Considering how few PPC apps in use now days, it seems logical.
I've only been a mac user for a few months, but I've never seen a PPC binary, with the exception of the one 'hello world' universal binary I made just to see what would happen.
Never run Quicken for Mac, I guess (except perhaps for a pre-release of Quicken Life for Mac^W^W^W^WQuicken 2010 for Mac):
$ file
/Applications/Quicken\ 2007/Quicken\ 2007/Contents/MacOS/Quicken\ 2007
/Applications/Quicken 2007/Quicken 2007/Contents/MacOS/Quicken 2007: header for PowerPC PEF executable
Not only is it not fat, it's not even Mach-O....
Replace your dog with a goat, or sheep. Now you have a pet that feeds itself in the yard, and you don't need to buy (or run) a lawn mower anymore.
Macro virus? Really? I'm just curious, how long ago was that? I don't think I've seen a Macro Virus in a decade or so. Not doubting your statement, I'm just curious.
I have to disagree. I am 24, and remember growing up with the simpsons. It is an amazingly layered show, or was. As a kid, the focus was on bart and lisa....., but growing up with the simpsons, you tend to notice the adult storylines and slowly understand and find funny or emphasize with their points of views and stories.
To me, this has always been the mark of great art. Enjoyable by and appropriate for a child on one level, and then with deeper layers for more mature viewers that keep it interesting at all ages. Pixar are past masters at this. Take their latest film, UP. From a kid's point of view it's YAY BALOONS YAY AFRICA YAY TALKING DOGS, but it's also an incredibly poignant look at the life of an old man desperately trying to salvage the lost dreams of his youth.
They actually claimed that the 2000+ chip was equivalent to what the performance of 2GHz Thunderbird (their older CPU) would be. Thatit also was similar to 2GHz P4 was left to the imagination of the buyers.
Though 2000+ Athon XP and 2GHz P4 were quite similar.
And now neither company uses the clock frequency for advertisement, since all the clock frequency can tell you is if the chip in question is faster/slower than other chips in the same family, and model numbers can do that too (for example Opteron 275 is faster than 270).
First off, let me admit that I have not yet read the Book reviewed here, but from reading the review, it sounds like it is targeted mainly to the "new to programming" crowd.
I have started my Android Development career by reading Mark Murphy's "Busy Coder's" books, and gotten a lot of details out of his Tutorial book.
http://commonsware.com/books.html
I'm not affiliated with him, but I'd like to really recommend his books to any developer who has an existing background in either Java and wants to quickly get productive in Android Development.
As an additional bonus, all of Mark's books are available electronically or as self-published printed paper back's.
He himself is also a great guy and very active on the Google Android developer forums.
Yes. All my work you can find on arXiv.org. When you submit there, you have to choose the license under which the arXiv can distribute, and two of the options are Creative Commons licenses. We submit our articles to the arXiv first, and then to journals. This means that when the journals receive it, they know the content is already out, and they're not going to get an exclusive distribution deal in any case. There used to be a "preprint" system in which major labs would physically mail around recent articles. The WWW started at CERN and is an outgrowth of this idea.
Everyone should use the arXiv. There are sections for many scientific disciplines, but far from all of them (all it would take is a request to start a new one). In many other fields, the journals exercise draconian control over the scientists (Medicine, Computer Science) and that needs to stop. They work for us, not the other way around.
But, I'm talking about journal articles -- I haven't written any books, and don't really intend to. For scientific journals I agree copyright is a useless hindrance. It was a nice tool when distribution is expensive, but now that the marginal cost of distribution has gone to zero, it's better done with a central government grant, and open access. Now we're just missing a peer-review/referee system attached to the arXiv. When that happens, the journals will die for good.
You should try out a Kindle for a month. I think there is a no-questions return policy anyway within 30 days.
I have always been a big physical book person and was worried about buying the Kindle but I have to say it was worth every cent.
The thing is that the screen used (via eInk) is completely different from any other screen you're used to. It has high contrast, the rough color of a page of paper, and, most importantly, low glare and eye strain. I've taken my kindle on the beach, full sun, and it was actually easier to read than your usual magazine. It was even nicer given that the wind was kicking up and i didn't have to screw around with trying to hold my pages down. You can read it for hours with no problem, the battery life is incredible, and you have the ability to just go on and download any kindle book in the store (provided you have mobile reception)... which was fantastic when I was about to board a flight recently and realized I didn't have anything to read.... in the time it took them to call boarding and give them my ticket (5 minutes) I had gone online, download a book, and was set for the 4 hour flight (with a book selection that is obviously > airport bookstores). Things like that are priceless.
Give it a try.
Science may someday discover what faith has always known.
