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What makes "The Oscar" so mesmerizing is the consistency of its deranged vision. All its monumental problems and excesses somehow lead to a critical mass that defies all criticism. If it were any better, it wouldn’t be nearly as great. Like Hitchcock’s "Vertigo," it conjures up its own reality, and somehow, the insane parts make the whole less of a movie, and more of an immersive experience. James Cameron’s Pandora has nothing on Frankie Fane’s Hollywood. Neil Gaiman began watching "The Oscar" by himself but was soon overwhelmed. He had to bring some friends in to complete the journey.
Rather than address the problems at the source - Reduce, Re-use, Recycle would be a start - the complaints and proposal is about covering up the problem at the end of the chain. This "cure" is if anything worse than the disease.
China's enthusiastically converted their country to one big foul toxic wasteland, but this is our shared fate, if such backwards responses to the problem are the best we can do.
Start with Use Less. Don't buy overpackaged goods or small packages. Re-use packaging and bags. Do recycle. Humans were resourceful enough to make (and keep on making) the mess; now we have to be smart enough to change our ways.
But seriously -- the vulnerability of services like online banking is a huge elephant in the room where Windows is concerned. ("Let's take the cruddiest, most exploited modern operating system you can find, install it on 97% of PCs with no choice, and don't tell anybody they can't trust it to keep anything private." What could possibly go wrong?)
There is no way that your average PC owner can keep Windows free of malware for very long. This must be snowballing into a massive future class action.
As someone who read the legendary Inside Macintosh(1983 draft; I still have it) cover to cover before even touching a Mac (some time around 1985), I don't understand this contention that the original Mac was "closed" to developers. The *case* was not easy to open, but the programmer model was not locked up in any real way. Almost from the beginning, Apple offered assembler- and compiler-level toolsets. Initially these were Lisa-hosted, simply because the Mac porting hadn't been done yet. I personally used Macintosh Development System (1984) and Whitesmiths C in the very beginning, before reverting to Pascal for a while, using powerful toolchains such as TML and Lightspeed Pascal. Consulair C was available in 1985.
From the first moment, third party developer tools sprang up like kudzu around the original Mac, most of them cutting edge in some way. Many innovative development technologies were pioneered on the Mac: interpreted Pascal with a sophisticated GUI (Mac Pascal), Object Pascal and MVC systems (MacApp), Neon, 4GLs, incremental compilers (Lightspeed/THINK/Symantec C), etc. Does anyone even remember that in the 80s, Apple pushed out several full releases of their own Mac Smalltalk-80 system, which Squeak is now based on? (Harvey Alcabes, I remember you.)
And few now remember that the Lisa itself, despite appearances better described as a "minicomputer" than micro, ran about six different operating systems, including UCSD P-system and XENIX, and had several full-fledged language systems from Object Pascal through COBOL and Fortran.
That said, as a Mac hacker for 25 years, like Mark Pilgrim I personally deplore the arrival of "cynical", closed platforms such as the iPhone and iPad.
I don't think I would want to use it for regular daily tasks.
You'll find the same advantages in day to day use, as you observe as a media centre: efficiency, reliability, freedom from malware, nagware, and crapware, freedom from "progressive Windows dementia", and availability of many useful packages.
Don't take my word for it, try it. I use Linux for my day to day work and it "just works." Take the Windows brakes off and you'll immediately get twice as much value from your PC.
Of *course* the people hugely profiting from this crime eat good, healthy food themselves. They can afford to. Cheap corn products are meant for the disposable, obese, and sick masses.
To do it BEFORE the world's crops are contaminated permanently with this GMO rubbish?
Does anyone in the mainstream not wonder why and how investigation was either not done, or hushed up, before these products were approved for environmental release, not to mention sale as food?
Oh well. Keep drinking your Aspartame laced sodas and eating your GMO corn chips, everyone. Somebody's making a...killing on it.
But seriously, even if true, this is going to last all of five minutes. Google has a losing hand against the Chinese government. The original press release did not say they lifted censorship. It said they would discuss the legality of "legal unfiltered results" which is clearly COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE if you have been paying any attention to the violent hermetic paranoia of China's government.
One of three things will probably occur:
Google quietly continues to censor and keeps the market;
Google abandons the market as threatened (yeah right);
Google supplies unfiltered results, keeps the market, and the Chinese authorities duly strip them. Everybody wins, right?
If Google had a real stake in open-ness they would start discussing all the other jurisdictions they currently censor.
Sorry, copy and paste fail. I intended to link to these:
Lu Guang from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
...as just a few examples of the incredible disdain with which China pollutes its own backyard and poisons its people. Even Ceaucescu's Romania has nothing on this mess.
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There other other sources than The Register, including posts by Twitter devs linked from the Scala language site.
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*koff* WMD *koff*
Or just ask Canadian citizen Maher Arar how great it is to get on a plane to the US and get off one in Syria to be tortured and detained without charge - based on somebody's accidental or deliberate injection of bogus "intel".
That could be YOU. Ever think of that?
The Oscar.
Rather than address the problems at the source - Reduce, Re-use, Recycle would be a start - the complaints and proposal is about covering up the problem at the end of the chain. This "cure" is if anything worse than the disease.
China's enthusiastically converted their country to one big foul toxic wasteland, but this is our shared fate, if such backwards responses to the problem are the best we can do.
Start with Use Less. Don't buy overpackaged goods or small packages. Re-use packaging and bags. Do recycle. Humans were resourceful enough to make (and keep on making) the mess; now we have to be smart enough to change our ways.
There is no Planet B.
But seriously -- the vulnerability of services like online banking is a huge elephant in the room where Windows is concerned. ("Let's take the cruddiest, most exploited modern operating system you can find, install it on 97% of PCs with no choice, and don't tell anybody they can't trust it to keep anything private." What could possibly go wrong?)
There is no way that your average PC owner can keep Windows free of malware for very long. This must be snowballing into a massive future class action.
St Petersburg's Summer/Autumn are warm enough to incubate more than a few mushrooms. It's not exactly Siberia.
Taggers take note.
First on Mac: Adobe Illustrator, Quark XPress, Aldus PageMaker, Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, Altsys/Aldus Freehand, etc, etc.
Nicely played, sir.
You also use some kind of decent version control.
As someone who read the legendary Inside Macintosh (1983 draft; I still have it) cover to cover before even touching a Mac (some time around 1985), I don't understand this contention that the original Mac was "closed" to developers. The *case* was not easy to open, but the programmer model was not locked up in any real way. Almost from the beginning, Apple offered assembler- and compiler-level toolsets. Initially these were Lisa-hosted, simply because the Mac porting hadn't been done yet. I personally used Macintosh Development System (1984) and Whitesmiths C in the very beginning, before reverting to Pascal for a while, using powerful toolchains such as TML and Lightspeed Pascal. Consulair C was available in 1985.
From the first moment, third party developer tools sprang up like kudzu around the original Mac, most of them cutting edge in some way. Many innovative development technologies were pioneered on the Mac: interpreted Pascal with a sophisticated GUI (Mac Pascal), Object Pascal and MVC systems (MacApp), Neon, 4GLs, incremental compilers (Lightspeed/THINK/Symantec C), etc. Does anyone even remember that in the 80s, Apple pushed out several full releases of their own Mac Smalltalk-80 system, which Squeak is now based on? (Harvey Alcabes, I remember you.)
And few now remember that the Lisa itself, despite appearances better described as a "minicomputer" than micro, ran about six different operating systems, including UCSD P-system and XENIX, and had several full-fledged language systems from Object Pascal through COBOL and Fortran.
I thought you were going to link to this.
Express doesn't even include an IDE, while Xcode includes everything out of the box for professional Mac development.
In fact Apple's excellent development tools for Mac have been free since at least 1997.
That said, as a Mac hacker for 25 years, like Mark Pilgrim I personally deplore the arrival of "cynical", closed platforms such as the iPhone and iPad.
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You'll find the same advantages in day to day use, as you observe as a media centre: efficiency, reliability, freedom from malware, nagware, and crapware, freedom from "progressive Windows dementia", and availability of many useful packages.
Don't take my word for it, try it. I use Linux for my day to day work and it "just works." Take the Windows brakes off and you'll immediately get twice as much value from your PC.
As in the patent infringement case - even "several hundred million" is only a couple of days' revenue, assuming the crooked bastards lost.
Penalties against Microsoft do not change their behaviour.
Of *course* the people hugely profiting from this crime eat good, healthy food themselves. They can afford to. Cheap corn products are meant for the disposable, obese, and sick masses.
To do it BEFORE the world's crops are contaminated permanently with this GMO rubbish?
Does anyone in the mainstream not wonder why and how investigation was either not done, or hushed up, before these products were approved for environmental release, not to mention sale as food?
Oh well. Keep drinking your Aspartame laced sodas and eating your GMO corn chips, everyone. Somebody's making a...killing on it.
But seriously, even if true, this is going to last all of five minutes. Google has a losing hand against the Chinese government. The original press release did not say they lifted censorship. It said they would discuss the legality of "legal unfiltered results" which is clearly COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE if you have been paying any attention to the violent hermetic paranoia of China's government.
One of three things will probably occur:
If Google had a real stake in open-ness they would start discussing all the other jurisdictions they currently censor.
Sorry, copy and paste fail. I intended to link to these:
And we know the Chinese don't give a damn about poisoning their backyard or themselves.
We'll all pay for this unforgivable, mindless destruction eventually.
That's exactly what does happen, even at border control. Pay a little extra, and you can preserve a little more dignity. Ask any billionaire.
Then you get to decide how far this fact (paying money for different treatment by authorities) offends your ideology.