In this context, it is important to distinguish between the "State" and the "Government." If you were arrested for drunk driving by an ordinary policeman, you would hardly say that the Government was arresting you.
The government *as such* is not censoring anything here. Kaupthing Bank is. While Kaupthing is now owned by the state, it is not controlled directly by politicians.
Kaupthing wasn't state-controlled at the time these transfers were made. And the figures are genuine. In 2004, I remember reading Kaupthing owned assets worth 4300 billion ISK (about 60 billion USD at the exchange rate then).
*Leifr EirÃksson* was born in Iceland to an "Icelandic" mother, ÃzjÃÃhildr. His father, EÃrikr inn rauÃi (Erik the Red), was a Norwegian outlaw.
Still, it's ridiculously anachronistic to apply modern-day nationalities to the 9th century. If asked, my guess would be that Leifr would have called himself a Norseman.
In an infinitely long thread, you are absolutely certain to have at least one mention of every single concept, object, philosophy and idea ever known to humanity
This would only work on the assumption that the conversation is random, i.e . that the words used therein are random. It could be, and is infinitely more likely, that the discussion follows a certain set of rules which just makes people use a narrow subsection of English vocabulary.
If you took, say, some fundamentalist Christian moron and conversed him until eternity, it is far from clear that he would at any stage utter the words "God is dead."
The doctrine of celibacy originated due to the problem of inheritance. In the patriarchical, family-based societies of late antiquity and the Dark Ages, titles and wealth typically followed the law of primogeniture. In the Germanic barbarian societies who adopted Christianity, the title of priest (along with the privileges, power and wealth of the tithe) would typically pass from father to son and thus become a hereditary institution. This undermined the control of the central Church in Rome, and thus obligatory celibacy for priests was introduced as a rule to ensure that the distribution of offices of the Church remained in its own hands, rather than becoming bound to particular families. As with so many of the doctrines of Rome, it was based on maintaining centralised control.
The word metaphysics is derived from a medieval compilation of the works of the philosopher Aristotle. The compiler wasn't sure what to call the philosophical books he placed after Aristotle's Physics, so he called them the Metaphysics. In these books, Aristotle discusses the nature of reality and the patterns and structures governing it. Discussing metaphysical questions does not imply that you're dealing with invisible extra-spatial and extra-temporal forces, as you imply.
Just because an application links to a given framework, it doesn't mean that the application uses it all that much.
As a Mac developer, I often need just 1 or 2 Carbon functions that aren't available in Cocoa, and thus link to Carbon, even though an overwhelming majority of my application's code is Objective C Cocoa.
The examples you cite are the worst of the lot, esp. the Finder and QuickTime. The Safari GUI shell is written in Cocoa, WebKit is written in C++. Mail is largely a Cocoa app.
While it is true that the message-passing kind of development of Objective C is much less liable to buffer overruns etc., and is thus in a sense "safer", this is not the reason why Mac OS X is a more secure operating system.
Capitalism is not a political system. It's an economic system.
It's perfectly possible to have a despotic government with a capitalist economy (e.g. Chile) or a democratic government with a largely socialist economy (e.g. Sweden or France).
I can understand what you mean by the integration with the GUI, having tried it out myself. And it's true that virtual desktops can be a big disconcerting.
However, I don't agree with you that the OS X GUI is "advanced". The graphical effects get extremely tired after a while. I now keep them turned off, even going so far as to mess with GUI settings using TinkerTool, just to get rid of the damned stuff.
I recently bought a new 1.3Ghz PowerBook, in hope that this might improve my user experience with Mac OS X, but I still find the GUI ridiculously slow, even with all effects off. I still love OS X, but dammit, I have yet to try a Mac with acceptable GUI speed apart from those speedy G5s. Scrolling web pages is faster on my old 500 Mhz laptop in OS 9 than on a brand spanking new 1.3Ghz G4 with OS X. That's just ridiculous regress.
My biggest beef with the OS X UI, though, is not the performance. I'm usually not in much of a hurry;). The biggest problem is the OS X Finder, which is, to put it bluntly, a piece of shit. Not only is it slow and cumbersome, and very badly designed (is it a browser? is it spatial? is it aqua? is it metal? Why can't it remember window positions?), but it tends to crash once in a while when it bumps into corrupt file meta-data or has issues with networked volumes. It could also do with consideraly better threading -- I hate that damn Spinning Beachball of Death.
I believe one of the reasons Apple is coming up with this Spotlight thing is in order to enable users to circumvent the piece of shit Finder.
What I don't understand is why everybody gets so excited about this whole Dashboard thing?
Roughly the same thing can be accomplised with a combination of regular good ol' Mac OS X applications and multiple desktops. Just pile your calculator, IMDB searcher, digits converter and whatnot on to one of your virtual desktops, set a shortcut key for it in DesktopManager.
Voila, you have just replicated the functionality of Dashboard, minus the blatant overhead of all those processor-hogging graphical effects.
It seems to me that Dashboard is definintely one of the least interesting new features in Tiger.
I have experienced this as well. The solution is simple. If your powerbook displays a black screen when it comes alive from sleep, just close the lid. The computer will go back to sleep. Then open it again, and voila, problem fixed.
Along with improvements to the GUI, Xcode 2.0 will ship with GCC 4.0 which features a new C++ Parser and several code generation improvements including auto-vectorization. While hand-tuning Velocity Engine code can get you the maximum performance from the G4 and G5 processors, now you can have GCC do the heavy lifting for you. You'll benefit from this without any extra effort, with auto-vectorization in GCC bringing anywhere between a 4X and 14X performance improvement to code that works with arrays of data.
AltiVec support without having to write any optimized code...sounds like a winner to me.
In my experience the price of Macs depreciates far less with time than your standard x86 boxen.
First of all, buying a new Mac is generally expensive.
Secondly, Apple's computers are generally made with solid, high-quality components and last a long time.
I just sold a single-processor G4/450Mhz Sawtooth for $400 the other day: that's a 4 year old machine that cost about $2000 new, yet can still be sold at %20 of original price.
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In this context, it is important to distinguish between the "State" and the "Government." If you were arrested for drunk driving by an ordinary policeman, you would hardly say that the Government was arresting you.
The government *as such* is not censoring anything here. Kaupthing Bank is. While Kaupthing is now owned by the state, it is not controlled directly by politicians.
Kaupthing wasn't state-controlled at the time these transfers were made. And the figures are genuine. In 2004, I remember reading Kaupthing owned assets worth 4300 billion ISK (about 60 billion USD at the exchange rate then).
Icelandic courts don't use the jury system.
*Leifr EirÃksson* was born in Iceland to an "Icelandic" mother, ÃzjÃÃhildr. His father, EÃrikr inn rauÃi (Erik the Red), was a Norwegian outlaw.
Still, it's ridiculously anachronistic to apply modern-day nationalities to the 9th century. If asked, my guess would be that Leifr would have called himself a Norseman.
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50-100k?
Lucida Grande comes in at a whopping 1.1MB
I am rubber, you are glue.
In an infinitely long thread, you are absolutely certain to have at least one mention of every single concept, object, philosophy and idea ever known to humanity
This would only work on the assumption that the conversation is random, i.e . that the words used therein are random. It could be, and is infinitely more likely, that the discussion follows a certain set of rules which just makes people use a narrow subsection of English vocabulary.
If you took, say, some fundamentalist Christian moron and conversed him until eternity, it is far from clear that he would at any stage utter the words "God is dead."
The doctrine of celibacy originated due to the problem of inheritance. In the patriarchical, family-based societies of late antiquity and the Dark Ages, titles and wealth typically followed the law of primogeniture. In the Germanic barbarian societies who adopted Christianity, the title of priest (along with the privileges, power and wealth of the tithe) would typically pass from father to son and thus become a hereditary institution. This undermined the control of the central Church in Rome, and thus obligatory celibacy for priests was introduced as a rule to ensure that the distribution of offices of the Church remained in its own hands, rather than becoming bound to particular families. As with so many of the doctrines of Rome, it was based on maintaining centralised control.
The word metaphysics is derived from a medieval compilation of the works of the philosopher Aristotle. The compiler wasn't sure what to call the philosophical books he placed after Aristotle's Physics, so he called them the Metaphysics. In these books, Aristotle discusses the nature of reality and the patterns and structures governing it. Discussing metaphysical questions does not imply that you're dealing with invisible extra-spatial and extra-temporal forces, as you imply.
Just because an application links to a given framework, it doesn't mean that the application uses it all that much.
As a Mac developer, I often need just 1 or 2 Carbon functions that aren't available in Cocoa, and thus link to Carbon, even though an overwhelming majority of my application's code is Objective C Cocoa.
The examples you cite are the worst of the lot, esp. the Finder and QuickTime. The Safari GUI shell is written in Cocoa, WebKit is written in C++. Mail is largely a Cocoa app.
While it is true that the message-passing kind of development of Objective C is much less liable to buffer overruns etc., and is thus in a sense "safer", this is not the reason why Mac OS X is a more secure operating system.
Ignatius J. Reilly? Is that you?
The torrent contains roughly 93 evenly sized RAR files, which, when joined, form a single disk image.
Objective C code is *fast* -- .NET is dead slow.
Capitalism is not a political system. It's an economic system.
It's perfectly possible to have a despotic government with a capitalist economy (e.g. Chile) or a democratic government with a largely socialist economy (e.g. Sweden or France).
I can understand what you mean by the integration with the GUI, having tried it out myself. And it's true that virtual desktops can be a big disconcerting.
;). The biggest problem is the OS X Finder, which is, to put it bluntly, a piece of shit. Not only is it slow and cumbersome, and very badly designed (is it a browser? is it spatial? is it aqua? is it metal? Why can't it remember window positions?), but it tends to crash once in a while when it bumps into corrupt file meta-data or has issues with networked volumes. It could also do with consideraly better threading -- I hate that damn Spinning Beachball of Death.
However, I don't agree with you that the OS X GUI is "advanced". The graphical effects get extremely tired after a while. I now keep them turned off, even going so far as to mess with GUI settings using TinkerTool, just to get rid of the damned stuff.
I recently bought a new 1.3Ghz PowerBook, in hope that this might improve my user experience with Mac OS X, but I still find the GUI ridiculously slow, even with all effects off. I still love OS X, but dammit, I have yet to try a Mac with acceptable GUI speed apart from those speedy G5s. Scrolling web pages is faster on my old 500 Mhz laptop in OS 9 than on a brand spanking new 1.3Ghz G4 with OS X. That's just ridiculous regress.
My biggest beef with the OS X UI, though, is not the performance. I'm usually not in much of a hurry
I believe one of the reasons Apple is coming up with this Spotlight thing is in order to enable users to circumvent the piece of shit Finder.
My 2 cents.
What I don't understand is why everybody gets so excited about this whole Dashboard thing?
Roughly the same thing can be accomplised with a combination of regular good ol' Mac OS X applications and multiple desktops. Just pile your calculator, IMDB searcher, digits converter and whatnot on to one of your virtual desktops, set a shortcut key for it in DesktopManager.
Voila, you have just replicated the functionality of Dashboard, minus the blatant overhead of all those processor-hogging graphical effects.
It seems to me that Dashboard is definintely one of the least interesting new features in Tiger.
I have experienced this as well. The solution is simple. If your powerbook displays a black screen when it comes alive from sleep, just close the lid. The computer will go back to sleep. Then open it again, and voila, problem fixed.
If he's this naive, I want to know who let him into Harvard.
If I recall correctly, George Bush has a degree from Harvard, so you obviously don't need even a mediocre intellect to get in....just a rich daddy.
This stuff looks pretty nifty:
Along with improvements to the GUI, Xcode 2.0 will ship with GCC 4.0 which features a new C++ Parser and several code generation improvements including auto-vectorization. While hand-tuning Velocity Engine code can get you the maximum performance from the G4 and G5 processors, now you can have GCC do the heavy lifting for you. You'll benefit from this without any extra effort, with auto-vectorization in GCC bringing anywhere between a 4X and 14X performance improvement to code that works with arrays of data.
AltiVec support without having to write any optimized code...sounds like a winner to me.
Hah!
0.05Mhz? That's just plain speedy. I'd like to see them do what I did: Run it on a 0Mhz processor:
For what it's worth, Safari now reports itself as version 1.2.2 (v125.7).
For what it's worth, I'm lonely and geekish enough to have actually done THIS
:D
....so lonely....
It took hours on end, but I finally got Mac OS X running via Pear PC on Windows XP being emulated in Virtual PC on MacOS X.
In my experience the price of Macs depreciates far less with time than your standard x86 boxen.
First of all, buying a new Mac is generally expensive.
Secondly, Apple's computers are generally made with solid, high-quality components and last a long time.
I just sold a single-processor G4/450Mhz Sawtooth for $400 the other day: that's a 4 year old machine that cost about $2000 new, yet can still be sold at %20 of original price.