I'd like a preview that contains a tiny piece of information on just what Parrot is. I can google it, yeah, but I could also google and get just as much info as any story on slashdot if I just read
"New version of Parrot released".
It's reminiscent of badly written man pages, where a command has info like:
-n, --nfrtrt
enables use of nfrtrt.
And says no more. It's just a tiny addition, it would really help, and that's what we have editors for!
It's funny how used to saying that going the windows way is the way of 'choice' and apple is some kind of dead man's zone people are.
"Hi! Use WMA! it gives you CHOICE over which online stores you use!"
yes, you can use the online stores that have 2% of the market, 3% of the market, and 7% of the market, but you do miss out on the choice of using the biggest & best...
Curious why there's not more.
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I think it's interesting there's not more really exceptional documentation for F/OSS projects.
OSS Coders tend to have the fantastic attitude of always improving whats been written before, of making it better & better, revising, patching, rewriting, until an application becomes so damned useful there doesn't seem to be any other realistic choice.
All well and good when it comes to coding - but where are all the documentation geeks to do likewise?
all well & good making robots for miniscule applications, like the rollerskating one, or a birth trainer, but what about making ones that can help ALL people?
Last time I checked a very large proportion of the population was born in some way.
The latest, a SMS search service. SMS a message to 46645 (googl) and find local business listings, product prices, dictionary definitions, and more. Go Google!"
If google were 1337, their sms number would be 600613.
I have to say I'm also struggling to work out what niche Linux for OS X machines fills. If you want Linux, there's cheaper hardware to run it on, and I'd expect more of the exotic stuff to work properly
Personally, I find the early iMacs and B&W G3s pretty lacklustre on OSX. Running a PPC distro like Debian gives them the speed they used to have in OS9, with an operating system that hasn't been abandoned.
When are people going to stop allowing the networks to shove this filth down their throats?
Yeah. Better get all those millions of people who enjoy reality tv to write in and tell the networks to stop broadcasting what they want to watch. dammit.
> People have been predicting the death of MacOS and Apple for > almost 2 decades now. That "wizard" over at PCMag, John > Dvorak, has been doing so for almost that long, and look at > where that prediction has gone.
Almost? He's been there right from the start with his way off base 'predictions'. He's a troll, and it gets him paid.
"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things." -John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.
I don't know how many times in the last six months I've heard idiots on IRC claim powerbook 12 inch models don't have fans because apple skimped on the design.
It's nice to be able to show proof. All hail intarweb.
The Navy doesn't like diesels because they're too noisy for vehicles which chase submarines.
But they're PISTONS. Imagine the ricing up you could do on this one. (yes, that's a 108,000 horsepower engine with cylinders you could fit a dozen or more people in)
A set of four hundred 200w ground effect neons, a couple of (dozen) turbos and a blow off valve that can create more PSHHHHHHHH than your average small jet... and she'd be SLIK.
According to more of the text at groklaw, 70% of those patents challenged, are eventually rejected, just like this one.
Far better than going through the courts once the patent is being defended by nazgul style lawyers is to defeat it on merits with the patent office. Looks like Dan Ravicher is onto something that could do with all our support.
Size is good up to a point, but a 1Tb penis would make it hard to walk. It would have to be on a dedicated server, so to speak.
Which would solve the problem of moving about with such a large penis. Now for the next problem......just what size woman are you going to stick it into?
> Of course it still looks like an Outlook clone...
That's something that's annoyed me with a lot of apps. What's with the gigantic fischer-price GUIs? are enterprise people attracted to that sort of thing?
I'm sure I speak for a few people here - does anyone have links to images from some of the higher quality satellite pics? I've seen some from the early 90s where it's obviously easy to tell which cars are sedans, station wagons, their colour, maybe even model if you know them well enough. I hadn't seen anything better, lately.
That's some power there... And to follow up, next we see an IBM sixteen-way POWER5 small form factor PC, with onboard RAID5 and forty gig of RAM*
*tardis included.
Photo of the 20 inch version here.
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I've seen many photos of the 17" iMac, from Apple's own documentation (the 10MB tiff) to some other disassemblies, but This spymac image is a picture of the insides of the 20" version.
The fans are laid out differently, the HD and inverter in a slightly different position, and looks like there would be room for a dual CPU if apple were so inclined.
VPC running x86 linux without X11 of any kind loaded is as speedy as you'd ever want. For shits & giggles I set it up running an identical setup as my 800mhz P3 server.
Webserving & fileserving it was almost as quick as the real P3, to the point that if someone had swapped the real box to a VPC one I probably wouldn't notice immediately. Running dnetc gave it a score around that of an 800mhz P3 as well. Its cpu emulation is no slouch, and impressed me no end.
However as soon as X11 is running, even with twm sitting there doing nothing its performance turns from "impressive" to "almost capable". give it any jobs to do that involve using graphics and it's "meh, that'll have to do in a pinch".
> From the article: "...the (Hawaii Dept of Education) is unlikely > to convert to open-source machines itself, because the > schools get big discounts on service for proprietary software
This is quite standard microsoft practice with regards to schools. A state or country works out a deal with microsoft whereby they get essentially free access to MS software. It's paid for by the relevant education department, but schools get a package of perhaps 20 CDs of MS software.
They can be installed at will on any machine within the school, and often on staff personal machines, depending on the details of the contracts worked out with MS and their department.
It's a good or bad thing, depending on how you wish to look at it.
Because you don't have a huge marketing machine behind you.
Alright, that's only relevant to those artists who NEED a huge marketing machine behind them. There are plenty, PLENTY of good solid music producing people who can succeed on their own merits, given good enough distribution.
Not to mention that of all the hardware only the base system can be shared. Keyboard, mouse and monitor all need to stay one-per-user as they are now, and a monitor is a pretty big portion of the price of desktops.
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I'd like a preview that contains a tiny piece of information on just what Parrot is. I can google it, yeah, but I could also google and get just as much info as any story on slashdot if I just read
"New version of Parrot released".
It's reminiscent of badly written man pages, where a command has info like:
-n, --nfrtrt
enables use of nfrtrt.
And says no more. It's just a tiny addition, it would really help, and that's what we have editors for!
It's funny how used to saying that going the windows way is the way of 'choice' and apple is some kind of dead man's zone people are.
"Hi! Use WMA! it gives you CHOICE over which online stores you use!"
yes, you can use the online stores that have 2% of the market, 3% of the market, and 7% of the market, but you do miss out on the choice of using the biggest & best...
I think it's interesting there's not more really exceptional documentation for F/OSS projects.
OSS Coders tend to have the fantastic attitude of always improving whats been written before, of making it better & better, revising, patching, rewriting, until an application becomes so damned useful there doesn't seem to be any other realistic choice.
All well and good when it comes to coding - but where are all the documentation geeks to do likewise?
all well & good making robots for miniscule applications, like the rollerskating one, or a birth trainer, but what about making ones that can help ALL people?
Last time I checked a very large proportion of the population was born in some way.
The latest, a SMS search service. SMS a message to 46645 (googl) and find local business listings, product prices, dictionary definitions, and more. Go Google!"
If google were 1337, their sms number would be 600613.
I have to say I'm also struggling to work out what niche Linux for OS X machines fills. If you want Linux, there's cheaper hardware to run it on, and I'd expect more of the exotic stuff to work properly
Personally, I find the early iMacs and B&W G3s pretty lacklustre on OSX. Running a PPC distro like Debian gives them the speed they used to have in OS9, with an operating system that hasn't been abandoned.
For anything quicker I'm with you, though.
When are people going to stop allowing the networks to shove this filth down their throats?
Yeah. Better get all those millions of people who enjoy reality tv to write in and tell the networks to stop broadcasting what they want to watch. dammit.
does this also apply to all the implementations of OLE?
> People have been predicting the death of MacOS and Apple for
> almost 2 decades now. That "wizard" over at PCMag, John
> Dvorak, has been doing so for almost that long, and look at
> where that prediction has gone.
Almost? He's been there right from the start with his way off base 'predictions'. He's a troll, and it gets him paid.
"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things."
-John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.
especially this link
I don't know how many times in the last six months I've heard idiots on IRC claim powerbook 12 inch models don't have fans because apple skimped on the design.
It's nice to be able to show proof. All hail intarweb.
If there is one marketing term I despise more than any other, it's "cyber". Well that and putting the letter "e" or "i" in front of terms.
:)
You might like to spare some loathing for http://www.eCyber.com/ and http://www.iCyber.com/ then
The Navy doesn't like diesels because they're too noisy for vehicles which chase submarines.
But they're PISTONS. Imagine the ricing up you could do on this one. (yes, that's a 108,000 horsepower engine with cylinders you could fit a dozen or more people in)
A set of four hundred 200w ground effect neons, a couple of (dozen) turbos and a blow off valve that can create more PSHHHHHHHH than your average small jet... and she'd be SLIK.
or something
According to more of the text at groklaw, 70% of those patents challenged, are eventually rejected, just like this one.
Far better than going through the courts once the patent is being defended by nazgul style lawyers is to defeat it on merits with the patent office. Looks like Dan Ravicher is onto something that could do with all our support.
Size is good up to a point, but a 1Tb penis would make it hard to walk. It would have to be on a dedicated server, so to speak.
...just what size woman are you going to stick it into?
Which would solve the problem of moving about with such a large penis. Now for the next problem...
> Of course it still looks like an Outlook clone...
That's something that's annoyed me with a lot of apps. What's with the gigantic fischer-price GUIs? are enterprise people attracted to that sort of thing?
I'm sure I speak for a few people here - does anyone have links to images from some of the higher quality satellite pics? I've seen some from the early 90s where it's obviously easy to tell which cars are sedans, station wagons, their colour, maybe even model if you know them well enough. I hadn't seen anything better, lately.
Anyone?
The rest of us call this... GOOGLE.
works for me.
That's some power there... And to follow up, next we see an IBM sixteen-way POWER5 small form factor PC, with onboard RAID5 and forty gig of RAM*
*tardis included.
I've seen many photos of the 17" iMac, from Apple's own documentation (the 10MB tiff) to some other disassemblies, but This spymac image is a picture of the insides of the 20" version.
The fans are laid out differently, the HD and inverter in a slightly different position, and looks like there would be room for a dual CPU if apple were so inclined.
It's quicker with there's no graphics at all.
VPC running x86 linux without X11 of any kind loaded is as speedy as you'd ever want. For shits & giggles I set it up running an identical setup as my 800mhz P3 server.
Webserving & fileserving it was almost as quick as the real P3, to the point that if someone had swapped the real box to a VPC one I probably wouldn't notice immediately. Running dnetc gave it a score around that of an 800mhz P3 as well. Its cpu emulation is no slouch, and impressed me no end.
However as soon as X11 is running, even with twm sitting there doing nothing its performance turns from "impressive" to "almost capable". give it any jobs to do that involve using graphics and it's "meh, that'll have to do in a pinch".
> From the article: "...the (Hawaii Dept of Education) is unlikely
> to convert to open-source machines itself, because the
> schools get big discounts on service for proprietary software
This is quite standard microsoft practice with regards to schools. A state or country works out a deal with microsoft whereby they get essentially free access to MS software. It's paid for by the relevant education department, but schools get a package of perhaps 20 CDs of MS software.
They can be installed at will on any machine within the school, and often on staff personal machines, depending on the details of the contracts worked out with MS and their department.
It's a good or bad thing, depending on how you wish to look at it.
Now if you can learn to speak perl, I'll be impressed.
Learn to speak Intercal and I'll just stare dumbfounded.
> Why sell through the system at all anymore?
Because you don't have a huge marketing machine behind you.
Alright, that's only relevant to those artists who NEED a huge marketing machine behind them. There are plenty, PLENTY of good solid music producing people who can succeed on their own merits, given good enough distribution.
Not to mention that of all the hardware only the base system can be shared. Keyboard, mouse and monitor all need to stay one-per-user as they are now, and a monitor is a pretty big portion of the price of desktops.
It happens :).