What it also did was weaken support for the war, embolden the insurgency, and diminished America's standing in the world.
Weakening support for the war actually helps America. In time, that weakening support (if it results in withdrawal) will help boost America's standing in the world. I mean, America's standing couldn't really get any lower than it already was. Dealing with Abu Ghraib publicly at the time may have caused some short-term loss of standing. But keeping it secret would be even worse. Because it would not remain secret forever. Imagine if it were kept secret, then later America withdraws and world opinion of the US recovers to a more normal level. Then it comes out that there were these horrible atrocities that were covered up during the war. That would ruin America's reputation at a time when it was recovering. Best just to deal with the shit. You get a lot more respect for openly dealing with your problems than trying to pretend they don't exist.
No, because this Evergreen system looks to be a high-quality system - and so much commercial software in the field sucks ass. I believe that's what the GP was talking about with the "undeniable improvement." A monkey with a typewriter and a compiler could do a better job of writing the software than many of the library systems in the market. We aren't talking about personal financial software, that's an entirely different market. But you seem to have deliberately missed the part in the GP post where he said he was specifically talking about niche markets that are served by expensive crapware.
This process took MONTHS and the work of several librarians and the expensive data-entry company.
This seems irrelevant, as most libraries already use computerized systems. So, we're not talking about conversion from a card catalog. The data would already be in a database, and that could be converted pretty easily. It's a much simpler process to change software than to move from card to computers.
This sounds like a really fantastic, useful adoption of Open Source. Has anything else this useful in the real world been done with Open Source apart from, say, Apache?
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Not to nitpick the nitpick, but the Power Mac was originally names as such because of the PowerPC chip.
I don't think so. After all, there were Performas made soon after the Powermac, that used the PPC chip. Not that anybody actually bought PPC Performas, but they existed. I think the name was a rather nice coincidence, but was mostly intended to maintain the lineage that started with the Powerbook. When the original Powerbook was released, mobile computing was considered to be a very advanced thing - for "power" users. I believe the intention was to refer to a powerful computer - not the architecture of the processor. After all, no previous Mac used the processor as part of the naming scheme. Quadras did not use "quadra" processors, for example.
I think that lack of correlation between name of the machine, and name of the processor (eg Performa, iMac) shows that this was not a major factor in the naming. Although there might be some argument that the name actually changed. The first PPC machines were called "Power Macintosh" and quite clearly labeled. They were also widely called "Power PC." Later (I can't remember when) they started being referred to as "Powermac" to match the "Powerbook" moniker - and lost the "Power Macintosh" badge on the machines - as Apple moved away from "Macintosh" towards simply "Mac" and later moved towards simply "Apple" rather than "Apple Computer."
No, the best analogy would be a smaller sports enthusiast's site linking directly to footage of streaming sports events from a large commercial sports site's servers.
They have, but the problem with this generation of timelords is that they either want to take us back to the 1950s, take us back to biblical times, or bomb us back into the Stone Age.
there was a watch repair booth at the grocery store and an old man (as I remember him) sat there all day with his loupe repairing watches. My mom would drop me at his booth
So, as a child, you were a watch? Interesting. How did you make the transition to becoming human? You could be a valuable case study for evolution.
This seems inaccurate. Many upper-class men are into wearing fishnet stockings and high heels.
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Power mac's are all powerpc machines - hence the "power" in their name.
To pick nits, Powermacs are not named because of PowerPC. Just like Powerbooks are not named because of PPC (there were Powerbooks long before the PPC chip). They are so named because they are "power user" machines. iMacs also had PowerPC chips in them, but were not called "iPowerMacs." Xserves had PPC chips in them, but were not name Xpowerservers.
I'm a blender. I blend hockey pucks, that's all I'm programmed to do.
Were you any good?
Are you kidding? I was a star. I could blend a hockey puck at any speed. 30,000 RPM, 32,000 RPM, you name it. 31... But I couldn't go on living once I found out what the mulch was for.
In the future, we will all have a giant physical copy of the letters G-o-o-g-l-e in our living rooms. They can be reconfigured for any purpose - as furniture, TV, games, sex toys, telephones, hula hoops, etc. That's what all those shipping containers are for.
Whether MacHeist got 85% or 75% doesn't change Gruber's point.
It doesn't change his point, but it does make him wrong. And his "point" is just an opinion. Many creators take deals that are much worse than 15% from their agent or manager. And Macheist is neither an agent or manager, so I'm not sure what the relevance of his point is, anyway.
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WTF are you talking about? The content was sadomasochistic. That's not the fault of the media. What was the problem with the reporting of it?
I've always wanted to share knock-knock jokes in Morse code. This may be the perfect opportunity.
So, no need to take any action. Check.
If you're going to make a solar powered bicycle, why not just make it normal sized?
That's not the source, that's the compiled article. The source would be research notes, drafts, etc.
Weakening support for the war actually helps America. In time, that weakening support (if it results in withdrawal) will help boost America's standing in the world. I mean, America's standing couldn't really get any lower than it already was. Dealing with Abu Ghraib publicly at the time may have caused some short-term loss of standing. But keeping it secret would be even worse. Because it would not remain secret forever. Imagine if it were kept secret, then later America withdraws and world opinion of the US recovers to a more normal level. Then it comes out that there were these horrible atrocities that were covered up during the war. That would ruin America's reputation at a time when it was recovering. Best just to deal with the shit. You get a lot more respect for openly dealing with your problems than trying to pretend they don't exist.
I thought he was the guy from Cheers. You live and learn.
Don't worry, Mr. Bookman is on the case.
No, because this Evergreen system looks to be a high-quality system - and so much commercial software in the field sucks ass. I believe that's what the GP was talking about with the "undeniable improvement." A monkey with a typewriter and a compiler could do a better job of writing the software than many of the library systems in the market. We aren't talking about personal financial software, that's an entirely different market. But you seem to have deliberately missed the part in the GP post where he said he was specifically talking about niche markets that are served by expensive crapware.
This seems irrelevant, as most libraries already use computerized systems. So, we're not talking about conversion from a card catalog. The data would already be in a database, and that could be converted pretty easily. It's a much simpler process to change software than to move from card to computers.
Fifty bucks? That's a rather pitiful settlement.
Library is a science? I thought it was more of an art.
This sounds like a really fantastic, useful adoption of Open Source. Has anything else this useful in the real world been done with Open Source apart from, say, Apache?
Don't blow a seal.
I don't think so. After all, there were Performas made soon after the Powermac, that used the PPC chip. Not that anybody actually bought PPC Performas, but they existed. I think the name was a rather nice coincidence, but was mostly intended to maintain the lineage that started with the Powerbook. When the original Powerbook was released, mobile computing was considered to be a very advanced thing - for "power" users. I believe the intention was to refer to a powerful computer - not the architecture of the processor. After all, no previous Mac used the processor as part of the naming scheme. Quadras did not use "quadra" processors, for example.
I think that lack of correlation between name of the machine, and name of the processor (eg Performa, iMac) shows that this was not a major factor in the naming. Although there might be some argument that the name actually changed. The first PPC machines were called "Power Macintosh" and quite clearly labeled. They were also widely called "Power PC." Later (I can't remember when) they started being referred to as "Powermac" to match the "Powerbook" moniker - and lost the "Power Macintosh" badge on the machines - as Apple moved away from "Macintosh" towards simply "Mac" and later moved towards simply "Apple" rather than "Apple Computer."
No, the best analogy would be a smaller sports enthusiast's site linking directly to footage of streaming sports events from a large commercial sports site's servers.
They have, but the problem with this generation of timelords is that they either want to take us back to the 1950s, take us back to biblical times, or bomb us back into the Stone Age.
So, as a child, you were a watch? Interesting. How did you make the transition to becoming human? You could be a valuable case study for evolution.
This seems inaccurate. Many upper-class men are into wearing fishnet stockings and high heels.
To pick nits, Powermacs are not named because of PowerPC. Just like Powerbooks are not named because of PPC (there were Powerbooks long before the PPC chip). They are so named because they are "power user" machines. iMacs also had PowerPC chips in them, but were not called "iPowerMacs." Xserves had PPC chips in them, but were not name Xpowerservers.
There is if companies stop advertising, because they feel the ads are ineffective because people aren't looking at them.
Yes it is!
Are you kidding? I was a star. I could blend a hockey puck at any speed. 30,000 RPM, 32,000 RPM, you name it. 31... But I couldn't go on living once I found out what the mulch was for.
What for?Kitty litter.
In the future, we will all have a giant physical copy of the letters G-o-o-g-l-e in our living rooms. They can be reconfigured for any purpose - as furniture, TV, games, sex toys, telephones, hula hoops, etc. That's what all those shipping containers are for.
It doesn't change his point, but it does make him wrong. And his "point" is just an opinion. Many creators take deals that are much worse than 15% from their agent or manager. And Macheist is neither an agent or manager, so I'm not sure what the relevance of his point is, anyway.