in which case I might say that a combined 5% market share (at best) is hardly "viable".
It's not market share that's important right now -- it's mind share. People are starting to sit up and take notice of Mozilla and Firefox, and that's (probably) what has Microsoft worried. So they start up their IE development again in hopes of keeping their current monopoly.
The only reason AppleWorks isn't dead is because there isn't anything better in the same price bracket. TextEdit still doesn't have all of the style features to make it a full-fledged word processor (and shouldn't, IMO); Keynote, FileMaker, and MS Office are all full-scale applications that cost a crapload of money.
Except that when you're paying for the upgrade to Panther, you're also paying for the next year's worth of security updates, feature enhancements, and minor upgrades. Remember how everyone was complaining that Safari upgrades were only going to Panther users? That's most likely because Safari is funded by the current OS sales. And right now, that's Panther.
Translation: "We didn't want to get sued, so we gave SCO a big wad of cash to make sure that they don't send their lawyers after us."
In the Mafia, this kind of practice is known as "protection." They'd force local shopkeepers to pay them money to not send their goons to trash their stores. It annoys the heck out of me that SCO can get away with extorting this kind of money from companies before they've even proven their case in the IBM-Novell lawsuit(s). But then, everyone here agrees on that point.
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that Microsoft wrote a version of Windows for the PPC and never released it (though I'd never heard of it before, personally). After all, Apple had Project "Star Trek" back in 1994, which was porting System 7 to run on Intel-based processors.
"What is a non-technical user doing with Linux anyway? They need to crawl before they can walk."
I hope you're not one of those same people who's predicting that 2004 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop... Face it, most computer users (myself included, sometimes) have no interest in learning the nuts and bolts of the system and every application that comes with it. Until Linux embraces those kinds of people, it's always going to remain a niche OS and never be widely accepted in turn.
But that assumes an absolutely perfect, dead-on impact trajectory taking the most direct path from space to surface, and hitting at a ninety-degree angle. Most space debris will fall into the atmosphere at an angle, which will drastically increase the amount of time it's exposed to atmospheric friction.
Why do you think shooting stars seem to streak a long way across the sky?
Ever wonder if there's a valid reason WHY someone's karma might drop with Mac-bashing? Doesn't that say something about the/. community?
At any rate, that article is seriously out of date... referring to "1.5 GHz processors" shows that it obviously hasn't been updated since the PPC970/G5 came out eight or nine months ago.
That's true, the majority of its mass is hydrogen. But you're forgetting just how friggin' massive Jupiter is. Even if only a tiny tiny fraction of a percent were a diamond, it'd still be huge!
Part of Clarke's explanation for this theory (in "2061", actually) explained that Jupiter's high gravity would cause the more massive molecules -- like methane, which Jupiter definitely has in quantity -- would sink through the atmosphere towards the core. And at the core, the intense pressures would separate the carbon from the hydrogen (in the methane), and the hydrogen would waft back up (being of lesser mass), while the carbon would stay in the core.
Think of it as being like a black hole, except without the extreme singularity -- instead of being compressed to a single point, it's being compressed into a diamond. (But it's not just the gravity doing this, it's also the intense atmospheric pressure of all the gasses sitting above the core, too.)
Um, as I understand it, all Microsoft did with VirtualPC 6 was re-brand it as a MS product and increase the version number by.1. Therefore, any and all bugs in any release before the upcoming VPC 7 are really Connectix's fault, not Microsoft.
(Yeah, I wish I could blame these bugs on M$, too... but it's not really fair in this case.)
Yeah, but some Mac users generally refer to it as "Mail dot app" or "Mail-app", because it's good to have a distinction.
"Do you use Mail?" "Yeah, I get mail all the time." "No no, do you use Mail?" "Well, if I get it, then I must use it, right?" "No, I mean do you use Apple's-OS-X-Mail-Application?" "Oh! Well, yeah." -- I've had this type of conversation more than once over the years.
Sometimes I wish Apple had come up with some different name for their client -- after all, they came up with the colorful name "Safari" for their web browser...
Not necessarily -- they could easily be referring to the total amount of video transferred back and forth during the entire production process. In which case they just deleted the stuff from the iPod and placed it on some hard drive or backup somewhere.
I can easily think of at least one place where these would be very useful -- and that's college campuses. I've got an Airport card for my iBook, and there are about a half-dozen places where I can hook up , but none of them are very convenient to my daily schedule. In addition, the wireless broadband would probably allow campuses to rely less on the ethernet networks, especially in the dorms and on-campus apartments. I know I would like to be able to take my iBook into the other room and still refresh pages on the Internet... but seeing as how getting a wireless base station just for my own use in an apartment is almost totally pointless (and way out of my budget), it's not gonna happen given the current technology. But even outside personal use, wireless broadband could simplify the networking infrastructure at universities and large businesses immensely. Rather than getting a whole bunch of 802.11 stations and having to scatter them all over the place, a single hub would hook in everyone.
Well, the Earth does spin... though I'd hate to imagine the amount of time it would take to attach a giant DVD to the planet... not to mention the severe deceleration of rotational energy as the radius gets radically increased!
I've heard some historians argue that Human civilization could have been a lot more advanced by now if it hadn't been for the Dark Ages, that sent most of Europe back into superstition and ignorance, and took a thousand years to reverse.
This time, we're not facing the Barbarian Hordes. No, we've got something much worse -- bureaucracy! How long will it take to untangle ourselves from all this red tape and resume scientific progress? Or are we doomed to another age of arrested growth?
Actually, it's my understanding that the Oort Cloud extends several thousand AU's outside the solar system. Those are the objects that come in for a pass near the sun ever million years or so... I'm not sure how far out they've been detected so far, but I'm pretty sure they're way out there.
I'm *really* hoping that they figure out a way to integrate Preview's PDF-rendering abilities into Safari, so that we can finally have a decent plugin to view PDF's inside the browser on OS X! (I know, there's a couple shareware plugins out there, but those never worked well enough for me.)
I used to use Camino as my primary browser until shortly after Safari 1.0 came out, but I have also been keeping my eye on Firebird simply for its cross-platform capabilities.
In my experience, there is very little difference in any of the browsers out there for Mac OS X, aside from various UI and preferences differences. But specifically for Firebird versus Camino, I think the only thing that Camino has over Firebird is the snazzier Aqua UI. Firebird is still butt-ugly -- not that that's a bad thing in the grand scheme of things, because I'm just a vain Mac user. (I do of course pity those who don't realize that you CAN choose "pretty" -- or to put it nicely, "aesthetically pleasing" -- appearances for my apps. But since I'm on the Apple part of/. here, I'm probably preaching to the choir now...)
I'm not familiar enough with the definitions of a person to be certain of this, but considering that there are people all over the US that are still debating whether or not a human fetus is alive and whether its life should be protected from abortion.
Somehow, I doubt that there's really going to be any loophole in favor of artificial intelligence found anytime soon. And considering the time that people are taking to develop some protection for unborn people, I somehow doubt that there's going to be any real "rights for AI's" movement any time soon...
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The only reason AppleWorks isn't dead is because there isn't anything better in the same price bracket. TextEdit still doesn't have all of the style features to make it a full-fledged word processor (and shouldn't, IMO); Keynote, FileMaker, and MS Office are all full-scale applications that cost a crapload of money.
Not to mention Claris/AppleWorks itself, which hasn't had a real update in more than three years...
Thank goodness FileMaker got spun off into its own company before it was nixed, too!
Except that when you're paying for the upgrade to Panther, you're also paying for the next year's worth of security updates, feature enhancements, and minor upgrades. Remember how everyone was complaining that Safari upgrades were only going to Panther users? That's most likely because Safari is funded by the current OS sales. And right now, that's Panther.
Translation: "We didn't want to get sued, so we gave SCO a big wad of cash to make sure that they don't send their lawyers after us."
In the Mafia, this kind of practice is known as "protection." They'd force local shopkeepers to pay them money to not send their goons to trash their stores. It annoys the heck out of me that SCO can get away with extorting this kind of money from companies before they've even proven their case in the IBM-Novell lawsuit(s). But then, everyone here agrees on that point.
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that Microsoft wrote a version of Windows for the PPC and never released it (though I'd never heard of it before, personally). After all, Apple had Project "Star Trek" back in 1994, which was porting System 7 to run on Intel-based processors.
Heck, they've already done orbital skydiving in sci-fi, now they can do orbital bungee jumping!
Well, they have been hyping Longhorn as a "revolution" of sorts....
But that assumes an absolutely perfect, dead-on impact trajectory taking the most direct path from space to surface, and hitting at a ninety-degree angle. Most space debris will fall into the atmosphere at an angle, which will drastically increase the amount of time it's exposed to atmospheric friction.
Why do you think shooting stars seem to streak a long way across the sky?
Ever wonder if there's a valid reason WHY someone's karma might drop with Mac-bashing? Doesn't that say something about the /. community?
At any rate, that article is seriously out of date... referring to "1.5 GHz processors" shows that it obviously hasn't been updated since the PPC970/G5 came out eight or nine months ago.
Actually, I believe Clarke endorsed the idea in 2061: Odyssey Three. ;-)
That's true, the majority of its mass is hydrogen. But you're forgetting just how friggin' massive Jupiter is. Even if only a tiny tiny fraction of a percent were a diamond, it'd still be huge!
Part of Clarke's explanation for this theory (in "2061", actually) explained that Jupiter's high gravity would cause the more massive molecules -- like methane, which Jupiter definitely has in quantity -- would sink through the atmosphere towards the core. And at the core, the intense pressures would separate the carbon from the hydrogen (in the methane), and the hydrogen would waft back up (being of lesser mass), while the carbon would stay in the core.
Think of it as being like a black hole, except without the extreme singularity -- instead of being compressed to a single point, it's being compressed into a diamond. (But it's not just the gravity doing this, it's also the intense atmospheric pressure of all the gasses sitting above the core, too.)
Um, as I understand it, all Microsoft did with VirtualPC 6 was re-brand it as a MS product and increase the version number by .1. Therefore, any and all bugs in any release before the upcoming VPC 7 are really Connectix's fault, not Microsoft.
(Yeah, I wish I could blame these bugs on M$, too... but it's not really fair in this case.)
Yeah, but some Mac users generally refer to it as "Mail dot app" or "Mail-app", because it's good to have a distinction.
"Do you use Mail?" "Yeah, I get mail all the time." "No no, do you use Mail?" "Well, if I get it, then I must use it, right?" "No, I mean do you use Apple's-OS-X-Mail-Application?" "Oh! Well, yeah." -- I've had this type of conversation more than once over the years.
Sometimes I wish Apple had come up with some different name for their client -- after all, they came up with the colorful name "Safari" for their web browser...
Not necessarily -- they could easily be referring to the total amount of video transferred back and forth during the entire production process. In which case they just deleted the stuff from the iPod and placed it on some hard drive or backup somewhere.
I can easily think of at least one place where these would be very useful -- and that's college campuses. I've got an Airport card for my iBook, and there are about a half-dozen places where I can hook up , but none of them are very convenient to my daily schedule. In addition, the wireless broadband would probably allow campuses to rely less on the ethernet networks, especially in the dorms and on-campus apartments. I know I would like to be able to take my iBook into the other room and still refresh pages on the Internet... but seeing as how getting a wireless base station just for my own use in an apartment is almost totally pointless (and way out of my budget), it's not gonna happen given the current technology. But even outside personal use, wireless broadband could simplify the networking infrastructure at universities and large businesses immensely. Rather than getting a whole bunch of 802.11 stations and having to scatter them all over the place, a single hub would hook in everyone.
Of course! What's good for M&M Enterprises is good for everyone...
We'll know when the computers start shutting down for no reason whatsoever. ...Wait, that's already happening. Run for the hills!
Well, the Earth does spin... though I'd hate to imagine the amount of time it would take to attach a giant DVD to the planet... not to mention the severe deceleration of rotational energy as the radius gets radically increased!
I've heard some historians argue that Human civilization could have been a lot more advanced by now if it hadn't been for the Dark Ages, that sent most of Europe back into superstition and ignorance, and took a thousand years to reverse.
This time, we're not facing the Barbarian Hordes. No, we've got something much worse -- bureaucracy! How long will it take to untangle ourselves from all this red tape and resume scientific progress? Or are we doomed to another age of arrested growth?
Actually, it's my understanding that the Oort Cloud extends several thousand AU's outside the solar system. Those are the objects that come in for a pass near the sun ever million years or so... I'm not sure how far out they've been detected so far, but I'm pretty sure they're way out there.
I'm *really* hoping that they figure out a way to integrate Preview's PDF-rendering abilities into Safari, so that we can finally have a decent plugin to view PDF's inside the browser on OS X! (I know, there's a couple shareware plugins out there, but those never worked well enough for me.)
I used to use Camino as my primary browser until shortly after Safari 1.0 came out, but I have also been keeping my eye on Firebird simply for its cross-platform capabilities.
/. here, I'm probably preaching to the choir now...)
In my experience, there is very little difference in any of the browsers out there for Mac OS X, aside from various UI and preferences differences. But specifically for Firebird versus Camino, I think the only thing that Camino has over Firebird is the snazzier Aqua UI. Firebird is still butt-ugly -- not that that's a bad thing in the grand scheme of things, because I'm just a vain Mac user. (I do of course pity those who don't realize that you CAN choose "pretty" -- or to put it nicely, "aesthetically pleasing" -- appearances for my apps. But since I'm on the Apple part of
... rights under the law?
I'm not familiar enough with the definitions of a person to be certain of this, but considering that there are people all over the US that are still debating whether or not a human fetus is alive and whether its life should be protected from abortion.
Somehow, I doubt that there's really going to be any loophole in favor of artificial intelligence found anytime soon. And considering the time that people are taking to develop some protection for unborn people, I somehow doubt that there's going to be any real "rights for AI's" movement any time soon...