Why wouldn't the "Oriental Community" just USE Linux on a non PC platform like Sun or Apple?
Why wouldn't they even consider Mac OS X? The Xserve is a very cheap solution to deploy. eMacs are sub $800 iMac CRTs (still made for edu & gov) are sub $700 iMac LCDs are sub $1000 - G5's are looking like they will be the 4 year without obsolescence computer and could possibly be a long term 7-8 year solution - as most Macs are.
This sounds like to me that some "out of work linux" lobby has managed to hoodwink Asia into some FUD.
Can anyone say WHY 1/4 of the world's population NEEDS a proprietary system? I can understand a move away from an insecure system, but not away from standards are commercially produced hardware and software.
I'd like to see if the Opteron 64 has sold 240,000 computers!! (or the Alpha) Apple's preorder total for the G5 is right at 240,000 and the numbers are expected to grow by about 15% once fully stocked in stores before the end of September.
And to those; "it's a 32 bit OS" naysayers, Panther will be partially 64 bit and multithreaded. Quit with the Apple bashing and read facts.
.... it the other part of the 60% - because at the last Hamfest I went to...... A LOT of the dealers/users there used Macs. There is a lot of Ham Radio software and hard ware out there for the Apple platform:
Elmer - teaches for the ham radio exam
Antenna Master - helps design ham setups and antenna design
MacTNC - terminal control for Ham radio
Moonsked - ham radio moon bounce software
All of these are available for all flavors of the Mac OS - even X
So, with all the penis enlargement and teensploitation junk emails I get - I can't even have her read those? Darn!
Building the "terminator" into robots is true AI
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This is essentially building "survival" into robots. Although fictitious, The Terminator's function was to complete it's mission, it's processing would route power or find power from other limbs, etc etc.
I think that true AI will result from this "survival instinct" - because robots will eventually learn that in order to survive/continue they will need to be loved, to fix themselves (eat, be healthy), and to have shelter (come out of the rain)
Hmmmm... I think the point is Apple Computer isn't your typical corporate spender.
And it is QUITE untrue that corporations are ONLY interested in profit. Coca Cola's stated mission since the 30's is to be the number 1 recognized brand name period. I'd say they have that goal:
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/brand/2003/index.as p
Coca Cola truly is an innovator in their business too. "Fridge cases" & Vanilla Coke are beverage achievements - however corny that may sound.
And what about those "admin costs" the parent mentioned"?
I have always thought that Apple would one day build a robot. Maybe license the name iRobot or something.
I think the Sony Man Robot is very promising to reach a consumer level vision.
A robot that could hold a wireless basestation, bluetooth - maybe to receive processing power from local computer "brain" hosts would be interesting as well. Two iSights for eyes... be able to program him to film you (wedding, event potential) it would also be neat for something like this to house all your personal information and train hima s if he were YOUR five year old - then in a morbid - way your tombstone would be YOUR robot and people could see some semblance of you.
These are just a bunch of jumbled thoughts on the subject.
My thought is - stuff like this should be left to corporate spending. Government spending/programs have to much admistration cost that would be lost.
I'm sure this will get said time and again in this thread, but why wouldn't someone be able to able spoof the "update server" and get people to download a virus directly..... heck that's worse than an emailed virus!
I have always disliked a software update feature. Since I use Macs, while the software update control is nice and very conveiniant (also much less likely to be hacked) I think that if someone WANTED to they could spread a virus through the system of Mac Users much more widespread than Windows users because of the inherent niavity/novice of a Mac User.
"A Security Update to the Network Control Panel" for example
That said, I also think the Mac web is great and would INSTANTLY pick up on it within a few hours and post to dozens of websites, whereas Windows users have to here from some paranoid or a "too late" IT staff.
Have any of you ever been to Yahoo Personals and looked at the personal/matchmaking ads? More than 50% of them are fake. Match.com isn't as bad, but I'd estimate 25% easily.
Most of them are just ways for creeps to harvest your email address for PrOn SPAM emails. I have even been told by a local strip club owner (work with his Mac and sound system) that his girls get on match.com and entice guys to come in all the time; that it's a requirement of the job.
I wish Yahoo and Match would police their ads better - sometime there's such a thorough or a good writer that it's hard to know whether or not they are a real person or not. Usually you can tell by the picture; model poses.
This was a jornal entry I made two months back that relates to this topic.
I saw a story on CNN this morning about Greenpeace saying the polar ice caps have melted and that the water levels in the oceans have risen 2.5 - 2.75 inches in the last 25 years. This is supposedly beyond normal and clear evidence that the polar ice caps are melting.
I had two "seemingly absurd" at first glance explanations for water, or tide levels rising, but possibly peaking right about now. (Now being the year 2000+)
First, what sort of water displacement has occurred due to cruise ships, barges, subs, oil tankers, oil rigs, and other man made water craft? I know the ocean is huge and it's not like my bathtub, but it HAS to be at least a minute amount!
Second, if the theory of plate techtonics is true, couldn't our land masses have shifted/grown substantially (in the case of Hawaii) also causing significant water displacement?
Third, hasn't some sediment/diatomation/oceanic (organic/volcanic) growth also occurred & also caused water displacement
I have seen a Canadian study (forget where) that there's more ice in the upper regions of the country than ever. So rather than the poles melting, is ice just shifting a little? As glaciers move and "ice masses" float, won't they melt anyway?
In a way, this relates to my earlier "statistics, shmatistics" post below. It just really annoys me for business's and especially charity/non profits to use "Beyond FUD" to scare up money.
Whether global warming or erosion of the atmosphere is happening or not, conservation and world health organizations should be worried about just that and focusing their funds on research rather than paying for stupid studies to be run in the liberal media. The study about tides rising cost 15 million dollars to Greenpeace! Do you know how much that would have advanced solar energy research or subsidized solar home construction? Or how many wind mill and turbine powered generators that could have built?
Do you believe Linux is an answer to the state's database organization and paper beaurocracy problem?
How will you also NOT show favoratism and make sure money is available for schools that want or NEED Apple Computers?
Two Reasons: Point Blank & Duck Hunt = tube TV
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You can get a 30" Samsung HDTV ($699 this week at Best Buy) and something like a Sansui DVD/TV/VCR (yes all 3 in one box) 24" TV ($299 this week at Best Buy)
Have one for your bedroom and one for your living room/ company - you'd be surprised at how handy and space saving these new 3 in 1's are. Also MAKE SURE what ever TV you get that it has front av inputs. Nice for a digital camera or hooking up a laptop on the fly. Some TV's (just not in the $1000 price range) have DVI hookups.
I'd go with glass for this reason and you can see if you have the same need. I have just about ALL the light gun games ever made for home video game consoles - I WILL NEVER give up a way to play Point Blank (1,2,3) or Duck Hunt. To me, these games and Tetris are the ONLY playable video games. SO, if you ever want to play a light gun based game, at least you can with a glass tube TV, you can't with a projection, plasma, or LCD.
Light also effects accoustics and sound. Flourescent light in particular has a noise cancelling effect on some tones. There was a study I saw on TV (not sure if it was PBS or Discovery) where kids actually retained more information being taught in a dimly lit room than in a bright one.
Related: Has anyone ever been to MGM in Florida and done the THX sound effects studio? You sit in a pitch black room with headphones on and it sounds like you are actually getting a haircut, getting your hair blow dried (and you feel heat - but there's not any), + you get annoyed by a fly in the room... I remember the voiceover saying that the darkness of the room tuned your senses - particularly your ears.
An insightful set of posts popped up on/. a week ago about micro payments and the success or failure of them. This was the general direction I posted in this discussion, look at my post page for the full discussion:
I regularly post to Slashdot. I am essentially a micro-content provider to Slashdot. I have posted over 300 comments, many of them high Karma scorers. If I made, say, one cent per Karma point, then I would be about 3 dollars better off by now! Woohoo!"
Maybe a site like Slashdot could charge "micropayments" but rebate to it's users that have high moderation. This may have an effect on eliminating troll posts and encourage well thought out responses.
I pride myself in the high moderation I get here & substantial page views/responses I get elsewhere. I mainly use this site & other Mac Chat/Forums sites as a way to "micro-advertise" my website & my eBay auctions. I figure, if people think I say something interesting I must be selling something interesting;)
Another take: If you actually sell something on eBay OR leave feedback for a transaction you are rebated or awarded a micropayment. This way, even eBay could CHARGE for content. Buy - you are deducted a micropayment - leave feedback - awarded/rebated a micropayment
What's funny about Gateway is that they think they actually have a following and a brand loyalty like Apple does. Apple caters to loyalty (not as much as some would like) - No one I know of says, I only buy Gateway!!!
HyperMetabolism & weighing same since 11th gra
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There are 2 types of and different levels of diabetes. One is; Hypoglycemia, the other is; HyperGlycemia. Hypo - not enough Hyper - too much. The problem with diabetics is that their bodies essentially treat glucose like cocaine or heroine. Provides a high and a means for energy but only in temporary spikes. If you have ever seen the movie Hollow Man, think of Diabetes in the same way the scientists were seeing the "invisibility" in that movie. You are essentially invisible (to medications), there are are no cures, only those 98% solutions, that break down at the very last second - helping to prolong your life and reduce side effects, but no real cure.
I have a "mutated form" of diabetes - I have a hypermetabolism. It's effect has been slenderness on me. I am not skinny, in fact, I am just under atheletic and toned looking, but I am almost 30 and weigh the exact same as I did in 11th grade 165 (6'1") - I eat 4 large meals a day and snack most all day. That said, I am very active. I metabolize most everything I take in and don't use the restroom but 3-4 times a week (for 1 AND 2) - no constipation - I have to go get biannual checkups. Contact me if you'd like to know more.
You are on to something about it having the effect of making you slimmer - but we ALL already have that in our systems - I think some of us just have a Honda blood engine and some of us have a Ferrari blood engine;)
Okay, first of all, skewed stats come out all the time that Apple only has 3-4% market share. When that is quarterly sales of a MUCH larger pie than 10 years ago when market share was in the 20's. Actual SALES volume of Apple Computers has remained relatively flat to increased. Actual MARKET share of Apple (installed base) hovers at around 11%. --- Do you honestly think on 3% of the USA is buying 8.3 million iTunes songs?
So buy this report IBM & Motorola have a 0% market share because the total adds up to 100. Moto and IBM make LOTS of CPU's for computers OTHER than Apple as well. This is another statistic probably paid for and sponsored by Intel just as the Billionth processor news was.
Tucker ... The Man & His Dream/Fictionalized
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Anyone who watched the movie Tucker: The Man & His Dream (Jeff Bridges) would think that the big 3 sabotaged Tucker's efforts and muscled him out much like Microsoft muscles out competition today. While true in some regard the story was VERY "defactualized" for the book and resulting movie.
The facts were that the guy, while a great miltary vehicle parts supplier/contractor was a crazy eyed kind of entrepeneur. His cars were unstable at best (not sabotaged).... just ask a Tucker owner.
This guy is trying to do the SAME thing Tucker was... using current suppliers of the big three + his own contacts to "build cars you want... not cars THEY want you to have"" - note that the last line is almost a word for word advertisement from an old Tucker ad I saw in the National American History Museum.
I wish this guy sounded like he had a chance, competition is always good, but when public safety (others and my own) is put at risk on such a large scale, we should all be skeptical.
While some may debate the next sentence, it helps put this scale: A custom computer company hardly puts everyone in my city at risk if I buy one of their products and it's a lemon. A car company puts the entire range of population with my car under risk if it is a lemon.
I might wait a bit longer &/or get this ...
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I have been looking at thumb drives & pen drives for quite some time now. For your solution, you'd be best advised to get a 9 in 1 memory reader (Only $15 at Computer Geeks) This reads SD/MMC/XD/Compact Flash/Memory Stick/Smartmedia - (some formats have more than one type)
I'd also consider an XDrive II - it's a multiformat digital media reader that also can accept a hard drive. It comes in USB2.0 various flavors. (Bare or with internal HD)
I use the XDrive II in my daily routine. You don't have to have a computer to offload digital media onto the internal hard drive as their is a copy button on the drive with a little LCD indicating status.
IF you have to wait for a thumb drive -- a 1 gig + SD/MMC/XD reader of the Lexar Pro+ Jumpdrive is due out early next year. Also SD is being promised at 1 gig about that time and XD is promised to be 3 gig by the end of 2004. So if you don't like the XDrive suggestion, wait for this drive.
It's not ties that cause blindness... it's people doing stupid stuff that causes blindness.
Welding without a welder's mask can cause blindness... read that doesn't say WELDING causes blindness. The article may have been written by someone (or ispired) that was fired from a tie factory!
Don't wear a tie or a shirt that doesn't fit you... don't worry about it.
Same analogy: is McDonald's making people fat or are obese eaters making themselves fat?
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Why wouldn't they even consider Mac OS X? The Xserve is a very cheap solution to deploy. eMacs are sub $800 iMac CRTs (still made for edu & gov) are sub $700 iMac LCDs are sub $1000 - G5's are looking like they will be the 4 year without obsolescence computer and could possibly be a long term 7-8 year solution - as most Macs are.
This sounds like to me that some "out of work linux" lobby has managed to hoodwink Asia into some FUD.
Can anyone say WHY 1/4 of the world's population NEEDS a proprietary system? I can understand a move away from an insecure system, but not away from standards are commercially produced hardware and software.
to Apple sales ....
I'd like to see if the Opteron 64 has sold 240,000 computers!! (or the Alpha) Apple's preorder total for the G5 is right at 240,000 and the numbers are expected to grow by about 15% once fully stocked in stores before the end of September.
And to those; "it's a 32 bit OS" naysayers, Panther will be partially 64 bit and multithreaded. Quit with the Apple bashing and read facts.
.... it the other part of the 60% - because at the last Hamfest I went to ...... A LOT of the dealers/users there used Macs. There is a lot of Ham Radio software and hard ware out there for the Apple platform:
Elmer - teaches for the ham radio exam
Antenna Master - helps design ham setups and antenna design
MacTNC - terminal control for Ham radio
Moonsked - ham radio moon bounce software
All of these are available for all flavors of the Mac OS - even X
So, with all the penis enlargement and teensploitation junk emails I get - I can't even have her read those? Darn!
I think that true AI will result from this "survival instinct" - because robots will eventually learn that in order to survive/continue they will need to be loved, to fix themselves (eat, be healthy), and to have shelter (come out of the rain)
Hmmmm ... I think the point is Apple Computer isn't your typical corporate spender.
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And it is QUITE untrue that corporations are ONLY interested in profit. Coca Cola's stated mission since the 30's is to be the number 1 recognized brand name period. I'd say they have that goal:
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/brand/2003/index.a
Coca Cola truly is an innovator in their business too. "Fridge cases" & Vanilla Coke are beverage achievements - however corny that may sound.
And what about those "admin costs" the parent mentioned"?
I have always thought that Apple would one day build a robot. Maybe license the name iRobot or something.
... be able to program him to film you (wedding, event potential) it would also be neat for something like this to house all your personal information and train hima s if he were YOUR five year old - then in a morbid - way your tombstone would be YOUR robot and people could see some semblance of you.
I think the Sony Man Robot is very promising to reach a consumer level vision.
A robot that could hold a wireless basestation, bluetooth - maybe to receive processing power from local computer "brain" hosts would be interesting as well. Two iSights for eyes
These are just a bunch of jumbled thoughts on the subject.
My thought is - stuff like this should be left to corporate spending. Government spending/programs have to much admistration cost that would be lost.
I have always disliked a software update feature. Since I use Macs, while the software update control is nice and very conveiniant (also much less likely to be hacked) I think that if someone WANTED to they could spread a virus through the system of Mac Users much more widespread than Windows users because of the inherent niavity/novice of a Mac User.
"A Security Update to the Network Control Panel" for example
That said, I also think the Mac web is great and would INSTANTLY pick up on it within a few hours and post to dozens of websites, whereas Windows users have to here from some paranoid or a "too late" IT staff.
Most of them are just ways for creeps to harvest your email address for PrOn SPAM emails. I have even been told by a local strip club owner (work with his Mac and sound system) that his girls get on match.com and entice guys to come in all the time; that it's a requirement of the job.
I wish Yahoo and Match would police their ads better - sometime there's such a thorough or a good writer that it's hard to know whether or not they are a real person or not. Usually you can tell by the picture; model poses.
This was a jornal entry I made two months back that relates to this topic.
I saw a story on CNN this morning about Greenpeace saying the polar ice caps have melted and that the water levels in the oceans have risen 2.5 - 2.75 inches in the last 25 years. This is supposedly beyond normal and clear evidence that the polar ice caps are melting.
I had two "seemingly absurd" at first glance explanations for water, or tide levels rising, but possibly peaking right about now. (Now being the year 2000+)
First, what sort of water displacement has occurred due to cruise ships, barges, subs, oil tankers, oil rigs, and other man made water craft? I know the ocean is huge and it's not like my bathtub, but it HAS to be at least a minute amount!
Second, if the theory of plate techtonics is true, couldn't our land masses have shifted/grown substantially (in the case of Hawaii) also causing significant water displacement?
Third, hasn't some sediment/diatomation/oceanic (organic/volcanic) growth also occurred & also caused water displacement
I have seen a Canadian study (forget where) that there's more ice in the upper regions of the country than ever. So rather than the poles melting, is ice just shifting a little? As glaciers move and "ice masses" float, won't they melt anyway?
In a way, this relates to my earlier "statistics, shmatistics" post below. It just really annoys me for business's and especially charity/non profits to use "Beyond FUD" to scare up money.
Whether global warming or erosion of the atmosphere is happening or not, conservation and world health organizations should be worried about just that and focusing their funds on research rather than paying for stupid studies to be run in the liberal media. The study about tides rising cost 15 million dollars to Greenpeace! Do you know how much that would have advanced solar energy research or subsidized solar home construction? Or how many wind mill and turbine powered generators that could have built?
Are you Democrat or Republican or Independent?
Do you believe Linux is an answer to the state's database organization and paper beaurocracy problem?
How will you also NOT show favoratism and make sure money is available for schools that want or NEED Apple Computers?
Have one for your bedroom and one for your living room/ company - you'd be surprised at how handy and space saving these new 3 in 1's are. Also MAKE SURE what ever TV you get that it has front av inputs. Nice for a digital camera or hooking up a laptop on the fly. Some TV's (just not in the $1000 price range) have DVI hookups.
I'd go with glass for this reason and you can see if you have the same need. I have just about ALL the light gun games ever made for home video game consoles - I WILL NEVER give up a way to play Point Blank (1,2,3) or Duck Hunt. To me, these games and Tetris are the ONLY playable video games. SO, if you ever want to play a light gun based game, at least you can with a glass tube TV, you can't with a projection, plasma, or LCD.
Related: Has anyone ever been to MGM in Florida and done the THX sound effects studio? You sit in a pitch black room with headphones on and it sounds like you are actually getting a haircut, getting your hair blow dried (and you feel heat - but there's not any), + you get annoyed by a fly in the room ... I remember the voiceover saying that the darkness of the room tuned your senses - particularly your ears.
Would you mind explaining in an anonymous post what the heck karma whoring is?
I regularly post to Slashdot. I am essentially a micro-content provider to Slashdot. I have posted over 300 comments, many of them high Karma scorers. If I made, say, one cent per Karma point, then I would be about 3 dollars better off by now! Woohoo!"
Maybe a site like Slashdot could charge "micropayments" but rebate to it's users that have high moderation. This may have an effect on eliminating troll posts and encourage well thought out responses.
I pride myself in the high moderation I get here & substantial page views/responses I get elsewhere. I mainly use this site & other Mac Chat/Forums sites as a way to "micro-advertise" my website & my eBay auctions. I figure, if people think I say something interesting I must be selling something interesting ;)
Another take: If you actually sell something on eBay OR leave feedback for a transaction you are rebated or awarded a micropayment. This way, even eBay could CHARGE for content. Buy - you are deducted a micropayment - leave feedback - awarded/rebated a micropayment
What's funny about Gateway is that they think they actually have a following and a brand loyalty like Apple does. Apple caters to loyalty (not as much as some would like) - No one I know of says, I only buy Gateway!!!
I have a "mutated form" of diabetes - I have a hypermetabolism. It's effect has been slenderness on me. I am not skinny, in fact, I am just under atheletic and toned looking, but I am almost 30 and weigh the exact same as I did in 11th grade 165 (6'1") - I eat 4 large meals a day and snack most all day. That said, I am very active. I metabolize most everything I take in and don't use the restroom but 3-4 times a week (for 1 AND 2) - no constipation - I have to go get biannual checkups. Contact me if you'd like to know more.
You are on to something about it having the effect of making you slimmer - but we ALL already have that in our systems - I think some of us just have a Honda blood engine and some of us have a Ferrari blood engine ;)
So buy this report IBM & Motorola have a 0% market share because the total adds up to 100. Moto and IBM make LOTS of CPU's for computers OTHER than Apple as well. This is another statistic probably paid for and sponsored by Intel just as the Billionth processor news was.
The facts were that the guy, while a great miltary vehicle parts supplier/contractor was a crazy eyed kind of entrepeneur. His cars were unstable at best (not sabotaged) .... just ask a Tucker owner.
This guy is trying to do the SAME thing Tucker was ... using current suppliers of the big three + his own contacts to "build cars you want... not cars THEY want you to have"" - note that the last line is almost a word for word advertisement from an old Tucker ad I saw in the National American History Museum.
I wish this guy sounded like he had a chance, competition is always good, but when public safety (others and my own) is put at risk on such a large scale, we should all be skeptical.
While some may debate the next sentence, it helps put this scale: A custom computer company hardly puts everyone in my city at risk if I buy one of their products and it's a lemon. A car company puts the entire range of population with my car under risk if it is a lemon.
A journal entry from this morning
I'd also consider an XDrive II - it's a multiformat digital media reader that also can accept a hard drive. It comes in USB2.0 various flavors. (Bare or with internal HD)
I use the XDrive II in my daily routine. You don't have to have a computer to offload digital media onto the internal hard drive as their is a copy button on the drive with a little LCD indicating status.
IF you have to wait for a thumb drive -- a 1 gig + SD/MMC/XD reader of the Lexar Pro+ Jumpdrive is due out early next year. Also SD is being promised at 1 gig about that time and XD is promised to be 3 gig by the end of 2004. So if you don't like the XDrive suggestion, wait for this drive.
Let's turn it into a modern Jonathan Swift satire and solve the world hunger problem by eating high school dropouts.
A modest proposal?
Ha Ha
It's not ties that cause blindness ... it's people doing stupid stuff that causes blindness.
Welding without a welder's mask can cause blindness ... read that doesn't say WELDING causes blindness. The article may have been written by someone (or ispired) that was fired from a tie factory!
Don't wear a tie or a shirt that doesn't fit you ... don't worry about it.
Same analogy: is McDonald's making people fat or are obese eaters making themselves fat?
Actually I would like to see a checkbox on a 1040 form (just as there is one for presidential election campaign funds) for Terrorism funding.
I would like to see voting for tax dollars spent anyway. This would tell how truly popular/provisional government programs are:
Give a multiple choice at the end of each state and federal 1040:
I would like my first 10% of taxes paid to go towards the ________ fund
I would like my second 10% to go towards the _________ fund
and so on.
Humans research robotics = jobs
More professors teaching robotics=jobs
Factory for robots=jobs
Media advertisements/relations=jobs