One can only imagine the modern remake of that game-play....they could always use the Quake engine for 3D awesomeness...I'd love to see the rail gun used in Biblical fights.
Only half joking....lots of organizations I know of are pulling their support for Solaris and are buying cheaper machines from other vendors to run Linux on. I'm sure Sun has a substantial customer base left, but I wonder how long it will last as Linux continues to rise.
They are improving the Windows and GTK Look and Feel...but I'm hoping also that either Sun or Apple tackle the Mac OS X look and feel of Java apps.
Sure, you can code Cocoa apps in Java and use Java in those ways...but pure Java executables programmed in Swing still lack the complete purity of Mac OS X. Apple ships tools in the Developer Tools to improve Java (like Jar Bundler) but the UI still isn't perfect.
Or maybe it's that people don't remember what happened way back when (gee, wonder why) and back then, there was no Wikipedia to record all of known history. I'm sure if someone knew exactly when "X Ruler of Y Kingdom gave first speech to City Z" they would include it.
Having said that, I somewhat question the value of recording when the Eskimo Pie was invented/patented though.
Since Ohio passed an anti-gay-marriage law, can I sue gays who get married in Massachusetts in the Cleveland courts
IANAL Either. However, your metaphor of gay marriage laws is very flawed. See, you can't SUE someone in a Cleveland court for getting married in Massachusetts, etc. I am not familiar with the laws here, but perhaps Ohio doesn't have to recognize the marriage, etc. But you're not even a party to it.
The Internet, though, causes lots of publication laws to be interpreted differently. If it is indeed illegal to publish information in California that is a known trade secret, then perhaps the court will find in favor of Apple--the information may not have been posted to the Internet from California...but it sure as heck is eventually published/displayed there by residents. Add that Apple is based there, and who knows. If "publish" is determined to be defined as "source of upload" then it may go differently. Or maybe it will be wherever ThinkSecret's server is based. Or something else!
Again. IANAL and am making no comment on the case, but your metaphor for it is flawed, so if neither party backs down it will be for the courts to decide, and may set a precedent.
Yup. As I said....resellers/distributors would....but it's a shame that the company doesn't want to sell to any small-time people directly. The question is whether the reseller/distributor will hike up the price and kill the point of the $100 price point.
How about putting RFID tags in the end of footballs so that we can finally put an end to that oh-so-exact science of taking a timeout for a measurement?
Seriously! They just toss the ball wherever the ref thinks it should be, and those chains aren't exactly placed perfectly either. How about something that can actually work for once?
The author blurs sentences together like a 6 year old child might, using the same sentence construction over and over sometimes. It's certainly not a FUN read, but has some interesting info in it.
Who wants to optimize RC4 for the PowerPC G5 chip (64-bit implementation) and do a bake-off? Hand-coding PPC assembly doesn't sound as fun as this PHP I'm working on at the moment, so someone else will have to tackle that!
Mac OS X COULD be, except for legal issues. The Open Group sued Apple years ago (link) over Apple's use of UNIX in regards to Mac OS X, and the lawsuit was delayed last year until this year....I don't remember hearing anything more about it since....and I can't find any new info. Apple is fighting the very idea that Open Group has a trademark on UNIX anymore, claiming the term generic. Might weaken their case if they paid to license it now.
From mobile phones to HD, huh? Sounds a lot like the H-264/AVC codec that Apple is including as part of 10.4 Tiger that is an open standard that's been ratified.
What's the advantage to using Dirac over a standard?
Exactly. Performance is relative, and based on perception. I said that the parent used a 5-year-old machine on the Mac side, which skews the point of reference compared to more modern PCs. That's not really a fair comparison either, is it? 5 year old Mac vs New Dell? No way.
So exactly what I said. My Costly Dual G5 gives me a relative performance benefit over most PCs, which changes the perception...cost independent. Because when one is making a decision of 1 platform or the other being faster, that's not really based on price. Price is something else entirely!
- Expose or not, I think XP gives you a better view of the windows you have open.
Care to explain? If I have 50 Windows open on XP, it's pretty tough to see all of them at the same time. That Taskbar is pretty worthless too when it has that many windows open. Expose is underappreciated. I questioned it until I set it to buttons on my mouse, and now I cannot live without it.
- The uninstall function in Windows works great, and OS X doesn't even have one! I mean, most programs save stuff in the Application Support-folder and/or other places. Stuff that you have to find and delete manually when you want to remove a program.
The Mac has always had the ability to just "throw away applications" due to lack of registry, etc. To add in an uninstaller would take away this usability benefit. Say what you want but being forced to use an uninstaller might be more "proper" and/or "clean" but certainly LESS "user friendly"
- I like the idea that every windows has it's own menu bar, but this is mostly a matter of taste I guess.
We call this "inconsistency" in the Mac world. Being able to look at one place for a menu all the time is very nice. Also has a nicer metaphor for having an application open once instead of having multiple instances.
- Why doesn't Finder windows have an "up" button? I know you have the drop-down with the steps in the path to the current forlder, but a button to go to the parent folder would be nice. I can't see why they don't have one.
Button? No. Shortcut? Yes. Use Command-up (arrow) to go to a parent directory. If you use Column View (and it's the best), using arrow keys and the keyboard to navigate can be rather efficient compared to the mouse.
maybe this is why you think Macs are slower than PCs. I won't try to start a pissing contest over which IS faster/slower in the present, but relative performance depends a lot on perception. I find most PCs slower than my Dual G5...if I had an iBook I might think different(ly). But careful with the flame of Apple when operating on a different plane than many others.
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...you mean like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Adventures ?
One can only imagine the modern remake of that game-play....they could always use the Quake engine for 3D awesomeness...I'd love to see the rail gun used in Biblical fights.
http://www.allaboutbeer.com/wbf/
Not a Taiwanese patent, but this is the patent for a "White Electronic Device" that resembles a Shuffle :)
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http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD530340&id
I can never remember which does which and from memory it doesn't even show you the icon when you put your mouse over...
Yes, it does...at least 6.0.5 does.
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....but I'm about to run to Scholomance. Sorry!
This was my first thought as well, clicked into the comments and searched for "missile." Cheers to the like-minded thought!
Only half joking....lots of organizations I know of are pulling their support for Solaris and are buying cheaper machines from other vendors to run Linux on. I'm sure Sun has a substantial customer base left, but I wonder how long it will last as Linux continues to rise.
Sure, you can code Cocoa apps in Java and use Java in those ways...but pure Java executables programmed in Swing still lack the complete purity of Mac OS X. Apple ships tools in the Developer Tools to improve Java (like Jar Bundler) but the UI still isn't perfect.
Bravo. Exactly what I was thinking :)
Having said that, I somewhat question the value of recording when the Eskimo Pie was invented/patented though.
IANAL Either. However, your metaphor of gay marriage laws is very flawed. See, you can't SUE someone in a Cleveland court for getting married in Massachusetts, etc. I am not familiar with the laws here, but perhaps Ohio doesn't have to recognize the marriage, etc. But you're not even a party to it.
The Internet, though, causes lots of publication laws to be interpreted differently. If it is indeed illegal to publish information in California that is a known trade secret, then perhaps the court will find in favor of Apple--the information may not have been posted to the Internet from California...but it sure as heck is eventually published/displayed there by residents. Add that Apple is based there, and who knows. If "publish" is determined to be defined as "source of upload" then it may go differently. Or maybe it will be wherever ThinkSecret's server is based. Or something else!
Again. IANAL and am making no comment on the case, but your metaphor for it is flawed, so if neither party backs down it will be for the courts to decide, and may set a precedent.
Yup. As I said....resellers/distributors would....but it's a shame that the company doesn't want to sell to any small-time people directly. The question is whether the reseller/distributor will hike up the price and kill the point of the $100 price point.
Right. They would be resellers. I meant *other* types of places.
I assume that's for reseller or distributor ordering...I don't know of many places that ever order computers 100,000 at a time....
How about putting RFID tags in the end of footballs so that we can finally put an end to that oh-so-exact science of taking a timeout for a measurement?
Seriously! They just toss the ball wherever the ref thinks it should be, and those chains aren't exactly placed perfectly either. How about something that can actually work for once?
The author blurs sentences together like a 6 year old child might, using the same sentence construction over and over sometimes. It's certainly not a FUN read, but has some interesting info in it.
But when other projects beckon that don't require assembler work, I'm not about to jump on one that does for "fun" either ;)
Who wants to optimize RC4 for the PowerPC G5 chip (64-bit implementation) and do a bake-off? Hand-coding PPC assembly doesn't sound as fun as this PHP I'm working on at the moment, so someone else will have to tackle that!
So what does this lead me to believe? That it's a sign that I'll be partying come Tuesday, too! I hope Kerry pulls it out!
Mac OS X COULD be, except for legal issues. The Open Group sued Apple years ago (link) over Apple's use of UNIX in regards to Mac OS X, and the lawsuit was delayed last year until this year....I don't remember hearing anything more about it since....and I can't find any new info. Apple is fighting the very idea that Open Group has a trademark on UNIX anymore, claiming the term generic. Might weaken their case if they paid to license it now.
What's the advantage to using Dirac over a standard?
So exactly what I said. My Costly Dual G5 gives me a relative performance benefit over most PCs, which changes the perception...cost independent. Because when one is making a decision of 1 platform or the other being faster, that's not really based on price. Price is something else entirely!
Care to explain? If I have 50 Windows open on XP, it's pretty tough to see all of them at the same time. That Taskbar is pretty worthless too when it has that many windows open. Expose is underappreciated. I questioned it until I set it to buttons on my mouse, and now I cannot live without it.
- The uninstall function in Windows works great, and OS X doesn't even have one! I mean, most programs save stuff in the Application Support-folder and/or other places. Stuff that you have to find and delete manually when you want to remove a program.
The Mac has always had the ability to just "throw away applications" due to lack of registry, etc. To add in an uninstaller would take away this usability benefit. Say what you want but being forced to use an uninstaller might be more "proper" and/or "clean" but certainly LESS "user friendly"
- I like the idea that every windows has it's own menu bar, but this is mostly a matter of taste I guess.
We call this "inconsistency" in the Mac world. Being able to look at one place for a menu all the time is very nice. Also has a nicer metaphor for having an application open once instead of having multiple instances.
- Why doesn't Finder windows have an "up" button? I know you have the drop-down with the steps in the path to the current forlder, but a button to go to the parent folder would be nice. I can't see why they don't have one.
Button? No. Shortcut? Yes. Use Command-up (arrow) to go to a parent directory. If you use Column View (and it's the best), using arrow keys and the keyboard to navigate can be rather efficient compared to the mouse.
maybe this is why you think Macs are slower than PCs. I won't try to start a pissing contest over which IS faster/slower in the present, but relative performance depends a lot on perception. I find most PCs slower than my Dual G5...if I had an iBook I might think different(ly). But careful with the flame of Apple when operating on a different plane than many others.