" It questions dogma with extensive use of evidence, proposing an alternative hypothesis, not just tweaking existing non-predictive theories."
It ignores existing evidence to the contrary, stoops to conspiracy theories (shuttle hit by megalightning? Yeah, right) and goes far beyond the limits of falsifiability.
1. Company sends him goodies. 2. He has problems getting things working with "Big Cat". 3. He calls some technically proficient person for help. 4. Files are transferred between computers with lap-link or similar. 5. The vendor is called for help, and he is given unusually good service due to being Jerry Pournelle. 6. Things work, finally 7. Closing - what he's reading, what he's playing.
Back in the medieval period, the educated people were the clerics, some ordained, some not.
Problem was, there weren't enough good jobs for the educated class. There were many underemployed people with time on their hands and limited prospects.
So they did what came naturally. Like we hack technology, they hacked theology.
Much 'black magic' was based on the standard Catholic rite of exorcism. In the rite, the priest commands demons or the devil to leave, in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost, perhaps with other holy names thrown in for good measure.
Some clerk must have seen that, and thought "What a waste! If you can command them, why not tell them to do something useful?"
Thus, the idea that a sorceror could follow a similar ritual, and use the influence of the holy powers to command the spirits to bring wealth, or sex, or knowledge.
1. You can use the commandline tool 'lipo' to glue an Intel binary segment compiled with gcc 4 onto a PPC segment that will run on 10.3.x.
This would also be a method to support ppc64. Compile with an older SDK/compiler combo, and hand-lipo the ppc64 binary segment into the executable.
2. Universal binaries are *not* twice as big. Interfaces, documentation, and other accessory files are not duplicated. Those often take up as much space, or more, than the binary. (Especially apps which include localized interfaces and documentation for multiple languages.)
(Admittedly, command-line executables would be twice as large, because they tend not to have all the extra material found in a typical GUI application.)
In practice, it wasn't a big problem back in the NeXT days, when applications were quad-fat, not just dual-fat, and fast internet connections were rare.
Now, there were a variety of reasons for that failure, some technical, some not. At least part of the reason OpenDoc didn't succeed is that it was too disruptive to the traditional business model of applications vendors.
Perhaps. I think part of it was that document-centricity wasn't really an improvement.
The rationale I remember hearing was that it would be more natural, because humans naturally pick up a piece of paper, and then we choose from a variety of tools to use on the paper. If we want to write, we can use a pen, if we want to draw, we use a pencil, if we want to paint, we pick up a brush, but the document remains the same.
The problem is, this may not be a feature, it might be a bug imposed on us by our existence in meatspace.
You could probably make a better picture by going over to your easel and using your tools there on a canvas, instead of trying to paint on a piece of writing paper. When done, you could just paste it onto your letter.
But this is a pain, and it's likely to look like ass. So we're more likely to just scribble something out, instead of using the best tools we have for the job.
If it were as easy to change real-world work environments and tools, as it is to change from Word to Photoshop to GarageBand to OmniGraffle, and to cleanly integrate the products of our work, you can bet our meatspace work habits would be very different from what they are now. They'd look more like the way we use computers.
Document-centric UIs may be a 90's-era mistake like Virtual Reality UIs - the assumption that the natural way things work is the best way and should be emulated, rather than seeing that the natural way things work is a limitation that computers can be used to overcome.
I think Lucas shot all of Natalie's scenes with himself standing in for Hayden. He was wearing a form-fitting green spandex suit, so he could easily be removed from the shot, but I'm sure that just made it all the more traumatic for Ms. Portman.
At least, that's what I hear. Some people say it wasn't green spandex, but rather, green bodypaint.
I dare not imagine that, so I refuse to consider the possibility.
There's some concern that, when Macs run on Intel, emulators will run so well that companies will stop making Mac versions of their software. The idea is that companies will just tell Mac users to use VMWare, or WINE, or VirtualPC.
I'd argue that, with PCs being so cheap, they might as well just tell Mac users to buy a PC. It won't cost much more than an emulator+Windows, after all.
And if they're going to do that, it doesn't matter if Apple stays on PowerPC or not.
(And, really, PCs are so ubiquitous anyway that if a vendor wants to ditch the Mac, chances are their Mac customers can get access to a PC without too much difficulty.)
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I predict they'll find that it's really Apollo in his chariot, and boy, will he be pissed off.
" It questions dogma with extensive use of evidence, proposing an alternative hypothesis, not just tweaking existing non-predictive theories."
It ignores existing evidence to the contrary, stoops to conspiracy theories (shuttle hit by megalightning? Yeah, right) and goes far beyond the limits of falsifiability.
That's 100-proof kookdom.
And even if it's a slow newsday, they could always post a dupe or five.
Hell, a dupe of an old pre-Y2K story would be better than this kooky stuff.
Hey, maybe the probe will hit the comet and release Mothra! That's my theory.
The full scrotal Faraday cage.
His columns were pretty formulaic.
1. Company sends him goodies.
2. He has problems getting things working with "Big Cat".
3. He calls some technically proficient person for help.
4. Files are transferred between computers with lap-link or similar.
5. The vendor is called for help, and he is given unusually good service due to being Jerry Pournelle.
6. Things work, finally
7. Closing - what he's reading, what he's playing.
In this non-canononical sector of the Expanded Universe, we just make something out of origami.
At least Lucas hasn't started a moneymaking cult. It would probably be quite easy.
"And for $500,000, you can be a Sith!"
Ballmer may have been successful, but wasn't he at Procter & Gamble?
The skills required to succeed selling soap and toilet paper aren't the same as the skills required in the tech industry.
I mean, in his prior industry, "innovation" means using a new quilting pattern every five years.
It's a little bit different.
a Beowulf cluster of these.
I'm not sure I'd mind if they sent Windows' source code to a Re-education Camp for a few years.
"Remember that before you try on a pair of Nikes or Reeboks."
And the Chinese state-run oil company is trying to buy Unocal.
I think we may be getting to the part where we capitalists sell the rope used to hang us.
Back in the medieval period, the educated people were the clerics, some ordained, some not.
Problem was, there weren't enough good jobs for the educated class. There were many underemployed people with time on their hands and limited prospects.
So they did what came naturally. Like we hack technology, they hacked theology.
Much 'black magic' was based on the standard Catholic rite of exorcism. In the rite, the priest commands demons or the devil to leave, in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost, perhaps with other holy names thrown in for good measure.
Some clerk must have seen that, and thought "What a waste! If you can command them, why not tell them to do something useful?"
Thus, the idea that a sorceror could follow a similar ritual, and use the influence of the holy powers to command the spirits to bring wealth, or sex, or knowledge.
Sort of like hacking a CueCat.
Here's the site to check out:Caveman Chemistry
Projects from making charcoal, mead, and ceramics to casting metals and glass, and making plastic (making and drawing polyester fiber).
1. You can use the commandline tool 'lipo' to glue an Intel binary segment compiled with gcc 4 onto a PPC segment that will run on 10.3.x.
This would also be a method to support ppc64. Compile with an older SDK/compiler combo, and hand-lipo the ppc64 binary segment into the executable.
2. Universal binaries are *not* twice as big. Interfaces, documentation, and other accessory files are not duplicated. Those often take up as much space, or more, than the binary. (Especially apps which include localized interfaces and documentation for multiple languages.)
(Admittedly, command-line executables would be twice as large, because they tend not to have all the extra material found in a typical GUI application.)
In practice, it wasn't a big problem back in the NeXT days, when applications were quad-fat, not just dual-fat, and fast internet connections were rare.
Um, why wouldn't they develop for PPC?
It's not hard, and they already own the PPC hardware.
Continuing to compile for PPC is kind of a no-brainer.
Now, there were a variety of reasons for that failure, some technical, some not. At least part of the reason OpenDoc didn't succeed is that it was too disruptive to the traditional business model of applications vendors.
Perhaps. I think part of it was that document-centricity wasn't really an improvement.
The rationale I remember hearing was that it would be more natural, because humans naturally pick up a piece of paper, and then we choose from a variety of tools to use on the paper. If we want to write, we can use a pen, if we want to draw, we use a pencil, if we want to paint, we pick up a brush, but the document remains the same.
The problem is, this may not be a feature, it might be a bug imposed on us by our existence in meatspace.
You could probably make a better picture by going over to your easel and using your tools there on a canvas, instead of trying to paint on a piece of writing paper. When done, you could just paste it onto your letter.
But this is a pain, and it's likely to look like ass. So we're more likely to just scribble something out, instead of using the best tools we have for the job.
If it were as easy to change real-world work environments and tools, as it is to change from Word to Photoshop to GarageBand to OmniGraffle, and to cleanly integrate the products of our work, you can bet our meatspace work habits would be very different from what they are now. They'd look more like the way we use computers.
Document-centric UIs may be a 90's-era mistake like Virtual Reality UIs - the assumption that the natural way things work is the best way and should be emulated, rather than seeing that the natural way things work is a limitation that computers can be used to overcome.
Just because aspects of the setting appeal to you doesn't make it any less dystopian.
However, I get this feeling that Leo would have pulled through and done right by Anakin/Vader
Come on, nothing could resist the suckiness of George Lucas.
He made Samuel L. Jackson look stiff!
I think Lucas shot all of Natalie's scenes with himself standing in for Hayden. He was wearing a form-fitting green spandex suit, so he could easily be removed from the shot, but I'm sure that just made it all the more traumatic for Ms. Portman.
At least, that's what I hear. Some people say it wasn't green spandex, but rather, green bodypaint.
I dare not imagine that, so I refuse to consider the possibility.
And the question arises of "Who is General Grievous?"
And why does a droid seem to have tuberculosis?
A whole lot of time could have been saved if the crawl had been edited down to:
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
and then the end credits could have run, and we would have been out of there.
A friend of mine used CLIPS in a system for a drug store chain, which provided suggestions to customers depending on what they purchased.
Why, exactly? If saving face motivates people to solve the problem, then I'm all for it.
The problem is that saving face can be accomplished by only hiding the problem, or squelching discussion of it, or pretending it isn't there.
Saving face generally seems to take the path of least resistance, and implies a desire to not face the issue.
Maybe Intel can be persuaded to help underwrite the cost of moving Adobe's apps to Cocoa...
There's some concern that, when Macs run on Intel, emulators will run so well that companies will stop making Mac versions of their software. The idea is that companies will just tell Mac users to use VMWare, or WINE, or VirtualPC.
I'd argue that, with PCs being so cheap, they might as well just tell Mac users to buy a PC. It won't cost much more than an emulator+Windows, after all.
And if they're going to do that, it doesn't matter if Apple stays on PowerPC or not.
(And, really, PCs are so ubiquitous anyway that if a vendor wants to ditch the Mac, chances are their Mac customers can get access to a PC without too much difficulty.)
" If your CD-ROM drive and motherboard weren't on the "supported hardware" list that came with NeXTStep, you were SOL."
It wasn't quite that bad, especially later in the OPENSTEP days.
I even upgraded my motherboard so I could upgrade the CPU, and it worked without a hiccup.
They also added a VESA graphics, so you didn't really need a specific driver for your video card.