Re:Too bad apple can't run latest version of Java
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On second thoughts I fell into your (flamebait?) trap of discussing Mac OS X, which is actually not relevant here.
The contest is about Linux PPC64 development.
Linus himself uses an Apple G5. Linux has Java 1.5. So your claim of "so you win a computer you can't use to develop java with.." is flat out wrong. End of story.
Re:Too bad apple can't run latest version of Java
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So you win a computer you can't use to develop java with..
Not true, since the winners won't be announced until well after Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ships in April about 4 weeks from now (if the Think Secret rumors are true, which they're pretty much guaranteed to be, given they have Trade Secrets at their fingertips).
And since Java 1.5/5.0 JDK code is hardly in fullscale deployment yet, if you're using it it's probably for research purposes and for a developer on PPC64 the chances are highly likely you've been using OS X Tiger in pre-release since last year anyway.
So, yes, it could be annoying, but if you're actually a developer, it's not much of an issue and for the wider community it will be rectified very soon with OS X Tiger's release.
Yes, Bluetooth is in almost everything these days - I have 3 gadgets within arms reach of me with BT - but if others are anything like me, it's almost always turned off.
I have my PowerBook's Bluetooth turned off 99% of the time to save battery power,
my iPAQ 2210's Bluetooth turned off 99% of the time (which BTW I sync to the PowerBook using PocketMac - works like a charm for bringing PocketPC into the Mac OS X world shows up in iSync and everything),
and my Sony Ericsson cellphone turned off 98% of the time when not being used a GPRS modem
I can't imagine every leaving these on all the time, I treat Bluetooth like a "wireless cable."
I don't know if I'm particularly battery conscious or not though?
I've used a G4 Cube through an un-airconditioned Australian summer with days of 42 deg C [oops, better do the * 9/5 + 32 trick for the non-metricized US] = 107 deg F.
(The Cube in its standard config had no fans at all.)
In any case, the Mini probably has a thermistor which would simply shut it down if the temperature exceeded maximum.
Besides, a hip bugster would be chilling out in the air conditioning...!
His parts list actually specifies a few input devices:
- Xenarc 700tsv 7 USB touchscreen monitor with VGA and dual composite video inputs - Cirque EasyCat USB trackpad - Griffin PowerMate assignable USB control knob
Maybe one or two of those are within easier reach?
But I'm with you on the Heads Up Display. I have an iPAQ velcroed to the dashboard just to the left of the speed/tachometer cavity. Having the display projected at eyeline would be great!
(I also wish the iPAQ's development environment was as quick to throw ideas together as Mac OS X's Cocoa/Interface Builder - I've got a ton of auto related ideas I'd like to experiment with.)
"iDash is software for the newest frontier in computing on the Mac: the car. While OS X does have one of the best user interfaces among all of the operating systems out there, its pretty difficult (not to mention dangerous) to use while driving down the road. iDash is a frontend
that is able to control almost any applications via a plugin written Applescript. Thus enabling the intigration of music, movie and photo collections as well as GPS & Radio features into an easy to use all-in-one application."
It would also be pretty cool to have Dashboard widgets on your dashboard...!
If all that can make him happy is announcing his latest way of seperating sheep-like consumers from their cash so he can buy another yacht, then his life is pretty fricking empty.
No, he's not Michael Dell.
If you seriously think Jobs only does it for the money, you're missing the point by several million parsecs.
Many people think Jobs is an a**hole (which is probably true) stroking his ego at being able to both save his garage started company from oblivion, and to motivate it to out-do the competition.
Other people (the fanboys) think he's some sort of messiah, offering a "path to the light" away from Microsoft.
Neither group would claim he's doing it to buy another (your silly emphasis) yacht.
They sued "fans" (ie, news/rumor sites that publish to get page hits to sell advertising banner space) to get the information so they can stamp out the leaks internally.
The "fans" had refused to give them the information to needed to do this.
You'd think after the cancer scare Jobs would have mellowed out.
Or maybe the rumor sites could have cut the guy some slack in his first public appearance since the operation, BY NOT SPRINGING EVERY ONE OF HIS SURPRISES prior to his ego-boosting "Stevenote" event.
He was noticeably dejected at the leaks. He had nothing left to surprise people with, it was all known and discussed beforehand.
The "warm fuzzy feeling" works both ways, you know.
If you watched the last keynote (which not many non-fanboy Slashdotters would have, given the predominantly Windows/Linux skills set here), you could also seen another impact:
Jobs was visibly dejected by the "previews." He had no surprises to spring, just filling in the details. ALL the info on the new products had already been revealed - names, specs, even prices. The cheap Mac was already being assessed before it was even announced.
For a company as desperate as Apple to get some attention for its pitiful 1.8% marketshare, I can imagine these leaks caused some disheartening sentiment.
So these news/rumor sites that take tens of thousands of dollars a month in advertising revenue are just blogs now are they?
Gee, I wonder which side the comments will favor with this introduction!
Re:Ugh! Can Lucas destroy Episode VI any further?
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No it was not. I saw it. I saw it 22 fucking times (hey I was something like 12 years old so in 1977-78 I lived Star Wars) and there was no "Episode IV" in front of the opening scrawl, there was no "A New Hope" in front of it either.
Lucas claims that the studio did not want "Episode IV" in the title (confusing to the audience etc), so for the initial release it was not.
However, for later prints AFTER it had become a box office smash, it was added.
They also remixed the audio at least 3 times for the initial release, depending on where it was going to be shown: newer theaters with Dolby stereo, old ones with mono, and drive-ins, so depending on where you saw it, you could have heard different things.
Lots of interesting things like that in the DVD commentaries. Not once does he apologize for fscking up our childhoods though!
Maybe the defendant(s) should instead argue they did him a favor by lessening his accomplishment...
I mean, if I'd developed a highly sophisticated piece of software that I'd spent years carefully engineering, then gave it away for chump change not having in enough faith in my own accomplishment to recognize its true value to the purchaser, then I'd feel like... well, a chump. Lots of pain and anguish.
On the other hand, if I'd just spent a month ripping off someone else's code, then made a quick $50,000 selling it to the first suit that came knocking, I'd feel good about getting a good price for my week's work. Not much pain and anguish.
So by the author claiming the latter was the case, they could say they were lessening his pain and anguish: "Don't feel bad about selling yourself too cheap, you got a good price for what it was."
(Okay, it's a flimsy argument! Don't use it in court.)
For the record though, anyone who can write an OS in assembly, on primitive equipment, using minimalist compilers and debuggers, is a GOD to me, and should be given $1 million for simply being born.
Anyway, hopefully the publicity from this (extremely minimal) damages suit should give Paterson some more of the recognition he deserves.
The more I learn about Linus from day to day, the more he sounds like a great human being with his priorities in the right place...
"Other than software, I've been spending a few hours a week for the last month building a small playhouse for the kids in the backyard."
A great role model for young geeks once they grow up.
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On second thoughts I fell into your (flamebait?) trap of discussing Mac OS X, which is actually not relevant here.
The contest is about Linux PPC64 development.
Linus himself uses an Apple G5. Linux has Java 1.5. So your claim of "so you win a computer you can't use to develop java with.." is flat out wrong. End of story.
Not true, since the winners won't be announced until well after Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ships in April about 4 weeks from now (if the Think Secret rumors are true, which they're pretty much guaranteed to be, given they have Trade Secrets at their fingertips).
And since Java 1.5/5.0 JDK code is hardly in fullscale deployment yet, if you're using it it's probably for research purposes and for a developer on PPC64 the chances are highly likely you've been using OS X Tiger in pre-release since last year anyway.
So, yes, it could be annoying, but if you're actually a developer, it's not much of an issue and for the wider community it will be rectified very soon with OS X Tiger's release.
*** MASSIVE SPOILER AHEAD: AVERT GAZE NOW IF YOU LIKE SEEING FILMS WITHOUT HAVING THE STORY PREVIEWED ***
We've lucked out... Jar-Jar doesn't get killed, and instead gets to attend Padme's funeral, who is killed by Anakin.
There's just no justice, is there!
I can't imagine every leaving these on all the time, I treat Bluetooth like a "wireless cable."
I don't know if I'm particularly battery conscious or not though?
Dear Sir,
I am an extremely wealthy Australian businessman who needs to quickly move money out of the country.
If you let me use your bank account, I will pay you 10%.
Of course, I do already know your bank account details, given the amount of spyware I loaded onto your computer...
Sincerely,
N. Hemming
Sharman Networks
I've used a G4 Cube through an un-airconditioned Australian summer with days of 42 deg C [oops, better do the * 9/5 + 32 trick for the non-metricized US] = 107 deg F.
(The Cube in its standard config had no fans at all.)
In any case, the Mini probably has a thermistor which would simply shut it down if the temperature exceeded maximum.
Besides, a hip bugster would be chilling out in the air conditioning...!
His parts list actually specifies a few input devices:
- Xenarc 700tsv 7 USB touchscreen monitor with VGA and dual composite video inputs
- Cirque EasyCat USB trackpad
- Griffin PowerMate assignable USB control knob
Maybe one or two of those are within easier reach?
But I'm with you on the Heads Up Display. I have an iPAQ velcroed to the dashboard just to the left of the speed/tachometer cavity. Having the display projected at eyeline would be great!
(I also wish the iPAQ's development environment was as quick to throw ideas together as Mac OS X's Cocoa/Interface Builder - I've got a ton of auto related ideas I'd like to experiment with.)
... being driven by Verne Troyer... (Mini-Me)
It would also be pretty cool to have Dashboard widgets on your dashboard...!
Ha, I crack me up!
Too bad only Macheads will get the joke, which on Linux-for-fun/Windows-for-work Slashdot is almost no one. Oh well.
We Slashdotters, by general acclamation, now officially regard Apple as Evil and a threat to freedom loving peoples.
/.'d so I can't see it), belong to wannabe hippies.
1. Volkswagens, especially combi vans (is it? the server's been
2. Hippies are FLP.
3. Therefore, Apple has no place in a Volkwagen. QED.
No, he's not Michael Dell.
If you seriously think Jobs only does it for the money, you're missing the point by several million parsecs.
Many people think Jobs is an a**hole (which is probably true) stroking his ego at being able to both save his garage started company from oblivion, and to motivate it to out-do the competition.
Other people (the fanboys) think he's some sort of messiah, offering a "path to the light" away from Microsoft.
Neither group would claim he's doing it to buy another (your silly emphasis) yacht.
They sued "fans" (ie, news/rumor sites that publish to get page hits to sell advertising banner space) to get the information so they can stamp out the leaks internally.
The "fans" had refused to give them the information to needed to do this.
Or maybe the rumor sites could have cut the guy some slack in his first public appearance since the operation, BY NOT SPRINGING EVERY ONE OF HIS SURPRISES prior to his ego-boosting "Stevenote" event.
He was noticeably dejected at the leaks. He had nothing left to surprise people with, it was all known and discussed beforehand.
The "warm fuzzy feeling" works both ways, you know.
If you watched the last keynote (which not many non-fanboy Slashdotters would have, given the predominantly Windows/Linux skills set here), you could also seen another impact: Jobs was visibly dejected by the "previews." He had no surprises to spring, just filling in the details. ALL the info on the new products had already been revealed - names, specs, even prices. The cheap Mac was already being assessed before it was even announced. For a company as desperate as Apple to get some attention for its pitiful 1.8% marketshare, I can imagine these leaks caused some disheartening sentiment.
So these news/rumor sites that take tens of thousands of dollars a month in advertising revenue are just blogs now are they?
Gee, I wonder which side the comments will favor with this introduction!
Lucas claims that the studio did not want "Episode IV" in the title (confusing to the audience etc), so for the initial release it was not.
However, for later prints AFTER it had become a box office smash, it was added.
They also remixed the audio at least 3 times for the initial release, depending on where it was going to be shown: newer theaters with Dolby stereo, old ones with mono, and drive-ins, so depending on where you saw it, you could have heard different things.
Lots of interesting things like that in the DVD commentaries. Not once does he apologize for fscking up our childhoods though!
Precisely.
So I don't understand why Apple: the New Evil Corporation That We All Hate (Just a Damn Shame They Make Nice Products) is relevant here?
Saying that corporations have started attacking blogging is drawing a long bow, imho.
To win, the robots may need to choose weaker enemies.
Perhaps they should take a cue from the RIAA and take on 12-year girls.
But then what would Hexley be?
Maybe the defendant(s) should instead argue they did him a favor by lessening his accomplishment...
I mean, if I'd developed a highly sophisticated piece of software that I'd spent years carefully engineering, then gave it away for chump change not having in enough faith in my own accomplishment to recognize its true value to the purchaser, then I'd feel like... well, a chump. Lots of pain and anguish.
On the other hand, if I'd just spent a month ripping off someone else's code, then made a quick $50,000 selling it to the first suit that came knocking, I'd feel good about getting a good price for my week's work. Not much pain and anguish.
So by the author claiming the latter was the case, they could say they were lessening his pain and anguish: "Don't feel bad about selling yourself too cheap, you got a good price for what it was."
(Okay, it's a flimsy argument! Don't use it in court.)
For the record though, anyone who can write an OS in assembly, on primitive equipment, using minimalist compilers and debuggers, is a GOD to me, and should be given $1 million for simply being born.
Anyway, hopefully the publicity from this (extremely minimal) damages suit should give Paterson some more of the recognition he deserves.
At least his Wiki entry should get a bit longer.
I see your "sure about that?" and raise you this sure about that!
1988...
I see through your trick question!
(D) None of the above.
The more I learn about Linus from day to day, the more he sounds like a great human being with his priorities in the right place... "Other than software, I've been spending a few hours a week for the last month building a small playhouse for the kids in the backyard." A great role model for young geeks once they grow up.
Or rather, do not sunbake with remaining non-cancerous skin.
But finally, a legitimate reason to wear the tinfoil hat!