None of the hacks from 10.4.x, especially the critical kernel, will be able to be reused on 10.5.x. Even now, no one has successfully used a newer 10.4.x kernel on non-Apple hardware - it's all still the old 10.4.3 development kernel that was never released that supported BIOS. Ugly, ugly hack.
Why not just create a VM layer that emulates the Apple hardware rather than try to get physical hardware to match what the OS wants? From my understanding the Parallels team can but don't because of legal restrictions.
And if they won't sell Leopard in the store, then what happens to all the people with Intel + Tiger who can't upgrade?
The thing is that most businesses don't last 10 years from there start date and any that do are very rare. About three fourths of those who survive after that often fold after the key founders leave the company, retire, or die.
However, the small fraction that do last that final hurdle tend to last for several decades and possibly over hundred years. The issue now is to see if Microsoft does last the departure of its founders (including Balmer) which hasn't happened yet in its entirety.
Don't withold information from a police investigation. The problem here is that individuals believe they are above the law and are doing it in the interests of the common man.
The same thing could be said about French Resistance fighters and Gestapo officers. Or Hungarian freedom fighters and Soviet KGB officers. Or heck... American Revolutionaries and British soldiers.
We throw those "anarchists" up on pedestals but when the same thing happens here we call them villains and criminals.
Personally, I don't believe in this guy's cause and don't believe in his groups methods, but I can understand where they are coming from because the same thing has happened over and over again throughout history. He'll most likely remain a villain to many because we may not ever see a major governmental or societal change.
But more than that, I'm more concerned about government being above the law in the meantime. Why is federal tax money going to state coffers for state law enforcement? Why was he held in prison for long long and not actually charged with a crime?
This guy didn't want to give up asshats that torched a police car? Rot in jail.
The real question you should be asking is why Federal Tax money is being used to pay for Local State police cars in the first place? Original crime or no, that in itself is wrong.
He was not a journalist, and he was not protecting a source. He was a citizen who refused to cooperate with a police investigation. Not a hero, probably just another victim of his own fantasies and ignorance of what freedom of the press actually means.
Personally, I believe anyone can call themselves a journalist. There is no international standard and freedom of the press includes any Joe Scmhoe with a blog or a xerox copier.
When the constitution was written, newspapers were basically one page opinion journals written by anyone who happened to own a printing press. You didn't have to go to school, get a license from the government, or have other "journalists" recognize you. Same thing should apply today.
However, I think the key difference was that Freedom of the Press meant the government could not suppress your literature. He wasn't as much as being prevented from publishing as much as he was resisting court subpoena from giving information on it.
Although, what he was doing may not have been covered by Freedom of the Press he stuck by his guns and stuck through it. He could have at any moment gave names and addresses and been a free man, but he choose to actually go through with jail time.
I will give him that... Most of us are hard pressed to bother to vote on election day.
We are lazy and cowards and we have gotten the government we deserved. If there were a hundred thousand more guys like this we'd most likely have a government that stands up for something worth fighting for.
That's why we have to have laws that wouldn't be there if people would just take it upon themselves to act appropriately.
Actually as another commenter pointed out that 1 out of every 100 persons is a Sociopath, but in reality laws at this point in our history do not deter crime or affect behavior as much as attempt to mitigate the person's ability to do it again.
There is little effort in law enforcement for prevention and rehabilitation as much as there is detection and incarceration (at least in the US).
Although, the CCTV systems and automated methods of catching people who break the law actually do make us actually not try to break the law (I've slammed on my brakes a few times because I know there are cameras on a yellow light that is extremely short because I knew I would get fined), but the majority of the people in the states do not actually think about the law when they go about their daily lives and often only are not total jerks because they aren't all bad (99 out of 100 of them).
Even with the death penalty and efficient justice we still have people who murder each other on a daily basis.
I'm sure I go about my daily life most likely breaking a dozen laws and regulations which I don't even know about and I'm sure you do too, but you don't see me (and hopefully not you) punching old ladies in the face or talking on my cell phone during a movie.
Those who do won't be stopped by simply laws, but rather the enforcement of laws (or if we actually spent time with prevention and identified sociopaths in the first place and rehabilitated them).
I don't think anarchy is the solution either because there are plenty of sociopaths to go around... Unfortunately, some which I think actually make and enforce the laws these days.
So I personally fail to see how absent mindedness is something different. Its part of who you are, embrace it!
See my sig. It is a reference to a conversation between the Puppet Master AI program and Major Kusanagi (the female Ghost in the Shell cyborg)
Simply accepting and desiring to remain the same is what truly limits us.
Whether this is being trying to educate yourself so you are not illiterate or exercising so you are not out of shape. If we are afraid to improve, then we'll never be more than our limits.
If I could simply "jack in" to wealth of memories I could do all sorts of things that would make my job easier. I wouldn't have to look up Google groups to troubleshoot daily technical problems.
Yes, but then they've left evidence of their activities. That's almost as good as preventing it from a certain angle.
Look. If your kid is smart enough to reset the motherboard and run Ubuntu live CD without your assistance, then maybe you should take the time to sit down with them and supervise their internet activities in person.
Chances are you'll learn a thing or two about computers you didn't know about...
Is it PowerPoint's fault, or the fault of the Powerpoint creator?
I can't remember where I heard it, but if you need Powerpoint to explain a point or to keep the audiences attention then you just aren't a very good presenter.
Now I've given Powerpoint presentations myself, but usually to show screen shots of how an application works. Even if you are the greatest speaker in the world, you can't really describe menu structures to people and hope for them to remember it without seeing the application.
But my bad habit was to just 'next' all through the bulleted text and tell the audience "Oh these points... Don't really matter..."
I bet this would make May3d rendering actually fun.
Oh back in school in 2001, I remember I commandeered about 50 lab PCs for about 6 hours after midnight to do a 5 minute Maya demo. If we had this computer I would have gotten a bit more sleep...
And when you say "above the law" which laws are you talking about? US law, Swedish Law, Iran Law, or Chinese law all have very different opinions on how the internet should be regulated. You can't really hold the organization to US and Chinese law at the same time due to extreme differences in what is legal otherwise... We'd just see an organization whose members can't step soil in any nation without fear of getting thrown in jail for some obscure law.
I suppose they want diplomatic immunity in a sense.
Personally, I would be happy for Swiss law and regulation if any...
A jerk talking on his cellphone while I'm trying to enjoy a quiet plane ride.
Personally, I'd rather have a cell phone jerk on a plane sitting next to me than a screaming child ten rows away from me.
Of course with the "THINK OF CHILDREN!" attitude, no one throws unruly children off the plane. Oh wait... They did once
But I personally wish people they would have an airline that allowed only those 10 or older and charge a bit more. I don't know why movie theaters do that either...
I mean, heroin works because it causes certain chemicals inside the brain to change. If you don't release those chemicals, it's not going to feel the same. So a completely honest recording of a heroin trip would necessarily have to produce the same physiological response in your synapses as the real thing.
Why not just record the memories of a someone going through 5 year rehab and then upload them after the experience? Problem solved.
Or better yet, just turn off the ability for your brain to desire for sensory indulgence. It might be a lame way to acheive nirvana like Buddhist monks spend their entire lives attempting to achieve, but I suppose if you simply recorded a Buddhist monk meditating and that put that memory into any human they could simply by pass the psychological effects of having a simulated heroin trip.
Users who call up a company they have no relation to in order to tell them their tech decisions are bad are complete morons.
Even if you aren't a customer of a company or a citizen of a state you aren't a member of, you still should have the inherent right to express your dissatisfaction of their policies towards other members of the world.
Not that I'm going to spend my free time to send angry letters to Oracle, but I'll support the right of anyone who does.
Hydrogen is a storage medium, not an energy source.
So? Neither is petroleum, coal, or biodiesel.
There is not a single energy positive creation source on the face of the planet. 99.9% of everything all our energy sources come from the sun (excluding geothermal and uranium) which oil and coal was from plants and animals from millions of years ago that got their energy from the sun, while biodiesel is from more recent plants.
The reason that hydrogen is not used is because it is currently inefficient to convert from your standard energy production methods. You could technically grow corn and burn it to make hydrogen just like biodiesel. It is just not that efficient to do so.
This might change and eventually someday be easier to just use direct solar power and remove hydrogen from water.
If a country doesn't want something to come in because it objects on moral grounds, who is another country to sue about it? It's like Columbia complaining to the WTO that we ban cocaine.
To be fair, Great Britain declared war on China in the 1800's to force them to legalize opium.
The Best AIs I've found are in some games like Yu-gi-oh the card game I'm currently working on nightmare troubadour and most of the opponents I've played always make a "great" move.
Yu-Gi-Oh! eh? I think the AI is only good because of its good decks, however after you get a good deck it can't compete because it doesn't seem to understand combos beyond 2 cards.
In GX and WC2007 (for DS) the AI will often OTK and summon a Chimeritech Dragon only to kill itself because it didn't meat one of the criteria. It will summon Beserk Gorrila in face up attack when I already have Level Limit - B spell on the field forcing it into defense position killing it instantly.
Also, AI will attack face down monsters no matter what... So if you want to trick them setting monsters into attack mode (except when you hae a 5000 pt ATK/DEF which if it will still fusion summon monsters that into face up attack mode for no good reason knowing I can kill it in one hit with whatever monster I am using)
Not to mention it is fairly easy to goad the AI into using heavy storm.
Although the AI did summon a monster from the graveyard one and use creature swap on my Jinzo once... But basically the AI of the Yu-Gi-Oh series fails to take into account effects beyond two cards.
Nightmare Troubadour didn't have this problem because of its limited amount of cards. However, with GX 1400 and 2007 1600+ cards it has a hard time.
I think each AI has built in combo's it is hard coded to attempt. I beat GX with a deck that had basically
This basically derails any pre-built strategy (except for a basic beat down deck)
Of course to be fair... I like to play Wifi with a Final Countdown deck against people just to see them get flustered, but I can always tell the difference when I play the AI vs Wifi on yugioh.
You know, I bet I can think up one or two slightly more helpful uses for internet connectivity in the 3rd world besides checking sports scores.
Huh? In most 3rd world countries, local sports are far more popular than even American televised games. Seeing that local teams travel (abroad sometimes) it will be hard for locals to find out how their team is doing seeing even if they had access to radio or TV that it maybe hard to get coverage of their teams.
Keep in mind people are not starving to death on a daily basis in India, Honduras, or in Nigeria. They just don't have all the material wealth that we have in the states and they like to have past times too.
I'm not a gadget guy, but everything I've seen and used has worked flawlessly.
Some mother boards do not have good support for powering USB devices. Usually laptops and no name brand will give issues on occasion.
If your mother board supports it and isn't a POS bargain bin then usually you won't have a problem. For the rest of us... Well... There is the RMA form.
There already is a specification that meets the requirements that Powered USB attempts to satisfy - it's called Firewire.
True, but if you are selling your product at Best Buy, you can be safe to say that most people have USB, but the majority won't have firewire.
Of course, if you want to get complicated you could provide both USB and Firewire ports and include an wall wart in the box and say "If you have USB, use the wall wart, but if you have firewire you don't need it!", but I think that would lead to a support head ache.
Powered USB will encourage manufacturers to design peripherals which consume more power, which will negatively impact the earth.
The energy used in data centers and all the computers in the world is minuscule to the energy required to produce meat for human consumption.
This is kind of like complaining that having too many wind or solar farms are going to change the earth's climate when we have hundreds of millions of cars doing a whole lot more to do so already.
(Note: I eat meat and I don't disprove of the consumption of it, but I'm just pointing out that computers are still a fraction of our energy consumption compared to light bulbs, food production, and transportation needs.)
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None of the hacks from 10.4.x, especially the critical kernel, will be able to be reused on 10.5.x. Even now, no one has successfully used a newer 10.4.x kernel on non-Apple hardware - it's all still the old 10.4.3 development kernel that was never released that supported BIOS. Ugly, ugly hack.
Why not just create a VM layer that emulates the Apple hardware rather than try to get physical hardware to match what the OS wants? From my understanding the Parallels team can but don't because of legal restrictions.
And if they won't sell Leopard in the store, then what happens to all the people with Intel + Tiger who can't upgrade?
There is no way to legally get a standalone, retail copy of Mac OS X (Intel) for AppleTV
For some reason, I would speculate you will be able to buy a stand alone copy of Leopard OS X for Intel when it comes out.
Otherwise, plenty of Intel Tiger users will be stuck with the version they have.
I do remember buying Panther in the store when it came out and upgrading my PPC and it wasn't an upgrade license.
The thing is that most businesses don't last 10 years from there start date and any that do are very rare. About three fourths of those who survive after that often fold after the key founders leave the company, retire, or die.
However, the small fraction that do last that final hurdle tend to last for several decades and possibly over hundred years. The issue now is to see if Microsoft does last the departure of its founders (including Balmer) which hasn't happened yet in its entirety.
Don't withold information from a police investigation. The problem here is that individuals believe they are above the law and are doing it in the interests of the common man.
The same thing could be said about French Resistance fighters and Gestapo officers. Or Hungarian freedom fighters and Soviet KGB officers. Or heck... American Revolutionaries and British soldiers.
We throw those "anarchists" up on pedestals but when the same thing happens here we call them villains and criminals.
Personally, I don't believe in this guy's cause and don't believe in his groups methods, but I can understand where they are coming from because the same thing has happened over and over again throughout history. He'll most likely remain a villain to many because we may not ever see a major governmental or societal change.
But more than that, I'm more concerned about government being above the law in the meantime. Why is federal tax money going to state coffers for state law enforcement? Why was he held in prison for long long and not actually charged with a crime?
Both of these facts violated the constitution.
This guy didn't want to give up asshats that torched a police car? Rot in jail.
The real question you should be asking is why Federal Tax money is being used to pay for Local State police cars in the first place? Original crime or no, that in itself is wrong.
He was not a journalist, and he was not protecting a source. He was a citizen who refused to cooperate with a police investigation. Not a hero, probably just another victim of his own fantasies and ignorance of what freedom of the press actually means.
Hrm... The BBC called him a reporter so mayhaps that makes it so?
Personally, I believe anyone can call themselves a journalist. There is no international standard and freedom of the press includes any Joe Scmhoe with a blog or a xerox copier.
When the constitution was written, newspapers were basically one page opinion journals written by anyone who happened to own a printing press. You didn't have to go to school, get a license from the government, or have other "journalists" recognize you. Same thing should apply today.
However, I think the key difference was that Freedom of the Press meant the government could not suppress your literature. He wasn't as much as being prevented from publishing as much as he was resisting court subpoena from giving information on it.
Although, what he was doing may not have been covered by Freedom of the Press he stuck by his guns and stuck through it. He could have at any moment gave names and addresses and been a free man, but he choose to actually go through with jail time.
I will give him that... Most of us are hard pressed to bother to vote on election day.
We are lazy and cowards and we have gotten the government we deserved. If there were a hundred thousand more guys like this we'd most likely have a government that stands up for something worth fighting for.
So why the ban? Erring on the side of caution? Gimme a break. There's gotta be another reason that nobody's talking about.
[tinfoil hat]
Could it be that people would discover that the cell phone call from flight 93 was impossible to have actually happened?
[/tinfoil hat]
That's why we have to have laws that wouldn't be there if people would just take it upon themselves to act appropriately.
Actually as another commenter pointed out that 1 out of every 100 persons is a Sociopath, but in reality laws at this point in our history do not deter crime or affect behavior as much as attempt to mitigate the person's ability to do it again.
There is little effort in law enforcement for prevention and rehabilitation as much as there is detection and incarceration (at least in the US).
Although, the CCTV systems and automated methods of catching people who break the law actually do make us actually not try to break the law (I've slammed on my brakes a few times because I know there are cameras on a yellow light that is extremely short because I knew I would get fined), but the majority of the people in the states do not actually think about the law when they go about their daily lives and often only are not total jerks because they aren't all bad (99 out of 100 of them).
Even with the death penalty and efficient justice we still have people who murder each other on a daily basis.
I'm sure I go about my daily life most likely breaking a dozen laws and regulations which I don't even know about and I'm sure you do too, but you don't see me (and hopefully not you) punching old ladies in the face or talking on my cell phone during a movie.
Those who do won't be stopped by simply laws, but rather the enforcement of laws (or if we actually spent time with prevention and identified sociopaths in the first place and rehabilitated them).
I don't think anarchy is the solution either because there are plenty of sociopaths to go around... Unfortunately, some which I think actually make and enforce the laws these days.
So I personally fail to see how absent mindedness is something different. Its part of who you are, embrace it!
See my sig. It is a reference to a conversation between the Puppet Master AI program and Major Kusanagi (the female Ghost in the Shell cyborg)
Simply accepting and desiring to remain the same is what truly limits us.
Whether this is being trying to educate yourself so you are not illiterate or exercising so you are not out of shape. If we are afraid to improve, then we'll never be more than our limits.
If I could simply "jack in" to wealth of memories I could do all sorts of things that would make my job easier. I wouldn't have to look up Google groups to troubleshoot daily technical problems.
I would just know the solution...
Yes, but then they've left evidence of their activities. That's almost as good as preventing it from a certain angle.
Look. If your kid is smart enough to reset the motherboard and run Ubuntu live CD without your assistance, then maybe you should take the time to sit down with them and supervise their internet activities in person.
Chances are you'll learn a thing or two about computers you didn't know about...
Is it PowerPoint's fault, or the fault of the Powerpoint creator?
I can't remember where I heard it, but if you need Powerpoint to explain a point or to keep the audiences attention then you just aren't a very good presenter.
Now I've given Powerpoint presentations myself, but usually to show screen shots of how an application works. Even if you are the greatest speaker in the world, you can't really describe menu structures to people and hope for them to remember it without seeing the application.
But my bad habit was to just 'next' all through the bulleted text and tell the audience "Oh these points... Don't really matter..."
What is on their right? The cheese?
I bet this would make May3d rendering actually fun.
Oh back in school in 2001, I remember I commandeered about 50 lab PCs for about 6 hours after midnight to do a 5 minute Maya demo. If we had this computer I would have gotten a bit more sleep...
What exactly do they want immunity from?
Government control.
And when you say "above the law" which laws are you talking about? US law, Swedish Law, Iran Law, or Chinese law all have very different opinions on how the internet should be regulated. You can't really hold the organization to US and Chinese law at the same time due to extreme differences in what is legal otherwise... We'd just see an organization whose members can't step soil in any nation without fear of getting thrown in jail for some obscure law.
I suppose they want diplomatic immunity in a sense.
Personally, I would be happy for Swiss law and regulation if any...
A jerk talking on his cellphone while I'm trying to enjoy a quiet plane ride.
Personally, I'd rather have a cell phone jerk on a plane sitting next to me than a screaming child ten rows away from me.
Of course with the "THINK OF CHILDREN!" attitude, no one throws unruly children off the plane. Oh wait... They did once
But I personally wish people they would have an airline that allowed only those 10 or older and charge a bit more. I don't know why movie theaters do that either...
I mean, heroin works because it causes certain chemicals inside the brain to change. If you don't release those chemicals, it's not going to feel the same. So a completely honest recording of a heroin trip would necessarily have to produce the same physiological response in your synapses as the real thing.
Why not just record the memories of a someone going through 5 year rehab and then upload them after the experience? Problem solved.
Or better yet, just turn off the ability for your brain to desire for sensory indulgence. It might be a lame way to acheive nirvana like Buddhist monks spend their entire lives attempting to achieve, but I suppose if you simply recorded a Buddhist monk meditating and that put that memory into any human they could simply by pass the psychological effects of having a simulated heroin trip.
Users who call up a company they have no relation to in order to tell them their tech decisions are bad are complete morons.
Even if you aren't a customer of a company or a citizen of a state you aren't a member of, you still should have the inherent right to express your dissatisfaction of their policies towards other members of the world.
Not that I'm going to spend my free time to send angry letters to Oracle, but I'll support the right of anyone who does.
Hydrogen is a storage medium, not an energy source.
So? Neither is petroleum, coal, or biodiesel.
There is not a single energy positive creation source on the face of the planet. 99.9% of everything all our energy sources come from the sun (excluding geothermal and uranium) which oil and coal was from plants and animals from millions of years ago that got their energy from the sun, while biodiesel is from more recent plants.
The reason that hydrogen is not used is because it is currently inefficient to convert from your standard energy production methods. You could technically grow corn and burn it to make hydrogen just like biodiesel. It is just not that efficient to do so.
This might change and eventually someday be easier to just use direct solar power and remove hydrogen from water.
If a country doesn't want something to come in because it objects on moral grounds, who is another country to sue about it? It's like Columbia complaining to the WTO that we ban cocaine.
To be fair, Great Britain declared war on China in the 1800's to force them to legalize opium.
The Best AIs I've found are in some games like Yu-gi-oh the card game I'm currently working on nightmare troubadour and most of the opponents I've played always make a "great" move.
Yu-Gi-Oh! eh? I think the AI is only good because of its good decks, however after you get a good deck it can't compete because it doesn't seem to understand combos beyond 2 cards.
In GX and WC2007 (for DS) the AI will often OTK and summon a Chimeritech Dragon only to kill itself because it didn't meat one of the criteria. It will summon Beserk Gorrila in face up attack when I already have Level Limit - B spell on the field forcing it into defense position killing it instantly.
Also, AI will attack face down monsters no matter what... So if you want to trick them setting monsters into attack mode (except when you hae a 5000 pt ATK/DEF which if it will still fusion summon monsters that into face up attack mode for no good reason knowing I can kill it in one hit with whatever monster I am using)
Not to mention it is fairly easy to goad the AI into using heavy storm.
Although the AI did summon a monster from the graveyard one and use creature swap on my Jinzo once... But basically the AI of the Yu-Gi-Oh series fails to take into account effects beyond two cards.
Nightmare Troubadour didn't have this problem because of its limited amount of cards. However, with GX 1400 and 2007 1600+ cards it has a hard time.
I think each AI has built in combo's it is hard coded to attempt. I beat GX with a deck that had basically
1x Jinzo (cancels traps)
2x Royal Decrees (cancels traps)
3x Spell Cancelers (cancels spells)
This basically derails any pre-built strategy (except for a basic beat down deck)
Of course to be fair... I like to play Wifi with a Final Countdown deck against people just to see them get flustered, but I can always tell the difference when I play the AI vs Wifi on yugioh.
How feasible is it for we in the rest of the world to create "another Internet" and leave the current one with the US government?
Oh that... Its called IPv6.
You know, I bet I can think up one or two slightly more helpful uses for internet connectivity in the 3rd world besides checking sports scores.
Huh? In most 3rd world countries, local sports are far more popular than even American televised games. Seeing that local teams travel (abroad sometimes) it will be hard for locals to find out how their team is doing seeing even if they had access to radio or TV that it maybe hard to get coverage of their teams.
Keep in mind people are not starving to death on a daily basis in India, Honduras, or in Nigeria. They just don't have all the material wealth that we have in the states and they like to have past times too.
I'm not a gadget guy, but everything I've seen and used has worked flawlessly.
Some mother boards do not have good support for powering USB devices. Usually laptops and no name brand will give issues on occasion.
If your mother board supports it and isn't a POS bargain bin then usually you won't have a problem. For the rest of us... Well... There is the RMA form.
There already is a specification that meets the requirements that Powered USB attempts to satisfy - it's called Firewire.
True, but if you are selling your product at Best Buy, you can be safe to say that most people have USB, but the majority won't have firewire.
Of course, if you want to get complicated you could provide both USB and Firewire ports and include an wall wart in the box and say "If you have USB, use the wall wart, but if you have firewire you don't need it!", but I think that would lead to a support head ache.
Powered USB will encourage manufacturers to design peripherals which consume more power, which will negatively impact the earth.
The energy used in data centers and all the computers in the world is minuscule to the energy required to produce meat for human consumption.
This is kind of like complaining that having too many wind or solar farms are going to change the earth's climate when we have hundreds of millions of cars doing a whole lot more to do so already.
(Note: I eat meat and I don't disprove of the consumption of it, but I'm just pointing out that computers are still a fraction of our energy consumption compared to light bulbs, food production, and transportation needs.)