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"." drwxrwxr-t root/admin
"./System" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/CoreServices" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist " -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist " -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/Info.plist" -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/MacOS" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/MacOS/AppleGMACEthernet" -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/Resources" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/Resources/English.lproj" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strin gs" -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/locversion.plis t" -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/Extensions/AppleGMACEthernet.kex t/Contents/version.plist" -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/SystemConfiguration" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/SystemConfiguration/PowerManagem ent.bundle" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/SystemConfiguration/PowerManagem ent.bundle/Contents" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/SystemConfiguration/PowerManagem ent.bundle/Contents/Info.plist" -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
"./System/Library/SystemConfiguration/PowerManagem ent.bundle/Contents/MacOS" drwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/SystemConfiguration/PowerManagem ent.bundle/Contents/MacOS/PowerManagement" -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel
"./System/Library/SystemConfiguration/PowerManagem ent.bundle/Contents/version.plist" -rw-r--r-- root/wheel
jeeze

I quote from the stroy: "It has the same shape but has a chrome finish."

link - right click, save target as. It seems to be working just fine for me! 26 megs of lotr goodness.

Panther can run on a 400 MHz G3 with 192 MB RAM. I wonder how sluggish it is on such a machine. I also wonder who has a pre-release and decided to run it on such a machine.

Hmmmm......

This screenshot from the Wired article points to a disturbing problem with the 10.3 prereleases: move from 10.2.x to 10.3 and have your processor downgrade, your clock speed decrease by 600MHz, and your RAM decrease by 448 MB. Watch out!

There is a Wired article: Look Ma, No Projection Screen with some details about two companies and an interesting photo.

All I want is a slim, compact keyboard with basic functions. Like this.

Are there any keyboards like this for the PC? I would much appreciate being able to find one.

> I don't really see exactly how much eletricity these will produce per window.

Well, considering the fact that this is coming from an achitect, I think the main sell is the ooh-ahh factor rather than amazing cost benefit. But it's a nice refreshing perspective that's different from the old put-it-on-the-roof concept. Come to think of it, having solar panels as window shades are probably better for offices considering how much window area skyscrapers have.

(a cool pic of solar shades)

Look at the Anandtech.com's Q3 1024x768 CPU scaling benchmarks on the same chipset (Intel875P) as the Dell Dimension 8300 in the test with *lower* performing vid card (9700 vs the 9800 in apple's test) and tell me how it can score that low. Was Apple testing a 2GHz P4 CPU by mistake? Thats about where it should be by every Q3 bench I've seen with a modern mobo and an ATI R300 chipsetted GPU.

There are some slight variations here (slightly different q3 engine versions, unsure what 3ghz intel 3GHz CPU (3.0c or 3.06) the Dell dimension is actually using.

Anandtech

Apple White Paper

Augur your Comments, please.

Right, because two of the icons/images in this look nothing like this (or any of the icons from previous versions).

Trailer Page at Quicktime

Direct link to trailer.

For those who need it, here are the direct links to the movies.

Teaser one large
Teaser two large
Animation
JarJar interview

For those who need it, here are the direct links to the movies.

Teaser one large
Teaser two large
Animation
JarJar interview

For those who need it, here are the direct links to the movies.

Teaser one large
Teaser two large
Animation
JarJar interview

Try the sample download in moz/opera etc - even spoofing user agent it doesn't work. That is until you copy the download url from the source.

here is a direct link to the full size vid:
http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/30378f1c0dfafa/1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e81787e85abb28970c7aee1d8de e67ca3297fa65/paycheck_m480.mov

First of all, it's beta 2 and it's not slow at all.

Actually, it's been beta 3 for a few months now, and can be had at http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/. If you get it, make sure to get the SDK too, so that you can compile new X11 apps (such as those provided by fink)

Go ahead and force MS to sell those in the EU a copy w/o WMP. Now EU users will be forced to pay $30 to $40 to Real, Music Match, Quicktime, etc. to get the same functionality they get for free with WMP.

RealOne player: Here, free.
MusicMatch : Here, free.
QuickTime: Here, free.

You were saying?

(Oh, don't forget Winamp! Probrably the best of the bunch, IMHO.

Soko

http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/59f90d714e2b19/1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382e353c32f94c32c9c0b6f9e0e7de154b32896ff73d 8057bf2/pods_unite_m480.mov

Phones aren't the only mobile devices with games. They have company in the iPod. Second-gen iPods had one game, Brick (which is really Breakout, the old Atari coin-op engineered by Steve Wozniak), and the new third-gen iPods have three: Brick, Solitaire, and Parachute.

I haven't fiddled with a new iPod yet, so I don't know what Parachute is; but it might be that very old Mac game where you had to parachute into a moving hay-filled sleigh or something. Solitaire looks good.

The iPod's not exactly a Game Boy Advance, but at least it gives you something to do in a queue. Also, Apple's screens are always very good. The one in the iPod is, at 2", bigger than most phone screens. It's well backlit too - which, I hear, the Advance isn't.

What other kinds of devices out there have games?

OGG to MP3

No contest if you ask me.

If you read their Financial Statement, you will see they made $17 million in interest, so interest is not the sole reason for their profit.

Did anyone take a look at the pictures attached to the article? Personally, I think I'd prefer the old style test... =)

Each 'strand' is one curving segment of hair that can be manipulated and curved to a great degree. Compare to typical japanese-animated hair, which has only two segements, the front hair that covers the character's face, and the back that appears behind their face. Yeah, I know it sounds like they only have 16 hairs, but it looks quite a bit better than that. Check out this character picture for a clearer idea of what each 'strand' really is:

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091437/ww w.wired.com/news/images/full/sinbad_b800_f.jpg

However, I don't agree with your assertion that the PC you specced is "high-end", or that compared to the PC, the G5 system is 'under-performing'.

This is a matter of opinion, but a high-end system in my mind would have more processing power than just a single P4 (we're talking a dual-Xeon system really, in PC-speak), would have more than 512MB RAM and would have a DVD burner.

As for performance, check out these graphics from Apple: DNA sequence matching performance and Hidden Markov Model performance. The work that I do is *very* similar to these scientific applications -- and the difference in performance is extreme. This is probably due to the 64-bit architecture and high CPU-RAM bandwidth (about 4 times that of a PC).

So, for these systems, which you consider "high spec", the Apple is about £200 more expensive than the PC, but is likely to perform about 5 times better on the type of scientific computation that I do. The £200 doesn't seem so expensive now.

I just specced out two high-spec (my definition) systems, one Apple (dual G5), one PC (dual 3GHz Xeon). The Apple system costs £3,000 and the Dell system costs £3,234 (both include the manufacturers' best warranties). Again, looking at Apple's benchmarks, the G5 system out-performs the dual Xeons by far.

But let's be realistic. A computer is just a tool. Some people will need a PC because of corporate policy, because they need to run Windows-specific software, or one of a hundred other reasons. One just needs to work out what one needs, and then buy the system. Me: I'd go for the Mac at the moment for three main reasons: performance, price and the integration between hardware and software.

However, I don't agree with your assertion that the PC you specced is "high-end", or that compared to the PC, the G5 system is 'under-performing'.

This is a matter of opinion, but a high-end system in my mind would have more processing power than just a single P4 (we're talking a dual-Xeon system really, in PC-speak), would have more than 512MB RAM and would have a DVD burner.

As for performance, check out these graphics from Apple: DNA sequence matching performance and Hidden Markov Model performance. The work that I do is *very* similar to these scientific applications -- and the difference in performance is extreme. This is probably due to the 64-bit architecture and high CPU-RAM bandwidth (about 4 times that of a PC).

So, for these systems, which you consider "high spec", the Apple is about £200 more expensive than the PC, but is likely to perform about 5 times better on the type of scientific computation that I do. The £200 doesn't seem so expensive now.

I just specced out two high-spec (my definition) systems, one Apple (dual G5), one PC (dual 3GHz Xeon). The Apple system costs £3,000 and the Dell system costs £3,234 (both include the manufacturers' best warranties). Again, looking at Apple's benchmarks, the G5 system out-performs the dual Xeons by far.

But let's be realistic. A computer is just a tool. Some people will need a PC because of corporate policy, because they need to run Windows-specific software, or one of a hundred other reasons. One just needs to work out what one needs, and then buy the system. Me: I'd go for the Mac at the moment for three main reasons: performance, price and the integration between hardware and software.

I'm sure other web cameras have this feature as well, but Apple iSight web camera has a closeable lens... A nice touch, given the current state of affairs we are living in right now (one that B.Ga claims doesn't exist)...

Haven't seen a picture yet, but wouldn't it be great if it looked like this?!

The generally accepted term for this type of technology is "Content Distribution Networking" or "Content Delivery Networking". Akamai, Speedera, Digital Island etc. are Content Distribution companies which will (according to the necessary commercial agreements), take a customer's content and distribute it around their overlay CDNs. Generally speaking, these CDNs overlay the traditional Internet using co-located space in customer or exchange point datacentres. There are, however, some CDN organisations who take the approach of building their own infrastructure.

"Transparent Web Caching" on the other hand is generally a term applied to the transparent redirection of TCP port 80 IP traffic on access equipment through a set of HTTP proxy devices. This technique is used by many ISPs to force users to use their Webcaches even if the user thinks they are being clever by disabling the pre-defined HTTP Proxy settings in their Web browser.

Until recently, you could build your own CDN ($$$) using software from people such as Inktomi, but can still use devices from other manufacturers such as Network Appliance or Cisco Systems.

Here is the image that I think Taco should use to replace the G4 with...

Quake benchmark

-T

Just to trebly confirm: I turned off my proxy, reloaded (same image), then viewed image in a seperate window, then stuck a '?' on the end to force Safari to treat it as another URL.

Still starts with stuff about "Dual PowerPC G4 processors up to 1.42GHz".

I guess there's an ultraparanoid graphic designer out there who's never going to update that GIF ever again after what happened last time...

Why is this post getting modded as "informative", it isn't that informed.

Seriously now... 64b addressing isn't about speed its about being able to address lots of memory. Many professional, engineering, scientific and even some prosumer task can easily use more then 4GB of memory, even greater then 8GB of memory (current system limit in the new PowerMac G5s).

Yes many CPUs including what Apple calls the G4 have instruction to deal with 64b or larger data (64b for FP / 16x8b/4x32b/2x64b/128b for vector) but now the integer unit natively supports 64b as well. Having native 64b integer support can be a boon for many things as well. For one the Mac OS X kernel makes heavy use of 64b integers for all kinds of things, so does many audio, engineering and scientific processing tasks. So the PowerMac G5 will be helpful in this regard.

As to the trolling about Apple's claims... go look over the following website and PDFs for a better understanding of the new systems and just what Apple is saying about it. Then judge things...

PowerMac G5

PowerMac G5 Overview (PDF)

PowerMac G5 Performance (PDF)

G5 [PPC970] Processor Overview (PDF)

Why is this post getting modded as "informative", it isn't that informed.

Seriously now... 64b addressing isn't about speed its about being able to address lots of memory. Many professional, engineering, scientific and even some prosumer task can easily use more then 4GB of memory, even greater then 8GB of memory (current system limit in the new PowerMac G5s).

Yes many CPUs including what Apple calls the G4 have instruction to deal with 64b or larger data (64b for FP / 16x8b/4x32b/2x64b/128b for vector) but now the integer unit natively supports 64b as well. Having native 64b integer support can be a boon for many things as well. For one the Mac OS X kernel makes heavy use of 64b integers for all kinds of things, so does many audio, engineering and scientific processing tasks. So the PowerMac G5 will be helpful in this regard.

As to the trolling about Apple's claims... go look over the following website and PDFs for a better understanding of the new systems and just what Apple is saying about it. Then judge things...

PowerMac G5

PowerMac G5 Overview (PDF)

PowerMac G5 Performance (PDF)

G5 [PPC970] Processor Overview (PDF)

Why is this post getting modded as "informative", it isn't that informed.

Seriously now... 64b addressing isn't about speed its about being able to address lots of memory. Many professional, engineering, scientific and even some prosumer task can easily use more then 4GB of memory, even greater then 8GB of memory (current system limit in the new PowerMac G5s).

Yes many CPUs including what Apple calls the G4 have instruction to deal with 64b or larger data (64b for FP / 16x8b/4x32b/2x64b/128b for vector) but now the integer unit natively supports 64b as well. Having native 64b integer support can be a boon for many things as well. For one the Mac OS X kernel makes heavy use of 64b integers for all kinds of things, so does many audio, engineering and scientific processing tasks. So the PowerMac G5 will be helpful in this regard.

As to the trolling about Apple's claims... go look over the following website and PDFs for a better understanding of the new systems and just what Apple is saying about it. Then judge things...

PowerMac G5

PowerMac G5 Overview (PDF)

PowerMac G5 Performance (PDF)

G5 [PPC970] Processor Overview (PDF)

And they keep a nice history as well.... see.
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/343/store.appl e.com/Catalog/US/Images/step1bullet1powermac.gif

Apparently, some enterprising young soul traced down the Akamai image and as of 20 June 2003, 9:00 am EST, that image is still up. Basically, this means the image is real enough to have Akamai's machines serve it up. (Akamai provides content delivery services to Apple)

And in case someone at Apple and Akamai wake up enough to pull the Akamai content, here's my mirror. Think of it as education free use.

(Dear, Mr. Jobs. Please don't sic your lawyers on me. You'll find I'm very amenable were I to receive "assistance" with my imminent alBook purchase.) ;-)

A relevant picture can still be found on an Akamai Mirror (taken from an write-up here

It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible

- Up to 1GHz processor bus

1GHz bus? gimme a break. Intel hasn't yet reached this. Two points impossible

- AGP 8X Pro graphics options from NVIDIA or ATI

Almost believable, but for the moment Apple are phasing out the use of NVIDIA cards in their machines. I highly doubt they'll be used. Half a point impossible

- Three USB 2.0 ports

The rest of Apples site would say "3 USB Ports" not "Three". Also, Apple have a long standing habit of using Firewire instead of USB 2.0. I take this as one point impossible

- One FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports

Once again use of the verbal "One" instead of the numeric. Only one FW800 port? Why would Apple stick with FireWire 400 anyway? I mark this impossible

- Optical and analog audio in and out

Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? I'm sorry but this sounds like wishful thinking. One more point impossible.

Not sure if they tested for this but if they didn't I think this particular rocket might not go too far.

Actually, despite all the hype, rocket science isn't really all that tough.

I was going to disagree but then I saw some of the plans.

This reminds me of roadrunner cartoons (ACME Launch System).

Um, there's a "radio" selection that has several hundred shoutcast stations directly above the music store in the playlist pane like so. It's not tied into the music store or sponsored by labels or anything and it has some great stuff. It's had this feature since version 1 IIRC.

Read the privacy policy. It's been around since TiVo was founded, and nothing in that time has changed.

TiVo has been selling your demographic data for years. Superbowl advertisers bought information from TiVo to see which Brittney Spears commercial got the most replay and in which kinds of households.

This has absolutely nothing to do with an infrigement of rights, as it all strictly adheres to an agreement between customer and provider made fully clear at the time of purchase.

To offset the costs of building and maintaining a complicated system that provides an excellent service to consumers they sell information on their demographics. Anyone wanna tell me how that makes them evil all of a sudden?

You can poo-poo the 1024x768 screen on the 12" PowerBook, but to my knowledge there is no higher resolution 12" display on a notebook anywhere. If you want higher resolution you need a bigger notebook. This is the right trade-off in my opinion, because things would start getting pretty tiny at higher res on a 12".

Also check the Apple PDF Datasheet on the 12", you'll see that the drive is stated to write at 24x, not 2x as you suggest. (I just checked, and interestingly the Apple Store page says the drive writes at 8x. Weird, but still faster than 2x.)

This pic is a riot! Look at the dude.

"Yea, mang! Iz is get'sin' the booty!"