He was parked in their parking lot... Oh, maybe that wasn't signed "Parking For Customers Only" so they didn't have a physical trespass issue which is a more clearly defined law.
I don't know exactly what it means to be a Level I sex offender, but it is not of the severity that his photo and address would be published in the sex offender's registry as would a Level II or III, so his crime may have been something as simple as public urination.
Either way, wow this story would lead on any news show, unless there was another event with some better gore shots -- sex crimes and internet... in the 90's this would be in Time Magazine. Anybody hear the outcome of a similar case where a guy in a van was accessing an unsecured wifi connection in a ritzy Florida suburb?
I guess it is a good way to keep kids from taking advantage of all of those free off peak minutes and it will probably encourage them to get their own personal phones the parents don't know about.
So it's a big win: charge parents for an extra service and then make money off of the kids who need to buy cellphones to carry with them when they leave their tracking devices at the house of the friend they say they are "with".
China has been trying this with their great firewall of China, but it looks like the US is going to be outdoing them with a million points of censorship.
telcos: how about you let us really leverage our monopoly...
Congress: we couldn't do that, it just wouldn't be fair...
telcos: remember how we let you spy on everyone, you should see what we have on you....
Congress: FINE JUST GO AWAY
Screw that. You want the internet to turn into a tollway? She's making a huge understatement when she says, "This strikes at the heart of the free and equal nature of the internet" and no one in their right mind would think otherwise. This is going to allow the death star of AT&T to focus it's destructive forces at all that is good and innovative about the internet.
Say good bye to VoIP, P2P, and porn not produced by AT&T and say hello to higher rates for an even poorer grade of broadband.
The internet infrastructure in the US was provided primarily by tax dollars. Tax dollars, I might add that were given to the telcos in exchange for them to provide the american public with true broadband. The telcos kept the money (billions of dollars) without coming through with the goods and now are going to have the ability to charge us even more for second rate service that is not only slower but now will be incredibly watered down.
In a few years you'll be nostalgic for the great service once offered by AOL dialup.
Sorry, should have used IRONY tags for you. I'll lay it out for you country simple: this happened weeks ago and nobody cares.
Nobody cares about the troops. Nobody cares there isn't adequate medical care for wounded soldiers. There is no national pride. If there was national pride, people would be calling for the offender to face the firing squad for treason. Instead the big political debate de jour is just yammering about a "Protection of Marriage Ammendment" -- let me tell you, in a nation of divorcees, gay marriage is the least of your worries to the protection of marriage. If the "conservatives" had any backbone the ammendment would be an abolition of divorce. There is no moral fiber left in America.
More people know the intimate details about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and their multiple marriages than can locate Iraq on a map or Omaha Beach or tell you why "Saving Private Ryan" was telivised on June 6th every year or explain why it no longer is. Last year its broadcast was a minor controversy and this year its absence was not even mentioned. It's a damn shame.
Even the OP's saying people do things "for the children", well that's hogwash too. The state of childcare and education in the US is just dismal. When polititcians do something "for the children", it's just a smokescreen to treat the entire population like children and further make a mockery of what America once stood for.
That's what happened a couple of weeks ago when the a huge data store of Veterns identity info from the VA went missing on a stolen laptop.. I mean you can't turn on the news with out hearing someone rant about this travesty. You only have to go to a VA hospital to see exactly how much Americans care about their troops.
I am sure the outrage over this one is going to be deafening. Just like the protests against the nazi fundamentalists who tried to get FOX to stop airing "Saving Private Ryan" on the anniversary of D-Day because they were offended by it. Jeez, why did they show back to back repeats of "House" last night instead?
In the meantime, I am going to stock up on Identity Theft and Volcano insurance.
Sun hardware rocks. Seriously, would you rather run a 32 bit consumer dell box built to the cheapest possible denominator or a 64 bit Sun Solaris box built to withstand industrial abuse? If your just playing around, I am sure a dell is fine if you want to spend most of your time tracking down hardware failures in riser cards. You get what you pay for and cheaper hardware is just that, cheaper.
I was a Dell technician who used to fly out to remote installations to fix the dumbest hardware failures that just don't happen with a Sun box. I don't work for Sun. I work in an IBM shop where we run linux and the stuff is nice. At home, I run Solaris on a 64 bit sparc. I like linux but the difference between Solaris and Linux is night and day. Yes there are some Linux features I wish were in Solaris, but overall Solaris X is faster and more stable and has some awesome features.
Hopefully people will see the value of Sun. You can find the "overpriced" hardware dirt cheap used. Pick some up. You will be amazed. The difference between Sun and Dell mechanically is like the difference between a high end road bike that fits you well and a cheap bike from Walmart: both will get you down the road, but the one that rides better is immediately noticeable.
You can also run Solaris on X86 architecture. Download it for free and fire it up, the performance will amaze you.
He has a cooler product detailed in his movie. It was made by interns. You can check it out at copilot.com. Basically it's a way to get access of a remote machine without having to install software. You just pay a fee and use the website. This will allow you to fix Mom's machine without having to go upstairs or fly home from University... you both log on to the website and enter in a code that allows you to connect to mom's machine and fix her tcp/ip connection or whatever is screwing up her computer so she can't get on line... well, maybe that's not a good example, but you get the picture. For the price, it's cheaper than driving across town to do something minor and they can watch and learn.
Yeah, he mentions it in the article but doesn't explain it and I have never heard of it before this article. I don't see any sort of non-disclosure agreement in the licensing, infact I see quite the opposite in the SUN COMMUNITY SOURCE LICENSE Version 2.3
(Rev. Date Sept. 29, 2004)
It has language like this: compile, reproduce and distribute Original Code and
Upgraded Code in Executable form, and Reformatted
Specifications to anyone for Research Use by You.
IANAL but it appears to allow one to commercially distribute changes with some restrictions to compatibility:
b) Distribution of Executable Code. You may distribute the
Executable version(s) of Compliant Covered Code under a
license of Your choice, which may contain terms different
from this License, provided (i) that You are in compliance
with the terms of this License, and (ii) You must make it
absolutely clear that any terms which differ from this
License are offered by You alone, not by Original
Contributor or any other Contributor.
No where do I see any mention of non-disclosure. If anything, it just seems like double speak on Stallman's part to generate confusion.
There's conditions that require you to make fixes to the code freely available and jump through some hoops of standards. Granted it's not as "free" as EMACS, but if it had been J++ would have taken over and we'd be stuck with a third rate standard that would only work with M$ products since only their virtual machine would work with J++ and the vision of write once, run anywhere would be much further away than it is today.
What is this NDA? Anyone can download the Java source code no charge. So if there is an NDA I don't see how it would hold up since the source code has always been disclosed to anyone who wants to have a look. This is helpful when you are trying to understand how Sun implements something.
I am not familiar with the Nvidia situation, but this is very different than the MS source code that has been kept secret until China demanded the source code to scour for backdoors, etc. After this Microsoft dropped the stance it held through the anti-trust trials that revealing the source code would be a national security threat and started charging academic and research faculities and had them sign NDA's. When the source code is stolen and put up for sale online, MS comes down on that with their legal team.
If you tried to sell the source code for Java, it would be pointless since it has always been freely available from Sun.
That would be cool, especially a better way of using card memory. As it is now most PDA's don't combine the memory. A real annoying thing is that many PDA's with extra memory install the memory as a Storage space separate from Program space so you can't use it to boost performance only as storage which can be expanded more economically through a card which can also actually be faster.
Doh! Thanks. I should have remembered that from school.
Now it makes a lot more sense. Do you think this will help in keeping programs from taking over too much space? I seem to have difficulty in keeping my apps lean despite my best efforts at returning values to null and garbage collection, etc. This sounds like it will help reduce the need to reboot as often to free up memory. That would be nice.
Sorry for joking about it. Just was trying to assert the same points you made while attempting to incorporate classic slashdot humour points. I don't really know what the purchasing parity is between the US and China, but I can imagine making a few thousand dollars whether living in mom's basement or China means a lot more than to someone who makes six figures. Although to the slashdotters out there who make six figures and still live in mom's basement money is not an incentive at all...
Regardless of the money won or potential job opportunities, the chance to learn from others through competition seems to be most beneficial. I think the second part of the TopCoders competitions where your code is peer reviewed sounds like a great way to get your eyes opened with the potential of a swift kick to the skull.
As a working developer, I am planning on participating in the Brainbench olympics next month as well as hoping to partake in a TopCoder event in the near future. It looks like a fun way to kick the old skillset up a notch. Even though I have no plans of switching jobs, it is important to guage proficency and keep motivated rather than rotting while resting on some notion of laurels. And winning a few bucks is not a bad deal either. Definitely better than rotting away at the casino down the road.
... but if you live in mom's basement, or an impoverished economy the couple of thousand dollars you can make in competitive coding ain't bad. And the possibility of getting a real paying job is a great attraction to someone stuck in podunk wherever.
The article really didn't explain this and it doesn't make sense. Isn't virtual memory a segment of hard drive space that is used as RAM? I am guessing they mean something else or it's just a marketing term, probably the latter.
Look at the quagmires they have gotten into, if they had common sense they wouldn't be having the problems in Iraq that they are. The thing is you go into a war with the common sense you have, not the common sense you want.
Sure the US military uses a couple of separate networks beside the internet, but they are not completely separated. It has been well documented that there are many insecure machines out there attached to the internet as well as the military networks so guys can get email and use the web. Would you trust Gomer Pyle with this sort of set up?
A guy like Gary McKinnon, also unencumbered by something like common sense, would have no problem waltzing in. In fact, his cluelessness probably made it easier for him to understand the lay of the land. This is what is embarassing for the US. Not only did he waltz in, but it took so long to track him down despite the fact that he was hacking from his home dialup machine.
The equation is not reflexive, just because some people who use macs are creative doesn't mean you are creative because you use a mac. Over the years the mac OS has become more like Windows and Windows more mac like. The hardware is the same and there is little difference to the interface. Still, you can't run Websphere Rational Developer on a Mac so I have no reason to use a mac.
I left the mac along time ago because the hardware stunk and Apple wasn't standing behind the warrenty. 1-800-APPLE-SOS started to become worthless in resolving issues and then to add insult they started charging for it like a phone sex line. I was an Apple certified tech and saw a lot of foobar spawned by that company and had to mop up the mess they made with a lot of unhappy customers.
At least now they're not making their junk in Mexico, but still why would anyone pay twice the price for hardware when you can buy an ASUS made in the same factory with a Windows license for half the price. Then again, why buy that when you can buy a used Solaris workstation for half that price and have vastly more power, dual risc processors, scsi array and a solid 64 bit operating system. Sun over-engineers their equipment to be solid business components. Their boxes are not designed as consumer electronics like a mac or a dell. If Apple made their gear in that manner I'd be a happy mac, but in the real world it's not like that at all.
Still I have a lot of respect for Apple. I have a dog named Woz. I made a lot of money off of their stock. But I also don't worship Apple either. Computers are not a religion. Apple's best innovations have been adopted by others and many of their mistakes they are still repeating and they seem to be adopting their competitors mistakes too (now sometimes they can turn those mistakes into gold, like the boutiques, but only time will tell how thier switch to Intel is going to go when everyone else is jumping from that boat to AMD). Your better off devoting your time to learning rather than prostelitizing and then be able to make an informed decision rather than buying snake oil because in the end it's a business decision not a religious one.
But I guess if you really want a religious war, you could launch a terminal screen on your mac and type in two letters: vi. Do that kiddo, then we can talk.
Thank you for setting me straight. Yes, you are probably right. I never realized how in the box my thinking was. I always see most desktop computers, Mac or Windows, as a personal computer or PC and generally indistinguishable. The difference between an Asus and an Apple made in the same factory? Only difference I can tell is the logo and price, obviously a square like me would never appreciate the true value of the Macintosh experience and I am probably a rube for dismissing you as being someone who confuses taste with money.
It's awfully uncreative of me to discount the mac as overpriced and underpowered. I mean sure you can run illustrator or photoshop on either box whereas the graphics software I write works on neither because I am not creative enough to think different enough I suppose. I am even so "imagination-deficient" I write my own propriatary graphics file format because as a dull gray thinker I can't seem to get JPEG or GIF to do what I want with any efficiency. And the computer I use to run the genetic software I write, the big iron that stores data in terabytes and resides in the locked server room certainly illustrate that I am not creative whatsoever. I don't think our hardware even has a boutique store in a trendy neighborhood, but what do I know I am a square. Genetics isn't creative at all, well I mean it creates life, but not creative stuff that gets written up in the Entertainment section of the Post.
To the truly creative, the ad men and pixel pushers, I bow to thee.
But the upside of being a square is I don't have to pull all nighters, I have my own office with a door, am treated really nicely at work, have job security, don't have to make 'pitches' and get paid well. Compared to the jittery hipsters I knew who called themselves "Artists" I can live with it and your contempt.
However until you write code rather than just push buttons and your work and has real world medical benefits rather than just looks pretty just keep telling yourself that you're better than me if that makes you feel better.
I just get sick of all this lame ass brand wars especially the Think Different crap... what in the hell does that mean anyways? Most people I have met who use Macs and claim to be artists, such as the parent post, don't know a thing about color theory or composition.
The people they used to promote the Think Different ad campaign for the most part didn't even use computers. Many, for example Picasso, felt a contempt for computers.
It's worse than the GAP Khakis ads, because at least the dead people they were raping at least wore the damn pants, albeit a pair of khakis much nicer than the ones sold at the GAP.
I suppose I should have modded them down, but I had to raise a voice in protest. A computer is just a tool. Get over it.
Hey I thought you mac user creative artist types knew a thing or two about colors. Look at most grays and they have color in them. Compare a gray with magenta to a gray with cyan -- big difference. But maybe you missed that when you instantly became an "artist" because you can tweak images going clicky clicky with the one button mouse.
I am guessing in your rant on gray you are refering to the box color of the PC's. Which is even more revealing of your lack of artistry or metaphor -- most Macs I've seen lately are white which within the reflective color model in which they exist is not a color at all but the absense of color. A lot of PC's these days, including the Dell I am currently using, are black which is the presence of all colors.
And your sense of history isn't much more accurate. I worked extensively with Illustrator, Photoshop, AppleScript and Hypercard card back in the 80's/early 90's. I still have an Illustrator 88 box I keep for nostalgic reasons -- it came out as the upgraded Illustrator in 1988. But I haven't seriously touched a mac since the early 90's. It's a stale overpriced platform for the pretensious people who don't know what they are doing. Plenty of OS's and machines can do what a mac does far cheaper and often better. This is why Apple has been hemmoraging marketshare on the desktop for years.
Apple's profits come from the iPod and most movie special effects are built in Linux that's the world we live in today.
Seriously, if Microsoft Office is your tool for creativity you might as well be driving a Windows box and save yourself over a grand in overpriced hardware. You could put the money saved toward learning a thing or two about color models and philosophy at the local community college where they probably use Windows PC's.
It's just a box. It's not a personal identity, philosophy or moral statement. It makes the same noise when the hard drive fails no matter what the label on the outside says. Who cares if you get a blue screen or a beachball when it crashes; if your not crashing once in a while your not trying hard enough!
It doesn't really matter what brand it is. You are not a different thinker just because some billboard says you are. More of those awards you rattled off have been won by non Mac users than Mac users and I am going to guess you haven't won any of them.
It's better to just be a thinker and not worry about being different. Use your brain. It's not that you have such and such piece of hardware, it's what you do with it.
Currently most computer users have more power than NASA did during the Apollo project and I haven't seen any of em make it to the moon.
When CNN/Money claimed that working at Entertainment Arts was the best job in America I figured they were either being sarcastic or jobs in America really suck.
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He was parked in their parking lot... Oh, maybe that wasn't signed "Parking For Customers Only" so they didn't have a physical trespass issue which is a more clearly defined law.
I don't know exactly what it means to be a Level I sex offender, but it is not of the severity that his photo and address would be published in the sex offender's registry as would a Level II or III, so his crime may have been something as simple as public urination.
Either way, wow this story would lead on any news show, unless there was another event with some better gore shots -- sex crimes and internet... in the 90's this would be in Time Magazine. Anybody hear the outcome of a similar case where a guy in a van was accessing an unsecured wifi connection in a ritzy Florida suburb?
definitely, but the installation is difficult since Penguins aren't native to the Arctic and Polar Bears find them yummy.
I guess it is a good way to keep kids from taking advantage of all of those free off peak minutes and it will probably encourage them to get their own personal phones the parents don't know about.
So it's a big win: charge parents for an extra service and then make money off of the kids who need to buy cellphones to carry with them when they leave their tracking devices at the house of the friend they say they are "with".
China has been trying this with their great firewall of China, but it looks like the US is going to be outdoing them with a million points of censorship.
great skit, but you forgot:
telcos: how about you let us really leverage our monopoly...
Congress: we couldn't do that, it just wouldn't be fair...
telcos: remember how we let you spy on everyone, you should see what we have on you....
Congress: FINE JUST GO AWAY
Screw that. You want the internet to turn into a tollway? She's making a huge understatement when she says, "This strikes at the heart of the free and equal nature of the internet" and no one in their right mind would think otherwise. This is going to allow the death star of AT&T to focus it's destructive forces at all that is good and innovative about the internet.
Say good bye to VoIP, P2P, and porn not produced by AT&T and say hello to higher rates for an even poorer grade of broadband.
The internet infrastructure in the US was provided primarily by tax dollars. Tax dollars, I might add that were given to the telcos in exchange for them to provide the american public with true broadband. The telcos kept the money (billions of dollars) without coming through with the goods and now are going to have the ability to charge us even more for second rate service that is not only slower but now will be incredibly watered down.
In a few years you'll be nostalgic for the great service once offered by AOL dialup.
Sorry, should have used IRONY tags for you. I'll lay it out for you country simple: this happened weeks ago and nobody cares.
Nobody cares about the troops. Nobody cares there isn't adequate medical care for wounded soldiers. There is no national pride. If there was national pride, people would be calling for the offender to face the firing squad for treason. Instead the big political debate de jour is just yammering about a "Protection of Marriage Ammendment" -- let me tell you, in a nation of divorcees, gay marriage is the least of your worries to the protection of marriage. If the "conservatives" had any backbone the ammendment would be an abolition of divorce. There is no moral fiber left in America.
More people know the intimate details about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and their multiple marriages than can locate Iraq on a map or Omaha Beach or tell you why "Saving Private Ryan" was telivised on June 6th every year or explain why it no longer is. Last year its broadcast was a minor controversy and this year its absence was not even mentioned. It's a damn shame.
Even the OP's saying people do things "for the children", well that's hogwash too. The state of childcare and education in the US is just dismal. When polititcians do something "for the children", it's just a smokescreen to treat the entire population like children and further make a mockery of what America once stood for.
That's what happened a couple of weeks ago when the a huge data store of Veterns identity info from the VA went missing on a stolen laptop.. I mean you can't turn on the news with out hearing someone rant about this travesty. You only have to go to a VA hospital to see exactly how much Americans care about their troops.
I am sure the outrage over this one is going to be deafening. Just like the protests against the nazi fundamentalists who tried to get FOX to stop airing "Saving Private Ryan" on the anniversary of D-Day because they were offended by it. Jeez, why did they show back to back repeats of "House" last night instead?
In the meantime, I am going to stock up on Identity Theft and Volcano insurance.
Sun hardware rocks. Seriously, would you rather run a 32 bit consumer dell box built to the cheapest possible denominator or a 64 bit Sun Solaris box built to withstand industrial abuse? If your just playing around, I am sure a dell is fine if you want to spend most of your time tracking down hardware failures in riser cards. You get what you pay for and cheaper hardware is just that, cheaper.
I was a Dell technician who used to fly out to remote installations to fix the dumbest hardware failures that just don't happen with a Sun box. I don't work for Sun. I work in an IBM shop where we run linux and the stuff is nice. At home, I run Solaris on a 64 bit sparc. I like linux but the difference between Solaris and Linux is night and day. Yes there are some Linux features I wish were in Solaris, but overall Solaris X is faster and more stable and has some awesome features.
Hopefully people will see the value of Sun. You can find the "overpriced" hardware dirt cheap used. Pick some up. You will be amazed. The difference between Sun and Dell mechanically is like the difference between a high end road bike that fits you well and a cheap bike from Walmart: both will get you down the road, but the one that rides better is immediately noticeable.
You can also run Solaris on X86 architecture. Download it for free and fire it up, the performance will amaze you.
according to inside sources at ThinkGeek, dorm automation packages will be ready to ship beginning of the second quarter next year (April 1, 2007)
He has a cooler product detailed in his movie. It was made by interns. You can check it out at copilot.com. Basically it's a way to get access of a remote machine without having to install software. You just pay a fee and use the website. This will allow you to fix Mom's machine without having to go upstairs or fly home from University... you both log on to the website and enter in a code that allows you to connect to mom's machine and fix her tcp/ip connection or whatever is screwing up her computer so she can't get on line... well, maybe that's not a good example, but you get the picture. For the price, it's cheaper than driving across town to do something minor and they can watch and learn.
Yeah, he mentions it in the article but doesn't explain it and I have never heard of it before this article. I don't see any sort of non-disclosure agreement in the licensing, infact I see quite the opposite in the SUN COMMUNITY SOURCE LICENSE Version 2.3 (Rev. Date Sept. 29, 2004)
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/scsl_5.0-license.t
It has language like this:
compile, reproduce and distribute Original Code and Upgraded Code in Executable form, and Reformatted Specifications to anyone for Research Use by You.
IANAL but it appears to allow one to commercially distribute changes with some restrictions to compatibility:
b) Distribution of Executable Code. You may distribute the Executable version(s) of Compliant Covered Code under a license of Your choice, which may contain terms different from this License, provided (i) that You are in compliance with the terms of this License, and (ii) You must make it absolutely clear that any terms which differ from this License are offered by You alone, not by Original Contributor or any other Contributor.
No where do I see any mention of non-disclosure. If anything, it just seems like double speak on Stallman's part to generate confusion.
There's conditions that require you to make fixes to the code freely available and jump through some hoops of standards. Granted it's not as "free" as EMACS, but if it had been J++ would have taken over and we'd be stuck with a third rate standard that would only work with M$ products since only their virtual machine would work with J++ and the vision of write once, run anywhere would be much further away than it is today.
What is this NDA? Anyone can download the Java source code no charge. So if there is an NDA I don't see how it would hold up since the source code has always been disclosed to anyone who wants to have a look. This is helpful when you are trying to understand how Sun implements something.
I am not familiar with the Nvidia situation, but this is very different than the MS source code that has been kept secret until China demanded the source code to scour for backdoors, etc. After this Microsoft dropped the stance it held through the anti-trust trials that revealing the source code would be a national security threat and started charging academic and research faculities and had them sign NDA's. When the source code is stolen and put up for sale online, MS comes down on that with their legal team.
If you tried to sell the source code for Java, it would be pointless since it has always been freely available from Sun.
That would be cool, especially a better way of using card memory. As it is now most PDA's don't combine the memory. A real annoying thing is that many PDA's with extra memory install the memory as a Storage space separate from Program space so you can't use it to boost performance only as storage which can be expanded more economically through a card which can also actually be faster.
Doh! Thanks. I should have remembered that from school.
Now it makes a lot more sense. Do you think this will help in keeping programs from taking over too much space? I seem to have difficulty in keeping my apps lean despite my best efforts at returning values to null and garbage collection, etc. This sounds like it will help reduce the need to reboot as often to free up memory. That would be nice.
http://www.mcplusplus.com/ MC++'s song about Tomek rocks! http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/anavabi/mp3/MC%20Pl us+%20-%20Algorhythms%20-%20T.O.M.E.K.mp3
Sorry for joking about it. Just was trying to assert the same points you made while attempting to incorporate classic slashdot humour points. I don't really know what the purchasing parity is between the US and China, but I can imagine making a few thousand dollars whether living in mom's basement or China means a lot more than to someone who makes six figures. Although to the slashdotters out there who make six figures and still live in mom's basement money is not an incentive at all...
Regardless of the money won or potential job opportunities, the chance to learn from others through competition seems to be most beneficial. I think the second part of the TopCoders competitions where your code is peer reviewed sounds like a great way to get your eyes opened with the potential of a swift kick to the skull.
As a working developer, I am planning on participating in the Brainbench olympics next month as well as hoping to partake in a TopCoder event in the near future. It looks like a fun way to kick the old skillset up a notch. Even though I have no plans of switching jobs, it is important to guage proficency and keep motivated rather than rotting while resting on some notion of laurels. And winning a few bucks is not a bad deal either. Definitely better than rotting away at the casino down the road.
... but if you live in mom's basement, or an impoverished economy the couple of thousand dollars you can make in competitive coding ain't bad. And the possibility of getting a real paying job is a great attraction to someone stuck in podunk wherever.
The article really didn't explain this and it doesn't make sense. Isn't virtual memory a segment of hard drive space that is used as RAM? I am guessing they mean something else or it's just a marketing term, probably the latter.
Look at the quagmires they have gotten into, if they had common sense they wouldn't be having the problems in Iraq that they are. The thing is you go into a war with the common sense you have, not the common sense you want.
Sure the US military uses a couple of separate networks beside the internet, but they are not completely separated. It has been well documented that there are many insecure machines out there attached to the internet as well as the military networks so guys can get email and use the web. Would you trust Gomer Pyle with this sort of set up?
A guy like Gary McKinnon, also unencumbered by something like common sense, would have no problem waltzing in. In fact, his cluelessness probably made it easier for him to understand the lay of the land. This is what is embarassing for the US. Not only did he waltz in, but it took so long to track him down despite the fact that he was hacking from his home dialup machine.
The equation is not reflexive, just because some people who use macs are creative doesn't mean you are creative because you use a mac. Over the years the mac OS has become more like Windows and Windows more mac like. The hardware is the same and there is little difference to the interface. Still, you can't run Websphere Rational Developer on a Mac so I have no reason to use a mac.
I left the mac along time ago because the hardware stunk and Apple wasn't standing behind the warrenty. 1-800-APPLE-SOS started to become worthless in resolving issues and then to add insult they started charging for it like a phone sex line. I was an Apple certified tech and saw a lot of foobar spawned by that company and had to mop up the mess they made with a lot of unhappy customers.
At least now they're not making their junk in Mexico, but still why would anyone pay twice the price for hardware when you can buy an ASUS made in the same factory with a Windows license for half the price. Then again, why buy that when you can buy a used Solaris workstation for half that price and have vastly more power, dual risc processors, scsi array and a solid 64 bit operating system. Sun over-engineers their equipment to be solid business components. Their boxes are not designed as consumer electronics like a mac or a dell. If Apple made their gear in that manner I'd be a happy mac, but in the real world it's not like that at all.
Still I have a lot of respect for Apple. I have a dog named Woz. I made a lot of money off of their stock. But I also don't worship Apple either. Computers are not a religion. Apple's best innovations have been adopted by others and many of their mistakes they are still repeating and they seem to be adopting their competitors mistakes too (now sometimes they can turn those mistakes into gold, like the boutiques, but only time will tell how thier switch to Intel is going to go when everyone else is jumping from that boat to AMD). Your better off devoting your time to learning rather than prostelitizing and then be able to make an informed decision rather than buying snake oil because in the end it's a business decision not a religious one.
But I guess if you really want a religious war, you could launch a terminal screen on your mac and type in two letters: vi. Do that kiddo, then we can talk.
Thank you for setting me straight. Yes, you are probably right. I never realized how in the box my thinking was. I always see most desktop computers, Mac or Windows, as a personal computer or PC and generally indistinguishable. The difference between an Asus and an Apple made in the same factory? Only difference I can tell is the logo and price, obviously a square like me would never appreciate the true value of the Macintosh experience and I am probably a rube for dismissing you as being someone who confuses taste with money.
It's awfully uncreative of me to discount the mac as overpriced and underpowered. I mean sure you can run illustrator or photoshop on either box whereas the graphics software I write works on neither because I am not creative enough to think different enough I suppose. I am even so "imagination-deficient" I write my own propriatary graphics file format because as a dull gray thinker I can't seem to get JPEG or GIF to do what I want with any efficiency. And the computer I use to run the genetic software I write, the big iron that stores data in terabytes and resides in the locked server room certainly illustrate that I am not creative whatsoever. I don't think our hardware even has a boutique store in a trendy neighborhood, but what do I know I am a square. Genetics isn't creative at all, well I mean it creates life, but not creative stuff that gets written up in the Entertainment section of the Post.
To the truly creative, the ad men and pixel pushers, I bow to thee.
But the upside of being a square is I don't have to pull all nighters, I have my own office with a door, am treated really nicely at work, have job security, don't have to make 'pitches' and get paid well. Compared to the jittery hipsters I knew who called themselves "Artists" I can live with it and your contempt.
However until you write code rather than just push buttons and your work and has real world medical benefits rather than just looks pretty just keep telling yourself that you're better than me if that makes you feel better.
I just get sick of all this lame ass brand wars especially the Think Different crap... what in the hell does that mean anyways? Most people I have met who use Macs and claim to be artists, such as the parent post, don't know a thing about color theory or composition.
The people they used to promote the Think Different ad campaign for the most part didn't even use computers. Many, for example Picasso, felt a contempt for computers.
It's worse than the GAP Khakis ads, because at least the dead people they were raping at least wore the damn pants, albeit a pair of khakis much nicer than the ones sold at the GAP.
I suppose I should have modded them down, but I had to raise a voice in protest. A computer is just a tool. Get over it.
Hey I thought you mac user creative artist types knew a thing or two about colors. Look at most grays and they have color in them. Compare a gray with magenta to a gray with cyan -- big difference. But maybe you missed that when you instantly became an "artist" because you can tweak images going clicky clicky with the one button mouse.
/early 90's. I still have an Illustrator 88 box I keep for nostalgic reasons -- it came out as the upgraded Illustrator in 1988. But I haven't seriously touched a mac since the early 90's. It's a stale overpriced platform for the pretensious people who don't know what they are doing. Plenty of OS's and machines can do what a mac does far cheaper and often better. This is why Apple has been hemmoraging marketshare on the desktop for years.
I am guessing in your rant on gray you are refering to the box color of the PC's. Which is even more revealing of your lack of artistry or metaphor -- most Macs I've seen lately are white which within the reflective color model in which they exist is not a color at all but the absense of color. A lot of PC's these days, including the Dell I am currently using, are black which is the presence of all colors.
And your sense of history isn't much more accurate. I worked extensively with Illustrator, Photoshop, AppleScript and Hypercard card back in the 80's
Apple's profits come from the iPod and most movie special effects are built in Linux that's the world we live in today.
Seriously, if Microsoft Office is your tool for creativity you might as well be driving a Windows box and save yourself over a grand in overpriced hardware. You could put the money saved toward learning a thing or two about color models and philosophy at the local community college where they probably use Windows PC's.
It's just a box. It's not a personal identity, philosophy or moral statement. It makes the same noise when the hard drive fails no matter what the label on the outside says. Who cares if you get a blue screen or a beachball when it crashes; if your not crashing once in a while your not trying hard enough!
It doesn't really matter what brand it is. You are not a different thinker just because some billboard says you are. More of those awards you rattled off have been won by non Mac users than Mac users and I am going to guess you haven't won any of them.
It's better to just be a thinker and not worry about being different. Use your brain. It's not that you have such and such piece of hardware, it's what you do with it.
Currently most computer users have more power than NASA did during the Apollo project and I haven't seen any of em make it to the moon.
When CNN/Money claimed that working at Entertainment Arts was the best job in America I figured they were either being sarcastic or jobs in America really suck.