Microsoft knew that the timing for a "computer for the masses" was around the mid 90's, ten years after the Mac debuted.
Damn, that gives Microsoft a lot of credit. It also ignores Windows before 95. Microsoft wasn't committing one way or the other - if Windows hadn't taken off, they still had DOS. Also, don't forget what the internet did for home computing.
As for the Newton, they missed on physical size and price. It was actually too complex, a rare mistake for apple. And graffiti is much better than straight handwriting recognition.
This great news for those windows users out there. It will be surely provide much needed apps for this upstart operating system. Now, whenever someone says, "Windows? But what can I do with it?" you can point out that they can run their favorite unix apps.
actually, gsm phones are now being supported in the US. i'm not sure if you could bring your phone from there (outside the US) to here (in the US) but I know my gsm phone works there.
also, i believe the US does have one thing right - if you're on a cell phone, you should pay for airtime. yes, it may be nice for you not to worry about minutes on incoming calls, but then the cost is simply put on the caller. who wants to worry about the cost of calling someone on a cell phone? it was a problem at a company i worked for in the UK - we avoided calling mobiles because we didn't want to pay by the minute.
Then, the day after I decided to cancel it, we were broken into and they stole it off the table. Reporting it stolen actually saved me the cancellation charge (~$50), and I figure whoever ended up with the hot item is getting payback by paying the high fees.
Hm.....maybe thats how I can get out of my cell phone contract...
along with your energy savings (by switching to fluroescents) comes ugly green light and occasionally that annoying flicker. i attribute these features to adding to that "sick from being inside" feeling that you get in certain places.
i'm a photographer so i'm a bit of a light quality snob and prefer halogens. (mmm....white light!) but daylight LEDs sound great.
They also interviewed a bunch of little kids who were all very uninterested in Legos. What a shame...
I know first hand that thats not entirely true. On christmas I "played lego" with a young cousin of mine. We put together a basketball court where the lego people stood on a spring platform so you could bend them back, let go, and pray the ball goes into the hoop. While I first saw this as another example of specialized bricks and commericalization of a creative toy, it soon became fun to give people more than one head.
There will always be room in the marketplace for toys that allow children to make creatures with more than one head.
How far are you biking? Actually, I'm interested in the usage pattern of your blinkin' lights.
NiMH are currently the most purchased rechargeable. People tend to use them on digital cameras and portable CD players - high discharge devices. They can last as long as alkalines, be recharged hundreds (thousands?) of times, and charge in a 2-3 hours. However, they may be a poor choice for you. They lose charge quickly when not in use.
NiCADs only advantage over NiMH is that they don't lose charge as quickly when not in use. They tend to be weaker and after successive recharges tend to lose capacity. I can't think of a reason to use these anymore.
In summary, infrequently used items are still best off with good ol' alkalines. For most slashdot readers that would include blinkin' lights on a bike - but you may be the exception were NiMH would work as a replacement.
Also, it should be noted that most alkalines today do not contain the mercury content previous generations had. I may be glossing over details, but I'm assuming that the three battery types have the same toxicity levels.
This is an area Unix-like environments (including MacOS) need to really improve in.
Actually, I'd like to make the argument that Mac OS X has a perfectly good scripting environment for its GUI apps - AppleScript.
Yes, apps do need to support AppleScript on an individual basis. All AppleScript apps can speak between each other. And with Apple's recent addition of the AppleScript Studio, the script itself can have a GUI interface as well.
The thing that is difficult about adding a scripting language to a GUI is that your interface changes quite a bit. Components of the app need to be accessible as objects whereas most command line scripting passes around text.
For anyone who wants to complain about the AppleScript language itself, its features can be accessed from your favorite scripting language - I believe python and perl are already available.
In many other forums, this would be considered plagiarism or trolling. However, you have gone the extra mile to:
1) Not change a damn word.
2) Not give credit to the original author.
Through these actions you've conclusively proven that you can increase your karma while barely raising an eyebrow.
Mr. Gay Nigger, I commend you! You a exemplary slashdotter in true form!
Version 7.7.1 runs on the 68k MacPlus with System 6 all the way up to the new G5s running Mac OS 10.2.
By my count, that spans 8 generations of processors.
Okay, that might not impress you command line folk, but thats quite a life for a GUI app.
Re:I prefer the wooden mirror.
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721 Broadway
I lived in that building for three years studying photography just a couple of floors up. Once for a class we took a peak at the projects on that floor. Overall, its hard to tell whether the robots or grad students are winning.
During the dot com boom, studying there was seen as a way to catapult yourself into a higher tax bracket. I doubt thats true anymore.
Sense of being in a room with it.
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This just isn't something that is communicated well over the web.
Over time, it tends to serve a function more like having a small waterfall in the room - it adds a sense of life.
At first when people see it, they do the usual thing of walking up to it and moving back and forth in front of it. (Dance! Dance!) The entertainment value in this is quite small and wears off quickly.
Yet when people stop looking at it and live with it there is still the background noise and movement which serves to soften the environment and make it feel more alive. I find this to be the most satisfying part of the piece.
apparently you've never seen an imac for sale in the area of $300. it happens quite frequently and they run OS X just fine. oh, and if the GUI makes your blood boil, reuse the machine as a linux box
particularly if you haven't yet displayed the blood spotted sheets to the neighbors
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Isn't that the way we want it to work?
"Today NASA received transmissions from what appears to be intelligent lifeforms! Scientists are working around the clock to decode their communications which appear to be mostly grunts and whistles."
....two weeks later...
"Sorry, it was a hip hop video transmission that bounced off the moon and back to earth."
RealBasic may come out with a Linux development environment later. For a while, you had to develop on mac but could compile for windows. If many rb developers take advantage of rb linux then maybe they'll port the IDE as well.
Slashdot Mirror
maybe its a pickup attempt...
Yes, you can insert the network card by yourself, but its better if we help
The Article Link
Mirror attempts:
http://www.danamania.com/starwarscar/
http://dephine.zapto.org/Slashdot/
http://www.jeffwilhelm.com/files/images/swcar/
http://cs.baylor.edu/~wilsonj/xwing.html
Would anyone else like to try? Of course, its probably too late, as all mirrors have been slashdotted...
Microsoft knew that the timing for a "computer for the masses" was around the mid 90's, ten years after the Mac debuted.
Damn, that gives Microsoft a lot of credit. It also ignores Windows before 95. Microsoft wasn't committing one way or the other - if Windows hadn't taken off, they still had DOS. Also, don't forget what the internet did for home computing.
As for the Newton, they missed on physical size and price. It was actually too complex, a rare mistake for apple. And graffiti is much better than straight handwriting recognition.
This great news for those windows users out there. It will be surely provide much needed apps for this upstart operating system. Now, whenever someone says, "Windows? But what can I do with it?" you can point out that they can run their favorite unix apps.
actually, gsm phones are now being supported in the US. i'm not sure if you could bring your phone from there (outside the US) to here (in the US) but I know my gsm phone works there.
also, i believe the US does have one thing right - if you're on a cell phone, you should pay for airtime. yes, it may be nice for you not to worry about minutes on incoming calls, but then the cost is simply put on the caller. who wants to worry about the cost of calling someone on a cell phone? it was a problem at a company i worked for in the UK - we avoided calling mobiles because we didn't want to pay by the minute.
Then, the day after I decided to cancel it, we were broken into and they stole it off the table. Reporting it stolen actually saved me the cancellation charge (~$50), and I figure whoever ended up with the hot item is getting payback by paying the high fees.
Hm.....maybe thats how I can get out of my cell phone contract...
along with your energy savings (by switching to fluroescents) comes ugly green light and occasionally that annoying flicker. i attribute these features to adding to that "sick from being inside" feeling that you get in certain places.
i'm a photographer so i'm a bit of a light quality snob and prefer halogens. (mmm....white light!) but daylight LEDs sound great.
They also interviewed a bunch of little kids who were all very uninterested in Legos. What a shame...
I know first hand that thats not entirely true. On christmas I "played lego" with a young cousin of mine. We put together a basketball court where the lego people stood on a spring platform so you could bend them back, let go, and pray the ball goes into the hoop. While I first saw this as another example of specialized bricks and commericalization of a creative toy, it soon became fun to give people more than one head.
There will always be room in the marketplace for toys that allow children to make creatures with more than one head.
I believe the success of this mission means that no one working on it reads slashdot.
How far are you biking? Actually, I'm interested in the usage pattern of your blinkin' lights.
NiMH are currently the most purchased rechargeable. People tend to use them on digital cameras and portable CD players - high discharge devices. They can last as long as alkalines, be recharged hundreds (thousands?) of times, and charge in a 2-3 hours. However, they may be a poor choice for you. They lose charge quickly when not in use.
NiCADs only advantage over NiMH is that they don't lose charge as quickly when not in use. They tend to be weaker and after successive recharges tend to lose capacity. I can't think of a reason to use these anymore.
In summary, infrequently used items are still best off with good ol' alkalines. For most slashdot readers that would include blinkin' lights on a bike - but you may be the exception were NiMH would work as a replacement.
Also, it should be noted that most alkalines today do not contain the mercury content previous generations had. I may be glossing over details, but I'm assuming that the three battery types have the same toxicity levels.
This is an area Unix-like environments (including MacOS) need to really improve in.
Actually, I'd like to make the argument that Mac OS X has a perfectly good scripting environment for its GUI apps - AppleScript.
Yes, apps do need to support AppleScript on an individual basis. All AppleScript apps can speak between each other. And with Apple's recent addition of the AppleScript Studio, the script itself can have a GUI interface as well.
The thing that is difficult about adding a scripting language to a GUI is that your interface changes quite a bit. Components of the app need to be accessible as objects whereas most command line scripting passes around text.
For anyone who wants to complain about the AppleScript language itself, its features can be accessed from your favorite scripting language - I believe python and perl are already available.
Thank you, Mr. Gay Nigger, for showing us the benefits of Open Source ideals applied beyond software.
Not two days ago this same statement was posted by another slashdotter.
In many other forums, this would be considered plagiarism or trolling. However, you have gone the extra mile to:
1) Not change a damn word.
2) Not give credit to the original author.
Through these actions you've conclusively proven that you can increase your karma while barely raising an eyebrow.
Mr. Gay Nigger, I commend you! You a exemplary slashdotter in true form!
its a good thing buttons, images, and text are all getting larger. i've been far too satisfied with my 19" display.
finally, and end to the tyranny of productive screen usage!
any efforts to bring her back?
Do Mac games get any more classic than Klondike?
Version 7.7.1 runs on the 68k MacPlus with System 6 all the way up to the new G5s running Mac OS 10.2.
By my count, that spans 8 generations of processors.
Okay, that might not impress you command line folk, but thats quite a life for a GUI app.
721 Broadway
I lived in that building for three years studying photography just a couple of floors up. Once for a class we took a peak at the projects on that floor. Overall, its hard to tell whether the robots or grad students are winning.
During the dot com boom, studying there was seen as a way to catapult yourself into a higher tax bracket. I doubt thats true anymore.
This just isn't something that is communicated well over the web.
Over time, it tends to serve a function more like having a small waterfall in the room - it adds a sense of life.
At first when people see it, they do the usual thing of walking up to it and moving back and forth in front of it. (Dance! Dance!) The entertainment value in this is quite small and wears off quickly.
Yet when people stop looking at it and live with it there is still the background noise and movement which serves to soften the environment and make it feel more alive. I find this to be the most satisfying part of the piece.
apparently you've never seen an imac for sale in the area of $300. it happens quite frequently and they run OS X just fine. oh, and if the GUI makes your blood boil, reuse the machine as a linux box
What not true about this? Stay away from people and no one can mug you.
and where is the website and the pics?
particularly if you haven't yet displayed the blood spotted sheets to the neighbors
Isn't that the way we want it to work? "Today NASA received transmissions from what appears to be intelligent lifeforms! Scientists are working around the clock to decode their communications which appear to be mostly grunts and whistles."
....two weeks later...
"Sorry, it was a hip hop video transmission that bounced off the moon and back to earth."
apparently you've never taken a look at webobjects
What is linux? What is Open Source?
Can I run it on Windows?
RealBasic may come out with a Linux development environment later. For a while, you had to develop on mac but could compile for windows. If many rb developers take advantage of rb linux then maybe they'll port the IDE as well.