All the under lying technologies are open source. Your posting is probably THE most misinformed posting I've seen. I'm convinced that the culture in Apple has taken
a 180 when they acquired NeXT technologies and their
management.
Jordan Hubbard visited our campus last year to tell us
his work on OSX and why he switched over to develop for
OSX from FreeBSD. He told us about going around finding core OSX coders on the Apple campus saying "Give me your source code or I'll rip of your head!!!". He also helped
pushed other Apple code that had been developed
for years internally into the open source community.
Basically, your statement is full of it. Get your facts straight, then manipulate them all you want.
As for the original question in this posting. No, I don't
feel guilty using OSX over Linux. I need to use Photoshop,
Excel and a variety of commercial software that has not
been ported over to Linux (yet...?). Yet, retain the advantage
of a UNIX environment, running applications on my SGI
through X11 (I have a three button mouse) or doing the same on Windows 2000/XP with Remote Desktop Connection. Oh yeah, not to mention all the native
the iLife apps that I really like using day to day.
Posted back in Nov 24th 2003 but still relevant today
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I would like to encourage you to watch this great lecture streamed through the internet. Prof. David D. Cole of Georgetown University Law Center explores the parallels between the first Red Scare, the era of McCarthyism and todays equivalent... terrorism. If you have a good internet connection with Real player and an hour of your time, I would recommend catching this enlightening lecture. To learn how denying the civil liberties of others may later trample on your very on liberties and rights in the future. Parts of the original Patroit Act are in this lecture as well.
"Freedom and Terror: September 11th and the 21st Century Challenge Freedom"
by Professor David D. Cole, Georgetown University Law Center Real Player streamed lecture
The lecture is available by webstream on demand:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/webstream.htm
For more information on the Academic Freedom Lecture
Series please see:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/AFL/afllecture.html
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"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't trade unionists.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Martin Niemoeller, Lutheran Pastor.
I've taken my three button USB mouse from my SGI 320
and stuck it on one of my OSX machine a while back and it worked just great. It understands all the three button functions correctly out of the box in X11 and other applications without any drivers or any additional cofiguration. Apple DOES support multi-button mice. In Expose' you can program even ask a four or five button mouse to use certain functions. I now use a IBM scrool wheel mouse made for PCs. The CD did not come with a driver for OSX, but I plugged it into my OSX G4 Powerbook and now I use the fourth mouse button used by the thumb to activate the same function as F10 in Expose.
Doesn't surprise me that the Hubble which has proven to be one of the most useful and successful instruments in astronomy would get axed in this myopic administration. As one humorist put it, what else can show the President's political virility better than a gigantic Saturn V rocket shooting off to the moon to make a pointless lunar colony (also helps distract the public on other more pressing
matters back here on Earth). We have robots on Mars taking very nice pictures, sending back measurements of the atmospheric and soil samples readings. We don't need to
send a human out there, especially to coax one's national ego when deficit spending is endangering the long term fiscal health of the economy.
I.M.F. Says U.S. Debts Threaten World Economy
" The International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Bush
administration
to develop a plan to balance the federal budget, saying tax cuts had
given the
economy only a modest lift, and warning that widening fiscal deficits
held
dangers for domestic and global growth."
I always thought the IMF warned countries like Argentina for their spending behavior. My 2 cents,
Funny this came up on Slashdot today. Literally 5 minutes ago I had to help a secretary in my department who accidentally lost a file alias on the dock by dragging it to become a cloud of virtual smoke. I like your idea of making it appear in the desktop should such a mistake occur.
The dock should be pinnable on both ends. Finder and
Trash Can. Then have apps fill in blank spaces in the dock as needed. One thing I wish they had kept consistent in the
dock was,
1. Double click icon to start apps or open files + folders and hover to open a casade into subfolders
2. When applications are hidden. Make the icon appear gray
just like OS9.
Lastly, unrelated to the dock I wish the Apple Menu was
customizable. Instead of the way they have it now. Fruit Menu does a great job of what was once available in previous OSes. Change...
About this Mac
Software Update...(redundant because its in About thisMac)
Mac OS X Software...
To...
About this Mac
Applications (cascading menus)
Home:shortname (cascading menus)
Makes it nicer for Windows users trying to "switch" over
to OSX and for older OS9 users to be comfortable in the
new system.
Population of Canada 32,207,113 (July 2003 est.) Population of USA 290,342,554 (July 2003 est.)
Therefore we would need to spend ~ 9 times as much to equal in dollar amounts what the Canadians spend. Perhaps even more since their cost of living is lower than ours
As for numbers that we supposedly spend 3 times on education as we do on the military, please download form i1040gi.pdf from
the IRS.gov website. Look at page 76, you'll find...
20 % total to (2). National defense, veterans, and foreign affairs: About 17% of outlays were to equip, modernize, and pay our armed forces and to fund other national defense activities; about 2% were for veterans benefits and services; and about 1% were for international activities, including military and economic assistance to foreign countries and the maintenance of U.S. embassies abroad.
10% total to (3) Physical, human, and community development: These outlays were for agriculture; natural resources; environment; transportation; aid for elementary and secondary education and direct assistance to college students; job training; deposit insurance, commerce and housing credit, and community development; and space,
energy, and general science programs.
"The report, released last week, found that of $6.9 trillion in accounting entries, only $2.6 trillion could be fully documented and $2.3 trillion in accounting entries "[were] not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity." Information on the remaining $2 trillion in entries arrived too late and could not be examined, but it is reasonable to assume that the $2.3 trillion in undocumented entries -- representing one-third of all entries -- is a conservative figure."
THANK YOU for highlighting a core cause of all this. Most Americans aren't interested in the math and sciences these days and the current trend with the administration is to squeeze funding out of the public American schools and pump that directly in the military programs and private companies like Lockheed and Raytheon. Recently I read a review about research jobs in the US military. Many senior scientists are retiring and they have an extreme shortage finding qualified American citizens as replacements. The question was raised who was going to develop the next gen. F-22 fighter plane? While the current administration loves to pour money blindly into current Pentagon programs, many of which under normal circumstances and budgets would have been axed for being too impractical and based on unproven technologies (exotic any damn nano-whatever technology or suits that gives our troops camouflage that renders them invisible in all environments). The sad fact is that politicians (esp. Republicans) enjoy blaming public schools for failing and keep trying to push the school voucher program to hold a high degree of accountability for our educational programs (Parents aren't helping much either these days when they take the blame out for their children's behavior on these poorly paid teachers. When its the parent's own failure to raise their own children). It irks me when I here about Congress dropping the Pentagon's requirement to give an accounting balance of their spending. Before the Congress removed this requirement the Pentagon used to be unable to account for 4 Trillion dollars out 7 Trillion in their yearly transactions. Why is it that we turn a blind eye under such wasteful spending in the military-industrial-govt complex yet, bash the public school systems with very little funds and poorly paid teachers.
Inside the Pentagon: Franklin "Chuck" Spinney story These children are the future of American minds who will be the engineers, programmers, scientists (with PhDs). Yet we squeeze the funding of education today for short term gains for private companies involved with the military complex, that lobbied heavily for these programs and where heavy contributers to our politicians. Point is that we are sacrificing our futures by not investing
in education at the lowest levels today. Perhaps some of those American kids will take up programming or take up a research oriented science. Till then the trend will be that jobs like the ones in GE in be going to Russia, China, India and other countries that INVEST in public education and have strong math and science backgrounds. There are many poor people in South America and Africa too, but you won't see jobs heading out there or in the foreseeable future. Because they didn't invest in the education that requires their citizens to compete in a high tech world and for high end research jobs. Till then sit back and enjoy that
Missile Defense Shield that will cost the American tax payers billions. Which could have been invested in to our schools and retraining for the recent unemployed. No, we won't do that because its not sexy enough when we make investments like that. Instead we're going with the advise of an imbecile Rumsfeld's "spiral" program of development of our weapons missile systems which don't require verification or enough tests to prove the system works.
Translation: Blank check to the miltary-industrial-govt complex with no oversight or accountability. While our children funding for our schools is cut and teachers have to buy textbooks out of their own pockets for their students.
Its a f#@king outrage and disgusts me that we allow this to happen in the country. Then blame other countries for taking our high tech jobs, when our own citizenary 'could' have provided those jobs with more investment in training and education. Till then sleep with the comfort that billions
will be spent on a system that won't be protecting you and
lining the coffers of private defense contractors, while our
school system is allowed
Windows NT "With its Posix standard compliance, Gates claims NT will be as compatible with the leading versions of Unix as they are with each other.....He also said that Microsoft may offer limited voice-recognition for Windows this year". Byte: Nanobytes column March 1992 page 26.
In the meantime Gartner: Longhorn Delays Will Affect WindowsThe IT advisory firm expects the operating system to be released between late 2006 and mid-2008, but that the release could be delayed even more.
My suggestion. Get OSX Panther today and stop dreaming about tomorrow.
I would like to encourage you to watch this great lecture streamed through
the internet. Prof. David D. Cole of Georgetown University Law Center
explores the parallels between the first Red Scare, the era of McCarthyism
and todays equivalent... terrorism. If you have a good internet connection
with Real player and an hour of your time, I would recommend catching this
enlightening lecture. To learn how denying the civil liberties of others
may later trample on your very on liberties and rights in the future. Parts of the original Patroit Act are in this lecture as well.
"Freedom and Terror: September 11th and the 21st Century Challenge Freedom"
by Professor David D. Cole, Georgetown University Law Center Real Player stream
The lecture is available by webstream on demand:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/webstream.htm
For more information on the Academic Freedom Lecture Series please see:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/AFL/afllecture.html
----
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't trade unionists.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
But surely they didnt have to buy EACH student a LAPTOP, and an APPLE one at that! Wouldnt several cheap X86 desktop systems do the job? Why pick laptops, which are expensive and PPCs, which are expensive. So much money could have been saved. Also, i've only mentioned the software. We dont have to talk at all about the advantages of OSS!!!
Apple iBooks are competitive with low cost PC laptops.
Plus from my experience as system administrator who
buys Dells and Apples all the time for our university.
Dell Q&A is poor ( I read some where about a 28% return
rate on their laptops). Mac OSX comes with a lot of great software bundled iLife and XCode are great examples
I dont understand it. The article didnt go into the advantages of such a purchase. I cant see them! I hope if my government does similar things, they think first!
I have one product to mention to you. Apple Remote Desktop. I want to see a simliar product with unlimited seats that is as easy to use to adminstrate hundreds or
thousands of machines. You'll need a decent number of
techs to deploy the same level through SMS and Active Directory, which has a high learning curve. If they have to
get computers I'm glad they're laptops and that they are
Mac iBooks
BYTE's "Serving with Linux" columnist Moshe Bar writes a brief review "Georgina" his new G5, the new 15" Powerbook and Panther.
I will note that there are several errors in this article. Moshe writes" Under the hood, Panther introduced other important features like an update to FreeBSD 4.8 (OS X is based on FreeBSD, but the previous release used FreeBSD 3.2) ". Which is wrong on both counts. Panther (10.3) is synced with FreeBSD 5.0 and Jaguar (10.2) is synced with FreeBSD 4.4 (PDF). Aside from minor
typos "Upon reboot, staring MS Word for the first time takes 6 seconds" (BYTE editors please make note).
The one problem I had with this article was the description of the noise generated by the dual-CPU G5. Moshe wrote "The noise the dual G5 makes is comparable to a hair dryer, and it can be heard from any room of my house". I had a 1.8 GHz G5 delivered to my office by our university's Apple representative for a few days to evaluate the machine. One of the features I was amazed by was how quiet the G5 was. In order to hear the G5 operate in my office, I had to turn off the following: SGI O2, the dual-CPU PIII 1GHz SGI 320, the G4 PowerMac + all the monitors including the 21" Intergraph behemoth monitor. The central air-conditioning into my office was still louder than my G5! Then I had to move my ear closer to the G5 casing to hear the fans operate with all other equipment turned off (only one of our professor's G4 Cube is quieter than the G5 loaner I got from Apple). Later that week I wrote to my Apple rep. "Those multiple fans are deathly quiet".
Here are some other dual-CPU G5 reviews on the G5:
Mac Addict review
"GOOD NEWS: Fastest Mac ever. Exceptionally quiet. Easy, no-tools-required maintenance"
Twincities.com review "Indeed, removing one of G5's slab-like anodized-aluminum sides revealed nine fans that pump air along a network of inner wind tunnels. Switching on the Power Mac, I expected it to make a terrible racket despite Apple's assurances to the contrary. But, sure enough, the machine proved amazingly quiet for "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer.""
So, when Moshe describes his dual-CPU G5 to be loud as a hairdryer I'm a little skeptical. Giving Moshe the benefit of the doubt of having a faster ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, he might have received a G5 with defective thermal sensors or something. Has anyone out there experienced their dual-CPU G5 with a ATI 9800 sound like a hairdryer???
The internet did not kill the radio star
on
Who Needs Radio?
·
· Score: 1
I listen to the radio mostly for news. NPR, PRI, BBC etc.
As for the local radio stations playing music, they no longer
say which artist and which song they played last (or rarely). What that translates to for the RIAA, is I have no freaking idea which song I wanted to buy in the first place.
Clearspeed formerly known as Pixelfusion was a promising graphics chip company that developed these scalable SIMD processors a few years ago. They put 24Mbits of RAM directly on to the chip, to have the enormous memory bandwidth that was and still is unheard of in the industry. After the industry attention shifted towards Nvidia, ATI, 3DLabs the board of directors reorganized the company to focus on high speed network switchers and routers.
Some of the hardware design came from from engineers in Bristol, UK. Companies like Division and INMOS (anyone remember the T800 and T9000 transputer and a Microway board for parallel computing on a PC board more than a decade ago?). The other half of the design team came from UNC computer graphics lab in Chapel Hill. From the well known PixelFlow and PixelPlane machines. That along with a Taiwanese fab plant that would produce these SIMD processors with extra PE (SIMD Processor Engines) that would compensate for the manufacturing errors. eg.
Lets say the chip would have 100 PEs so they would manufacture it 120 PEs. Those that didn't work they'd switch off and they wouldn't have to throw away the entire chip.
The story of PixelFusion was unfortunate. They could have
rocked the computer graphics world with their scalable tile based rendering technology and efficient manufacturing methods. The programmable PEs would be able to handle both Direct X and Open GL. I suppose now they are trying to focus their investment and IP into
more generic applications. I find their claims to be plausible because they have demonstrated innovative chips in the past.
1) DVI port.
I think its a good solution for Apple in the long run.
I simply carry my DVI-2-VGA port in my Brenthaven bag
made for my Powerbook. Its one extra thing to forget,
so are the power supply, modem and ethernet cables...
As a 3D visualization guy, I wish Apple sold their desktops with
dual DVI instead of having the propietary ADC. If I where
to use Macs to drive two displays or for stereo imaging
I'd need one of those damn expensive
DVI to ADC adapters(only $99.00). or ADC to DVI ($39.00). Depending on the
invested display hardware and usage.
2) One button mouse trackpad
Although, I've complained to the Apple reps numerous times about the lack of substitution from the one button mouse for the desktop models when configuring machines from the online Apple Store, I can see why it isn't feasible to customize the Powerbook to be one, two or even three button trackpad. I simply bought an IBM optical mouse with a scroll wheel and leave that at work. Our chairman has the identical Powerbook I use, but he uses a smaller portable version.
IBM optical mouse that works great. Just plugged it in and it works great
My friend's fiancee (now 27 or so) broke his nose as a child.
Ever since then he's had a slight pain in his sinus area at all times, except right before it rains the pain goes away. He's really good at telling when its going to rain and more accurate then the weather forecast news. I've affectionately dubbed him "nasal boy".
-Diganta
1. Bluetooth: I'd like the ability to use it to link up to my laptop to check email and browse the web. I have a
Treo 180 which has the Blazer browser and I only
use it to look up movie listings, weather and the occasional Michigan football schedule for the upcoming year, but
surfing the web on a small screen isn't that great. Bluetooth could extend that.
2. A flip cover for the screen and keyboard. I can't emphasize enough how many times my Treo been bang around and dropped, but has been saved because of the
flip cover. Its damn useful and I'd hate to see them get rid of it.
Otherwise a great phone till I can see hi-rez OLED screens:)
-Diganta
Not only do your comments show your gross ignorance of the Indian subcontinent, but it also reveals a bitterness to jobs being outsourced away from the US. I suggest that the management of these large US corporations take the blame for that. After all they are acting in their best interest to save money for their company. If the work is outsourced to Bangalore, Manila, Prague, Hanoi...it doesn't really matter to them, as long as their customers are happy and customer service costs are kept low.
-Diganta
PS. Buddha's children aren't Hindu. Buddha is integrated into the Hindu religion as one of the many deities. India isn't a country of a homogenous religion. There are many religions that have originated from that country. Hindus are the most prevalent, but Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs are also the indigenous religions. With Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism (refugees) being the imported religions that came to the country hundreds of years ago.
I believe Sun's taking a cheap shot for now. It's called Defensive Marketing or spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) into the market. The writing on the wall, Linux is here to stay and Sun needs to learn to play in a new world of cheaper servers.
I've attached an amusing email I recently got, titled "What is Marketing"
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I'm fantastic in bed." That's Direct Marketing.
You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says, "He's fantastic in bed." That's Advertising.
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day you call and say, "Hi, I'm fantastic in bed." That's Telemarketing.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink. You open the door for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her a ride, and then say, "By the way, I'm fantastic in bed." That's Public Relations.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, "I hear you're fantastic in bed." That's Brand Recognition.
Some additional marketing knowledge from the brilliant minds at Kellogg... From: Swapneel J. Ekbote
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, "I would like to see how fantastic you are in bed." That's Purchase Intention.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You say to her, "The guy you just met is dud and by the way, I'm fantastic in bed." That's Defensive Marketing.
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I'm fantastic in bed. But I'm also good on any other household furniture." That's the Fighting Brand Strategy.
After resisting getting a PDA and a cell phone
for years. I bought a Treo and now I can't imagine
being without it. Before I used to use my paper
planner, but now its all PDA.
As for hotsyncs, software,...etc. Its a snap and been of minimal hassle and utmost convenience. PDA/Cell phones are just the way to go.
My 2 cents
Apple has upgraded the Powerbook where it counts
the most for me... Graphics! The new ATI Radeon
is capable of doing vertex and pixel shading, which should deliver better visualization abilities in games and any application that can utilize those features. I hope OpenGL 2.0 passes soon
(its currently held up with M$FT IP claims on
the vertex and pixel shading), so that Apple can
integrate it into OSX and tehn all of us can utilize this card to its potential.
If I had a wish list for what I would like to see
in future PowerBooks:
DDR-RAM. Should be the next logical step
DVD-RAM (Currently only the Japanese like using it) with the combo drive
Last but not least LIQUID METAL
http://www.liquidmetal.com/ casing Liquid Metal (TM)
has twice the strength of Ti, is easily molded
like plastic making it cheaper to manufacture
and a many other cool properties.
Samsung, Motorola, the military are using it
as a advanced material. So instead of the TiBook,
Apple can have the LiquidMetalBook:)
Slashdot Mirror
Jordan Hubbard visited our campus last year to tell us his work on OSX and why he switched over to develop for OSX from FreeBSD. He told us about going around finding core OSX coders on the Apple campus saying "Give me your source code or I'll rip of your head!!!". He also helped pushed other Apple code that had been developed for years internally into the open source community.
Basically, your statement is full of it.
Get your facts straight, then manipulate them all you want.
As for the original question in this posting. No, I don't feel guilty using OSX over Linux. I need to use Photoshop, Excel and a variety of commercial software that has not been ported over to Linux (yet...?). Yet, retain the advantage of a UNIX environment, running applications on my SGI through X11 (I have a three button mouse) or doing the same on Windows 2000/XP with Remote Desktop Connection. Oh yeah, not to mention all the native the iLife apps that I really like using day to day.
-Diganta
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I would like to encourage you to watch this great lecture streamed through the internet. Prof. David D. Cole of Georgetown University Law Center explores the parallels between the first Red Scare, the era of McCarthyism and todays equivalent... terrorism. If you have a good internet connection with Real player and an hour of your time, I would recommend catching this enlightening lecture. To learn how denying the civil liberties of others may later trample on your very on liberties and rights in the future. Parts of the original Patroit Act are in this lecture as well.
"Freedom and Terror: September 11th and the 21st Century Challenge Freedom"
by Professor David D. Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
Real Player streamed lecture
The lecture is available by webstream on demand:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/webstream.htm
For more information on the Academic Freedom Lecture Series please see:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/AFL/afllecture.html
----
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't trade unionists.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Martin Niemoeller, Lutheran Pastor.
I've taken my three button USB mouse from my SGI 320 and stuck it on one of my OSX machine a while back and it worked just great. It understands all the three button functions correctly out of the box in X11 and other applications without any drivers or any additional cofiguration. Apple DOES support multi-button mice. In Expose' you can program even ask a four or five button mouse to use certain functions. I now use a IBM scrool wheel mouse made for PCs. The CD did not come with a driver for OSX, but I plugged it into my OSX G4 Powerbook and now I use the fourth mouse button used by the thumb to activate the same function as F10 in Expose.
I.M.F. Says U.S. Debts Threaten World Economy
" The International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Bush administration to develop a plan to balance the federal budget, saying tax cuts had given the economy only a modest lift, and warning that widening fiscal deficits held dangers for domestic and global growth."
I always thought the IMF warned countries like Argentina for their spending behavior.
My 2 cents,
http://www.bushin30seconds.org/view/01_large.shtml l
http://www.bushin30seconds.org/view/06_large.shtm
The dock should be pinnable on both ends. Finder and Trash Can. Then have apps fill in blank spaces in the dock as needed. One thing I wish they had kept consistent in the dock was,
1. Double click icon to start apps or open files + folders and hover to open a casade into subfolders
2. When applications are hidden. Make the icon appear gray just like OS9.
Lastly, unrelated to the dock I wish the Apple Menu was customizable. Instead of the way they have it now. Fruit Menu does a great job of what was once available in previous OSes. Change...
About this Mac ...(redundant because its in About thisMac)
...
Software Update
Mac OS X Software...
To
About this Mac
Applications (cascading menus)
Home:shortname (cascading menus)
Makes it nicer for Windows users trying to "switch" over to OSX and for older OS9 users to be comfortable in the new system.
Sour grapes by Johnny come lately
I find the price of their plastic pieces too high.
They need to lower prices to expand their customer base.
Population of USA 290,342,554 (July 2003 est.)
Therefore we would need to spend ~ 9 times as much to equal in dollar amounts what the Canadians spend. Perhaps even more since their cost of living is lower than ours
As for numbers that we supposedly spend 3 times on education as we do on the military, please download form i1040gi.pdf from the IRS.gov website. Look at page 76, you'll find...
20 % total to (2). National defense, veterans, and foreign affairs: About 17% of outlays were to equip, modernize, and pay our armed forces and to fund other national defense activities; about 2% were for veterans benefits and services; and about 1% were for international activities, including military and economic assistance to foreign countries and the maintenance of U.S. embassies abroad.
10% total to (3) Physical, human, and community development: These outlays were for agriculture; natural resources; environment; transportation; aid for elementary and secondary education and direct assistance to college students; job training; deposit insurance, commerce and housing credit, and community development; and space, energy, and general science programs.
Pentagon Still Can't Pass an Audit
"The report, released last week, found that of $6.9 trillion in accounting entries, only $2.6 trillion could be fully documented and $2.3 trillion in accounting entries "[were] not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity." Information on the remaining $2 trillion in entries arrived too late and could not be examined, but it is reasonable to assume that the $2.3 trillion in undocumented entries -- representing one-third of all entries -- is a conservative figure."
THANK YOU for highlighting a core cause of all this. Most Americans aren't interested in the math and sciences these days and the current trend with the administration is to squeeze funding out of the public American schools and pump that directly in the military programs and private companies like Lockheed and Raytheon. Recently I read a review about research jobs in the US military. Many senior scientists are retiring and they have an extreme shortage finding qualified American citizens as replacements. The question was raised who was going to develop the next gen. F-22 fighter plane? While the current administration loves to pour money blindly into current Pentagon programs, many of which under normal circumstances and budgets would have been axed for being too impractical and based on unproven technologies (exotic any damn nano-whatever technology or suits that gives our troops camouflage that renders them invisible in all environments). The sad fact is that politicians (esp. Republicans) enjoy blaming public schools for failing and keep trying to push the school voucher program to hold a high degree of accountability for our educational programs (Parents aren't helping much either these days when they take the blame out for their children's behavior on these poorly paid teachers. When its the parent's own failure to raise their own children).
It irks me when I here about Congress dropping the Pentagon's requirement to give an accounting balance of their spending. Before the Congress removed this requirement the Pentagon used to be unable to account for 4 Trillion dollars out 7 Trillion in their yearly transactions. Why is it that we turn a blind eye under such wasteful spending in the military-industrial-govt complex yet, bash the public school systems with very little funds and poorly paid teachers. Inside the Pentagon: Franklin "Chuck" Spinney story These children are the future of American minds who will be the engineers, programmers, scientists (with PhDs). Yet we squeeze the funding of education today for short term gains for private companies involved with the military complex, that lobbied heavily for these programs and where heavy contributers to our politicians. Point is that we are sacrificing our futures by not investing in education at the lowest levels today. Perhaps some of those American kids will take up programming or take up a research oriented science. Till then the trend will be that jobs like the ones in GE in be going to Russia, China, India and other countries that INVEST in public education and have strong math and science backgrounds. There are many poor people in South America and Africa too, but you won't see jobs heading out there or in the foreseeable future. Because they didn't invest in the education that requires their citizens to compete in a high tech world and for high end research jobs. Till then sit back and enjoy that Missile Defense Shield that will cost the American tax payers billions. Which could have been invested in to our schools and retraining for the recent unemployed. No, we won't do that because its not sexy enough when we make investments like that. Instead we're going with the advise of an imbecile Rumsfeld's "spiral" program of development of our weapons missile systems which don't require verification or enough tests to prove the system works. Translation: Blank check to the miltary-industrial-govt complex with no oversight or accountability. While our children funding for our schools is cut and teachers have to buy textbooks out of their own pockets for their students. Its a f#@king outrage and disgusts me that we allow this to happen in the country. Then blame other countries for taking our high tech jobs, when our own citizenary 'could' have provided those jobs with more investment in training and education. Till then sleep with the comfort that billions will be spent on a system that won't be protecting you and lining the coffers of private defense contractors, while our school system is allowed
In the meantime Gartner: Longhorn Delays Will Affect WindowsThe IT advisory firm expects the operating system to be released between late 2006 and mid-2008, but that the release could be delayed even more.
My suggestion. Get OSX Panther today and stop dreaming about tomorrow.
I would like to encourage you to watch this great lecture streamed through the internet. Prof. David D. Cole of Georgetown University Law Center explores the parallels between the first Red Scare, the era of McCarthyism and todays equivalent... terrorism. If you have a good internet connection with Real player and an hour of your time, I would recommend catching this enlightening lecture. To learn how denying the civil liberties of others may later trample on your very on liberties and rights in the future. Parts of the original Patroit Act are in this lecture as well.
"Freedom and Terror: September 11th and the 21st Century Challenge Freedom"
by Professor David D. Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
Real Player stream
The lecture is available by webstream on demand:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/webstream.htm
For more information on the Academic Freedom Lecture
Series please see:
http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/AFL/afllecture.html
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"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't trade unionists.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Martin Niemoeller, Lutheran Pastor.
I have one product to mention to you. Apple Remote Desktop. I want to see a simliar product with unlimited seats that is as easy to use to adminstrate hundreds or thousands of machines. You'll need a decent number of techs to deploy the same level through SMS and Active Directory, which has a high learning curve. If they have to get computers I'm glad they're laptops and that they are Mac iBooks
I will note that there are several errors in this article. Moshe writes" Under the hood, Panther introduced other important features like an update to FreeBSD 4.8 (OS X is based on FreeBSD, but the previous release used FreeBSD 3.2) ". Which is wrong on both counts. Panther (10.3) is synced with FreeBSD 5.0 and Jaguar (10.2) is synced with FreeBSD 4.4 (PDF). Aside from minor typos "Upon reboot, staring MS Word for the first time takes 6 seconds" (BYTE editors please make note).
The one problem I had with this article was the description of the noise generated by the dual-CPU G5. Moshe wrote "The noise the dual G5 makes is comparable to a hair dryer, and it can be heard from any room of my house". I had a 1.8 GHz G5 delivered to my office by our university's Apple representative for a few days to evaluate the machine. One of the features I was amazed by was how quiet the G5 was. In order to hear the G5 operate in my office, I had to turn off the following: SGI O2, the dual-CPU PIII 1GHz SGI 320, the G4 PowerMac + all the monitors including the 21" Intergraph behemoth monitor. The central air-conditioning into my office was still louder than my G5! Then I had to move my ear closer to the G5 casing to hear the fans operate with all other equipment turned off (only one of our professor's G4 Cube is quieter than the G5 loaner I got from Apple). Later that week I wrote to my Apple rep. "Those multiple fans are deathly quiet".
Here are some other dual-CPU G5 reviews on the G5:
Mac Addict review "GOOD NEWS: Fastest Mac ever. Exceptionally quiet. Easy, no-tools-required maintenance"
Twincities.com review "Indeed, removing one of G5's slab-like anodized-aluminum sides revealed nine fans that pump air along a network of inner wind tunnels. Switching on the Power Mac, I expected it to make a terrible racket despite Apple's assurances to the contrary. But, sure enough, the machine proved amazingly quiet for "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer.""
So, when Moshe describes his dual-CPU G5 to be loud as a hairdryer I'm a little skeptical. Giving Moshe the benefit of the doubt of having a faster ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, he might have received a G5 with defective thermal sensors or something. Has anyone out there experienced their dual-CPU G5 with a ATI 9800 sound like a hairdryer???
My 2 cents
Some of the hardware design came from from engineers in Bristol, UK. Companies like Division and INMOS (anyone remember the T800 and T9000 transputer and a Microway board for parallel computing on a PC board more than a decade ago?). The other half of the design team came from UNC computer graphics lab in Chapel Hill. From the well known PixelFlow and PixelPlane machines. That along with a Taiwanese fab plant that would produce these SIMD processors with extra PE (SIMD Processor Engines) that would compensate for the manufacturing errors. eg. Lets say the chip would have 100 PEs so they would manufacture it 120 PEs. Those that didn't work they'd switch off and they wouldn't have to throw away the entire chip.
The story of PixelFusion was unfortunate. They could have rocked the computer graphics world with their scalable tile based rendering technology and efficient manufacturing methods. The programmable PEs would be able to handle both Direct X and Open GL. I suppose now they are trying to focus their investment and IP into more generic applications. I find their claims to be plausible because they have demonstrated innovative chips in the past.
My 2 cents
Support for GDDR2-M memory, offering highest mobile memory speeds with lowest power consumption
There would be a huge advantage to having this memory built directly onto the same chipset as the GPU.
1) DVI port.
I think its a good solution for Apple in the long run. I simply carry my DVI-2-VGA port in my Brenthaven bag made for my Powerbook. Its one extra thing to forget, so are the power supply, modem and ethernet cables... As a 3D visualization guy, I wish Apple sold their desktops with dual DVI instead of having the propietary ADC. If I where to use Macs to drive two displays or for stereo imaging I'd need one of those damn expensive DVI to ADC adapters(only $99.00). or ADC to DVI ($39.00). Depending on the invested display hardware and usage.
2) One button mouse trackpad
Although, I've complained to the Apple reps numerous times about the lack of substitution from the one button mouse for the desktop models when configuring machines from the online Apple Store, I can see why it isn't feasible to customize the Powerbook to be one, two or even three button trackpad. I simply bought an IBM optical mouse with a scroll wheel and leave that at work. Our chairman has the identical Powerbook I use, but he uses a smaller portable version. IBM optical mouse that works great. Just plugged it in and it works great
My friend's fiancee (now 27 or so) broke his nose as a child. Ever since then he's had a slight pain in his sinus area at all times, except right before it rains the pain goes away. He's really good at telling when its going to rain and more accurate then the weather forecast news. I've affectionately dubbed him "nasal boy".
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I'd like to see two more features.
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1. Bluetooth: I'd like the ability to use it to link up to my laptop to check email and browse the web. I have a Treo 180 which has the Blazer browser and I only use it to look up movie listings, weather and the occasional Michigan football schedule for the upcoming year, but surfing the web on a small screen isn't that great. Bluetooth could extend that.
2. A flip cover for the screen and keyboard. I can't emphasize enough how many times my Treo been bang around and dropped, but has been saved because of the flip cover. Its damn useful and I'd hate to see them get rid of it. Otherwise a great phone till I can see hi-rez OLED screens
Not only do your comments show your gross ignorance of the Indian subcontinent, but it also reveals a bitterness to jobs being outsourced away from the US. I suggest that the management of these large US corporations take the blame for that. After all they are acting in their best interest to save money for their company. If the work is outsourced to Bangalore, Manila, Prague, Hanoi...it doesn't really matter to them, as long as their customers are happy and customer service costs are kept low.
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PS. Buddha's children aren't Hindu. Buddha is integrated into the Hindu religion as one of the many deities. India isn't a country of a homogenous religion. There are many religions that have originated from that country. Hindus are the most prevalent, but Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs are also the indigenous religions. With Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism (refugees) being the imported religions that came to the country hundreds of years ago.
I believe Sun's taking a cheap shot for now. It's called Defensive Marketing or spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) into the market. The writing on the wall, Linux is here to stay and Sun needs to learn to play in a new world of cheaper servers.
I've attached an amusing email I recently got, titled "What is Marketing"
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I'm fantastic in bed."
That's Direct Marketing.
You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says, "He's fantastic in bed."
That's Advertising.
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day you call and say, "Hi, I'm fantastic in bed."
That's Telemarketing.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink. You open the door for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her a ride, and then say, "By the way, I'm fantastic in bed."
That's Public Relations.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, "I hear you're fantastic in bed."
That's Brand Recognition.
Some additional marketing knowledge from the brilliant minds at Kellogg...
From: Swapneel J. Ekbote
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, "I would like to see how fantastic you are in bed."
That's Purchase Intention.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You say to her, "The guy you just met is dud and by the way, I'm fantastic in bed."
That's Defensive Marketing.
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I'm fantastic in bed. But I'm also good on any other household furniture."
That's the Fighting Brand Strategy.
After resisting getting a PDA and a cell phone for years. I bought a Treo and now I can't imagine being without it. Before I used to use my paper planner, but now its all PDA. ...etc. Its a snap and been of minimal hassle and utmost convenience. PDA/Cell phones are just the way to go.
As for hotsyncs, software,
My 2 cents
You'll need a VRML 97 compliant plug-in in your browser to view the model.
Perose Staircase in VRML
If I had a wish list for what I would like to see in future PowerBooks:
- DDR-RAM. Should be the next logical step
- DVD-RAM (Currently only the Japanese like using it) with the combo drive
- Last but not least LIQUID METAL
http://www.liquidmetal.com/ casing
Samsung, Motorola, the military are using it as a advanced material. So instead of the TiBook, Apple can have the LiquidMetalBookLiquid Metal (TM) has twice the strength of Ti, is easily molded like plastic making it cheaper to manufacture and a many other cool properties.