Actually, there's a lot less need for slots in the Mac world because they tend to have more functionality integrated in. If you're limiting yourself to a system with slots, you really should make sure that it's not just for useless warm fuzzies.
You can type >console into the longin box to kill the gui on a per boot basis and you can edit the startup files so aqua never loads if you don't want it. OTOH, the value proposition for the Xserve is that you get a very nice Unix based server that's cheaper than Windows (unlimited client licenses) and is at least as easy to administer as Windows for your average 20-50 seat small company.
Read the article. She was a random friend of the son of the commercial's director looking to scarf free munchies on the set and see what the process of making a commercial is like. It's not like she earned a paycheck from an ad agency who counted the company running the campaign as a client.
Actually a this very election a number of people left due to term limits, not only from congress but also from leadership posts. Sure some of them *did* break their promises but they also tend not to have trouble at their next election over it.
The thing is that we have tools to sift through the bulk data to extract meaningful information. There is an entire industry of analysts in think tanks who analyze government information. What really is needed is a cross think tank method of comparing apples to apples and really getting at the truth. When bill amendments are web published in real time and sneaky, underhanded legislation can be analyzed and protested inside of 24 hours, you are going to see a real drop in pork funding and sneaky attempts at stripping rights.
Regulatory analysis is just as important as a tremendous amount of foolishness goes on through the rule making process and is similarly dependent on doing things under cover of darkness.
I think that Aqua is such a high overhead system that under current hardware it isn't justified to spend scare Apple engineering hours implementing this functionality. Where it would make sense though would be in the next generation of hardware.
The PPC 970 seems to be much more multi-processor friendly from what's been released so far. Creating a 8, 16, or 32 way house server in partnership with housing construction firms would make a compelling business proposition because you would have a relatively secure system with low virus potential and you could fold the $10k-$15k cost of such a system into that venerable institution, the home mortgage. Talk about a digital lifestyle, upscale developments created with such home servers as stock features would actually fit into Apple's business plan, be very profitable while expanding the Mac user base, and would provide a compelling need to be able to run multiple graphical user sessions.
It's such a compelling solution that you might even get Steve Jobs to sign a clone license for such a beastie if Apple didn't want to pursue such a system itself.
The utility of platform independent software rises as the dominance of desktop computing by any one company recedes. If the market were split 30% windows, 30% mac, 25% linux, and 15% other then it would make sense to rewrite quicken in java as there would be jvm available on all platforms. Any extra support costs would be offset by not being restricted to a minority of the market. That's simple economics, no need for advocacy at that point.
What's important for platform independent software is for dominance to recede, in *any* direction. If Mac goes up to 20% of the market, people will start shifting to portable code which lowers barriers for still more entrants. Right now, it's any port in a storm and get off Windows if you can.
From what you write, you can, you just don't care to because it would cost more money than you care to in order to fulfill your desires.
There is an exchange client for Mac. Microsoft doesn't advertise it very often but it comes with Exchange and costs exactly the same as a Windows license.
Actually they're doing two different jobs. Private security firms are there to protect you, public police forces are there to enforce the law and catch law breakers. The public police force (at least in the US) does not have an obligation to protect you. People, in the face of complete indifference on the part of their local public police, try to sue on negligence grounds every once in awhile. They get shot down every time.
They do indirectly compete but not as much as you might think.
Actually, there are working fire departments that operate on private contracts in the midwest. It's pretty much settled that when there is a working public and private model to provide a particular service the private model tends to give more results for equivalent spending or the same results for less money.
The problem is that in areas that have grown used to government dominated funding, there are powerful entrenched interests who want to keep things as they are so as not to upset their steady money flows. Part of the way they do it is to kill the free dissemination of R&D results, another part is to create massive FUD against any sort of privatization moves.
The truth is that the general population isn't all that dumb. If they were, you should really be arguing for the reintroduction of literacy tests for voting. The people are always smart enough to vote for somebody who will collect and spend tax dollars wisely but too dumb to figure it out on their own. It just doesn't make sense.
This is just the well known problem of counterfeiting cash taken to a new forum. Paper money has tests to verify authenticity and so will electronic money.
No, it's right, the entire point of it though would be that it would be a permanent middle finger to the RIAA. If everybody who was pissed off at them and hand the money donated...
Imagine if every slashdot story on the RIAA trying to take away fair use rights had a paypal link to such a scheme.
The only way to fund bandwidth is to create coupon clipper sites. That is, put up a fund for a particular purpose and when the fund's principal is generating enough interest, fund bandwidth from that interest. Let's say a T-1 costs $500. That's $6000/year in interest income. At a reasonable assumption of 6% interest, that would make the originating fund need to be $100,000.
I would see this as putting in a one time payment of maybe $20 for a share in a non-profit corporation devoted to establishing permanent free bandwidth services. The majority of votes would determine whose 'free' service would see the light of day first. This would only take you approx. 50,000 participants to get your first free service. That seems difficult but not impossible. Surely there are more than 50,000 people who want to ensure that there is no RIAA hegemony? But beyond that, money that is donated before reaching 50k will accumulate interest and reduce the ultimate number of members needed.
Then again, with bandwidth prices likely to be on a long-term slide, as time goes on, the same money is likely to give greater and greater bandwidth.
Since the office is likely to be staffed by the clueless, you might just pull the domain contact by typing
whois -hwhois.nic.gov house.gov
and getting back the house whois record
% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready U.S. House of Representatives (HOUSE-DOM) Ford House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Domain Name: HOUSE.GOV Status: Active Domain servers in listed order: MERCURY.HOUSE.GOV 143.231.1.67 TUNGSTEN.HOUSE.GOV 137.18.255.242 Technical POC: Manson, John L. (JLM) (202) 226-4244 (FAX)(202) 226-0123 JOHN.MANSON@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV
Administrative POC:Adams, Joseph L. (JLA1) (202) 692-1337 JOE.ADAMS@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV
Beyond that, the mail seems to be routing funny over at house.gov. Can anybody make heads or tails of their DNS record?
They'll boot into a CD operating system and run a binary that crawls through your hard disk tree looking for covered applications.
Not running Windows doesn't get you out of a jam because not all of the BSA's members develop only Windows software. If you had a pirated version of Rational's development suite for Unix, you can bet that you'd have trouble from the BSA as well.
Generally, the reason they're showing up in the first place is that somebody already called and reported you to them. They would go away, present their evidence to a judge in the area that they have a good working relationship with (and believe me, if they're not idiots, they have good relationships with state judges all over the world), and they'll show up later (maybe only a few hours later) with a law enforcement officer and a warrant.
At that point, I've been informed that the procedure is that the cops will tell everybody to stand up and away from all computers and you can't get any computer work done until the cops (using their private agents, the BSA) finish searching the premises for evidence listed in the warrant.
Hostile gets you a warranted, confrontational, and worst of all slow audit. Then again, there's always the lawsuit for harassment...
Let me know when that Dell comes with IEEE-1275 (Open Firmware) compliant BIOS so the plug and play actually works all the time.
The reason I say that the mac is not for you is that you're looking at individual components and their up front costs only. The Apple business model is enhancing the lifetime experience of 'the whole widget'. This is a combination of affordable initial cost, well tested hardware combinations, software that is easy to use, applications that are compelling and maintenance costs that are reduced all with compelling human interface rules that are embraced by an enthusiastic developer community. They don't always hit the mark but that's what they're trying for.
It's no sin to be price conscious or even extremely price sensitive and certainly a majority of computer users are not currently in the mac target market but you should at least understand enough of Apple's business proposition to know if what they're offering is what you want and not bitch at them to wander off their business plan. That pisses off mac users because wandering off that business vision is what happened during the downhill slide years.
Funny, I always thought that it was the US Senate that votes to confirm judges. Silly me for actually reading the US Constitution.
The people gave Clinton a mandate to rule with a fully Democrat Congress in 1992. It was such a disaster that the Republicans came roaring back in 1994 to take Congress.
10 years later, the people have given the Republican party the same opportunity. The country didn't expire during Democrat rule and won't during Republican. They hyperventilation index seems to be much higher this time around though.
Don't you see that if you over-hype the dangers nobody's going to pay attention anymore?
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Actually, there's a lot less need for slots in the Mac world because they tend to have more functionality integrated in. If you're limiting yourself to a system with slots, you really should make sure that it's not just for useless warm fuzzies.
You can type >console into the longin box to kill the gui on a per boot basis and you can edit the startup files so aqua never loads if you don't want it. OTOH, the value proposition for the Xserve is that you get a very nice Unix based server that's cheaper than Windows (unlimited client licenses) and is at least as easy to administer as Windows for your average 20-50 seat small company.
Read the article. She was a random friend of the son of the commercial's director looking to scarf free munchies on the set and see what the process of making a commercial is like. It's not like she earned a paycheck from an ad agency who counted the company running the campaign as a client.
Actually a this very election a number of people left due to term limits, not only from congress but also from leadership posts. Sure some of them *did* break their promises but they also tend not to have trouble at their next election over it.
The thing is that we have tools to sift through the bulk data to extract meaningful information. There is an entire industry of analysts in think tanks who analyze government information. What really is needed is a cross think tank method of comparing apples to apples and really getting at the truth. When bill amendments are web published in real time and sneaky, underhanded legislation can be analyzed and protested inside of 24 hours, you are going to see a real drop in pork funding and sneaky attempts at stripping rights.
Regulatory analysis is just as important as a tremendous amount of foolishness goes on through the rule making process and is similarly dependent on doing things under cover of darkness.
By the time this comes out the 970 will either be released or about to be released. Will this work also benefit Apache on PPC?
I think that Aqua is such a high overhead system that under current hardware it isn't justified to spend scare Apple engineering hours implementing this functionality. Where it would make sense though would be in the next generation of hardware.
The PPC 970 seems to be much more multi-processor friendly from what's been released so far. Creating a 8, 16, or 32 way house server in partnership with housing construction firms would make a compelling business proposition because you would have a relatively secure system with low virus potential and you could fold the $10k-$15k cost of such a system into that venerable institution, the home mortgage. Talk about a digital lifestyle, upscale developments created with such home servers as stock features would actually fit into Apple's business plan, be very profitable while expanding the Mac user base, and would provide a compelling need to be able to run multiple graphical user sessions.
It's such a compelling solution that you might even get Steve Jobs to sign a clone license for such a beastie if Apple didn't want to pursue such a system itself.
The utility of platform independent software rises as the dominance of desktop computing by any one company recedes. If the market were split 30% windows, 30% mac, 25% linux, and 15% other then it would make sense to rewrite quicken in java as there would be jvm available on all platforms. Any extra support costs would be offset by not being restricted to a minority of the market. That's simple economics, no need for advocacy at that point.
What's important for platform independent software is for dominance to recede, in *any* direction. If Mac goes up to 20% of the market, people will start shifting to portable code which lowers barriers for still more entrants. Right now, it's any port in a storm and get off Windows if you can.
From what you write, you can, you just don't care to because it would cost more money than you care to in order to fulfill your desires.
By your criteria list you sound like a Mac OS X candidate. Wait for a bit and check them out about when the PPC 970 comes out.
There is an exchange client for Mac. Microsoft doesn't advertise it very often but it comes with Exchange and costs exactly the same as a Windows license.
Mac OS X has quicken, decent game selection, and quickbooks is in beta.
Hmmm... VB competitor?
Try Realsoftware. Their realbasic product is shaping up pretty well.
Mac OS/OS X and Windows.
It's inhabiting the VB space on cross platform.
Btw: they're currently considering adding other platform targets.
Actually they're doing two different jobs. Private security firms are there to protect you, public police forces are there to enforce the law and catch law breakers. The public police force (at least in the US) does not have an obligation to protect you. People, in the face of complete indifference on the part of their local public police, try to sue on negligence grounds every once in awhile. They get shot down every time.
They do indirectly compete but not as much as you might think.
Actually, there are working fire departments that operate on private contracts in the midwest. It's pretty much settled that when there is a working public and private model to provide a particular service the private model tends to give more results for equivalent spending or the same results for less money.
The problem is that in areas that have grown used to government dominated funding, there are powerful entrenched interests who want to keep things as they are so as not to upset their steady money flows. Part of the way they do it is to kill the free dissemination of R&D results, another part is to create massive FUD against any sort of privatization moves.
The truth is that the general population isn't all that dumb. If they were, you should really be arguing for the reintroduction of literacy tests for voting. The people are always smart enough to vote for somebody who will collect and spend tax dollars wisely but too dumb to figure it out on their own. It just doesn't make sense.
This is just the well known problem of counterfeiting cash taken to a new forum. Paper money has tests to verify authenticity and so will electronic money.
No, it's right, the entire point of it though would be that it would be a permanent middle finger to the RIAA. If everybody who was pissed off at them and hand the money donated...
Imagine if every slashdot story on the RIAA trying to take away fair use rights had a paypal link to such a scheme.
Remember, Moller's now publicly traded so you can buy shares. Stock symbol's MLER.PK and it's going for $2.95 when I looked it up today.
Damn, that was my first figure and then I figured, no, it couldn't be *that* easy.
B-)
The only way to fund bandwidth is to create coupon clipper sites. That is, put up a fund for a particular purpose and when the fund's principal is generating enough interest, fund bandwidth from that interest. Let's say a T-1 costs $500. That's $6000/year in interest income. At a reasonable assumption of 6% interest, that would make the originating fund need to be $100,000.
I would see this as putting in a one time payment of maybe $20 for a share in a non-profit corporation devoted to establishing permanent free bandwidth services. The majority of votes would determine whose 'free' service would see the light of day first. This would only take you approx. 50,000 participants to get your first free service. That seems difficult but not impossible. Surely there are more than 50,000 people who want to ensure that there is no RIAA hegemony? But beyond that, money that is donated before reaching 50k will accumulate interest and reduce the ultimate number of members needed.
Then again, with bandwidth prices likely to be on a long-term slide, as time goes on, the same money is likely to give greater and greater bandwidth.
Since the office is likely to be staffed by the clueless, you might just pull the domain contact by typing
whois -hwhois.nic.gov house.gov
and getting back the house whois record
% DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready
U.S. House of Representatives (HOUSE-DOM)
Ford House Office Building Washington, DC 20515
Domain Name: HOUSE.GOV
Status: Active
Domain servers in listed order:
MERCURY.HOUSE.GOV 143.231.1.67
TUNGSTEN.HOUSE.GOV 137.18.255.242
Technical POC:
Manson, John L. (JLM)
(202) 226-4244 (FAX)(202) 226-0123
JOHN.MANSON@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV
Administrative POC:Adams, Joseph L. (JLA1)
(202) 692-1337
JOE.ADAMS@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV
Beyond that, the mail seems to be routing funny over at house.gov. Can anybody make heads or tails of their DNS record?
They'll boot into a CD operating system and run a binary that crawls through your hard disk tree looking for covered applications.
Not running Windows doesn't get you out of a jam because not all of the BSA's members develop only Windows software. If you had a pirated version of Rational's development suite for Unix, you can bet that you'd have trouble from the BSA as well.
Generally, the reason they're showing up in the first place is that somebody already called and reported you to them. They would go away, present their evidence to a judge in the area that they have a good working relationship with (and believe me, if they're not idiots, they have good relationships with state judges all over the world), and they'll show up later (maybe only a few hours later) with a law enforcement officer and a warrant.
At that point, I've been informed that the procedure is that the cops will tell everybody to stand up and away from all computers and you can't get any computer work done until the cops (using their private agents, the BSA) finish searching the premises for evidence listed in the warrant.
Hostile gets you a warranted, confrontational, and worst of all slow audit. Then again, there's always the lawsuit for harassment...
Let me know when that Dell comes with IEEE-1275 (Open Firmware) compliant BIOS so the plug and play actually works all the time.
The reason I say that the mac is not for you is that you're looking at individual components and their up front costs only. The Apple business model is enhancing the lifetime experience of 'the whole widget'. This is a combination of affordable initial cost, well tested hardware combinations, software that is easy to use, applications that are compelling and maintenance costs that are reduced all with compelling human interface rules that are embraced by an enthusiastic developer community. They don't always hit the mark but that's what they're trying for.
It's no sin to be price conscious or even extremely price sensitive and certainly a majority of computer users are not currently in the mac target market but you should at least understand enough of Apple's business proposition to know if what they're offering is what you want and not bitch at them to wander off their business plan. That pisses off mac users because wandering off that business vision is what happened during the downhill slide years.
PPC is a dead end? PPC was always Power-lite. It's just that the desktop is growing up. So, will Amiga work with the PPC 970?
Funny, I always thought that it was the US Senate that votes to confirm judges. Silly me for actually reading the US Constitution.
The people gave Clinton a mandate to rule with a fully Democrat Congress in 1992. It was such a disaster that the Republicans came roaring back in 1994 to take Congress.
10 years later, the people have given the Republican party the same opportunity. The country didn't expire during Democrat rule and won't during Republican. They hyperventilation index seems to be much higher this time around though.
Don't you see that if you over-hype the dangers nobody's going to pay attention anymore?