Sorry, but what Gnome and KDE are trying to do was done excellently 10 years ago by NeXT. Right? I really just skimmed the article but it looks as if his major gripes are answered in NeXT/OpenSTEP/Mac OS X.
I like this idea a lot. If a book is neccesary, it can be shrink-wrapped to the back of the DVD case. It's very rare that a game requires a manual larger than a DVD-case-sized paperback.
Apparently the software retailers are making a push for this as well as it would certainly make things easier for them.
The NBA Jam standup in the arcade had a great Easter Egg in it. If you held down two joysticks and a bunch of buttons for about 30 seconds (no money required), it would go into an old-school, spectre-looking tank game.
This was great for me when all of my friends were into fighting games that I sucked at. I could just sit there and play my free tank game while they pumped dozens of quarters into Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat...
This was the first game I got for my Mac 512KE and I got it as an Xmas gift. So I saw it the first time I started up the game and didn't think of it until the next day when I saw the suit of armor.
I played that game every Xmas for like 5 years, just becuase I thought it was so cool. I actually downloaded the colorized version of the game and played it on my iBook this Xmas.
Hardware: Microsoft's highest quality product line. Does it go with the apps, the OS?
MSN: No matter which part it belongs to, it becomes another antitrust concern. An antitrust settlement that pairs the most popular browser up with one of the largest ISPs is just stupid.
I'm sure there are a bunch of other MS departments that couldn't exist without 2 or more of the proposed companies. I'd think OS, apps and media would be the more likely 3 divisions. Or just OS and everything else still makes the most sense to me.
I remember reading last year that Mel Gibson was directing a new movie of F-451. It was even listed on IMDb for a while as being a 2000 release. I haven't heard anything about it since last August or so though. Anybody know?
c.r.
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Apple used to have this in their Map control panel. You set your location by clicking on a region or typing in a city name and it would locate it on the map. Your timezone and a few other things depended on where you set you location. I think they pulled the Map in OS8.
The NeXT/OpenStep timezone selection has always worked this way as well.
I don't imagine there will be any legal ramifications.
c.r.
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Yes, Carbon is what allows Mac OS X to be a viable OS for current Mac users, but it's not what MOSX is all about. If you want to take advantage of the all the services the OS offers, you'll still need to write apps in Cocoa, the OpenStep APIs. Cocoa is the real object-oriented API. Remember how OpenStep developers claimed it took them 1/10th the time to write an OpenStep app as it did to write a Windows app? That's what Mac OS X is about. Carbon is just a temporary solution to get old apps running well on the new system.
Living in Holland from age 8-16, I'd have to disagree. Although it's much safer than having kids wandering down Division in G.R. or anywhere in Detroit, it's a messed up town.
The blueberry business in the area brought in a lot of migrant workers whom the community would just assume keep hidden. They were given pretty lousy housing in most cases and were treated pretty badly. So, these young migrant children, who often don't speak very good English, are sent to school along with the righteous little Dutch Reformed kids. It starts with isolation in Elementary School, fights and name calling in Middle School and then gangs by High School.
Then the curches would sponsor families from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and set them up in a house and buy them xmas presents for a year and then move on to the next big charity. Basically transplanting underpriveledged people into a community that they don't understand and doesn't want them there anyway. Hence we had the "asian gang problem".
Hell, I got beaten up in Elementary School for being Catholic!
So, no Holland isn't a place I'd let my kids out at all. And if I had to live there again, I'd want my kids (don't have any, just hypothetical) in the library surfing any sites they could find just to keep them in touch with reality.
Ever get harassed for washing your car or mowing your lawn on a Sunday? You will in Holland.
Anyone remember the gay teacher witch hunt in Holland about ten years ago? I went to West Ottawa High School in Holland in the early 1990s and one of our best teachers, Dr. B.J. Berkhorst, along with about half a dozen other teachers from Holland and Zeeland schools were setup by the police and arrested for showing an R rated film to a minor, who was actually an agent for the police. They all lost their jobs and Dr. Berkhorst eventually committed suicide. It was considered a victory for the children. That's Holland.
I was actually arrested in Holland once for assault & battery. It was all crap and the charges were dropped, but I got to see all the police files on me. I had apparently been seen with "admitted homosexuals" and was under surveilance (I am not making this up).
Holland is a scary, paranoid and sheltered place and I know I'm afraid of what the city fathers think is just.
That's a good point. But that's your child, so you can make the rules. But I certainly don't want the citizens of Holland making the rules for my children.
I want improvements into the interface part of GUI, not the graphic part. What I wouldn't give for some fairly accurate (I know, I know) AI or something to help get stuff for me better.
Apple touched on this with the Newton some years back. You could scrawl a question or request and hit the light bulb button and it would do what it thought you wanted it to do. It worked pretty well for some things.
But, I'm curious, what kind of intelligent agents would you want as a part of the OS. What purpose would they serve? I think of agents as specialized utilities, not a general part of an OS.
I'm all about a smarter OS, but I can't see what advantage this would offer us today.
I'm in agreement here. Although I probably will end up buying it for the geek factor, I think it's too much money. I remember buying the original SimCity for my old Mac, 10 years ago, for $19. Maybe I should just start lugging my Mac Portable around and save $30...
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Sorry, but what Gnome and KDE are trying to do was done excellently 10 years ago by NeXT. Right? I really just skimmed the article but it looks as if his major gripes are answered in NeXT/OpenSTEP/Mac OS X.
c.r.
I like this idea a lot. If a book is neccesary, it can be shrink-wrapped to the back of the DVD case. It's very rare that a game requires a manual larger than a DVD-case-sized paperback.
Apparently the software retailers are making a push for this as well as it would certainly make things easier for them.
c.r.
Ah yes, except those of us with slot-loading CDROM drives will be screwed, no?
c.r.
The NBA Jam standup in the arcade had a great Easter Egg in it. If you held down two joysticks and a bunch of buttons for about 30 seconds (no money required), it would go into an old-school, spectre-looking tank game.
This was great for me when all of my friends were into fighting games that I sucked at. I could just sit there and play my free tank game while they pumped dozens of quarters into Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat...
c.r.
Hey! I was going to post that...
This was the first game I got for my Mac 512KE and I got it as an Xmas gift. So I saw it the first time I started up the game and didn't think of it until the next day when I saw the suit of armor.
I played that game every Xmas for like 5 years, just becuase I thought it was so cool. I actually downloaded the colorized version of the game and played it on my iBook this Xmas.
c.r.
Hardware: Microsoft's highest quality product line. Does it go with the apps, the OS?
MSN: No matter which part it belongs to, it becomes another antitrust concern. An antitrust settlement that pairs the most popular browser up with one of the largest ISPs is just stupid.
I'm sure there are a bunch of other MS departments that couldn't exist without 2 or more of the proposed companies. I'd think OS, apps and media would be the more likely 3 divisions. Or just OS and everything else still makes the most sense to me.
c.r.
I remember reading last year that Mel Gibson was directing a new movie of F-451. It was even listed on IMDb for a while as being a 2000 release. I haven't heard anything about it since last August or so though. Anybody know?
c.r.
Apple used to have this in their Map control panel. You set your location by clicking on a region or typing in a city name and it would locate it on the map. Your timezone and a few other things depended on where you set you location. I think they pulled the Map in OS8.
The NeXT/OpenStep timezone selection has always worked this way as well.
I don't imagine there will be any legal ramifications.
c.r.
Yes, Carbon is what allows Mac OS X to be a viable OS for current Mac users, but it's not what MOSX is all about. If you want to take advantage of the all the services the OS offers, you'll still need to write apps in Cocoa, the OpenStep APIs. Cocoa is the real object-oriented API. Remember how OpenStep developers claimed it took them 1/10th the time to write an OpenStep app as it did to write a Windows app? That's what Mac OS X is about. Carbon is just a temporary solution to get old apps running well on the new system.
c.r.
Living in Holland from age 8-16, I'd have to disagree. Although it's much safer than having kids wandering down Division in G.R. or anywhere in Detroit, it's a messed up town.
The blueberry business in the area brought in a lot of migrant workers whom the community would just assume keep hidden. They were given pretty lousy housing in most cases and were treated pretty badly. So, these young migrant children, who often don't speak very good English, are sent to school along with the righteous little Dutch Reformed kids. It starts with isolation in Elementary School, fights and name calling in Middle School and then gangs by High School.
Then the curches would sponsor families from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and set them up in a house and buy them xmas presents for a year and then move on to the next big charity. Basically transplanting underpriveledged people into a community that they don't understand and doesn't want them there anyway. Hence we had the "asian gang problem".
Hell, I got beaten up in Elementary School for being Catholic!
So, no Holland isn't a place I'd let my kids out at all. And if I had to live there again, I'd want my kids (don't have any, just hypothetical) in the library surfing any sites they could find just to keep them in touch with reality.
c.r.
Ever get harassed for washing your car or mowing your lawn on a Sunday? You will in Holland.
Anyone remember the gay teacher witch hunt in Holland about ten years ago? I went to West Ottawa High School in Holland in the early 1990s and one of our best teachers, Dr. B.J. Berkhorst, along with about half a dozen other teachers from Holland and Zeeland schools were setup by the police and arrested for showing an R rated film to a minor, who was actually an agent for the police. They all lost their jobs and Dr. Berkhorst eventually committed suicide. It was considered a victory for the children. That's Holland.
I was actually arrested in Holland once for assault & battery. It was all crap and the charges were dropped, but I got to see all the police files on me. I had apparently been seen with "admitted homosexuals" and was under surveilance (I am not making this up).
Holland is a scary, paranoid and sheltered place and I know I'm afraid of what the city fathers think is just.
c.r.
That's a good point. But that's your child, so you can make the rules. But I certainly don't want the citizens of Holland making the rules for my children.
It's like white-outing sections of a dictionary!
c.r.
I think it was the old "secret about box" drag-and-drop easter egg in 7.5.2. Each of the bricks had the name of a member of the development team.
I miss those great Apple easter eggs. I think "About The Finder" is the only one left and that's not too interesting.
c.r.
I want improvements into the interface part of GUI, not the graphic part. What I wouldn't give for some fairly accurate (I know, I know) AI or something to help get stuff for me better.
Apple touched on this with the Newton some years back. You could scrawl a question or request and hit the light bulb button and it would do what it thought you wanted it to do. It worked pretty well for some things.
But, I'm curious, what kind of intelligent agents would you want as a part of the OS. What purpose would they serve? I think of agents as specialized utilities, not a general part of an OS.
I'm all about a smarter OS, but I can't see what advantage this would offer us today.
c.r.
I'm in agreement here. Although I probably will end up buying it for the geek factor, I think it's too much money. I remember buying the original SimCity for my old Mac, 10 years ago, for $19. Maybe I should just start lugging my Mac Portable around and save $30...