I'm really simple. I'd love to see Apple's Platinum look make a return, with concessions to the layout of OSX. There's a platinum theme in existence that goes a good way towards that goal, but it's not quite 100%... and doesn't fully work on panther anyway.
I know it's probably one for those of us who sharpened our teeth on classic macos, so there's probably very little demand for it.
Does this sound like a possible good contender for a general purpose replacement for x86 as an "Open CPU" that would work well with F/OSS apps? One that can't be tied down with DRM in such a way that only large megacorps (I won't name them, except to call them "Microsoft" and "Intel". Oh hell I named them whoops) can end up defining what may or may not run?
I've read the general slashdot crowd clamoring for something like this that's free from central control. Does this look likely to you? Would it be a benefit if it did come about?
I've ranted about something similar to this before, but occasionally in the print business I worked at we would get Excel documents to print.
No, they didn't want printed spreadsheets - people would lay out flyers, leaflets, posters and small booklets in Excel.
I can only guess their creative genius had to be instantly addressed and they picked the first app they could think of to lay it out on, and excel was just sitting there loaded at the time.
I find it incredible that terraforming of Mars is considered an alternative today. Expect an enviromental discussion that will exceed that of the Kyoto protocol many times over.
It wouldn't surprise me of a buttload of organisms have been sent up already. No, not in any planned grey-alien-type-conspiracy way, but in a "hey let's get this underway now" kind of way. Dump out a pound or two of potential matter and let it go. if it dies it dies, if not... well, the little oases around the viking lander sites would show up hey:)
Funny. When I think of what Microsoft's online music store would be like, I picture an extremely limited selection of music which consists of artists like Barry Manilow, America and William Shatner
Knowing the intelligence of the average computer user and their "oh it's microsoft it must be good!" I also see an MS online music store as going to 80% of the market within months.
Mildly off topic, but I seriously miss good pizzabox desktop boxes. Something simple, plain, fast, and with room for a couple of PCI slots on a riser card.
1. Because it's possible 2. It's kinda cool (literally0 3. It keeps overclockers off the streets 4. It gives us something to do 5. It's just interesting 6. Performance!
I should add - everywhere I say "JFS" I also mean all the other technologies SCO claim IBM has put into AIX and also put into Linux. The SMP stuff, NUMA, etc...
hasn't SCO already had several unfavorable rulings in the IBM case? Haven't they been ordered to ~finally~ show the offending code? That should end that case quickly...
Basically yes. And now it's changed from a "there's SysV code in Linux" case to a "there's derivative works of code you licensed from us in Linux" case. That's a big difference. They have not been able to identify ANY code, bar similarities in 5 ABI files, that has been ported directly from SysV to Linux. None. And they admitted it in court in the IBM case.
What it's about now with IBM is that, while they admit IBM invented JFS, and IBM own the copyright over JFS, and while JFS may have originally been included in other IBM products (OS/2 perhaps?) that because it's attached to the AIX code, it's a "derivative work" of SysV, and therefore SCO have a say over how IBM can use that code.
How about that. A completely independent IBM invention, used in SysV, and SCO are getting all shitty saying now that IBM cannot now move that code anywhere else after it's been used in IBM's own implementation as AIX.
And they call the GPL viral. Darl's accusations there are that if anything touches SysV code licensed from SCO, then SCO have a right to say what can be done with it. That just doesn't make sense.
In any case, it won't end the case quickly due to these changes, as SCO still want to see exactly what the JFS code looks like, so they can see if it was inserted into Linux, and then they can run around and issue more press releases saying "IBM has revealed 10,000 lines of our code is in Linux. see. they admitted it". I think the worst is yet to come in the press-release war that SCO has been waging.
That is, unless they run out of money first. With their stock price nearly down to a third of what it was just a few months ago and an increasing number of legal fronts being fought, we can only hope that's sooner rather than later.
Do kids who get transplants this young need to be on anti rejection drugs for the rest of their lives? I know they're exceptional at healing & recovering from major surgery at extreme young ages, but don't know if there's an extra ability to 'adapt' to foreign tissue.
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It copied the iPod interface pixel for pixel, and put it on a Win CE powered pocket PC.
Not just making a nice MP3 player out of a pocket PC mind you, but making one completely identical to an iPod's interface - along with graphics to represent iPod controls.
for what it's worth, I'm not blind (well - myopic to all hell, but I can still read the screen without glasses as long as I'm a foot from it) but there's nothing like the OSX screen magnification for quick/easy/simple zooming in on ANY app to take a closer peek. Whether it be a small image on a webpage, a small embedded movie, a WMP movie (when trying to get win media player to play fullscreen is a pain in the ass slooow process, zooming is just quicker) or just zooming in to IRC from the sofa across the room, it's brilliant. Just Works!
(actually I think mandrake is doing well enough now as is to be a competitor to windows. Both have quirks that need fiddling from time to time, and mandrake is improving quicker than win)
I don't believe the importance of a really refined gui is as high as it used to be. Back when the original mac was introduced, along with other later GUI based systems such as the Amiga, it was brand new. Newbies back then were far newbier, and it wouldn't be unusual to find 98% of the population who had never used a computer, EVER.
Now in the same society you'd be hard pressed to find a third grader who hasn't used a computer for nearly a year. The skills are being embedded at a younger and younger age. The big difference between a machine thats intuitive now, and one thats not, is the one that doesn't crash is more usable. Not much more than that
Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month."
Yeah darl, and when I was 8 years old I too was a spy, and everyone was out to get me. trust no one you know. I'd sneak around under a blanket and surprise my parents with my leet disguise skills, only to quietly slink back into the darkness and surprise yet another family member.
By the time I turned 9 the whole attention seeking bullshit act left me and I started growing up. Try it sometime, it's not all that bad.
I'm a candidate for ECT. I'd like to get it done sooner rather than later, as years of all kinds of therapy & drugs have done absolutely nil. It gets tiring going over some similar variation on the drugs/therapy routing, working up a little hope for just a slight improvement, to still go no further.
I wouldn't like to see ECT or probes in the brain used as a first resort for someone who'd been depressed for a couple of weeks, as a little help can go a LONG way in many people.
The shocks used in ECT are quite controlled, with muscle relaxants to minimise any muscular contraction that goes along with the shock. It works for some reason, and that reason isn't exactly known. Personally I don't give a shit why it works or how, or even if it wipes 20 years from my life. Chronic treatment resistant depression has laid waste to the last 20 years of my life, doing nothing isn't going to make the next 20 any better.
No wonder I'm so sane. I used to drink coffee with my parents a great deal, matching them mug for mug. Counting the usual amount I'd have each day tipped me over 20 to 22 a day.
Slashdot Mirror
i let it gather to about 100 emails in my inbox, then i forward each of them individually to every address that sent it.
No you don't. You don't know the address that sent your spams.
All you can do is reply to some forged address that the spammer wants you to think the email is from.
I'm really simple. I'd love to see Apple's Platinum look make a return, with concessions to the layout of OSX. There's a platinum theme in existence that goes a good way towards that goal, but it's not quite 100%... and doesn't fully work on panther anyway.
I know it's probably one for those of us who sharpened our teeth on classic macos, so there's probably very little demand for it.
I'm amazed at the complete lack of subtlety in any of these themes (ok, except for one of them which looks OK.
Does anyone here use the really black black themes? I find them a pain switching from a black desktop to a suddenly white browser window for example.
And some of the gaudy ones... just want to make my powerbook burst into flame
Anyone else think this on the first read?
Does this sound like a possible good contender for a general purpose replacement for x86 as an "Open CPU" that would work well with F/OSS apps? One that can't be tied down with DRM in such a way that only large megacorps (I won't name them, except to call them "Microsoft" and "Intel". Oh hell I named them whoops) can end up defining what may or may not run?
I've read the general slashdot crowd clamoring for something like this that's free from central control. Does this look likely to you? Would it be a benefit if it did come about?
I've ranted about something similar to this before, but occasionally in the print business I worked at we would get Excel documents to print.
No, they didn't want printed spreadsheets - people would lay out flyers, leaflets, posters and small booklets in Excel.
I can only guess their creative genius had to be instantly addressed and they picked the first app they could think of to lay it out on, and excel was just sitting there loaded at the time.
I find it incredible that terraforming of Mars is considered an alternative today. Expect an enviromental discussion that will exceed that of the Kyoto protocol many times over.
:)
It wouldn't surprise me of a buttload of organisms have been sent up already. No, not in any planned grey-alien-type-conspiracy way, but in a "hey let's get this underway now" kind of way. Dump out a pound or two of potential matter and let it go. if it dies it dies, if not... well, the little oases around the viking lander sites would show up hey
Opera responds with...
"Cannot connect to http:///..org"
I'm a solid guihead most of the time, and I agree.
:)
Except when it comes to my photoshopping. 99% mousing and 1% keyboarding
Funny. When I think of what Microsoft's online music store would be like, I picture an extremely limited selection of music which consists of artists like Barry Manilow, America and William Shatner
Knowing the intelligence of the average computer user and their "oh it's microsoft it must be good!" I also see an MS online music store as going to 80% of the market within months.
Not that I'm cynical. really.
Curiously that's one of the machines I was thinking of when I posted, along with sun's lovely ones.
Mildly off topic, but I seriously miss good pizzabox desktop boxes. Something simple, plain, fast, and with room for a couple of PCI slots on a riser card.
The world needs more of them
1. Because it's possible
2. It's kinda cool (literally0
3. It keeps overclockers off the streets
4. It gives us something to do
5. It's just interesting
6. Performance!
I should add - everywhere I say "JFS" I also mean all the other technologies SCO claim IBM has put into AIX and also put into Linux. The SMP stuff, NUMA, etc...
hasn't SCO already had several unfavorable rulings in the IBM case? Haven't they been ordered to ~finally~ show the offending code? That should end that case quickly...
Basically yes. And now it's changed from a "there's SysV code in Linux" case to a "there's derivative works of code you licensed from us in Linux" case. That's a big difference. They have not been able to identify ANY code, bar similarities in 5 ABI files, that has been ported directly from SysV to Linux. None. And they admitted it in court in the IBM case.
What it's about now with IBM is that, while they admit IBM invented JFS, and IBM own the copyright over JFS, and while JFS may have originally been included in other IBM products (OS/2 perhaps?) that because it's attached to the AIX code, it's a "derivative work" of SysV, and therefore SCO have a say over how IBM can use that code.
How about that. A completely independent IBM invention, used in SysV, and SCO are getting all shitty saying now that IBM cannot now move that code anywhere else after it's been used in IBM's own implementation as AIX.
And they call the GPL viral. Darl's accusations there are that if anything touches SysV code licensed from SCO, then SCO have a right to say what can be done with it. That just doesn't make sense.
In any case, it won't end the case quickly due to these changes, as SCO still want to see exactly what the JFS code looks like, so they can see if it was inserted into Linux, and then they can run around and issue more press releases saying "IBM has revealed 10,000 lines of our code is in Linux. see. they admitted it". I think the worst is yet to come in the press-release war that SCO has been waging.
That is, unless they run out of money first. With their stock price nearly down to a third of what it was just a few months ago and an increasing number of legal fronts being fought, we can only hope that's sooner rather than later.
Do kids who get transplants this young need to be on anti rejection drugs for the rest of their lives? I know they're exceptional at healing & recovering from major surgery at extreme young ages, but don't know if there's an extra ability to 'adapt' to foreign tissue.
It copied the iPod interface pixel for pixel, and put it on a Win CE powered pocket PC.
Not just making a nice MP3 player out of a pocket PC mind you, but making one completely identical to an iPod's interface - along with graphics to represent iPod controls.
for what it's worth, I'm not blind (well - myopic to all hell, but I can still read the screen without glasses as long as I'm a foot from it) but there's nothing like the OSX screen magnification for quick/easy/simple zooming in on ANY app to take a closer peek. Whether it be a small image on a webpage, a small embedded movie, a WMP movie (when trying to get win media player to play fullscreen is a pain in the ass slooow process, zooming is just quicker) or just zooming in to IRC from the sofa across the room, it's brilliant. Just Works!
And again, mac users don't have to worry about their malware.
It's right around the corner now...
So's AmigaOS4, Doom III and Duke Nuke'em Forever
(actually I think mandrake is doing well enough now as is to be a competitor to windows. Both have quirks that need fiddling from time to time, and mandrake is improving quicker than win)
I came across this picture of a Mac Classic running OSX in Color linked on /. months ago. It however is a certain fake, as are most (all?) of the ones on that site.
Better hope no kids were scared by Dr.Who, cos that thing looks too too familiar.
Daleks take hong kong!
I think so
I don't believe the importance of a really refined gui is as high as it used to be. Back when the original mac was introduced, along with other later GUI based systems such as the Amiga, it was brand new. Newbies back then were far newbier, and it wouldn't be unusual to find 98% of the population who had never used a computer, EVER.
Now in the same society you'd be hard pressed to find a third grader who hasn't used a computer for nearly a year. The skills are being embedded at a younger and younger age. The big difference between a machine thats intuitive now, and one thats not, is the one that doesn't crash is more usable. Not much more than that
Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month."
Yeah darl, and when I was 8 years old I too was a spy, and everyone was out to get me. trust no one you know. I'd sneak around under a blanket and surprise my parents with my leet disguise skills, only to quietly slink back into the darkness and surprise yet another family member.
By the time I turned 9 the whole attention seeking bullshit act left me and I started growing up. Try it sometime, it's not all that bad.
I'm a candidate for ECT. I'd like to get it done sooner rather than later, as years of all kinds of therapy & drugs have done absolutely nil. It gets tiring going over some similar variation on the drugs/therapy routing, working up a little hope for just a slight improvement, to still go no further.
I wouldn't like to see ECT or probes in the brain used as a first resort for someone who'd been depressed for a couple of weeks, as a little help can go a LONG way in many people.
The shocks used in ECT are quite controlled, with muscle relaxants to minimise any muscular contraction that goes along with the shock. It works for some reason, and that reason isn't exactly known. Personally I don't give a shit why it works or how, or even if it wipes 20 years from my life. Chronic treatment resistant depression has laid waste to the last 20 years of my life, doing nothing isn't going to make the next 20 any better.
No wonder I'm so sane. I used to drink coffee with my parents a great deal, matching them mug for mug. Counting the usual amount I'd have each day tipped me over 20 to 22 a day.
I think that was probably bad