That isn't exactly something Steve Jobs would have had the power to do. Perhaps YellowTAB could make an initial port of their BeOS to G3/G4/beyond since they are in possesion of the entire BeOS source... Perhaps a petition would be appropriate for this?
I looked all over their site and cannot find anything about a PPC version, this is rather disappointing. Anyone know if they plan on continuing it as well?
I did read your post, but you seem to have misread mine. You are suggesting a switch to a new protocol based off the finger protocol for email, I am saying that sticking with SMTP and modifying it is probably a better idea since upgrading an existing and installed protocol is much easier than implementing an entirely different and new protocol in its place. Completely switching protocols is a bit more complex than just updating an existing one.
...so instead of rewriting SMTP and all related programs you would have to write new programs and everything to use a new finger like protocol, which would also have to be written. You're better off sticking with what exists and building off of it, it makes backwards-compatability simpler and overall would require far less work. Something has to be done and it's going to take a lot of work, but why make it a more complex problem than it has to be?
It's been done with on the "Mac mod scene" years ago too...who cares? whoever wrote that obviously didn't take much time to actually research anything...oh well.
Perhaps more creative if anything... You obviously didn't take any of your precious time to do a little research and realize that Mac users have been 'modding' since long before the whole 'PC mod' trend/craze started. Look here, here, here, here, and the list could go on. Try googling 'mac case mods' and you'll get plenty of links. Not to mention that slashdot has had (numerous?) stories on Mac case mods before...
Why are Anonymous Cowards so completely idiotic?..
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1. Their identitiy is hidden so they can make the most ridiculously unintelligent comments
2. They can be racist
3. They can call large groups of people homosexual for no apparent reason
4. They can be sexist
5. [explains all of the above] They can let that 60 IQ score shine!
I completely agree with the author of that essay about everything he said. It amazed me as I read it, illustrating my exact views on school right now. I'm a senior in high school right now, I've seen all these flaws he brings up clearly since entering high school. It's like being alone, even if you talk to your friends about it, you never know if they agree just to shut you up or because they actually realize what you're saying and see what's going on the same as you. Perhaps I'm lucky in a sense, having realized how the system really works early in high school, I've learned to play it perfectly. I will admit, I am one of the biggest slackers in my school, but only because I see the work as utterly pointless and a waste of my time. I do just enough to get by and please the parents and at least a couple of my teachers. I see the social system is nothing but a brutal no-holds-barred (except as by school rules in an insignificant way) popularity contest for nothing, a 'zero sum game' as the author says...
Being in the second semester of my senior year, being at school is literally a joke and a waste of my time I've decided. I had exactly enough credits to graduate before I even started my senior year, with at least 1 study hall every year. I still need to finish 1 complete required science credit this year, that's the only thing holding me back. The real kicker is that my one class I have to pass to graduate is a freshman-level introductory course, 'Earth Science.' It's exactly like going back to grade school for 1 period of the day! No offense to my teacher, he's a great guy and really cares about kids in his class, but the class is set up like all my grade school science classes were. The class follows no coherent curriculum, we instead do seemingly random in-class 'labs' that a fourth grader should be able to do. We've skipped around from weather to space to finding the volume of rocks through displacement... The entire class is set up to be fail proof, you would have to actively try to do bad in that class. And people really do. Everything is graded on some imaginary scale in my teacher's head; turning in a blank paper with your name on it will surely net you at least some credit for exerting even that lack of effort. Every quiz or test has no more than 10 questions, and if you do bad the first time, there is always a retake the entire class is required to take unless you got an A the first time. How ridiculous is that?! Honestly... The class is also filled with random extra-credit 'competitions...' For example, the first week of class our teacher had this water filled top that you could get to spin a good while. We had a class wide competition and whoever got it to spin the longest got extra credit. These opportunities are a weekly occurance at least, I think it's ridiculous. Most of the kids in my class are freshmen or sophmores, a good portion of them I honestly wonder to myself on a daily basis how they advanced beyond 5th grade. There is a thriving population of kids in my school whom I wonder about. It's simple, the system is set up to pass everyone through as quickly as possible regardless of how well they are picking up the material. Most techers I've had don't care even the slightest bit about their students. They see their job simply as to present the course material however they choose regardless of how well everyone actually comprehends it, and pass their students on to the next teacher. The earth science class I just decribed is a model illustration of this, except that I really think the teacher cares but has just given up in the upstream battle of teaching a decent and honestly educational class. I don't even want to get started on what a joke some of my other classes are... Going to school is just a running though the motions of doing the bare minimum to get by.
It is because of this lacking in the content of courses that I've determined GPA really is nothing more than a determination of how much of a slacker you are. Anyone can go to high school with proper course selection and a willingness to put forth a relatively small amount of effort and can earn a 4.0. None of the people in my grade who take more advanced courses that pose somewhat of a challenge (who coincidentally are my friends) are in the running for valedictorian, maybe saluditorian (I apologize for any terrible spelling here). Those with nice perfect 4.0's are in all classes equivilent or below the difficulty of my Earth Science class. My cumulative GPA for freshman-junior year is a 2.7something. Not because I'm stupid, but because I slack off in digust at the mindless assignments given to me, it bores me to death doing them. This year I'm getting about a 3.7 or 3.8, only due to the decline in difficulty of my classes. I do possibly less work than I have previous years, yet I'm doing my best yet according to my GPA. Not that an ACT score is a difinitive determination of how 'smart' you are, but I would like to point out that I got a 33 on my ACTs; to my knowledge nobody else in my whole class has scored higher. It's just a determination of your ability to go through the motions. Relatively little real ability is needed to score what is considered a 'decent' score, somwhere in the lower 20's. It takes a bit more to get a 30 or above. The only good thing I see in the ACT is that it's scores are fairly accurate in seperating out the kids who go through the motions in the easiest available courses to get a 4.0 from the people who take more challenging courses and don't get that pretty petty 4.0 even after actually putting forth some level of effort as some do or simply laughing off the joke that is schoolwork as I tend to do. I enjoy a good challenge and am more likely to work hard at one than I am at something terribly too easy and far below my real capability. I honestly find it hard to pay attention in many of my classes due to their utter simplicity.
My ISP labels my spam quite accurately by inserting **** SPAM **** in the subject line of all offending messages. It has never marked anything I actually wanted, and what it misses, Mail marks as spam for me (under OS X...). I just set my filter on Mail to delete messages with the *** SPAM *** thingy inserted, so i recieve nearly no spam.
Mini 2x2x2 versions are $5 or mini original 3x3x3 keychain versions are also $5...little more than you said it should cost but they would be entertaining for sure.
WHy wouldn't there be a 12am showing? Every theatre around here is doing a midnight showing the the LOTR movie...they do it for many big new releases.
Peice of crap comes back? great...
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I've never, ever gotten a useful search result from hotbot, ever. Not one. It is probably the worse search engine, ever. Why must they bring it back into existance? To torture users even more with useless results?
I've personally used them as coasters (who hasn't..), to make ninja stars (cut them to make thme spikey, they hurt! Be sure to reinforce with some tape as they break easily.), and I have such a vast collection I managed to cover the ceiling in my room with them, shiney side down. I stuck them all up there with that sticky tack stuff...it looks cool.
I don't think any of you get it at all...
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I saw it, I liked it a lot. It wasn't slow, the pauses in dialog were there to let you take everything in, to add effect. It was done on purpose, not due to bad scriptwriting. I tihnk all of you missed the message of the movie. Yes, the movie has a message, a very good one too. I'm nor religious but this is what I got out of the movie. Solaris is like heavan or an afterlife of some sort. It let you be with the one person you like more than anyone else no matter what. All past mistakes were forgiven. In the movie, they found Solaris...like finding heavan. The people on the station couldn't handle it...handle letting go of the past and just being with a lost love one, because they were still alive. The movie is trying to tell you not to look back on your past mistakes and not to wish for dead loved ones back and such, beacause you wouldn't be able to handle it, not in your mortal life. That is why they committed suicide...they wanted to go to heavan and be with their loved ones. They couldn't handle it while they were still alive... nobody would be able to. Once they are dead, then nothing matters and they can go on happy forever...like at the end when his wife is telling him basically that nothing mattered anymore, and they could just be happy together. That's what the movie is driving at. Sure there is the love story but really I think it was a minor part of the movie, to add effect to the message. You couldn't handle just forgetting all of the pastand just being happy...it's not possible until you are dead. I hope others can see this in the movie because that's what I really think it's about. That's why I liked the movie. It tells you you just have to go on, not to waste time wishing to undo the past, that all will eventually be forgiven.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but I started the quad processor G5 rumor many months ago! I'm going to go hang myself now.
That isn't exactly something Steve Jobs would have had the power to do. Perhaps YellowTAB could make an initial port of their BeOS to G3/G4/beyond since they are in possesion of the entire BeOS source... Perhaps a petition would be appropriate for this?
I looked all over their site and cannot find anything about a PPC version, this is rather disappointing. Anyone know if they plan on continuing it as well?
I did read your post, but you seem to have misread mine. You are suggesting a switch to a new protocol based off the finger protocol for email, I am saying that sticking with SMTP and modifying it is probably a better idea since upgrading an existing and installed protocol is much easier than implementing an entirely different and new protocol in its place. Completely switching protocols is a bit more complex than just updating an existing one.
...so instead of rewriting SMTP and all related programs you would have to write new programs and everything to use a new finger like protocol, which would also have to be written. You're better off sticking with what exists and building off of it, it makes backwards-compatability simpler and overall would require far less work. Something has to be done and it's going to take a lot of work, but why make it a more complex problem than it has to be?
I am stunned by your intelligence.
OH Yeah, just like the thousands of other people who sell Apple computers on eBay daily didn't.
It's been done with on the "Mac mod scene" years ago too...who cares? whoever wrote that obviously didn't take much time to actually research anything...oh well.
Perhaps more creative if anything... You obviously didn't take any of your precious time to do a little research and realize that Mac users have been 'modding' since long before the whole 'PC mod' trend/craze started. Look here, here, here, here, and the list could go on. Try googling 'mac case mods' and you'll get plenty of links. Not to mention that slashdot has had (numerous?) stories on Mac case mods before...
1. Their identitiy is hidden so they can make the most ridiculously unintelligent comments 2. They can be racist 3. They can call large groups of people homosexual for no apparent reason 4. They can be sexist 5. [explains all of the above] They can let that 60 IQ score shine!
No they don't, don't you know the eggs we eat were never going to hatch anyways?
I completely agree with the author of that essay about everything he said. It amazed me as I read it, illustrating my exact views on school right now. I'm a senior in high school right now, I've seen all these flaws he brings up clearly since entering high school. It's like being alone, even if you talk to your friends about it, you never know if they agree just to shut you up or because they actually realize what you're saying and see what's going on the same as you. Perhaps I'm lucky in a sense, having realized how the system really works early in high school, I've learned to play it perfectly. I will admit, I am one of the biggest slackers in my school, but only because I see the work as utterly pointless and a waste of my time. I do just enough to get by and please the parents and at least a couple of my teachers. I see the social system is nothing but a brutal no-holds-barred (except as by school rules in an insignificant way) popularity contest for nothing, a 'zero sum game' as the author says... Being in the second semester of my senior year, being at school is literally a joke and a waste of my time I've decided. I had exactly enough credits to graduate before I even started my senior year, with at least 1 study hall every year. I still need to finish 1 complete required science credit this year, that's the only thing holding me back. The real kicker is that my one class I have to pass to graduate is a freshman-level introductory course, 'Earth Science.' It's exactly like going back to grade school for 1 period of the day! No offense to my teacher, he's a great guy and really cares about kids in his class, but the class is set up like all my grade school science classes were. The class follows no coherent curriculum, we instead do seemingly random in-class 'labs' that a fourth grader should be able to do. We've skipped around from weather to space to finding the volume of rocks through displacement... The entire class is set up to be fail proof, you would have to actively try to do bad in that class. And people really do. Everything is graded on some imaginary scale in my teacher's head; turning in a blank paper with your name on it will surely net you at least some credit for exerting even that lack of effort. Every quiz or test has no more than 10 questions, and if you do bad the first time, there is always a retake the entire class is required to take unless you got an A the first time. How ridiculous is that?! Honestly... The class is also filled with random extra-credit 'competitions...' For example, the first week of class our teacher had this water filled top that you could get to spin a good while. We had a class wide competition and whoever got it to spin the longest got extra credit. These opportunities are a weekly occurance at least, I think it's ridiculous. Most of the kids in my class are freshmen or sophmores, a good portion of them I honestly wonder to myself on a daily basis how they advanced beyond 5th grade. There is a thriving population of kids in my school whom I wonder about. It's simple, the system is set up to pass everyone through as quickly as possible regardless of how well they are picking up the material. Most techers I've had don't care even the slightest bit about their students. They see their job simply as to present the course material however they choose regardless of how well everyone actually comprehends it, and pass their students on to the next teacher. The earth science class I just decribed is a model illustration of this, except that I really think the teacher cares but has just given up in the upstream battle of teaching a decent and honestly educational class. I don't even want to get started on what a joke some of my other classes are... Going to school is just a running though the motions of doing the bare minimum to get by. It is because of this lacking in the content of courses that I've determined GPA really is nothing more than a determination of how much of a slacker you are. Anyone can go to high school with proper course selection and a willingness to put forth a relatively small amount of effort and can earn a 4.0. None of the people in my grade who take more advanced courses that pose somewhat of a challenge (who coincidentally are my friends) are in the running for valedictorian, maybe saluditorian (I apologize for any terrible spelling here). Those with nice perfect 4.0's are in all classes equivilent or below the difficulty of my Earth Science class. My cumulative GPA for freshman-junior year is a 2.7something. Not because I'm stupid, but because I slack off in digust at the mindless assignments given to me, it bores me to death doing them. This year I'm getting about a 3.7 or 3.8, only due to the decline in difficulty of my classes. I do possibly less work than I have previous years, yet I'm doing my best yet according to my GPA. Not that an ACT score is a difinitive determination of how 'smart' you are, but I would like to point out that I got a 33 on my ACTs; to my knowledge nobody else in my whole class has scored higher. It's just a determination of your ability to go through the motions. Relatively little real ability is needed to score what is considered a 'decent' score, somwhere in the lower 20's. It takes a bit more to get a 30 or above. The only good thing I see in the ACT is that it's scores are fairly accurate in seperating out the kids who go through the motions in the easiest available courses to get a 4.0 from the people who take more challenging courses and don't get that pretty petty 4.0 even after actually putting forth some level of effort as some do or simply laughing off the joke that is schoolwork as I tend to do. I enjoy a good challenge and am more likely to work hard at one than I am at something terribly too easy and far below my real capability. I honestly find it hard to pay attention in many of my classes due to their utter simplicity.
My ISP labels my spam quite accurately by inserting **** SPAM **** in the subject line of all offending messages. It has never marked anything I actually wanted, and what it misses, Mail marks as spam for me (under OS X...). I just set my filter on Mail to delete messages with the *** SPAM *** thingy inserted, so i recieve nearly no spam.
What an intelligent post! I feel so "0wn3d" it hurts. :(
nah, forget it.
Why not just rip the drive and mount it under OS X? Unless Tivo drives are in some format OS X cannot read, does anyone know?
So this will be useful to today's cancer patients in 20 years for some ridiculous cost, right? *cough*
Mini 2x2x2 versions are $5 or mini original 3x3x3 keychain versions are also $5...little more than you said it should cost but they would be entertaining for sure.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making everyone believe he didn't exist. Enough said.
electric mail...riiight And you must take a LOT of pictures of your cat to fill up an entire DVD disc.
WHy wouldn't there be a 12am showing? Every theatre around here is doing a midnight showing the the LOTR movie...they do it for many big new releases.
I've never, ever gotten a useful search result from hotbot, ever. Not one. It is probably the worse search engine, ever. Why must they bring it back into existance? To torture users even more with useless results?
I've personally used them as coasters (who hasn't..), to make ninja stars (cut them to make thme spikey, they hurt! Be sure to reinforce with some tape as they break easily.), and I have such a vast collection I managed to cover the ceiling in my room with them, shiney side down. I stuck them all up there with that sticky tack stuff...it looks cool.
I saw it, I liked it a lot. It wasn't slow, the pauses in dialog were there to let you take everything in, to add effect. It was done on purpose, not due to bad scriptwriting. I tihnk all of you missed the message of the movie. Yes, the movie has a message, a very good one too. I'm nor religious but this is what I got out of the movie. Solaris is like heavan or an afterlife of some sort. It let you be with the one person you like more than anyone else no matter what. All past mistakes were forgiven. In the movie, they found Solaris...like finding heavan. The people on the station couldn't handle it...handle letting go of the past and just being with a lost love one, because they were still alive. The movie is trying to tell you not to look back on your past mistakes and not to wish for dead loved ones back and such, beacause you wouldn't be able to handle it, not in your mortal life. That is why they committed suicide...they wanted to go to heavan and be with their loved ones. They couldn't handle it while they were still alive... nobody would be able to. Once they are dead, then nothing matters and they can go on happy forever...like at the end when his wife is telling him basically that nothing mattered anymore, and they could just be happy together. That's what the movie is driving at. Sure there is the love story but really I think it was a minor part of the movie, to add effect to the message. You couldn't handle just forgetting all of the pastand just being happy...it's not possible until you are dead. I hope others can see this in the movie because that's what I really think it's about. That's why I liked the movie. It tells you you just have to go on, not to waste time wishing to undo the past, that all will eventually be forgiven.