Actually, the MacOS from 1984 died off completely shortly after 1999. So much for your example of a 'deep long history.' The Apple ][ died shortly after the Apple marketing people decreed that it should. Apple has a habit of throwing away platforms whenever they have something new and shiney to sell. Mac OSX is a fine operating system in many regards. But it's bound to a very narrow hardware platform by design. They'll pitch it out as soon as 'the new greatest opportunity' to get everybody waving their plastic at the Apple Store comes along.
Apple doesn't need to support all of the hardware under the sun; they're Apple, they sell Computing Platforms, not Computers and Operating Systems alone.
You just cited a definitive example of a closed platform, and didn't even wince while doing it.
And since she was mentioned as a 'victim of COINTELPRO' I will have to assume she was selling the Militant on the weekend. Almost all the hue and cry about 'COINTELPRO' comes from the Trotskyites, for some odd reason.
Really, COINTELPRO was a deplorable government program, but it is brought up again and again and again. The fact that it's usually the newest example cited is reassuring, because it happened so long ago.
TMPGEnc seems like a really good tool. However, I register for the full version of a tool that I can't burn the install binaries of onto a CD and archive, so I can use it five years from now on a machine that doesn't route to the Internet. The creators of TMPGEnc have decided to copy Microsoft and tether their software to an internet connection, and to an 'authorization' process that I avoid like the plague.
I have a CD that I label 'registered shareware' with a sharpie. It has hundreds of dollars worth of shareware that I have registered over the years. Install binaries and the serial number, or key, or little binary file you copy into a folder. Unfortunately, TMPGEnc seems like it will never make it onto that CD. Too bad, I register shareware fairly readily.
Now I am more into things like the Sun Blade 100 workstation that I got for $60. And, always, books and more books (still expensive, but lots of the cooler ones can be chased down second-hand) And frankly, I'd rather have the '$250' than some of the cast-off 'shiny stuff' that now is just part of my 'collection' (i.e. a 386sx-16 laptop with 4M of memory that I paid $2500 for)
Tesla's design could afford to waste broad bands of the radio spectra. The harmonic interference on his 'broadcast power' technique, if it had been proven and widely adopted, might have entirely wiped out use of the Radio Spectrum for communications. Maybe we'd be getting our power 'wireless' but we'd be sending our 'email messages' through long pneumatic tube piping systems. Or in big mail satchels on canal barges.
Well, Edison was a guy well-grounded in reality. He liked stuff that really existed, and made quite a lot of it. And his approach to inventing was to try and try and try until something worked. He started out as one of the 'geeks' of the time, incidentally. Back then the nerds were into telegraph and hung around the telegraph office. He became a telegrapher eventually, but first he as a kid published a newspaper. On a railroad car. With news he got 'over the wire' (the wire runs usually followed train routes.
Tesla was a cool guy, but in radically different ways. Much more cerebral, he would draw something up and have it completely designed and specified, without having built it at all. There are plenty of Tesla 'gadgets' that even now are just ink lines on paper.
Tesla is kind of like the 'designers' I walk by at work every day. Seems like at least one of them is spinning around a 3-d rendering of some 'part' any time I walk by their cubes. They often have technicians down in the model shop whizzing away with the dremel tool to 'make real' the parts they've 'designed.' Because they're so hands-off that the prototypes they order often enough don't work at all without a bunch of rework and modification. Which is normal in any design process, but these guys seem particularly divorced from the 'real' part of the process sometimes.
You need to be able to enjoy a $500 meal before the show and an expensive bottle of wine after.
Actually, because of the excellent acoustics of many modern concert venues, you can get the really 'cheap seats' at the concert hall. For like twelve bucks or so you can hear really, really great music. Up in second or third tier seats where NOBODY will care that you're wearing your blue jeans.
Yes, there are ostentatious 'wealthy' people down there front and center who appear to mainly be 'making an appearance' at the event. Isn't it grand that they subsidize the whole operation so we get to enjoy the wonderful music for cheap?
Rich people in the past have commissioned a lot of really horrible, TERRIBLE dreck in the name of art. 'Artiste types' are wily critters and they'll do some pretty outlandish things to get loot. There are paintings and sculptures and sonatas and operas that hopefully will NEVER AGAIN be inflicted on the public. But there has also been this marvelous filtering process throughout history, so that the really good stuff, like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc. can be enjoyed and will be enjoyed forever by discriminating music listeners.
That reminds me of the ugly rumors that Star Trek didn't cease to exist after the last episodes were shot in the 60's.
It would be a travasty if the kind of 'politically correct' touchy-feelie sorts who direct television programming today got ahold of the Star Trek theme. Let's just say we're lucky it hasn't happened.
move away... to Qt, for example. It is today's Borland. And shines.
You mean a full version of it comes as a disc shoved in the cover of a paperback manual for like $80, and you can use it for pretty much whatever you like? You can develop commercial aps and sell them for that price?
Doesn't sound at ALL like the Qt that I've read about...
Only time will tell. 'Drivers' for a Microsoft hardware product can disappear, but support linger on for generations on the OS install CD. I have Microsoft 'Digital Sound System 80' USB speakers and they emit sound right after the OS install is done, though I don't think you can download drivers for them anymore.
Great speakers, BTW. It has always been cool to not have to install a sound card. They worked 'out of the box' when I tried Mandrake, too.
And the student who spent all of fall quarter hanging out by the pinball machines in the student union, who suddenly develops a 'social conscience' and signs up over Christmas break to work at the phone banks for $10/hour of Soro's money is not what or whom they say they are. The pretension is that they are an actual 'progressive student activist,' whereas they only hung out around that cool chick with the red/yellow/green knitted scarf because she had the best grass.
Any time anybody types a URL that was meant to be a.com but omits the 'o' the.cm TLD will scoop it up and take the web surfer on a side adventure to wherever.
That constitutes 'typo-squatting'.com in any above described instances.
And, as was said earlier somewhere in the discussion, 'Progressive' organizations put ads in Student Newspapers soliciting college kids to become 'grassroots organizers.'
You don't think there are plenty of 'opportunities' to 'learn how to become a social change organizer' out there on both sides of most issues?? It even comes down to 'make $xx doing so' on both sides.
Trying to make it look as if there is a grassroot movement.
There IS a grassroot movement. On BOTH sides of the issue.
The only thing that's really shocking is that people on the 'global warming is real' side think that the people who disagree with them are 100% dupes, and/or manipulative and evile types.
In the final analysis, that's a pretty shocking way to think about the world, considering how many people don't buy into the theory of 'global warming.'
'Elite movements' like that have created a LOT of trouble over the last few centuries for regular folks just living their lives.
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Actually, the MacOS from 1984 died off completely shortly after 1999. So much for your example of a 'deep long history.' The Apple ][ died shortly after the Apple marketing people decreed that it should. Apple has a habit of throwing away platforms whenever they have something new and shiney to sell. Mac OSX is a fine operating system in many regards. But it's bound to a very narrow hardware platform by design. They'll pitch it out as soon as 'the new greatest opportunity' to get everybody waving their plastic at the Apple Store comes along.
Apple doesn't need to support all of the hardware under the sun; they're Apple, they sell Computing Platforms, not Computers and Operating Systems alone.
You just cited a definitive example of a closed platform, and didn't even wince while doing it.
And since she was mentioned as a 'victim of COINTELPRO' I will have to assume she was selling the Militant on the weekend. Almost all the hue and cry about 'COINTELPRO' comes from the Trotskyites, for some odd reason.
Really, COINTELPRO was a deplorable government program, but it is brought up again and again and again. The fact that it's usually the newest example cited is reassuring, because it happened so long ago.
A quicker answer is to explain what isn't real.
It isn't real to have drawing after drawing after drawing of 'inventions' that have never been built, and thus are just.... ummm... ink on paper.
There's no deep metaphysical discussion needed.
TMPGEnc seems like a really good tool. However, I register for the full version of a tool that I can't burn the install binaries of onto a CD and archive, so I can use it five years from now on a machine that doesn't route to the Internet. The creators of TMPGEnc have decided to copy Microsoft and tether their software to an internet connection, and to an 'authorization' process that I avoid like the plague.
I have a CD that I label 'registered shareware' with a sharpie. It has hundreds of dollars worth of shareware that I have registered over the years. Install binaries and the serial number, or key, or little binary file you copy into a folder. Unfortunately, TMPGEnc seems like it will never make it onto that CD. Too bad, I register shareware fairly readily.
I used to buy things like $250 keyboards, too.
Now I am more into things like the Sun Blade 100 workstation that I got for $60. And, always, books and more books (still expensive, but lots of the cooler ones can be chased down second-hand) And frankly, I'd rather have the '$250' than some of the cast-off 'shiny stuff' that now is just part of my 'collection' (i.e. a 386sx-16 laptop with 4M of memory that I paid $2500 for)
Tesla's design could afford to waste broad bands of the radio spectra. The harmonic interference on his 'broadcast power' technique, if it had been proven and widely adopted, might have entirely wiped out use of the Radio Spectrum for communications. Maybe we'd be getting our power 'wireless' but we'd be sending our 'email messages' through long pneumatic tube piping systems. Or in big mail satchels on canal barges.
Well, Edison was a guy well-grounded in reality. He liked stuff that really existed, and made quite a lot of it. And his approach to inventing was to try and try and try until something worked. He started out as one of the 'geeks' of the time, incidentally. Back then the nerds were into telegraph and hung around the telegraph office. He became a telegrapher eventually, but first he as a kid published a newspaper. On a railroad car. With news he got 'over the wire' (the wire runs usually followed train routes.
Tesla was a cool guy, but in radically different ways. Much more cerebral, he would draw something up and have it completely designed and specified, without having built it at all. There are plenty of Tesla 'gadgets' that even now are just ink lines on paper.
Tesla is kind of like the 'designers' I walk by at work every day. Seems like at least one of them is spinning around a 3-d rendering of some 'part' any time I walk by their cubes. They often have technicians down in the model shop whizzing away with the dremel tool to 'make real' the parts they've 'designed.' Because they're so hands-off that the prototypes they order often enough don't work at all without a bunch of rework and modification. Which is normal in any design process, but these guys seem particularly divorced from the 'real' part of the process sometimes.
You need to be able to enjoy a $500 meal before the show and an expensive bottle of wine after.
Actually, because of the excellent acoustics of many modern concert venues, you can get the really 'cheap seats' at the concert hall. For like twelve bucks or so you can hear really, really great music. Up in second or third tier seats where NOBODY will care that you're wearing your blue jeans.
Yes, there are ostentatious 'wealthy' people down there front and center who appear to mainly be 'making an appearance' at the event. Isn't it grand that they subsidize the whole operation so we get to enjoy the wonderful music for cheap?
Rich people in the past have commissioned a lot of really horrible, TERRIBLE dreck in the name of art. 'Artiste types' are wily critters and they'll do some pretty outlandish things to get loot. There are paintings and sculptures and sonatas and operas that hopefully will NEVER AGAIN be inflicted on the public. But there has also been this marvelous filtering process throughout history, so that the really good stuff, like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc. can be enjoyed and will be enjoyed forever by discriminating music listeners.
That reminds me of the ugly rumors that Star Trek didn't cease to exist after the last episodes were shot in the 60's.
It would be a travasty if the kind of 'politically correct' touchy-feelie sorts who direct television programming today got ahold of the Star Trek theme. Let's just say we're lucky it hasn't happened.
Uhhh, most here think that it's 'programming' to type: "./configure && make && make install"
move away... to Qt, for example.
It is today's Borland. And shines.
You mean a full version of it comes as a disc shoved in the cover of a paperback manual for like $80, and you can use it for pretty much whatever you like? You can develop commercial aps and sell them for that price?
Doesn't sound at ALL like the Qt that I've read about...
It's the countdown to t_time overflow. (it's a 7-bit product)
You'll have to install Think Pascal on some sort of compatability sandbox.
Wasn't MacOS originally written in Pascal?
Only time will tell. 'Drivers' for a Microsoft hardware product can disappear, but support linger on for generations on the OS install CD. I have Microsoft 'Digital Sound System 80' USB speakers and they emit sound right after the OS install is done, though I don't think you can download drivers for them anymore.
Great speakers, BTW. It has always been cool to not have to install a sound card. They worked 'out of the box' when I tried Mandrake, too.
I can look just over on my right, and there's the Turbo Pascal 3.0 manual, where it should be.
Good times.
Correct.
And the student who spent all of fall quarter hanging out by the pinball machines in the student union, who suddenly develops a 'social conscience' and signs up over Christmas break to work at the phone banks for $10/hour of Soro's money is not what or whom they say they are. The pretension is that they are an actual 'progressive student activist,' whereas they only hung out around that cool chick with the red/yellow/green knitted scarf because she had the best grass.
Charles at LGF is pretty used to the kind of sudden traffic this article generated.
LGF has 'broken' a LOT of items and was a significant force in undermining ol' Swiftboat Ketchup himself back in 2004.
pulling mainstream America way to the right with hyperbole and fear mongering.
Hmmm. I somehow get the feeling you're taking sides, dude.
"No! No! Don't believe their propaganda. Here! Read our leaflet!"
Uh, you went directly from an accusing others of 'overworn inflammatory cliches' to rattling out your own overworn inflammatory cliches.
The rest of your comment is just icing on the cake.
Tell us what you REALLY think about the evile right wing monster who hides under your bed at night, dude. We can't figure it out ourselves...
Any time anybody types a URL that was meant to be a .com but omits the 'o' the .cm TLD will scoop it up and take the web surfer on a side adventure to wherever.
.com in any above described instances.
That constitutes 'typo-squatting'
And, as was said earlier somewhere in the discussion, 'Progressive' organizations put ads in Student Newspapers soliciting college kids to become 'grassroots organizers.'
You don't think there are plenty of 'opportunities' to 'learn how to become a social change organizer' out there on both sides of most issues?? It even comes down to 'make $xx doing so' on both sides.
Trying to make it look as if there is a grassroot movement.
There IS a grassroot movement. On BOTH sides of the issue.
The only thing that's really shocking is that people on the 'global warming is real' side think that the people who disagree with them are 100% dupes, and/or manipulative and evile types.
In the final analysis, that's a pretty shocking way to think about the world, considering how many people don't buy into the theory of 'global warming.'
'Elite movements' like that have created a LOT of trouble over the last few centuries for regular folks just living their lives.
than learn about actual events in the world.
Hey, we're talking about the algore 'Documentary' here, you know....
Learn to tell the difference between that and the real world, or you'll be believing in the X-Men before long.