oops. said "I have seen this recently as well, from a genius who decided to return the current year by printing the characters 1 and 98 followed by the current year-since-1900 as a string." meant "I have seen this recently as well, from a genius who decided to return the current year by printing the characters 1 and 9 followed by the current year-since-1900 as a string."
Next time you hire coders,ask a few qualifying questions, like "what is 19 + 99". If they answer "1999", they probably went to school with the people who wrote the code that is on your IRC.
I have seen this recently as well, from a genius who decided to return the current year by printing the characters 1 and 98 followed by the current year-since-1900 as a string. And they coded this some time in August 1999.
In a sense this is what AOL was trying to do to MS when they kept tweaking their IM protocol so it wouldn't work with MS clients. I don't recall anybody stating that AOL was doing anything illegal, amusing...yes... illegal.. no.
No, not illegal, but I don't think it compares directly to the Caldera-MS thing. In the case of IM, every client had to access servers owned and operated by AOL. So, when a "clone" client came out, it could be argued that every time that client was used to access the server it was incurring an expense for AOL, and expense which could not be offset by using the client to carry ads, or using the client to reinforce the AOL "brand". Those privileges suddenly belong to someone else who is not incurring the server and network costs!
In the case of Windows 3.1, MS was not protecting itself against an expense, it was protecting itself against a loss of sales of MS-DOS. If Win 3.1 could run on DR-DOS installations, they would get money for sales of those copies of Win 3.1, and their brand (not Caldera's) would be what the user saw when they used their computer in Windows.
However, it could be that the mishandling of this whole issue by AOL was part of a larger PR scheme: make it look like AOL is under attack by MS, and maybe some people would forget why they don't like AOL - enemy of my enemy and all that.
On the Caldera case, my wish is that somehow courts or legislators could decide that interoperability and thoroughly documented, published APIs are consumer, and developer RIGHTS where commercial software is concerned. No more hidden APIs that only an OS developer insider knows how to use properly. No more strange behaviour because somebody decided to "customize" or "extend" a standard necessary for interoperability. No more "upgrades" that break properly-written 3rd-party software in order to force adoption of a product or gimmick written by the OS developer.
is there even an altivec-enhanced version of mac os x server out yet?
There is a persistent story that MacOSX Server 1.2 will have G4 support (hence Altivec? - one would assume it means that - ), and that 1.2 will be released in November (this year).
The same gas-exuded-from new plastic smell that used to hover around discount stores, sometimes even haunting running shoes and dishes for several weeks after they were brought home.
This was also the case with some (but not all for some reason) Blue and White G3s. I wonder how they affect people with chemical sensitivities.
Manufacturer advises that the smell will go away after a few days.
I was wondering why it read so much like "wild and crazy guys" dialogue. Still funny.
Of course, all mistranslation humour is highly derivative - when was the book The English as She Is Spoke written? 1860s? Everyone who does an English-Portuguese-English translation on Babelfish is paying homage to that one.
My understanding of the mot 7400 errata (based only on what other people have reported on the net, so far from authoritative) is that it prevents the G4 from reaching 500 MHz until it is resolved. Given that they are already producing these machines, and that the price levels are the same across the G4 product line, and that base features seem to be the same (old 400=current 350, etc.) it is very possible that Apple just changed the clock speeds of the current G4s.
I remember when the "Sawtooth" (new motherboard) machines first shipped, Macintouch reported that the new machines' clock speed could no longer be controlled by jumpers. So, until someone comes up with an overclocking method...
The reality is that whatever OS you learn with in school, you are going to be confronted with different interfaces and function sets during your working life, possibly while you are still in school. The important thing is not to learn one OS or set of applications with the idea that they will be industry standards forever, but to learn the fundamentals of how things work and basic conventions for operating machines.
Even better, maybe schools could teach students methods for figuring things out by themselves so that they can troubleshoot their own machines, and the fundamentals of critical thinking so that they can tell when a tech company is trying to sell them something that doesn't fit their needs.
There are a lot of problems with the discussion of "Communism" taking place here, a major one is that the participants have only very sketchy knowledge of what Communism is (a trait they share with the author of the Salon article). I'd like to commend you for at least attempting to introduce definitions. However, the dictionary definitions are inadequate. Communism has actually been quite diverse, especially considering attempts by totalitarian leaders to enforce absolute ideological control. Communism in Hungary, Tito's Yugoslavia, and Hoxha's Albania were all quite different, and the philosophies and policies were definitely far removed from those of Communist political leaders in Western countries (where these parties still endure, and can sometimes have decisive influence over coalition governments, such as in Italy). In the past Communism was even adopted philosophically by some late 19th and early 20th-century Anarchists. So, at one time at least there was a strain of Communist thought that did not depend on central, dictatorial control. As far as Marx goes, I see aspects of his analysis which are quite interesting to apply to the Open Source movement (esp. regarding the nature of production and exchange). But that doesn't make Open Source "Communist". And just because it is not "Communist" does not mean that it is "Capitalist" either. It does function within a so-called "free market" system, but so do chess tournaments, squaredances and addiction support groups. Are they Capitalist? Libertarian? And the trait of self-reliance ("we code for ourselves") is not necessarily inherently Libertarian either. Self-reliance is a personality trait.
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oops. said "I have seen this recently as well, from a genius who decided to return the current year by printing the characters 1 and 98 followed by the current year-since-1900 as a string." meant "I have seen this recently as well, from a genius who decided to return the current year by printing the characters 1 and 9 followed by the current year-since-1900 as a string."
I have seen this recently as well, from a genius who decided to return the current year by printing the characters 1 and 98 followed by the current year-since-1900 as a string. And they coded this some time in August 1999.
No, not illegal, but I don't think it compares directly to the Caldera-MS thing. In the case of IM, every client had to access servers owned and operated by AOL. So, when a "clone" client came out, it could be argued that every time that client was used to access the server it was incurring an expense for AOL, and expense which could not be offset by using the client to carry ads, or using the client to reinforce the AOL "brand". Those privileges suddenly belong to someone else who is not incurring the server and network costs!
In the case of Windows 3.1, MS was not protecting itself against an expense, it was protecting itself against a loss of sales of MS-DOS. If Win 3.1 could run on DR-DOS installations, they would get money for sales of those copies of Win 3.1, and their brand (not Caldera's) would be what the user saw when they used their computer in Windows.
However, it could be that the mishandling of this whole issue by AOL was part of a larger PR scheme: make it look like AOL is under attack by MS, and maybe some people would forget why they don't like AOL - enemy of my enemy and all that.
On the Caldera case, my wish is that somehow courts or legislators could decide that interoperability and thoroughly documented, published APIs are consumer, and developer RIGHTS where commercial software is concerned. No more hidden APIs that only an OS developer insider knows how to use properly. No more strange behaviour because somebody decided to "customize" or "extend" a standard necessary for interoperability. No more "upgrades" that break properly-written 3rd-party software in order to force adoption of a product or gimmick written by the OS developer.
Also: end to all wars, eradication of poverty ...
There is a persistent story that MacOSX Server 1.2 will have G4 support (hence Altivec? - one would assume it means that - ), and that 1.2 will be released in November (this year).
This was also the case with some (but not all for some reason) Blue and White G3s. I wonder how they affect people with chemical sensitivities.
Manufacturer advises that the smell will go away after a few days.
I was wondering why it read so much like "wild and crazy guys" dialogue. Still funny.
Of course, all mistranslation humour is highly derivative - when was the book The English as She Is Spoke written? 1860s? Everyone who does an English-Portuguese-English translation on Babelfish is paying homage to that one.
I remember when the "Sawtooth" (new motherboard) machines first shipped, Macintouch reported that the new machines' clock speed could no longer be controlled by jumpers. So, until someone comes up with an overclocking method ...
Even better, maybe schools could teach students methods for figuring things out by themselves so that they can troubleshoot their own machines, and the fundamentals of critical thinking so that they can tell when a tech company is trying to sell them something that doesn't fit their needs.
Newton-OS-based portable, "clamshell" physical design with translucent plastic case, built-in keyboard. Didn't catch on. Newton users didn't like it, schools weren't convinced. Picture.
There are a lot of problems with the discussion of "Communism" taking place here, a major one is that the participants have only very sketchy knowledge of what Communism is (a trait they share with the author of the Salon article). I'd like to commend you for at least attempting to introduce definitions. However, the dictionary definitions are inadequate. Communism has actually been quite diverse, especially considering attempts by totalitarian leaders to enforce absolute ideological control. Communism in Hungary, Tito's Yugoslavia, and Hoxha's Albania were all quite different, and the philosophies and policies were definitely far removed from those of Communist political leaders in Western countries (where these parties still endure, and can sometimes have decisive influence over coalition governments, such as in Italy). In the past Communism was even adopted philosophically by some late 19th and early 20th-century Anarchists. So, at one time at least there was a strain of Communist thought that did not depend on central, dictatorial control. As far as Marx goes, I see aspects of his analysis which are quite interesting to apply to the Open Source movement (esp. regarding the nature of production and exchange). But that doesn't make Open Source "Communist". And just because it is not "Communist" does not mean that it is "Capitalist" either. It does function within a so-called "free market" system, but so do chess tournaments, squaredances and addiction support groups. Are they Capitalist? Libertarian? And the trait of self-reliance ("we code for ourselves") is not necessarily inherently Libertarian either. Self-reliance is a personality trait.