Hmm.. for someone who talks about tinker toys for linux users...
Who cares about Mach and some BSD stuff underlying OSX? Only someone who wants to make a real effort to make their Mac more Linux/Unix like. It's not like you can just take some open source Li/Unix application, set Mac as the target platform, recompile and have a ready to use or distribute Macintosh application. Coco is not X-Windows. Yes, there is a bash shell under there. Yay, I could run pine natively!
A modern Unix/Linux application usually uses Qt or GTK. Usually the same source code can be recompiled with a few different flags and you get a Windows executable. Yes, recompiling is a geek thing. So what? It only takes one geek. What you actually get is somebody releases a Windows installer exe that takes care of everything for all those non-geek users.
If someone buys and pays for OSX and uses it how is that stealing? So they didn't pay Apple for the hardware. So what? They didn't get hardware from Apple.
Accessing the kernel source is hardly the only definition of openness. Although... there is an expensive licensing procedure to get access to Windows source although you aren't supposed to compile it.
Apple's OS can only be ran on Apple hardware. Yes, you can hack it onto other hardware but that isn't something they allow in their user agreement. Microsoft on the other hand would love to see you purchase a copy of Windows for each and every device you can get it to run on.
Next.. show me how you can write an app for an iOS device without paying Apple for the privilege. Then, how can you distribute it w/o Apple's blessing. Now OSX is getting an app store too... I wonder how long before it is the only way to install on OSX...
Yes, there are options, Hackintosh, Jailbreak and Cydia but those require breaking Apple's user agreements AND Apple is constantly trying to plug the holes that one uses to access these methods.
Police officers taking down plate numbers... Your plate number might exist in a few officer's notebooks. It is a very sparse and random sampling of places your car has been. It is very incomplete and is distributed in far too many places to hope to piece it together anyway.
A proliferation of automated plate scanners... Your plate number in a database listing every time you have driven past the scanners. Easily enough data to piece together the daily routine and and a good amount of other data on any criminal, protester, political opponent or person a police officer might just not like.
This is a lot of power to put in the hands of corruptible people. Are as many people as I see defending this really so scared of the criminals out there and have that much trust in the government? The overwhelming majority of us live our whole lives without being killed, raped or even mugged. I'm sure most of us experience something getting stolen from us at some point, usually a car broken into in the middle of the night but really, it's not THAT bad. Keep in mind as well that no serial killer, thief or rapist in history is responsible for as many deaths as our congress and executive branch.
If we keep giving so much power to our governments we WILL lose our freedoms. And for all these people who keep talking about biking and walking. Where do you live? Maybe in DC that works but DC is only an early adopter. Anything which gives the government and police more of the power they crave will spread without sufficient citizen opposition. Most areas are more rural than that and things are just too far spread apart. Many urban areas on the other hand don't have such great pedestrian accommodations and walking/biking is a likely way to get ran over.
Hardly! Apple never really played nice with it's hardware. IBM & compatibles are comparatively very open, anybody can build accessories and even full 'clones'. Not that we even use the term clones anymore. And what do most of them run for software? Microsoft Windows.
Little has really changed. Apple is still the most closed choice in computing. Microsoft does some really bad things but is still much more open than Apple. All that's happened is Jobs died and Gates, realizing he is old is furiously working on some of his karma debt before he dies too.
No. He put one set of observed data before another. If he didn't have the reference to 1987a then I would agree with you. He is simply saying that these two sets of observed data seem to conflict and he believes that the data from the 1987a supernova is more reliable.
He is known to have had them up through the first US/Iraqi war. After that the program was supposedly dismantled. Have you heard any reports that existing chemical weapons or even evidence of their existence were found when the US came looking for them? I haven't. While I would agree that not finding them isn't 100% proof they aren't just really well hidden the search was supposedly quite massive. It seems pretty unlikely there actually was any extant wmd program in Iraq.
If that was all there was to it then he could have easily had his diplomats let our diplomats what was really going on. He could even have let inspectors in provided that the inspections were done in secret. It's not like the US and Iran are best friends or anything.
That was the point. War pays well to the weapons companies and other contractors. They are HUGE and POWERFUL corporations with more than enough politicians in their back pockets to keep humanity killing itself until the end of the world. Just look at Cheney + Halliburton...
Yes, but in a democracy the system is ultimately the people. The system is broken because the people are broken. They don't care about issues like this.
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Hmm.. for someone who talks about tinker toys for linux users...
Who cares about Mach and some BSD stuff underlying OSX? Only someone who wants to make a real effort to make their Mac more Linux/Unix like. It's not like you can just take some open source Li/Unix application, set Mac as the target platform, recompile and have a ready to use or distribute Macintosh application. Coco is not X-Windows. Yes, there is a bash shell under there. Yay, I could run pine natively!
A modern Unix/Linux application usually uses Qt or GTK. Usually the same source code can be recompiled with a few different flags and you get a Windows executable. Yes, recompiling is a geek thing. So what? It only takes one geek. What you actually get is somebody releases a Windows installer exe that takes care of everything for all those non-geek users.
I don't think anybody really expects that. He was just pointing out the change in Apple's culture over the years and what Woz thought of it.
Oh, ok. So Gates is doing those things because the money annoys him. Thanks for clearing that up!
If someone buys and pays for OSX and uses it how is that stealing? So they didn't pay Apple for the hardware. So what? They didn't get hardware from Apple.
Accessing the kernel source is hardly the only definition of openness. Although... there is an expensive licensing procedure to get access to Windows source although you aren't supposed to compile it. Apple's OS can only be ran on Apple hardware. Yes, you can hack it onto other hardware but that isn't something they allow in their user agreement. Microsoft on the other hand would love to see you purchase a copy of Windows for each and every device you can get it to run on. Next.. show me how you can write an app for an iOS device without paying Apple for the privilege. Then, how can you distribute it w/o Apple's blessing. Now OSX is getting an app store too... I wonder how long before it is the only way to install on OSX... Yes, there are options, Hackintosh, Jailbreak and Cydia but those require breaking Apple's user agreements AND Apple is constantly trying to plug the holes that one uses to access these methods.
Police officers taking down plate numbers... Your plate number might exist in a few officer's notebooks. It is a very sparse and random sampling of places your car has been. It is very incomplete and is distributed in far too many places to hope to piece it together anyway.
A proliferation of automated plate scanners... Your plate number in a database listing every time you have driven past the scanners. Easily enough data to piece together the daily routine and and a good amount of other data on any criminal, protester, political opponent or person a police officer might just not like.
This is a lot of power to put in the hands of corruptible people. Are as many people as I see defending this really so scared of the criminals out there and have that much trust in the government? The overwhelming majority of us live our whole lives without being killed, raped or even mugged. I'm sure most of us experience something getting stolen from us at some point, usually a car broken into in the middle of the night but really, it's not THAT bad. Keep in mind as well that no serial killer, thief or rapist in history is responsible for as many deaths as our congress and executive branch.
If we keep giving so much power to our governments we WILL lose our freedoms. And for all these people who keep talking about biking and walking. Where do you live? Maybe in DC that works but DC is only an early adopter. Anything which gives the government and police more of the power they crave will spread without sufficient citizen opposition. Most areas are more rural than that and things are just too far spread apart. Many urban areas on the other hand don't have such great pedestrian accommodations and walking/biking is a likely way to get ran over.
Hardly! Apple never really played nice with it's hardware. IBM & compatibles are comparatively very open, anybody can build accessories and even full 'clones'. Not that we even use the term clones anymore. And what do most of them run for software? Microsoft Windows.
Little has really changed. Apple is still the most closed choice in computing. Microsoft does some really bad things but is still much more open than Apple. All that's happened is Jobs died and Gates, realizing he is old is furiously working on some of his karma debt before he dies too.
No. He put one set of observed data before another. If he didn't have the reference to 1987a then I would agree with you. He is simply saying that these two sets of observed data seem to conflict and he believes that the data from the 1987a supernova is more reliable.
Viewers from outside the US can get a page suggesting they call their local officials about ACTA
Hmmm... how many extremist vs non-extremist madrassas would that vaporize?
He is known to have had them up through the first US/Iraqi war. After that the program was supposedly dismantled. Have you heard any reports that existing chemical weapons or even evidence of their existence were found when the US came looking for them? I haven't. While I would agree that not finding them isn't 100% proof they aren't just really well hidden the search was supposedly quite massive. It seems pretty unlikely there actually was any extant wmd program in Iraq.
If that was all there was to it then he could have easily had his diplomats let our diplomats what was really going on. He could even have let inspectors in provided that the inspections were done in secret. It's not like the US and Iran are best friends or anything.
That was the point. War pays well to the weapons companies and other contractors. They are HUGE and POWERFUL corporations with more than enough politicians in their back pockets to keep humanity killing itself until the end of the world. Just look at Cheney + Halliburton...
Suddenly I see a use for all the homemade printers I see on maker blogs like Hackaday...
For most Slashdoters that really isn't true.
You can pay a bunch of money to be cool rather than find your own friends elsewhere.
Oh man, his poor mom. She must have been disappointed.
Don't worry. They are just waiting for Steve Ballmer to become available.
Isn't that the same kind of stuff you would find if you cleaned out a big city park on any day of any year?
That's exactly what the people who elect the other 434 think.
Yes, but in a democracy the system is ultimately the people. The system is broken because the people are broken. They don't care about issues like this.
Which is why we need that metaphorical plague. Sorry, it sucks but sometimes I wonder if another great depression wouldn't do us some good.
Given the choices I think that may require starting a new one.
Which device manufacturer will buy the contract and get a monopoly?
For those who RTFA (or at least clicked) anybody else see his eyes in that picture and wonder if Data had been smoking pot?