I think you're extrapolating from a sample set that's too small to support your conclusions.
If you look at the real guts of 10.1 versus the real guts of 10.2, you'll see that 10.2 was a substantial feature upgrade. Lots of new stuff came with 10.2, while 10.1 was mostly a performance upgrade with a few new features. If you ever used 10.0, you'll agree, I imagine, that a performance upgrade was really welcome when 10.1 came out.
But Mac OS X is not Linux; they don't use an odd-number, even-number release gimmick. They have never used such a gimmick. Some releases are minor feature releases and are available for free or only a little cost. Some releases are major ones for which Apple charges a reasonable, not nontrivial, fee.
So when you say, "10.3 will almost certainly be a free... upgrade..." I really think you're kind of talking out of your ear. No offense.
And the thing about "Steve gets what Steve wants?" What's that all about? Are you just grumpy today, or is it your usual thing?
I have the colored letters and numbers form and the colored taste form.
If you're curious-- and as google fodder-- the colored-letter form is called "chromograephemic synaesthesia," or "chromographemic synasthesia," depending on which side of the pond you're on.
Wait... you just went from actively seeking to actually owning weapons of mass destruction. Which is it?
Both. I should have been more clear, but I assumed you knew. I quote Khidir Hamza:
I know full well what he [Hussein] was up to because I spent two decades as a senior official in Iraq's Atomic Energy Commission. Between 1987 and the beginning of Desert Storm in 1991, I wore two ominous hats: I was head of the Iraqi nuclear weapons program, and I was a director general in its Military Industry department, which oversaw much of the work on biological and chemical weapons. [...] When the Persian Gulf War broke out with Saddam's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, we had a vast biowar arsenal and were only a few months away from having a working nuclear device. I was finally able to escape Baghdad in 1994 and defect to the United States.
(The rest is available here, and lots of other documentation about and by Mr. Hamza is available via Google.)
See, we know several things here. We know that the Hussein regime has a nuclear weapons program: they're working very hard to acquire nuclear material and build a device. We also know that Iraq has a stockpile of chemical weapons: they have N liters of mustard gas (I say "N" because I don't recall the precise number; 30,000 rings a bell), N liters of sarin nerve gas, N liters of CS nerve gas, N liters of VX nerve gas, and so on. We also know, through Mr. Hamza, that Iraq has produced at least 8,500 liters of concentrated anthrax, and we have reason to think they have considerably more than that. They've also developed varying amounts of numerous other biological agents, including botulinum toxin and aflatoxin. In 1990, Iraq actually had two hundred 85-liter bombs filled with botulinum toxin, anthrax, and aflatoxin, armed and ready for military use.
So Iraq has both built and stockpiled WMDs (chemical and biological) and is actively seeking WMDs (nuclear). Iraq has never used nuclear weapons because they've never had them, but they have used chemical weapons on numerous occasions, most notably during the Iran-Iraq war, and in 1988 in the Iraqi city of Halabja. Several types of chemical weapons were used at Halabja, essentially everything in Iraq's arsenal except VX. Five thousand people were killed in the attack. Hussein's willingness to use WMDs in war is not in question.
I agree with you that the United States hasn't done as good a job as they could of presenting this evidence to the people and to the world. But just because the facts haven't been delivered to your door on a silver platter, don't just assume that they're not there. Dig a little, and you'll be surprised.
Hence it's ludicrous to suggest that an American attack on Iraq will raise local oil prices.
While I think your numbers were right, your conclusion is a bit off. Remember 1990-1991? The unpleasantness in Iraq was followed by retail gasoline price increases of around 200%. War in that area might not actually affect our domestic supplies of crude oil, but there could very well be an impact at the gas station anyway.
This begs the question, if American dependence on Gulf oil is a myth, why are the Americans ready to wage war?
I have no intention of getting into a political conversation here, but few can argue that the Hussein government is actively seeking weapons of mass destruction and that they've historically shown a willingness-- hell, an eagerness-- to use them against their enemies. Taken in context of the events of last September, it becomes clear that a nation that has WMDs and that has clearly communicated a desire to use them against the US is a threat that we'd be foolish to ignore.
Going to war may or may not be wise for a number of reasons. But there's a pretty significant body of evidence out there that leads to the conclusion that war between the US and Iraq is inevitable. If the choice is between going to war now and waiting for some kind of horrible surprise attack by our enemy... well, I know which one I'd choose.
Okay, that was me not going off on a political tangent. So much for that...
it says that using sugar cane alcohol as a source of fuel also fights the greenhouse effect, because it doesn't produce C02 like regular fuel.
I'm still waiting for somebody to take the opposite approach to managing carbon emissions. Instead of restricting the production of carbon dioxide, I say we just grow more trees and other plants. Looking out my second-storey window over a parking lot, a freeway, and a football stadium, I'd say it would go a long way toward improving our cities, too.
Well, we're approaching the limits of my practical understanding of electricity, but it seems to me that machines don't consume volts at all. Machines consume joules, and when they consume joules over time, we talk about machines consuming watts.
Now, joules are delivered to a machine when electric current flows into that machine. The rate of joule consumption (which is measured in watts) varies with the amount of current drawn (which is measured in amps).
If I have a device that draws 6 amps, and I connect it to a circuit that can provide 15 amps, does that mean I'm wasting 9 amps? No, it doesn't. It's not like my box is drawing all 15 amps and discarding all but 6 of them somehow. So no power is being wasted there. I'm using all that I draw.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I don't really understand your comment, "If there's a universal standard power brick then that power is wasted for devices that really don't need that much juice."
If you concede that The Matrix was almost live-action anime, they might just be able to pull this off.
Think about the early chase sequence between the agent and Trinity. Now think about the chase late in the movie in the open-air market, complete with Ghost in the Shell-style exploding watermelons. They might just be able to make it happen.
I don't think I have two objects in my house that take exactly the same voltage.
Assuming you live in the USA, all of the objects in your house-- with the exception of your dryer-- take the same voltage: 120 VAC.
Did you maybe mean amperage? It's true that every device draws a slightly different amount of current; mechanical devices can even draw different amounts of current at different times, depending on (for example) whether the fan is running at high speed or low speed.
I think what the "ask slashdot" and the linked article are really talking about is devices that draw DC current. The electricity coming to your house is AC, and some devices-- like my little 8-port Ethernet hub, for instance-- have very simple power circuits in them that are only equipped to handle DC current. So an external box is required to convert from AC to DC.
I certainly wouldn't complain if there were a universal standard for delivering DC current, so all those power bricks could disappear. The telco industry has already solved this problem by deploying 48 VDC in their equipment frames. Equipment that goes in telco racks takes 48 VDC directly, through a standard plug. Consumer gear doesn't work like that, though.
I say we skip it and just figure out how to deliver DC via microwaves... only without all the cancer and whatnot.
I wasn't kidding. 5 is saturated yellow, and 2 is bright red, so 5+2 looks sort of golden. 4 is light green and 3 is dark blue, so 4+3 is darkish-green.
Of course, if you're talking about the actual sum, then 7 is yellow, or maybe yellowy-green in the right context.
There's a really interesting paper called "Trends in Synesthetically Colored Graphemes and Phonemes." It concludes that while chromographemic synaesthetes (people who perceive letters as having colors) don't all share the same perceptions, there are some clear trends in letter-color association. It's short; check it out.
No, never. I didn't even know this condition, or whatever you call it, had a name until about four months ago. I just figured everybody else saw colors in letters, just like I do.
I know this isn't the best idea in the world, but have you tried using a digital camera for this sort of thing? It has the definite advantage of being portable; besides, you can pull it out of your trenchcoat and pretend to be an international man of mystery as you snap clandestine photos of secret documents... or journal articles, or whatever.
Naturally, this wouldn't work as well as a good flatbed scanner, but it would probably be comparable to the handheld swipe-across scanners you mentioned. And it has the advantage of being a multi-tasker: you can use it for a lot more than just library work.
I think both you and this guy missed an important detail.
I have inherited the C code for an embedded system
There's a good chance that the compiler this person is using is the only one that's available for the architecture in question. I mean, he could be talking about a microwave oven or a car ignition system or something.
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Check out SourceMage... It also has a nifty theme to it, Magic. You "cast"(install) "spells"(programs) and it downloads the source and compiles and installs it, and creates logs of all that happens. You can "dispel"(uninstall) it. you can "gaze" into the "grimoire"(list of spells).
Look, I know we're talking about compiling kernels and whatnot, so none of us is exactly the most popular kid in school, if you know what I mean. But this is just embarrassing. I mean, there's such a thing as taking role playing games too far, you know?
As I said in another post, I have a really mild form of synaesthesia, so my experience may not be typical. But I don't really think anything of colorized movies one way or another-- except to say that they're kinda ugly most of the time.
Dubbed movies, on the other hand... every language has its own texture. English is hard to evaluate, because it's my native language; I can't hear it without understanding it, so I don't usually notice the sound of it. But other languages sound kind of like... movement. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's hard to explain.
Japanese is spikey and hard, all elbows, because of all the "ta-ta-ta" sounds. It's like barging your way through a crowd. Chinese kind of sways, like a tree in a strong wind, sliding into all the curves. Russian is like driving over speedbumps, all up-down-up-down. French is like twirling, but without the getting dizzy and falling down parts. Italian is like dancing.
So it's not so much that there's a "clash" between the new soundtrack and the pictures, but when you dub from one language into another you lose that unique sense of movement.
I have this condition, but in what I guess is a more mild form. I don't associate sounds with colors-- UNTIL NOW!-- but I do associate words and letters with colors and... um... tastes, kind of.
I guess it started in the first grade or so, when I was learning to read. The letter "A" (capital A, that is) has always been sort of a bright red color, and smelled and tasted sweet, like cherry-flavored candy. "B" is purpley-blue, and chewy. "C" is lemony yellow. And so on. When I visualize any of those letters in my head, the color and the texture, or taste, or smell come along with them. It's hard to explain, I guess, if you don't know what I'm talking about.
When I was growing up, I just assumed everybody was like this. I turn 30 next month, and it was only earlier this year that I learned that I was different from most people. I was talking about our new house with my girlfriend, and I said something like, "Let's paint that room blue... sort of an 'M' blue." She had no f*cking idea what I was talking about, and that's how I learned that I was unusual in this way.
Since then I've kinda been reading up on synaesthesia a little bit in my spare time. Funny coincidence that this should come up on Slashdot at about the same time.
I just noticed this when the police chief said that shooting children was "crossing over the line".
Okay, yeah, that's pretty funny. "Shooting the old man and those women, you know, we'd really prefer that you didn't do that kind of thing. But the kid! That's going too far!" Ah, gallows humor.
(I don't live in the US... maybe common-or-garden public shootings occur often enough over there that this is no longer a reasonable expectation?)
No, I'd say that most reasonable people here in the US can expect not to be shot. We haven't quite gotten that bad, not yet anyway.
The telling statistic I heard was that the annual murder rate for whatever municipal district (the county, or the city, or whatever) tripled because of these shootings. I'd say public shootings are still pretty uncommon occurrences.
I wasn't talking about colour here
I know. I was just extending the stereotype to make the point.
How accurate has this guy been with the placement of his shots, and what does that tell us about him? As I understand it, all the victims have been shot in the chest area, right? What does military sniper training tell you about where to aim? Has the placement of the wounds been consistent with a military man trained to kill people, or, say, a highly skilled hunter who has only ever shot at game animals?
But you missed it! "Dear policeman, I am god" is an anagram of "A calendared gimp, I moo!" Clearly the bugginess and slowness of Apple's iCal sent this lunatic over the edge!
And "recalci" is an anagram of "Clarice." What are you trying to tell us, here?
Thats exactly the point, who in there right mind would go on a killing spree?
Insane != stupid. I hate to bring up an unpleasant example, but I would have thought that any person clever and determined enough to fly a jetliner into a building would be sane enough not to try, too. Turns out you can be monstrously insane and smart at the same time. Which sucks for the rest of us.
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I think you're extrapolating from a sample set that's too small to support your conclusions.
If you look at the real guts of 10.1 versus the real guts of 10.2, you'll see that 10.2 was a substantial feature upgrade. Lots of new stuff came with 10.2, while 10.1 was mostly a performance upgrade with a few new features. If you ever used 10.0, you'll agree, I imagine, that a performance upgrade was really welcome when 10.1 came out.
But Mac OS X is not Linux; they don't use an odd-number, even-number release gimmick. They have never used such a gimmick. Some releases are minor feature releases and are available for free or only a little cost. Some releases are major ones for which Apple charges a reasonable, not nontrivial, fee.
So when you say, "10.3 will almost certainly be a free... upgrade..." I really think you're kind of talking out of your ear. No offense.
And the thing about "Steve gets what Steve wants?" What's that all about? Are you just grumpy today, or is it your usual thing?
I can't find an exact transcript on the web, so I have to paraphrase the "Space" episode of News Radio. See, 'cause robots had taken over the world while Joe was in hibernation... and the baseball... ha! That show cracks me up.
I have the colored letters and numbers form and the colored taste form.
If you're curious-- and as google fodder-- the colored-letter form is called "chromograephemic synaesthesia," or "chromographemic synasthesia," depending on which side of the pond you're on.
Both. I should have been more clear, but I assumed you knew. I quote Khidir Hamza:(The rest is available here, and lots of other documentation about and by Mr. Hamza is available via Google.)
See, we know several things here. We know that the Hussein regime has a nuclear weapons program: they're working very hard to acquire nuclear material and build a device. We also know that Iraq has a stockpile of chemical weapons: they have N liters of mustard gas (I say "N" because I don't recall the precise number; 30,000 rings a bell), N liters of sarin nerve gas, N liters of CS nerve gas, N liters of VX nerve gas, and so on. We also know, through Mr. Hamza, that Iraq has produced at least 8,500 liters of concentrated anthrax, and we have reason to think they have considerably more than that. They've also developed varying amounts of numerous other biological agents, including botulinum toxin and aflatoxin. In 1990, Iraq actually had two hundred 85-liter bombs filled with botulinum toxin, anthrax, and aflatoxin, armed and ready for military use.
So Iraq has both built and stockpiled WMDs (chemical and biological) and is actively seeking WMDs (nuclear). Iraq has never used nuclear weapons because they've never had them, but they have used chemical weapons on numerous occasions, most notably during the Iran-Iraq war, and in 1988 in the Iraqi city of Halabja. Several types of chemical weapons were used at Halabja, essentially everything in Iraq's arsenal except VX. Five thousand people were killed in the attack. Hussein's willingness to use WMDs in war is not in question.
I agree with you that the United States hasn't done as good a job as they could of presenting this evidence to the people and to the world. But just because the facts haven't been delivered to your door on a silver platter, don't just assume that they're not there. Dig a little, and you'll be surprised.
Who died and made ICANN boss?
Jon Postel, I think.
Hence it's ludicrous to suggest that an American attack on Iraq will raise local oil prices.
While I think your numbers were right, your conclusion is a bit off. Remember 1990-1991? The unpleasantness in Iraq was followed by retail gasoline price increases of around 200%. War in that area might not actually affect our domestic supplies of crude oil, but there could very well be an impact at the gas station anyway.
This begs the question, if American dependence on Gulf oil is a myth, why are the Americans ready to wage war?
I have no intention of getting into a political conversation here, but few can argue that the Hussein government is actively seeking weapons of mass destruction and that they've historically shown a willingness-- hell, an eagerness-- to use them against their enemies. Taken in context of the events of last September, it becomes clear that a nation that has WMDs and that has clearly communicated a desire to use them against the US is a threat that we'd be foolish to ignore.
Going to war may or may not be wise for a number of reasons. But there's a pretty significant body of evidence out there that leads to the conclusion that war between the US and Iraq is inevitable. If the choice is between going to war now and waiting for some kind of horrible surprise attack by our enemy... well, I know which one I'd choose.
Okay, that was me not going off on a political tangent. So much for that...
it says that using sugar cane alcohol as a source of fuel also fights the greenhouse effect, because it doesn't produce C02 like regular fuel.
I'm still waiting for somebody to take the opposite approach to managing carbon emissions. Instead of restricting the production of carbon dioxide, I say we just grow more trees and other plants. Looking out my second-storey window over a parking lot, a freeway, and a football stadium, I'd say it would go a long way toward improving our cities, too.
The line between respectful homage and stolen idea can sometimes be indistinct.
Well, we're approaching the limits of my practical understanding of electricity, but it seems to me that machines don't consume volts at all. Machines consume joules, and when they consume joules over time, we talk about machines consuming watts.
Now, joules are delivered to a machine when electric current flows into that machine. The rate of joule consumption (which is measured in watts) varies with the amount of current drawn (which is measured in amps).
If I have a device that draws 6 amps, and I connect it to a circuit that can provide 15 amps, does that mean I'm wasting 9 amps? No, it doesn't. It's not like my box is drawing all 15 amps and discarding all but 6 of them somehow. So no power is being wasted there. I'm using all that I draw.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I don't really understand your comment, "If there's a universal standard power brick then that power is wasted for devices that really don't need that much juice."
Am I missing something?
If you concede that The Matrix was almost live-action anime, they might just be able to pull this off.
Think about the early chase sequence between the agent and Trinity. Now think about the chase late in the movie in the open-air market, complete with Ghost in the Shell-style exploding watermelons. They might just be able to make it happen.
Wow. If you had included "BSD is dying," I could have gotten 100% of my recommended daily allowance of trolling by reading one easy comment.
That would have been cool.
I don't think I have two objects in my house that take exactly the same voltage.
Assuming you live in the USA, all of the objects in your house-- with the exception of your dryer-- take the same voltage: 120 VAC.
Did you maybe mean amperage? It's true that every device draws a slightly different amount of current; mechanical devices can even draw different amounts of current at different times, depending on (for example) whether the fan is running at high speed or low speed.
I think what the "ask slashdot" and the linked article are really talking about is devices that draw DC current. The electricity coming to your house is AC, and some devices-- like my little 8-port Ethernet hub, for instance-- have very simple power circuits in them that are only equipped to handle DC current. So an external box is required to convert from AC to DC.
I certainly wouldn't complain if there were a universal standard for delivering DC current, so all those power bricks could disappear. The telco industry has already solved this problem by deploying 48 VDC in their equipment frames. Equipment that goes in telco racks takes 48 VDC directly, through a standard plug. Consumer gear doesn't work like that, though.
I say we skip it and just figure out how to deliver DC via microwaves... only without all the cancer and whatnot.
I wasn't kidding. 5 is saturated yellow, and 2 is bright red, so 5+2 looks sort of golden. 4 is light green and 3 is dark blue, so 4+3 is darkish-green.
Of course, if you're talking about the actual sum, then 7 is yellow, or maybe yellowy-green in the right context.
There's a really interesting paper called "Trends in Synesthetically Colored Graphemes and Phonemes." It concludes that while chromographemic synaesthetes (people who perceive letters as having colors) don't all share the same perceptions, there are some clear trends in letter-color association. It's short; check it out.
I remember way back at Elementary, when we got asked how much "5+2" is, and I said "green"... I can still hear them laughing at me...
Of course they laughed, you twit. 5+2 is obviously a sort of yellow-gold color! 4+3 is green!
Yes, that's right folks, synaesthetic arithmetic follows its own rules.
No, never. I didn't even know this condition, or whatever you call it, had a name until about four months ago. I just figured everybody else saw colors in letters, just like I do.
I know this isn't the best idea in the world, but have you tried using a digital camera for this sort of thing? It has the definite advantage of being portable; besides, you can pull it out of your trenchcoat and pretend to be an international man of mystery as you snap clandestine photos of secret documents... or journal articles, or whatever.
Naturally, this wouldn't work as well as a good flatbed scanner, but it would probably be comparable to the handheld swipe-across scanners you mentioned. And it has the advantage of being a multi-tasker: you can use it for a lot more than just library work.
Just an idea.
I think both you and this guy missed an important detail.
I have inherited the C code for an embedded system
There's a good chance that the compiler this person is using is the only one that's available for the architecture in question. I mean, he could be talking about a microwave oven or a car ignition system or something.
Check out SourceMage... It also has a nifty theme to it, Magic. You "cast"(install) "spells"(programs) and it downloads the source and compiles and installs it, and creates logs of all that happens. You can "dispel"(uninstall) it. you can "gaze" into the "grimoire"(list of spells).
Look, I know we're talking about compiling kernels and whatnot, so none of us is exactly the most popular kid in school, if you know what I mean. But this is just embarrassing. I mean, there's such a thing as taking role playing games too far, you know?
This is incredibly geeky, even by my standards.
As I said in another post, I have a really mild form of synaesthesia, so my experience may not be typical. But I don't really think anything of colorized movies one way or another-- except to say that they're kinda ugly most of the time.
Dubbed movies, on the other hand... every language has its own texture. English is hard to evaluate, because it's my native language; I can't hear it without understanding it, so I don't usually notice the sound of it. But other languages sound kind of like... movement. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's hard to explain.
Japanese is spikey and hard, all elbows, because of all the "ta-ta-ta" sounds. It's like barging your way through a crowd. Chinese kind of sways, like a tree in a strong wind, sliding into all the curves. Russian is like driving over speedbumps, all up-down-up-down. French is like twirling, but without the getting dizzy and falling down parts. Italian is like dancing.
So it's not so much that there's a "clash" between the new soundtrack and the pictures, but when you dub from one language into another you lose that unique sense of movement.
Does any of this make any sense?
I have this condition, but in what I guess is a more mild form. I don't associate sounds with colors-- UNTIL NOW!-- but I do associate words and letters with colors and... um... tastes, kind of.
I guess it started in the first grade or so, when I was learning to read. The letter "A" (capital A, that is) has always been sort of a bright red color, and smelled and tasted sweet, like cherry-flavored candy. "B" is purpley-blue, and chewy. "C" is lemony yellow. And so on. When I visualize any of those letters in my head, the color and the texture, or taste, or smell come along with them. It's hard to explain, I guess, if you don't know what I'm talking about.
When I was growing up, I just assumed everybody was like this. I turn 30 next month, and it was only earlier this year that I learned that I was different from most people. I was talking about our new house with my girlfriend, and I said something like, "Let's paint that room blue... sort of an 'M' blue." She had no f*cking idea what I was talking about, and that's how I learned that I was unusual in this way.
Since then I've kinda been reading up on synaesthesia a little bit in my spare time. Funny coincidence that this should come up on Slashdot at about the same time.
I just noticed this when the police chief said that shooting children was "crossing over the line".
Okay, yeah, that's pretty funny. "Shooting the old man and those women, you know, we'd really prefer that you didn't do that kind of thing. But the kid! That's going too far!" Ah, gallows humor.
(I don't live in the US... maybe common-or-garden public shootings occur often enough over there that this is no longer a reasonable expectation?)
No, I'd say that most reasonable people here in the US can expect not to be shot. We haven't quite gotten that bad, not yet anyway.
The telling statistic I heard was that the annual murder rate for whatever municipal district (the county, or the city, or whatever) tripled because of these shootings. I'd say public shootings are still pretty uncommon occurrences.
I wasn't talking about colour here
I know. I was just extending the stereotype to make the point.
How accurate has this guy been with the placement of his shots, and what does that tell us about him? As I understand it, all the victims have been shot in the chest area, right? What does military sniper training tell you about where to aim? Has the placement of the wounds been consistent with a military man trained to kill people, or, say, a highly skilled hunter who has only ever shot at game animals?
But you missed it! "Dear policeman, I am god" is an anagram of "A calendared gimp, I moo!" Clearly the bugginess and slowness of Apple's iCal sent this lunatic over the edge!
And "recalci" is an anagram of "Clarice." What are you trying to tell us, here?
Thats exactly the point, who in there right mind would go on a killing spree?
Insane != stupid. I hate to bring up an unpleasant example, but I would have thought that any person clever and determined enough to fly a jetliner into a building would be sane enough not to try, too. Turns out you can be monstrously insane and smart at the same time. Which sucks for the rest of us.
Please define "high powered sniper rifle". Differentiate from "hunting rifle" or "varmint rifle" or "target shooting rifle". Please be very specific.
Easy. A "sniper rifle" is a rifle that has been used to kill somebody from a distance.
Unfortunately, like many definitions, it can only apply retroactively.