Check out the searches for C++, SQL, Perl and get a load of that decline, though the main source of queries for all three is Bangalore. Ouch !! Incidentally Dallas and Houston make an appearance in the lower ranks.
On a happier note, I predict news soon, from Peru, of a resurgence in the fortunes of the Amiga. AmigaOS forever !!!
If you want, you can make Explorer open separate windows in processes with their own message pump.
It's kinda interesting that one of prime reasons that OS/2 died was that Microsoft insisted on only a single message pump for the GUI of the whole system. One app dies and whole GUI dies. That one thing did an awful lot to contribute to the perceived instability and crappiness of OS/2. Look how much better NT3.51 ran. There shouldn't have been much difference.
One of the nice things about the current set of visual effects in Leopard and Vista is that it surely shouldn't be too hard to virtualize. The effects aren't that complex.
Maybe one of the Leopard surprises is support for a virtualized Quartz Extreme, that Apple will then roll out to best-buddies Parallels. If this also supported games in Windows... that would be some killer app !!!
For people tending livestock, and growing produce for their families, the laptop will bring communications.
Cable TV never delivered on the kinds of promises of learning and interesting programs the companies made to us. It took the internet, wikipedia, youtube etc.
I'm sure that after a time these laptops will stimulate a relatively large growth in the web in the countries it is seeded in. Many web-sites in the native language will appear and although much of it may be porn, a lot will be of direct use to the kinds of people that could benefit most from the kinds of on-line information that people in the West take for granted. An example would be better access to basics such as weather forecasts. Imagine going to sleep not knowing if your crops are going to be washed away. These laptops will probably provide many unexpected benefits, and Negroponte has been smart to try and build as simple, robust and useful a device as possible.
I work at a client site where I implement large software. I have my own laptop, which due to sadly lacking Oracle WAN performance, I primarily use as a dumb terminal to various Citrix apps, and Windows Remote Desktop at my home office where I can run Visual Studio, db-based apps etc.
This works great, with one major caveat. If the network starts stuttering, performance of remote desktop and citrix both suffer badly. Otherwise, the benefits are great: much reduced amount of sensitive data on laptop, access to a higher performance office machine, less app latency when talking to 'local' databases 2000 miles away.
Yeah, sound familiar. PS-Algol (Persistent S-Algol) designed at St Andrews by a team including one of the Java designers, did this. There was a standard stack for evaluations etc., but I think the stack frames, structures etc., themselves lived on the heap.
PS-Algol included persistent hashes through a simple but very powerful api, and support serialisation of anything you could point to. Ron Morrison would probably kill me if I didn't mention that procedures in PS are first class objects, permitting not just closures, but save/load of closures... think a programming assignment where you open a db, then reflect the interface, then interact with a closure saved by the professor in order to perform the assignment. One example was implementing a communications protocol to communicate with stubs in a pre-saved closure.
Google for PS-Algol to find papers and research. Hi to anyone at St Andrews that still remembers me!
Let me third this. My Mac Mini Core Duo has been absolute spectacular. Rock solid. Great to use.
My wife's MacBook has been great. It did suffer the discoloration, but the local Apple store fixed it free in a couple of days. She's now recommending Macs, especially the MacBook, to her non-computer literate friends, on the basis of all the cool iLife apps.
Posted from perhaps the best all-rounder machine ever, the 12" PB. Woot.
I used a fair amount of 'Fast Food', but after a series of three times eating at McDonalds, when I got seriously sick, each time, I swore off fast food forever.
I've been 'clean' since then, and by and large just eat a regular diet like the middle-class people of twenty years ago. If I need food fast, then I can pick something up from Boston Market.
Moderation and filtering the worst crap out of your diet are the watchwords here.
Especially, and I can't stress this enough, NEVER buy any kind of diet food. A great example, check out the 'light' peanut butter, 12 grams of fat instead of 16, but double the sugar and salt. Who ARE THEY KIDDING !!!
Given a decent amount of power, you don't need any of that fancy wing-shaping. The shooting-star war planes had a substantially flat wing.
In one of the sailplanes I've flown, the elevator is a flat board with a hinge, and down near stall speed you can feel it buffet, but the primary fact is that any lift from the tail is generated purely by the angle of attack of the surface hitting the air. (Schwiezer 1-26 btw)
Yeah, my ComCastic cable modem took a lonnnngggg time to recognise my computer, but eventually it did.
Same deal with getting my dad's new DSL modem working in the UK. I swear it was set to wait 6 hours before grudgingly allowing my newly purchased Netgear box to work instead of the piece of shit USB garbage supplied by the obviously most cheapest possible fly by night DSL operator carefully selected on the basis of price by my dad.
Yeah, a year ago, you could point and laugh at the iBook in terms of comparing it with supposedly much more powerful low-end Intel laptops.
Now, the lowend MacBook has dual processor, iSight, bluetooth, firewire, USB and you can install Windows on it if you really need to, either 'live' with Parallels, or reboot with Boot(up) Camp.
My girlfriends experience with her MacBook (bought on launch-day evening) has been nothing but positive, aside from the minor staining and running kinda warm, and she's duly recomending Macs to people as 'Not difficult'. In fact, software like Delicious Library which allows fast inout through barcode scanning of books, dvds using the iSight is getting towards killer-app status for people with a lot of books and dvds.
Apple just need to stick with the plan and execute well and the market share will come to them.
Yes, thank God that Iraq weren't interested in acquiring nuclear (nu-lick-le-ar) power when the Reagan(?) administration tried to push it on them.
The meetings from that period have a young-looking Donald Rumsfeld who I believe was an aide in the Reagan government. How attitudes can change.
There's obviously plenty of documentation on this, and some interesting memoirs from an old, wise (and very left-wing) politician called Tony Benn in the UK, who was a cabinet member at the time, and as such had pretty high-level access.
Slashdot Mirror
How much WHAT ?!?!?!?
/etc/fstab ...
(I use a Mac you insensitive clod!!)
Ohhhhh,
Web-pages!! Pah!!
Most people are much more interested in the Soft Fruit Rankings
Yikes !!!
Check out the searches for C++, SQL, Perl and get a load of that decline, though the main source of queries for all three is Bangalore. Ouch !! Incidentally Dallas and Houston make an appearance in the lower ranks.
On a happier note, I predict news soon, from Peru, of a resurgence in the fortunes of the Amiga. AmigaOS forever !!!
If you want, you can make Explorer open separate windows in processes with their own message pump.
It's kinda interesting that one of prime reasons that OS/2 died was that Microsoft insisted on only a single message pump for the GUI of the whole system. One app dies and whole GUI dies. That one thing did an awful lot to contribute to the perceived instability and crappiness of OS/2. Look how much better NT3.51 ran. There shouldn't have been much difference.
One of the nice things about the current set of visual effects in Leopard and Vista is that it surely shouldn't be too hard to virtualize. The effects aren't that complex.
... that would be some killer app !!!
Maybe one of the Leopard surprises is support for a virtualized Quartz Extreme, that Apple will then roll out to best-buddies Parallels. If this also supported games in Windows
Here's my brilliant Web 2.0 business plan:
1. Copy YouTube idea
2. Rename it PornTube
3. ???
4. Profit !!
It could have been worse ... It could have been called the "Dell Pinto"
I can't imagine that FORD would still call copyright infringement. Let burning cars lie and all that.
Sweet!! It could work like Slashdot moderation.
;-)
A++++ Post. +5 MOD ME UP
I think I found my new sig.
Yeah, I think the Brian Briggs quote comes to mind:
"If Microsoft made a toilet paper, it would be called 'Butt Wiper'."
I think, on the whole, I prefer a less desciptive name.
That is a classic. I've forwarded it to my manager.
For people tending livestock, and growing produce for their families, the laptop will bring communications.
Cable TV never delivered on the kinds of promises of learning and interesting programs the companies made to us. It took the internet, wikipedia, youtube etc.
I'm sure that after a time these laptops will stimulate a relatively large growth in the web in the countries it is seeded in. Many web-sites in the native language will appear and although much of it may be porn, a lot will be of direct use to the kinds of people that could benefit most from the kinds of on-line information that people in the West take for granted. An example would be better access to basics such as weather forecasts. Imagine going to sleep not knowing if your crops are going to be washed away. These laptops will probably provide many unexpected benefits, and Negroponte has been smart to try and build as simple, robust and useful a device as possible.
I work at a client site where I implement large software. I have my own laptop, which due to sadly lacking Oracle WAN performance, I primarily use as a dumb terminal to various Citrix apps, and Windows Remote Desktop at my home office where I can run Visual Studio, db-based apps etc.
This works great, with one major caveat. If the network starts stuttering, performance of remote desktop and citrix both suffer badly. Otherwise, the benefits are great: much reduced amount of sensitive data on laptop, access to a higher performance office machine, less app latency when talking to 'local' databases 2000 miles away.
Exactly, I now do all my 'googling' on Yahoo.
Yeah, sound familiar. PS-Algol (Persistent S-Algol) designed at St Andrews by a team including one of the Java designers, did this. There was a standard stack for evaluations etc., but I think the stack frames, structures etc., themselves lived on the heap.
... think a programming assignment where you open a db, then reflect the interface, then interact with a closure saved by the professor in order to perform the assignment. One example was implementing a communications protocol to communicate with stubs in a pre-saved closure.
PS-Algol included persistent hashes through a simple but very powerful api, and support serialisation of anything you could point to. Ron Morrison would probably kill me if I didn't mention that procedures in PS are first class objects, permitting not just closures, but save/load of closures
Google for PS-Algol to find papers and research. Hi to anyone at St Andrews that still remembers me!
Let me third this. My Mac Mini Core Duo has been absolute spectacular. Rock solid. Great to use.
My wife's MacBook has been great. It did suffer the discoloration, but the local Apple store fixed it free in a couple of days. She's now recommending Macs, especially the MacBook, to her non-computer literate friends, on the basis of all the cool iLife apps.
Posted from perhaps the best all-rounder machine ever, the 12" PB. Woot.
Apple fanboi. Never!@!!
Try pistons slamming into the valves ...
Timing belt on my Peugeot 205Gti snapped and bent a bunch of valves. Ouch.
Timing belt on my Miata, tow to the dealer, ready next day, though tensioner and seals pushed the total up to $800. Ouch.
I used a fair amount of 'Fast Food', but after a series of three times eating at McDonalds, when I got seriously sick, each time, I swore off fast food forever.
I've been 'clean' since then, and by and large just eat a regular diet like the middle-class people of twenty years ago. If I need food fast, then I can pick something up from Boston Market.
Moderation and filtering the worst crap out of your diet are the watchwords here.
Especially, and I can't stress this enough, NEVER buy any kind of diet food. A great example, check out the 'light' peanut butter, 12 grams of fat instead of 16, but double the sugar and salt. Who ARE THEY KIDDING !!!
Given a decent amount of power, you don't need any of that fancy wing-shaping. The shooting-star war planes had a substantially flat wing.
In one of the sailplanes I've flown, the elevator is a flat board with a hinge, and down near stall speed you can feel it buffet, but the primary fact is that any lift from the tail is generated purely by the angle of attack of the surface hitting the air. (Schwiezer 1-26 btw)
Yeah, supporting an Oracle database on Windows 98 was particulary *fun*.
;-)
If anything in the world was like an elephant riding a bicycle, that was it.
Nowadays I'm lucky enough never to have to look at the boxes my software runs on. Woot!
Don't forget the Google Killer ...
I've seen dog that just gobbled down cat poo, litter and all.
Don't underestimate what dogs will eat.
Most draw the line at Pot Noodle though. See this.
And a fax machine is just a waffle iron with a phone attached!!!
Yeah, my ComCastic cable modem took a lonnnngggg time to recognise my computer, but eventually it did.
Same deal with getting my dad's new DSL modem working in the UK. I swear it was set to wait 6 hours before grudgingly allowing my newly purchased Netgear box to work instead of the piece of shit USB garbage supplied by the obviously most cheapest possible fly by night DSL operator carefully selected on the basis of price by my dad.
Yeah, a year ago, you could point and laugh at the iBook in terms of comparing it with supposedly much more powerful low-end Intel laptops.
Now, the lowend MacBook has dual processor, iSight, bluetooth, firewire, USB and you can install Windows on it if you really need to, either 'live' with Parallels, or reboot with Boot(up) Camp.
My girlfriends experience with her MacBook (bought on launch-day evening) has been nothing but positive, aside from the minor staining and running kinda warm, and she's duly recomending Macs to people as 'Not difficult'. In fact, software like Delicious Library which allows fast inout through barcode scanning of books, dvds using the iSight is getting towards killer-app status for people with a lot of books and dvds.
Apple just need to stick with the plan and execute well and the market share will come to them.
Yes, thank God that Iraq weren't interested in acquiring nuclear (nu-lick-le-ar) power when the Reagan(?) administration tried to push it on them.
The meetings from that period have a young-looking Donald Rumsfeld who I believe was an aide in the Reagan government. How attitudes can change.
There's obviously plenty of documentation on this, and some interesting memoirs from an old, wise (and very left-wing) politician called Tony Benn in the UK, who was a cabinet member at the time, and as such had pretty high-level access.