give you this barometer if you tell me how tall your building is."
Well, the ACLU has been hacking away at our freedom to control our own property for quite some time now. They told some people I know that they couldn't enforce a dress code on their own property. I agree that the ACLU is useless.
Don't forget the car vs. Pathfinder.
Top speed for the car: 210 MPH
Top speed for Pathfinder: 50,000 MPH/.012 MPH
Acceleration for the car: 0-60 in 2.1 seconds
Acceleration for Pathfinder: 0-60 like, right now!/0-60 never
I made all of those figures up, but they sound right.
Well, maybe everyone with a junior-high education knows that, but if so, tons of pre-junior-high students have graduated from my high school.
You would be amazed at some of the things that people don't know. "An acorn grows into an acorn tree!" kind of stuff. Even in my government class, the teacher never said that we live in a republic. He made it a point to use the word democracy.
Well, at this rate, we will be building a nice, hefty resistance to EM radiation.
Well, yes, if you replace "society" with "the RIAA" and "file traders" with "everyone".
Well, that would be funnier to me if I didn't know that punchcards are still in use today. The space shuttle computers need to be programmed in-flight with boxes of punch cards. Sad, isn't it? I have more computing power in my pocket calculator than the entire space shuttle has. My desktop is more powerful than all of the space shuttles put together. NASA should really upgrade their hardware.
I, personaly, like the Newton MessagePad 2100. It has a 160 MHz processor, two Type II PCMCIA card slots, a battery that lasts through 24 straight hours of use, and a 320*480 screen. The screen is only grayscale, but I don't care. It's much better than any PalmOS device for my purposes. It's like having a full desktop computer in your pocket. With VNC and an 802.11b card, you CAN carry your desktop with you in your pocket! Its OS is very easy to use and it recognizes real handwriting over its entire screen.
Now, the tablet form-factor is what I really want, but they have to come down in price before I buy one. The UI would also need a total overhaul as every UI I have used on a tablet style device has been a desktop UI. Pen-based use is fundamentaly different. The desktop metaphors don't work nearly as well as others.
The Windows xp UI is much more efficent for working than any CLI will ever be.
Personaly, I find some of the features to be quite useful. Locking the taskbar, for instance, prevents me from accidentaly moving it around or somesuch. It's surprising how many people drag slightly as they click the mouse.
The mouseover effects make it much easier to tell whether what you are about to click on is a control or just some graphic. It even gives you a good idea about what kind of control it is.
Lastly, the larger window controls make life much easier for anyone with a portable computer.
All that said, I still don't like Windows and would vastly prefer to work with OSX. Windows xp Pro has managed to bluescreen me three times in the past week. I finaly traced the problem to the USB drivers that it automaticaly installed with my wireless client.
I applaud Microsoft for their efforts in usability. They have reached the level of MacOS 8 in my mind.
Just because a UI is better than yours is no reason to pan it.
Well, Mac OSX already does that. Quartz Extreme uses your graphics card to accelerate the display of UI elements such as shadows. Of course, the entire UI is rendered into a PDF, triple buffered, and then the PDF is displayed fullscreen. It's really quite an interesting system and it practucly eliminates flicker if you have a decent video card.
It also frees up the processor for faster SETI@Home crunching!
So just microwave your clothes as soon as you get home and keep them in a faraday cage until then. It's really not that hard to completely destroy an RFID tag. I don't know what everyone's so mad about or afraid of.
Multilateral force, eh? I seem to remember the world trying that once before. This was recorded in the '50s IIRC.
Sleep, baby, sleep, in peace may you slumber,
No danger lurks, your sleep to encumber.
We've got the missiles, peace to determine,
And one of the fingers on the button will be German.
Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads?
England says no, but they all are soreheads.
I say a bygone should be a bygone,
Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon.
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then.
So, sleep well, my darling, the sandman can linger.
We know our buddies won't give us the finger.
Heil - hail - the Wehrmacht, I mean the Bundeswehr,
Hail to our loyal ally!
M L F
Will scare Brezhnev.
I hope he is half as scared as I!
If by "works great", you mean "somebody broke the preferences sheet in Phoenix so that it only works with the left mouse button", then yeah, it does work great!
Seriously, I would use the optimoz gestures, but for some reason, Phoenix won't let me change them from the left mouse button and I frequently highlight while I read webpages. Imagine my frustration when suddenly, the mouse gestures were flinging me all over my history.
Abortion is a bad thing and completely unnecesary. The only reasons for it to exist are to terminate babies that are the product of rape (in this case, the mother had no say in the matter) and to protect stupid people from their mistakes. We should stop protecting idiots from everything. We are obviously failing as a society if murder of the helpless is ever seen as necesary.
Actually, it's more like this.
FACT: If one percent of the Earth were covered with plants that were one percent efficent, we would be able to produce enough food to feed 50 billion people at 3500 kilocalories per day. That's enough to get fat on. If we would stop wasting good farmland on stuff that actively kills us (tobacco, alcohol, etc), then the US could feed the rest of the world singlehandedly. The reason people starve is greed. Warlords use starvation as a weapon against their own people.
FACT: If we mined even a small asteroid for minerals, we wouldn't need to mine most things from the Earth for quite some time.
All we need to do to support far more than 50 billion people is get our act together and start developing technologies that will help us to get the resources we need.
I do, however, support the death penalty for horible criminals. There is no reason for us to support them in prison for any longer than we must. Why should they be allowed to live off of our work? If they can be rehabilitated, then go for it, but otherwise, they are simply eating food that could help someone more deserving.
You have a really good point there.
I have always wondered why the Neutron Bomb (which kills people and leaves buildings intact) was against the Geneva Convention. I suppose they prefer plain old nuclear bombs that both kill people *and* destroy buildings.
I only had to pay $150 for my programming materials and such and that was in '95.
Apple refused to use Grafitti because it is bad. It's that simple. The recognizer doesn't force you to use cursive, so that is simply a lie! In fact, the print recognizer was far better for new users, but if you took the time to train caligrapher, then it approaches 99% accuracy.
Apple put out their own C compiler for the Newton. Of course, it is easier to use NewtonScript, but DYLAN was never even an option. I don't know where you get your information about the programming languages, but it is entirely wrong.
The Newton was cool and high-tech. I'm both an electrical engineer and a software engineer and this is the single best platform for which I have ever developed. I love writing NewtonScript applcations. It is much easier than C and just as powerful. The only reason to even have C on the Newton would be to write system level drivers because C can't handle graphical interfaces at all, let alone pen-based interfaces.
One last question. If Apple is so bad, why do you develop for them? Seems kind of masochistic to me.
The point is that that was a dev conference. Apple or Newton Inc. could have added support for color in prototype units, but those weren't Newtons. They were prototypes.
Also, no revision of the OS that was ever published on anything but prototype devices supports color.
You're an idiot. HIV is constantly evolving. In fact, HIV evolves fast enough that each host has a different strain by the time it finaly kills them. And don't tell me that HIV just randomly mutates. That is exactly what evolution is. Random mutations that improve survivability.
You can't sue public school districts. Also, this should be modded as funny, but I don't have any points.