You are mistaking methods for goals. Go back to the US Constituion. The goal is the promotion of the arts and sciences. The Constitution authorizes copyrights and patents in order to achieve that goal, otherwise copyright and patents would be unconstitutional. copyright and patent law that inhibits the progress of the arts and sciences is unconstitutional today. I hope and expect the SC is going to give the Sonny Bono copyright extension act a bitchslapping specifically on those grounds when they hear the Eldred case next term (they've already granted certiori).
You can get a capable computer for $299 from Wal Mart. While this doesn't formally invalidate your point, the fact is that the cost difference between the two has been radically narrowing for many years and is likely to eventually hit comparable price points.
At a certain point, the extra capability a computer gets you is worth the price difference and we're either at that point or we're *very* close for an awful lot of people.
Why funny? They basically use the same chip family. The PPC was always just a cut down Power.
For IBM, they move boxes so it makes as much sense to sell RS/6000 with Mac OS X as it does to sell it with Linux.
For Apple, they get to keep customers who need higher end computers and are willing to pay 20k for hardware. At least they'll make some money off software rather than losing them to AIX.
As I understand it, the FCC is probably going to put out a rule that mandates HDTV tuners in TVs by 2006. It's going to arrive, the only question is how quickly.
It isn't bigger media that's the problem, it's faster media. Wider busses, faster record speeds, etc. Nobody wants to bother with a burn if it's going to take all day.
The quickest way to determine if this is a live product would be to start the port using opendarwin.org and see what happens. If you start to get odd or wierd static from Apple, you probably tripped across a secret Apple project and you'll know. If not, then you might just turn it into a live product anyway.
It would certainly be smart both for IBM and Apple to support this as a first step to Mac OS X on RS/6000. Apple could use the increase in its upper end and it would help IBM push some more boxes.
It's an anglicization of the original dutch which has nothing to do with killing. There are a bunch of places called kill in metro NY and unless you know something of the history of the area you'll jump to the wrong conclusion.
One company dominated towns are a horrible idea, always have been. IBM is a public company and if it benefits the stockholders to leave a town, they are legally obligated to do it.
If you don't have a diverse economy that can take an IBM or a GM leaving, you have to fight like hell in the good times to grow one because if you don't the towns will shrivel up and die when they inevitably leave.
With a differential GPS system and collision avoidance programmed into the computer controlling it all, I would guess collisions wouldn't be so much of a worry. I do wonder what more you would get other than a lot of cleavage shots.
Oh, and if some bright boy brings down the controller, it shouldn't be too hard to have safe landing zones set up beforehand and a constantly updating solution for getting to them in case of a loss of communication.
If I know that there's a new version every night with bug fixes and new features, whenever I hit a browser limitation I would download a new version because maybe they've fixed it in the meantime.
If a new browser version comes out once every several months, I might be feeling fairly good about my browser experience at that point and wouldn't feel any incentive to install a new version whether or not I've got problems I don't feel.
Mozilla's dev schedule is better for updating. It caters more to human nature.
The ability to catch the difference between the source code and the compiled binary is much greater with Mozilla than with IE. The ability to discern back doors is much better as well. The point isn't whether you, personally are going to do it. The point is whether some professor teaching CS428 security audits is going to assign it for the class project. For IE, such a class project will come under their 'shared source' initiative complete with lots of legal restrictions including NDAs. For Mozilla, there is no restriction and finding a back door is going to be a major feather in these people's resumes as well as a career booster for the professor.
So which code is going to get reviewed more often and more openly?
This would be true if the biggest security hole in IE is unfixable because to the vendor it's a feature. Mozilla has a EULA which will never impose DRM on you, will never give your right to do what you want to your own machine away, will never strip your legal rights to sue, etc. Microsoft software comes with Microsoft lawyers attached. Their legal clauses are a security hazard.
Well, maybe the next time the cops offer them a spot at the shelter, they won't turn it down. Police and social services go out every night and round up the homeless so they don't freeze to death. Some of the homeless prefer a subway grate to the shelters and if they're not obviously nuts, the police have to let them do it. 1/3 of the homeless population is mentally ill.
Of course they have a timetable. If they didn't, they couldn't plan properly and avoid crashes. They just don't publish the timetable to avoid the moaning and whining that they're late.
Since AIX is its own special beastie, I wouldn't expect it to be too easy to shift things back and forth and Apple certainly has its software plate full right now. That being said, there is probably a high end graphics market that would buy the $10-15k Power4 workstations if they could run their current software suites. If the instruction set is largely the same, it is likely just a question of writing drivers.
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You are mistaking methods for goals. Go back to the US Constituion. The goal is the promotion of the arts and sciences. The Constitution authorizes copyrights and patents in order to achieve that goal, otherwise copyright and patents would be unconstitutional. copyright and patent law that inhibits the progress of the arts and sciences is unconstitutional today. I hope and expect the SC is going to give the Sonny Bono copyright extension act a bitchslapping specifically on those grounds when they hear the Eldred case next term (they've already granted certiori).
Now some URLs for where to get such a thing would be very nice...
You can get a capable computer for $299 from Wal Mart. While this doesn't formally invalidate your point, the fact is that the cost difference between the two has been radically narrowing for many years and is likely to eventually hit comparable price points.
At a certain point, the extra capability a computer gets you is worth the price difference and we're either at that point or we're *very* close for an awful lot of people.
Even Better, why not just put out a PPC compatibility layer as a free upgrade and then all crusoe's shipping can run Mac OS X?
We're talking apples and oranges, you about the transmitted signal, me about the hardware TV manufacturers are obligated to put into their product.
Why funny? They basically use the same chip family. The PPC was always just a cut down Power.
For IBM, they move boxes so it makes as much sense to sell RS/6000 with Mac OS X as it does to sell it with Linux.
For Apple, they get to keep customers who need higher end computers and are willing to pay 20k for hardware. At least they'll make some money off software rather than losing them to AIX.
Actually, it's more like "Let's go mug some honest, middle class people" as the rich ones generally have enough defenses to avoid the mugging.
As I understand it, the FCC is probably going to put out a rule that mandates HDTV tuners in TVs by 2006. It's going to arrive, the only question is how quickly.
It isn't bigger media that's the problem, it's faster media. Wider busses, faster record speeds, etc. Nobody wants to bother with a burn if it's going to take all day.
The quickest way to determine if this is a live product would be to start the port using opendarwin.org and see what happens. If you start to get odd or wierd static from Apple, you probably tripped across a secret Apple project and you'll know. If not, then you might just turn it into a live product anyway.
It would certainly be smart both for IBM and Apple to support this as a first step to Mac OS X on RS/6000. Apple could use the increase in its upper end and it would help IBM push some more boxes.
For somebody from Long Island, everything north of the Bronx is upstate.
It's an anglicization of the original dutch which has nothing to do with killing. There are a bunch of places called kill in metro NY and unless you know something of the history of the area you'll jump to the wrong conclusion.
One company dominated towns are a horrible idea, always have been. IBM is a public company and if it benefits the stockholders to leave a town, they are legally obligated to do it.
If you don't have a diverse economy that can take an IBM or a GM leaving, you have to fight like hell in the good times to grow one because if you don't the towns will shrivel up and die when they inevitably leave.
Thus a new 2nd amendment battle is born, are mini-AA missiles legal under the US Constitution?
mini planes would be easier to deploy and recover in field conditions.
Somebody else posted the project. If you're not in a hurry these folks might provide a nice solution for you.
With a differential GPS system and collision avoidance programmed into the computer controlling it all, I would guess collisions wouldn't be so much of a worry. I do wonder what more you would get other than a lot of cleavage shots.
Oh, and if some bright boy brings down the controller, it shouldn't be too hard to have safe landing zones set up beforehand and a constantly updating solution for getting to them in case of a loss of communication.
If I know that there's a new version every night with bug fixes and new features, whenever I hit a browser limitation I would download a new version because maybe they've fixed it in the meantime.
If a new browser version comes out once every several months, I might be feeling fairly good about my browser experience at that point and wouldn't feel any incentive to install a new version whether or not I've got problems I don't feel.
Mozilla's dev schedule is better for updating. It caters more to human nature.
The ability to catch the difference between the source code and the compiled binary is much greater with Mozilla than with IE. The ability to discern back doors is much better as well. The point isn't whether you, personally are going to do it. The point is whether some professor teaching CS428 security audits is going to assign it for the class project. For IE, such a class project will come under their 'shared source' initiative complete with lots of legal restrictions including NDAs. For Mozilla, there is no restriction and finding a back door is going to be a major feather in these people's resumes as well as a career booster for the professor.
So which code is going to get reviewed more often and more openly?
This would be true if the biggest security hole in IE is unfixable because to the vendor it's a feature. Mozilla has a EULA which will never impose DRM on you, will never give your right to do what you want to your own machine away, will never strip your legal rights to sue, etc. Microsoft software comes with Microsoft lawyers attached. Their legal clauses are a security hazard.
Also, it never closes, unlike many other subway systems.
Well, maybe the next time the cops offer them a spot at the shelter, they won't turn it down. Police and social services go out every night and round up the homeless so they don't freeze to death. Some of the homeless prefer a subway grate to the shelters and if they're not obviously nuts, the police have to let them do it. 1/3 of the homeless population is mentally ill.
Of course they have a timetable. If they didn't, they couldn't plan properly and avoid crashes. They just don't publish the timetable to avoid the moaning and whining that they're late.
Since AIX is its own special beastie, I wouldn't expect it to be too easy to shift things back and forth and Apple certainly has its software plate full right now. That being said, there is probably a high end graphics market that would buy the $10-15k Power4 workstations if they could run their current software suites. If the instruction set is largely the same, it is likely just a question of writing drivers.
Star Office for Mac OS X just got announced. Free, cross platform, and it's supposed to work with .doc files very well.