that would pitch them into a gui arms war that they would find hard to win, and the loss could cost them dearly.
Yes Apple have always had better stuff (or so I think), but microsoft have such a huge pot of cash to mis-inform/cajole potential buyers, that they wouldn't stand a chance in direct competition. Better to let things develop as they are, with Apples hardware getting an ever larger mindshare.
It wouldn't be easy, but keep in mind that in the beginning, Apple was bigger than Microsoft. Compatibility is what allowed MS to leave everyone else in the dust. It's the only thing that Apple does not have over M$.
Of course, Apple would need stringent hardware requirements at first, but things would loosen up as time passes. Remember, there were not drivers for Win95 in '95, no drivers for Win2000 in 2000, and there are few drivers for Vista now.
I don't know enough about Apple coding to comment about VecLib or any other required libraries, but I see no reason why a software emulation couldn't take over (other than performance) until specific drivers could be written and applied as hardware detection warranted.
I never said it would be easy, but it would open OSX up to the other 95% of PC's out there. (PC meaning Personal Computer, not Wintel based machine). Hell, I'd buy it and dump MS in a heartbeat! It's those last few apps that's keeping me from doing so now.
I think the Apple expensive hardware myth had been pretty much debunked. True Apple does not sell $300 PC's, but for comparative quality machines Apple is priced just right in my eyes.
Well, I should have pointed out that I don't buy expensive Dell hardware either. I roll my own. Maybe I should have said "proprietary" hardware.
If they did it today, MS could kill Apple by suspending development of MS Office for the Mac. When Apple has a complete suite of business apps, then it's a different story.
That would be true if Apple's primary target consumer was the business. Since Apple is targeting the home, all they need is a "good enough" office suite. Open Office should fit.
Releasing OSX for the PC would allow Apple to compete with MS on MS's own level without hampering the end user with Apples expensive hardware requirements.
Nothing odd. On mainframes you can pull complete assembies off, and add without powering down. Some of the old timers here can tell you of hardware that could take almost anything and survive. It's just consumer equipment that has lowered everyone's expectations.
I realize that this was more about user interfaces than hardware, but I feel that there are as many hardware blunders in movies as software.
I remember watching "The Lone Gunman" one day (thank God that show didn't make it!) and they needed more processing power to crack a password to take over a hijacked plane. "We could do this if had one of those new Octium 4's!" Well, they get one, right before the plane hits the building, they pull out their existing processor, I assume and Octium 3, and drop in the new Octium 4, without so much as powering the machine off... and BAM! They had their password and saved the plane. Oh, and no processors had any type of thermal anything!
I get it. I just don't agree with it. If that were the case, twins or clones would be born perfectly mirroring each other's actions until one receive stimuli that the other did not.
Have you heard about the parasites that change the behavior of certain insects so that they get eaten by birds, completing the parasites life cycle? Have you ever wondered if there are parasites that can do that to a human?
The difference is that insects did not have free will to begin with. They act on pure instinct. Humans, on the other hand, have choice until they are "zombied" to the point of not knowing right from wrong. So if a drug, parasite or torture takes away their ability to know the difference, it's probably going to remove all inhibition, not just making the idea of pedophilia suddenly seem desirable. So you have a point that these things can alter the mind, but not in the way this case represented.
Then again, I'm neither a brain surgeon nor a psychologist. So take it for what it's worth.
Since when do "for profit" software companies care about cost to the consumer unless they can use it to sell more copies? Since MS is already going to sell billions of copies of Vista, what difference does it make to them?
No damage done??? With one twitch of the space bar, the simple command: rm -r *.tmp becomes: rm -r *.tmp Try this, then tell me 'no damage done'.
True to a point, but it is much more precise to say, "OK, read that line back to me, letter by letter, space by space" than it is to say, "OK, which button did you press and describe to me what the icon looked like". Another example would be trying to get a customer to move up a folder in explorer vs the command line. "Press the yellow icon that has a green up arrow that looks kinda like it's coming from under the folder at the top, under the title bar, under the menu bar, but just above the address bar, if it exists because it might be turned off." vs. "type in see dee space dot-dot and press enter"
Interesting that you would attempt to play both sides for an imaginary middle. There is either free will or determinism. One or the other. There are no shades of gray like so many other topics. There is no middle ground. People either have a choice or they don't.
Nope, we got both. I have a choice over what I want for lunch. I have free will.
If a large meteor slams into my house. I'm going to die. I have no free will.
We can control some aspects of our lives, but not all.
Do you have free will? Does it matter? Would you ever know the difference? The pedophile cited in the article couldn't use it as a defense in his trial, because the legal system doesn't give a damn.
The legal system gives a damn, or at least is should. It should care about the victims, not excuses.
The pedophile mentioned in the article still had a choice. A brain tumor may have made him want to molest little kids, but it did not force him to do so. I want to do illegal things all the time. Testosterone in my system makes me want to knock the shit out of people every day. Is that a defense? Of course not. I choose not to because I know and fear the consequences of such actions. When this guy got the urge to hurt children, he knew it was wrong and if he didn't, he should have asked someone. If I were to get an irresistible urge to do something that everyone else in the world thinks in heinous, I'd ask for help.
Unless you watch Everyone Loves HypnoToad or you have green slime sucker attached to your head, you have a choice.
Since you brought up religion, A girl that used to live next door to me told about how Catholics feel about homosexuality. She said that you may be born homosexual, but that's just something you have to live with. It is your cross to bare. Just as if you were born with one arm, or short, or ugly or whatever, that's no excuse to steal, lie or cheat. It's no excuse to give up. You make do with what you were given and do what is right.
I think the point the GP was making is that when a Republican does something, even if he's just an aide and it has nothing to do with his politics or whoever he is an aide for, he is referred to as a "Republican aide". When a democrat does something, their party affiliation is rarely mentioned, and if it is, it's buried within the story. Take a look at this story at CNN. The title is, "Affidavit: $90,000 found in congressman's freezer". His party affiliation is not listed until the second paragraph. The word "democrat" is only mentioned three times in the entire story. Once mentioned above, and twice saying how this hurts democrat's chances of tying corruption to the Republicans over the Abramoff and other scandals:
The cloud over Jefferson comes as Democratic leaders have been attacking what they call a "culture of corruption" surrounding the Republican leadership in Congress.
With midterm elections in November, Democrats are trying to highlight GOP ties to the influence-peddling investigation surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the indictment of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in a Texas court, and last year's guilty plea of California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, now serving an eight-year stretch for taking bribes from defense contractors.
The best I could pull on on any Democratic wrongdoing on slashdot was this story about Kerry possibly using a cheat sheet in a debate in 2004.
Everyone knows that squirrels and pigeons have a protection from FBI spell cast on them, and cannot be photographed or photoshopped by FBI agents or those in collusion with them.
Actually, their inability to be photoshopped has nothing to do with it. Pigeons are protected under whistle-blower laws.
But users only throw a wobbly at a command line because they're not used to it. I remember reading that CLIs are generally thought to be easiest for completely new users.
That's not necessarily true. Granted, given training and a cheat sheet, the CLI may be better, but if I take someone's grandma and put them in front of blinking cursor and keyboard, they are not going to know where to begin. You put that same grandma in front of a GUI with a mouse, or better yet, touchscreen, in about 10 minutes, she will have completed something, even if it is something as mundane as clicking "START" or "HELP". Even if you take an DOS expert and put him in front of a *NIX box, he's going to be clueless because he does not know any of the commands except the once common to both OS's, like cd.
The CLI is good for newbies when they are being supported over the phone. It's hard to screw up on the CLI. You either type it right or you don't. Not typing it right usually ends up in a syntax error and no damage is done. A GUI, on the other hand, is very easy to screw up. I had a clueless IT admin come up to frantic because she had lost the company's only NT installation files. She told me "I was moving the upside exclamation point 386 directory and it disappeared". A quick search found it. She was trying to copy it to a networked drive and her finger slipped off the mouse, moving it to another directory. That type of screw up is hard to do on the CLI.
Trust me, some PETA-hippie programmer will program it that way. If they are demanding "human" rights for animals, trust me, they'll demand it for their Roomba!
Because it's better. Or at least that's my HO. I have very few problems with my Treo 650 that show up very rarely. Everyone I say that to that runs Windows Mobile says, "really? I just thought it was part of the whole experience to have stuff not work or have the whole thing reboot in the middle of that phone job interview."
Maybe Windows Mobile has gotten better in the past 6 months or so, but I have not really found anyone who likes it. Of course, there is the possibility that they are just MS Bashing, but I don't think that is the case.
After about two seconds more research, I found that the condition is called Polycephaly:
Again, from Wiki. Copied and pasted to save you guys a click:
Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head. By far the most common use is in relation to the anatomical head, though the word has also been used for other meanings of "head". The term is derived from the stems poly- meaning 'many' and kephal- meaning "head", and encompasses bicephaly and dicephaly (both referring to two-headedness). A variation is an animal born with two faces on a single head, a condition known as diprosopus. In medical terms these are all congenital cephalic disorders.
There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals, in real life as well as in mythology. Many fantasy universes contain races of creatures with multiple heads. In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle is a common symbol, though no such animal is known to have ever existed.
Bicephalic animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world and form by the same process as conjoined twins: the zygote begins to split but fails to completely separate. One extreme example of this is the condition of craniopagus parasiticus, whereby a fully developed body has a parasitic twin head joined at the skull.
Seriously, I wonder if there is any evolutionary connection between the placement of some neural processing in the hindquarters and the frequency of two heads in the reptilian class, as if mother nature was experimenting with protecting brainpower by moving it around to a safer location, or by duplicating it. Since reptiles had the first big brains, this may have been the first occasion to arise in which trying to protect brains might be worth the expense.
I doubt it's anything so "designed". Mother nature experimenting would assume some sort of intelligent design and my karma can't handle another ID debate.
Seriously, it is much more likely that this is just conjoined twins. Go to the Wiki page and you see a picture of people with the same thing.
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that would pitch them into a gui arms war that they would find hard to win, and the loss could cost them dearly.
Yes Apple have always had better stuff (or so I think), but microsoft have such a huge pot of cash to mis-inform/cajole potential buyers, that they wouldn't stand a chance in direct competition. Better to let things develop as they are, with Apples hardware getting an ever larger mindshare.
It wouldn't be easy, but keep in mind that in the beginning, Apple was bigger than Microsoft. Compatibility is what allowed MS to leave everyone else in the dust. It's the only thing that Apple does not have over M$.
You mean, the expensive hardware that Apple sells at a high profit margin?
Yeah, the hardware that suffers from economies of scale.
Besides, Microsoft seems to be doing OK without selling that high profit hardware. How does the MS profit margin compare to Apples?
Of course, Apple would need stringent hardware requirements at first, but things would loosen up as time passes. Remember, there were not drivers for Win95 in '95, no drivers for Win2000 in 2000, and there are few drivers for Vista now.
I don't know enough about Apple coding to comment about VecLib or any other required libraries, but I see no reason why a software emulation couldn't take over (other than performance) until specific drivers could be written and applied as hardware detection warranted.
I never said it would be easy, but it would open OSX up to the other 95% of PC's out there. (PC meaning Personal Computer, not Wintel based machine). Hell, I'd buy it and dump MS in a heartbeat! It's those last few apps that's keeping me from doing so now.
I think the Apple expensive hardware myth had been pretty much debunked. True Apple does not sell $300 PC's, but for comparative quality machines Apple is priced just right in my eyes.
Well, I should have pointed out that I don't buy expensive Dell hardware either. I roll my own. Maybe I should have said "proprietary" hardware.
If they did it today, MS could kill Apple by suspending development of MS Office for the Mac. When Apple has a complete suite of business apps, then it's a different story.
That would be true if Apple's primary target consumer was the business. Since Apple is targeting the home, all they need is a "good enough" office suite. Open Office should fit.
Releasing OSX for the PC would allow Apple to compete with MS on MS's own level without hampering the end user with Apples expensive hardware requirements.
Nothing odd. On mainframes you can pull complete assembies off, and add without powering down. Some of the old timers here can tell you of hardware that could take almost anything and survive. It's just consumer equipment that has lowered everyone's expectations.
On a single processor system?
Yes, you are correct.
Dupe article, dupe post.
I realize that this was more about user interfaces than hardware, but I feel that there are as many hardware blunders in movies as software.
I remember watching "The Lone Gunman" one day (thank God that show didn't make it!) and they needed more processing power to crack a password to take over a hijacked plane. "We could do this if had one of those new Octium 4's!" Well, they get one, right before the plane hits the building, they pull out their existing processor, I assume and Octium 3, and drop in the new Octium 4, without so much as powering the machine off... and BAM! They had their password and saved the plane. Oh, and no processors had any type of thermal anything!
Well, just my $0.02 anyway.
(Oh yea, your mother uses Macintosh!)
Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst? Now this?
Well which one is it?
The weekend is coming and I need to know what to believe!
I get it. I just don't agree with it. If that were the case, twins or clones would be born perfectly mirroring each other's actions until one receive stimuli that the other did not.
Have you heard about the parasites that change the behavior of certain insects so that they get eaten by birds, completing the parasites life cycle? Have you ever wondered if there are parasites that can do that to a human?
The difference is that insects did not have free will to begin with. They act on pure instinct. Humans, on the other hand, have choice until they are "zombied" to the point of not knowing right from wrong. So if a drug, parasite or torture takes away their ability to know the difference, it's probably going to remove all inhibition, not just making the idea of pedophilia suddenly seem desirable. So you have a point that these things can alter the mind, but not in the way this case represented.
Then again, I'm neither a brain surgeon nor a psychologist. So take it for what it's worth.
Since when do "for profit" software companies care about cost to the consumer unless they can use it to sell more copies? Since MS is already going to sell billions of copies of Vista, what difference does it make to them?
No damage done??? With one twitch of the space bar, the simple command: rm -r *.tmp becomes: rm -r * .tmp Try this, then tell me 'no damage done'.
True to a point, but it is much more precise to say, "OK, read that line back to me, letter by letter, space by space" than it is to say, "OK, which button did you press and describe to me what the icon looked like". Another example would be trying to get a customer to move up a folder in explorer vs the command line. "Press the yellow icon that has a green up arrow that looks kinda like it's coming from under the folder at the top, under the title bar, under the menu bar, but just above the address bar, if it exists because it might be turned off." vs. "type in see dee space dot-dot and press enter"
Interesting that you would attempt to play both sides for an imaginary middle. There is either free will or determinism. One or the other. There are no shades of gray like so many other topics. There is no middle ground. People either have a choice or they don't.
Nope, we got both. I have a choice over what I want for lunch. I have free will.
If a large meteor slams into my house. I'm going to die. I have no free will.
We can control some aspects of our lives, but not all.
Do you have free will? Does it matter? Would you ever know the difference? The pedophile cited in the article couldn't use it as a defense in his trial, because the legal system doesn't give a damn.
The legal system gives a damn, or at least is should. It should care about the victims, not excuses.
The pedophile mentioned in the article still had a choice. A brain tumor may have made him want to molest little kids, but it did not force him to do so. I want to do illegal things all the time. Testosterone in my system makes me want to knock the shit out of people every day. Is that a defense? Of course not. I choose not to because I know and fear the consequences of such actions. When this guy got the urge to hurt children, he knew it was wrong and if he didn't, he should have asked someone. If I were to get an irresistible urge to do something that everyone else in the world thinks in heinous, I'd ask for help.
Unless you watch Everyone Loves HypnoToad or you have green slime sucker attached to your head, you have a choice.
Since you brought up religion, A girl that used to live next door to me told about how Catholics feel about homosexuality. She said that you may be born homosexual, but that's just something you have to live with. It is your cross to bare. Just as if you were born with one arm, or short, or ugly or whatever, that's no excuse to steal, lie or cheat. It's no excuse to give up. You make do with what you were given and do what is right.
The best I could pull on on any Democratic wrongdoing on slashdot was this story about Kerry possibly using a cheat sheet in a debate in 2004.
Everyone knows that squirrels and pigeons have a protection from FBI spell cast on them, and cannot be photographed or photoshopped by FBI agents or those in collusion with them.
Actually, their inability to be photoshopped has nothing to do with it. Pigeons are protected under whistle-blower laws.
But users only throw a wobbly at a command line because they're not used to it. I remember reading that CLIs are generally thought to be easiest for completely new users.
That's not necessarily true. Granted, given training and a cheat sheet, the CLI may be better, but if I take someone's grandma and put them in front of blinking cursor and keyboard, they are not going to know where to begin. You put that same grandma in front of a GUI with a mouse, or better yet, touchscreen, in about 10 minutes, she will have completed something, even if it is something as mundane as clicking "START" or "HELP". Even if you take an DOS expert and put him in front of a *NIX box, he's going to be clueless because he does not know any of the commands except the once common to both OS's, like cd.
The CLI is good for newbies when they are being supported over the phone. It's hard to screw up on the CLI. You either type it right or you don't. Not typing it right usually ends up in a syntax error and no damage is done. A GUI, on the other hand, is very easy to screw up. I had a clueless IT admin come up to frantic because she had lost the company's only NT installation files. She told me "I was moving the upside exclamation point 386 directory and it disappeared". A quick search found it. She was trying to copy it to a networked drive and her finger slipped off the mouse, moving it to another directory. That type of screw up is hard to do on the CLI.
This is the one time I feel that "ItsaTrap" would be an appropriate tag.
lonely people who can't have children may want a robot child. It's already happening in Japan and the next step is AI in them :)
Yeah, we have that in the US too, except we call them "Dolls".
Trust me, some PETA-hippie programmer will program it that way. If they are demanding "human" rights for animals, trust me, they'll demand it for their Roomba!
Because it's better. Or at least that's my HO. I have very few problems with my Treo 650 that show up very rarely. Everyone I say that to that runs Windows Mobile says, "really? I just thought it was part of the whole experience to have stuff not work or have the whole thing reboot in the middle of that phone job interview."
Maybe Windows Mobile has gotten better in the past 6 months or so, but I have not really found anyone who likes it. Of course, there is the possibility that they are just MS Bashing, but I don't think that is the case.
Again, from Wiki. Copied and pasted to save you guys a click:
Seriously, I wonder if there is any evolutionary connection between the placement of some neural processing in the hindquarters and the frequency of two heads in the reptilian class, as if mother nature was experimenting with protecting brainpower by moving it around to a safer location, or by duplicating it. Since reptiles had the first big brains, this may have been the first occasion to arise in which trying to protect brains might be worth the expense.
I doubt it's anything so "designed". Mother nature experimenting would assume some sort of intelligent design and my karma can't handle another ID debate.
Seriously, it is much more likely that this is just conjoined twins. Go to the Wiki page and you see a picture of people with the same thing.