I don't think you are correct in the idea that wealth disparity has gone down in the US. I did a few minutes research and stumbled on the fact that in the 90's Bill Gates alone had more wealth than the bottom 40% of all Americans combined, and the #2, Warren Buffet, was right up there with him. The richest 1% have more than the bottom 90% combined.
And I know that in the last decade these number have gotten more skued, not less. Even if you argue that there are not Carnage's or Rockafellers operating right now, the group effects are still the same.
You are forgetting one intermediate: Representative Democracy. And We are closest to a Representative Democracy, with the small exception that we do not directly elect a President... there is the whole electoral college mess (so it depends on you state). But in regards to House and Senate we are a Representative Democracy.
The closest government to a true Democracy that I am aware of is Switzerland, who has enormous ballots every voting season, and even there they elect representatives for many functions.
Once could also argue that we are much to inclusive about who we let vote to be a true Republic (with typical high barriers to citizenship such as in Rome).
Actually, the military does discriminate based on educational level: you can't be considered for a commissioning (becoming an officer) without a college degree and having passed the AFOQT (that is the Air Force Version, a sort of intelligence test, other branches have something similar).
And as an enlisted person you have to take an intelligence test, and if you fail to meet a certain standard on that you are washed out... or they make you a Marine (the last is a joke).
Turbofans and Turboprops are very defiantly jet engines. All of the fighter aircraft that you are probably thinking of as jet aircraft are all Turbofans (of the low-bypass type), and there is most definitely a jet engine in the heart of every Turboprop providing the force that turns the blades.
You are correct in that these do not have the ideological purity of a ramjet or scramjet, but they do have the practicality of working really well.
WINE relies on X11. While that will be acceptable for some people, it is a long way from there to a "native" Windows emulation that will be acceptable for most people. Drag-and-drop (at least as much as Windows normally supports), copy-paste, and handling windows as native objects are all issues with X11.
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No, because which is faster is a very complicated answer. It is like asking which is faster: a tank or a Porche. On a racetrack the Porche is going to be faster. On a field with mud a foot deep the tank is going to be (a lot) faster. This is a rather stark example, but the principal holds just as well for the Windows-MacOS comparisons.
The best way of comparing has always been to benchmark the particular job you have in mind, an then to remember that generalizations are not really valid.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you a bridge.
Actually... if you read the list over, several of those inventions (the numbering system, gunpowder, etc..), and much of the governmental systems (especially the ideas of meritocracies and tolerance) were brought to the region by the Mongols. The Mongols did not invent those things, but
They were very effective warriors, and ruthless to those they thought were not cooperating or playing by the rules, but they were also the most effective governors the world had know to that point.
I would guess that this means 100% success. The much more important question is if they are getting anywhere near brea-even energy production (if you get as much energy out as you expend getting it). My guess is that they are still orders-of-magnitudes away from that.
In other words: they are getting fusion, but their means of getting it is (currently) worthless for energy production.
But that is not "price fixing". That would be if Apple went to other online music distributers (such as Napster or any of the other "Plays for Sure" vendors) and made agreements with them that they should also have $.99 a track. It does not seem that they have. Apple has just made it policy that all single tracks sold through them are $.99. Competition is still allowed.
You are disappointed that the lowest end Apple desktop is not faster than the high end laptop? Why?
And you do realize that your 23" display will work fine if you use it in digital mode, since the Mac mini supports 1920x1200 in digital mode (and explicitly supports the 23" Cinema Display).
I think you find yourself with really wrong expectations again.
No, this is wrong. The "worm" is really a Trojan Horse, and requires that you decompress, then run it manually. It then uses iChat to send itself to every person on your buddy list. This really was a non-event.
Apple does react to these things, much faster than the AV firms usually do (one of the worms references in this article was patched by Apple 8 months ago, but is news because Sophos is only reacting to it now). The only real reason to have AV on a Mac at this point is to make sure that you don't incidentally spread viruses to PCs. Oh... and to make sure the MS Office macro viruses don't annoy you.
Actually, that was Sophos. And the real kicker: they were just finally reacting to a worm that had already been patched 8 months ago by Apple and only affected 10.4.0 (not 10.3.9 or 10.4.1) and systems with bluetooth (a small group since there have been real upgrades in the bluetooth code since then).
It is impossible for a society to "have no culture". What you are saying is that a group does not have the culture that you value, and you are using a mistaken definition of "culture". Really you both are not talking about culture, but about popular media, which can be a method of cultural transfer, or a part of the expression of culture.
And there is a real point that much of the world has decided to make US-produced media that reflects our central culture such a large part of their entertainment diet (one part of culture). This is a valid point.
Of those 500 people I would bet that less than 5 (1%) of them would try to install MacOS X on their non-Apple computer. But here is where the problem is: 4 of those 5 people would have major problems with the install and blame Apple for those problems since they "paid lots of money to get a great computer". These same people also are the same people that the other 495 look to as tech-savy people, and take their advice on purchasing computers. This has all the makings of a big black eye.
I think you have the cart and the horse reversed here. None of the big software development houses supported OpenDoc, most notably Microsoft kept telling everyone about the great new system they were coming out with that would be so much better and work on Windows as well: OLE. After that there was a lot of money that Apple would have had to spend to support the product, and not much benefit since Microsoft's, Adobe's, and Quark's software would not have supported it at all. That was what killed OpenDoc.
On the flip side. your argument is also wrong because there are so many places developing for Carbon and Cocoa, which are both Apple proprietary APIs.
You need to read that again. I did incorrectly write "sexual contact" when the proper term was "sexual relations", but President Clinton did use the proper terms at all times during the trial (the only time when perjury was at issue). Also said that he asked the judge, more properly it was the court... but we are splitting hairs there.
And why do you think that any lawyer would "spontaneously tell the truth" in a courtroom... no one implied anything but deliberate truthful answering of exactly the questions that were asked. If the Starr commission wanted to ask President Clinton if he had received a blow job from Monica Leinski, they should have asked him that question in court. They did not, but rather chose to set up the President of the United States in a situation that could only harm that office. Under the current administration that would be considered tantamount to treason. (I do not agree with that characterization though... just that it was underhanded, and stupid of the press to have played along).
The tone and intent of my posting was correct. The entire prosecution of President Clinton was solely politically motivated (why else were a whole number of Republican Congressmen not then brought before impeachment proceedings for leaving their wives for mistresses while in office?), and President Clinton was never convicted of any legal wrongdoing. His wrongdoing were only of a civil mater (and thus for his wife to choose to act upon).
This is exactly how the courts decided, and how the post-impeachment trial in the Senate found.
You remember Clinton perjuring himself? That's funny... the judge in the case did not consider it perjury, and he is the one who gets to decide what is perjury.
The actual series of events is that then President Clinton asked the judge what "sexual contact" was, and when the judge answered that oral sex did not count as "sexual contact", President Clinton then answered that he had not had "sexual contact". That definition actually came from Ken Starr's office, who then accused President Clinton of perjuring himself.
In other words Ken Starr's office deliberately set a trap for then President Clinton, and if he had answered any other way he would have perjured himself. They were going to accuse him of perjury no matter what he answered.
The driver API is open to everyone. You can go to develop.apple.com and read all you want about it. They don't include the startup routines, or how to write the bootup KEXT's, but you can do anything you would like post-boot.
MacOS X uses the Mach Kernel, so the initial booting environment is completely different from FreeBSD. You are getting way to hung up on the "MacOS X uses FreeBSD" thing.
USB is simply not useable for high bandwidth connections. While the burst speed (the number that everyone talks about) is higher than FireWire 400, the actual thoroput is much lower, and you cannot reserve bandwidth on the buss for an application. These two factors make USB of any form unusable for DV video.
The reason you don't find FireWire on many low end PC's is that it has not been a part of Intel's reference designs for motherboards, since Intel is not a member of the patent consortium that profits from FireWire. Now that Apple is a high-profile customer there is a chance this will change.
You write as if the transition was to get to Intel, rather than to get off of a processor that was in trouble (PPC). If IBM had (put the resources into the PPC to have) kept the PPC competitive (the G5 was only competitive by putting 2 or more into a box) then Apple would have stuck with them. But IBM made it clear that it was not going to put the money into it, and Apple did not think it was worth sinking their own money into it.
Whether or not they ultimately use virtualization (my money is on no), it will not be what drove Apple to Intel.
Just to be pedantic: The WebCore/WebKit frameworks are sort-of tied into the OS. If you replace/trash Safari.app, you have not touched the parts that actually do the job of rendering web content. You also can't just replace the version of Safari that shipped with your computer (speaking in general terms... there are means to use the latest versions, but these often have the requirement of the latest OS anyways). In these regards Safari/MacOS X is similar to IE.
However, Finder.app does not use Safari, and dependancies are few and far between (Help.app would be one), so this is a much more limited thing than IE.
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I don't think you are correct in the idea that wealth disparity has gone down in the US. I did a few minutes research and stumbled on the fact that in the 90's Bill Gates alone had more wealth than the bottom 40% of all Americans combined, and the #2, Warren Buffet, was right up there with him. The richest 1% have more than the bottom 90% combined.
And I know that in the last decade these number have gotten more skued, not less. Even if you argue that there are not Carnage's or Rockafellers operating right now, the group effects are still the same.
You are forgetting one intermediate: Representative Democracy. And We are closest to a Representative Democracy, with the small exception that we do not directly elect a President... there is the whole electoral college mess (so it depends on you state). But in regards to House and Senate we are a Representative Democracy.
The closest government to a true Democracy that I am aware of is Switzerland, who has enormous ballots every voting season, and even there they elect representatives for many functions.
Once could also argue that we are much to inclusive about who we let vote to be a true Republic (with typical high barriers to citizenship such as in Rome).
Actually, the military does discriminate based on educational level: you can't be considered for a commissioning (becoming an officer) without a college degree and having passed the AFOQT (that is the Air Force Version, a sort of intelligence test, other branches have something similar).
And as an enlisted person you have to take an intelligence test, and if you fail to meet a certain standard on that you are washed out... or they make you a Marine (the last is a joke).
Do you think the Patent office would consider prior art that was millions, or even billions if years old?
Turbofans and Turboprops are very defiantly jet engines. All of the fighter aircraft that you are probably thinking of as jet aircraft are all Turbofans (of the low-bypass type), and there is most definitely a jet engine in the heart of every Turboprop providing the force that turns the blades.
You are correct in that these do not have the ideological purity of a ramjet or scramjet, but they do have the practicality of working really well.
WINE relies on X11. While that will be acceptable for some people, it is a long way from there to a "native" Windows emulation that will be acceptable for most people. Drag-and-drop (at least as much as Windows normally supports), copy-paste, and handling windows as native objects are all issues with X11.
No, because which is faster is a very complicated answer. It is like asking which is faster: a tank or a Porche. On a racetrack the Porche is going to be faster. On a field with mud a foot deep the tank is going to be (a lot) faster. This is a rather stark example, but the principal holds just as well for the Windows-MacOS comparisons.
The best way of comparing has always been to benchmark the particular job you have in mind, an then to remember that generalizations are not really valid.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you a bridge.
Actually... if you read the list over, several of those inventions (the numbering system, gunpowder, etc..), and much of the governmental systems (especially the ideas of meritocracies and tolerance) were brought to the region by the Mongols. The Mongols did not invent those things, but
They were very effective warriors, and ruthless to those they thought were not cooperating or playing by the rules, but they were also the most effective governors the world had know to that point.
I would guess that this means 100% success. The much more important question is if they are getting anywhere near brea-even energy production (if you get as much energy out as you expend getting it). My guess is that they are still orders-of-magnitudes away from that.
In other words: they are getting fusion, but their means of getting it is (currently) worthless for energy production.
But that is not "price fixing". That would be if Apple went to other online music distributers (such as Napster or any of the other "Plays for Sure" vendors) and made agreements with them that they should also have $.99 a track. It does not seem that they have. Apple has just made it policy that all single tracks sold through them are $.99. Competition is still allowed.
You are disappointed that the lowest end Apple desktop is not faster than the high end laptop? Why?
And you do realize that your 23" display will work fine if you use it in digital mode, since the Mac mini supports 1920x1200 in digital mode (and explicitly supports the 23" Cinema Display).
I think you find yourself with really wrong expectations again.
No, this is wrong. The "worm" is really a Trojan Horse, and requires that you decompress, then run it manually. It then uses iChat to send itself to every person on your buddy list. This really was a non-event.
Apple does react to these things, much faster than the AV firms usually do (one of the worms references in this article was patched by Apple 8 months ago, but is news because Sophos is only reacting to it now). The only real reason to have AV on a Mac at this point is to make sure that you don't incidentally spread viruses to PCs. Oh... and to make sure the MS Office macro viruses don't annoy you.
Actually, that was Sophos. And the real kicker: they were just finally reacting to a worm that had already been patched 8 months ago by Apple and only affected 10.4.0 (not 10.3.9 or 10.4.1) and systems with bluetooth (a small group since there have been real upgrades in the bluetooth code since then).
It is impossible for a society to "have no culture". What you are saying is that a group does not have the culture that you value, and you are using a mistaken definition of "culture". Really you both are not talking about culture, but about popular media, which can be a method of cultural transfer, or a part of the expression of culture.
And there is a real point that much of the world has decided to make US-produced media that reflects our central culture such a large part of their entertainment diet (one part of culture). This is a valid point.
Of those 500 people I would bet that less than 5 (1%) of them would try to install MacOS X on their non-Apple computer. But here is where the problem is: 4 of those 5 people would have major problems with the install and blame Apple for those problems since they "paid lots of money to get a great computer". These same people also are the same people that the other 495 look to as tech-savy people, and take their advice on purchasing computers. This has all the makings of a big black eye.
I think you have the cart and the horse reversed here. None of the big software development houses supported OpenDoc, most notably Microsoft kept telling everyone about the great new system they were coming out with that would be so much better and work on Windows as well: OLE. After that there was a lot of money that Apple would have had to spend to support the product, and not much benefit since Microsoft's, Adobe's, and Quark's software would not have supported it at all. That was what killed OpenDoc.
On the flip side. your argument is also wrong because there are so many places developing for Carbon and Cocoa, which are both Apple proprietary APIs.
You need to read that again. I did incorrectly write "sexual contact" when the proper term was "sexual relations", but President Clinton did use the proper terms at all times during the trial (the only time when perjury was at issue). Also said that he asked the judge, more properly it was the court... but we are splitting hairs there.
And why do you think that any lawyer would "spontaneously tell the truth" in a courtroom... no one implied anything but deliberate truthful answering of exactly the questions that were asked. If the Starr commission wanted to ask President Clinton if he had received a blow job from Monica Leinski, they should have asked him that question in court. They did not, but rather chose to set up the President of the United States in a situation that could only harm that office. Under the current administration that would be considered tantamount to treason. (I do not agree with that characterization though... just that it was underhanded, and stupid of the press to have played along).
The tone and intent of my posting was correct. The entire prosecution of President Clinton was solely politically motivated (why else were a whole number of Republican Congressmen not then brought before impeachment proceedings for leaving their wives for mistresses while in office?), and President Clinton was never convicted of any legal wrongdoing. His wrongdoing were only of a civil mater (and thus for his wife to choose to act upon).
This is exactly how the courts decided, and how the post-impeachment trial in the Senate found.
You remember Clinton perjuring himself? That's funny... the judge in the case did not consider it perjury, and he is the one who gets to decide what is perjury.
The actual series of events is that then President Clinton asked the judge what "sexual contact" was, and when the judge answered that oral sex did not count as "sexual contact", President Clinton then answered that he had not had "sexual contact". That definition actually came from Ken Starr's office, who then accused President Clinton of perjuring himself.
In other words Ken Starr's office deliberately set a trap for then President Clinton, and if he had answered any other way he would have perjured himself. They were going to accuse him of perjury no matter what he answered.
Please review for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal
The driver API is open to everyone. You can go to develop.apple.com and read all you want about it. They don't include the startup routines, or how to write the bootup KEXT's, but you can do anything you would like post-boot.
MacOS X uses the Mach Kernel, so the initial booting environment is completely different from FreeBSD. You are getting way to hung up on the "MacOS X uses FreeBSD" thing.
USB is simply not useable for high bandwidth connections. While the burst speed (the number that everyone talks about) is higher than FireWire 400, the actual thoroput is much lower, and you cannot reserve bandwidth on the buss for an application. These two factors make USB of any form unusable for DV video.
The reason you don't find FireWire on many low end PC's is that it has not been a part of Intel's reference designs for motherboards, since Intel is not a member of the patent consortium that profits from FireWire. Now that Apple is a high-profile customer there is a chance this will change.
You write as if the transition was to get to Intel, rather than to get off of a processor that was in trouble (PPC). If IBM had (put the resources into the PPC to have) kept the PPC competitive (the G5 was only competitive by putting 2 or more into a box) then Apple would have stuck with them. But IBM made it clear that it was not going to put the money into it, and Apple did not think it was worth sinking their own money into it.
Whether or not they ultimately use virtualization (my money is on no), it will not be what drove Apple to Intel.
This has the executable bit set... it comes out of the tgz package with it intact... just like what would happen on linux.
Just to be pedantic: The WebCore/WebKit frameworks are sort-of tied into the OS. If you replace/trash Safari.app, you have not touched the parts that actually do the job of rendering web content. You also can't just replace the version of Safari that shipped with your computer (speaking in general terms... there are means to use the latest versions, but these often have the requirement of the latest OS anyways). In these regards Safari/MacOS X is similar to IE.
However, Finder.app does not use Safari, and dependancies are few and far between (Help.app would be one), so this is a much more limited thing than IE.