Not sure why anyone would think I'm trolling, or even sticking up for Apple. I'm merely making an observation. The list of stuff they've readily abandoned (sometimes much to developers' annoyance) is pretty long.
These are dead horses they not only didn't flog, they carted them off to the knacker's yard without ceremony:
68000 processors, Hypercard, Claris , A/UX, Dylan, OpenDoc, eWorld, AppleLink, MPW, MacApp, Mac OS versions 1 through 9, MacTV, Pippin, The Resource Fork, File & Creator Types, PowerPC processors, Cube Mac,.Mac, MobileMe, Ping, Rosetta, Classic Environment, SCSI, Floppy Disk Drive, Mac Clones, FireWire, Gil Amelio.
By "strongly opposed" you mean they're whining mildly. I used to support the Lib Dems, at Uni I even edited our local group's party newsletter. But now they have got into power (sort of) they have proven themselves to have no backbone, and are basically a conservative lap-dog. That's not what I stood for when I supported them AT ALL. I'm sorely disappointed.
If they want to regain my respect, they need to introduce a bill (and fight for it) that positively keeps government snooping of this sort off the table by law. Turning over records to the police with a warrant on the basis of reasonable suspicion is one thing, but this is just intrusive mass surveillance far beyond the wildest dreams of Honecker's STASI.
Nick Clegg couldn't punch his way out of a wet paper bag, politically speaking. Frankly, I'm glad I emigrated, though it's something of a frying pan/fire situation since where the UK leads, Australia often follows. But I still feel the pain of my countrymen, friends and family. Vive la revolution!
Strangely, they found that a vast majority of popular music from the last 60 years seemed to break down into a pattern of 48 beats using three repeated chords (and variants thereof), such as: AAAADDAAEDAE. Odd that.
This means I can't upgrade all our machines as we still need access to our old data. [...] But the result is lost sales of Apple.
So how is buying another brand PC going to allow you to access all your old legacy Mac apps and data? Classic and Rosetta are both long dead, and everyone knew they were transition technologies. Really, you should have thought of it earlier.
So, just call it a plug-in for the OS. Otherwise, how else are you going to have arbitrary and open-ended functionality? Or would you rather you bought the phone and all it could ever do was baked into it on the day you bought it. That's what phones used to be like. Whatever happened to them?
They showed us a movie in Jr High, about this same thing. We were being warned of the immenent human-driven catastrophe that would subsume our civilization and imperil human existance.
That was 1977.
On a geological timescale, that was about 2 seconds ago. Just because nothing much has happened in that 2 seconds doesn't mean it was wrong.
Ray Bradbury couldn't find a major publisher willing to take on "Fahrenheit 451". It was first published in serial form in Playboy in 1954. It was only afterwards that it became a noted novel.
People don't give Playboy any credit, but they were actually often quite edgy and on the forefront of a lot of new fiction and ideas throughout the 50, 60 and earlier 70s.
One area this could be a huge benefit would be in-car touchscreens. Right now, the massive rush to touchscreens in cars mean that driving interfaces are suddenly much less safe. They REQUIRE you to use your eyes to locate a region on the screen, and so it diverts your attention away from the road. A tactile touch screen would allow a flexible display to be operated by feel alone, a big safety improvement.
Obviously this sounds like an amazing and important discovery, perhaps the holy grail of cancer research.
Imagine a world where you just pop a pill and keep living as long as you want. Without additionally having drastic population control, that's going to doom us to a totally unsustainable world, if we don't have that already. But even with that unlikely flip-side, imagine a population that is just fixed at some point with the people it has right now, never dying, never having offspring. How creepy would that be?
Jut sayin' - food for thought (and maybe a sci-fi novel).
Contrary to your understanding, time didn't begin only 20 years ago. It's been going a lot longer than that. For example, I've heard it said there was once a "1950s".
I've never heard anyone else imply that the descriptive term "shemale" is offensive in any way, just as the equally descriptive term "ladyboy" is not offensive
In what way are those terms purely descriptive? Have you actually asked a transgendered person whether they are offended by the terms?I suspect not because most I've ever spoken to do indeed find it offensive.
They're showing the "Prophets of Science Fiction" series here in Oz at the moment, which has some appearances by Ridley Scott and is under his name. I was disappointed to realise that, at least in this showing, he didn't come across as especially insightful, intellectual or even particularly smart. Perhaps he was having an off day when they filmed it, or perhaps he's just good at film directing and not philosophy. Maybe we expect too much of people when they get a name for something in one field.
Production has been purposely held back so that the country can be bankrupted paying for healthcare.
It's thinking like this is why, in fact, the US is doomed. Yes, it's far better to pour billions into some weapon of war that may or may not prove useful in some unknown future war(mongering) scenario, rather than do something positive with a fraction of that cost to give its citizens a better quality of life right now. Healthcare in other countries hasn't bankrupted them, there's no reason it should bankrupt the US. That's just right-wing FUD. The problem is that the US has been fed this thinking for so many generations now that it has become a military state - it seems perfectly normal to constantly talk of war and keep its industries on a war footing, and anything that even faintly smells of small-s socialism is treated with enormous suspicion. It's so out of balance with any form of rational basis for a nation that it will certainly topple over. It's not a question of if, but when.
So which one am I thinking of then? It was a TRS-80, it had an integrated monitor and floppy drives and it was "portable", in that it had a foldout keyboard which when closed covered the screen. It had a carry handle. I wouldn't call it portable in the modern sense, but it was portable in the sense that it meant in 1984 - you could tote it around, take it home, etc.
I had one of these as my office PC. It was diabolically bad, but I assumed it was state of the art, not really knowing any better. I used a program called Scripsit for word-processing. I thought it was pretty cool - I knew all the commands off by heart and could turn out pretty decently formatted work on a daisy-wheel printer.
Then someone came and put a Mac on my desk and at that moment everything changed. The TRS-80 was never booted up again.
It really is hard to believe it's all over. I grew up as a schoolboy with the Space Shuttle "coming sometime in the next decade", and then watched the first launch avidly in 1981 - I still remember the exact details of that particular afternoon because it was one of those historic "remembered where you were" moments. I also queued for hours on the M11 to get to see the Shuttle on her UK visit (on the 747 carrier) to Stansted in 1983. Another historic moment was the '86 disaster but that seems strangely more remote in time than the first launch, somehow. I don't know where all those years went, but they did - I'm going to turn 50 this year. From a Brit, it's sad to see this era of early space travel come to an end with nothing much on its way to replace it. Truly historic.
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Not sure why anyone would think I'm trolling, or even sticking up for Apple. I'm merely making an observation. The list of stuff they've readily abandoned (sometimes much to developers' annoyance) is pretty long.
.Mac, MobileMe, Ping, Rosetta, Classic Environment, SCSI, Floppy Disk Drive, Mac Clones, FireWire, Gil Amelio.
These are dead horses they not only didn't flog, they carted them off to the knacker's yard without ceremony:
68000 processors, Hypercard, Claris , A/UX, Dylan, OpenDoc, eWorld, AppleLink, MPW, MacApp, Mac OS versions 1 through 9, MacTV, Pippin, The Resource Fork, File & Creator Types, PowerPC processors, Cube Mac,
Media, maybe, but Apple themselves readily admit their own mistakes. They don't flog a horse long after it's dead, unlike some.
The Lib Dems are pretty strongly opposed to this
By "strongly opposed" you mean they're whining mildly. I used to support the Lib Dems, at Uni I even edited our local group's party newsletter. But now they have got into power (sort of) they have proven themselves to have no backbone, and are basically a conservative lap-dog. That's not what I stood for when I supported them AT ALL. I'm sorely disappointed.
If they want to regain my respect, they need to introduce a bill (and fight for it) that positively keeps government snooping of this sort off the table by law. Turning over records to the police with a warrant on the basis of reasonable suspicion is one thing, but this is just intrusive mass surveillance far beyond the wildest dreams of Honecker's STASI.
Nick Clegg couldn't punch his way out of a wet paper bag, politically speaking. Frankly, I'm glad I emigrated, though it's something of a frying pan/fire situation since where the UK leads, Australia often follows. But I still feel the pain of my countrymen, friends and family. Vive la revolution!
Strangely, they found that a vast majority of popular music from the last 60 years seemed to break down into a pattern of 48 beats using three repeated chords (and variants thereof), such as: AAAADDAAEDAE. Odd that.
This means I can't upgrade all our machines as we still need access to our old data. [...] But the result is lost sales of Apple.
So how is buying another brand PC going to allow you to access all your old legacy Mac apps and data? Classic and Rosetta are both long dead, and everyone knew they were transition technologies. Really, you should have thought of it earlier.
So, just call it a plug-in for the OS. Otherwise, how else are you going to have arbitrary and open-ended functionality? Or would you rather you bought the phone and all it could ever do was baked into it on the day you bought it. That's what phones used to be like. Whatever happened to them?
They showed us a movie in Jr High, about this same thing. We were being warned of the immenent human-driven catastrophe that would subsume our civilization and imperil human existance.
That was 1977.
On a geological timescale, that was about 2 seconds ago. Just because nothing much has happened in that 2 seconds doesn't mean it was wrong.
He ain't heavy....
...he's my brachiosaur....
In that case, why not believe in the same unchanging orthodoxy that your family, friends and coworkers do instead of one that keeps on changing.
because it's patently bullshit?
Ray Bradbury couldn't find a major publisher willing to take on "Fahrenheit 451". It was first published in serial form in Playboy in 1954. It was only afterwards that it became a noted novel.
People don't give Playboy any credit, but they were actually often quite edgy and on the forefront of a lot of new fiction and ideas throughout the 50, 60 and earlier 70s.
One area this could be a huge benefit would be in-car touchscreens. Right now, the massive rush to touchscreens in cars mean that driving interfaces are suddenly much less safe. They REQUIRE you to use your eyes to locate a region on the screen, and so it diverts your attention away from the road. A tactile touch screen would allow a flexible display to be operated by feel alone, a big safety improvement.
Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch
Not always, but it often is. It's not always about the score, or winners and losers but how the game is played.
No doubt though, you also only watch car racing for the crashes.
Obviously this sounds like an amazing and important discovery, perhaps the holy grail of cancer research.
Imagine a world where you just pop a pill and keep living as long as you want. Without additionally having drastic population control, that's going to doom us to a totally unsustainable world, if we don't have that already. But even with that unlikely flip-side, imagine a population that is just fixed at some point with the people it has right now, never dying, never having offspring. How creepy would that be?
Jut sayin' - food for thought (and maybe a sci-fi novel).
If you haven't seen this, turn in your geek card now: Mullard tube factory.
Even back in the 90's
Contrary to your understanding, time didn't begin only 20 years ago. It's been going a lot longer than that. For example, I've heard it said there was once a "1950s".
Indeed, you could have minutes of fun also remote-controlling your cat. One click for "wake up" and two for "leave the room at high velocity".
I've never heard anyone else imply that the descriptive term "shemale" is offensive in any way, just as the equally descriptive term "ladyboy" is not offensive
In what way are those terms purely descriptive? Have you actually asked a transgendered person whether they are offended by the terms?I suspect not because most I've ever spoken to do indeed find it offensive.
Looking at the choice currently facing the Australian voter, a three legged sheep would stand a "real chance" of election.
This sounds very much like how large-screen projectors worked, back in the 1970s.
They're showing the "Prophets of Science Fiction" series here in Oz at the moment, which has some appearances by Ridley Scott and is under his name. I was disappointed to realise that, at least in this showing, he didn't come across as especially insightful, intellectual or even particularly smart. Perhaps he was having an off day when they filmed it, or perhaps he's just good at film directing and not philosophy. Maybe we expect too much of people when they get a name for something in one field.
Production has been purposely held back so that the country can be bankrupted paying for healthcare.
It's thinking like this is why, in fact, the US is doomed. Yes, it's far better to pour billions into some weapon of war that may or may not prove useful in some unknown future war(mongering) scenario, rather than do something positive with a fraction of that cost to give its citizens a better quality of life right now. Healthcare in other countries hasn't bankrupted them, there's no reason it should bankrupt the US. That's just right-wing FUD. The problem is that the US has been fed this thinking for so many generations now that it has become a military state - it seems perfectly normal to constantly talk of war and keep its industries on a war footing, and anything that even faintly smells of small-s socialism is treated with enormous suspicion. It's so out of balance with any form of rational basis for a nation that it will certainly topple over. It's not a question of if, but when.
God what a miserable fucker you are.
So which one am I thinking of then? It was a TRS-80, it had an integrated monitor and floppy drives and it was "portable", in that it had a foldout keyboard which when closed covered the screen. It had a carry handle. I wouldn't call it portable in the modern sense, but it was portable in the sense that it meant in 1984 - you could tote it around, take it home, etc.
I had one of these as my office PC. It was diabolically bad, but I assumed it was state of the art, not really knowing any better. I used a program called Scripsit for word-processing. I thought it was pretty cool - I knew all the commands off by heart and could turn out pretty decently formatted work on a daisy-wheel printer.
Then someone came and put a Mac on my desk and at that moment everything changed. The TRS-80 was never booted up again.
It really is hard to believe it's all over. I grew up as a schoolboy with the Space Shuttle "coming sometime in the next decade", and then watched the first launch avidly in 1981 - I still remember the exact details of that particular afternoon because it was one of those historic "remembered where you were" moments. I also queued for hours on the M11 to get to see the Shuttle on her UK visit (on the 747 carrier) to Stansted in 1983. Another historic moment was the '86 disaster but that seems strangely more remote in time than the first launch, somehow. I don't know where all those years went, but they did - I'm going to turn 50 this year. From a Brit, it's sad to see this era of early space travel come to an end with nothing much on its way to replace it. Truly historic.