Re:Yet another unusable pre-alpha release
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Acme for Windows
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Acme out of Plan 9's water perhaps isn't a good idea: everything is consistent in Plan 9, but not when you take one program out and put it into Windows, where the conventions are different. For example, your copy problem is most likely solved by performing mouse chording. This is standard in Plan 9, but obviously not in Windows. See the Wikipedia article which deals with Acme's chording.
By the way, people have already listed the Acme paper above, which may help.
They are truly a nation where everyone was once a criminal.
No, on several counts. Do you consider the British prison guards, governors, and other administrative personnel criminals? They were not. Many "free people" also immigrated from Britain much later after transportation of criminals from Britain ceased, they were not criminals either. Many people also immigrated from elsewhere (such as neighbouring Asian countries) into Australia under multiculturalism, these were not criminals either.
Seems like some "Big Radio" stations in Australia are embracing podcasting; ABC Radio National at least is offering some of its programs as podcasts here, and it appears to be going very well for RN...
I don't think so (though I've no idea for sure, I haven't lodged yet, or decided whether I'm going to lodge with e-tax). The download for the app checks for what level of software security and the operating system native security level (go through the download process yourself), so that may suggest it uses SSL or something.
Writing a program to walk one through the process of getting the requisite data wouldn't be the problem. The thing is, the e-tax software lodges your return directly to the Tax Office via the Internet. Reverse-engineering that part may be much more difficult...
You can apparently read the first paragraph of the protest here:
Today I come to you with a sincere request, that should appeal to the self-confessed geeks, and to the socially aware. The Australia Gov't hosts a service known as e-tax to submit your tax return through the Internet, this service has been widely heralded as a success. However, this does not apply to everyone; the educated minority of the Internet world often choose to use alternative operating systems, such as Mac OS or Linux, this software makes claim that you must use an emulator, should you choose to use these OS's. If you know anything about software emulation, you know that it is a difficult task, and one that is preferably avoided. My request is as follows: send an email similar to the one in the furthur text, at the address given, and phone up to register your disgust at this clear favour to global monopolies.
When NeXT was selling NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, excellent software, for ridiculously expensive prices,
I wasn't talking about OS X nor the developer kit at this point. The main point of the comment, which everybody has seemed to miss, is the inquiry that Apple may be changing the high-pricing attitude that was present at NeXT.
This is trivial to implement with a programming language that supports serialization, esp. if it can serialize to stdin/stdout.. In Objective-C, it's a simple matter of objc_open_typed_stream(stdin, OBJC_READONLY); and objc_open_typed_stream(stdout, OBJC_WRITEONLY); and read:'ing and write:'ing to the stream.
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Acme out of Plan 9's water perhaps isn't a good idea: everything is consistent in Plan 9, but not when you take one program out and put it into Windows, where the conventions are different. For example, your copy problem is most likely solved by performing mouse chording. This is standard in Plan 9, but obviously not in Windows. See the Wikipedia article which deals with Acme's chording.
By the way, people have already listed the Acme paper above, which may help.
It's called Wikinfo. It hasn't been very successful.
Not quite. The xnu sources are still not available.
In theory, yes. But in practice people don't do this nearly enough.
They are truly a nation where everyone was once a criminal.
No, on several counts. Do you consider the British prison guards, governors, and other administrative personnel criminals? They were not. Many "free people" also immigrated from Britain much later after transportation of criminals from Britain ceased, they were not criminals either. Many people also immigrated from elsewhere (such as neighbouring Asian countries) into Australia under multiculturalism, these were not criminals either.
Whoops, I misread your comment.
Apparently bits of it are free; not only is GPL software such as gcc, gdb software in SFU, but some of the utilities are taken from OpenBSD.
My money's on GRUB! Go GRUB!
Australia has no nuclear power plants. The ANSTO site is not a power-generating
facility.
Seems like some "Big Radio" stations in Australia are embracing podcasting; ABC Radio National at least is offering some of its programs as podcasts here, and it appears to be going very well for RN...
It'll probably just turn out to be specks of grit on the scanner-scope.
for sale at an government auction for ~$20 AUD a server
To me, a more serious problem is why I didn't make a bid myself...$20 for a server!...
Well, BeOS's target was always in high-end multimedia, and old boxes aren't always the best for that sort of thing, regardless of OS...
I don't think so (though I've no idea for sure, I haven't lodged yet, or decided whether I'm going to lodge with e-tax). The download for the app checks for what level of software security and the operating system native security level (go through the download process yourself), so that may suggest it uses SSL or something.
No, it's not IE only. If you click on the "Click here to continue" link underneath the pink box, you proceed to the download page.
Writing a program to walk one through the process of getting the requisite data wouldn't be the problem. The thing is, the e-tax software lodges your return directly to the Tax Office via the Internet. Reverse-engineering that part may be much more difficult...
But does e-tax work under Project Odin?
You can apparently read the first paragraph of the protest here:
Today I come to you with a sincere request, that should appeal to the self-confessed geeks, and to the socially aware. The Australia Gov't hosts a service known as e-tax to submit your tax return through the Internet, this service has been widely heralded as a success. However, this does not apply to everyone; the educated minority of the Internet world often choose to use alternative operating systems, such as Mac OS or Linux, this software makes claim that you must use an emulator, should you choose to use these OS's. If you know anything about software emulation, you know that it is a difficult task, and one that is preferably avoided. My request is as follows: send an email similar to the one in the furthur text, at the address given, and phone up to register your disgust at this clear favour to global monopolies.
Convince all the atlas makers in the world to pick an adjacent mountain to call "Mount Fuji".
I wasn't talking about OS X nor the developer kit at this point. The main point of the comment, which everybody has seemed to miss, is the inquiry that Apple may be changing the high-pricing attitude that was present at NeXT.
When NeXT was selling NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, excellent software, for ridiculously expensive prices, they got into trouble, unfortunately.
Now Apple, are they beginning to learn?
No, my point was that Apple might be learning from its time when NeXT sold NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP for very high prices.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=153046&cid=128 40390
Though my point still remains, regardless.
Does it? I was unaware.
When NeXT was selling NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, excellent software, for ridiculously expensive prices, they got into trouble, unfortunately.
Now Apple, are they beginning to learn? Though $999 for a Developer Transition Kit to OS X/Intel doesn't seem to suggest it...
Monad scripts can pipe out and pipe in objects
This is trivial to implement with a programming language that supports serialization, esp. if it can serialize to stdin/stdout.. In Objective-C, it's a simple matter of objc_open_typed_stream(stdin, OBJC_READONLY); and objc_open_typed_stream(stdout, OBJC_WRITEONLY); and read:'ing and write:'ing to the stream.