if you read Pliny Livy Cisero.... you discover...the same political issues, the same pettiness, the same motives, forces, drives, lusts. The same number of unwashed masses and the same number of enlightened thinkers. In other words: 2 millenium back they were claiming about the same as they are today. If evolution were involved I (or another human) would have more mental power, or skills then did Cicero. This is NOT the case. quad est demonstratum as it were
. "evolution" is a response to external conditons. Its cold, I grow fur, water means webbed feet etc. With humans cold means another log on the fire and wet means fix the roof. The roof evolves. I do not...
I alread recieved a C&D notice form myself to stop the unjustifiwed spending of REAL MONEY at Best Buy. One Bate and Switch experience, and one laserprinter that stopped workign before the first ream. Cheaper web based merchants will now have all my business,. Soon the big boxes right after the blow out, out of business sale, will become the latest paint ball arenas and blue shirts will be in fashion once again.
I had a Stealth... sold it. the Plat//e rocks, but you need a accelerator; Transwarp or the like. also a Liron 3.5 card and other such cool peripherals. Wanna read a funny? I was curious if it worked so, I called my local ISP once from a//e equiped with a MicroModem ][. -the Hayes compatable 300 baud slot modem. Well the ISP had some circuit that dropped a modem when it had less then acceptable communication which was considered any connection at less then 9600 baud. I called, it dropped, so I called again, it dropped. etc. I never did tell them why they had to dispatch a tech to manually reset that modem string....
remember the platform wars? Commodore, Amiga, Atari Apple,
I have a SX=64 I still occasionally use but, in reality I am still a Apple II partisan and still use mine. My screamer machine has these specs: Apple IIgs ROM 3 (But with a Woz lid) with a 8mhz ZipGS accelerator (that's 8 MEGA hertz folks), a RAMFast SCSI card hooked to a 250mb external drive, and a 4X SCSI Apple CD, a Vulcan "Gold" card hooked to a refurbed Seagate 2.5 200mb disk-in-the-power-supply, a LAnceGS Ethernet card. The system is runnign GS/OS 6.0.1 with Marinetti TCP/IP and the Spectrum Internet Suite of applications for internet access.
As an actual pay phone user; I realize I am in the minority but this truly will be a issue for me. I do not carry a cell phone. Partially a decision not to be tagged at all times by such a nuisance, and partially the fact that almost every cell phone, PDA, radio, MP3 player, clock, I have ever carried will be dead within a week. I do not know if it is something in my electrical field or "aura" but I do know it is true. I have indeed been in a situation where placing a call would have been helpful and no, people are not so helpful to lend them. I usually just do what I did before the age of electronic indifference: I just don't call. WHen I need to place a call I rely on pay phones. and I am sure other companies will provide these; outragous in cost but available. By the way, my HOME phone is a land line rotary and I HATE "press 1 to get abused, press 2 to be ignored, press 3 for obnoxious music" menus..
'When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.' Lewis Carroll Through the Lookign Glass
to this day I still use my Newton to read books. Its the right size, it is easy to use, it even can be back lit in the dark. Sure it ain't the latest gee whiz, but it works.
"Medicine" is a "practice" and practice sometimes makes perfect...except to the subjects practiced upon....
Medicine's claim to being a science rests on two things:
1. The medical profession names things. To quantify... identify... classify.
2: Repeatable Procedure. This second area is not quite as perfected.
The Scientific Method which is the ritual on which the "Temple of Science" is based consists of describing an experimental system where components ABC subjected to conditions MNO will produce results XYZ And, where this occurs each time the experiment is conducted. Repeatability... it works great with chemistry or physics (except the quantum kind) and other "hard" Science. Medicine, well, that gets a bit sticky because organisms don't tend to hold still like chemicals do.
Unlike other sciences; all a Medico can truly do is make a "best guess" based on years of "practice" and a good understanding of the terms of the businesses (see number 1 above). This makes medicine far more an Art then a Science. Also the terms when coupled with traditional bad handwriting, make Doctors as unintelligible as any priesthood that has gone before.
Lead test; inconclusive article describes why; ballistics test; in spite of crime TV for 25 years: inconclusive; and in smaller calibers: unusable. Oh and to work at all the bullet cannot be at all deformed which happens if the bullet contacts a bone, wall or anything hard. Paraffin test for shooting a gun: inconclusive; you cannot tell the difference between shooting a gun, lighting a firework, shoveling manure, or shaking hand with a politician and since washing hands after any of these is a natural reaction, it will not work. Most "Scientific" crime tests rely more on the unlettered faith of the jurors in this heap big magic called "Science" then in the science itself...
You missed the most important part; the statement (which preceeds a fat grant application): "Our researchers deterimed that this needs more study". The proposal is for the researchers to be as far removed as possible from most online subjects so the next study should be conducted while attending a Chearleader convention in a Caribbean
destination. admitting this fact should help insure a good online rudness index...
My install, on a Macbook went flawless. Now, I am not a typical Mac user in that I crossed the divide some 10 years ago but with only one foot in the camp. I own 7 Macs, but about 9 PCs; plus old Commodores Apple IIs and even an Altair, and an Osborne (CP/M ROCKS!). Yes I am old school. Also I know a wee bit about DOS, and every Windows since Windows 2.03 and every Mac OS since 5.0 on floppy. Also I have played with Linux since kernel 2.0 and know BSD in both Free and Net flavors. I even dabbled with BeOS.
Leopard has fixed most of the annoyances that remained in Tiger. Yes it is a new folder look, but the change was for a reason and seems to work quite well and quite intuitively. A counterpoint would be Vista and change for marketing sake. At least I assume that was the reason; I can see no advantage to the user nor benefit to operation for those changes.
I took an existing not high-end Mac and upgraded it. The result was a more robust system, all files intact, all settings working. Also the machine responds noticeably quicker. I have done exactly this same process with a PC and Windows Vista. The machine was a generic Dell P4 so it was not a experimenter model with weird boards or strange configurations. THAT experience yielded a sluggish machine, wizards that seemed to be confused, a security structure from hell, and messed up settings. and mind you I LIKE Windows.
Conclusion: Apple did their homework. Leopard delivers.
My home theater is totally home made of various parts acquired over the years. No I am not a audiophile who can tell a db difference in whatness, matter of fact I have tinnitus in my right ear but, I do like cool sounds all around so...I got some cable and strung (in wall) cables to some speakers in the back (standard stereo speakers off a old Sears Roebuck stereo from some 30 years back) - Hung them from the Ceiling pointed down. It worked like a champ. Added 2 more to the front pointed out. Then a 3rd behind the TV. I bought a amp/tuner that has front back middle and woofer. For the last, I bought a quality PC speaker system and plugged its woofer in; the other speakers are under the couch' talk about an added feature! Then I hooked the amp to my various video feeds (I have everything from Syabas based Avel and Eyehome (there is CAT5 and a router behind the amp), to DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, and yes even Beta) via both analog A/B switches and in 2 cases Toslink on a "light" switch. the whole thing cost surprisingly little.
Actually I own a MDD, a G5 1.8 dual, and a Macbook, oh plus several older Macs and about 6-7 PCs. (nad other machiens as well). Professionaly I support a office with 4 G5s, a couple of Mac Pros, and some assorted powerbooks and macbooks, and older G4s. I also support some thousand desktops at work. and yes I have zero budget now both personally and at work.
Both my home and office enviornments are quite stable. Upgrade my Macs to 10/5? HECK YES When I can afford it. Be ready RIGHT NOW to answer questions for work and not look like a dufus because it is as new to me as to my users? HELL NO. I will use whatever tool comes to hand. But NOT on my work boxes. no way! nor on a box I USE. a hack machine as a learnign tool. certainly.
The market for actual computer users of Mac OS X is best served by buying a real Mac. Users of the hacked OS X are by nature, experimenter geeks. This is not a configuration for those actually USING the beast as a main business or home computer.. That is the point missed on this; It is a experimenter toy. The potential of it becoming as seamless to install (I am joking here) as windows on a PC would certainly hurt Apple's hardware sales and I can understand them opposing this. Now a real "Use" for this "distro"? Say you were the person responsible in a company for Macs. Say you needed to review the new operating system, learn its quirks, its advantages, its differences before installing on live machines so you don't destroy the current and stable 10.4 systems. Say you need to be a step ahead. Now, add to that zero budget for a test box to experiment with.
There is a unused core duo in the garage and...humm... a Hackintosh might be the bridge box that would just fit...
Fancy way of sayin "Lawyers get rich" Remember the tobacco suits where the Lawyers that won then turned aroudn and sued their clients for a bigger piece of the pie?
In 1898 Congress voted ina sur-tax on telecommunication (in its infancy) to pay the costs of the Spanish American War. That war ENDED before the tax could be implemented. Regardless, the law was the law and from 1898 till its repeal in 2005 the governemnt collected money ont his tax. You were allowed to request a refund (fill out a zillion forms- but your refund was only for the last 3 years it existed (I think it was 3 years). Phone companies may steal, but government steals more and with their help...
Speaking as someone who worked his way through college reading Taort cards in local coffeehouses (I am not kidding, I really did).... I don't believe a word of it..
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if you read Pliny Livy Cisero.... you discover...the same political issues, the same pettiness, the same motives, forces, drives, lusts. The same number of unwashed masses and the same number of enlightened thinkers. In other words: 2 millenium back they were claiming about the same as they are today. If evolution were involved I (or another human) would have more mental power, or skills then did Cicero. This is NOT the case.
quad est demonstratum as it were
Mod that fellow up! That is exactly right
. "evolution" is a response to external conditons. Its cold, I grow fur, water means webbed feet etc. With humans cold means another log on the fire and wet means fix the roof. The roof evolves. I do not...
Best Gu'bmint money can buy....
Cash or charge please...
I alread recieved a C&D notice form myself to stop the unjustifiwed spending of REAL MONEY at Best Buy. One Bate and Switch experience, and one laserprinter that stopped workign before the first ream. Cheaper web based merchants will now have all my business,. Soon the big boxes right after the blow out, out of business sale, will become the latest paint ball arenas and blue shirts will be in fashion once again.
I had a Stealth... //e rocks, but you need a accelerator; Transwarp or the like. //e equiped with a MicroModem ][. -the Hayes compatable 300 baud slot modem. Well the ISP had some circuit that dropped a modem when it had less then acceptable communication which was considered any connection at less then 9600 baud. I called, it dropped, so I called again, it dropped. etc. I never did tell them why they had to dispatch a tech to manually reset that modem string....
sold it.
the Plat
also a Liron 3.5 card and other such cool peripherals. Wanna read a funny?
I was curious if it worked so, I called my local ISP once from a
C=64! BAH! Apple II forever dude!
remember the platform wars? Commodore, Amiga, Atari Apple,
I have a SX=64 I still occasionally use but, in reality I am still a Apple II partisan and still use mine.
My screamer machine has these specs: Apple IIgs ROM 3 (But with a Woz lid) with a 8mhz ZipGS accelerator (that's 8 MEGA hertz folks), a RAMFast SCSI card hooked to a 250mb external drive, and a 4X SCSI Apple CD, a Vulcan "Gold" card hooked to a refurbed Seagate 2.5 200mb disk-in-the-power-supply, a LAnceGS Ethernet card. The system is runnign GS/OS 6.0.1 with Marinetti TCP/IP and the Spectrum Internet Suite of applications for internet access.
as I said: Apple II forever
As an actual pay phone user; I realize I am in the minority but this truly will be a issue for me. I do not carry a cell phone. Partially a decision not to be tagged at all times by such a nuisance, and partially the fact that almost every cell phone, PDA, radio, MP3 player, clock, I have ever carried will be dead within a week. I do not know if it is something in my electrical field or "aura" but I do know it is true.
I have indeed been in a situation where placing a call would have been helpful and no, people are not so helpful to lend them. I usually just do what I did before the age of electronic indifference: I just don't call. WHen I need to place a call I rely on pay phones. and I am sure other companies will provide these; outragous in cost but available.
By the way, my HOME phone is a land line rotary and I HATE "press 1 to get abused, press 2 to be ignored, press 3 for obnoxious music" menus..
Money...lawyer...money....lawyer....
'When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful
tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor
less.'
Lewis Carroll Through the Lookign Glass
to this day I still use my Newton to read books. Its the right size, it is easy to use, it even can be back lit in the dark. Sure it ain't the latest gee whiz, but it works.
"Medicine" is a "practice" and practice sometimes makes perfect...except to the subjects practiced upon....
Medicine's claim to being a science rests on two things:
1. The medical profession names things. To quantify... identify... classify.
2: Repeatable Procedure. This second area is not quite as perfected.
The Scientific Method which is the ritual on which the "Temple of Science" is based consists of describing an experimental system where components ABC subjected to conditions MNO will produce results XYZ And, where this occurs each time the experiment is conducted. Repeatability... it works great with chemistry or physics (except the quantum kind) and other "hard" Science. Medicine, well, that gets a bit sticky because organisms don't tend to hold still like chemicals do.
Unlike other sciences; all a Medico can truly do is make a "best guess" based on years of "practice" and a good understanding of the terms of the businesses (see number 1 above). This makes medicine far more an Art then a Science. Also the terms when coupled with traditional bad handwriting, make Doctors as unintelligible as any priesthood that has gone before.
Lead test; inconclusive article describes why; ballistics test; in spite of crime TV for 25 years: inconclusive; and in smaller calibers: unusable. Oh and to work at all the bullet cannot be at all deformed which happens if the bullet contacts a bone, wall or anything hard. Paraffin test for shooting a gun: inconclusive; you cannot tell the difference between shooting a gun, lighting a firework, shoveling manure, or shaking hand with a politician and since washing hands after any of these is a natural reaction, it will not work. Most "Scientific" crime tests rely more on the unlettered faith of the jurors in this heap big magic called "Science" then in the science itself...
You missed the most important part; the statement (which preceeds a fat grant application): "Our researchers deterimed that this needs more study". The proposal is for the researchers to be as far removed as possible from most online subjects so the next study should be conducted while attending a Chearleader convention in a Caribbean
destination. admitting this fact should help insure a good online rudness index...
My install, on a Macbook went flawless. Now, I am not a typical Mac user in that I crossed the divide some 10 years ago but with only one foot in the camp. I own 7 Macs, but about 9 PCs; plus old Commodores Apple IIs and even an Altair, and an Osborne (CP/M ROCKS!). Yes I am old school. Also I know a wee bit about DOS, and every Windows since Windows 2.03 and every Mac OS since 5.0 on floppy. Also I have played with Linux since kernel 2.0 and know BSD in both Free and Net flavors. I even dabbled with BeOS.
Leopard has fixed most of the annoyances that remained in Tiger. Yes it is a new folder look, but the change was for a reason and seems to work quite well and quite intuitively. A counterpoint would be Vista and change for marketing sake. At least I assume that was the reason; I can see no advantage to the user nor benefit to operation for those changes.
I took an existing not high-end Mac and upgraded it. The result was a more robust system, all files intact, all settings working. Also the machine responds noticeably quicker. I have done exactly this same process with a PC and Windows Vista. The machine was a generic Dell P4 so it was not a experimenter model with weird boards or strange configurations. THAT experience yielded a sluggish machine, wizards that seemed to be confused, a security structure from hell, and messed up settings. and mind you I LIKE Windows.
Conclusion: Apple did their homework. Leopard delivers.
My home theater is totally home made of various parts acquired over the years. No I am not a audiophile who can tell a db difference in whatness, matter of fact I have tinnitus in my right ear but, I do like cool sounds all around so...I got some cable and strung (in wall) cables to some speakers in the back (standard stereo speakers off a old Sears Roebuck stereo from some 30 years back) - Hung them from the Ceiling pointed down. It worked like a champ. Added 2 more to the front pointed out. Then a 3rd behind the TV. I bought a amp/tuner that has front back middle and woofer. For the last, I bought a quality PC speaker system and plugged its woofer in; the other speakers are under the couch' talk about an added feature! Then I hooked the amp to my various video feeds (I have everything from Syabas based Avel and Eyehome (there is CAT5 and a router behind the amp), to DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, and yes even Beta) via both analog A/B switches and in 2 cases Toslink on a "light" switch. the whole thing cost surprisingly little.
Actually I own a MDD, a G5 1.8 dual, and a Macbook, oh plus several older Macs and about 6-7 PCs. (nad other machiens as well).
Professionaly I support a office with 4 G5s, a couple of Mac Pros, and some assorted powerbooks and macbooks, and older G4s. I also support some thousand desktops at work. and yes I have zero budget now both personally and at work.
Both my home and office enviornments are quite stable. Upgrade my Macs to 10/5? HECK YES When I can afford it. Be ready RIGHT NOW to answer questions for work and not look like a dufus because it is as new to me as to my users? HELL NO. I will use whatever tool comes to hand. But NOT on my work boxes. no way! nor on a box I USE. a hack machine as a learnign tool. certainly.
The market for actual computer users of Mac OS X is best served by buying a real Mac. Users of the hacked OS X are by nature, experimenter geeks. This is not a configuration for those actually USING the beast as a main business or home computer.. That is the point missed on this; It is a experimenter toy. The potential of it becoming as seamless to install (I am joking here) as windows on a PC would certainly hurt Apple's hardware sales and I can understand them opposing this.
Now a real "Use" for this "distro"? Say you were the person responsible in a company for Macs. Say you needed to review the new operating system, learn its quirks, its advantages, its differences before installing on live machines so you don't destroy the current and stable 10.4 systems. Say you need to be a step ahead. Now, add to that zero budget for a test box to experiment with.
There is a unused core duo in the garage and...humm... a Hackintosh might be the bridge box that would just fit...
Sounds perfect for finding all those mod points I lost....
why stop there?
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/mary.html
Fancy way of sayin "Lawyers get rich" Remember the tobacco suits where the Lawyers that won then turned aroudn and sued their clients for a bigger piece of the pie?
Me thinks California needs to submit a few forms to some non compliant forests in terms of greenhouse emissions the last few days...
Given that their plans are all up in the air, it probably will never fly as a fuel source
In 1898 Congress voted ina sur-tax on telecommunication (in its infancy) to pay the costs of the Spanish American War. That war ENDED before the tax could be implemented. Regardless, the law was the law and from 1898 till its repeal in 2005 the governemnt collected money ont his tax. You were allowed to request a refund (fill out a zillion forms- but your refund was only for the last 3 years it existed (I think it was 3 years). Phone companies may steal, but government steals more and with their help...
Seems mythic enough to me.
You are mythtaken, it is actually a mythtery
Indeed. After all a Patent on your idea is absolutely VITAL to maintaining your market....NOT!!
See how Coca-Cola protected their formula.
Bureaucrats and lawyers...a winning combination...for bureaucrats and lawyers.
Speaking as someone who worked his way through college reading Taort cards in local coffeehouses (I am not kidding, I really did).... I don't believe a word of it..