Very well written. Another reply noted that he got a bounceback from hi@apple.com. The article on Ars Technica specifies MACHI@APPLE.COM for feedback to apple relating to interface issues.
On the last page of the article he mentioned the fact that in all of his testing of DP4 his system did not crash once. Not Once in a developer preview.
Let me preface with the fact that I am an advanced Mac and Windows user. I hate Windows with a passion. I am a novice *nix user which will hopefully change once I get over my fear of compilers:) Neither of these two trolls had anything inteligent to say. Focusing a little on the internet section, I belive that both were off base. Both set up very easy out of the box for web browsing. Both set up very will for personal web sharing. Both as web servers can run circles around NT with Apache. I will first to admit that Apple is stupid in the fact that it does not include a telnet client(or FTP, etc....) at all. I can't explain Apple won't try to. But long before the open source movement, the mac has always had a very strong Shareware/Freeware community. I am never without some time of networking software I need. Had the internet in it's present form been around when the mac was introduced, we would probably only have Mac and *nix.
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I realize this is somewhat OT but it would be an interesting parallel. Firewire should hit 800Mbts by 1Q 2001 and 1600Mbts about a year later. This would be a much more scalable and flexible solution compared to SCSI. You don't want to set up your whole office like this, But for a small cluster setup this would be cool.
I think that article hit it right on the nose. John Q Public is a stupid f'ing retard. He's the guy who buys a PIII over an Athlon because it's Intel. He is the guy who takes home the free 'puter from Circut City. He sees Ghz Windows machine (read Intel computer) and assumes they must be best. Of course he isn't shelling out for a Ghz machine either he is getting a 500 Mhz Celulose. Very few of these speedy Ghz are availible. IBM has stated that 700Mhz G4 have come off their line, but there are two problems that exist. First the relationship between IBM and Motarola G4 is strained at best. IBM has better production so more chips off the sheet clock up. IBM probably can't sell those 700Mhz CPU's till Motarola catches up. Second reason is that Apple is getting burned, because supply so far exeeds demand. Remember what happend to them when the introduced the 500Mhz G4 they had several hundred thousand pre-orders which they could not fulfill. They arn't going to make that mistake again. They are going to wait until they are ready to sell from now on. Lastly as reported by Mac Addict and their sister publication Maximum PC nearly meets or sometimes exceeds the Athlon and both leave the PIII bloody and twisted on the side of the road.
If there is one country that bows to the wants of industry more than America it's Japan. Warez sites stay in bussines by linking to porn sites ect. All the government has to do is charge the company running the porn site and it will be very easy to get an injunction against both the persons behind the warez site and concivibly their web host. A couple of weeks later no more nickels(or yen) trickling in from horny teenage hackers clicking on banners, can't afford that T1 dammit, out of bussiness. No one every has to be found guilty, just stall things up in the courts to "prepare your case againt the feindish deliquents" and then drop it when they have gone out of bussines.
Lets try and get this strait. The church was not preventing people from translating the bible into other languages. First when the printing press was invented and Gutenburg rolled out his first Bible it was fucking expensive. Not only that it would take months to print a single bible even with a printing press. Of course this was much quicker than when monks used to spend a lifetime to illuminate a single bible. Second what was the literacy rate back then. Virtually no one could read and even fewer people could write. The only people that could read or write spoke all spoke Latin. This was not some way to keep people down or to further theocracy it was because it was the only universal language in the globe at the time. It is still used today by the medical community because of it's universal nature. There wasn't even a common English language until the well after the reformation and the counter-reformation. The prayers and bible readings were always in Latin, but sermons and such were delivered in the language of the local people. The Catholic Church spans the entire globe. One of the main focuses of the church is to ensure that the faithful could receive the word of the Lord the world over. I realize that anti-Catholicism is the last of the socially acceptable prejudices but please quit pulling facts from different time periods, different subjects and placing them together to spread your hate of your fellow man.
Dish Network's new dish and receiver combo have a "digital VCR" built right in for $399. www.dishnetwork.com It has more features than Tivo. It also has internet access built into the box. That fact that it is Web TV access sucks, but hey considering it costs less than the other systems consider it a free extra. Also Because the satalite dish already has the built schedule features they have evolved to extend ease of use. Dish Network is the first Cable/Satalite company I have ever been with where I do not feel like I am getting fucked with constantly. They have excellent customer support and Tech suport and there prices are very reasonable.
Unfortunatly at this time this beutiful piece of technology is only availible bundled with a G4 computer. Apple does not advertized this but is compatible with other DVI cards. At this time Apple still has a very limited supply of these with the major rush for LCD screens going on these days. In comparison to CRT it has the area of a 24" in moniter. The price though will be enough to curb demand. You will have to shell out $4000 for it. More than the computer attached.
A-OH-WELL has decided that if they want to compete in the near future they needed to move to "broadband" internet access. Dial-up will be "dead" in a couple of years and they decided to team up with the largest provider of cable Time-Warner. But wait there is also DSL out there. Many people are switching to DSL from Cable(80% of people I know on DSL have come over from Cable). AOL is thinking they might have chosen the wrong side and is now going to use thier large market clout and capital to encourage Cable and stop DSL from spreading. But of course if they alone did this the government would go Anti-trust on their asses so now they are going to use all of these other re-sellers as pupetts.
We have been hearing for a long time about bluetooth but it is out the door along with most of the companies that said they were going to support it. It was a technology that was great to show off at Comdex, but had no real developer support behind it. Lucent, 3com, Farralon and others have all moved to the readily available 802.11 wireless Ethernet standard. Once considered an underprefomer at 1.5 Megabits per second has moved to 11 Megabits per second. Plus it is completely interoperable with other Ethernet conventions and standard networking protocols.
I believe that everyone has the right to view whatever they want on the internet, TV, computer... As far as the internet goes, lets just move all sexually explicit material to it's own top level domain.sex or.adult . At this level anything goes that is legal otherwise (i.e. no kiddy porn or the like). This is a small price to pay in order to fend off censorship. This is a slippery slope and should not be treated lightly. What is benign to one can be perverse to another. I do belive that despite the rumblings of a small minorty most people could be sensible about what should rate as expressly adult content.
This stated, it is virtually impossible to reach a pornographic web site without forethought. Warez sites are the only sites that push pornography, and everyone that visits them is aware of this caveat.
Moores law is taken out of context too much. IT is 18 months not 12 and it was not meant literal. If he had been speaking literally and on a 12 month scale we would have like 400 GHz computers right now.
Based on my reading of LA Times article on the subject, the basic idea, is that moving the Cobalt atom from place to place will turn the mirage off and on giving us 1's and 0's for binary calculations.
I am already onboard for one of these when it is available, but I thing it would be especially enticing if they added the Springboard component from Visor compatible with Linux. An open PDA hardware component like that with Linux would crush Widoze CE
I agree with an earlier comment that states the Lego test is good to test intelligence rather than facts. While I believe using Legos to test intelligence is rater dumb, I do however believe that we need alternative methods of testing.
One easily implemented is to allow SAT2 tests to be used as a measure of admittance. They are designed to test single subjects rather than broad based facts. The student could be required to take sub 100 level classes in other subjects to strengthen their knowledge base. This would prevent otherwise intelligent students from being denied a first rate education because there is something they didn't know. Isn't that why you go to college, because you don't know and you want to know?
Also, why not foster cross development with a Jr. College. Have the student enroll full time in a Jr. college, and allow them to register for limited classes at a University. Many students could prove their academic skill this way, and still receive a good education not normally associated with a Jr. College
The brother of one of my co-workers has a small software company that ports games to Linux. His current project is to port Civ:Call to Power over to Linux. I do not know the status of this project but it is in the works
My company was insistant on using WinNt 4.0 so I learned a good deal about. I spent plenty of time on Microsoft's website too. I read their Win2000 prepardness statment and heeded it's warning.
Windows 2000 will not ship for another 10 months so you must prepare yourself for the experience. Buy NT4 now and make sure you are familliar with is so that the transition to Windows 2000 will not be shocking....
I dealt with NT4 so much and this is not shocking at all.
The Advertisments on ZDNET for X10.com in a couple of weeks...
Get your new NANOX CAM NOW! Thanks to research from Sandia Labs X10 now provides you with the smallest spy cam ever. These full color cameras are smaller than a and can broadcast up to 3 miles. Buy one today.
WILL Jobs ever wake up? WILL WINTEL Flamers ever stop and examine the Mac? WILL Mac Flamers stop and examine themselves.
I am a die hard mac user. I have been using both Macs and PC's for the past 13 years and I am ever more firm in my position but I will admit Steve needs to wake up and listen to the users. Two button mice are a must. Apple did the right thing getting rid of the floppy drive and serial connections. Now lets take a few more steps into updating the computer experiance. The new GUI has many problems. Astheticly it is nice but the large icons will have to go. Also I hope that they give the option to open each folder in it's own window. I like multiple windows. He does bring up a point which most posts seem to miss. This is a DEMO. Demos are always exagerated. Apple has touted the technical aspects of OSX for some time now to no success. They resorted to hype. Shame on Apple for trying to draw lots of attention to their product.
STEVE: keep listening to your comptetors custormers but to not assume every mac user will follow you blindly when you do something stupid. AND MAKE OSX OPEN SOURCE LIKE DARWIN IS!!!!!!
WINTEL FLAMERS: Tone it down. Don't argue unless you know both systems.
MAC FLAMERS: Tone it down. Defend the mac on merits not faith! Don't argue unless you both systems.
Linux People? I don't know linux well but I would like to see the Linux and Mac communites closer together in open source efforts.
When will this ever stop? Never? I would assume that the majority of this readership would fall under the blanket of "Generation X". We are constantly assaulted for our candor and expression of views. We are the marked targets of every nut job left, right, and middle on the political spectrum. We are the first generation since the 20's to grow up without the wool pulled over our eyes. We see the world much as it and not how we are told it should be. The students of Arizona State had this coming to them just as we all do. Unless the students of Arizona State are somehow different than the rest of the country than about 5% of them voted in the last election. Which means the other 95% voted her in by not voting at all. I won't rant any more I will instead go and be heard.
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Very well written. Another reply noted that he got a bounceback from hi@apple.com. The article on Ars Technica specifies MACHI@APPLE.COM for feedback to apple relating to interface issues.
On the last page of the article he mentioned the fact that in all of his testing of DP4 his system did not crash once. Not Once in a developer preview.
Let me preface with the fact that I am an advanced Mac and Windows user. I hate Windows with a passion. I am a novice *nix user which will hopefully change once I get over my fear of compilers :) Neither of these two trolls had anything inteligent to say. Focusing a little on the internet section, I belive that both were off base. Both set up very easy out of the box for web browsing. Both set up very will for personal web sharing. Both as web servers can run circles around NT with Apache. I will first to admit that Apple is stupid in the fact that it does not include a telnet client(or FTP, etc....) at all. I can't explain Apple won't try to. But long before the open source movement, the mac has always had a very strong Shareware/Freeware community. I am never without some time of networking software I need. Had the internet in it's present form been around when the mac was introduced, we would probably only have Mac and *nix.
I realize this is somewhat OT but it would be an interesting parallel. Firewire should hit 800Mbts by 1Q 2001 and 1600Mbts about a year later. This would be a much more scalable and flexible solution compared to SCSI. You don't want to set up your whole office like this, But for a small cluster setup this would be cool.
I think that article hit it right on the nose. John Q Public is a stupid f'ing retard. He's the guy who buys a PIII over an Athlon because it's Intel. He is the guy who takes home the free 'puter from Circut City. He sees Ghz Windows machine (read Intel computer) and assumes they must be best. Of course he isn't shelling out for a Ghz machine either he is getting a 500 Mhz Celulose. Very few of these speedy Ghz are availible. IBM has stated that 700Mhz G4 have come off their line, but there are two problems that exist. First the relationship between IBM and Motarola G4 is strained at best. IBM has better production so more chips off the sheet clock up. IBM probably can't sell those 700Mhz CPU's till Motarola catches up. Second reason is that Apple is getting burned, because supply so far exeeds demand. Remember what happend to them when the introduced the 500Mhz G4 they had several hundred thousand pre-orders which they could not fulfill. They arn't going to make that mistake again. They are going to wait until they are ready to sell from now on. Lastly as reported by Mac Addict and their sister publication Maximum PC nearly meets or sometimes exceeds the Athlon and both leave the PIII bloody and twisted on the side of the road.
If there is one country that bows to the wants of industry more than America it's Japan. Warez sites stay in bussines by linking to porn sites ect. All the government has to do is charge the company running the porn site and it will be very easy to get an injunction against both the persons behind the warez site and concivibly their web host. A couple of weeks later no more nickels(or yen) trickling in from horny teenage hackers clicking on banners, can't afford that T1 dammit, out of bussiness. No one every has to be found guilty, just stall things up in the courts to "prepare your case againt the feindish deliquents" and then drop it when they have gone out of bussines.
Lets try and get this strait. The church was not preventing people from translating the bible into other languages. First when the printing press was invented and Gutenburg rolled out his first Bible it was fucking expensive. Not only that it would take months to print a single bible even with a printing press. Of course this was much quicker than when monks used to spend a lifetime to illuminate a single bible. Second what was the literacy rate back then. Virtually no one could read and even fewer people could write. The only people that could read or write spoke all spoke Latin. This was not some way to keep people down or to further theocracy it was because it was the only universal language in the globe at the time. It is still used today by the medical community because of it's universal nature. There wasn't even a common English language until the well after the reformation and the counter-reformation. The prayers and bible readings were always in Latin, but sermons and such were delivered in the language of the local people. The Catholic Church spans the entire globe. One of the main focuses of the church is to ensure that the faithful could receive the word of the Lord the world over. I realize that anti-Catholicism is the last of the socially acceptable prejudices but please quit pulling facts from different time periods, different subjects and placing them together to spread your hate of your fellow man.
I wonder if Apple will start demanding that people pay by there meter for thier Fire Wire Tax
Dish Network's new dish and receiver combo have a "digital VCR" built right in for $399. www.dishnetwork.com It has more features than Tivo. It also has internet access built into the box. That fact that it is Web TV access sucks, but hey considering it costs less than the other systems consider it a free extra. Also Because the satalite dish already has the built schedule features they have evolved to extend ease of use. Dish Network is the first Cable/Satalite company I have ever been with where I do not feel like I am getting fucked with constantly. They have excellent customer support and Tech suport and there prices are very reasonable.
Unfortunatly at this time this beutiful piece of technology is only availible bundled with a G4 computer. Apple does not advertized this but is compatible with other DVI cards. At this time Apple still has a very limited supply of these with the major rush for LCD screens going on these days. In comparison to CRT it has the area of a 24" in moniter. The price though will be enough to curb demand. You will have to shell out $4000 for it. More than the computer attached.
A-OH-WELL has decided that if they want to compete in the near future they needed to move to "broadband" internet access. Dial-up will be "dead" in a couple of years and they decided to team up with the largest provider of cable Time-Warner. But wait there is also DSL out there. Many people are switching to DSL from Cable(80% of people I know on DSL have come over from Cable). AOL is thinking they might have chosen the wrong side and is now going to use thier large market clout and capital to encourage Cable and stop DSL from spreading. But of course if they alone did this the government would go Anti-trust on their asses so now they are going to use all of these other re-sellers as pupetts.
We have been hearing for a long time about bluetooth but it is out the door along with most of the companies that said they were going to support it. It was a technology that was great to show off at Comdex, but had no real developer support behind it. Lucent, 3com, Farralon and others have all moved to the readily available 802.11 wireless Ethernet standard. Once considered an underprefomer at 1.5 Megabits per second has moved to 11 Megabits per second. Plus it is completely interoperable with other Ethernet conventions and standard networking protocols.
This stated, it is virtually impossible to reach a pornographic web site without forethought. Warez sites are the only sites that push pornography, and everyone that visits them is aware of this caveat.
Moores law is taken out of context too much. IT is 18 months not 12 and it was not meant literal. If he had been speaking literally and on a 12 month scale we would have like 400 GHz computers right now.
Based on my reading of LA Times article on the subject, the basic idea, is that moving the Cobalt atom from place to place will turn the mirage off and on giving us 1's and 0's for binary calculations.
I am already onboard for one of these when it is available, but I thing it would be especially enticing if they added the Springboard component from Visor compatible with Linux. An open PDA hardware component like that with Linux would crush Widoze CE
One easily implemented is to allow SAT2 tests to be used as a measure of admittance. They are designed to test single subjects rather than broad based facts. The student could be required to take sub 100 level classes in other subjects to strengthen their knowledge base. This would prevent otherwise intelligent students from being denied a first rate education because there is something they didn't know. Isn't that why you go to college, because you don't know and you want to know?
Also, why not foster cross development with a Jr. College. Have the student enroll full time in a Jr. college, and allow them to register for limited classes at a University. Many students could prove their academic skill this way, and still receive a good education not normally associated with a Jr. College
The brother of one of my co-workers has a small software company that ports games to Linux. His current project is to port Civ:Call to Power over to Linux. I do not know the status of this project but it is in the works
Windows 2000 will not ship for another 10 months so you must prepare yourself for the experience. Buy NT4 now and make sure you are familliar with is so that the transition to Windows 2000 will not be shocking....
I dealt with NT4 so much and this is not shocking at all.
Get your new NANOX CAM NOW! Thanks to research from Sandia Labs X10 now provides you with the smallest spy cam ever. These full color cameras are smaller than a and can broadcast up to 3 miles. Buy one today.
I am a die hard mac user. I have been using both Macs and PC's for the past 13 years and I am ever more firm in my position but I will admit Steve needs to wake up and listen to the users. Two button mice are a must. Apple did the right thing getting rid of the floppy drive and serial connections. Now lets take a few more steps into updating the computer experiance. The new GUI has many problems. Astheticly it is nice but the large icons will have to go. Also I hope that they give the option to open each folder in it's own window. I like multiple windows. He does bring up a point which most posts seem to miss. This is a DEMO. Demos are always exagerated. Apple has touted the technical aspects of OSX for some time now to no success. They resorted to hype. Shame on Apple for trying to draw lots of attention to their product.
STEVE: keep listening to your comptetors custormers but to not assume every mac user will follow you blindly when you do something stupid. AND MAKE OSX OPEN SOURCE LIKE DARWIN IS!!!!!!
WINTEL FLAMERS: Tone it down. Don't argue unless you know both systems.
MAC FLAMERS: Tone it down. Defend the mac on merits not faith! Don't argue unless you both systems.
Linux People? I don't know linux well but I would like to see the Linux and Mac communites closer together in open source efforts.
When will this ever stop? Never? I would assume that the majority of this readership would fall under the blanket of "Generation X". We are constantly assaulted for our candor and expression of views. We are the marked targets of every nut job left, right, and middle on the political spectrum. We are the first generation since the 20's to grow up without the wool pulled over our eyes. We see the world much as it and not how we are told it should be. The students of Arizona State had this coming to them just as we all do. Unless the students of Arizona State are somehow different than the rest of the country than about 5% of them voted in the last election. Which means the other 95% voted her in by not voting at all. I won't rant any more I will instead go and be heard.