Multiple executables are supported in the OS X package system, so you could in theory build a Cocoa app which you could run on a Mac, copy across the network to your PC running OS X, double click on the same icon, and run it there. But this is all academic as Cocoa is only on Macs.
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Drones, however advanced, will never replace a squad of trained soldiers led by a human commander in the field. They are not as flexible, they don't have the wide variety of abilities of human soldiers, and they have totally different weaknesses (for example, to EMP). Drones are just another tool, like the tank or the airplane or the Gatling gun.
Linux isn't going to get iDVD ever, for two simple reasons: First of all, Apple's UI and interface design teams have no equal in the open source world (and possibly the entire industry). Secondly, you don't have Apple's real-time MPEG-2 encoder or an Altivec unit to develop one on.
I run OS X on my beige G3 just fine. The only thing that makes it really different from a stock Beige is an upgraded video card (Rage 128 later replaced by Radeon, and I often work with a beige that has the original rage pro, which is bearable for short periods under 10.1). The install was a hassle because of ROM issues, but once it was in the only real missing features I noticed was that one of my 2 mouse buttons didn't work (if I really cared about this, I could throw in a USB card and a new mouse and it would work) and the floppy drive wasn't supported, but I hadn't used that in years. The stock HD and the second HD (both IDE, even beige G3s have built-in IDE) work, the ADB, serial, and SCSI ports work, the secondhand internal SCSI card works with 3rd party drivers. Yes, performance was pretty bad until I got 10.1 and a G4 processor, but that's no different from your examples of XP on legacy hardware.
Why would Apple bring the iMacs nearly up to the level of the Power Macs? Perhaps they really are trying to reduce demand for the towers. Remember that every time Apple introduces new pro hardware, there are supply problems and tons of bitching from people who get them weeks or months late. Perhaps if they can draw ome of this audience off to the iMacs, they will be able to introduce the G5 and get fewer negative responses (plus supplies of this chip are supposed to be pretty tight anyway).
Actually, what would take up even less space is putting the thing inside your desk with only the monitor pivot sticking up through a tiny hole. Might have heat issues though.
In the time that has elapsed between now and the start of the Star Trek continuity, Voyager will travel a significant fraction of the distance to Centauri. Perhaps in a few million years, it will be noticed (and we're not even considering the probability that Voyager's path actually intersects anything interesting. Space is big.).
I can't tell how serious you are, but NOISE does not really exist, it's a term invented, probably by the media, for the imagined organization behind the vast concerted outpouring of anti-MS comments by the rest of the computer industry, seemingly led by Netscape, Oracle, and IBM.
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The big P is, more precisely, a punishment that might actually deter them from doing this again. I have no idea what that might be, but hitting them with a stick or locking them up is not it.
I meant, not that the technology should be invented, but rather that it will be wireless's killer app. Not stock tips or weather reports or any push-oriented stuff like that.
What we need is a service/program/something that lets you log into (shell or some sort of file borwser/viewer) your own computer from a wireless device. The information you could retrieve that way would be far more useful than any content someone could provide.
I disagree with the argument that translating and distribution Civ 3 is not the same as translating and distributing Harry Potter. A better analogy would be the translation and distribution of only the first chapter of Harry Potter: It would not be the complete work and it may stimulate sales, but it's still a copyright violation (hence the "in whole or in part" bit in licenses).
...that no one who is saying that giving laptops to schools is pointless would be dancing in the aisles is they had been notebooks running Linux. Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Silly me.
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Multiple executables are supported in the OS X package system, so you could in theory build a Cocoa app which you could run on a Mac, copy across the network to your PC running OS X, double click on the same icon, and run it there. But this is all academic as Cocoa is only on Macs.
Drones, however advanced, will never replace a squad of trained soldiers led by a human commander in the field. They are not as flexible, they don't have the wide variety of abilities of human soldiers, and they have totally different weaknesses (for example, to EMP). Drones are just another tool, like the tank or the airplane or the Gatling gun.
Anyone who solicits advice on legal issues from slashdot is a fool. Do your own research, you'll get better results too.
Linux isn't going to get iDVD ever, for two simple reasons: First of all, Apple's UI and interface design teams have no equal in the open source world (and possibly the entire industry). Secondly, you don't have Apple's real-time MPEG-2 encoder or an Altivec unit to develop one on.
I run OS X on my beige G3 just fine. The only thing that makes it really different from a stock Beige is an upgraded video card (Rage 128 later replaced by Radeon, and I often work with a beige that has the original rage pro, which is bearable for short periods under 10.1). The install was a hassle because of ROM issues, but once it was in the only real missing features I noticed was that one of my 2 mouse buttons didn't work (if I really cared about this, I could throw in a USB card and a new mouse and it would work) and the floppy drive wasn't supported, but I hadn't used that in years. The stock HD and the second HD (both IDE, even beige G3s have built-in IDE) work, the ADB, serial, and SCSI ports work, the secondhand internal SCSI card works with 3rd party drivers. Yes, performance was pretty bad until I got 10.1 and a G4 processor, but that's no different from your examples of XP on legacy hardware.
Why would Apple bring the iMacs nearly up to the level of the Power Macs? Perhaps they really are trying to reduce demand for the towers. Remember that every time Apple introduces new pro hardware, there are supply problems and tons of bitching from people who get them weeks or months late. Perhaps if they can draw ome of this audience off to the iMacs, they will be able to introduce the G5 and get fewer negative responses (plus supplies of this chip are supposed to be pretty tight anyway).
Actually, what would take up even less space is putting the thing inside your desk with only the monitor pivot sticking up through a tiny hole. Might have heat issues though.
If you keep the cables a secret, expect them to be severed almost daily.
Don't you mean Glorfindel?
Just wait until CD players/drives refuse to read CDs that do not bear those numbers.
Sign him up for as many spams as possible.
Can we please finish Gnome 1 before moving on to Gnome 2?
In the time that has elapsed between now and the start of the Star Trek continuity, Voyager will travel a significant fraction of the distance to Centauri. Perhaps in a few million years, it will be noticed (and we're not even considering the probability that Voyager's path actually intersects anything interesting. Space is big.).
This article has one major flaw: Do not put quotes around Mr. T's name! Thank you.
Also, first post.
I can't tell how serious you are, but NOISE does not really exist, it's a term invented, probably by the media, for the imagined organization behind the vast concerted outpouring of anti-MS comments by the rest of the computer industry, seemingly led by Netscape, Oracle, and IBM.
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...is found at The Register's coverage of this issue.
Sadly, this law usually overrides the zeroeth law... I'm sure the third and fourth Batman movies did quite a bit of damage to humanity :P
The big P is, more precisely, a punishment that might actually deter them from doing this again. I have no idea what that might be, but hitting them with a stick or locking them up is not it.
I meant, not that the technology should be invented, but rather that it will be wireless's killer app. Not stock tips or weather reports or any push-oriented stuff like that.
What we need is a service/program/something that lets you log into (shell or some sort of file borwser/viewer) your own computer from a wireless device. The information you could retrieve that way would be far more useful than any content someone could provide.
I disagree with the argument that translating and distribution Civ 3 is not the same as translating and distributing Harry Potter. A better analogy would be the translation and distribution of only the first chapter of Harry Potter: It would not be the complete work and it may stimulate sales, but it's still a copyright violation (hence the "in whole or in part" bit in licenses).
...that no one who is saying that giving laptops to schools is pointless would be dancing in the aisles is they had been notebooks running Linux. Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Silly me.
Sorry, chrisd, it is piracy unless you own the originals.