Thanks for the reply and you do bring up some very interesting points.
But as I stated in another post:
I don't shelter him, but I do try to explain why it's wrong, and I also explain to him why we don't want him playing those games...it's not a simple WE FORBID YOU TO PLAY THOSE GAMES. We try to put it all in context because if you don't, then it won't stick.
We have the cash, so we choose which games we buy for him. Are we hiding things that we don't buy from him? I don't think so. We also don't buy him porno movies and drugs, are we hiding them from him? I certainly don't mean to make this a flip response to your post, but just showing how far the argument could go.
I agree with you that the only way to get experience is to come into contact with them, which is why we're talking to him about these things early on. When he DOES get older and can drive a car and is out of our total control, we have to trust him. Trust that what we've tried to teach him comes into play when he makes his choices. We will try to arm him as best we can with knowledge of things, so perhaps when he does get exposed to them...drugs, sex...he'll possibly think back "hey, this is what Dad said about this and that". What will he choose? I don't know. All I know is my dad didn't talk to me about anything. When I was first exposed to pot smoking and drinking and partying, I had no clue...all I had to turn to for guidance were my friends who themselves were partaking. If my Dad had told me about all this, told me the pros and cons would I have still gotten high? Probably...but the thing this is he didn't even try. His was a sink-or-swim parenting. Did I turn out ok in the end? I don't know.
I know, I perhaps have pie-in-the-sky ideals on how my son will turn out. There is no magic way to raise them I guess. You do what you can and hope for the best. It's just that I'm trying to do more and counting on hoping less.
I don't shelter him, but I do try to explain why it's wrong, and I also explain to him why we don't want him playing those games...it's not a simple WE FORBID YOU TO PLAY THOSE GAMES. We try to put it all in context because if you don't, then it won't stick.
It's a tough job, we're not always right. Is your way better? I don't know...
Well, that started around the time the took the God that this nations was founded on out of the schools, work place, and every public place around.
Sorry, but you're barking up the wrong tree here. I'm not a believer in God and religion. If my son wishes to find these things for himself when he's older, thats fine. But you don't need God to tell someone that shooting another human being is wrong. The model of God and religion is a model of hate and death. More people have died in the history of this planet due to religion than any other thing. The crusades? The inquisition....over 5 million people, mostly women, were hung or burned during that time due to them being "witches". The holocaust?
I forgot where I heard this line, but wherever it's from it makes sense:There is just enough religion in the world to make men hate eatch other, but not enough to make them love.
As a parent, I watch what my 10 year old son plays online (mainly looking up game FAQs) and plays on the console.
We do NOT let him play any games with guns. He plays racing games, goofy Mario type games and the like. We also teach him that people using guns on others is a very bad thing. We are trying to instill in him that guns are weapons for the sole purpose of harming and killing other things.
We're trying to teach him to be nice. To try to be a good person. To know right from wrong. What happened to being a nice person? Why is everyone so cynical now adays?
Are we perfect parents? No. Will what we're trying to teach him stick? I don't know...but we're trying, we really really are. It's hard to do with the media overblowing violence and crime most of the time.
When something like this happens, everyone points fingers and blames everyone else. But I feel there is no one thing to blame. There are many different factors at work here. Bad parents? Violent Videogames? Violent media and music? War starting presidents? Evil dictators? Religion? Environment? Bullies? School?
Perhaps the police should look on some of the RIAA's computers...so they can try to use the infamous Pete Townsend defense "we were just doing research".
I've got so many people that I know personally that hate the RIAA. We're going to have a field day sending them all kinds of joke photo ID's.
Hey, keeps us off the streets.
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So far though, there are very very very few complete courses on OpenCourseWare.
When I say complete courses, I mean complete with lecture notes, assignments, readings, and most importantly the video of the actual class lectures.
Just having the lecture notes...basically just PDF's that outline very very briefly what was covered that day, isn't really the same as taking the course.
Also, MIT states plainly this site is just for information and one can NOT get a degree or credits for viewing this info. But the courses that have video lectures...like the Linear Algebra course...are excellent to brush up on the subject.
I just wish they had more video lectures like Linear Algebra or 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism. But I also understand that it's a tremendous effort to get this all on Web...AND be totally free.
I think more content goes online in Sept. though, according to all their timelines on the site.
I totally applaud MIT and this monumental excercise. Bravo!!
I'm not an XP lover, but it's the OS that's on my computer. It just is. I play games and run Photoshop and other programs...so I use XP because my favorite programs all run on this OS on fairly cheap hardware.
Now, I may be doing something wrong here, but I've NEVER had a virus. I've never had a problem with a worm or anything really. XP hasn't even crashed on me before....ever. I've had programs hang up or crash...but the OS itself hasn't crashed.
And this has been the same on the 2 different machines that I've run XP on.
But yet, I always hear about everyone raking XP and Windows across the coals all the time. Yet I've never ever experienced nor do I know anyone anyone that's ever had major problems with XP. Oh, I know people out there have problems...but it's just that I personally have never known any.
Why is that? Now, as I said, I'm not an XP zealot at all. I could take it or leave it. But after reading here on Slashdot the evils of Windows and XP it would seem that my machine should have burst into flames months ago, yet it's going on day after day, never turned off, always hooked to the net...and chugging right along.
And I'm not really doing anything special. I keep up with all the updates to XP...which takes about 2 minutes out of my week. And I have basic Norton Antivirus running. I have Seti@home running when I'm away from the machine and I do a disk clean up and defragment maybe once a month or so.
So again, I must be doing something wrong (or right) to where XP doesn't give me one iota of problem.
I'm not praising XP...at least I don't mean to be praising it. You only see people bashing Windows, never praising it. To praise it would mean being thrown out of geekdom. So I think if XP or NT is working for you, you keep your mouth shut or just talk about how great Linux is.
You may be reading some articles stating that the Webb is the replacement for Hubble, but it simply isn't true.
Here is a quote from "Sky and Telescope":
"Three issues lie at the heart of the debate.
First, Hubble has unique capabilities for ultraviolet and visible-light astronomy that will not be replaced by any other planned mission for 10 to 20 years (Webb is designed mainly for infrared imaging and spectroscopy).
Second, Webb hasn't yet moved much beyond the drawing board and may not be ready for launch until the middle of the next decade, leaving astronomers with no space telescope at all for several years if Hubble shuts down by 2010.
And third, Hubble is more than just a telescope. "HST is widely recognized as an extraordinary scientific, educational, and inspirational national asset," wrote Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Michael Shull (University of Colorado). In other words, it is an icon."
This isn't the problem I discribed though. When our access goes, the FIRST thing I do is contact my neighbors...I have 5 of them on our block and we're always talking/drinking/playing poker etc etc. So if THEIR connections are gone, I know right away it's in the area...we've had problematic service for a while there, but everything is ok for now.
That's when I get my attitude face on...when I know the service is out. There have been times when it was my fault and my neighbors connections were fine...THEN I become the submissive little computer user.
I know everyone can't be like this with friends that are in the same area with the same service...but it works for me.
I am currently using Comcast cable internet, formally ATT&T internet....formally @home.
We have outtages in our area from time to time, not as bad as it used to be, but they do pop up. Every time I try to call the 800 number to tell them an outtage is in the area, I get the same canned response.
They always say, "sir, we can't see your computer, are you hooked up to a router"?
I say "well, yes, but that's not the point. The connection is out in this area...I'm just reporting it to you as you don't have it on your outtage board."
"I'm sorry, we don't support routers, please plug your computer directly into you cable modem."
At this point, I'm getting a little irritated..."no, I'm not, I'm reporting a outtage...there is NOTHING wrong with my equipment. Nothing has changed on my settings. I'm not going to sit here, re-route my cables and change settings just so you can finally know there is an outtage in my area. Trust me, the problem is on your end."
"Sir, I can't help you unless you follow my directions".
Ok, so the first time through this, I go with everything they tell me, and finally after 45 minutes of trying everything under the sun short of putting all my computer parts in a paper bag, going out on my lawn, waving it over my head and screaming like a chicken...they finally figure out that it's a problem on their end.
Now I don't even mess with it, I call them up when an outtage happens, and get all my neighbors that are out to call them also. I cut them off right away, and tell them they'll be getting 5 other calls from the neighborhood telling them the same thing and hang up.
If you were to actually go to the newspaper site and READ what really happened, you would be singing a different story.
Here is a quote from one of the newspaper stories about this incident:
"Houston cops planned for weeks to swoop down on a parking lot and nab a bunch of drag racers but couldn't find any when they got there. So, what the heck, they just rounded up everyone in the parking lot outside a 24-hour Kmart and a Sonic Drive-In and charged the whole bunch with trespassing. No joke."
Here's the address of the story...I suggest you read through it and find that the police chief was fired and went through a trial and the entire police dept of Houston got slapped down pretty hard.
I followed your link to the kmart incident and read further because I was outraged also...but found that the police were basically handed their collective asses after this fiasco happened.
The police chief was also fired and went through a lenthy trial...though he was aquitted later. His police life is over though.
It's not like the police did this and just got away with it...they were slapped down pretty hard...which brought a smile to my face!
yeah, it was a brand new machine. Had Windows 3.1 or something on it. It sucked. But I had a huge windfall money wise and bought it up, which at the time was the fastest I could buy. It was a Micron. Do they even sell Microns anymore?
But yeah, it was a brand spanking new P90. Got it like in October or something.
I installed Slackware about 9 years ago on my P90. I had never used a UNIX operating system for an extended period of time at all either. I wasn't from a CS background. Didn't go to school for CS...yet it was kinda easy to get this up and running way back when.
My intro to the world of UNIX basically. Yes, I said it...UNIX. U-N-I-X.
Macs are only 1-5% of the total desktop market, this is true.
But Macs are almost...but not quite...100% of the printing market. There are a few out there use PCs, sure, but they are in the vast minority when it comes to 4 color printing and page layout.
I work in the industry. I've worked in printing for almost 20 years at a number of companies. PC's just simply are not used in production at any of these pre-press houses...Macs have this multi-billion dollar industry sewn up. I don't know how many times over the years where we hear of Microsoft or another company claiming they're going to squeeze out the Mac in this area, and yet they fail every time.
But I welcome a different page layout program instead of Quark on OSX.
This guys site is jumping all over Apple about being slower...when using a single processor!
This guys site even says: "SPECint_base2000 is a single-processor test, so in the following results, where the computer has a second processor, it is either disabled or not used." then goes on to say after the benchmarks using only single processors: "As you can see, the PowerMac G5 is NOT the world's fastest personal computer. In fact, the Dell Dimension 8300 beats the PowerMac G5"
Well a big DUH is in order. Steve Jobs even SAID it was slower. He had a graphic up that showed how the single processor G5 was slower on INT based benchmarks etc etc. It was when they used benchmarks using DUAL processors that it really shined.
Yes, after all this in the article, THEN he goes on to rate the dual processors, but not before he trashes the Mac on something that the Mac had already admited to. I mean, that's pure trolling.
Bottom line, Apple used certain results in all the tests to market the new computer...just like this guy used the same tests to filter out what HE wanted everyone to see.
Also, Apple should never use benchmarks to market anything. No one should. It's too easy for others...no matter what the system to say "well, if you configure blah blah blah with this and compile with blah blah blah you'll see the Commodore 64 is really blah blah blah.
What if someone bought the original "Birth of Venus"?
Would that person have the right to cover the nipples? Would that person have the right to destroy the work of art? I mean, he bought it after all, right?
I know this piece isn't for sale....at the moment. But what if? Who would protect it?
I know, this doesn't quite match people editing DVDs. I'm just throwing out "what if".
Cover up the statue of Michelangelo's David
too, to cover up his naughty bits.
Put big black marks over Botticelli's Birth
of Venus painting where you can (gasp) see a nipple!
How about just burn down the Sistine Chapel ceiling because there are
tons of naked people running around, even though the Church tried
several times over the ages to paint over certain naughty parts, let's
just wipe the whole thing clean and just have pretty flowers on it.
That way people won't get offended.
Never mind that this is the original visions of the original artists.
If you don't want to see it in this day and age...instead of just not
viewing it or not looking at it, you must change it to suit your wants.
How about DVD editing software that not only takes out the violence and
nudity in a movie but also puts in different dialog? So instead of the
script that the nasty nasty writers and directors put in the original
movie, we can have them just recite bible quotes!
This sounds like good advice, but it's been done before by Apple and it damn near ruined them.
Everbody told Apple to licence MacOS so that clone manufacturers could make low cost machines and give people choise. Apple did this and they almost went under because the clones were taking business away from Apple themselves.
So when Steve Jobs came back one of the first things he did was kill off the clones. Everybody said that was the death of Apple...they're sinking and now that they killed off the clones. No way could they survive now.
But now everyone knows this didn't happen. The opposite happened and Apple went throught a rebirth of itself.
It tried cloning before and it didn't gain marketshare against Microsoft then and I doubt it would today. I doubt Linux will gain marketshare against MS on the desktop. It might, but so far it hasn't.
Linux doesn't have the apps I personally use yet. It doesn't have Photoshop for one. Yes, Gimp is nice, but it's no where NEAR as powerful or full featured as Photoshop. Also, it's such a pain in the ass to do anything I do with ease on XP or OSX. Yes, I know I know...you and others like you probably have no problems at all. All you have to do is edit your/etc/insert__your_prefs_here file and then rebuild your blah blah blah blah. I don't want to do that. I don't have time to do that. I want to get to my work and not have to futz with the OS at all...I just want to do my work.
I'm sure, one day, Linux will be like that. But so far I haven't seen it. Of course, I'm only using Mandrake 9 on my Linux box...i'm sure if I were to install blah blah blah and configure blah blah blah I will get better blah blah blah.
Yes, I guess it is. Every once in a while someone gets up and says "hey, Apple is the only one making Apple computers! HOW DARE THEY! It's my God-given right to make and sell anything I damn well want! Apple are a bunch of bastards!"
How dare Apple make a great OS, then put it on machines only they make. How dare they try to make a little cash and stay afloat. They should just give away their hardware and software for free!
Ok, a little drastic, so they should just licence their OS to anyone and forget about hardware? Well, they're in a great position now. If you want to use their OS, you have to buy their hardware. Simple enough and tons of people are doing it. No where near as many people as on Intel computers, but still a good chunk of people who enjoy using OSX.
Someone comes along and tries to get around this and of course, Apple tries to protect itself. But with Slashdot of course the main theme is "How DARE you try to protect yourself! You just sit there and take it!"
Maybe if Apple were to build in protection to their hardware that would blow itself up if someone tries to build it from scratch!
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Thanks for the reply and you do bring up some very interesting points. But as I stated in another post:
I don't shelter him, but I do try to explain why it's wrong, and I also explain to him why we don't want him playing those games...it's not a simple WE FORBID YOU TO PLAY THOSE GAMES. We try to put it all in context because if you don't, then it won't stick.
We have the cash, so we choose which games we buy for him. Are we hiding things that we don't buy from him? I don't think so. We also don't buy him porno movies and drugs, are we hiding them from him? I certainly don't mean to make this a flip response to your post, but just showing how far the argument could go.
I agree with you that the only way to get experience is to come into contact with them, which is why we're talking to him about these things early on. When he DOES get older and can drive a car and is out of our total control, we have to trust him. Trust that what we've tried to teach him comes into play when he makes his choices. We will try to arm him as best we can with knowledge of things, so perhaps when he does get exposed to them...drugs, sex...he'll possibly think back "hey, this is what Dad said about this and that". What will he choose? I don't know. All I know is my dad didn't talk to me about anything. When I was first exposed to pot smoking and drinking and partying, I had no clue...all I had to turn to for guidance were my friends who themselves were partaking. If my Dad had told me about all this, told me the pros and cons would I have still gotten high? Probably...but the thing this is he didn't even try. His was a sink-or-swim parenting. Did I turn out ok in the end? I don't know.
I know, I perhaps have pie-in-the-sky ideals on how my son will turn out. There is no magic way to raise them I guess. You do what you can and hope for the best. It's just that I'm trying to do more and counting on hoping less.
I don't shelter him, but I do try to explain why it's wrong, and I also explain to him why we don't want him playing those games...it's not a simple WE FORBID YOU TO PLAY THOSE GAMES. We try to put it all in context because if you don't, then it won't stick.
It's a tough job, we're not always right. Is your way better? I don't know...
Well, that started around the time the took the God that this nations was founded on out of the schools, work place, and every public place around.
Sorry, but you're barking up the wrong tree here. I'm not a believer in God and religion. If my son wishes to find these things for himself when he's older, thats fine. But you don't need God to tell someone that shooting another human being is wrong. The model of God and religion is a model of hate and death. More people have died in the history of this planet due to religion than any other thing. The crusades? The inquisition....over 5 million people, mostly women, were hung or burned during that time due to them being "witches". The holocaust?
I forgot where I heard this line, but wherever it's from it makes sense:There is just enough religion in the world to make men hate eatch other, but not enough to make them love.
But this is offtopic.
As a parent, I watch what my 10 year old son plays online (mainly looking up game FAQs) and plays on the console.
We do NOT let him play any games with guns. He plays racing games, goofy Mario type games and the like. We also teach him that people using guns on others is a very bad thing. We are trying to instill in him that guns are weapons for the sole purpose of harming and killing other things.
We're trying to teach him to be nice. To try to be a good person. To know right from wrong. What happened to being a nice person? Why is everyone so cynical now adays?
Are we perfect parents? No. Will what we're trying to teach him stick? I don't know...but we're trying, we really really are. It's hard to do with the media overblowing violence and crime most of the time.
When something like this happens, everyone points fingers and blames everyone else. But I feel there is no one thing to blame. There are many different factors at work here. Bad parents? Violent Videogames? Violent media and music? War starting presidents? Evil dictators? Religion? Environment? Bullies? School?
There are no answers, only choices.
Perhaps the police should look on some of the RIAA's computers...so they can try to use the infamous Pete Townsend defense "we were just doing research".
I've got so many people that I know personally that hate the RIAA. We're going to have a field day sending them all kinds of joke photo ID's.
Hey, keeps us off the streets.
So far though, there are very very very few complete courses on OpenCourseWare.
When I say complete courses, I mean complete with lecture notes, assignments, readings, and most importantly the video of the actual class lectures.
Just having the lecture notes...basically just PDF's that outline very very briefly what was covered that day, isn't really the same as taking the course.
Also, MIT states plainly this site is just for information and one can NOT get a degree or credits for viewing this info. But the courses that have video lectures...like the Linear Algebra course...are excellent to brush up on the subject.
I just wish they had more video lectures like Linear Algebra or 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism. But I also understand that it's a tremendous effort to get this all on Web...AND be totally free.
I think more content goes online in Sept. though, according to all their timelines on the site.
I totally applaud MIT and this monumental excercise. Bravo!!
I'm not an XP lover, but it's the OS that's on my computer. It just is. I play games and run Photoshop and other programs...so I use XP because my favorite programs all run on this OS on fairly cheap hardware.
Now, I may be doing something wrong here, but I've NEVER had a virus. I've never had a problem with a worm or anything really. XP hasn't even crashed on me before....ever. I've had programs hang up or crash...but the OS itself hasn't crashed.
And this has been the same on the 2 different machines that I've run XP on.
But yet, I always hear about everyone raking XP and Windows across the coals all the time. Yet I've never ever experienced nor do I know anyone anyone that's ever had major problems with XP. Oh, I know people out there have problems...but it's just that I personally have never known any.
Why is that? Now, as I said, I'm not an XP zealot at all. I could take it or leave it. But after reading here on Slashdot the evils of Windows and XP it would seem that my machine should have burst into flames months ago, yet it's going on day after day, never turned off, always hooked to the net...and chugging right along.
And I'm not really doing anything special. I keep up with all the updates to XP...which takes about 2 minutes out of my week. And I have basic Norton Antivirus running. I have Seti@home running when I'm away from the machine and I do a disk clean up and defragment maybe once a month or so.
So again, I must be doing something wrong (or right) to where XP doesn't give me one iota of problem.
I'm not praising XP...at least I don't mean to be praising it. You only see people bashing Windows, never praising it. To praise it would mean being thrown out of geekdom. So I think if XP or NT is working for you, you keep your mouth shut or just talk about how great Linux is.
I guess your mileage may vary.
They explain all this about Mars in their sim...which is why you can't fly just any plane there. Most of the ones are rocket powered.
They even include a shuttle re-entry from true orbit down to the landing at Edwards...including the wild "S" turns to slow down.
Plus X-plane is Open-GL based and works both with OSX and WinXP/NT.
Their flight model is by far the best.
Be sure to check it out, they also have a downloadable demo.
You may be reading some articles stating that the Webb is the replacement for Hubble, but it simply isn't true.
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Here is a quote from "Sky and Telescope":
"Three issues lie at the heart of the debate.
First, Hubble has unique capabilities for ultraviolet and visible-light astronomy that will not be replaced by any other planned mission for 10 to 20 years (Webb is designed mainly for infrared imaging and spectroscopy).
Second, Webb hasn't yet moved much beyond the drawing board and may not be ready for launch until the middle of the next decade, leaving astronomers with no space telescope at all for several years if Hubble shuts down by 2010.
And third, Hubble is more than just a telescope. "HST is widely recognized as an extraordinary scientific, educational, and inspirational national asset," wrote Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Michael Shull (University of Colorado). In other words, it is an icon."
Read more at:
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1017_1.
Like we were suprised at this?
This isn't the problem I discribed though. When our access goes, the FIRST thing I do is contact my neighbors...I have 5 of them on our block and we're always talking/drinking/playing poker etc etc. So if THEIR connections are gone, I know right away it's in the area...we've had problematic service for a while there, but everything is ok for now.
That's when I get my attitude face on...when I know the service is out. There have been times when it was my fault and my neighbors connections were fine...THEN I become the submissive little computer user.
I know everyone can't be like this with friends that are in the same area with the same service...but it works for me.
I am currently using Comcast cable internet, formally ATT&T internet....formally @home.
We have outtages in our area from time to time, not as bad as it used to be, but they do pop up. Every time I try to call the 800 number to tell them an outtage is in the area, I get the same canned response.
They always say, "sir, we can't see your computer, are you hooked up to a router"?
I say "well, yes, but that's not the point. The connection is out in this area...I'm just reporting it to you as you don't have it on your outtage board."
"I'm sorry, we don't support routers, please plug your computer directly into you cable modem."
At this point, I'm getting a little irritated..."no, I'm not, I'm reporting a outtage...there is NOTHING wrong with my equipment. Nothing has changed on my settings. I'm not going to sit here, re-route my cables and change settings just so you can finally know there is an outtage in my area. Trust me, the problem is on your end."
"Sir, I can't help you unless you follow my directions".
Ok, so the first time through this, I go with everything they tell me, and finally after 45 minutes of trying everything under the sun short of putting all my computer parts in a paper bag, going out on my lawn, waving it over my head and screaming like a chicken...they finally figure out that it's a problem on their end.
Now I don't even mess with it, I call them up when an outtage happens, and get all my neighbors that are out to call them also. I cut them off right away, and tell them they'll be getting 5 other calls from the neighborhood telling them the same thing and hang up.
I did read it, and you did what I did. that's what I suggested...to look at ALL the articles, I only linked to the one I quoted from.
But you ended up reading more, as I did. And you found, as I did, that the police simply didn't "get away with it".
Also, I never said RTFA at all. Well, I did kinda...but not that harsh. hehe
If you were to actually go to the newspaper site and READ what really happened, you would be singing a different story.
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Here is a quote from one of the newspaper stories about this incident:
"Houston cops planned for weeks to swoop down on a parking lot and nab a bunch of drag racers but couldn't find any when they got there. So, what the heck, they just rounded up everyone in the parking lot outside a 24-hour Kmart and a Sonic Drive-In and charged the whole bunch with trespassing. No joke."
Here's the address of the story...I suggest you read through it and find that the police chief was fired and went through a trial and the entire police dept of Houston got slapped down pretty hard.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/r
I followed your link to the kmart incident and read further because I was outraged also...but found that the police were basically handed their collective asses after this fiasco happened.
The police chief was also fired and went through a lenthy trial...though he was aquitted later. His police life is over though.
It's not like the police did this and just got away with it...they were slapped down pretty hard...which brought a smile to my face!
yeah, it was a brand new machine. Had Windows 3.1 or something on it. It sucked. But I had a huge windfall money wise and bought it up, which at the time was the fastest I could buy. It was a Micron. Do they even sell Microns anymore?
But yeah, it was a brand spanking new P90. Got it like in October or something.
So yeah, it was 9 years ago.
I installed Slackware about 9 years ago on my P90. I had never used a UNIX operating system for an extended period of time at all either. I wasn't from a CS background. Didn't go to school for CS...yet it was kinda easy to get this up and running way back when.
My intro to the world of UNIX basically. Yes, I said it...UNIX. U-N-I-X.
Anyway, happy birthday Slack.
Macs are only 1-5% of the total desktop market, this is true.
But Macs are almost...but not quite...100% of the printing market. There are a few out there use PCs, sure, but they are in the vast minority when it comes to 4 color printing and page layout.
I work in the industry. I've worked in printing for almost 20 years at a number of companies. PC's just simply are not used in production at any of these pre-press houses...Macs have this multi-billion dollar industry sewn up. I don't know how many times over the years where we hear of Microsoft or another company claiming they're going to squeeze out the Mac in this area, and yet they fail every time.
But I welcome a different page layout program instead of Quark on OSX.
Hmmm, where did you read this?
I've been playing the game, it's actually quite fun. But then again, I also like doing crossword puzzles....so who knows if you would like it or not.
But, it's a hobby, like anyone else out there with a hobby.
While the content isn't there yet, the world is beautiful to explore, it's fun to interact with others there and I just like it.
Your mileage may vary.
This guys site is jumping all over Apple about being slower...when using a single processor!
This guys site even says:
"SPECint_base2000 is a single-processor test, so in the following results, where the computer has a second processor, it is either disabled or not used." then goes on to say after the benchmarks using only single processors: "As you can see, the PowerMac G5 is NOT the world's fastest personal computer. In fact, the Dell Dimension 8300 beats the PowerMac G5"
Well a big DUH is in order. Steve Jobs even SAID it was slower. He had a graphic up that showed how the single processor G5 was slower on INT based benchmarks etc etc. It was when they used benchmarks using DUAL processors that it really shined.
Yes, after all this in the article, THEN he goes on to rate the dual processors, but not before he trashes the Mac on something that the Mac had already admited to. I mean, that's pure trolling.
Bottom line, Apple used certain results in all the tests to market the new computer...just like this guy used the same tests to filter out what HE wanted everyone to see.
Also, Apple should never use benchmarks to market anything. No one should. It's too easy for others...no matter what the system to say "well, if you configure blah blah blah with this and compile with blah blah blah you'll see the Commodore 64 is really blah blah blah.
Enough already.
What if someone bought the original "Birth of Venus"?
Would that person have the right to cover the nipples? Would that person have the right to destroy the work of art? I mean, he bought it after all, right?
I know this piece isn't for sale....at the moment. But what if? Who would protect it?
I know, this doesn't quite match people editing DVDs. I'm just throwing out "what if".
Cover up the statue of Michelangelo's David too, to cover up his naughty bits.
Put big black marks over Botticelli's Birth of Venus painting where you can (gasp) see a nipple!
How about just burn down the Sistine Chapel ceiling because there are tons of naked people running around, even though the Church tried several times over the ages to paint over certain naughty parts, let's just wipe the whole thing clean and just have pretty flowers on it. That way people won't get offended.
Never mind that this is the original visions of the original artists. If you don't want to see it in this day and age...instead of just not viewing it or not looking at it, you must change it to suit your wants.
How about DVD editing software that not only takes out the violence and nudity in a movie but also puts in different dialog? So instead of the script that the nasty nasty writers and directors put in the original movie, we can have them just recite bible quotes!
This sounds like good advice, but it's been done before by Apple and it damn near ruined them.
/etc/insert__your_prefs_here file and then rebuild your blah blah blah blah. I don't want to do that. I don't have time to do that. I want to get to my work and not have to futz with the OS at all...I just want to do my work.
Everbody told Apple to licence MacOS so that clone manufacturers could make low cost machines and give people choise. Apple did this and they almost went under because the clones were taking business away from Apple themselves.
So when Steve Jobs came back one of the first things he did was kill off the clones. Everybody said that was the death of Apple...they're sinking and now that they killed off the clones. No way could they survive now.
But now everyone knows this didn't happen. The opposite happened and Apple went throught a rebirth of itself.
It tried cloning before and it didn't gain marketshare against Microsoft then and I doubt it would today. I doubt Linux will gain marketshare against MS on the desktop. It might, but so far it hasn't.
Linux doesn't have the apps I personally use yet. It doesn't have Photoshop for one. Yes, Gimp is nice, but it's no where NEAR as powerful or full featured as Photoshop. Also, it's such a pain in the ass to do anything I do with ease on XP or OSX. Yes, I know I know...you and others like you probably have no problems at all. All you have to do is edit your
I'm sure, one day, Linux will be like that. But so far I haven't seen it. Of course, I'm only using Mandrake 9 on my Linux box...i'm sure if I were to install blah blah blah and configure blah blah blah I will get better blah blah blah.
Don't have the time...sorry.
Yes, I guess it is. Every once in a while someone gets up and says "hey, Apple is the only one making Apple computers! HOW DARE THEY! It's my God-given right to make and sell anything I damn well want! Apple are a bunch of bastards!"
How dare Apple make a great OS, then put it on machines only they make. How dare they try to make a little cash and stay afloat. They should just give away their hardware and software for free!
Ok, a little drastic, so they should just licence their OS to anyone and forget about hardware? Well, they're in a great position now. If you want to use their OS, you have to buy their hardware. Simple enough and tons of people are doing it. No where near as many people as on Intel computers, but still a good chunk of people who enjoy using OSX.
Someone comes along and tries to get around this and of course, Apple tries to protect itself. But with Slashdot of course the main theme is "How DARE you try to protect yourself! You just sit there and take it!"
Maybe if Apple were to build in protection to their hardware that would blow itself up if someone tries to build it from scratch!
Hang on, gotta go call Sen. Hatch.