I hope that Microsoft changes their product so Macs won't work with Exchange the same way that Apple changed iTunes to break compatibility with the Pre.
So you want more incompatibilities in the world? That's teach all those scumbags.
many people would consider sp2 just as big a change as a "New OS version". Not new to computers, just never bought into apple's marketing.
Do service packs add features or functionality? Or are they bug fixes? OS X 10.5 added features and functionality to what was available with 10.4. On the other hand every Windows service pack I installed only fixed bugs, they did not add features or functions. Even upgrading Windows 98 to Windows 98 SE was mostly fixing bugs. And I had to pay for the disk I ordered, I couldn't download it.
P.S. From etch to lenny? 100% free and no heart-ache either.
Can I install and run Photoshop CS4 on Jaunty Jackalope? And don't say GIMP is a replacement for PS because it's not. GIMP 2.6 doesn't even edit in 16 bits per colour channel, never mind PS's 24 and 32 bit colour depths. GIMP doesn't separate colours into CYMK either, a plug-in is needed for that. While GIMP is terrific for web work, it does not cut it for professional print photographers. Now CinePaint, formerly known as Film Gimp, has some of these capabilities however it was dropped from the Ubuntu repositories. Now CinePaint is only included in Ubuntu Studio, on which I'll try CinePaint before I fork over money for Photoshop.
There is honestly no difference between Windows and OS X in their release cycles except for different terminology.
Ah but there are differences between Apple's and Microsoft's release cycles. Apple releases new versions of OS X about every 18 months whereas it takes Microsoft longer. Between 2001 when Apple released OS X 10.0 and now it has released 6 new versions of OS X, with Snow Leopard making it 7. MS released Windows XP in 2001 a few months after OS X was released. Since 2001 MS has released 5 new versions of Windows, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Vista, and Windows Server 2008. Windows 7, which is scheduled to be released on 22 October 2009, will make it 5. That will make them about the same however Apple only releases one version of OS X for Macs whereas MS releases desktop and server versions of Windows for PCs.
A big problem with the way that Apple does upgrades is that to get bugfixes, you often do need to buy the newest OS X and it's seldom free.
Hogwash, I constantly get free bug fixes from Apple. Just yesterday I ran Software Update and downloaded and installed a security fix free. Just as I did when I used Windows I run update every couple of weeks if not more often. Right now I have OS X 10.5.8 when I originally installed a pre-release version of 10.5 Leopard. That's more than 8 updates to the OS I did not pay a dime for, outside of what I paid for my Mac. Of course those updates don't count the updates to apps such as the iLife bundle and Safari. On their download page Apple lists more than 750 downloads. Of those 90 are firmware and hardware updates, 205 are Mac OS X Updates, and 175 are Security Updates.
if I wanted to buy the newest Mac OS X upgrade for Power PC, my laptop could not use it because its graphics chip is to slow.
And if I were to dig out my Windows laptop I would not be able to install Vista on it, not even with it crippled. Heck, I have three PCs under my desk now and I could not install Vista on any of them. So this is a bogus criticism.
If, and only if, "you've purchased a qualifying computer or Xserve on or after June 8, 2009 that does not include Mac OS X Snow Leopard". When and if I upgrade my 2 year old MacBook Pro Snow Leopard will cost me $30 because I am running Leopard. If I still had Tiger and not Leopard it's cost $130.
Point releases, like going from 10.5.1 to 10.5.6, is downloadable and free but going from 10.5 to 10.6 is not. However Apple sells OS X DVDs, full versions not upgrade disks like Microsoft, er did sell DVDs for $129 however Snow Leopard costs $29.00. Damn, I wasn't planning on upgrading but at that price I may wait in line to buy it when it's released.
I've never owned a mac, but was thinking of getting a macbook in the future.
While I'd congratulate you for switching like I did, after buying and using Windows PCs for 10 years I switched when I bought a tower PC with Linux installed and a MacBook Pro for my laptop, make sure you're doing it for the right reason and do a proper analysis to see if a MacBook will do what you want or need it to do. I'm glad I switched and love my Mac but they aren't for everybody.
And no, comparing specs Macs are not more expensive than Windows PCs, of course Apple doesn't compeat in cheap but expandable and upgradeable computer lines.
As someone who has been testing Snow Leopard in many different scenarios for the past four months, I can say this is one update that will likely give you no problems if you install over the top of your existing 10.5.x installation.
Though I like that Snow Leopard is leaner and faster I'm not planning to upgrade my Mac to it. It took me more than a year to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard even though I had the Leopard disk. Ended up the only reason I did upgrade was because I found out upgrading to Java 6 required Leopard, Apple would not release Java 6 for Tiger. Some hackers or programmers got it working on Tiger but it required workarounds.
But, for maximum speed and efficiency, I would back up your user data and apps, and do a clean install.
I know people don't but you should always keep backups. For mine I use external HDDs and I'm pretty much in the habit of copying files from my user files to a user folder on the external drives when I save them. To do a clean install, which I prefer anyway, I don't have to be concerned about the install nuking my data. Even if I reformat the OS X drive when I install it, my data won't be nuked. That's because the physical hard disk drive in my Mac is partitioned into 3 partitions. The first partition has Mac OSX installed on it. The third one is reserved for Ubuntu Studio. And the second partition is the user home, which Leopard is set to use now and Ubuntu will also be set to use as the home partition. That way I'll have access to all of my documents in both OSes.
To do a clean install all I need to do is backup my preferences if I want to keep the preferences for my software. However I have, though didn't install yet, Carbon Copy Cloner which clones disks. After I do install it I'll set it up to automatically sync backups with the home folders,. That way I won't need to manually copy, and test, files onto my backups disks.
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On second thought, if I can save 9 GBs of disk space by upgrading to Snow Leopard I very well may upgrade. I upgraded the original 160 GB HDD that came with my Mac to a "320 GB" drive, that was the biggest one I could find locally that would work with my Mac, and it's more than half full. I don't even have my photos on it yet, and I have 1,000s of 35mm exposures on film.
It was just an example. I actually worked at restaurants in my younger days and didn't enjoy it much.
So did I and I didn't like it either. Of course I didn't get to decide what I'd bake or cook. Unlike now, I'm getting ready to cook and can some of what I'm growing in my garden. I've got both acorn and zucchini squash, different types of tomatoes, and onions I still have to pick.
The point is that software development isn't a very good long-term profession if you're in it for the money.
You can develop software as a profession still, you just need to find a business that offers service and support to pay you.
Having sacrificed stability for doing what I love, I'm not anxious to shift to support at this late date.
Before, I said I wanted to start a photography business. But because of the costs of commercial applications, which I can't afford, I want to develop my own software. If I'm going to spend tyme programming I'd like to be able to sell the programs to make some more money. Because I want to work as a photographer I want to be able to close the source and prevent others from selling, or giving them away, I decided I'd rather use a BSD license over the GPL. I figured I could use and sell the software for a while then open the source of older versions as I make improvements.
If I didn't want to be in the business of writing and selling software I could open a restaurant.
I know you didn't say you wanted to , but good luck for those who want to start a restaurant, they are among the hardest and riskiest businesses to start. I loved baking and would spend a weekend baking. I'd bring what I baked to college when I was a student. Some friends said I should start a bakery and I casually looked into it. I found out businesses in the food services arena has one of the highest rates of failure.
Neither one is making making money from software they originally wrote. IBM continues to be an attractive company from a CYA point of view ("nobody ever got fired by buying from IBM") and Redhat is the CYA company for Linux.
It does not matter, they both use the GPL and they both make money. Now if you had asked if they make money from software they program themselves and release as GPL software, I'd have to say I don't know, MySQL does though. Businesses can make money off of GPLed software, but personally for my own programs I'd prefer to use a BSD license.
Do you think that a software startup should have the goal of becoming the next IBM?
That depends on the people involved. It's their decision, let them make the choice. So long as the choice is not forced on them or they don't force their decision on others I have no problem.
et a Thinkpad, do some research for Linux compat, throw Ubuntu with Etoile on it, and you'll get something at least equal to a Macbook.
Before I got my MacBook I did research and I plan on installing Ubuntu Studio on it. And I doubt a Thinkpad with or without Ubuntu installed is better than a MacBook Pro. The Thinkpad X200 Tablet may come close if Leveno offered a 17" model, all they have is a 12.1 inch LCD. However that wouldn't hold true if Apple were to also to offer a 17" tablet.
One reason is because though I can install Ubuntu on my Mac, I can't install Photoshop CS4 in Ubuntu. And no, GIMP is not a drop-in replacement for professional print photographers. It's fine for amateur or web work but not for print photography.
Linux is mature enough to make them a non-issue for general usage.
General use yes, but not pro print photography. I am hoping to start my own photography business and I don't want or need to buy 2 laptops.
BTW, did you consider trying QEMU instead?
QEMU? I don't er didn't know what it was. Apparently it's a hardware emulator. While it can host Windows NT4 for Alpha, as well as Mips and PPC, as a guess I didn't find anything saying it can run on an Alpha to emulate an Intel. So it does me no good.
Yes, Canonical. It is nowhere to be seen in contributions to the linux kernel. Why won't the biggest name in desktop linux, which is funded by a millionaire, doesn't contribute to the linux kernel?
"Canonical is a commercial, for-profit company that provides engineering and development services, 24x7 support for Ubuntu Linux, training, hardware certification and application packaging."
I don't think canonical has hundreds of millions, i thought they just had a few million.
The Ubuntu project and Canonical was started by the South African Mark Shuttleworth who spent millions of dollars to fly to the Space Station on a Russian Rocket as a cosmonaut.
they are also passing on a strategical opportunity to help out where it matters a lot.
Where it matters a lot is getting Linux onto the desks of end users, unless you want Linux to remain only as servers and toys for geeks, and Canonical is doing quite well in that regard.
And there's plenty drivers living in userland missing. For example anything connected by USB, the kernel can do raw read/write to all USB devices but without a driver to know where and what to write that won't do any good. A linux issue yes, but not a kernel issue.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, so excuse me if I'm wrong, but I got a PC with Linux preinstalled and when I plugged in a USB flash drive an icon popped up on my desktop and I was able to use it right away. This was more than 3 years ago.
I don't think that a hard drive upgrade would be hard. PATA-SATA converters are dirt cheap.
Well I've replaced and added disks before but I don't know what interface the Alpha uses. That and once when I replaced a disk I had to run a utility that came on a disk with it. I'm also concerned about compatibility. Next to the Alpha is a PC with Linux installed. When I bought it I bought a Maxtor second disk to use as the user partition. No matter what I did I couldn't get Linux to recognize the disk. It ended up Linux had a problem with Maxtor drives so I returned it and got a Seagate. After installing it I didn't know how to get Linux to mount it so I had someone at the Geek Squad do it. He had to research it himself but then told me what to look for next tyme so I could research and do it myself, I know the fstab file has to be edited now.
BTW, what sort of errors did you encounter?
Installing software with FX!32? It gave me messages it could not install the software. Now they may not really be errors but they were to me. Here I was, I'd spent a lot of money on hardware but I couldn't install most of the software I also bought. About the only saving grace was that I also bought a laptop I was able to install the software on.
There I was with all the hardware and software, wishing I had bought Macs instead. Well after ten years of buying and using Windows PCs I finally switched. First to the Linux PC above, then I got a MacBook Pro for my laptop.
In a way, I can sort of see Microsoft at least tentatively embracing Linux if that was the way the wind was blowing. However, I would be truly gobsmacked if Apple did, given their corporate culture which is even less inclusive than Microsoft's.
Actually Apple supports FOSS and individual Apple employees help at least some with Linux. I just wish they could help with an issue I have with Eclipse. When I try to use it in a user account I get an error, I went to 2 different Apple stores and asked a Genus at the bar if they could help me and both said company policy didn't allow it. They said I had to check in the online discussion forums.
Here's some Apple links to FOSS downloads. Among them are the native Mac port of Open Office NeoOffice, PHP, Apache, and Open Office 3.1.
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BTW I checked both the forums and googled the error but didn't find a solution.
What I found weird about installing, or trying to install, software on the Alpha was that the only commercial closed source proprietary software I was able to install was the Borland compiler yet I was able to install a few freeware/shareware and open source programs. Not even Netscape would install, I called tech support and they said they didn't support Alphas.
because the sole reason for existence for an OS is running apps.
And the sole reason for the existence of hardware is to run software.
BTW, I am crazy with envy right now... Dude, you got an Alpha?
Yeap. I ordered it from Microway back at the end of 1997. I ordered it with two 5GBhard disks, which were big then. On one disk NT4 was installed and Redhat Linux was installed on the other. I don't know if I could do it but I'd like to upgrade it. For hardware I'd replace the HDDs, add a DVD drive, Firewire, new network card, and USB, as well as RAM. I'd replace one HDD with a disk at least 100GB then make two partitions, one for NT4 and the other for Linux, the other one I'd replace with a big drive. At least 1TB, for user files. Both NT4 and Linux would use the second drive as the home partition.
Of course about all it's good for now is as a play thing, unless it's used as part of a Beowulf cluster. I don't want it to go to waste, so maybe I can use it as a server. I don't know if they can but maybe the Geek Squad can upgrade it.
The Constitution was undermined after the US Supreme Court ruled against Jackson in the Worcester v. Georgia case in 1832 and Jackson said "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"
I used to think that too. Now I'm unsure. Wikipedia says the quote is actually a misquote paraphrased to have the same effect.
First, thanks for the link. I searched wiki but didn't find the article, perhaps that's because I searched for "Worcester vs Georgia" not "Worcester v. Georgia". One little "s". Now if you google "Worcester vs Georgia" it returns more than 44,000 results. Remove the double quotes when searching Wiki, which I just did, and the article is the first result.
As for whether Jackson had indeed said it, I don't recall hearing or seeing a dispute on whether he did or not.
Roosevelt more or less did the same thing by telling the Supreme Court "make me" when they determined a lot of it's New Deal legislation unconstitutional and ordered it stopped. This forced the court to compromise and expand the interstate commerce clause to allow much of the meat of the new deal to stay.
I don't recall that though I know a lot of people accuse Roosevelt of court packing.
Roosevelt knew his new deal legislation was largely unconstitutional before even attempting it.
"It's a shame to let a good crisis go to waste."
FDR wasn't the first, and Obama (I know he didn't say it) won't be the last. All I can see to try to stop it is a revolt, and if I could I'd move to New Hampshire to join the Free State Project.
I really think the premise the south held was valid even if I don't agree with the core reasoning behind the actions.
Say here. The South seceded over the issue of states rights which I agree with. What I don't agree with is slavery, thus why I disagree with the H.L. Mencken quote. He's only talking about self determination for those who were free but not for slaves.
To me, in a lot of ways, this is the pivotal point when the US constitution started getting undermined.
In some ways perhaps, though the undermining was accelerated then not started. It was undermined 30 years, rounding, before. The Constitution was undermined after the US Supreme Court ruled against Jackson in the Worcester v. Georgia case in 1832 and Jackson said "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"
If we would have had a constitutional amendment before the civil war the ended slavery instead of a presidential decree, I think things would have been a little different.
An amendment wasn't realistically possible. Hell Thomas Jefferson tried to include Blacks, and Women, in the Declaration of Independence. In early drafts he wrote how everybody had the same rights however because there were Founding Fathers who believed in slavery, and women's rights, objected he had to remove those parts.
However even if it wasn't possible to have an amendment before the Civil War some economists studying the area concluded that because of economics slavery would have ended, it was more expensive to own slaves than it was to pay willing workers a living wage.
There is no free market in any of those. Banks, if they are federally chartered need to follow Federal Reserve and FDIC regulations.
The reason they are federally regulated is because before the creation of the FDIC and the rules of the Great Depression, there were bank panics every ten years during the 19th Century.
There is still no free market in banking. Also the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, during the Great Depression, introduced more regulations as did the Banking Act of 1933 or Second Glass Steagall Act.
In fact, given the most recent data, Fannie and Freddie are faring better than private mortgage holders.
There is no data there about commercial banks, not is there comparisons between different banks. All that link of yours is about is "loan modifications by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac", copy and paste. Try again.
There are dozens of western countries who have found a non-market solution to the health care problem, they are living just as long, they are paying less, and their people are happier with their care than we are with ours.
Yea, they're so happy many of them come to the US for surgery and treatments. 24% of Canadians waited 4 hours or more in the emergency room." And let's see about cancer mortality: "Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher." Let's see about test rates, from the same link:
Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.
More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).
Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent).
Duplicating infrastructure is simply stupid.
Oh I agree, as far as physical infrastructure is concerned. I didn't say otherwise either. I've actually argued ownership of infrastructure should be separated from ownership of services it can deliver. I live in Minneapolis and I wouldn't have a problem if the city installed fiber to the door then allowed, key phrase here; different entities whether businesses, charities, or coops; to use the fiber to offer subscribers internet access, phone service, or TV. I'vepostedlinks to news about a group of communities in northeastern Utah who did this which I support. Private businesses can use the infrastructure the local governments built to compeat with each other.
"How much are you willing to pay for running water and sewage?"
I have no problem with local governments running water and sewage. I actually oppose privatizing water. I however do not want the federal government controlling any of it.
I disagree with other libertarian positions too, for instance many libertarians advocate privatizing roads. However I oppose that, I however think local and state government should do more and the federal government less.
But, you will have to worry about whether these nano-bots will simply stop after restoring the brain to it's previous state (so I guess you would forget what happened to you since before the 'incident', or will the bot's become self-aware (possibly as a group), then rewire your brain so your body is totally controlled by the bot's...
No, I don't worry about that. I think if anything it'd be a relief for me.
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I hope that Microsoft changes their product so Macs won't work with Exchange the same way that Apple changed iTunes to break compatibility with the Pre.
So you want more incompatibilities in the world? That's teach all those scumbags.
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many people would consider sp2 just as big a change as a "New OS version". Not new to computers, just never bought into apple's marketing.
Do service packs add features or functionality? Or are they bug fixes? OS X 10.5 added features and functionality to what was available with 10.4. On the other hand every Windows service pack I installed only fixed bugs, they did not add features or functions. Even upgrading Windows 98 to Windows 98 SE was mostly fixing bugs. And I had to pay for the disk I ordered, I couldn't download it.
P.S. From etch to lenny? 100% free and no heart-ache either.
Can I install and run Photoshop CS4 on Jaunty Jackalope? And don't say GIMP is a replacement for PS because it's not. GIMP 2.6 doesn't even edit in 16 bits per colour channel, never mind PS's 24 and 32 bit colour depths. GIMP doesn't separate colours into CYMK either, a plug-in is needed for that. While GIMP is terrific for web work, it does not cut it for professional print photographers. Now CinePaint, formerly known as Film Gimp, has some of these capabilities however it was dropped from the Ubuntu repositories. Now CinePaint is only included in Ubuntu Studio, on which I'll try CinePaint before I fork over money for Photoshop.
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There is honestly no difference between Windows and OS X in their release cycles except for different terminology.
Ah but there are differences between Apple's and Microsoft's release cycles. Apple releases new versions of OS X about every 18 months whereas it takes Microsoft longer. Between 2001 when Apple released OS X 10.0 and now it has released 6 new versions of OS X, with Snow Leopard making it 7. MS released Windows XP in 2001 a few months after OS X was released. Since 2001 MS has released 5 new versions of Windows, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Vista, and Windows Server 2008. Windows 7, which is scheduled to be released on 22 October 2009, will make it 5. That will make them about the same however Apple only releases one version of OS X for Macs whereas MS releases desktop and server versions of Windows for PCs.
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A big problem with the way that Apple does upgrades is that to get bugfixes, you often do need to buy the newest OS X and it's seldom free.
Hogwash, I constantly get free bug fixes from Apple. Just yesterday I ran Software Update and downloaded and installed a security fix free. Just as I did when I used Windows I run update every couple of weeks if not more often. Right now I have OS X 10.5.8 when I originally installed a pre-release version of 10.5 Leopard. That's more than 8 updates to the OS I did not pay a dime for, outside of what I paid for my Mac. Of course those updates don't count the updates to apps such as the iLife bundle and Safari. On their download page Apple lists more than 750 downloads. Of those 90 are firmware and hardware updates, 205 are Mac OS X Updates, and 175 are Security Updates.
if I wanted to buy the newest Mac OS X upgrade for Power PC, my laptop could not use it because its graphics chip is to slow.
And if I were to dig out my Windows laptop I would not be able to install Vista on it, not even with it crippled. Heck, I have three PCs under my desk now and I could not install Vista on any of them. So this is a bogus criticism.
All you say is FUD.
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If, and only if, "you've purchased a qualifying computer or Xserve on or after June 8, 2009 that does not include Mac OS X Snow Leopard". When and if I upgrade my 2 year old MacBook Pro Snow Leopard will cost me $30 because I am running Leopard. If I still had Tiger and not Leopard it's cost $130.
Falcon
Point releases, like going from 10.5.1 to 10.5.6, is downloadable and free but going from 10.5 to 10.6 is not. However Apple sells OS X DVDs, full versions not upgrade disks like Microsoft, er did sell DVDs for $129 however Snow Leopard costs $29.00. Damn, I wasn't planning on upgrading but at that price I may wait in line to buy it when it's released.
I've never owned a mac, but was thinking of getting a macbook in the future.
While I'd congratulate you for switching like I did, after buying and using Windows PCs for 10 years I switched when I bought a tower PC with Linux installed and a MacBook Pro for my laptop, make sure you're doing it for the right reason and do a proper analysis to see if a MacBook will do what you want or need it to do. I'm glad I switched and love my Mac but they aren't for everybody.
And no, comparing specs Macs are not more expensive than Windows PCs, of course Apple doesn't compeat in cheap but expandable and upgradeable computer lines.
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As someone who has been testing Snow Leopard in many different scenarios for the past four months, I can say this is one update that will likely give you no problems if you install over the top of your existing 10.5.x installation.
Though I like that Snow Leopard is leaner and faster I'm not planning to upgrade my Mac to it. It took me more than a year to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard even though I had the Leopard disk. Ended up the only reason I did upgrade was because I found out upgrading to Java 6 required Leopard, Apple would not release Java 6 for Tiger. Some hackers or programmers got it working on Tiger but it required workarounds.
But, for maximum speed and efficiency, I would back up your user data and apps, and do a clean install.
I know people don't but you should always keep backups. For mine I use external HDDs and I'm pretty much in the habit of copying files from my user files to a user folder on the external drives when I save them. To do a clean install, which I prefer anyway, I don't have to be concerned about the install nuking my data. Even if I reformat the OS X drive when I install it, my data won't be nuked. That's because the physical hard disk drive in my Mac is partitioned into 3 partitions. The first partition has Mac OSX installed on it. The third one is reserved for Ubuntu Studio. And the second partition is the user home, which Leopard is set to use now and Ubuntu will also be set to use as the home partition. That way I'll have access to all of my documents in both OSes.
To do a clean install all I need to do is backup my preferences if I want to keep the preferences for my software. However I have, though didn't install yet, Carbon Copy Cloner which clones disks. After I do install it I'll set it up to automatically sync backups with the home folders,. That way I won't need to manually copy, and test, files onto my backups disks.
Falcon
On second thought, if I can save 9 GBs of disk space by upgrading to Snow Leopard I very well may upgrade. I upgraded the original 160 GB HDD that came with my Mac to a "320 GB" drive, that was the biggest one I could find locally that would work with my Mac, and it's more than half full. I don't even have my photos on it yet, and I have 1,000s of 35mm exposures on film.
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It was just an example. I actually worked at restaurants in my younger days and didn't enjoy it much.
So did I and I didn't like it either. Of course I didn't get to decide what I'd bake or cook. Unlike now, I'm getting ready to cook and can some of what I'm growing in my garden. I've got both acorn and zucchini squash, different types of tomatoes, and onions I still have to pick.
The point is that software development isn't a very good long-term profession if you're in it for the money.
You can develop software as a profession still, you just need to find a business that offers service and support to pay you.
Having sacrificed stability for doing what I love, I'm not anxious to shift to support at this late date.
Before, I said I wanted to start a photography business. But because of the costs of commercial applications, which I can't afford, I want to develop my own software. If I'm going to spend tyme programming I'd like to be able to sell the programs to make some more money. Because I want to work as a photographer I want to be able to close the source and prevent others from selling, or giving them away, I decided I'd rather use a BSD license over the GPL. I figured I could use and sell the software for a while then open the source of older versions as I make improvements.
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If I didn't want to be in the business of writing and selling software I could open a restaurant.
I know you didn't say you wanted to , but good luck for those who want to start a restaurant, they are among the hardest and riskiest businesses to start. I loved baking and would spend a weekend baking. I'd bring what I baked to college when I was a student. Some friends said I should start a bakery and I casually looked into it. I found out businesses in the food services arena has one of the highest rates of failure.
Falcon
Neither one is making making money from software they originally wrote. IBM continues to be an attractive company from a CYA point of view ("nobody ever got fired by buying from IBM") and Redhat is the CYA company for Linux.
It does not matter, they both use the GPL and they both make money. Now if you had asked if they make money from software they program themselves and release as GPL software, I'd have to say I don't know, MySQL does though. Businesses can make money off of GPLed software, but personally for my own programs I'd prefer to use a BSD license.
Do you think that a software startup should have the goal of becoming the next IBM?
That depends on the people involved. It's their decision, let them make the choice. So long as the choice is not forced on them or they don't force their decision on others I have no problem.
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et a Thinkpad, do some research for Linux compat, throw Ubuntu with Etoile on it, and you'll get something at least equal to a Macbook.
Before I got my MacBook I did research and I plan on installing Ubuntu Studio on it. And I doubt a Thinkpad with or without Ubuntu installed is better than a MacBook Pro. The Thinkpad X200 Tablet may come close if Leveno offered a 17" model, all they have is a 12.1 inch LCD. However that wouldn't hold true if Apple were to also to offer a 17" tablet.
One reason is because though I can install Ubuntu on my Mac, I can't install Photoshop CS4 in Ubuntu. And no, GIMP is not a drop-in replacement for professional print photographers. It's fine for amateur or web work but not for print photography.
Linux is mature enough to make them a non-issue for general usage.
General use yes, but not pro print photography. I am hoping to start my own photography business and I don't want or need to buy 2 laptops.
BTW, did you consider trying QEMU instead?
QEMU? I don't er didn't know what it was. Apparently it's a hardware emulator. While it can host Windows NT4 for Alpha, as well as Mips and PPC, as a guess I didn't find anything saying it can run on an Alpha to emulate an Intel. So it does me no good.
Falcon
Want to make a profit? None of the above.
Redhat makes a profit. IBM makes a profit.
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Yes, Canonical. It is nowhere to be seen in contributions to the linux kernel. Why won't the biggest name in desktop linux, which is funded by a millionaire, doesn't contribute to the linux kernel?
"Shuttleworth Offers Canonical Employees to Debian".
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"Canonical is a commercial, for-profit company that provides engineering and development services, 24x7 support for Ubuntu Linux, training, hardware certification and application packaging."
I don't think canonical has hundreds of millions, i thought they just had a few million.
The Ubuntu project and Canonical was started by the South African Mark Shuttleworth who spent millions of dollars to fly to the Space Station on a Russian Rocket as a cosmonaut.
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they are also passing on a strategical opportunity to help out where it matters a lot.
Where it matters a lot is getting Linux onto the desks of end users, unless you want Linux to remain only as servers and toys for geeks, and Canonical is doing quite well in that regard.
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And there's plenty drivers living in userland missing. For example anything connected by USB, the kernel can do raw read/write to all USB devices but without a driver to know where and what to write that won't do any good. A linux issue yes, but not a kernel issue.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, so excuse me if I'm wrong, but I got a PC with Linux preinstalled and when I plugged in a USB flash drive an icon popped up on my desktop and I was able to use it right away. This was more than 3 years ago.
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I don't think that a hard drive upgrade would be hard. PATA-SATA converters are dirt cheap.
Well I've replaced and added disks before but I don't know what interface the Alpha uses. That and once when I replaced a disk I had to run a utility that came on a disk with it. I'm also concerned about compatibility. Next to the Alpha is a PC with Linux installed. When I bought it I bought a Maxtor second disk to use as the user partition. No matter what I did I couldn't get Linux to recognize the disk. It ended up Linux had a problem with Maxtor drives so I returned it and got a Seagate. After installing it I didn't know how to get Linux to mount it so I had someone at the Geek Squad do it. He had to research it himself but then told me what to look for next tyme so I could research and do it myself, I know the fstab file has to be edited now.
BTW, what sort of errors did you encounter?
Installing software with FX!32? It gave me messages it could not install the software. Now they may not really be errors but they were to me. Here I was, I'd spent a lot of money on hardware but I couldn't install most of the software I also bought. About the only saving grace was that I also bought a laptop I was able to install the software on.
There I was with all the hardware and software, wishing I had bought Macs instead. Well after ten years of buying and using Windows PCs I finally switched. First to the Linux PC above, then I got a MacBook Pro for my laptop.
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In a way, I can sort of see Microsoft at least tentatively embracing Linux if that was the way the wind was blowing. However, I would be truly gobsmacked if Apple did, given their corporate culture which is even less inclusive than Microsoft's.
Actually Apple supports FOSS and individual Apple employees help at least some with Linux. I just wish they could help with an issue I have with Eclipse. When I try to use it in a user account I get an error, I went to 2 different Apple stores and asked a Genus at the bar if they could help me and both said company policy didn't allow it. They said I had to check in the online discussion forums.
Here's some Apple links to FOSS downloads. Among them are the native Mac port of Open Office NeoOffice, PHP, Apache, and Open Office 3.1.
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BTW I checked both the forums and googled the error but didn't find a solution.
To me, it wouldn't make since for Apple, a company selling a commercial OS based on FreeBSD, to pay people to work on a different kernel.
While Apple doesn't use and contribute to the Linux kernel, they use and contribute to the khtml engine, it's used in Safari.
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I'm a little surprised to see that Cannonical isn't on this list. Redhat, sure, but Cannonical has a huge marketshare.
Canonical doesn't do much if any kernel work, they use Debian. As an earlier poster said Canonical focuses on userland programming.
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What I found weird about installing, or trying to install, software on the Alpha was that the only commercial closed source proprietary software I was able to install was the Borland compiler yet I was able to install a few freeware/shareware and open source programs. Not even Netscape would install, I called tech support and they said they didn't support Alphas.
because the sole reason for existence for an OS is running apps.
And the sole reason for the existence of hardware is to run software.
BTW, I am crazy with envy right now... Dude, you got an Alpha?
Yeap. I ordered it from Microway back at the end of 1997. I ordered it with two 5GBhard disks, which were big then. On one disk NT4 was installed and Redhat Linux was installed on the other. I don't know if I could do it but I'd like to upgrade it. For hardware I'd replace the HDDs, add a DVD drive, Firewire, new network card, and USB, as well as RAM. I'd replace one HDD with a disk at least 100GB then make two partitions, one for NT4 and the other for Linux, the other one I'd replace with a big drive. At least 1TB, for user files. Both NT4 and Linux would use the second drive as the home partition.
Of course about all it's good for now is as a play thing, unless it's used as part of a Beowulf cluster. I don't want it to go to waste, so maybe I can use it as a server. I don't know if they can but maybe the Geek Squad can upgrade it.
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The Constitution was undermined after the US Supreme Court ruled against Jackson in the Worcester v. Georgia case in 1832 and Jackson said "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"
I used to think that too. Now I'm unsure. Wikipedia says the quote is actually a misquote paraphrased to have the same effect.
First, thanks for the link. I searched wiki but didn't find the article, perhaps that's because I searched for "Worcester vs Georgia" not "Worcester v. Georgia". One little "s". Now if you google "Worcester vs Georgia" it returns more than 44,000 results. Remove the double quotes when searching Wiki, which I just did, and the article is the first result.
As for whether Jackson had indeed said it, I don't recall hearing or seeing a dispute on whether he did or not.
Roosevelt more or less did the same thing by telling the Supreme Court "make me" when they determined a lot of it's New Deal legislation unconstitutional and ordered it stopped. This forced the court to compromise and expand the interstate commerce clause to allow much of the meat of the new deal to stay.
I don't recall that though I know a lot of people accuse Roosevelt of court packing.
Roosevelt knew his new deal legislation was largely unconstitutional before even attempting it.
"It's a shame to let a good crisis go to waste."
FDR wasn't the first, and Obama (I know he didn't say it) won't be the last. All I can see to try to stop it is a revolt, and if I could I'd move to New Hampshire to join the Free State Project.
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I really think the premise the south held was valid even if I don't agree with the core reasoning behind the actions.
Say here. The South seceded over the issue of states rights which I agree with. What I don't agree with is slavery, thus why I disagree with the H.L. Mencken quote. He's only talking about self determination for those who were free but not for slaves.
To me, in a lot of ways, this is the pivotal point when the US constitution started getting undermined.
In some ways perhaps, though the undermining was accelerated then not started. It was undermined 30 years, rounding, before. The Constitution was undermined after the US Supreme Court ruled against Jackson in the Worcester v. Georgia case in 1832 and Jackson said "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"
If we would have had a constitutional amendment before the civil war the ended slavery instead of a presidential decree, I think things would have been a little different.
An amendment wasn't realistically possible. Hell Thomas Jefferson tried to include Blacks, and Women, in the Declaration of Independence. In early drafts he wrote how everybody had the same rights however because there were Founding Fathers who believed in slavery, and women's rights, objected he had to remove those parts.
However even if it wasn't possible to have an amendment before the Civil War some economists studying the area concluded that because of economics slavery would have ended, it was more expensive to own slaves than it was to pay willing workers a living wage.
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There is no free market in any of those. Banks, if they are federally chartered need to follow Federal Reserve and FDIC regulations.
The reason they are federally regulated is because before the creation of the FDIC and the rules of the Great Depression, there were bank panics every ten years during the 19th Century.
There is still no free market in banking. Also the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, during the Great Depression, introduced more regulations as did the Banking Act of 1933 or Second Glass Steagall Act.
In fact, given the most recent data, Fannie and Freddie are faring better than private mortgage holders.
There is no data there about commercial banks, not is there comparisons between different banks. All that link of yours is about is "loan modifications by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac", copy and paste. Try again.
There are dozens of western countries who have found a non-market solution to the health care problem, they are living just as long, they are paying less, and their people are happier with their care than we are with ours.
Yea, they're so happy many of them come to the US for surgery and treatments. 24% of Canadians waited 4 hours or more in the emergency room." And let's see about cancer mortality: "Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher." Let's see about test rates, from the same link:
Duplicating infrastructure is simply stupid.
Oh I agree, as far as physical infrastructure is concerned. I didn't say otherwise either. I've actually argued ownership of infrastructure should be separated from ownership of services it can deliver. I live in Minneapolis and I wouldn't have a problem if the city installed fiber to the door then allowed, key phrase here; different entities whether businesses, charities, or coops; to use the fiber to offer subscribers internet access, phone service, or TV. I've posted links to news about a group of communities in northeastern Utah who did this which I support. Private businesses can use the infrastructure the local governments built to compeat with each other.
"How much are you willing to pay for running water and sewage?"
I have no problem with local governments running water and sewage. I actually oppose privatizing water. I however do not want the federal government controlling any of it.
I disagree with other libertarian positions too, for instance many libertarians advocate privatizing roads. However I oppose that, I however think local and state government should do more and the federal government less.
If there were some mechanis
But, you will have to worry about whether these nano-bots will simply stop after restoring the brain to it's previous state (so I guess you would forget what happened to you since before the 'incident', or will the bot's become self-aware (possibly as a group), then rewire your brain so your body is totally controlled by the bot's...
No, I don't worry about that. I think if anything it'd be a relief for me.
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