Everyone knows Apple didn't produce computers between the Apple 2 line and the OS X line. They did make some good doorstops while all the brains in the company were over at NeXT, but definately no computers.
Unlike Windows, where everything breaks ever service pack, or Linux, where stuff has to be ported to every combination of distribution kernel and libc version... I can take my NeXT code from ~1992 and compile it unchanged on OS X 10.2 becasue Apple does things right the first time.
So I'm 100% sure compiling Quark for a G5 w/10.3 will just be a matter of hitting the build button.
libGIF - ~800 lines of code, old as dirt, fast as hell.
vs.
libPNG+zlib+libMNG - ~1.4 MB of compressed unfinished stuff, age and speed low.
Yea, sign me up!
Seriously, anyone still wondering why it's not built into IE when GIF and JPEG and TIFF work so great is just oblivious. Yes, it's awesome, features galore, does things nothing... er.. few... er.. not too many other things already do very well.
Face it, the patent was the whole point. Read the PNG page, the first 3 paragraphs start with "We are better then TIFF because we have less features" and end with "but you're much better off using JPEG and TIFF for most things"...
"These initial units will ship with Mac OS 10.2, and hence, will not be optimized for the 64 bit PPC 970 processor. Consumers who purchase these Power Mac G5s will receive a coupon for a free copy of Mac OS 10.3 (Panther), which will ship in September and will be optimized for the new 64 bit processor"
Translation: It's a pet rock until September, by which time production can be geared up and units will actually be available. Of course this will kill all sales until then, so announcing this early would be a very bad idea. So an announcement this early is unlikely.
But... we all know it's coming. Won't be cheap tho, but you get what you pay for in the OSX/Win/Linux world. Over 2 years and still not one crash on my Mac.
If you can work from home, then you're proving to your employer that someone in Asia could work from their home for 1/5 your salary.
There is a good chance you will ever find yourself unemployed as soon as it's "working really well for the company".
The reality is your employer was simple beta testing its remote worker processes.
Don't feel bad, in the windows world (all my unix is OSX now) they also only support XP, nothing older, so most poeple on the Win32 side are screwed by the 9700 too.
Anyone in the market for a used-for-15-minutes 9700AIW-Pro?
In other words he's smart enough to know even he can't get a job programming, and so it's a waste of his time to try.
A friend of mine hired two AMERICAN programmers for 6$/hr last week. I told him he could get them for $4/hr in India, but he doesn't like remote workers.
First off, this stuff has been completely mainstream for over 30 years now. The only thing new is that it keeps getting renamed, This year it's called GRID. I remember when it was called timesharing, and Time magazine had cartoons depicting it is 1973.
The entire GRID standard actually only covers the data transfer and login. Becasue that's the only thing standard about the different types of hardware. You still need to write the software specific to the hardware. Even with tools like MPI programming for Sun big iron is nothing at all like IBM big iron. And you dont exactly use Java. The value is not in the software - that's why it's getting standardized and is given away for free. The value, as always, is in owning a huge pool of computing power and renting it out, or even better, selling it in racks full.
The only people benefiting financially are the people that make the hardware - IBM, HP, Sun, Fujitsu, etc. Just like 30 years ago. Open Source has completely devalued the software - why pay for that, money is better spent on more hardware.
Then there is the cost of transporting the terabytes of data involved in the types of problems you do with these systems. Transport costs are more then the computing costs in many cases - another reason that part got standardized.
Hardware costs are falling FAST. Blade mounted and racked CPU are running about $500/Ghz ($7k for the same from IBM). That means for about 1 million you can get something like 2K CPUs and 2Thz of power, running Linux and all the tools you need. Thats a lot of FLOPS.
For those kinds of costs, outsourcing it at seems silly. You still have to do all software development, data transport, post-processing, and research yourself anyway, and those costs DWARF the hardware/electricity/HVAC costs of owning the hardware and having exclusive access 24/7 until the next updgrade.
"Typically VHS and 8 mm tape are rated at a vertical resolution of 240 lines, 3/4 inch SP at 325 lines, S-VHS and Hi8 at approximately 400 lines, Betacam SP and MII at close to 400 lines, and DVC at 500 lines (although some tests point to effective resolutions of around 400 lines)."
You mean like how C++ is out of style, and we're rewriting everything that worked fine before in nice fresh Java now.
Just like we did with C -> C++ FORTRAN -> C Perl -> Python RPC -> XML/SOAP
Which is a GOOD thing since otherwise everything would have been debugged and working by now, and none of us would have jobs at all. Just ask the mainframe guys - there is no money in something that works.
Heights didn't bother me before I played that game. Now anything higher then a chair triggers the ol adrenaline, like say looking down out a 2nd story window.
No game should be allowed to have falling damage. EVER.
Considering similar immersive environments are used to desensitize people to things, they need to avoid sensitizing people.
There are a dozen ways to price it, but in the end it still works out to around $0.25 per transaction. Grocery chains can buy in bulk, and a flat fee makes their price planning easier.
Discover and Amex have much higher fees, so everyone "wins" if you stick to Visa/MC.
And if you can use a debit card, the fees are even less.
Slashdot Mirror
Forget ICQ, if AIM only has 33M users left (even that is just a USA count), where are all the rest?
I hope this doesnt mean MSN has them all. Yahoo! still drops 2-3% of messages so I doubt anyone is still there.
Looks like the IM system is still hopelessly fragmented, good thing Fire and the rest let me sign on to 6+ systems at once.
So who else has had clients's domains yanked by Network Solutions despite canceled checks and all.
I'll start the bidding at 3.
That's $300 million they owe right?
Everyone knows Apple didn't produce computers between the Apple 2 line and the OS X line. They did make some good doorstops while all the brains in the company were over at NeXT, but definately no computers.
Unlike Windows, where everything breaks ever service pack, or Linux, where stuff has to be ported to every combination of distribution kernel and libc version... I can take my NeXT code from ~1992 and compile it unchanged on OS X 10.2 becasue Apple does things right the first time.
So I'm 100% sure compiling Quark for a G5 w/10.3 will just be a matter of hitting the build button.
God I @!%!@#$% hope so. I've been keeping ancient GD code around since just before they ripped .gif out :(
Will be nice to have gif and bugfixes both.
libGIF - ~800 lines of code, old as dirt, fast as hell.
vs.
libPNG+zlib+libMNG - ~1.4 MB of compressed unfinished stuff, age and speed low.
Yea, sign me up!
Seriously, anyone still wondering why it's not built into IE when GIF and JPEG and TIFF work so great is just oblivious. Yes, it's awesome, features galore, does things nothing... er.. few... er.. not too many other things already do very well.
Face it, the patent was the whole point. Read the PNG page, the first 3 paragraphs start with "We are better then TIFF because we have less features" and end with "but you're much better off using JPEG and TIFF for most things"...
Well it's not news, and it's not even close to new, but it sure is nerdy :)
Did anyone not have a cube?
"These initial units will ship with Mac OS 10.2, and hence, will not be optimized for the 64 bit PPC 970 processor. Consumers who purchase these Power Mac G5s will receive a coupon for a free copy of Mac OS 10.3 (Panther), which will ship in September and will be optimized for the new 64 bit processor"
Translation: It's a pet rock until September, by which time production can be geared up and units will actually be available. Of course this will kill all sales until then, so announcing this early would be a very bad idea. So an announcement this early is unlikely.
But... we all know it's coming. Won't be cheap tho, but you get what you pay for in the OSX/Win/Linux world. Over 2 years and still not one crash on my Mac.
Hrm, I dunno, storing previews isn't that hard at all, and it's certainly possible. Just get the demo code and tweak.
But yes, the app has to know about it and generate it, most don't.
Isn't one of those insulated mugs like 99 cents at Walmart?
;)
But that would be too easy
If you can work from home, then you're proving to your employer that someone in Asia could work from their home for 1/5 your salary. There is a good chance you will ever find yourself unemployed as soon as it's "working really well for the company".
The reality is your employer was simple beta testing its remote worker processes.
Don't feel bad, in the windows world (all my unix is OSX now) they also only support XP, nothing older, so most poeple on the Win32 side are screwed by the 9700 too.
Anyone in the market for a used-for-15-minutes 9700AIW-Pro?
So they arent stamping ID #'s into all the parts so that any stolen Segway is a trackable segway?
If not, why not?
This should fix you right up...
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I spoke at a conference over there once, and so the spammers think I live there.
In other words he's smart enough to know even he can't get a job programming, and so it's a waste of his time to try.
A friend of mine hired two AMERICAN programmers for 6$/hr last week. I told him he could get them for $4/hr in India, but he doesn't like remote workers.
The party is over. Move along.
First off, this stuff has been completely mainstream for over 30 years now. The only thing new is that it keeps getting renamed, This year it's called GRID. I remember when it was called timesharing, and Time magazine had cartoons depicting it is 1973.
The entire GRID standard actually only covers the data transfer and login. Becasue that's the only thing standard about the different types of hardware. You still need to write the software specific to the hardware. Even with tools like MPI programming for Sun big iron is nothing at all like IBM big iron. And you dont exactly use Java. The value is not in the software - that's why it's getting standardized and is given away for free. The value, as always, is in owning a huge pool of computing power and renting it out, or even better, selling it in racks full.
The only people benefiting financially are the people that make the hardware - IBM, HP, Sun, Fujitsu, etc. Just like 30 years ago. Open Source has completely devalued the software - why pay for that, money is better spent on more hardware.
Then there is the cost of transporting the terabytes of data involved in the types of problems you do with these systems. Transport costs are more then the computing costs in many cases - another reason that part got standardized.
Hardware costs are falling FAST. Blade mounted and racked CPU are running about $500/Ghz ($7k for the same from IBM). That means for about 1 million you can get something like 2K CPUs and 2Thz of power, running Linux and all the tools you need. Thats a lot of FLOPS.
For those kinds of costs, outsourcing it at seems silly. You still have to do all software development, data transport, post-processing, and research yourself anyway, and those costs DWARF the hardware/electricity/HVAC costs of owning the hardware and having exclusive access 24/7 until the next updgrade.
The whole point of buying from Apple is that it's NOT cheap crap like a PC, or worse my mom's Dell.
My mac has never had a problem, and even if you figure $1/hour for my time, it's still been a total steal compared to the PCs.
And in day 2, spammers automate the responses.
Results:
1. Spammers get free AUTOMATED account verification.
2. The load on the email system doubles.
Conclusion:
Nice "solution" dumbass.
Actually he did that when he put it on VHS.
"Typically VHS and 8 mm tape are rated at a vertical resolution of 240 lines, 3/4 inch SP at 325 lines, S-VHS and Hi8 at approximately 400 lines, Betacam SP and MII at close to 400 lines, and DVC at 500 lines (although some tests point to effective resolutions of around 400 lines)."
I can't wait for the Denial of Satalite attacks.
You mean like how C++ is out of style, and we're rewriting everything that worked fine before in nice fresh Java now.
Just like we did with C -> C++
FORTRAN -> C
Perl -> Python
RPC -> XML/SOAP
Which is a GOOD thing since otherwise everything would have been debugged and working by now, and none of us would have jobs at all. Just ask the mainframe guys - there is no money in something that works.
Wow, that's almost 2% faster for twice the price! What a deal.
And only 10x more power then 2% of the users can figure out what to do with.
On the other hand, it's almost enough to actually run XML based Java applications.
Heights didn't bother me before I played that game. Now anything higher then a chair triggers the ol adrenaline, like say looking down out a 2nd story window.
No game should be allowed to have falling damage. EVER.
Considering similar immersive environments are used to desensitize people to things, they need to avoid sensitizing people.
There are a dozen ways to price it, but in the end it still works out to around $0.25 per transaction. Grocery chains can buy in bulk, and a flat fee makes their price planning easier.
Discover and Amex have much higher fees, so everyone "wins" if you stick to Visa/MC.
And if you can use a debit card, the fees are even less.
The problem is that this also netted Visa/MC around $40,000 in processing fees, depending on the avg songs per checkout (I'm assuming 2).
On the plus side, at least it's not Paypay, then you'd be talking 150K in fees, and the accounts would all be suspended.
Lets hope apple makes a payment system someday.