No, seriously, that's rather old news (out of the U.S. anyways) and the rest of the world always had strong doubts about the administration's claims. Powell's Powerpoint demo to the UN was fun too...
Forget file-swapping, and give me an iPod that can stream music directly to airport-express...
I really believe this is what the next-generation iPod will be. Battery life will be a bitch though.
In 2 or 3 revisions we probably even have Airport-express-extreme which will do audio AND video, and the assorted iPod capable of streaming your photos, mpegs and mp3s to your home cinema. This will be the day I buy another iPod.
IIRC, a LOT of trucks take that road every year, so building a road around Millau still solves just part of the problem: it will be a lot easier and faster for everyone to just take a straight line rather than going down in the valley, through the valley, and up again. IIRC, they claim the trips will be 1 to 2 hours shorter thanks to the bridge -that's less time on the road, therefore safer overall, less pollution etc...
This is an entirely private project, the french govt didn't want to pay for it. That's bad for the drivers though, who will have to pay a lot of money to cross the bridge.
What kind of gathering is it? I dunno about the satellite link, but perhaps you could get your WiFi base stations to be sponsored by some manufacturer or ISP...
"WiFi hotspot courtesy of Apple|Linksys|Lucent" blah blah blah... I know in France, Apple sponsors big events organized by the municipality and lends quite a lot of equipment. Maybe you should try.
"Very small event" my ass. These pictures are all over the place in the Arab press an TV; the U.S.A. just lost the little credibility it still had. Here in Egypt, the friday gatherings at the mosques are all about the "amrikis" and their crimes (even in non-extremist mosques). Remember, Arab culture does not take things as honor and respect lightly.
This is exactly how you lose the peace, even after having won the war.
Apple will never take the personal computing market -- they chose the "lucrative but closed platform" approach that Sun did, where you have to buy Apple hardware to use Apple software.
This is true, and will be true... as long as Apple choses to be a hardware company only.
Let's see some of their latest business moves: -iPod: for mac AND windows -iTunes: for mac AND windows -(this is anectodal, but Airport admin software exists for windows, too) -various video formats that have little to do directly with the Mac business but will allow apple to gain ground in Hollywood -Pixlet- and in the business of wireless networking -3GPP-, etc... -Darwin compiles and runs on X86 (pretty useless as is, I know) -A bunch of nice video apps (motion, shake, fcp, etc) that are already ported to windows (shake) or could be, probably quite easily (FCP, motion)
I don't think it's going to happen soon, but hey, remember, "hell froze over" right? Apple finally noticed the X86 platform was one huge market to try and conquer. They brillantly succeeded with iTunes / iPod, a Windows port of iLife (49.99 $ US) would be an instant hit (not to mention easy: one sole backend for all the apps in iLife: Quicktime), and there are rumors that they are working on Safari for Windows.
The share of Mac hardware sales in Apple's revenue stream is constantly shrinking: in part because some sales have lagged (iMacs, eMacs), in part because unavailability has plagued sales (Powerbook, G5, XServe) but mostly because they can't keep these insane margins forever when X86 hardware is so damn cheap.
Steve Jobs himself admitted that they had an X86 version of Mac OS X, and that they kept it up-to-date just for the heck of it.
So, the minute the software's (& other activities': iTunes, video codecs) revenues outgrow hardware revenues, expect a version of Mac OS X for PC to be shipped in a matter of months. Given how PC users are fed up with windows and how Mac OS X has gotten the public eyeball, it could become another huge revenue stream.
Apple could benefit hugely from this: sell OS X (129$ US) + iLife (49.99 US $) +, why not, an office suite based on OO.org, safari and Apple mail (79.99 US?), to all the "joe 6 packs" who just want a cheap PC for MP3s and internet = big bucks. I mean, seriously, Mac OS X could hurt XP big time. Retailers and OEMers would kill to ship PCs with OS X.
Even better: with insane marketing, they'd still manage to sell expensive hardware to upscale snobs (classy powerbooks, iMacs, 23" LCD's) and to creative types / graphic shops (G5); and, increasingly, to businesses (XServe, XSan) (remember, Oracle is about to be ported to OS X). Then they could benefit from the software-for-the-masses AND from the hardware-for-the-riches (which has been their niche market almost forever).
The "Sharia" (or shari'a, there are various spellings...) could be defined as "the Islamic common Law"; just like the english Habeas corpus, it has never been formally written, but it is nervertheless a -somewhat outdated- attempt at lawmaking (as in, "defining a set of rules in order to live together"). According to the shari'a for example, women must behave according to muslim principles, wear a veil (higab) etc... (Men also have a number of requirements, they must cover their body from ankles to neck and wrists, etc...)
Another classic example of sharia law is: "get caught stealing, get hand cut."
Very few countries apply the shari'a as the official State law. Off the top of my head, the Afghanistan during the Taliban reign was one (varuiys warlords allied to the U.S. still apply it though), I think Iran applies parts, if not all, of it, as does Saudi Arabia and probably a bunch of other Gulf emirates (maybe Yemen too, but I'm not sure). The Shari'a is being applied by some states in northern Nigeria.
So, no, it hasn't anything to do with software (perhaps, "Find webadmin using unpatched servers; cut hand?") I think the original poster just was doing a silly play on words (sharia=share, haha)
I'm not sure, is that a troll or just an incredibly obscure play on words? (sharia/share, conform/conform:) )
Whatever... Egypt, despite being conservative when it comes to social matters, does NOT apply the "sharia" or other islamic laws (and, before you ask, yes, I live here). Actually, the governement is trying very hard to *fight* the supporters of sharia.
Of course not! In some european countries (was the case in France until recently) it was forbidden to mention a competitor's product / name / brand in your own advertisements or statements. IOW, "Comparative advertising" is forbidden.
This is why Europe never got the Pepsi vs. Coke ads...
>Why do you need to know? Everything is installed so >that is just works. If you really need to know, the >package management tools will tell you.
Ha ha! Laughable. The same zealots who flame windows users for "not knowing how the computer works" and for using "an OS that hides half of the files" etc., now flame linux newbies for WANTING to know where the files actually are?
Also, the general tone of your comment is: "learn how the computer works, and learn to do it HIS way!" Bullshit. The USER is the master and the COMPUTER is the slave, NOT the other way round. Of course one has to learn how it works (and even this is debatable), but it should be simple for the user to set it up the way HE wants. Universal drag & drop, easy shortcut creation, etc, are a good way to achieve that ease of use. Try using MacOS X for a couple days for an example of an UI done (mostly) right.
Don't get me wrong: I tried mandrake (9.0) too, I liked it, and plan to install it on my home PC soon (need to buy new hard drive); but I agree with the original poster: there are a LOT of things that should be WAY more simple on the mandrake desktop. Until fixed, don't expect no "mass adoption" anytime soon.
This complex housed nuclear missiles, if I understand correctly. So when visiting, be sure to pack a Geiger counter, who knows?
Seems way too big for a house (for that matter, can anybody provide the surface in square meters?), but that would be one kickass disco / club / whatever.
Heh, I'm interested! Gimme a week to collect 4 million dollars and I'm in! ckeck (the original submitter) says he's going to visit it soon: please, followup and post photos!!!
What I don't understand with this method of concealment is, the image that has to be projected depends on the viewer's position (ie perspective: you need to project a different image if the "enemy" is 5 meters away than if it's 300 meters away)
An asian professor (Japanese? Korean? Can't remember) developed a suit that made him "invisible" -sort of. For the moment it depends on an external projector, but as soon as luminous fabrics are ready -real soon now!- we will be able to buy clothes that make us transparent...
X=universally accepted as a symbol for porn. Free=free porn! (all porn sites are "free" right?) 69 (mutual buccogenital intercourse) + 17 (17-year-old horny russian teens boobs blowjob sex cum adult hot lesbian)=86
Therefore XFree86=triple combo adult content! w00t! Thank you Microsoft Search!
IF someone leaks that "custom Win NT kernel" AND IF this kernel is complete enough to run legacy Windows apps (or at least the XBox games created on it), THEN the mac will be the most polyvalent platform ever. Imagine triple-booting MacOS X, Linux, and Windows NT.
It's the coredump file, no microsoft code in it. My bad.
And how in the world is Microsoft going to prove that you have -gasp- watched a screen shot of this code (except of course if you copy it verbatim, wich you won't. Or will ya?;) )
Macplus.org has a screenshot of some of the code, where the Mainsoft name appears, along with a name: "eyala". One of the board members is "Eyal Alaluf".
To quote mainsoft's site:
"Eyal Alaluf is Mainsoft's Director of Technology, a position he has held since January 2000. Bringing more than 10 years of industry experience to this role, Eyal oversees the development team behind Visual MainWin. After joining Mainsoft in 1994 as the company's first Senior Developer, Eyal has risen through the ranks. He became the company's Chief Engineer before landing in his current position.
After graduating with dual degrees in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University in Israel, Eyal joined the Israel Defense Forces and worked as a software developer in the Israeli Navy where he was involved in creating advanced technologies and research. "
[paranoid] Hmmm, Microsoft, UNIX, the Israeli army... [/paranoid]
I don't really know about cooling and all, but they should take a page from Apple's book and use the G3 / G4 cases "door" design. I hate it when I have to unscrew my ATX just to plug / unplug a hard drive or such, when all I have to do is open my G4's "door".
I never used the G5's case though. Is it convenient?
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No, seriously, that's rather old news (out of the U.S. anyways) and the rest of the world always had strong doubts about the administration's claims. Powell's Powerpoint demo to the UN was fun too...
Come on, get over it: assholes rule the world.
Yeah but unlike in video games, just running over said piece of food doesn't automagically put it in your backpack.
You actually have to bend over to get the food! That's, like, a bummer.
Forget file-swapping, and give me an iPod that can stream music directly to airport-express... I really believe this is what the next-generation iPod will be. Battery life will be a bitch though. In 2 or 3 revisions we probably even have Airport-express-extreme which will do audio AND video, and the assorted iPod capable of streaming your photos, mpegs and mp3s to your home cinema. This will be the day I buy another iPod.
IIRC, a LOT of trucks take that road every year, so building a road around Millau still solves just part of the problem: it will be a lot easier and faster for everyone to just take a straight line rather than going down in the valley, through the valley, and up again. IIRC, they claim the trips will be 1 to 2 hours shorter thanks to the bridge -that's less time on the road, therefore safer overall, less pollution etc...
This is an entirely private project, the french govt didn't want to pay for it. That's bad for the drivers though, who will have to pay a lot of money to cross the bridge.
What kind of gathering is it? I dunno about the satellite link, but perhaps you could get your WiFi base stations to be sponsored by some manufacturer or ISP...
"WiFi hotspot courtesy of Apple|Linksys|Lucent" blah blah blah... I know in France, Apple sponsors big events organized by the municipality and lends quite a lot of equipment. Maybe you should try.
Surely you meant "divide and cluster" right? :-D
very small event.
"Very small event" my ass. These pictures are all over the place in the Arab press an TV; the U.S.A. just lost the little credibility it still had. Here in Egypt, the friday gatherings at the mosques are all about the "amrikis" and their crimes (even in non-extremist mosques). Remember, Arab culture does not take things as honor and respect lightly.
This is exactly how you lose the peace, even after having won the war.
Apple will never take the personal computing market -- they chose the "lucrative but closed platform" approach that Sun did, where you have to buy Apple hardware to use Apple software.
This is true, and will be true... as long as Apple choses to be a hardware company only.
Let's see some of their latest business moves:
-iPod: for mac AND windows
-iTunes: for mac AND windows
-(this is anectodal, but Airport admin software exists for windows, too)
-various video formats that have little to do directly with the Mac business but will allow apple to gain ground in Hollywood -Pixlet- and in the business of wireless networking -3GPP-, etc...
-Darwin compiles and runs on X86 (pretty useless as is, I know)
-A bunch of nice video apps (motion, shake, fcp, etc) that are already ported to windows (shake) or could be, probably quite easily (FCP, motion)
I don't think it's going to happen soon, but hey, remember, "hell froze over" right? Apple finally noticed the X86 platform was one huge market to try and conquer. They brillantly succeeded with iTunes / iPod, a Windows port of iLife (49.99 $ US) would be an instant hit (not to mention easy: one sole backend for all the apps in iLife: Quicktime), and there are rumors that they are working on Safari for Windows.
The share of Mac hardware sales in Apple's revenue stream is constantly shrinking: in part because some sales have lagged (iMacs, eMacs), in part because unavailability has plagued sales (Powerbook, G5, XServe) but mostly because they can't keep these insane margins forever when X86 hardware is so damn cheap.
Steve Jobs himself admitted that they had an X86 version of Mac OS X, and that they kept it up-to-date just for the heck of it.
So, the minute the software's (& other activities': iTunes, video codecs) revenues outgrow hardware revenues, expect a version of Mac OS X for PC to be shipped in a matter of months. Given how PC users are fed up with windows and how Mac OS X has gotten the public eyeball, it could become another huge revenue stream.
Apple could benefit hugely from this: sell OS X (129$ US) + iLife (49.99 US $) +, why not, an office suite based on OO.org, safari and Apple mail (79.99 US?), to all the "joe 6 packs" who just want a cheap PC for MP3s and internet = big bucks.
I mean, seriously, Mac OS X could hurt XP big time. Retailers and OEMers would kill to ship PCs with OS X.
Even better: with insane marketing, they'd still manage to sell expensive hardware to upscale snobs (classy powerbooks, iMacs, 23" LCD's) and to creative types / graphic shops (G5); and, increasingly, to businesses (XServe, XSan) (remember, Oracle is about to be ported to OS X). Then they could benefit from the software-for-the-masses AND from the hardware-for-the-riches (which has been their niche market almost forever).
So, "requirements" are:
-Gigabit ethernet,
-2 Gigs of RAM,
-802.11g and bluetooth,
-dual core@4 GhZ (well OK, dual proc @ 2x2 GhZ),
-half a terabyte of storage
Oh, wait... Is microsoft saying we should be getting today's Powermac to run their 2006 OS?
*ducks*
The "Sharia" (or shari'a, there are various spellings...) could be defined as "the Islamic common Law"; just like the english Habeas corpus, it has never been formally written, but it is nervertheless a -somewhat outdated- attempt at lawmaking (as in, "defining a set of rules in order to live together"). According to the shari'a for example, women must behave according to muslim principles, wear a veil (higab) etc... (Men also have a number of requirements, they must cover their body from ankles to neck and wrists, etc...)
Another classic example of sharia law is: "get caught stealing, get hand cut."
Very few countries apply the shari'a as the official State law. Off the top of my head, the Afghanistan during the Taliban reign was one (varuiys warlords allied to the U.S. still apply it though), I think Iran applies parts, if not all, of it, as does Saudi Arabia and probably a bunch of other Gulf emirates (maybe Yemen too, but I'm not sure). The Shari'a is being applied by some states in northern Nigeria.
So, no, it hasn't anything to do with software (perhaps, "Find webadmin using unpatched servers; cut hand?") I think the original poster just was doing a silly play on words (sharia=share, haha)
Bah, whatever...
I'm not sure, is that a troll or just an incredibly obscure play on words? (sharia/share, conform/conform :) )
Whatever... Egypt, despite being conservative when it comes to social matters, does NOT apply the "sharia" or other islamic laws (and, before you ask, yes, I live here). Actually, the governement is trying very hard to *fight* the supporters of sharia.
I just checked, Norton Pro has a virus definition for this one. Why should norton worry about a worm that only affects the competition??
Isn't the virus just bounced when you are not running any of this ISS software, (making the buffer overflow exploit impossible)???
Anyway, what the hell is "ICQ parsing?"
Red the bible.
Red Bible? What? You damn commie!
Now, since Jesus held the Bible to be absolute truth, he was wrong as well, or a psychotic.
Wait... Doesn't Jesus precedes the Bible? (not trolling here, honest question from an atheist that doesn't know better)
Of course not! In some european countries (was the case in France until recently) it was forbidden to mention a competitor's product / name / brand in your own advertisements or statements. IOW, "Comparative advertising" is forbidden.
This is why Europe never got the Pepsi vs. Coke ads...
>>I have no idea where anything installs to
>Why do you need to know? Everything is installed so
>that is just works. If you really need to know, the
>package management tools will tell you.
Ha ha! Laughable. The same zealots who flame windows users for "not knowing how the computer works" and for using "an OS that hides half of the files" etc., now flame linux newbies for WANTING to know where the files actually are?
Also, the general tone of your comment is: "learn how the computer works, and learn to do it HIS way!"
Bullshit. The USER is the master and the COMPUTER is the slave, NOT the other way round. Of course one has to learn how it works (and even this is debatable), but it should be simple for the user to set it up the way HE wants. Universal drag & drop, easy shortcut creation, etc, are a good way to achieve that ease of use. Try using MacOS X for a couple days for an example of an UI done (mostly) right.
Don't get me wrong: I tried mandrake (9.0) too, I liked it, and plan to install it on my home PC soon (need to buy new hard drive); but I agree with the original poster: there are a LOT of things that should be WAY more simple on the mandrake desktop. Until fixed, don't expect no "mass adoption" anytime soon.
This complex housed nuclear missiles, if I understand correctly. So when visiting, be sure to pack a Geiger counter, who knows?
Seems way too big for a house (for that matter, can anybody provide the surface in square meters?), but that would be one kickass disco / club / whatever.
Heh, I'm interested! Gimme a week to collect 4 million dollars and I'm in!
ckeck (the original submitter) says he's going to visit it soon: please, followup and post photos!!!
What I don't understand with this method of concealment is, the image that has to be projected depends on the viewer's position (ie perspective: you need to project a different image if the "enemy" is 5 meters away than if it's 300 meters away)
An asian professor (Japanese? Korean? Can't remember) developed a suit that made him "invisible" -sort of. For the moment it depends on an external projector, but as soon as luminous fabrics are ready -real soon now!- we will be able to buy clothes that make us transparent...
All of this makes me like the future again
Easy as hell. I do this sometimes. In the middle of a conversation, start a phrase that is on-topic, stop in the middle of a word, like this:
:)
(me)-"So yeah I really think we should st- (stop talking here, block microphone. Wait 5 seconds)"
(annoying other guy)-"allo? allo? HELLOO? Are you still here?"
(me)-""allo, allo, I can't hear you! HELLO??? HEAR ME? Ah (fuckin cell phones) / (damn battery)."
At this point, quickly turn phone off.
Add some swearing for extra realism, and it will work every single time!
X=universally accepted as a symbol for porn.
Free=free porn! (all porn sites are "free" right?)
69 (mutual buccogenital intercourse) + 17 (17-year-old horny russian teens boobs blowjob sex cum adult hot lesbian)=86
Therefore XFree86=triple combo adult content! w00t! Thank you Microsoft Search!
(Posting drunken. HARAM!)
IF someone leaks that "custom Win NT kernel" AND IF this kernel is complete enough to run legacy Windows apps (or at least the XBox games created on it), THEN the mac will be the most polyvalent platform ever. Imagine triple-booting MacOS X, Linux, and Windows NT.
(No, I didn't RTFA, I just woke up. Flame on.)
multipedia
:)
Man! I love that word!
Mac OS X has many, many feet. It's a multipedia OS.
It's the coredump file, no microsoft code in it. My bad.
;) )
And how in the world is Microsoft going to prove that you have -gasp- watched a screen shot of this code (except of course if you copy it verbatim, wich you won't. Or will ya?
Hi everybody,
Macplus.org has a screenshot of some of the code, where the Mainsoft name appears, along with a name: "eyala". One of the board members is "Eyal Alaluf".
To quote mainsoft's site:
"Eyal Alaluf is Mainsoft's Director of Technology, a position he has held since January 2000. Bringing more than 10 years of industry experience to this role, Eyal oversees the development team behind Visual MainWin. After joining Mainsoft in 1994 as the company's first Senior Developer, Eyal has risen through the ranks. He became the company's Chief Engineer before landing in his current position.
After graduating with dual degrees in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University in Israel, Eyal joined the Israel Defense Forces and worked as a software developer in the Israeli Navy where he was involved in creating advanced technologies and research. "
[paranoid] Hmmm, Microsoft, UNIX, the Israeli army... [/paranoid]
I don't really know about cooling and all, but they should take a page from Apple's book and use the G3 / G4 cases "door" design. I hate it when I have to unscrew my ATX just to plug / unplug a hard drive or such, when all I have to do is open my G4's "door".
I never used the G5's case though. Is it convenient?
Take a flight to Kuwait, and then travel there by land. (supposedly there are buses).
Travelling by land is the best way to know if the situation is "normal" or if it's still a mess.