Nowhere did I say that free(dom) was bad, just that free(either) does not make it better. The idea is that having many programmers/editors/users will inherently replace the visionary/expert/proprietary model...which is not always the case. There is plenty of room for both models and to let the user decide.
Microsoft isn't evil because they make proprietary software, they are evil because they think and act in a way that tries to exclude other ideas and models.
Just as Mac zealots like to dis' non-Mac, Microsoft has missed the point that separate and competitive IS the right model, rather than one way, one brand, one model.
The issue is that for a Microsoft customer, Windows software is better, that is, easier to use and easier to maintain (even if it does take more time, it is understandable to the point-and-click user).
Kind of like Joe Pesci says in Lethal Weapon 4 - "not better than froggy, just different"
Exactly how does free(dom) make it WORK better - there is a good bit of free (beer) software that sucks, too. If you're so inclined, give away your product, let others tinker, and figure out a way to make money.
I am a long time Mac user and I don't like Microsoft's business practices, nor the Windows platform, but when it comes down to it, I use MS Office because it works AT LEAST AS WELL AS I NEED IT TO WORK, and it has features I like. I certainly don't dump the Mac OS because Steve Jobs is a flake. Let's keep the baby in the bath.
The whole (possibly misguided) drug thing focuses on the fact that it is illegal to buy, possess or use - however, it is not technically ILLEGAL to copy copyrighted material (no jail time or fine for doing so) - it is only an INFRINGEMENT of the rights-holder's rights. It is a cause for civil action, and there is no real basis for seizure, especially without due process. It is not like the criminal courts could really get involved if it weren't for the questionable extensions like DMCA.
While who gets how much money is a matter of the one-sided contracts the artists sign in order to get heard, they can make a bit more than if no one bought the album AND no one bought songs through iTMS.
I don't really feel sorry for people (the "artists") who want to sit in a studio for a grueling 3 day session to record songs written by someone else and continue to get paid for 1,2,3 or 10 year old recordings. How many of us continue to get paid three years after we did the work, no matter how hard we worked to get the job or how hard the task was at the time?
While the industry may unjustly enrich themselves on the backs of artists, the labels are the ones that do the day to day work (printing, shipping, litigating). If I could buy an album for $10, then I'd do it twice as often as I do for $15. The sum total revenue would go up, on marginal more expense.
The industry just doesn't get it, but most of the people arguing about it don't either.
But to make a name-based IP claim (presumably TM), Apple (records) would need to show that people confuse Apple Computer with Apple (records), thereby causing deception of consumers AND harm to Apple (records), their name or reputation.
They'll pay some small fee and go on about the business of making money - just look at the last quarter profit.
It's about FREE, not free. Show me a product as good as MS Office, for Mac OS X, and I'll buy it. I may hate MS's business strategy, but Office has the market because it's a real product...not a dream or an "also ran".
Give us a product we can use to do all the things we need to do as well as MS Office, and we'll buy it. Don't forget compatibility, since we have to communicate with the real world - which includes exchanging documents.
OO is telling Mac users that we should use Open Office, but we have to wait until 2005 or later..f'ckoff.
I'm not a programmer, or I _would_ help. I'm an engineer. I need to use the product, not talk about it or write it. Put up or shut up. While you're at it, fix that bloat problem - thin is in.
Knew a guy with a Mac (original) that hand soldered a 68010 or 68020 OVER the original 68000 chip and it worked. I think a old style mac in one with an LCD on the entire front might sell - footprint like a sheet of paper, and enough screen in portrait for a word processor.
Oh, well, guess that's why I don't design computers.
HP-41CV (1980)...back in grad school and it still works great. Forgot to take it to a test (first test since returning to school) and borrowed some piece of crap..damn non-RPN...couldn't get the right answer to save me.
Intermittently use a Mac 5300c(1996) for legacy software, but the IIci (1990) is in the box & available for purchase.
Man, I don't want to be respomsible for that database. Hey, Microsoft, maybe you'd like a shot at this one? Then everyone would be happy knowing that there data may not be secure, but when it crashes (not if), we all get to start over.
Precisely right that corporations are not fictitious persons - in civil law, they are persons. If it were a criminal matter, a federal felony conviction of a corporation would preclude the purchase of Microsoft products or support by the federal government and firms working under many federal contracts.
But even Microsoft's inept handling of buggy software isn't criminal, unless it is shown that there was intent to defraud or do harm. Fortunately, in the US, is not a crime, yet, to be stupid.
I might be afraid that this would change if the current administration was not so hell bent on protecting businesses, while not thinking twice about its citizens' liberty.
You refer to ERP (effective radiated power) at less than 6/10 W. The power consumed is way more. Don't get me to lying about how much, but it's an easy equation (battery capacity/time to consume). All of the heat you feel, the lighting, etc all has to come out of the battery.
These batteries are primarily lithium-based...all it takes is a little air (read "oxydizer") getting into the battery, reaching the metallic lithium, and fire or explosion is possible.
We had begun research into producing our own lithium-based cells when I was at AT&T - the fire hazard of the lithium during manufacturing was a major hurdle.
Just guessing, but a broken battery case and resulting air infiltration may be to blame.
Well, considering that there is a working x86 kernel that is compatible with the basis of the Mac OS X system, Darwin, it appears that we are much closer to hardware abstraction than previously. This is a luxury of the *nix method - many platforms, one system customized to each set of hardware.
Obviously, it is not as easy at I made it sound, but easy isn't what it is about.
Comparing Mac OS 8/9 to Mac OS X, we are in fact now a tweak away.
I think you are confused; flashover is not the same as an arc blast, and it won't happen from dust in the electrical panel, unless you keep your computers in a grain elevator, wood shop, or similar combustible dust-laden environment.
Yes, hire someone, but in the mean time: 1) was the cracking sound like breaking- plastic cracking, or was it the sound of the breakers being thrown inadvertantly by the position of the cover. While I'll not encourage you to try flipping said breakers back on, one at a time, it is possible. 2) taking the cover off should not be a normal employee responsibility, but it should not cause your equipment to break either. 3) the litre bottle size reference indicates that you probably have something beyond normal power there, so run. 4) never do anything at your employer's place of business that you WOULD do at home - this applies to most everything (getting drunk, sex, electrical wiring) 5) Don't call OSHA (if you are in the states), your employer has violated many things by letting you do this.
It's the sensitivity of the CCD and the translation of that information to a useable image. And, all of this hinges on rendition on the output device.
If your printer is RGB, emerald does no good, but since the image file is not a RGB+emerald color scheme, it may not matter. It is all in the translation. It is kind of like three axis defining a point in geometry - you are defining how the eye sees it by describing the amount of each constituent needed for reproduction.
If you were using a CCD array calibrated to capture six colors, the real benefit comes if the printer/display uses those six colors. That said, more data is better, if it is used to create a better image description file. And lest we forget, even full size image files are lossy, since you always lose information about how the thing really looks unless we use individual filters for each of millions (read infinite spectrum) of colors.
Emerald is not cyan, not even close, but that is irrelevant.
If you haven't heard, the kernel on which Mac OS X is based is BSD. Steve Jobs finally has his hardware-abstracted OS (as they have been planning for 10 years). Just tweak the Intel-based BSD kernels and you're there.
However, why change to Intel/AMD, when the PPC is such a fabulous chip.
Apple's thing is to keep the hardware proprietary, so the system doesn't become a nightmare of (marginally incompatible) pieces (as GNU/Linux is fast becoming) most end users are concerned about function, not customizing the hardware - anyway, there will always be a way around hardware restrictions.
This is precisely one problem the FCC cannot control. The FCC's stated "plan" for the regulation of towers (particularly HDTV) is to allow local officials and zoning deal with it.
In Texas, even the state cannot do it - our community (pop. 7700 and shrinking, about 100 miles to any other population center) - had to create an airport zoning board, adopt a state-recommended rule restricting construction in the airspace for the airport, meet three times, etc. before we could prevent such things.
While the FCC has abdicated on this, the FAA was absent, and the local, non-pilots were up for anything that brought in revenue.
You don't read well do you? The whole point of my reply was that the interface must allow the typical user a useful computing platform. The typical user does what s/he must to function without worrying about overhead.
You also don't understand that there are various levels of security...one of which is physical - to which I was referring. As for my kind being the typhoid Mary of computerland, let's lay the blame on a system design that misses several basic design concepts, such as reliability and maintainability.
The Mac OS X implementation uses non-privileged user for all normal operations, then and ONLY THEN, does it propmpt for an admin password.
Contrary to what you all think is right, I keep my more or less secured Linux box running as root user for one main reasons: I routinely (daily) install or modify systems USING THE X GUI, which does not allow me to shift on the fly to root and back for things like drag-and-drop of files.
Call me crazy, but I thought this whole crazy computer thing was to make our lives easier, not to burden us with being our own little system administrator.
Users will not accept systems which do not provide to them what they need (a word processor, a game platform, or whatever.) Don't blame the dumb user for the poorly made system or poorly written software - IT IS YOUR FAULT IF SOMEONE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR PROGRAM.
If you can't grasp that, it is obvious why software programmers aren't really engineers. (With apologies to those of you who do get it.)
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Nowhere did I say that free(dom) was bad, just that free(either) does not make it better. The idea is that having many programmers/editors/users will inherently replace the visionary/expert/proprietary model...which is not always the case. There is plenty of room for both models and to let the user decide.
Microsoft isn't evil because they make proprietary software, they are evil because they think and act in a way that tries to exclude other ideas and models.
Just as Mac zealots like to dis' non-Mac, Microsoft has missed the point that separate and competitive IS the right model, rather than one way, one brand, one model.
The issue is that for a Microsoft customer, Windows software is better, that is, easier to use and easier to maintain (even if it does take more time, it is understandable to the point-and-click user).
Kind of like Joe Pesci says in Lethal Weapon 4 - "not better than froggy, just different"
Exactly how does free(dom) make it WORK better - there is a good bit of free (beer) software that sucks, too. If you're so inclined, give away your product, let others tinker, and figure out a way to make money.
I am a long time Mac user and I don't like Microsoft's business practices, nor the Windows platform, but when it comes down to it, I use MS Office because it works AT LEAST AS WELL AS I NEED IT TO WORK, and it has features I like. I certainly don't dump the Mac OS because Steve Jobs is a flake. Let's keep the baby in the bath.
The whole (possibly misguided) drug thing focuses on the fact that it is illegal to buy, possess or use - however, it is not technically ILLEGAL to copy copyrighted material (no jail time or fine for doing so) - it is only an INFRINGEMENT of the rights-holder's rights. It is a cause for civil action, and there is no real basis for seizure, especially without due process. It is not like the criminal courts could really get involved if it weren't for the questionable extensions like DMCA.
#1 reason: because the instructor or proctor won't let you in to the test with a PDA, but will with a really smart calculator.
While who gets how much money is a matter of the one-sided contracts the artists sign in order to get heard, they can make a bit more than if no one bought the album AND no one bought songs through iTMS.
I don't really feel sorry for people (the "artists") who want to sit in a studio for a grueling 3 day session to record songs written by someone else and continue to get paid for 1,2,3 or 10 year old recordings. How many of us continue to get paid three years after we did the work, no matter how hard we worked to get the job or how hard the task was at the time?
While the industry may unjustly enrich themselves on the backs of artists, the labels are the ones that do the day to day work (printing, shipping, litigating). If I could buy an album for $10, then I'd do it twice as often as I do for $15. The sum total revenue would go up, on marginal more expense.
The industry just doesn't get it, but most of the people arguing about it don't either.
But to make a name-based IP claim (presumably TM), Apple (records) would need to show that people confuse Apple Computer with Apple (records), thereby causing deception of consumers AND harm to Apple (records), their name or reputation.
They'll pay some small fee and go on about the business of making money - just look at the last quarter profit.
It's about FREE, not free. Show me a product as good as MS Office, for Mac OS X, and I'll buy it. I may hate MS's business strategy, but Office has the market because it's a real product...not a dream or an "also ran".
Give us a product we can use to do all the things we need to do as well as MS Office, and we'll buy it. Don't forget compatibility, since we have to communicate with the real world - which includes exchanging documents.
OO is telling Mac users that we should use Open Office, but we have to wait until 2005 or later..f'ckoff.
I'm not a programmer, or I _would_ help. I'm an engineer. I need to use the product, not talk about it or write it. Put up or shut up. While you're at it, fix that bloat problem - thin is in.
Knew a guy with a Mac (original) that hand soldered a 68010 or 68020 OVER the original 68000 chip and it worked. I think a old style mac in one with an LCD on the entire front might sell - footprint like a sheet of paper, and enough screen in portrait for a word processor.
Oh, well, guess that's why I don't design computers.
HP-41CV (1980)...back in grad school and it still works great. Forgot to take it to a test (first test since returning to school) and borrowed some piece of crap..damn non-RPN...couldn't get the right answer to save me.
Intermittently use a Mac 5300c(1996) for legacy software, but the IIci (1990) is in the box & available for purchase.
Man, I don't want to be respomsible for that database.
Hey, Microsoft, maybe you'd like a shot at this one? Then everyone would be happy knowing that there data may not be secure, but when it crashes (not if), we all get to start over.
Precisely right that corporations are not fictitious persons - in civil law, they are persons. If it were a criminal matter, a federal felony conviction of a corporation would preclude the purchase of Microsoft products or support by the federal government and firms working under many federal contracts.
But even Microsoft's inept handling of buggy software isn't criminal, unless it is shown that there was intent to defraud or do harm. Fortunately, in the US, is not a crime, yet, to be stupid.
I might be afraid that this would change if the current administration was not so hell bent on protecting businesses, while not thinking twice about its citizens' liberty.
Just say no to fascism.
You refer to ERP (effective radiated power) at less than 6/10 W. The power consumed is way more. Don't get me to lying about how much, but it's an easy equation (battery capacity/time to consume). All of the heat you feel, the lighting, etc all has to come out of the battery.
These batteries are primarily lithium-based...all it takes is a little air (read "oxydizer") getting into the battery, reaching the metallic lithium, and fire or explosion is possible.
We had begun research into producing our own lithium-based cells when I was at AT&T - the fire hazard of the lithium during manufacturing was a major hurdle.
Just guessing, but a broken battery case and resulting air infiltration may be to blame.
The parent has been removed, so I guess I'm too quick on the post.
/. - too much press, I suppose.
Too bad the bad eggs have found
With regrets to Nathen Hale, you don't have the right to be this off-topic nor this offensive.
It is, however, refreshing to see that ignorance isn't any longer a barrier to internet access - I bet your parents are so proud.
Well, considering that there is a working x86 kernel that is compatible with the basis of the Mac OS X system, Darwin, it appears that we are much closer to hardware abstraction than previously. This is a luxury of the *nix method - many platforms, one system customized to each set of hardware.
Obviously, it is not as easy at I made it sound, but easy isn't what it is about.
Comparing Mac OS 8/9 to Mac OS X, we are in fact now a tweak away.
Think submarine.
Hey, maybe they found a way to get rid of those pesky, contaminated, out dated reactors.
I think you are confused; flashover is not the same as an arc blast, and it won't happen from dust in the electrical panel, unless you keep your computers in a grain elevator, wood shop, or similar combustible dust-laden environment.
Yes, hire someone, but in the mean time:
1) was the cracking sound like breaking- plastic cracking, or was it the sound of the breakers being thrown inadvertantly by the position of the cover. While I'll not encourage you to try flipping said breakers back on, one at a time, it is possible.
2) taking the cover off should not be a normal employee responsibility, but it should not cause your equipment to break either.
3) the litre bottle size reference indicates that you probably have something beyond normal power there, so run.
4) never do anything at your employer's place of business that you WOULD do at home - this applies to most everything (getting drunk, sex, electrical wiring)
5) Don't call OSHA (if you are in the states), your employer has violated many things by letting you do this.
So, it seems to be a matter of having a greater ... ability to discriminate among colors.
Hey, we'll have no discriminating among colors here!
It's the sensitivity of the CCD and the translation of that information to a useable image. And, all of this hinges on rendition on the output device.
If your printer is RGB, emerald does no good, but since the image file is not a RGB+emerald color scheme, it may not matter. It is all in the translation. It is kind of like three axis defining a point in geometry - you are defining how the eye sees it by describing the amount of each constituent needed for reproduction.
If you were using a CCD array calibrated to capture six colors, the real benefit comes if the printer/display uses those six colors. That said, more data is better, if it is used to create a better image description file. And lest we forget, even full size image files are lossy, since you always lose information about how the thing really looks unless we use individual filters for each of millions (read infinite spectrum) of colors.
Emerald is not cyan, not even close, but that is irrelevant.
...are we gonna get all technical?
If you haven't heard, the kernel on which Mac OS X is based is BSD. Steve Jobs finally has his hardware-abstracted OS (as they have been planning for 10 years). Just tweak the Intel-based BSD kernels and you're there.
However, why change to Intel/AMD, when the PPC is such a fabulous chip.
Apple's thing is to keep the hardware proprietary, so the system doesn't become a nightmare of (marginally incompatible) pieces (as GNU/Linux is fast becoming) most end users are concerned about function, not customizing the hardware - anyway, there will always be a way around hardware restrictions.
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This is precisely one problem the FCC cannot control. The FCC's stated "plan" for the regulation of towers (particularly HDTV) is to allow local officials and zoning deal with it.
In Texas, even the state cannot do it - our community (pop. 7700 and shrinking, about 100 miles to any other population center) - had to create an airport zoning board, adopt a state-recommended rule restricting construction in the airspace for the airport, meet three times, etc. before we could prevent such things.
While the FCC has abdicated on this, the FAA was absent, and the local, non-pilots were up for anything that brought in revenue.
You don't read well do you? The whole point of my reply was that the interface must allow the typical user a useful computing platform. The typical user does what s/he must to function without worrying about overhead.
You also don't understand that there are various levels of security...one of which is physical - to which I was referring. As for my kind being the typhoid Mary of computerland, let's lay the blame on a system design that misses several basic design concepts, such as reliability and maintainability.
To all of the programmers:
User interface IS THE ISSUE.
The Mac OS X implementation uses non-privileged user for all normal operations, then and ONLY THEN, does it propmpt for an admin password.
Contrary to what you all think is right, I keep my more or less secured Linux box running as root user for one main reasons: I routinely (daily) install or modify systems USING THE X GUI, which does not allow me to shift on the fly to root and back for things like drag-and-drop of files.
Call me crazy, but I thought this whole crazy computer thing was to make our lives easier, not to burden us with being our own little system administrator.
Users will not accept systems which do not provide to them what they need (a word processor, a game platform, or whatever.)
Don't blame the dumb user for the poorly made system or poorly written software - IT IS YOUR FAULT IF SOMEONE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR PROGRAM.
If you can't grasp that, it is obvious why software programmers aren't really engineers. (With apologies to those of you who do get it.)
Check out the hot chick on the front row in room 222!
Would this constitute child porn if you did catch the kiddies doing the thing?