Most Mac users admit that the OS now fully supports this
No! I will never admit this! OS X does not support two-button mice. OS X will never support two-button mice! If you plug a two-button mouse into a Mac, it will destroy your data, fry your mouse, set your house on fire, kidnap your children, and give you a serious case of hives! You will never get an admission of two-button mouse support out of me!
Looking at their site, specifically the pictures they're using 3 Mac minis.
Perhaps a small, power-efficient, and relatively inexpensive box provides some sort of advantage when deployed in a vehicle with limited available space and power?
Nahh, couldn't be. These people are probably fashion-conscious snobs who want the right computer to go with their berets and expensive coffee. That's the only reason anyone would choose a Mac, right?
What could possibly be the benefit of OS X as a desktop computer?
Not having to buy and update the license for VirusScan for each machine?
Not having to choose between running Windows Update and breaking compatibility, or not running it and having everything grind to a halt because some script kiddie got bored?
Not having to lock down every user's rights just to prevent them from installing that cool new IE toolbar with the smiley faces?
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No kidding, you could have a similar headline for Steve Jobs.
Except you'd be talking out of your ass, because Steve Jobs isn't exhorting people to go an major in CS. Quite the contrary: he advised people to do whatever.
...you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
(From a recent speech to Stanford University grads)
Being a doctor means you're in the health care field. So does being a Certified Nursing Assistant. Health care is a broad field, and so is CS.
Unfortunately, "IT Spending" or "Technology spending" does have a direct impact on the fortunes of Computer Science.
CS university programs depend on the donations of alumni. Alumni donations depend on the successful employment of CS grads. CS grads, by and large, depend on technology companies for employment. Technology companies depend on the IT/Technology budgets of other companies.
If college students keep hearing about how hard it is to get a job as a CS grad, (see above) they're not going to major in CS.
Every time the RIAA sues a downloader, they have to subpoena his/her ISP. Universities provide internet service to students living in dorm rooms, so they are served with the subpoenas.
The university's legal office then has to respond to the subpoena and investigate the matter with the campus network admins. Often, they also inform the student and commence disciplinary procedures for violating the university's usage policy. This involves a non-trival amount of university resources.
It's in the university's best interest to avoid this through any means it considers practical.
I could understand if he asked "What is Linux?" or "What is PHP?" but this Drupal thing is new to me. Heck, my last project involved evaluating and deploying a content management system, and yet I've never heard of Drupal.
Please continue, you might get something right if you keep trying.
The **AA, contrary to popular belief, are private organizations, not elements of the US Government. And the last time I heard, they had not managed to block access to any file-sharing protocol; they had to actually resort to the (gasp!) legal system.
Since the US controls the internet, you'd think it'd be as simple as refusing to route traffic using those protocols.
Ditto with encryption. The way I heard it US companies were barred from distributing strong crypto, while non-US companies were free to sell their wares on the open market.
You'd think that the US would use its control over the internet to create a competitive advantage for US firms.
SGI tried this. They built Windows NT PCs, in attractive custom cases, with workstation-derived interconnects and graphics. Basically all the hardware advantages of an SGI workstation with the software base of a Windows OS.
Sounds great, right?
Not only did they flop in the market, but it basically destroyed SGI. The PC people thought they were too expensive compared to Dells, and the SGI-IRIX loyalists felt abandoned.
For many years, the per-part cost of a PowerPC chip was lower than that of a Pentium. Lower transistor count - smaller die size - more per wafer - lower cost.
Only after AMD introduced (serious) competition into the x86 market did Intel chips become price-competitive with PowerPC.
The higher cost of a Mac was mostly Apple's "profit" margin. Which it uses to subsidize development of OS X (and iTunes, and other projects.)
Though I agree that the days of Apple designing its own mobos may be nubered.
1. Download a song using iTunes on your PC, over your broadband connection 2. Sync it with your iPod over a firewire/USB connection 3. Sync it with your cell phone over a USB/Bluetooth connection.
Who said anything about using a cell network for this? That's why the mobile network operators are so pissed.
Some codecs used in QuickTime like Cinepak and Sorensen are proprietary, but (for example) MPEG-4 is not. (Although MPEG-4 does involve patents, licenses are available to anyone.) Not like WMV, where every codec has to be reverse-engineered.
A published standard exists for English. Members of the English-speaking community should strive to support this standard.
Of course, perfect standard-compliance is not always possible; however, users should strive to incorporate standards-compliant English whenever possible. Automated tools are available to enforce compliance, though such tools do have limitations. (Improving these tools is an area of ongoing research.)
English users should also appreciate the fact that English is an extensible standard. Many other languages are proprietary, and are rigidly controlled by a standards body.
The Macintosh was not intended to be Apple's high end system. The Macintosh was a "low cost" system designed to compliment the Lisa, which was Apple's business workstation.
The Apple Lisa had basic multitasking (The original Mac had none) and a full megabyte of memory. It predated the Mac by a year, cost $10,000, and flopped spectacularly in the marketplace.
Under OS X, dialogs (like the "Do you want to save?" dialog) should be locally-modal "sheets" that are attached to the parent window. Sheets are designed to remove this sort of visual confusion as to the origin of a message.
Safari really should display these popups as sheets, but it doesn't.
The minority opinion of today's decision is pretty much the group I normally harbor such incredible contempt. And YET, today it is so obvious they were the ones making the correct decision. I am stroking out just trying to grasp this contradiction to my world view.
It's called "Independent thinking." It happens when you form opinions without consulting people of authority.
Ooooh, your notebook can out-benchmark my Apple. I'm impressed. Call me when the software doesn't suck.
Anyway, Look at the G5 Architecture page The "System Controller" is an exclusive Apple part, built in IBM's fabs, but designed by Apple. It's responsible for connecting and arbitrating the G5's FSBs to memory and the HyperTransport bus.
Plus, cooling and power management are unique to Apple, and heavily integrated with the system software. This includes the passive liquid cooling system in the top-end G5s. Details can be seen in the Developer note.
But the benchmarks, man...forget actual work, it's the benchmarks that matter....
Having a backlit color screen absolutely cuts into battery life. Yes, battery technology has evolved to counter this, but newer batteries could power simpler phones for much longer.
The buttons and menu options for all these features clutter the interface, and make for more scrolling when trying to perform essential functions.
I personally paid US$150 to get an older model phone (V60i) as opposed to the color-screened cameraphones they were giving away for US$9.99. As a bonus, my phone is slightly smaller and lighter, but with larger, clearer buttons than the giveaways.
And on a side note cameraphones seem to be much less durable than older phones. Newer phones feel so much lighter and more plasticky than older ones. This is an inevitable result of wireless providers wanting their customers to trade up to phones that take advantage of more pay-per-use technologies like ringtown downloading, picture messaging, and the like.
There was a brief and dubious flirtation with caddy-loading CD drives in the early 1990s. CDs were placed in protective caddies, which could be inserted into slot-loading drives designed for them.
Threatening to kill the president is against the law in the US. While somebody doing a parody may not go to jail, you do stand a very good chance of getting a visit from the Secret Service.
I'm not aware of any laws against threatening the President, any more than threatening the life of any other person.
You will get a visit from the Secret Service (or the FBI if the Secret Service is too busy) who will investigate to determine if the threat is a valid one, but (assuming it isn't) you can't be prosecuted for it (any more than you would for threatening the life of any other person.)
Worst case, you may be put on a "watch list" of people that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the President. No fundraising banquets for you. Whereas, if you threatened me, I'd get a restraining order stating that you shouldn't be within 100 feet of me at any time. Same deal.
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Most Mac users admit that the OS now fully supports this
No! I will never admit this! OS X does not support two-button mice. OS X will never support two-button mice! If you plug a two-button mouse into a Mac, it will destroy your data, fry your mouse, set your house on fire, kidnap your children, and give you a serious case of hives! You will never get an admission of two-button mouse support out of me!
Looking at their site, specifically the pictures they're using 3 Mac minis.
Perhaps a small, power-efficient, and relatively inexpensive box provides some sort of advantage when deployed in a vehicle with limited available space and power?
Nahh, couldn't be. These people are probably fashion-conscious snobs who want the right computer to go with their berets and expensive coffee. That's the only reason anyone would choose a Mac, right?
What could possibly be the benefit of OS X as a desktop computer?
Not having to buy and update the license for VirusScan for each machine?
Not having to choose between running Windows Update and breaking compatibility, or not running it and having everything grind to a halt because some script kiddie got bored?
Not having to lock down every user's rights just to prevent them from installing that cool new IE toolbar with the smiley faces?
There's already a whole article.
Very funny indeed.
Unfortunately, you must now turn in your geek card. There's a shredder by the door on the way out.
The J means that as new data arises, she'll be reluctant or unwilling to revise and adapt that judgement.
Ummm.
"Others may falsely perceive the INTJ as being rigid and set in their ways. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the INTJ is committed to always finding the objective best strategy to implement their ideas. The INTJ is usually quite open to hearing an alternative way of doing something."
Except you'd be talking out of your ass, because Steve Jobs isn't exhorting people to go an major in CS. Quite the contrary: he advised people to do whatever.
(From a recent speech to Stanford University grads)
CS is a subset of IT.
Being a doctor means you're in the health care field. So does being a Certified Nursing Assistant. Health care is a broad field, and so is CS.
Unfortunately, "IT Spending" or "Technology spending" does have a direct impact on the fortunes of Computer Science.
CS university programs depend on the donations of alumni.
Alumni donations depend on the successful employment of CS grads.
CS grads, by and large, depend on technology companies for employment.
Technology companies depend on the IT/Technology budgets of other companies.
If college students keep hearing about how hard it is to get a job as a CS grad, (see above) they're not going to major in CS.
Every time the RIAA sues a downloader, they have to subpoena his/her ISP. Universities provide internet service to students living in dorm rooms, so they are served with the subpoenas.
The university's legal office then has to respond to the subpoena and investigate the matter with the campus network admins. Often, they also inform the student and commence disciplinary procedures for violating the university's usage policy. This involves a non-trival amount of university resources.
It's in the university's best interest to avoid this through any means it considers practical.
I could understand if he asked "What is Linux?" or "What is PHP?" but this Drupal thing is new to me. Heck, my last project involved evaluating and deploying a content management system, and yet I've never heard of Drupal.
I have, luckily, heard of Google, though.
Please continue, you might get something right if you keep trying.
The **AA, contrary to popular belief, are private organizations, not elements of the US Government. And the last time I heard, they had not managed to block access to any file-sharing protocol; they had to actually resort to the (gasp!) legal system.
Since the US controls the internet, you'd think it'd be as simple as refusing to route traffic using those protocols.
Ditto with encryption. The way I heard it US companies were barred from distributing strong crypto, while non-US companies were free to sell their wares on the open market.
You'd think that the US would use its control over the internet to create a competitive advantage for US firms.
"Silicon Graphics."
SGI tried this. They built Windows NT PCs, in attractive custom cases, with workstation-derived interconnects and graphics. Basically all the hardware advantages of an SGI workstation with the software base of a Windows OS.
Sounds great, right?
Not only did they flop in the market, but it basically destroyed SGI. The PC people thought they were too expensive compared to Dells, and the SGI-IRIX loyalists felt abandoned.
For many years, the per-part cost of a PowerPC chip was lower than that of a Pentium. Lower transistor count - smaller die size - more per wafer - lower cost.
Only after AMD introduced (serious) competition into the x86 market did Intel chips become price-competitive with PowerPC.
The higher cost of a Mac was mostly Apple's "profit" margin. Which it uses to subsidize development of OS X (and iTunes, and other projects.)
Though I agree that the days of Apple designing its own mobos may be nubered.
1. Download a song using iTunes on your PC, over your broadband connection
2. Sync it with your iPod over a firewire/USB connection
3. Sync it with your cell phone over a USB/Bluetooth connection.
Who said anything about using a cell network for this? That's why the mobile network operators are so pissed.
When I go to install software, i just put in my password.
I know. Linux/Unix has the same vulnerability, called "sudo." Put your non-root password in, and you can immediately do everything root can do.
Great security. I'll stick with good ol' Windows, thanks.
MOV is a container format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_f ile_format
Some codecs used in QuickTime like Cinepak and Sorensen are proprietary, but (for example) MPEG-4 is not. (Although MPEG-4 does involve patents, licenses are available to anyone.) Not like WMV, where every codec has to be reverse-engineered.
Ridiculous anti-Apple drivel.
A published standard exists for English. Members of the English-speaking community should strive to support this standard.
Of course, perfect standard-compliance is not always possible; however, users should strive to incorporate standards-compliant English whenever possible. Automated tools are available to enforce compliance, though such tools do have limitations. (Improving these tools is an area of ongoing research.)
English users should also appreciate the fact that English is an extensible standard. Many other languages are proprietary, and are rigidly controlled by a standards body.
The Macintosh was not intended to be Apple's high end system. The Macintosh was a "low cost" system designed to compliment the Lisa, which was Apple's business workstation.
The Apple Lisa had basic multitasking (The original Mac had none) and a full megabyte of memory. It predated the Mac by a year, cost $10,000, and flopped spectacularly in the marketplace.
Know what the sad thing is?
Under OS X, dialogs (like the "Do you want to save?" dialog) should be locally-modal "sheets" that are attached to the parent window. Sheets are designed to remove this sort of visual confusion as to the origin of a message.
Safari really should display these popups as sheets, but it doesn't.
The minority opinion of today's decision is pretty much the group I normally harbor such incredible contempt. And YET, today it is so obvious they were the ones making the correct decision. I am stroking out just trying to grasp this contradiction to my world view.
It's called "Independent thinking." It happens when you form opinions without consulting people of authority.
It's a very rare ability. I envy you.
Ooooh, your notebook can out-benchmark my Apple. I'm impressed. Call me when the software doesn't suck.
Anyway, Look at the G5 Architecture page
The "System Controller" is an exclusive Apple part, built in IBM's fabs, but designed by Apple. It's responsible for connecting and arbitrating the G5's FSBs to memory and the HyperTransport bus.
Plus, cooling and power management are unique to Apple, and heavily integrated with the system software. This includes the passive liquid cooling system in the top-end G5s. Details can be seen in the Developer note.
But the benchmarks, man...forget actual work, it's the benchmarks that matter....
Having a backlit color screen absolutely cuts into battery life. Yes, battery technology has evolved to counter this, but newer batteries could power simpler phones for much longer.
The buttons and menu options for all these features clutter the interface, and make for more scrolling when trying to perform essential functions.
I personally paid US$150 to get an older model phone (V60i) as opposed to the color-screened cameraphones they were giving away for US$9.99. As a bonus, my phone is slightly smaller and lighter, but with larger, clearer buttons than the giveaways.
And on a side note cameraphones seem to be much less durable than older phones. Newer phones feel so much lighter and more plasticky than older ones. This is an inevitable result of wireless providers wanting their customers to trade up to phones that take advantage of more pay-per-use technologies like ringtown downloading, picture messaging, and the like.
What's the point of a Doomsday Machine if you don't tell anyone about it?
There was a brief and dubious flirtation with caddy-loading CD drives in the early 1990s. CDs were placed in protective caddies, which could be inserted into slot-loading drives designed for them.
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People hated them, and the world moved to tray-loading drives.http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_i
Threatening to kill the president is against the law in the US. While somebody doing a parody may not go to jail, you do stand a very good chance of getting a visit from the Secret Service.
I'm not aware of any laws against threatening the President, any more than threatening the life of any other person.
You will get a visit from the Secret Service (or the FBI if the Secret Service is too busy) who will investigate to determine if the threat is a valid one, but (assuming it isn't) you can't be prosecuted for it (any more than you would for threatening the life of any other person.)
Worst case, you may be put on a "watch list" of people that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the President. No fundraising banquets for you. Whereas, if you threatened me, I'd get a restraining order stating that you shouldn't be within 100 feet of me at any time. Same deal.