Um... you are more than a little behind, aren't you. The iMac has a mini-DVI port (as did its predecessor), and with an adapter (various ones for $19 a piece) you can use VGA, DVI, SVideo, or RCA video. And with the newest iMacs they are now able to "span" monitors wihtout resorting to a hack (it was an easy one anyways).
All of the limitations on this computer are hardware ones. Wider/faster busses cost more money.
Reminder: the amendment you are referring to only prevents the Federal government from restricting the states from having a "well governed militia". It does not restrict the states in any way from outright banning all firearms within their borders.
So, you have no inalienable right (implied or otherwise) to own a firearm. It is only that the states have decided that firearm possession is ok.
Umm... you do realize that other peoples are just as (or more) racist as Europeans? Hutus and Tutsis come to mind (genocide based primarily on ethnic groupings). The Japanese have a group of ethnic Koreans (who look to most outsiders as being indistinguishable) who have been forced into being an underclass for generations (and have historically not been allowed citizenship/passports, but that is changing from what I hear). The Chinese also have a long history of group intolerance.
Basically, this seems to be a general human trait, and Europeans (and the US as a cultural descendant) seem to be the ones to care most about it.
The vast majority of what the FBI does is correct. But their boss (the president), has mandated a number of things that are probably illegal siting "terrorism" or "trust us" as the grounds. This has created what usually happens in the case of bad management from above: people go to far and cross the bounds.
The problem is not the FBI, they are the ones who are just stuck enforcing bad decisions from above.
Minor note... Japanese grammar is different than English grammar (imagine that...), so the subject (and nearly everything else) goes before the verb. Hence:
Change "forbid booting" to "not have support for". Apple has not done any work to support booting, that means they don't include things that they don't need, but might be needed for Windows. they are not hindering you from booting Windows, just not helping you either.
I think you need to adjust your first rule: ADB was no more proprietary than PS/2. IBM simply chose/made the PS/2 interface and decided not to go with the more versatile ADB like Apple and Sun did.
Your second rule of thumb is actually the one that came into play. The first one is worthless, and stems from a lack of understanding of what "standard" and "proprietary" mean.
I think that Apple has usually done a pretty good job at being very specific and far about their benchmarks. They are as specific as anyone else's, but they don't usually pull the underhanded tricks that other places have. As examples:
Apple usually has a full Photoshop routine that is fairly complex, and almost always is putting together a movie poster. The construction of the movie poster is very realistic, and exactly duplicates the routine that a graphic artist would follow. They have traditionally made sure that there are a number of filters along the way, and filters have traditionally a place where Altivec allowed the PowerPC to shine. So they were choosing an area where they performed really well, but it was a very realistic demonstration for a large section of their customer base.
Despite being criticized/demonized for turning off HyperThreading on one of their bakeoffs, it turns out that by turning it off they improved the performance of the PC, and if they had left it on they would have been being dishonest. In other words: Apple did the right thing, and was criticized for it.
Apple has always compared reasonable competitor systems. They don't compare whiteboxes because those are not really competitors, but they do a good job of finding reasonable comparisons to make.
Apple is advertising the SpecInt/SpecFP, exactly the same benchmarks that people have been throwing at Apple for years as proof that "Macs are slow and overpriced for their speed". Now that they are using the same thing they are going to be called liars for doing this? I don't think that SpecInt/SpecFP are very valuable, but this is exactly how every one else markets, so you can't single Apple out on this one.
So, would you care to explain where you feel that "Apple benchmarks" are less honest than other benchmarks out there?
This would be true if 32 bit chips only had 32 bit floating point units... but most of them have 64 bit FP units. It has been a very long time since chips were completely one level of "bitness".
Nowadays "32 bit" means that the instruction word is 32 bits, and the single-length memory address is 32 bits. But to take the example of the G4: the instruction length is 32 bits, the memory address is 32bits, but has a 4 bit add-on (for 36 bits), the integer units are 32 bits, the floating point units are 64 bit, the memory pipes are mostly 64 bit, there are 128 bit pipes around the Altivec units, and the access pipe to the motherboard is 64bits.
Actually, the studies were already done to show that it would be possible to use a chemical cannon to put people into orbit (without killing them... or even blacking them out). That would make a large railgun viable for passenger service.
2. You are misrepresenting eugenics. Eugenics does have the assumption that some traits are more desirable than others (in a vague sense I agree with this statement) and then goes on to say that we should work towards having those traits be more common in the general population (there are very different methods to achieve that common goal).
While some people have claimed that whites are superior to blacks... few of them would have called themselves eugenisits... mostly they called themselves social darwinists and believed that whites and blacks were separate species (which is patently false).
Where are you getting these "quite clear" positions?
Adobe was prominently on stage for the announcement of Apple moving to Intel and promised their eventual support. They did say that there was going to be a bit of work because they were still a PowerPlant house, but they were going to make the transition.
And that does not take into account the recent announcement from Metroworks that they were going to make a PowerPlant Mac/Intel version of their compiler after all. That could make the transition much easier. I would still rather that they moved over to an XCode project, but that might not be convenient with the requirement that this build quickly on both MacOS X and Windows from the same codebase (it is of course possible... I am talking about convenient).
Now Apple has released a few great products recently, and in the video space they are directly competing with Adobe... although most people would say that they are more accurately competing against Avid... But in the image space: I can't think of any product that Adobe makes that compares with Aperture... unless you talk about the image browser in Photoshop, and that is really stretching things. Aperture is going to sell more copies of Photoshop.
On the driver certification part: it does only certify that the driver came from a Microsoft business partner... but the characterization of why this is a bit off. It is to certify that this is not from an unknown third party. It is done for the same reasons that most linux iso's are distributed with a MD5 hash next to them (which most people ignore anyways): it allows you to be sure of where the code is coming from, and that it is not coming from a nefarious third party.
I do wish that linux and MacOS X has similar setups, but it is difficult to setup such a system without having a central authority with a great deal of power (to abuse).
To the best of my knowledge the best spy satellites have a resolution of about 4 inches. That is good enough to recognize that there is a license plate there, but not read it. I realize that hollywood regularly presents satellites as being capable of so much more, but that is hollywood.
Getting a spy satellite into Earth orbit vs. getting the same hardware into orbit around Mars. And then add in the face that the satellite around mars has to do many jobs, and carry a really big antenna to phone home. All of a sudden it becomes clear why the spy satellite might have better resolution.
Without "trusted computing" style DRM the content holders (ABC in this case) will not go for the Peer-to-Peer distributed download model. But with that tight control that sort of thing would work out fine.
This is one of the reasons I don't knee-jerk about DRM: it does allow reasonable people/companies to do very valid things that would not be doable without the protection from fraud that DRM is intended to provide. There are going to be unreasonable people/compaines who will abuse this, and I wonder how long it will take before laws start to take that aspect of DRM (especially legally enforceable DRM) into account.
Just a reminder: it was a constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote (or more accurately said that a persons sex could not be a disqualifier). That amendment had to be first passed by two-thirds super-majorites in both the House and Senate, then needed to be ratified by majority votes in at least three fourths of the states.
None of those hurdles could have been passed by "a handful of people". I will agree that a smaller group of people fought long and hard to make the issue heard and popular, but it was popular before it became law.
On the other two issues: abortion rights still have the majority opinion for them (it has always hovered around 2/3 americans against banning all abortions... the rest of the statistics get messy outside of that narrow question). The slavery issue was quite a bit more complicated, with the majority of the US population living in states where slavery was illegal at that time.
It is illegal to violate copy-write law, it has nothing to do with whether you are downloading or uploading. The RIAA is going after the unloaders right now because it is easier to prove that these people are doing something wrong (if you ripped a CD you could well wind up with an identical file as is on filetrading sites).
There is probably no legal precedent about file downloads that go across international boarders, but there is little doubt that a US Citizen is violating at least the spirit of the law by using AllOfMP3.com... and in all probability the letter of the law.
And notice that we have not said anything about the morality... there it is black and white: the copywrite owners are not being paid. (I am avoiding the whole issue of who should get what money after that... two wrongs does not make you in the right)
Pol Pot was a horrible man leading a horrible movement. But to say he was so out of line with men who used the Christian faith as their banner is simply wrong. Look to the Crusades as an example: rapping, pillaging, slavery, germ warfare, etc... all because people were not "true Christians"... or more accurately were standing in the way of people's power over a "chosen land".
Then we can look to the Spanish inquisition, the war between Scotland and England (to Christianize the barbarians), or any number of wars across Europe where Chrisitans fought each other, some of which involved hurtling the mutilated corpses of children over the ramparts.
And I am not even going back to the horrible wars fought on behalf of the Jews before Christianity split off.
All of these have to count into "Christian ethics". Now you can argue that modern wars are worse: more people die. But that is because we have gotten that much better at organizing and mechanizing death. In fact the notion that wars should only be fought between soldiers is a rather new one. "Total war" is a rather old concept.
Christian History is no fairy tale, no matter what you compare it to.
Do you actually think that there is any private company realistically close to being able to launch LEO missions? I think that there are a number of companies who will eventually get somewhere close, but the fore-runner of those (Scaled Composites) is still only planning touch-the-edge-of-space missions in the foreseeable future.
The only company that is doing anything that could be LEO is getting all of their funding from NASA, granted in a creative way, and has not launched anything powered to date. They do have some great ideas, but they are a long way from fielding anything.
Getting to LEO is hard, and there are now only three countries who have ever gotten a manned craft into orbit: China (the newest club member), Russia/USSR, and the US. No private venture has gotten even close. Ever.
You will always have distortions in a 2D map. Some maps are better than others for certain purposes. The common Mercator projection does a good job of showing all but the northernmost sections of the northern hemisphere reasonably well (so everything is close to correct proportions in that part of the world). But it does a lousy job with the southern hemisphere.
You always have to pick what disorients you are going to have. For historical reasons the most common map happens to be the Mercator one.
Actually it is customary to talk about RAM chips in bits, not bytes. It is only when you chain them together into RAM modules that you switch to bytes.
He wasn't killed because his ideas for a cannon could reach space, he was killed because the cannon he was working on would have been able to land a payload the size of a Volkswagen in Tel-Aviv from Bagdad, and the Mossad objected.
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Um... you are more than a little behind, aren't you. The iMac has a mini-DVI port (as did its predecessor), and with an adapter (various ones for $19 a piece) you can use VGA, DVI, SVideo, or RCA video. And with the newest iMacs they are now able to "span" monitors wihtout resorting to a hack (it was an easy one anyways).
All of the limitations on this computer are hardware ones. Wider/faster busses cost more money.
Now, the iBook does only have a mini-VGA.
Reminder: the amendment you are referring to only prevents the Federal government from restricting the states from having a "well governed militia". It does not restrict the states in any way from outright banning all firearms within their borders.
So, you have no inalienable right (implied or otherwise) to own a firearm. It is only that the states have decided that firearm possession is ok.
Umm... you do realize that other peoples are just as (or more) racist as Europeans? Hutus and Tutsis come to mind (genocide based primarily on ethnic groupings). The Japanese have a group of ethnic Koreans (who look to most outsiders as being indistinguishable) who have been forced into being an underclass for generations (and have historically not been allowed citizenship/passports, but that is changing from what I hear). The Chinese also have a long history of group intolerance.
Basically, this seems to be a general human trait, and Europeans (and the US as a cultural descendant) seem to be the ones to care most about it.
The vast majority of what the FBI does is correct. But their boss (the president), has mandated a number of things that are probably illegal siting "terrorism" or "trust us" as the grounds. This has created what usually happens in the case of bad management from above: people go to far and cross the bounds.
The problem is not the FBI, they are the ones who are just stuck enforcing bad decisions from above.
Minor note... Japanese grammar is different than English grammar (imagine that...), so the subject (and nearly everything else) goes before the verb. Hence:
rootkit wa doku desu ka?
Slashdotters getting laid? That's just crazy talk!
Change "forbid booting" to "not have support for". Apple has not done any work to support booting, that means they don't include things that they don't need, but might be needed for Windows. they are not hindering you from booting Windows, just not helping you either.
I think you need to adjust your first rule: ADB was no more proprietary than PS/2. IBM simply chose/made the PS/2 interface and decided not to go with the more versatile ADB like Apple and Sun did.
Your second rule of thumb is actually the one that came into play. The first one is worthless, and stems from a lack of understanding of what "standard" and "proprietary" mean.
I think that Apple has usually done a pretty good job at being very specific and far about their benchmarks. They are as specific as anyone else's, but they don't usually pull the underhanded tricks that other places have. As examples:
Apple usually has a full Photoshop routine that is fairly complex, and almost always is putting together a movie poster. The construction of the movie poster is very realistic, and exactly duplicates the routine that a graphic artist would follow. They have traditionally made sure that there are a number of filters along the way, and filters have traditionally a place where Altivec allowed the PowerPC to shine. So they were choosing an area where they performed really well, but it was a very realistic demonstration for a large section of their customer base.
Despite being criticized/demonized for turning off HyperThreading on one of their bakeoffs, it turns out that by turning it off they improved the performance of the PC, and if they had left it on they would have been being dishonest. In other words: Apple did the right thing, and was criticized for it.
Apple has always compared reasonable competitor systems. They don't compare whiteboxes because those are not really competitors, but they do a good job of finding reasonable comparisons to make.
Apple is advertising the SpecInt/SpecFP, exactly the same benchmarks that people have been throwing at Apple for years as proof that "Macs are slow and overpriced for their speed". Now that they are using the same thing they are going to be called liars for doing this? I don't think that SpecInt/SpecFP are very valuable, but this is exactly how every one else markets, so you can't single Apple out on this one.
So, would you care to explain where you feel that "Apple benchmarks" are less honest than other benchmarks out there?
This would be true if 32 bit chips only had 32 bit floating point units... but most of them have 64 bit FP units. It has been a very long time since chips were completely one level of "bitness".
Nowadays "32 bit" means that the instruction word is 32 bits, and the single-length memory address is 32 bits. But to take the example of the G4: the instruction length is 32 bits, the memory address is 32bits, but has a 4 bit add-on (for 36 bits), the integer units are 32 bits, the floating point units are 64 bit, the memory pipes are mostly 64 bit, there are 128 bit pipes around the Altivec units, and the access pipe to the motherboard is 64bits.
Actually, the studies were already done to show that it would be possible to use a chemical cannon to put people into orbit (without killing them... or even blacking them out). That would make a large railgun viable for passenger service.
The main one is technically called "The Power of the Pole"
I believe that the power of the (strippers) pole rests mostly with the female of our species.
2. You are misrepresenting eugenics. Eugenics does have the assumption that some traits are more desirable than others (in a vague sense I agree with this statement) and then goes on to say that we should work towards having those traits be more common in the general population (there are very different methods to achieve that common goal).
While some people have claimed that whites are superior to blacks... few of them would have called themselves eugenisits... mostly they called themselves social darwinists and believed that whites and blacks were separate species (which is patently false).
Where are you getting these "quite clear" positions?
Adobe was prominently on stage for the announcement of Apple moving to Intel and promised their eventual support. They did say that there was going to be a bit of work because they were still a PowerPlant house, but they were going to make the transition.
And that does not take into account the recent announcement from Metroworks that they were going to make a PowerPlant Mac/Intel version of their compiler after all. That could make the transition much easier. I would still rather that they moved over to an XCode project, but that might not be convenient with the requirement that this build quickly on both MacOS X and Windows from the same codebase (it is of course possible... I am talking about convenient).
Now Apple has released a few great products recently, and in the video space they are directly competing with Adobe... although most people would say that they are more accurately competing against Avid... But in the image space: I can't think of any product that Adobe makes that compares with Aperture... unless you talk about the image browser in Photoshop, and that is really stretching things. Aperture is going to sell more copies of Photoshop.
Self-replicating code has always been the bane of everyone... since that is nearly the definition of a computer virus.
You were probably looking for the phrase "self modifying".
On the driver certification part: it does only certify that the driver came from a Microsoft business partner... but the characterization of why this is a bit off. It is to certify that this is not from an unknown third party. It is done for the same reasons that most linux iso's are distributed with a MD5 hash next to them (which most people ignore anyways): it allows you to be sure of where the code is coming from, and that it is not coming from a nefarious third party.
I do wish that linux and MacOS X has similar setups, but it is difficult to setup such a system without having a central authority with a great deal of power (to abuse).
Two notes:
To the best of my knowledge the best spy satellites have a resolution of about 4 inches. That is good enough to recognize that there is a license plate there, but not read it. I realize that hollywood regularly presents satellites as being capable of so much more, but that is hollywood.
Getting a spy satellite into Earth orbit vs. getting the same hardware into orbit around Mars. And then add in the face that the satellite around mars has to do many jobs, and carry a really big antenna to phone home. All of a sudden it becomes clear why the spy satellite might have better resolution.
Without "trusted computing" style DRM the content holders (ABC in this case) will not go for the Peer-to-Peer distributed download model. But with that tight control that sort of thing would work out fine.
This is one of the reasons I don't knee-jerk about DRM: it does allow reasonable people/companies to do very valid things that would not be doable without the protection from fraud that DRM is intended to provide. There are going to be unreasonable people/compaines who will abuse this, and I wonder how long it will take before laws start to take that aspect of DRM (especially legally enforceable DRM) into account.
Just a reminder: it was a constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote (or more accurately said that a persons sex could not be a disqualifier). That amendment had to be first passed by two-thirds super-majorites in both the House and Senate, then needed to be ratified by majority votes in at least three fourths of the states.
None of those hurdles could have been passed by "a handful of people". I will agree that a smaller group of people fought long and hard to make the issue heard and popular, but it was popular before it became law.
On the other two issues: abortion rights still have the majority opinion for them (it has always hovered around 2/3 americans against banning all abortions... the rest of the statistics get messy outside of that narrow question). The slavery issue was quite a bit more complicated, with the majority of the US population living in states where slavery was illegal at that time.
It is illegal to violate copy-write law, it has nothing to do with whether you are downloading or uploading. The RIAA is going after the unloaders right now because it is easier to prove that these people are doing something wrong (if you ripped a CD you could well wind up with an identical file as is on filetrading sites).
There is probably no legal precedent about file downloads that go across international boarders, but there is little doubt that a US Citizen is violating at least the spirit of the law by using AllOfMP3.com... and in all probability the letter of the law.
And notice that we have not said anything about the morality... there it is black and white: the copywrite owners are not being paid. (I am avoiding the whole issue of who should get what money after that... two wrongs does not make you in the right)
Pol Pot was a horrible man leading a horrible movement. But to say he was so out of line with men who used the Christian faith as their banner is simply wrong. Look to the Crusades as an example: rapping, pillaging, slavery, germ warfare, etc... all because people were not "true Christians"... or more accurately were standing in the way of people's power over a "chosen land".
Then we can look to the Spanish inquisition, the war between Scotland and England (to Christianize the barbarians), or any number of wars across Europe where Chrisitans fought each other, some of which involved hurtling the mutilated corpses of children over the ramparts.
And I am not even going back to the horrible wars fought on behalf of the Jews before Christianity split off.
All of these have to count into "Christian ethics". Now you can argue that modern wars are worse: more people die. But that is because we have gotten that much better at organizing and mechanizing death. In fact the notion that wars should only be fought between soldiers is a rather new one. "Total war" is a rather old concept.
Christian History is no fairy tale, no matter what you compare it to.
Do you actually think that there is any private company realistically close to being able to launch LEO missions? I think that there are a number of companies who will eventually get somewhere close, but the fore-runner of those (Scaled Composites) is still only planning touch-the-edge-of-space missions in the foreseeable future.
The only company that is doing anything that could be LEO is getting all of their funding from NASA, granted in a creative way, and has not launched anything powered to date. They do have some great ideas, but they are a long way from fielding anything.
Getting to LEO is hard, and there are now only three countries who have ever gotten a manned craft into orbit: China (the newest club member), Russia/USSR, and the US. No private venture has gotten even close. Ever.
You will always have distortions in a 2D map. Some maps are better than others for certain purposes. The common Mercator projection does a good job of showing all but the northernmost sections of the northern hemisphere reasonably well (so everything is close to correct proportions in that part of the world). But it does a lousy job with the southern hemisphere.
You always have to pick what disorients you are going to have. For historical reasons the most common map happens to be the Mercator one.
Actually it is customary to talk about RAM chips in bits, not bytes. It is only when you chain them together into RAM modules that you switch to bytes.
He wasn't killed because his ideas for a cannon could reach space, he was killed because the cannon he was working on would have been able to land a payload the size of a Volkswagen in Tel-Aviv from Bagdad, and the Mossad objected.