234) When traveling back in time to when the Earth had many moons, using the phrase "not in many moons" to describe the passage of time will only get you blank stares and instantly label you as an outsider (assuming you've managed to blend in with the local environment otherwise).
Traveling by Photonic Laser Thruster isn't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
3D graphics and accelerometer input support? One word: Gaming. If you thought texting whilst driving was dangerous, you haven't seen anything until you've witnessed some idiot playing MotoGP whilst trying to aim their half a tonne of steel!
Which is why I'm waiting for the GTA03, which as a promotion will be bundled with a port of GTA3 that will let you score points for running real people over.
8. Any film about machines from an emotional perspective is exactly what *I* like. I LOVED A.I. But I saw it from a totally different perspective than most. I saw it from the perspective of a machine.
I always had the feeling slashdotters were a little... algorithmic. What with the repetitions of certain phrases, and all. Hmm. Of course, you could turn that around. What about the possibility that I
Agreed about the fist. When upgrading, I too curl my fingers into that well-known "computer fist" as I anticipate what I am about to do. But backing the fist up (usually up and to the right, near my ear) is important, so that it will have maximal effect when I pound it down on the desk in frustration, when something inevitably breaks. Or even if something doesn't, to celebrate. A good way to relieve tension, but it does interfere with typing.
Video podcasts are equal citizens on the AppleTV menu system, right next to movies and tv shows from the big guys. And unlike movies and shows from iTunes, the little guy HD podcast from iTunes will look amazingly better. Interesting turn of events, no?
"i turn my back for one second, and you go and start scheming again about building the internet from scratch! isn't this one good enough for you? bad researchers! bad bad researchers!"
perhaps it is just a new theme for iApps and other Apple apps? or, it might be a theme that doesn't break out the painstaking layout of a gui, and sticks with the same dimensions for widgets so as not to break 3rd party app look and feel, but has a different color scheme or something.
anyway, if I were the guy/gal who thought up this rumor, I'd be getting quite a kick out of the attention I'm getting right about now
If they could maintain maintain a competitive *nix, this wouldn't be as much of an issue. Look how much development goes into just the Linux kernel; Apple can't even hope to compete on a technical basis, and will only fall further and further behind.
This is an important point, though FreeBSD work makes it into OS X eventually I would think, though slowly, and that community is a smaller one. It would be a massive effort, and mentioned before with good arguments both ways, but I wonder once again about the idea of putting OS X on top of Linux rather than Darwin? Although I suppose you want what's under your high-level layers to be more slow-moving and stable than fast-moving or your upper layers will just crumble and avalanche on you. (You could insulate yourself from this by having a stable middle layer, but it wouldn't adapt quick enough either and just recreate the problem at another level)
My choice for our new compute farm was G5/OS X rather than Opteron/Linux, though it was a close call. We access these machines completely via ssh and X11 so the Darwin layer is what I'm dealing with almost daily (or was, until I could hand that off and refocus on software development). There are times I am very glad, from a maintenance point of view, but there are certainly times when I (we, now) come up against NFS or NIS issues (or Java being on top of Aqua rather than X11-- making remote Java interfaces impossible) that are not addressed with anything like the alacrity and support you find in the Linux community, and I feel a little guilty sometimes having made life tougher for the people who wanted to go Linux in the first place (But the bonus has been the hardware-- not a single bad component in our 60+ Xserves in almost 3 years-- so I suppose Linux on the Xserves might be an option, you could say, but we depend on Matlab which doesn't have a Linux-for-PPC version.)
Blah, blah. Sorry if this is too far afield from the subject at hand. But OS X on top of Linux is fun to think about. Maybe there's a back room at Apple looking into it.
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in related news.. as part of their Truth in Point Releases Initiative, Microsoft has renamed Windows Vista as "Windows 0.6.1"
prior to this uTorrent ate nanoTorrent which ate picoTorrent, only moments after femtoTorrent was devoured. we must stop this before there is just one giant torrent walking this earth, devouring everything in its path!
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234) When traveling back in time to when the Earth had many moons, using the phrase "not in many moons" to describe the passage of time will only get you blank stares and instantly label you as an outsider (assuming you've managed to blend in with the local environment otherwise).
I've heard the odd internets are better. Only one sample so far though.
Maybe MS should just treat Vista as "New Coke" Windows and release Windows XP SP3 as "Windows Classic".
or something like that...
The answer to that is easy. concrete dome.
Even easier. stone slab.
Gigabyte drives were only "missing" 24 bytes [sic], and that was easy to swallow.
I added the sic because swallowing after 24 bytes would certainly make you sic [sic].
Which is why I'm waiting for the GTA03, which as a promotion will be bundled with a port of GTA3 that will let you score points for running real people over.
Tim?
Er, I have a a few questions I'd like to ask you...
I always had the feeling slashdotters were a little... algorithmic. What with the repetitions of certain phrases, and all. Hmm. Of course, you could turn that around. What about the possibility that I
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How long until Microsoft makes their own PC? Why haven't they done this yet?
Agreed about the fist. When upgrading, I too curl my fingers into that well-known "computer fist" as I anticipate what I am about to do. But backing the fist up (usually up and to the right, near my ear) is important, so that it will have maximal effect when I pound it down on the desk in frustration, when something inevitably breaks. Or even if something doesn't, to celebrate. A good way to relieve tension, but it does interfere with typing.
Video podcasts are equal citizens on the AppleTV menu system, right next to movies and tv shows from the big guys. And unlike movies and shows from iTunes, the little guy HD podcast from iTunes will look amazingly better. Interesting turn of events, no?
Before I answer, is it okay if we start a good old fashioned me-too thread here? I miss them!
why not just fork the internet instead?
"i turn my back for one second, and you go and start scheming again about building the internet from scratch! isn't this one good enough for you? bad researchers! bad bad researchers!"
can i slip one into my wifie's pocket to make sure she's been faithful?
reminds me of the famous question when interviewing at microsoft: why are CDs round?
I know I'd cut them some slac if they sold some flac tracs (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
wow-- Steve Jobs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y was demoing a Microsoft product?
Don't you mean kvmetch? Sorry, couldn't resist.
anyway, if I were the guy/gal who thought up this rumor, I'd be getting quite a kick out of the attention I'm getting right about now
This is an important point, though FreeBSD work makes it into OS X eventually I would think, though slowly, and that community is a smaller one. It would be a massive effort, and mentioned before with good arguments both ways, but I wonder once again about the idea of putting OS X on top of Linux rather than Darwin? Although I suppose you want what's under your high-level layers to be more slow-moving and stable than fast-moving or your upper layers will just crumble and avalanche on you. (You could insulate yourself from this by having a stable middle layer, but it wouldn't adapt quick enough either and just recreate the problem at another level)
My choice for our new compute farm was G5/OS X rather than Opteron/Linux, though it was a close call. We access these machines completely via ssh and X11 so the Darwin layer is what I'm dealing with almost daily (or was, until I could hand that off and refocus on software development). There are times I am very glad, from a maintenance point of view, but there are certainly times when I (we, now) come up against NFS or NIS issues (or Java being on top of Aqua rather than X11-- making remote Java interfaces impossible) that are not addressed with anything like the alacrity and support you find in the Linux community, and I feel a little guilty sometimes having made life tougher for the people who wanted to go Linux in the first place (But the bonus has been the hardware-- not a single bad component in our 60+ Xserves in almost 3 years-- so I suppose Linux on the Xserves might be an option, you could say, but we depend on Matlab which doesn't have a Linux-for-PPC version.)
Blah, blah. Sorry if this is too far afield from the subject at hand. But OS X on top of Linux is fun to think about. Maybe there's a back room at Apple looking into it.
in related news.. as part of their Truth in Point Releases Initiative, Microsoft has renamed Windows Vista as "Windows 0.6.1"
Nope, has an output format bug. It should end with an exclamation point, as in: "Hello World!"
prior to this uTorrent ate nanoTorrent which ate picoTorrent, only moments after femtoTorrent was devoured. we must stop this before there is just one giant torrent walking this earth, devouring everything in its path!