People using OS X are usually using Safari, for a good reason. It is the *only* browser taking advantage of OS X technology such as ATSUI. A few percent still use the bundled IE, and yet a few percent use a Gecko browser.
Although the Gecko browsers (pick your choice) perform excellent on OS X, Safari is still a bit better in most regards, especially in rendering and standards compliance (Acid test passed).
The Chinese already have Google. It is available at www.google.com and has a Chinese interface by preference. I use it everyday. And guess what, there is not a single difference from the English version.
back in the days, we survived on virtually nuthin', just one megahertz and a far cry from those gatesy 256 kB everyone was dreamin' of.
You kids of today 'ave it easy. You've got your gigahertz machines with gigabytes o' memory in RAM and on disk, splashee colors, many-button mice, DVD burnahs and tha intahweb, downloading more porn in one day than granpa has seen in his entire lifetime, ehhhehh.
Sniff. Nevertheless... back in da good ole' days we play'd Breakout faster on our lo'ly Apples than you do today with your Penthsium class Linux box'n. How do ya figure this is?
Schools are supposed to teach the foundations of programming -- it is NOT supposed to be an environment that is currently used by professionals.
Therefore, learning how to use pico in a shell to write hello_world.c, then run gcc and see the marvelous effects of programming is all that kids in school will ever need.
This environment has been stable for a few decades now, and it will remain stable. And there's a choice to it as well: use Pascal or Fortran if you don't like C. They can all be used to demonstrate the fundamentals of programming.
Any teacher who knows anything about programming can relearn the basics of UNIX and C programming in a day (or in a week if they are slow). If not, they haven't got what it takes anyway.
Broadband is good because virtually nothing is blocked the way you believe it is blocked. I sit here in Shanghai, read my daily/., download all the porn I could ever want, read articles on Tibet, human rights, etc., and it all go through. There's no fucking difference from surfing in the West.
If I one day would come across something that is blocked, I would of course go to virtualbrowser.com or use a proxy from proxy4free.com, both of which are totally unblocked in China (as is 99.9999% of the web, including Slashdot, goatse porn, news and protest sites about Tibet -- I could mail you screen shots if you don't believe me).
People continue to believe in this myth that the Chinese are blocked from surfing the web. There IS blocking of web sites, but it is so limited that it has no effect whatsoever. If a site doesn't work, just google up another similar site or a mirror. Or use a proxy.
There is no way you could effectively block content on such a thing as tah Intarweb... the whole thing seems to be a domestic political farse to make it look like the authorities are doing something to curb the Western influence.
I am pleased with the service from China Telecom. They give me broadband for 80 yuan per month, including a perfectly working Huawei modem. I have no complaints.
No, but there are very few people interested in the intersection of Apple and Darwin. Appleites don't know about much about Darwin and it isn't on their proper level. Linuxians could care less about it. Wintelodians will just say "Huh?".
"Protecting" truckers from accessing wireless porn is just ONE instance of this micro management, which the founding fathers of the freest nation did not ever intend to implement. Their thought was that people are quite capable of governing themselves in such trifle matters. Politicians should only deal with bigger issues, such as war, expanding the territory, managing the large scale economy, or, on local level, planning infrastructure, giving service to companies and individuals, and making sure criminals are behind bars.
I was just thinking about why America is an empire on its downfall, but now I believe it is rather obvious: expensive political micromanagement on a scale that is unfathomable and hardly in line with what the founding fathers ever had in mind for this new, great nation.
Some people who have been blind since birth get very depressed when their vision is medically restored and they see the world as it actually is. It doesn't correspond at all to the colorful paradise their hardware has come up with in lack of sensors.
I guess it's like realizing there is no god after having been brought up in a religious home, or finding out that W. Gates III isn't the saint he has been described to be after filling his pockets for twenty years.
Or maybe it is like Neo finally seeing the rotting world after swallowing the blue pill.
No, it is the BEST place to host scientific and science related (including SF) conferences and activities, since this will make the locals more knowledgable about scientific matters.
Buckle your seat belt Peter, 'cause Kansas is goin' bye bye...
He is a great popularizer of science fiction, and therefore eligible.
You can compare this to scientists like Carl Sagan, whose direct contributions to science weren't tremendous, but whose popularization of science has meant a great deal.
FYI, I am in China right now. I am reading and posting on Slashdot. I am downloading Japanese Kokeshi movies with Limewire in the background. Once in a while I look at www.usenetbinaries.com for some new stuff. There's nothing missing on teh intahweb here in China... Looky here... I am writing FALUN GONG, and the thought police is not gonna come after me (and actually I am also writing about this stuff on Chinese BBS:s, which ARE censored).
But this is in my private home. The topic seems to be BBS:s at PUBLIC institutions such as universities. This is not unique to China. It has happened to me when surfing at the Unversity of Arizona in Tucson, in good ole' USA. It has happened to me when surfing at various European institutional computer labs and libraries.
Get real. This is a non-story. It is about an educational surfing etiquette, that's all. It doesn't apply to the whole god damn internet, as viewed in private homes, companies or other places.
You could also take other approaches, with different results (in either direction). This is fundamentally hard to measure, because ideally you need two real life systems using equally native software.
A real life Wintel system usually comes with some whistles and bells off by default, such as anti-aliased fonts, pre-installed fonts (for CJK, typically 30 MB each), language support (input systems), firewall, and so on. The Mac have these on by default, available for all applications.
A typical real life Wintel system also needs virus protection of some kind, and all instances of Wintel systems I have encountered slow down with time. Mac OS X doesn't slow down with time, and it also doesn't need any extras - it is complete and reasonably safe from the start, and works like a clock.
Now, what applications would we need to use to make the comparison fair? Native applications, not ports. Well, Photoshop started out as a Mac application, and has evolved to a bulky piece of bloatware with several major components being ports from the now dominant PC side. Photoshop is also a Carbon app, with substantial amounts of legacy code. It doesn't work like a genuine Mac OS X app coded in Cocoa.
A native Mac OS X app uses all the power unleashed with Quartz Extreme (offloading video entirely to the GPU), uses services (easily accessible extra functions), uses native Unicode rather than legacy MacRoman conversions, uses ATSUI for kerning, and so on.
Only such an application would do the Mac justice, and it would have to be a feature to feature equivalent app that is equally native on XP. Normally, native killer apps on the Mac are only ported to Wintel, and vice versa, which is a problem for comparisons. You'd be better off comparing Final Cut Pro on the Mac with a similar killer app on the Wintel side, rather than doing a comparison of After Effects on both platforms.
However, I really can't imagine you will feel that the G4 is too slow.
Political correct or not, it has been known - and publicly stated - for years that women don't have the same spatial abilities that men do. The reason for this supposedly has to do with the fact that men historically have been responsible for hunting food (long before farming was invented). Now, spatial ability is indeed needed for calculus, linear algebra and other branches of mathematics, but it is not a decisive ability.
Won't happen. A few years back, Cantopop had a setback in China, and Korean pop became fashionable. It still is, in some ways, together with Japanese pop, but it really can't match Chinese Canto- and Mandopop in terms of quality, and definitely not in terms of quantity. My prediction is that Chinese pop will have more and more international impact (heck, I am already totally sold). Language barriers don't really matter; when the American cultural imperialism struck Europe with Jazz, Swing and Rock, few of the listeners understood what the artists were singing.
Western music will probably always dominate in the West. This is natural. But RIAA and the oligopolistic conglomerats in the music biz will stifle any further creativity and innovation, which is why there hasn't been any new stuff since Kurt Cobain put a cap to his nostril.
Such structures don't exist - and can't exist - in China, where the competition is murderous.
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Slashdot and Unicode don't mix very well (it's a hacker forum for crying out loud; they are still on ABC ASCII). Maybe HTML entities will work... let's try:
It is often stated that Apple needs Micro$oft, especially Awfice. But that is not true, and probably never was true. Micro$oft is not needed in any way for the Apple to thrive.
That said, Micro$oft could of course contribute to making the Mac experience better, just like any contributor of software. People tell me that M$N Me$$enger is actually rather good. This update therefore deserves as much attention as any of the other updates regularly found on Macupdate or Version Tracker - that is, it does not deserve attention on Slashdot.
If Micro$oft would release a decent version of WiMP (proprietary-schmoprietary - people do code video for WMV), with full support for all its codecs, Unicode, and preferably in Cocoa, or if they released a version of Awfice that used native APIs (including Unicode support, Services, ATSUI), it would be another matter. But that is just not happening, since Micro$oft is Micro$oft.
Therefore, nobody cares about this topic on Slashdot. Even an article about a shitty app like TextWrangler gets much more attention than Micro$oft's creepware.
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People using OS X are usually using Safari, for a good reason. It is the *only* browser taking advantage of OS X technology such as ATSUI. A few percent still use the bundled IE, and yet a few percent use a Gecko browser.
Although the Gecko browsers (pick your choice) perform excellent on OS X, Safari is still a bit better in most regards, especially in rendering and standards compliance (Acid test passed).
The Chinese already have Google. It is available at www.google.com and has a Chinese interface by preference. I use it everyday. And guess what, there is not a single difference from the English version.
back in the days, we survived on virtually nuthin', just one megahertz and a far cry from those gatesy 256 kB everyone was dreamin' of.
You kids of today 'ave it easy. You've got your gigahertz machines with gigabytes o' memory in RAM and on disk, splashee colors, many-button mice, DVD burnahs and tha intahweb, downloading more porn in one day than granpa has seen in his entire lifetime, ehhhehh.
Sniff. Nevertheless... back in da good ole' days we play'd Breakout faster on our lo'ly Apples than you do today with your Penthsium class Linux box'n. How do ya figure this is?
Schools are supposed to teach the foundations of programming -- it is NOT supposed to be an environment that is currently used by professionals.
Therefore, learning how to use pico in a shell to write hello_world.c, then run gcc and see the marvelous effects of programming is all that kids in school will ever need.
This environment has been stable for a few decades now, and it will remain stable. And there's a choice to it as well: use Pascal or Fortran if you don't like C. They can all be used to demonstrate the fundamentals of programming.
Any teacher who knows anything about programming can relearn the basics of UNIX and C programming in a day (or in a week if they are slow). If not, they haven't got what it takes anyway.
Broadband is good because virtually nothing is blocked the way you believe it is blocked. I sit here in Shanghai, read my daily /., download all the porn I could ever want, read articles on Tibet, human rights, etc., and it all go through. There's no fucking difference from surfing in the West.
If I one day would come across something that is blocked, I would of course go to virtualbrowser.com or use a proxy from proxy4free.com, both of which are totally unblocked in China (as is 99.9999% of the web, including Slashdot, goatse porn, news and protest sites about Tibet -- I could mail you screen shots if you don't believe me).
People continue to believe in this myth that the Chinese are blocked from surfing the web. There IS blocking of web sites, but it is so limited that it has no effect whatsoever. If a site doesn't work, just google up another similar site or a mirror. Or use a proxy.
There is no way you could effectively block content on such a thing as tah Intarweb... the whole thing seems to be a domestic political farse to make it look like the authorities are doing something to curb the Western influence.
I am pleased with the service from China Telecom. They give me broadband for 80 yuan per month, including a perfectly working Huawei modem. I have no complaints.
No, but there are very few people interested in the intersection of Apple and Darwin. Appleites don't know about much about Darwin and it isn't on their proper level. Linuxians could care less about it. Wintelodians will just say "Huh?".
"Protecting" truckers from accessing wireless porn is just ONE instance of this micro management, which the founding fathers of the freest nation did not ever intend to implement. Their thought was that people are quite capable of governing themselves in such trifle matters. Politicians should only deal with bigger issues, such as war, expanding the territory, managing the large scale economy, or, on local level, planning infrastructure, giving service to companies and individuals, and making sure criminals are behind bars.
I was just thinking about why America is an empire on its downfall, but now I believe it is rather obvious: expensive political micromanagement on a scale that is unfathomable and hardly in line with what the founding fathers ever had in mind for this new, great nation.
Some people who have been blind since birth get very depressed when their vision is medically restored and they see the world as it actually is. It doesn't correspond at all to the colorful paradise their hardware has come up with in lack of sensors.
I guess it's like realizing there is no god after having been brought up in a religious home, or finding out that W. Gates III isn't the saint he has been described to be after filling his pockets for twenty years.
Or maybe it is like Neo finally seeing the rotting world after swallowing the blue pill.
No, it is the BEST place to host scientific and science related (including SF) conferences and activities, since this will make the locals more knowledgable about scientific matters.
Buckle your seat belt Peter, 'cause Kansas is goin' bye bye...
Well, Lucas may have told us a fantastic galactic space story, but Star Wars isn't really *science* fiction like Star Trek.
He is a great popularizer of science fiction, and therefore eligible.
You can compare this to scientists like Carl Sagan, whose direct contributions to science weren't tremendous, but whose popularization of science has meant a great deal.
FYI, I am in China right now. I am reading and posting on Slashdot. I am downloading Japanese Kokeshi movies with Limewire in the background. Once in a while I look at www.usenetbinaries.com for some new stuff. There's nothing missing on teh intahweb here in China... Looky here... I am writing FALUN GONG, and the thought police is not gonna come after me (and actually I am also writing about this stuff on Chinese BBS:s, which ARE censored).
But this is in my private home. The topic seems to be BBS:s at PUBLIC institutions such as universities. This is not unique to China. It has happened to me when surfing at the Unversity of Arizona in Tucson, in good ole' USA. It has happened to me when surfing at various European institutional computer labs and libraries.
Get real. This is a non-story. It is about an educational surfing etiquette, that's all. It doesn't apply to the whole god damn internet, as viewed in private homes, companies or other places.
Cheers from Shanghai.
Beware of the warning on some Apple products: Do not eat.
So when will we see the Google web browser?
It depends on how you measure, what features you want, and what you consider as "performance".
i d=7-6451-6410 and http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?ci d=7-4869-4882 as a testament to the Mac's lower performance vis-a-vis a Wintel PC.
You could for instance take the http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?c
You could also take other approaches, with different results (in either direction). This is fundamentally hard to measure, because ideally you need two real life systems using equally native software.
A real life Wintel system usually comes with some whistles and bells off by default, such as anti-aliased fonts, pre-installed fonts (for CJK, typically 30 MB each), language support (input systems), firewall, and so on. The Mac have these on by default, available for all applications.
A typical real life Wintel system also needs virus protection of some kind, and all instances of Wintel systems I have encountered slow down with time. Mac OS X doesn't slow down with time, and it also doesn't need any extras - it is complete and reasonably safe from the start, and works like a clock.
Now, what applications would we need to use to make the comparison fair? Native applications, not ports. Well, Photoshop started out as a Mac application, and has evolved to a bulky piece of bloatware with several major components being ports from the now dominant PC side. Photoshop is also a Carbon app, with substantial amounts of legacy code. It doesn't work like a genuine Mac OS X app coded in Cocoa.
A native Mac OS X app uses all the power unleashed with Quartz Extreme (offloading video entirely to the GPU), uses services (easily accessible extra functions), uses native Unicode rather than legacy MacRoman conversions, uses ATSUI for kerning, and so on.
Only such an application would do the Mac justice, and it would have to be a feature to feature equivalent app that is equally native on XP. Normally, native killer apps on the Mac are only ported to Wintel, and vice versa, which is a problem for comparisons. You'd be better off comparing Final Cut Pro on the Mac with a similar killer app on the Wintel side, rather than doing a comparison of After Effects on both platforms.
However, I really can't imagine you will feel that the G4 is too slow.
I for one welcome our new quantum-cryptographical overlords.
Tried searching "pussy", got no pics. Lame joke. Mod parent down to hell.
Political correct or not, it has been known - and publicly stated - for years that women don't have the same spatial abilities that men do. The reason for this supposedly has to do with the fact that men historically have been responsible for hunting food (long before farming was invented). Now, spatial ability is indeed needed for calculus, linear algebra and other branches of mathematics, but it is not a decisive ability.
... when I hear about the first blog from the moon.
Panix can't hold their "intellectual property" for a ridiculously long time (as the usual whining goes around here), and you are complaining?
Won't happen. A few years back, Cantopop had a setback in China, and Korean pop became fashionable. It still is, in some ways, together with Japanese pop, but it really can't match Chinese Canto- and Mandopop in terms of quality, and definitely not in terms of quantity. My prediction is that Chinese pop will have more and more international impact (heck, I am already totally sold). Language barriers don't really matter; when the American cultural imperialism struck Europe with Jazz, Swing and Rock, few of the listeners understood what the artists were singing.
Western music will probably always dominate in the West. This is natural. But RIAA and the oligopolistic conglomerats in the music biz will stifle any further creativity and innovation, which is why there hasn't been any new stuff since Kurt Cobain put a cap to his nostril.
Such structures don't exist - and can't exist - in China, where the competition is murderous.
Slashdot and Unicode don't mix very well (it's a hacker forum for crying out loud; they are still on ABC ASCII). Maybe HTML entities will work... let's try:
(N yáo pèi shpiàn lái ma?)
It is often stated that Apple needs Micro$oft, especially Awfice. But that is not true, and probably never was true. Micro$oft is not needed in any way for the Apple to thrive.
That said, Micro$oft could of course contribute to making the Mac experience better, just like any contributor of software. People tell me that M$N Me$$enger is actually rather good. This update therefore deserves as much attention as any of the other updates regularly found on Macupdate or Version Tracker - that is, it does not deserve attention on Slashdot.
If Micro$oft would release a decent version of WiMP (proprietary-schmoprietary - people do code video for WMV), with full support for all its codecs, Unicode, and preferably in Cocoa, or if they released a version of Awfice that used native APIs (including Unicode support, Services, ATSUI), it would be another matter. But that is just not happening, since Micro$oft is Micro$oft.
Therefore, nobody cares about this topic on Slashdot. Even an article about a shitty app like TextWrangler gets much more attention than Micro$oft's creepware.
Cheese Royal. It's the metric system, dude.