Who says this is their big plan? It's just one of many planks in the platform. But unlike the rest of the platform, it's news here, because this is Slashdot.
I'm pretty sure this usage is intended as pejorative everywhere. I never heard it until the last few years, and I used to live in the South.
Note to Republicans: It really isn't pejorative; it's just ungrammatical. While I can only assume that you're somehow (how?) attempting to be insulting by adopting this term, all you really achieve is to make yourselves look like idiots.
I heard something on the Discovery channel not long ago... I don't remember the exact numbers, but the magnitudes are right: "Sharks kill about seven human beings a year. Humans kill 60 MILLION sharks a year."
That's not much of a conception. By hand-waving with the phrase "new physical principles", you've glossed over the whole problem. Come up with the principles first.
It wasn't the CPU that limited the early PC's use as a game machine -- it always outperformed a C64. It was the crummy video and nonexistent audio. CGA video was actually sharper than anything you could get out of a C64, but you had the choice of 16-color text, or 4-color hi-res graphics -- and four nasty colors they were, too. Let's not even talk about the monochrome adapter.
As someone who's developed almost exclusively with a text editor and "grep" for the last dozen years, I have to ask: What exactly does an IDE get you? I'm serious here; I'm asking. Assuming that you're not doing GUI building, that is.
I actually moved from Turbo Pascal's IDE (back in the TP 7.0 days) to the Q editor and command-line TP, found it a big improvement, and never really looked back. I'm not claiming to be "hardcore"; I just don't know what I'm missing not using an IDE. There must be something, but I'm not feeling the lack of it.
Just recently, I tried some fairly straightforward code (http://pdcurses.sf.net/ in Borland 3.1. I wondered why it came with an option set to disable register variables, and tried turning that off. Weird errors resulted -- specifically, trails after the bouncing balls in "newdemo". But it still worked OK in Turbo C 3.0, as well as Borland 4.0. (Not to mention all the other supported compilers.) I could never figure out the problem; to me, it looks very much like a compiler bug.
When Carl Sagan studied the cancer cures resulting from a visit to Lourdes, he found that the cure rate was, if anything, lower than the one for spontaneous remission. It was lower than the average for those who didn't go to Lourdes at all. --
The "i" stands for "I", as in me, myself and. The iMac is a personal computer, see. And the iPod is a personal... pod. For your music, but they left that out of the name.
I've heard the "Internet" thing, but if you look at what Apple was trying to do, with both the iMac and iPod, the idea of something that really lived up to the label "personal" seems more relevant. I can't find an authoritative reference, but even if it did start off as shorthand for "Internet", I think the idea of "I" must've been prevailing by the time they put out the iPod.
"GNU stuff" doesn't link to the kernel, so there's no license issue in that sense. But programs licensed under GPL v3 will be unusable for "DRM applications", yes. So DRM pushers will just have to shell out for commercial software, instead of continuing to leech off of free software.
The way I read it, the title is meant to convey the viewpoint found in the linked article (i.e., Colin Campbell's), not necessarily Zonk's or Slashdot's viewpoint.
I don't buy this for a minute. Apple has repeatedly said "We won't do anything to prevent you from running Windows on it." And they'd accomplish nothing except alienating customers.
Apple is a hardware company. They're perfectly happy to sell you a Mac to run Windows or Linux, or to use as a shotput. They get the same money regardless.
It has all the earmarks of being an oversight, not deliberate.
Sadly, DirecTV and Dish are exempted from the CableCard mandate. The Series 3 wouldn't be compatible anyway -- it does QAM (the digital cable standard) as well as 8VSB (digital OTA), but not 4PSK, which is what DirecTV uses.
Of course, DirecTV is soon to switch to 8PSK and MPEG-4 for their high-def channels, intentionally obsoleting all existing DirecTV HD receivers; so it's not like that's what's holding them back. Like the cable companies, they just want to control all the revenue -- in this case by selling you the receivers rather than renting them. It used to be that you could get DirecTV receivers from a variety of manufacturers, but now they're all in-house. They even dropped their highly successful partnership with Tivo, seemingly for no more reason than because were too cheap to keep paying the measly $1 per month per customer that went to Tivo, and because Murdoch thought his own company NDS could do just as well (no one else thinks so).
But in the meantime, if you want, DirecTV HD Tivos are still available -- and they're the only HD Tivos that are, yet.
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Who says this is their big plan? It's just one of many planks in the platform. But unlike the rest of the platform, it's news here, because this is Slashdot.
Otherwise, I agree.
I'm pretty sure this usage is intended as pejorative everywhere. I never heard it until the last few years, and I used to live in the South.
Note to Republicans: It really isn't pejorative; it's just ungrammatical. While I can only assume that you're somehow (how?) attempting to be insulting by adopting this term, all you really achieve is to make yourselves look like idiots.
I prefer to think of it as chocolatey goodness!
Why not start with the colorful "Related Stories" box at the top of this very page?
Geez... are those speeches from a student, or a professor?
I heard something on the Discovery channel not long ago... I don't remember the exact numbers, but the magnitudes are right: "Sharks kill about seven human beings a year. Humans kill 60 MILLION sharks a year."
That's not much of a conception. By hand-waving with the phrase "new physical principles", you've glossed over the whole problem. Come up with the principles first.
It wasn't the CPU that limited the early PC's use as a game machine -- it always outperformed a C64. It was the crummy video and nonexistent audio. CGA video was actually sharper than anything you could get out of a C64, but you had the choice of 16-color text, or 4-color hi-res graphics -- and four nasty colors they were, too. Let's not even talk about the monochrome adapter.
As someone who's developed almost exclusively with a text editor and "grep" for the last dozen years, I have to ask: What exactly does an IDE get you? I'm serious here; I'm asking. Assuming that you're not doing GUI building, that is.
I actually moved from Turbo Pascal's IDE (back in the TP 7.0 days) to the Q editor and command-line TP, found it a big improvement, and never really looked back. I'm not claiming to be "hardcore"; I just don't know what I'm missing not using an IDE. There must be something, but I'm not feeling the lack of it.
Just recently, I tried some fairly straightforward code (http://pdcurses.sf.net/ in Borland 3.1. I wondered why it came with an option set to disable register variables, and tried turning that off. Weird errors resulted -- specifically, trails after the bouncing balls in "newdemo". But it still worked OK in Turbo C 3.0, as well as Borland 4.0. (Not to mention all the other supported compilers.) I could never figure out the problem; to me, it looks very much like a compiler bug.
It's more double-CR to p, I think.
"Perfectly valid religious belief" -- oxymoron of the day!
The "i" stands for "I", as in me, myself and. The iMac is a personal computer, see. And the iPod is a personal... pod. For your music, but they left that out of the name.
I've heard the "Internet" thing, but if you look at what Apple was trying to do, with both the iMac and iPod, the idea of something that really lived up to the label "personal" seems more relevant. I can't find an authoritative reference, but even if it did start off as shorthand for "Internet", I think the idea of "I" must've been prevailing by the time they put out the iPod.
"GNU stuff" doesn't link to the kernel, so there's no license issue in that sense. But programs licensed under GPL v3 will be unusable for "DRM applications", yes. So DRM pushers will just have to shell out for commercial software, instead of continuing to leech off of free software.
And what exactly do you find unpalatable about it?
He didn't say it was impractical. He's pointing out that practicality is not, and never has been, its purpose.
The way I read it, the title is meant to convey the viewpoint found in the linked article (i.e., Colin Campbell's), not necessarily Zonk's or Slashdot's viewpoint.
I don't buy this for a minute. Apple has repeatedly said "We won't do anything to prevent you from running Windows on it." And they'd accomplish nothing except alienating customers.
Apple is a hardware company. They're perfectly happy to sell you a Mac to run Windows or Linux, or to use as a shotput. They get the same money regardless.
It has all the earmarks of being an oversight, not deliberate.
I'm sure this will be sorted before they get Windows booting.
Mods, that's not Offtopic, it's Funny. Although there's actually a good reason to run PearPC on an Intel Mac -- it may be the only way to run Classic.
Sadly, DirecTV and Dish are exempted from the CableCard mandate. The Series 3 wouldn't be compatible anyway -- it does QAM (the digital cable standard) as well as 8VSB (digital OTA), but not 4PSK, which is what DirecTV uses.
Of course, DirecTV is soon to switch to 8PSK and MPEG-4 for their high-def channels, intentionally obsoleting all existing DirecTV HD receivers; so it's not like that's what's holding them back. Like the cable companies, they just want to control all the revenue -- in this case by selling you the receivers rather than renting them. It used to be that you could get DirecTV receivers from a variety of manufacturers, but now they're all in-house. They even dropped their highly successful partnership with Tivo, seemingly for no more reason than because were too cheap to keep paying the measly $1 per month per customer that went to Tivo, and because Murdoch thought his own company NDS could do just as well (no one else thinks so).
But in the meantime, if you want, DirecTV HD Tivos are still available -- and they're the only HD Tivos that are, yet.