> The trash belongs on the desktop in the lower right. NO, NO, NO!!! God NO!
One of the few things I hate about using my mac (besides the crashing/reinstalling all the time:-) is that when I go to throw something away the trash can is nearly always hidden by a window I've got open.
I've got a Virtual Desktop Manager for my NeXT box. It's called Virtspace, and it runs on NeXTStep 3.3 and OpenSTEP 4.2. It was written by Garrick Toubassi and David Koski and distributed by NYRO Technic, Inc.
From the Apple Developer docs I've read on the web, it doesn't seem like they've changed the windowserver client/server architecture that much, and so it's probably still possible to write one.
The doctrine of Fair Use can be applied to the presence of copyrighted material here on Slashdot:
From http://fairuse.stanford.edu/rice.html
I. Fair Use for Teaching and Research
The "fair use" doctrine allows limited reproduction of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes. The relevant portion of the copyright statue provides that the "fair use" of a copyrighted work, including reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" is not an infringement of copyright. The law lists the following factors as the ones to be evaluated in determining whether a particular use of a copyrighted work is a permitted "fair use," rather than an infringement of the copyright:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole, and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Although all of these factors will be considered, the last factor is the most important in determining whether a particular use is "fair." Where a work is available for purchase or license from the copyright owner in the medium or format desired, copying of all or a significant portion of the work in lieu of purchasing or licensing a sufficient number of "authorized" copies would be presumptively unfair. Where only a small portion of a work is to be copied and the work would not be used if purchase or licensing of a sufficient number of authorized copies were required, the intended use is more likely to be found to be fair.
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Since Microsoft is giving the information away for free on the internet to anyone (including those who due to their age are unable to enter into a binding contract) it's obvious that the presence on Slashdot isn't affecting their ability to make money off the material.
I was involved heavily in the NeXT community when Be announced what they were doing with the new proprietary hardware and OS, and we all looked at each other and said, "Didn't they learn anything from NeXT?" Be hardware was doomed from the beginning, and BeOS-Intel was never going to take off. I guess this comment isn't really going anywhere, but it's not like this is a surprise...
Actually, if you check Apple's download page, it says that you should install the software if you've got an iBook running 8.6. That's because they included the MacOS-9 version (or at least a succeptable version) of OT (2.5.2, I think) on the iBook and some later iMacs that didn't get MacOS-9
My wife's iBook has the problem, though it's hidden behind NAT, so it's not an issue.
To say that instability isn't a problem on a desktop system is to ignore the countless hours lost and the incredible frustration that people feel when Word (or the OS) crashes "just before I was about to save" I'll take minimal usable functionality with stability (ie. vi+TeX:-) over Word's bells and whistles any day!
Yep and TV is a right, not a privlidge. No progress should be attempted except that which can be _given_ to all residents of planet earth by the people who are actually willing to work to make things better.
My main machine at home is a NeXTCube with 2 heads, 1120x832 each. One mono, one color. Surprising how useful it is having a second monitor, even with a bunch of bezel in between. The mono monitor is also much crisper for small text than the color, so it's what I use for code. I think in the future, a 4 processor G4 with 2 Cinema displays would be on my wishlist!
The DV format is about 3.6 MB/sec including sound. My 233MHz Beige G3 does fine _editing_ that, and can supply the data to the camcorder for playback no problem. What it can't do is decompression in software in real-time and pump the uncompressed frames (~25MB/sec) to the screen. I capture video from my Sony DCR-TRV9 over firewire to a cheap maxtor IDE 17.2 GB drive, never losing a frame.
Actually, I think he liked the iMac. He was just pointing out that if Apple 'listened to the customer', they'd be making beige PCs running Windoze. No one knew they wanted a fruity, floppy-less, with a kinda-small screen, but really fast processor and cool industrial design box.
I don't think that it's an issue with porting the _OS_ to intel, I think it's two things: primarily a business issue -- Steve wants to make 'insanely great' stuff, but needs money to do it, so Apple has to protect it's core business which is selling boxes; secondarily it's a _driver_ & customer issue -- Apple doesn't have the resources to write drivers for every random piece of Intel hardware, and aren't big enough to make it worth the hardware manufacturer's time/money. If the drivers aren't there, or aren't stable, the customers aren't happy, call Apple and complain, and the press (who loves Apple bashing) picks up on it and says 'Don't buy Apple stuff, it sucks! (because it won't run correctly on my 4 year old packard bell')
Seems to me that if MicroSoft makes the protocol public, that makes it easier for crackers to hack the server. After all, for MicroSoft or AOL to make money on the Instant Messaging market, they have to control the servers and force feed advertisements to users. With the protocol public, clients which reject the adverts can be written which use MicroSoft's server (costing them money), or a public non-advert server can be put up which is compatible with all the MicroSoft clients.
Yeah, I read Mackido for awhile, and he had some good points, but he misses too much in the details...
As for getting the Windows crowd to hop to PPC, you've got to get them off Windows, onto a portable, multiplatform (hardware) system like Linux before you'll ever get them off x86. That's because to be competitive with x86 using emulation, you'd have to be ~10x faster (native), and with Intel's $$$$'s, you'll never be _that_ much faster.
Which PC? Not the 486's I had to deal with at my last job. Maybe the Gateway Solo Notebook I've got now, but they didn't supply an emergency boot CD, they supplied an emergency boot floppy, which of course doesn't provide a Windoze environment, like my Mac boot CD does.
yeah, I was thinking that $300 was a good deal for a 56K modem, and a router that will do NAT, even without considering that I may want to get a wireless setup later on. See, my NeXT box doesn't do NAT, my Macs aren't stable enough to be my network access point, and PCs are way too ugly for me to buy one just for a router. I did consider a QUBE-2, but $1000 is too much since I don't need to server aspect of it.
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> The trash belongs on the desktop in the lower right.
:-) is that when I go to throw something away the trash can is nearly always hidden by a window I've got open.
NO, NO, NO!!!
God NO!
One of the few things I hate about using my mac (besides the crashing/reinstalling all the time
I've got a Virtual Desktop Manager for my NeXT box. It's called Virtspace, and it runs on NeXTStep 3.3 and OpenSTEP 4.2. It was written by Garrick Toubassi and David Koski and distributed by NYRO Technic, Inc.
From the Apple Developer docs I've read on the web, it doesn't seem like they've changed the windowserver client/server architecture that much, and so it's probably still possible to write one.
The doctrine of Fair Use can be applied to the presence of copyrighted material here on Slashdot:
From http://fairuse.stanford.edu/rice.html
I. Fair Use for Teaching and Research
The "fair use" doctrine allows limited reproduction of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes. The relevant portion of
the copyright statue provides that the "fair use" of a copyrighted work, including reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, news
reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" is not an infringement of copyright. The law lists
the following factors as the ones to be evaluated in determining whether a particular use of a copyrighted work is a permitted "fair use,"
rather than an infringement of the copyright:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational
purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole, and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Although all of these factors will be considered, the last factor is the most important in determining whether a particular use is "fair." Where
a work is available for purchase or license from the copyright owner in the medium or format desired, copying of all or a significant portion
of the work in lieu of purchasing or licensing a sufficient number of "authorized" copies would be presumptively unfair. Where only a small
portion of a work is to be copied and the work would not be used if purchase or licensing of a sufficient number of authorized copies
were required, the intended use is more likely to be found to be fair.
-- End Quote --
Since Microsoft is giving the information away for free on the internet to anyone (including those who due to their age are unable to enter into a binding contract) it's obvious that the presence on Slashdot isn't affecting their ability to make money off the material.
I was involved heavily in the NeXT community when Be announced what they were doing with the new proprietary hardware and OS, and we all looked at each other and said, "Didn't they learn anything from NeXT?"
Be hardware was doomed from the beginning, and BeOS-Intel was never going to take off.
I guess this comment isn't really going anywhere, but it's not like this is a surprise...
Actually, if you check Apple's download page, it says that you should install the software if you've got an iBook running 8.6. That's because they included the MacOS-9 version (or at least a succeptable version) of OT (2.5.2, I think) on the iBook and some later iMacs that didn't get MacOS-9
My wife's iBook has the problem, though it's hidden behind NAT, so it's not an issue.
To say that instability isn't a problem on a desktop system is to ignore the countless hours lost and the incredible frustration that people feel when Word (or the OS) crashes "just before I was about to save"
I'll take minimal usable functionality with stability (ie. vi+TeX
Yep and TV is a right, not a privlidge. No progress should be attempted except that which can be _given_ to all residents of planet earth by the people who are actually willing to work to make things better.
My main machine at home is a NeXTCube with 2 heads, 1120x832 each. One mono, one color. Surprising how useful it is having a second monitor, even with a bunch of bezel in between. The mono monitor is also much crisper for small text than the color, so it's what I use for code. I think in the future, a 4 processor G4 with 2 Cinema displays would be on my wishlist!
The DV format is about 3.6 MB/sec including sound. My 233MHz Beige G3 does fine _editing_ that, and can supply the data to the camcorder for playback no problem. What it can't do is decompression in software in real-time and pump the uncompressed frames (~25MB/sec) to the screen. I capture video from my Sony DCR-TRV9 over firewire to a cheap maxtor IDE 17.2 GB drive, never losing a frame.
Actually, I think he liked the iMac. He was just pointing out that if Apple 'listened to the customer', they'd be making beige PCs running Windoze. No one knew they wanted a fruity, floppy-less, with a kinda-small screen, but really fast processor and cool industrial design box.
:-)
I don't think that it's an issue with porting the _OS_ to intel, I think it's two things: primarily a business issue -- Steve wants to make 'insanely great' stuff, but needs money to do it, so Apple has to protect it's core business which is selling boxes; secondarily it's a _driver_ & customer issue -- Apple doesn't have the resources to write drivers for every random piece of Intel hardware, and aren't big enough to make it worth the hardware manufacturer's time/money. If the drivers aren't there, or aren't stable, the customers aren't happy, call Apple and complain, and the press (who loves Apple bashing) picks up on it and says 'Don't buy Apple stuff, it sucks! (because it won't run correctly on my 4 year old packard bell')
Seems to me that if MicroSoft makes the protocol public, that makes it easier for crackers to hack the server. After all, for MicroSoft or AOL to make money on the Instant Messaging market, they have to control the servers and force feed advertisements to users. With the protocol public, clients which reject the adverts can be written which use MicroSoft's server (costing them money), or a public non-advert server can be put up which is compatible with all the MicroSoft clients.
Yeah, I read Mackido for awhile, and he had some good points, but he misses too much in the details...
As for getting the Windows crowd to hop to PPC, you've got to get them off Windows, onto a portable, multiplatform (hardware) system like Linux before you'll ever get them off x86. That's because to be competitive with x86 using emulation, you'd have to be ~10x faster (native), and with Intel's $$$$'s, you'll never be _that_ much faster.
Which PC? Not the 486's I had to deal with at my last job. Maybe the Gateway Solo Notebook I've got now, but they didn't supply an emergency boot CD, they supplied an emergency boot floppy, which of course doesn't provide a Windoze environment, like my Mac boot CD does.
Robert
yeah, I was thinking that $300 was a good deal for a 56K modem, and a router that will do NAT, even without considering that I may want to get a wireless setup later on. See, my NeXT box doesn't do NAT, my Macs aren't stable enough to be my network access point, and PCs are way too ugly for me to buy one just for a router. I did consider a QUBE-2, but $1000 is too much since I don't need to server aspect of it.
UPSs are just supposed to keep you up and running until your 'tested weekly' backup generator is online. :-)