There's a reason why OSX looks good, feels good and works good. It's because it's designed for the exact hardware it is sold with! It would lose a lot of its prestige if the web and usenet were flooded with complaints about transparency being slow on graphics board XYZ-pro, per-application audio volume setting working strange on ABC-blaster-123 or user swtiching freezing on mainboard NBACIA with an overclocked CPU on a A2B2A socket adapter.
I have great hopes for Linux and computers with a customized Linux preinstalled. Not just A distribution, bu a distribution designed to make the most of the hardware it's sold with. Hmmm...
If operating systems were like women (from a man's point of view), Windows would be like a russian prostitute (no offence): you pay for her services, but you never know what you can get from that adventure.
OSX would be like loving somebody's beautiful wife. Although she's proprietary, deep inside she's open to the general public. Also, you have to meet her on her grounds.
Linux would be like that geeky, buck-toothed girl from the neighbourhood. She's might not be pretty, but you won't find a safer, more faithful companion. With some patience and caring, the ugly duckling might turn into a swan... or just a good, hard working housewife, who'll always be there to do your laundry.
The underlying idea of wikipedia is TRUST. SHARING comes second.
No harm is done if you know more than you see in an article and you don't share. But if you purposely include false information... that's a Bad Thing[TM].
Experiments like descibed and similar are as UNETHICAL as tests on human subjects who don't know they are being experimented on. As much as they seem needed to prove a point sometimes, they create a precedent that can only cause harm.
Why do I have to use up to five extra letters and remember to add some lines to a CSS if I DO want my letters to be Bold or Italic!?
There's a nice thing called backwards compatibility (which doesn't hurt in this prticular case). Most browsers display really simple pages the same way and differ on the CSS, Javascript and whatever part. Now an HTML tells me tables don't have images for backgrounds... sheesh!
I worked for a month in a company when I was still young and, well, inexperienced. The boss told me that he had heard of this open source bussiness and that he wouldn't have to pay for it.
I told him that after a month of instructing his workers about how to change the wallpaper or configure an instant messenger, I don't see them using OpenOffice (which was in its early stages) and Mozilla.
He considered it a challenge.
The company still runs on Windows 98, but that's about all proprietary software they have. Workers are instructed to have the official company logo wallpaper at all times and most instant messengers are forbidden, if not firewalled.
I'd like to see a winbox perform a simulation of a noncompressible fluid with vorticity confinement and added force for convection. Sounds physical, but it's 7000 lines of code (including a model editor and a visualisation module) and solving thousands of linear differential equations within minutes, all done by 5 students in 4 months to pass a subject called Team Programming.
I'm not exactly blind, I learned about this as a student project. Doesn't seem like much at first, but long time blind users claim that they experience vision-like sensations, some of them mention seeing depth.
The technology doesn't allow reading, but is praised by users for the fact that it doesn't filter information - a video image is transformed to sound in a reversible (after training) way.
And yet the idea is as simple as fork and spoon, requiring shorter training time than learning to read.
Mostly true, but it depends on what you need and where you search.
Several sites list very good mac freeware, including apple.com.
The best thing is that it's easy to find simple scientific programs like calculators, plotters and such, that are rather hard to get for Windows. Probable cause - scientists who use windows buy expensive programming environments and sophisticated scientific software, scientists who use macs have compilers for several languages within the system and make minimalistyc scientific software for themselves.
And there's always sourceforge and the platform=MacOSX filter...
Mac OS X has that property Windows had in its youth - university people and enthusiastic young programmers are starting to discover it, making it their domain for personal programming needs. You can find opensource ports, scientific visualisation software and small freeware utilities.
Alternatively - Linux, same reason, more software, possible hardware support problems.
Lexmark Z605, complete with two cartridges - color and black. The printer costs 240 PLN (Polish zloty), the black cartridge costs 120 PLN and the color cartridge costs 140 PLN. That makes 260 PLN for the whole set, which is 20 PLN more than the printer that comes with the cartridges!
I asked the guy if it made any sense to him... He just said that he sells more printers than ink and told me that as soon as the ink runs out, I should sell mine to someone in need and come to buy another printer (newer model, unused, yet cheaper than ink).
Next time they'll be handing new cars with every gallon at gas stations!
The good thing about the fact that Mac OS X runs only on Apple hardware is that it uses the best there is of the hardware and the hardware itself is good. Linux tends to be all-hardware-friendly, with various results, especialy in laptops.
There are NO Linux-based laptops where I live and most of the Windows-based are Windows-or-nothing, so I bought an iBook and I haven't felt guilty once. That's one UNIX-like system I am willing to pay for anytime.
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There's a reason why OSX looks good, feels good and works good. It's because it's designed for the exact hardware it is sold with! It would lose a lot of its prestige if the web and usenet were flooded with complaints about transparency being slow on graphics board XYZ-pro, per-application audio volume setting working strange on ABC-blaster-123 or user swtiching freezing on mainboard NBACIA with an overclocked CPU on a A2B2A socket adapter.
I have great hopes for Linux and computers with a customized Linux preinstalled. Not just A distribution, bu a distribution designed to make the most of the hardware it's sold with. Hmmm...
Get her Peter Pan.
If operating systems were like women (from a man's point of view), Windows would be like a russian prostitute (no offence): you pay for her services, but you never know what you can get from that adventure.
OSX would be like loving somebody's beautiful wife. Although she's proprietary, deep inside she's open to the general public. Also, you have to meet her on her grounds.
Linux would be like that geeky, buck-toothed girl from the neighbourhood. She's might not be pretty, but you won't find a safer, more faithful companion. With some patience and caring, the ugly duckling might turn into a swan... or just a good, hard working housewife, who'll always be there to do your laundry.
The underlying idea of wikipedia is TRUST. SHARING comes second.
No harm is done if you know more than you see in an article and you don't share. But if you purposely include false information... that's a Bad Thing[TM].
Experiments like descibed and similar are as UNETHICAL as tests on human subjects who don't know they are being experimented on. As much as they seem needed to prove a point sometimes, they create a precedent that can only cause harm.
There's a nice thing called backwards compatibility (which doesn't hurt in this prticular case). Most browsers display really simple pages the same way and differ on the CSS, Javascript and whatever part. Now an HTML tells me tables don't have images for backgrounds... sheesh!
Oh no...
There should be an option in Firefox NOT to import the new security holes from IE.
I worked for a month in a company when I was still young and, well, inexperienced. The boss told me that he had heard of this open source bussiness and that he wouldn't have to pay for it.
I told him that after a month of instructing his workers about how to change the wallpaper or configure an instant messenger, I don't see them using OpenOffice (which was in its early stages) and Mozilla.
He considered it a challenge.
The company still runs on Windows 98, but that's about all proprietary software they have. Workers are instructed to have the official company logo wallpaper at all times and most instant messengers are forbidden, if not firewalled.
I'd like to see a winbox perform a simulation of a noncompressible fluid with vorticity confinement and added force for convection. Sounds physical, but it's 7000 lines of code (including a model editor and a visualisation module) and solving thousands of linear differential equations within minutes, all done by 5 students in 4 months to pass a subject called Team Programming.
Looks like this.
They use the same differential equations in computer graphics, like the simmulated water in Ant Z.
"Eat any good books lately?" Q to Worf.
Would fit as the title in this case.
Wow!
I noticed my mistake after reading your question!
See here.
I'm not exactly blind, I learned about this as a student project. Doesn't seem like much at first, but long time blind users claim that they experience vision-like sensations, some of them mention seeing depth.
The technology doesn't allow reading, but is praised by users for the fact that it doesn't filter information - a video image is transformed to sound in a reversible (after training) way.
And yet the idea is as simple as fork and spoon, requiring shorter training time than learning to read.
Mostly true, but it depends on what you need and where you search.
Several sites list very good mac freeware, including apple.com.
The best thing is that it's easy to find simple scientific programs like calculators, plotters and such, that are rather hard to get for Windows. Probable cause - scientists who use windows buy expensive programming environments and sophisticated scientific software, scientists who use macs have compilers for several languages within the system and make minimalistyc scientific software for themselves.
And there's always sourceforge and the platform=MacOSX filter...
Mac OS X has that property Windows had in its youth - university people and enthusiastic young programmers are starting to discover it, making it their domain for personal programming needs. You can find opensource ports, scientific visualisation software and small freeware utilities.
Alternatively - Linux, same reason, more software, possible hardware support problems.
I have bought a Lexmark inkjet printer yesterday.
Lexmark Z605, complete with two cartridges - color and black. The printer costs 240 PLN (Polish zloty), the black cartridge costs 120 PLN and the color cartridge costs 140 PLN. That makes 260 PLN for the whole set, which is 20 PLN more than the printer that comes with the cartridges!
I asked the guy if it made any sense to him... He just said that he sells more printers than ink and told me that as soon as the ink runs out, I should sell mine to someone in need and come to buy another printer (newer model, unused, yet cheaper than ink).
Next time they'll be handing new cars with every gallon at gas stations!
I knew it looked fammiliar... see this article
Check the date. Tmsuk is responsible in both cases, though it seems Sanyo got the most of credit in 2002.
That explains a lot about the mini iPod... These colors suck!
The good thing about the fact that Mac OS X runs only on Apple hardware is that it uses the best there is of the hardware and the hardware itself is good. Linux tends to be all-hardware-friendly, with various results, especialy in laptops. There are NO Linux-based laptops where I live and most of the Windows-based are Windows-or-nothing, so I bought an iBook and I haven't felt guilty once. That's one UNIX-like system I am willing to pay for anytime.
Star Wars? Star Gate?