Privacy means you have the right to hide what you do and keep secrets. Freedom means you have the right to do what you do and you don't have to keep it secret.
Privacy gives us "Don't ask, Don't tell" policies. Freedom grows out of a society with greater tolerance and acceptance.
Privacy is unneeded when everyone is so good that what you do is ok and wont be punished and they won't do anything they shouldn't with anything they know. So, I think Freedom is the ideal, and Privacy is a fine first step until we all have Freedom.
It's 140 MB and bigger than my monitor. It's 1920 pixels wide. It can fill a 23 inch cinema display. It's huge. From what I saw of it there's detail right down to every one of those 1920 pixels. Wow.
Somday I will have a system worthy of playing this movie trailer.
I think the single greatest factor was coming from a community that values education. You know, it's the little things like parents who go to parent-teacher conferences, having nice buildings and books, living in a community that regularly votes to raise its taxes to pay for better schools, and having the majority of the parents making a living at a job they can't get without a college education. Yep, that's just one of the oddities of growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a one industry town and that industry is government research. I'd guess that at least half of the kids I went to school with had a PhD parent in the household. So, you see, these people understood the value of education.
By posting a comment on this article, I can troll two products at once! I'm a PostegreSQL snob and a Java snob!
Of course, this book is just indicative of one of the key features of the Open Source movement: the ability to take two bad software packages and combine them to form something truely horrific.
Is this machine supposed to be representative of what Apple will be selling in a year? Are game developers supposed to get one of these and write a game for approximately this much CPU and Graphics Card ability?
You put far too much thought into this. Good job.:-)
Maybe from here on out every "the machines are really running things" plot will sound a bit Matrix-y, but, this sounds a bit Matrix-y. Although, having to do with nanotechnology and the physical world makes it better.
Also, if you're ever not sure there's a God out there, become one. Maybe He only bothers to speak to His equals. So, we have lots of classic Sci-Fi in here. Asimov has a story about a God-computer, and we have it exercizing Clarke's law of sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic. Awesome.
"So, does this mean that R2-D2 is really the main character in Star Wars?"
Yep. R2 is truely the most Force attuned of them all. Yoda and the other Jedi may have Midichlorians, but R2 has METALchlorians! [guitar riff!] Excellent!
Actually I can argue with it
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PHP is a horrible language. Even perl is a better programming language. Java and Python blow it away in ability to create easy to maintain and efficient data structures. I'm amazed and fearful of the monstrosities that have been cobbled together with PHP (I'm talking about you Mediawiki and Drupal).
PHP is to web programming as x86 is to microprocessor architecture. It's nasty and inefficient and I can't figure out why so many people use it.
And like many other no-declaration scripting languages PHP is sorely lacking in warnings and errors. Forgot a dollarsign or typoed your variable name? Sorry, yer screwed!
To let you know where I'm coming from, Apache Tomcat is my favorite solution. But it seems that the project I most want to tinker with is Scoop and I'm finding mod_perl pretty workable and the way they architected that giant mass of perl is pretty reasonable. </rant>
This is a somewhat emotional and sad event for me. Maybe lots have people have said in various ways that it would happen, but now it's here. It's kind of like my favorite candidate dropping out of the race after losing one too many primaries and "seeing the writing on the wall" to fold in with the big guy. But, but, the other way was Better! This injures my sense of wanting things to be done the best possible way. The most efficient. The nicest. The easiest. Cheaper. Faster. Cooler. But, alas, all that has now been thrown aside to economic expediency. The overwhelming weight of the mediocre has won again.
Or they'll switch to Intel's Strong ARM chips. Though, any one of those is relatively cheap and not too fast. So the next high end Apple desktop would be have to be a cluster of 16-32 of them. Or given their low power nature the mythical "mac on intel" will actually be a tablet/pda/phone thing.
I haven't gotten my super-duper PC game out yet! PC gaming can't die!
Really, developing for consoles seems to be a rather specialized endeavor best suited to established game companies. What of the little guy? Carmack wouldn't have written Doom for a console.
On the other hand, people will develop for what they have. I'd happily develop for a Cell processor if I had a cheap (Free/free preferrably) development environment for it.
If you have a battery system and an inverter big enough to run everything, start feeding those batteries from solar panels. When the batteries are full (default state), run the inverter and run on sunlight all day.
Building a sun farm over your server farm makes sense to me. Oh, sure, payback is like 10 years when you buy a photovoltaic generation system. I hope some current server farm operators expect to be around that long.
This consumer has chosen and thinks his iPod Shuffle is a fine device.
Ms Rosen may now crawl back under a rock and criticize something she has a clue about.
Why might it be better than the free docs?
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I think that's the first question any book like this would have to answer. Free and reasonably comprehensive documentation is included right along with all of these libraries. Why pay for anything more?
The answer is likely to be in tutorials or teaching narrative. I bought the OpenGL Guide for that to learn OpenGL because the API was a nasty maze to navigate otherwise. I don't think Jakarta Commons have that problem and I don't expect I'll be buying a book about them.
With a broad tax like that, people should steal to make sure they get their money's worth. If I buy a 60 GB iPod, then I must be entitled to steal $258 worth of music! Oh, and I think songs really ought to sell for $.25, so I'll enjoy those thousad songs.
Is a light weight Free/free spreadsheet either written in Java or otherwise ported to MacOS X. I specifiy "light weight" because OO.org seems just as bulky and bloated as M$-ware.
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No nasty emissions. Goes slowly so less energy wasted on aerodynamic drag.
Though, maybe someone will complain about birds crashing into it. Oh well.
Privacy means you have the right to hide what you do and keep secrets. Freedom means you have the right to do what you do and you don't have to keep it secret.
Privacy gives us "Don't ask, Don't tell" policies. Freedom grows out of a society with greater tolerance and acceptance.
Privacy is unneeded when everyone is so good that what you do is ok and wont be punished and they won't do anything they shouldn't with anything they know. So, I think Freedom is the ideal, and Privacy is a fine first step until we all have Freedom.
I'm not feeling compelled.
Why take a step back from a G5?
It's 140 MB and bigger than my monitor. It's 1920 pixels wide. It can fill a 23 inch cinema display. It's huge. From what I saw of it there's detail right down to every one of those 1920 pixels. Wow.
Somday I will have a system worthy of playing this movie trailer.
the one that didn't suck.
I want the old CNN back too; back before they tried to out-Fox Faux News.
Wah.
Given that those things are what you want, and Macs do that, you want a Mac, right?
Seems pretty simple to me.
until your new box is compromised.
Or, like I've been saying for years, "Get A Macintosh"
In this day and age of lowered expectations, maybe Apple should change their slogan to "Doesn't Suck!"
I think the single greatest factor was coming from a community that values education. You know, it's the little things like parents who go to parent-teacher conferences, having nice buildings and books, living in a community that regularly votes to raise its taxes to pay for better schools, and having the majority of the parents making a living at a job they can't get without a college education. Yep, that's just one of the oddities of growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a one industry town and that industry is government research. I'd guess that at least half of the kids I went to school with had a PhD parent in the household. So, you see, these people understood the value of education.
By posting a comment on this article, I can troll two products at once! I'm a PostegreSQL snob and a Java snob!
Of course, this book is just indicative of one of the key features of the Open Source movement: the ability to take two bad software packages and combine them to form something truely horrific.
(I wasn't using that Karma anyway.)
Is this machine supposed to be representative of what Apple will be selling in a year? Are game developers supposed to get one of these and write a game for approximately this much CPU and Graphics Card ability?
He did come across the wrong end of a light sabre a few times. Four times if I remember correctly. (Once in Ep 2, Three in one swing in Ep 3!)
Don't give them so much credit.
Why let them determine something's retail viability? Why credit them with so much power? If you do that you only help to make it true.
You put far too much thought into this. Good job. :-)
Maybe from here on out every "the machines are really running things" plot will sound a bit Matrix-y, but, this sounds a bit Matrix-y. Although, having to do with nanotechnology and the physical world makes it better.
Also, if you're ever not sure there's a God out there, become one. Maybe He only bothers to speak to His equals. So, we have lots of classic Sci-Fi in here. Asimov has a story about a God-computer, and we have it exercizing Clarke's law of sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic. Awesome.
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Yep. R2 is truely the most Force attuned of them all. Yoda and the other Jedi may have Midichlorians, but R2 has METAL chlorians! [guitar riff!] Excellent!
PHP is a horrible language. Even perl is a better programming language. Java and Python blow it away in ability to create easy to maintain and efficient data structures. I'm amazed and fearful of the monstrosities that have been cobbled together with PHP (I'm talking about you Mediawiki and Drupal).
PHP is to web programming as x86 is to microprocessor architecture. It's nasty and inefficient and I can't figure out why so many people use it.
And like many other no-declaration scripting languages PHP is sorely lacking in warnings and errors. Forgot a dollarsign or typoed your variable name? Sorry, yer screwed!
To let you know where I'm coming from, Apache Tomcat is my favorite solution. But it seems that the project I most want to tinker with is Scoop and I'm finding mod_perl pretty workable and the way they architected that giant mass of perl is pretty reasonable.
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http://apple.slashdot.org/hof.shtml
2764 comments is the number to beat
This is a somewhat emotional and sad event for me. Maybe lots have people have said in various ways that it would happen, but now it's here. It's kind of like my favorite candidate dropping out of the race after losing one too many primaries and "seeing the writing on the wall" to fold in with the big guy. But, but, the other way was Better! This injures my sense of wanting things to be done the best possible way. The most efficient. The nicest. The easiest. Cheaper. Faster. Cooler. But, alas, all that has now been thrown aside to economic expediency. The overwhelming weight of the mediocre has won again.
Or they'll switch to Intel's Strong ARM chips. Though, any one of those is relatively cheap and not too fast. So the next high end Apple desktop would be have to be a cluster of 16-32 of them. Or given their low power nature the mythical "mac on intel" will actually be a tablet/pda/phone thing.
I haven't gotten my super-duper PC game out yet! PC gaming can't die!
Really, developing for consoles seems to be a rather specialized endeavor best suited to established game companies. What of the little guy? Carmack wouldn't have written Doom for a console.
On the other hand, people will develop for what they have. I'd happily develop for a Cell processor if I had a cheap (Free/free preferrably) development environment for it.
If you have a battery system and an inverter big enough to run everything, start feeding those batteries from solar panels. When the batteries are full (default state), run the inverter and run on sunlight all day.
Building a sun farm over your server farm makes sense to me. Oh, sure, payback is like 10 years when you buy a photovoltaic generation system. I hope some current server farm operators expect to be around that long.
This consumer has chosen and thinks his iPod Shuffle is a fine device.
Ms Rosen may now crawl back under a rock and criticize something she has a clue about.
I think that's the first question any book like this would have to answer. Free and reasonably comprehensive documentation is included right along with all of these libraries. Why pay for anything more?
The answer is likely to be in tutorials or teaching narrative. I bought the OpenGL Guide for that to learn OpenGL because the API was a nasty maze to navigate otherwise. I don't think Jakarta Commons have that problem and I don't expect I'll be buying a book about them.
It's the best format for posting my analysis of the Senate voting record:
n ate20050428.svg
http://bolson.org/gov/us/senate/2005/distgraph/se
For fewer bytes I post better data than a comparable PNG.
With a broad tax like that, people should steal to make sure they get their money's worth. If I buy a 60 GB iPod, then I must be entitled to steal $258 worth of music! Oh, and I think songs really ought to sell for $.25, so I'll enjoy those thousad songs.
Is a light weight Free/free spreadsheet either written in Java or otherwise ported to MacOS X. I specifiy "light weight" because OO.org seems just as bulky and bloated as M$-ware.