] So is the mini a maxi value? For me, clearly, no. When
] I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running
] applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV,
] Windows Update and Ad-Aware--none of which are available
] for the Mac platform--it doesn't make sense for me to
] "switch" to a Mac at this time. But will Apple's famous
] marketing team be able to sell the the emperor an
] invisible computer anyway and turn the mini into a maxi
] hit? That%u2019s the question that remains to be
] answered.

simply hilarious.

Mac Mini: The Emperor's New Computer

] Summary
] When writing applications in SWT, you may need to use
] layouts to give your windows a specific look. A layout
] controls the position and size of children in a
] Composite. Layout classes are subclasses of the abstract
] class Layout. This article shows you how to work with
] standard layouts, and write your own custom layout class.

Eclipse Corner: Layouts

] Eclipse is a free download, and is available on a number
] of platforms. Since IBM launched Eclipse in November
] 2001, more than 18 million download requests have been
] logged from over 125 countries.
]
]
] A growing consortium of high-profile companies and
] organizations are actively supporting and extending
] Eclipse's ongoing development and giving the platform
] momentum. These organizations contribute support and
] technology, and they determine the direction and scope of
] Eclipse's growth.

Apple's Eclipse page. Eclipse is an IDE, and it is built with JFace/SWT. The GIMP is to Gtk+ as Eclipse is to Jface/SWT. They provide a not-so-slow replacement for SWING. Java doesn't have to be slow.

Eclipse and Mac OS X: A Natural Combination

] Mac OS X is the only mass-market operating system that
] comes complete with a fully configured and ready-to-use
] Java Development Kit. Professional Java developers are
] increasingly turning to the feature-rich Mac OS X as the
] operating system of choice for cross-platform Java
] development projects on the Macintosh and other
] platforms. Mac OS X includes the full version of J2SE
] 1.4.x, preinstalled with the Java Development Kit (JDK)
] and the HotSpot virtual machine (VM), so you don't have
] to download, install, or configure anything.

Apple's Mac OS X Java Development

] 12/24/2004: Apple Computer, Inc. has filed suit against
] Mac TKA members
]
] Members of the Mac.TKA Community,
]
] Before reading, know this: Any replies made to this
] thread which are not questions will be deleted.
]
] Many of you are still questioning our motives surrounding
] the disabling, and later the deletion of, the torrent of
] Apple's pre-release beta of Mac OS X Tiger dubbed Build
] 8A323. You've all had many questions, and we've been
] carefully mulling over how to answer your concerns. Now
] we're prepared to provide you with an answer that is
] clear as to the issue at hand.
]
] The torrent was brought to the attention of Apple
] Computer's Legal team who subsequently contacted the site
] administrators, as well as some of the volunteer staff,
] to request the torrent's removal. The torrent was then
] disabled with a note instructing other staff members to
] not re-enable the torrent. Because of the nature of this
] incident, we wanted to ascertain as much information as
] possible about what has happened and what will happen in
] the future before making a statement.
]
] The Apple Developer Relations team has asked, and we've
] complied to the best of our abilities, that all
] pre-release torrents originating from the Apple Developer
] Connection be disabled; you'll find that all Tiger builds
] have been either disabled or deleted. As such, we'd like
] to ask that no one attempt to upload further pre-release
] software builds from the Developer program. Apple has
] many reasons for their decisions not to allow us to offer
] these torrents to you, and we -- the Mac.TKA Staff --
] must abide by their wishes as the developers of the
] software in question.
]
] Furthermore, Apple has asked that all users who have
] downloaded this software without possessing an Apple
] program membership which allows you legal access to this
] software to delete all copies which may have been
] downloaded.
]
] We're here to host a Mac community and to serve torrents,
] to have a learning experience in building a peer-to-peer
] community. Users are responsible for content which they
] upload. Moderators and Administrators respond to any
] valid legal complaints in the manner which the staff
] feels is appropriate and addresses the concerns of the
] complaint.
]
] Remember that no one on BitTorrent is anonymous -- no
] matter what precautions you take, BitTorrent needs REAL,
] EXACT IP information to properly route traffic among
] peers. Just because we don't list full IPs and usernames
] on the tracker stats page doesn't mean that users who
] wish to won't have the ability to get this information.
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Apple Files Suit Against 28 Torrentskickass Users :: TKA - News

] The secret to programming is not intelligence, though of
] course that helps. It is not hard work or experience,
] though they help, too. The secret to programming is
] having smart friends.
]
] Once we had a plausible way to ship, Apple became the
] ideal work environment. Every engineer we knew was
] willing to help us. We got resources that would never
] have been available to us had we been on the payroll.

Best thing I've read in months.

Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story

] This article is the first in a series that will be
] covering the construction of project WMD, my very own PC
] doomsday device.

Okay, now this is a casemod...

bit-tech.net :: WMD - Part 1

] The goal is to create a reactor that could produce about
] 300 megawatts of electricity for the grid, enough to run
] about 300,000 window air-conditioners, or produce about
] 2.5 kilos of hydrogen per second. When burned, a kilo of
] hydrogen has about the same energy value as a gallon of
] unleaded regular gasoline. But fuel cells, which work
] without burning, get about twice as much work out of each
] unit of fuel. So if used in automotive fuel cells, the
] reactor might replace more than 400,000 gallons of
] gasoline per day.

The New York Times : Washington : Hydrogen Production Method Could Bolster Fuel Supplies

] JustReason is our open source, inference engine.
] Knowledge decision makers use is represented with
] decision trees and new structures we call argument trees
] following insights from artificial intelligence research.
] JustReason draws on knowledge bases (stored as standard
] relational database tables) and automatically produces
] web pages that encode sequence of prompts that guide
] users to a conclusion.

I dunno why they went with PHP on this... seems like Java would have been the way to go for live charts.

JustSys justreason

] What is SkypeIn and what are the plans for it?
]
] SkypeIn will allow phone calls from the traditional phone
] network in to Skype. We don%u2019t have a specific launch
] date yet, but hope to offer it sometime this winter.

I've been using SkypeOut for a few months now. It is the bomb. It is cheap. They finally came out with a beta for OS X that has a dialpad on it. SkypeIn will totally release me from my rediculous cell phone bill.

The Engadget Interview: Niklas Zennström - Engadget - www.engadget.com