And in '01 diodes with a proper photon flux density didn't really exist.
But nothing stopped me from clustering diodes of different wavelengths and intensities. An external light sensor measured intensity of natural light in the red, green, blue, IR, and UV spectrums, as well as the position of the sun, and this information was used to more closely mimic natural light; it could also be overridden, either permanently, manually, or automatically based on time of day or at a certain brightness threshold, so when it started getting dark out, it could revert to a user-configured lighting "program", for users who wanted to provide 24hr lighting for their crops. I put "program" in quotes because the whole system was analog.
I'd be willing to pass on some more details about the irrigation system I used (what I can remember, at least -- I don't remember much of the implementation for the lighting), if you're interested. Go ahead and email me i you want to chat sometime; I'm not in that business anymore so I'm not looking for any info from you, I'd just like to see some of my ideas put to use on a wider scale than I was able to implement them. I have a buddy who's trying to break into that business but he already thinks his idea is as good as it's gonna get and doesn't want to hear about what I've done in the past (though he's never maintained a garden in his life, he thinks he knows what's best, good for him:P). We're talking 3-4lb organic indoor-grown tomatoes, which probably would've been larger if they were heirlooms.
I have no vendetta against Apple whatsoever. I don't like the direction they're taking their OS, starting with Lion, and that will keep me from considering their platform for development. Simply put, I use Snow Leopard with no issues, as it is a very nice, very robust OS that does what I tell it to do; starting with Lion and continuing on with Mountain Lion, OSX is a consumer OS centered around consumption rather than creation, it's a mindset that interrupts the typical developer's workflow. Once Mountain Lion comes out and Snow Leopard ceases to be supported with security patches, I'll be forced to abandon it; this meand abandoning Coda, which I truly do like using. This is not something I want to do, but I can't run my system on unsupported software (Snow Leopard in a few months) and Lion disagrees with my workflow. That's not a vendetta, that's a business case for switching platforms. Because I see this coming, I've been getting more familiar with tools available on other platforms and I've started liking Aptana Studio 3 nearly as much as Coda; I'll still miss Coda and, indeed, Snow Leopard, but it is what it is.
It's a consumer OS, created to fuel consumption by encouraging consumers to consume, and if that's what you use your computer for, grab a MacBook Air and be happy, more power to you. Snow Leopard was the last version of OSX that was designed with any other use case in mind.
Did you miss where I said that? It's a direct quote from my post. If someone likes what Apple offers, if their current platform meets one's needs, that person should, by all means, use Apple products. And for the use cases that most apply to the marketing philosophy that drove the development of Lion and Mountain Lion, an Air is more than adequate. I think the last bit of that quote sums up where I'm coming from quite nicely.
Also, if they haven't fixed their cooling issues, even my wife, who has owned nothing but Mac since the early G3 days (we still have that G3, it still works, I still use it; now THAT is well engineered) and adores her current MacBook, isn't interested.
I guess, with my vendetta and all, I should probably put that G3 to rest? How about the PowerBook G4 I bought off my boss last year? Should I toss it? Those two systems, and the fact that I'm typing this in Firefox in a Snow Leopard VM would seem to fly in the face of your accusation that I have a vendetta against Apple. Or are you saying that my wife, who has used Macs exclusively for the last 13 years, owns an iPod Classid, iPod touch (which I bought for her), iPod Nano, iPad, iPhone 4s, and an early 2011 17" MacBook Pro, also has a vendetta against Apple, because she's not interested in Lion or anything in the currrent Mac lineup? She's not even a developer and she recognizes the push for consumerism and media consumption that is rampant in Lion and wants to stay away from that. When she buys another laptop, she wants top of the line, which would put her in MBP+retina territory with Apple, which is unacceptable to her given the nonstandard SSD, soldered-in RAM, and the fact that the system is glued together, in addition to being screwed together. If anything on that system fails, the bottom plate is glued to the LiPo battery, good luck getting it apart without starting a fire; and even if you manage that, nothing is field-replaceable. If anything goes wrong, Apple will have to replace the whole thing and, with the battery being glued to the frame, making it exceedingly and unnecessarily dangerous to open the case, parts can't readily be salvaged from returned units, by Apple; these are devices designed to end up in a landfill. For twice the price of a more capable system that can be upgraded, salvaged, and easily recycled at the end if its life, that is simply unacceptable to me, and I'm far from what one would consider an environmentalist.
You also seem to be skirting the fact that OSX is actually, in no way, tailored to a specific hardware platform, unless you want to say it's
You'll love those Asus routers. I only ended up with a Netgear when I did my last upgrade because I didn't want to wait for the Asus I was eyeballing to be restocked.
I don't mind it. The mobile version seems to be a fair bit more efficient than the desktop version, meaning that some things that stutter on even my 2.53Ghz i3 with 8GB of RAM play just fine on my Atrix 4g. I plug in every other day to charge, whether I've used Flash or not, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference at all.
LED horticulture, interesting. I wonder how similar your LED tech is to what I developed and used on a couple hydro grow boxes (for tomatoes, but I'm pretty sure one client used at least one of the two I sold him for pot) I build back in '01.
Or, keep the $244/mo $0 copay plan I'm currently on. Of course, I'll be paying the full $244, rather than just the $44 my employer doesn't cover for me, but it's better than CORBA coverage, and a hell of a lot cheaper.
There is some truth to your words, but it is not as severe as you claim. I suggest you reflect on the reality of the situation for a moment; the government is not mandating which coverage you have, just that you have it, or pay to opt out. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader how that correlates to what you just said.
If you can't optimize a system for special cases just because of its size, I question what kind of programmer you actually are. Break off the part that needs optimization into its own class or function, then optimize it. Interestingly, right now, Insurance is a class and Health is an Insurance object; choice() and care() exist in this system, it is well optimized, and there is no reason for this to change simply because the government has mandated that everyone buy in or pay to opt out.
I think you missed my point, so I'll restate it: In the case of government and law enforcement, the only law that applies, per The Constitution, is The Constitution. The other laws they have enacted to give themselves more power are, in fact, illegal. They are also wrong.
In the case of government and law enforcement, if it's against the law for them to do it, it IS wrong. Unless you're saying that the US Constitution is a bad law.
To a point, yes. However, copyright law SHOULD be changed. The laws that limit what government and law enforcement can do (e.g. the Constitution) should not.
That answers what you were doing instead. It doesn't explain why. If you're such a genius, how come you missed the fact that it'd bring your grade down? Why didn't you grok that sometimes the system sucks but you have to go along with it? Why didn't you make use of the super dooper stuff by taking AP classes?
Why? Because I was more interested in learnig above and beyond the classwork provided than I was in acing the class. I passed and that's all that matters. I didn't miss the fact that I was lowering my grades, I simply didn't care, I knew I would still pass and, again, that's what matters. Further, the system almost always sucks and, by going along with it, you only serve to perpetuate that. Have you looked around lately? And, actually, in high school, when those AP classes were available to me (I was a TAG student on elementary and middle school), I did take them, along with a vocational course, which took 3hr out of my day, which I helped teach, my junior and senior years.
I think we've discovered who the dumb one is
Is it the one who's pretending to be two people?
And who's that? I'm not pretending to be anything.
Crawl back under your rock. We'll let you know when the system stops sucking and it's safe to come back out.
I thought the whole point of Gentoo was that everything should be compiled by the user, so they can tailor it to their hardware by compiling with the right sets of flags.
At any rate, beyond the kernel, there is no "software tailored for the scecific Hardware platform", either. Apple's kernels support Core2Duo, Atom, i3, i5, i7, and I beleive Opteron, and a decent list of chipsets, all natively. You can even coax them to run on AMD, with no modification, just the right boot flags. Of course, you're welcome to compile your own Darwin kernel, just as you can compile your own Linux kernel, with support only for the hardware you actually have; then, you have software tailored for the specific Hardware platform. Beyond that, you have drivers; for dedicated graphics, those are vendor-supplied, for everything else, the open source drivers are used as a starting point, with modifications returned to the community as required, so all that tailoring they're doing there, anyone who wants to use Linux gets it, as well. If anything that ran on top of the kernel were tailored for a specific platform (say, sandy bridge i7), none of it would run on anything else. Since you can take an image of a C2D iMac's hard drive and put it on an i7 PowerBook's hard drive (assuming updates have been installed) and boot it, I'm gonna say no, no tailoring is going on here. Just like Linux and BSD (which Darwin is), OSX loads kernel modules; but they don't call them that, so you might not realize it. OSX is no more tailored than Ubuntu. This is what I was trying to point out in my previous post.
and "ARC" objective-C
Care to explain the difference? If you mean Automatic Reference Counting, the java-like garbage-collection-with-a-different-name, that's part of the Objective-C spec, it's in the compiler, and available on Linux as well. If you mean something else, please explain.
Plus, you'll have to pay at least 900 to your average PC manufacturer to get an i7, High Def display, SSD, & High quality graphics card as well as on board.
Well, since store.apple.com hasn't banned me yet, let me take a look... I heard the MacBook Air has a full HD screen now, nice! Let's check those out, they start at only $99 more than a PC with all the amenities, that sounds alright. Whoops, the top of the line model, for $1499, has an i5 and only integrated graphics. On to the MacBook Pro line, starting at $1199. OH! A 13 inch with an i7, for $1499! Wait... Only integrated graphics, damn. Ahh, here we go, next model up, for $1799, that's got everythign you listed! Wait, no, no SSD there. Let's try again. Ahh, if I go for a retina display, I can have everything! GREAT! It's only $2199! Awesome! Wait... No optical drive of any sort? Fuck.
Well, for $30 less I can have a 2.6Ghz i7 (vs the quoted MBP's 2.3Ghz), 256GB SSD (just like the MBP) *and* a 750GB HD, 16GB of RAM (vs the MBP's 8), and a BluRay burner. True, I'm giving up the retina display, but let's just say I need the faster CPU, more storage, and might want to watch a blu-ray movie, bought with that $30 I saved, on the plane during my next trip.
Let's see if Apple can match those other specs, I might be willing to pay a little bit for that. Oh! Cool! The next model up starts with a 2.6Ghz i7, for only $2799! I can affort the extra $630, so let's look at that! Upgraqde to 16GB of RAM, $200; can only upgrade the storage to a total of 768GB, which falls short of the PC, for $500 more, but let's move along anyway. Oh! I can add a DVD drive, that might work, and it's only $79! Wait, it's external. Damn, one more thing to carry on the plane. Oh well, it comes with a nice laptop bag, right? Wait, no, that was the PC, which also included a decent mouse AND a worthwhile trackpad. Well, that PC has 1 year of accidental damage protection and 2 years P&L warranty, better add AppleCare to
You DO realize that if you go "above and beyond" what's taught in class, you should be able to ace what's taught in class
Right here, in my comment, which you quoted:
I passed tests, I aced midterms and finals
Yet another "i sucked at school because I was too smart".
I didn't do the classwork, not because I couldn't figure it out, but, and this is just the second half of the sentence I referenced inthe above quote:
but I was too busy, after having run through the provided textbooks in the first month or so of the class, seeking new material and learning new things that were *not* being taught in class, to waste my time on the classwork.
TL;DR: I do realize that if I go "above and beyond" what's taught in class, I should be able to ace what's taught in class, and, in fact, did. Classwork, which I did not do, however, counts toward the grade, as well.
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But, that's anti-virus software, and Macs don't have viruses!
This. Right here. Is why. It. Is. Dangerous. To claim. Your. Platform. Does. Not. Have. The same. Security needs. As. Any. Other. Platform.
Hopefully that was slow enough for everyone to follow.
And in '01 diodes with a proper photon flux density didn't really exist.
But nothing stopped me from clustering diodes of different wavelengths and intensities. An external light sensor measured intensity of natural light in the red, green, blue, IR, and UV spectrums, as well as the position of the sun, and this information was used to more closely mimic natural light; it could also be overridden, either permanently, manually, or automatically based on time of day or at a certain brightness threshold, so when it started getting dark out, it could revert to a user-configured lighting "program", for users who wanted to provide 24hr lighting for their crops. I put "program" in quotes because the whole system was analog.
I'd be willing to pass on some more details about the irrigation system I used (what I can remember, at least -- I don't remember much of the implementation for the lighting), if you're interested. Go ahead and email me i you want to chat sometime; I'm not in that business anymore so I'm not looking for any info from you, I'd just like to see some of my ideas put to use on a wider scale than I was able to implement them. I have a buddy who's trying to break into that business but he already thinks his idea is as good as it's gonna get and doesn't want to hear about what I've done in the past (though he's never maintained a garden in his life, he thinks he knows what's best, good for him :P). We're talking 3-4lb organic indoor-grown tomatoes, which probably would've been larger if they were heirlooms.
I have no vendetta against Apple whatsoever. I don't like the direction they're taking their OS, starting with Lion, and that will keep me from considering their platform for development. Simply put, I use Snow Leopard with no issues, as it is a very nice, very robust OS that does what I tell it to do; starting with Lion and continuing on with Mountain Lion, OSX is a consumer OS centered around consumption rather than creation, it's a mindset that interrupts the typical developer's workflow. Once Mountain Lion comes out and Snow Leopard ceases to be supported with security patches, I'll be forced to abandon it; this meand abandoning Coda, which I truly do like using. This is not something I want to do, but I can't run my system on unsupported software (Snow Leopard in a few months) and Lion disagrees with my workflow. That's not a vendetta, that's a business case for switching platforms. Because I see this coming, I've been getting more familiar with tools available on other platforms and I've started liking Aptana Studio 3 nearly as much as Coda; I'll still miss Coda and, indeed, Snow Leopard, but it is what it is.
It's a consumer OS, created to fuel consumption by encouraging consumers to consume, and if that's what you use your computer for, grab a MacBook Air and be happy, more power to you. Snow Leopard was the last version of OSX that was designed with any other use case in mind.
Did you miss where I said that? It's a direct quote from my post. If someone likes what Apple offers, if their current platform meets one's needs, that person should, by all means, use Apple products. And for the use cases that most apply to the marketing philosophy that drove the development of Lion and Mountain Lion, an Air is more than adequate. I think the last bit of that quote sums up where I'm coming from quite nicely.
Also, if they haven't fixed their cooling issues, even my wife, who has owned nothing but Mac since the early G3 days (we still have that G3, it still works, I still use it; now THAT is well engineered) and adores her current MacBook, isn't interested.
I guess, with my vendetta and all, I should probably put that G3 to rest? How about the PowerBook G4 I bought off my boss last year? Should I toss it? Those two systems, and the fact that I'm typing this in Firefox in a Snow Leopard VM would seem to fly in the face of your accusation that I have a vendetta against Apple. Or are you saying that my wife, who has used Macs exclusively for the last 13 years, owns an iPod Classid, iPod touch (which I bought for her), iPod Nano, iPad, iPhone 4s, and an early 2011 17" MacBook Pro, also has a vendetta against Apple, because she's not interested in Lion or anything in the currrent Mac lineup? She's not even a developer and she recognizes the push for consumerism and media consumption that is rampant in Lion and wants to stay away from that. When she buys another laptop, she wants top of the line, which would put her in MBP+retina territory with Apple, which is unacceptable to her given the nonstandard SSD, soldered-in RAM, and the fact that the system is glued together, in addition to being screwed together. If anything on that system fails, the bottom plate is glued to the LiPo battery, good luck getting it apart without starting a fire; and even if you manage that, nothing is field-replaceable. If anything goes wrong, Apple will have to replace the whole thing and, with the battery being glued to the frame, making it exceedingly and unnecessarily dangerous to open the case, parts can't readily be salvaged from returned units, by Apple; these are devices designed to end up in a landfill. For twice the price of a more capable system that can be upgraded, salvaged, and easily recycled at the end if its life, that is simply unacceptable to me, and I'm far from what one would consider an environmentalist.
You also seem to be skirting the fact that OSX is actually, in no way, tailored to a specific hardware platform, unless you want to say it's
You'll love those Asus routers. I only ended up with a Netgear when I did my last upgrade because I didn't want to wait for the Asus I was eyeballing to be restocked.
Since when do you have to pay for QOS on DD-WRT?
But it is able to be installed.
I don't mind it. The mobile version seems to be a fair bit more efficient than the desktop version, meaning that some things that stutter on even my 2.53Ghz i3 with 8GB of RAM play just fine on my Atrix 4g. I plug in every other day to charge, whether I've used Flash or not, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference at all.
LED horticulture, interesting. I wonder how similar your LED tech is to what I developed and used on a couple hydro grow boxes (for tomatoes, but I'm pretty sure one client used at least one of the two I sold him for pot) I build back in '01.
Then none of this matters to you.
As a CEO, I'd have to say, so are you.
If we all did it, we'd have to manage, on average, less than one kill each. How far do you think he'd get?
Or, keep the $244/mo $0 copay plan I'm currently on. Of course, I'll be paying the full $244, rather than just the $44 my employer doesn't cover for me, but it's better than CORBA coverage, and a hell of a lot cheaper.
There is some truth to your words, but it is not as severe as you claim. I suggest you reflect on the reality of the situation for a moment; the government is not mandating which coverage you have, just that you have it, or pay to opt out. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader how that correlates to what you just said.
If you can't optimize a system for special cases just because of its size, I question what kind of programmer you actually are. Break off the part that needs optimization into its own class or function, then optimize it. Interestingly, right now, Insurance is a class and Health is an Insurance object; choice() and care() exist in this system, it is well optimized, and there is no reason for this to change simply because the government has mandated that everyone buy in or pay to opt out.
I think you're confused. Charge and Pay are opposite terms, with opposite definitions; you're trying to apply both definitions to one of those words.
Except that, in thise case, "Elders" are barely 5 years older, and that time is very memorable.
I'll let someone else handle you. I'm at work right now and don't have the time to post what would be required to shut you up.
I think you missed my point, so I'll restate it: In the case of government and law enforcement, the only law that applies, per The Constitution, is The Constitution. The other laws they have enacted to give themselves more power are, in fact, illegal. They are also wrong.
For Europe or Canada, that's body fat, for Mexico, that's cocaine and marijuan.
In the case of government and law enforcement, if it's against the law for them to do it, it IS wrong. Unless you're saying that the US Constitution is a bad law.
To a point, yes. However, copyright law SHOULD be changed. The laws that limit what government and law enforcement can do (e.g. the Constitution) should not.
That answers what you were doing instead. It doesn't explain why. If you're such a genius, how come you missed the fact that it'd bring your grade down? Why didn't you grok that sometimes the system sucks but you have to go along with it? Why didn't you make use of the super dooper stuff by taking AP classes?
Why? Because I was more interested in learnig above and beyond the classwork provided than I was in acing the class. I passed and that's all that matters. I didn't miss the fact that I was lowering my grades, I simply didn't care, I knew I would still pass and, again, that's what matters. Further, the system almost always sucks and, by going along with it, you only serve to perpetuate that. Have you looked around lately? And, actually, in high school, when those AP classes were available to me (I was a TAG student on elementary and middle school), I did take them, along with a vocational course, which took 3hr out of my day, which I helped teach, my junior and senior years.
I think we've discovered who the dumb one is
Is it the one who's pretending to be two people?
And who's that? I'm not pretending to be anything.
Crawl back under your rock. We'll let you know when the system stops sucking and it's safe to come back out.
I thought the whole point of Gentoo was that everything should be compiled by the user, so they can tailor it to their hardware by compiling with the right sets of flags.
At any rate, beyond the kernel, there is no "software tailored for the scecific Hardware platform", either. Apple's kernels support Core2Duo, Atom, i3, i5, i7, and I beleive Opteron, and a decent list of chipsets, all natively. You can even coax them to run on AMD, with no modification, just the right boot flags. Of course, you're welcome to compile your own Darwin kernel, just as you can compile your own Linux kernel, with support only for the hardware you actually have; then, you have software tailored for the specific Hardware platform. Beyond that, you have drivers; for dedicated graphics, those are vendor-supplied, for everything else, the open source drivers are used as a starting point, with modifications returned to the community as required, so all that tailoring they're doing there, anyone who wants to use Linux gets it, as well. If anything that ran on top of the kernel were tailored for a specific platform (say, sandy bridge i7), none of it would run on anything else. Since you can take an image of a C2D iMac's hard drive and put it on an i7 PowerBook's hard drive (assuming updates have been installed) and boot it, I'm gonna say no, no tailoring is going on here. Just like Linux and BSD (which Darwin is), OSX loads kernel modules; but they don't call them that, so you might not realize it. OSX is no more tailored than Ubuntu. This is what I was trying to point out in my previous post.
and "ARC" objective-C
Care to explain the difference? If you mean Automatic Reference Counting, the java-like garbage-collection-with-a-different-name, that's part of the Objective-C spec, it's in the compiler, and available on Linux as well. If you mean something else, please explain.
Plus, you'll have to pay at least 900 to your average PC manufacturer to get an i7, High Def display, SSD, & High quality graphics card as well as on board.
Well, since store.apple.com hasn't banned me yet, let me take a look... I heard the MacBook Air has a full HD screen now, nice! Let's check those out, they start at only $99 more than a PC with all the amenities, that sounds alright. Whoops, the top of the line model, for $1499, has an i5 and only integrated graphics. On to the MacBook Pro line, starting at $1199. OH! A 13 inch with an i7, for $1499! Wait... Only integrated graphics, damn. Ahh, here we go, next model up, for $1799, that's got everythign you listed! Wait, no, no SSD there. Let's try again. Ahh, if I go for a retina display, I can have everything! GREAT! It's only $2199! Awesome! Wait... No optical drive of any sort? Fuck.
Well, for $30 less I can have a 2.6Ghz i7 (vs the quoted MBP's 2.3Ghz), 256GB SSD (just like the MBP) *and* a 750GB HD, 16GB of RAM (vs the MBP's 8), and a BluRay burner. True, I'm giving up the retina display, but let's just say I need the faster CPU, more storage, and might want to watch a blu-ray movie, bought with that $30 I saved, on the plane during my next trip.
Let's see if Apple can match those other specs, I might be willing to pay a little bit for that. Oh! Cool! The next model up starts with a 2.6Ghz i7, for only $2799! I can affort the extra $630, so let's look at that! Upgraqde to 16GB of RAM, $200; can only upgrade the storage to a total of 768GB, which falls short of the PC, for $500 more, but let's move along anyway. Oh! I can add a DVD drive, that might work, and it's only $79! Wait, it's external. Damn, one more thing to carry on the plane. Oh well, it comes with a nice laptop bag, right? Wait, no, that was the PC, which also included a decent mouse AND a worthwhile trackpad. Well, that PC has 1 year of accidental damage protection and 2 years P&L warranty, better add AppleCare to
Still working at her age? Guess she should've saved for retirement, huh?
You DO realize that if you go "above and beyond" what's taught in class, you should be able to ace what's taught in class
Right here, in my comment, which you quoted:
I passed tests, I aced midterms and finals
Yet another "i sucked at school because I was too smart".
I didn't do the classwork, not because I couldn't figure it out, but, and this is just the second half of the sentence I referenced inthe above quote:
but I was too busy, after having run through the provided textbooks in the first month or so of the class, seeking new material and learning new things that were *not* being taught in class, to waste my time on the classwork.
TL;DR: I do realize that if I go "above and beyond" what's taught in class, I should be able to ace what's taught in class, and, in fact, did. Classwork, which I did not do, however, counts toward the grade, as well.