...that made me switch from Apple to PC back then!
I wasn't interested in buying a box that I couldn't write softwar for, so I purchased an IBM-PC instead of a Macintosh, even though I was an Apple ][ user previously.
Also, at the company I worked for back then (Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage), we looked at the Macintoshes and rejected them because the screens weren't wide enough for 80-column terminal emulation (at 512 pixels across). The IBM-PCs, however, had 80-columns, and 3270 terminal emulator software available.
This made the IBM-PC a clearly superior choice, as the public as confirmed over time.
Why would the industry want a proprietary, non-standard language in their set-top players? They'd be much better off putting Squeak or Python, or just about anything else in there....even.NET!
An "iPod" is a knock-off of a iRiver Jukebox, both of which stole their basic concept from the popular "Sony Walkman" line of products.
A "podcast" is a downloadable audio file of some whiny kid who thinks he's an authority on something and has a delusional idea that people care what he has to say--in audio form.
I'm a professional photographer. Every year, I send my best/most valuable photos away to a lab that does color separations (C, M, Y, K) and saves them on black and white film, as well as making a Kodachrome 64 slide.
These are the only ones I can trust to be around in 100 years or more.
*All* digital images get written to CD-Rs are are stored in a commercial document-control facility. But the ones I really want to keep get written to film.
with a good domain/rights management system. Like Windows XP, for example. Then they wouldn't have to distribute "secret passwords" to allocate rights.
After all, the Unix core of the Mac OS operating system was developed in 1969. People have gotten smarter since then.
Have you ever used Objective-C? It's the SLOWEST compiled environment ever! And, because there's no garbage collection, etc, it's certainly no more secure than "raw" C (because all of C is legal in Objective-C). In many cases, Objective C is slower than Java becasue of it's "run-time" binding.
5 petabytes of storage is enough for a brief five-minute DVD-quality sex scene for each person of legal age in the US (two to a scene). 100 petabytes would be five minutes of porn of every pair of people in the world.
If you're dealing with petabytes, you'll have "petafiles". Why constrain yourself to "legal age?"
Another interesting project from the Microsoft team then? Looks like they've made an entire department, dedicated to making ideas about things that they could make, but never intend to do.. Nice going
Here's an unbiased source (by definition a neutral point of view!) that says about SFU:
Unlike Cygwin, Interix is not implemented above the Win32 subsystem, but rather as an environment subsystem directly on the Windows kernel. This significantly improves performances and increases stability and security compared with the emulation used by Cygwin.
In other words, this is the Posix API implemented on top of a microkernel. Sounds a lot like your beloved Mac OS-X to me. Of course, that was one of the guiding priciples behind Windows NT--a microkernel platform upon which several different standard OS APIs could be implemented.
You need to start looking at everything out there, and stopped being brainwashed by the Linux/MacOS zealots!
Seriously, why don't you take your head out of the sand and at least look at the products Microsoft offers. Then you can make an informed decision. Otherwise, you just sound like a silly zealot.
and Microsoft has their own product, free download, called "SFU -- Services for Unix" that gives you a ksh shell and all the Un*x utilities." We actually stopped running BSD here and started running XP with SFU (and Cygwin) because it's a better desktop Un*x than the real thing.
I never could figure out how to use "imake". Too complicated. And remember the language Prolog that Borland tried to push!? It was really "make" in disguise.
"make" is really what's behind all the software we use. If it weren't for "make", there would be no new Linux builds.
For those who don't want to read, that's 10 vulnerabilities, 1 privledge escalation, 6 remote executions including buffer overflows, and one bluetooth attack.
Thanks for the summary. And that's my point! The Apple "true believers" have been led to think that there's some *radically different* in the design of their beloved operating system that makes it immune to these things. There isn't! It's the same crap!
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I want to buy it a present!
I wasn't interested in buying a box that I couldn't write softwar for, so I purchased an IBM-PC instead of a Macintosh, even though I was an Apple ][ user previously.
Also, at the company I worked for back then (Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage), we looked at the Macintoshes and rejected them because the screens weren't wide enough for 80-column terminal emulation (at 512 pixels across). The IBM-PCs, however, had 80-columns, and 3270 terminal emulator software available.
This made the IBM-PC a clearly superior choice, as the public as confirmed over time.
Why would the industry want a proprietary, non-standard language in their set-top players? They'd be much better off putting Squeak or Python, or just about anything else in there....even .NET!
A "podcast" is a downloadable audio file of some whiny kid who thinks he's an authority on something and has a delusional idea that people care what he has to say--in audio form.
That means no more Java! They'll have to go to an open standard, like the ECMA C# language.
These are the only ones I can trust to be around in 100 years or more.
*All* digital images get written to CD-Rs are are stored in a commercial document-control facility. But the ones I really want to keep get written to film.
After all, the Unix core of the Mac OS operating system was developed in 1969. People have gotten smarter since then.
You're right. So far, the responses have labeled me: 1) a Java programmer, and 2) Some "Kid"
I'm hoping that Apple's switch to Intel will send all of their crazy zealot fanbase away. That would actually help the company quite a bit!
Have you ever used Objective-C? It's the SLOWEST compiled environment ever! And, because there's no garbage collection, etc, it's certainly no more secure than "raw" C (because all of C is legal in Objective-C). In many cases, Objective C is slower than Java becasue of it's "run-time" binding.
But I thought that the super-advanced OS and Objective-C programming paradigm of the Macintosh prevented any and all security problems!
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But your basic point is right, nobody uses Objective-C. And that's a real problem for Apple.
No thanks! I'll keep my Differential GPS that gets me to within 8 feet.
If you're dealing with petabytes, you'll have "petafiles". Why constrain yourself to "legal age?"
Sort of like Google labs?
Unlike Cygwin, Interix is not implemented above the Win32 subsystem, but rather as an environment subsystem directly on the Windows kernel. This significantly improves performances and increases stability and security compared with the emulation used by Cygwin.
In other words, this is the Posix API implemented on top of a microkernel. Sounds a lot like your beloved Mac OS-X to me. Of course, that was one of the guiding priciples behind Windows NT--a microkernel platform upon which several different standard OS APIs could be implemented.
You need to start looking at everything out there, and stopped being brainwashed by the Linux/MacOS zealots!
Seriously, why don't you take your head out of the sand and at least look at the products Microsoft offers. Then you can make an informed decision. Otherwise, you just sound like a silly zealot.
and Microsoft has their own product, free download, called "SFU -- Services for Unix" that gives you a ksh shell and all the Un*x utilities." We actually stopped running BSD here and started running XP with SFU (and Cygwin) because it's a better desktop Un*x than the real thing.
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I doubt if BSD architectMarshall Kirk McKusick has ever kissed a girl!
Anyway, the article's 100% correct. Linux sucks. BSD R00LZ. It's that simple.
If the pedophiles at Sun didn't want people to confuse the two, the wouldn't have changed the name of "LiveWire" to JavaScript.
They *wanted* this confusion, and /. is more than happy to give it to them!
I never could figure out how to use "imake". Too complicated. And remember the language Prolog that Borland tried to push!? It was really "make" in disguise.
"make" is really what's behind all the software we use. If it weren't for "make", there would be no new Linux builds.
Maybe you should tell Apple to hire back your dear Alan Kay and rewrite OS-X in Squeak!
You'd better go here and install the Fedora updates (three in the last month)!
Thanks for the summary. And that's my point! The Apple "true believers" have been led to think that there's some *radically different* in the design of their beloved operating system that makes it immune to these things. There isn't! It's the same crap!