Everyone is making the same point, and it was addressed in the article. He basically believes that every time you moved back in time it would create a "branch" so to speak, that would continue on in the altered way. It would be impossible to affect your own timeline.
It'd sorta be like if you had a game of Civilization that you'd saved every 100 years from 100 A.D to 2000 A.D. Then you went back to 500 A.D. and made different choices and again saved every 100 years. The stuff from 100-500 would be unchanged, and there would be two separate histories from 500-2000. You could repeat this indefinitely, making branches off the branches and so forth.
Our last G4 Mac deployment (25 400Mhz blue/white)...
You know I think I have an idea why your Blue and White G4s were DOA: Apple never made Blue and White G4s, so you must be some incredible idiot who got ripped off by someone looking to make a buck by selling G3s to people dumb enough to not know the difference.
His point is that if Macs have better(faster) components(such as RAM, HD, video card) than PCs with faster processors, then the Macs may still be faster.
The problem is, Macs don't. Apple needs to get it's act together, stop using PC133, stop using ATA/66, and get some better processors too.
I'm in China. I hate the Chinese government. I post a message saying so on slashdot. Cisco's system lets the Chinese track down who I am, and they execute me.
Already it's tough to get people to spend the extra cash on those HDTV sets. Lets throw in some copy protection too, to make HDTV even more unappealing! Then we can all be stuck with NTSC for the rest of our natural lives.
I've used OS X since the PB. It's still slow. I like it, I use it as my OS 100% of the time now, but it's still slow. Quartz still has no hardware acceleration. That sucks.
one nuclear power plant makes 30,000lbs of waste per year. sending one pound of something into space costs $10,000.
now multiply those two numbers together to determine the cost of waste disposal using your plan. for one plant. for one year. then ask yourself who is going to pay for that
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Yeah, posts about the iWalk are really off topic in a discussion about the iWalk. I don't even give a shit about karma, but idiot moderators piss me off. So here's a +1 for you to mod down.
I've seen that too. I still think it's real, but that jump is pretty bad. We'll all know in 4 days anyway, but if this is a hoax it's by far the best ever.
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Check out the bootup movie and the other stills - the logo is there to let you choose how you want the OS oriented on the screen(vertical or horizontal). Watch the bootup movie to see how he changes the orientation by spinning the wheel and pressing the button on the bottom.
People have a lot of reasons why it's fake, but I think this is just way too elaborate. It's gotta be the real thing.
That statement makes no logical sense. What can Mac OS X be used on? Hardware that will be released 10 years from now? I wonder how Apple got those screenshots.
Just copy the URL, paste it into your address bar, and hit enter. Or, some browsers let you turn off the referer information(iCab and possibly also OmniWeb for Mac, maybe Mozilla too)
Quiet, you'll scare people here. Everyone likes to think that they're unique, and that the way in which they're unique makes them better than everyone else. Some people are actually delusional enough to be able to convince themselves that a life of computer programming and money will feel fulfilling to them when they're 80 years old, dying alone in their mansion, wondering if anyone will show up for the funeral.
Would it be possible to show us the quality of this codec somehow? Maybe start with uncompressed video, and have the DivX, VP3, etc. people all compress it down to a specific bitrate, and you do the same. Then once it's compressed down to that bitrate you could decompress it(since we don't have a decoder...), thus letting the general public see the quality of your codec.
Would that work? Because there are a lot of codecs, and unless you can show that this one is better than the others, I really don't see why people would be interested.
What, like tape doesn't fail? What is the chance that you are going to lose the data on your computer and the data on your hard drive backup on the same day?
I think for an average person backing up to prevent accidental destruction of personal documents(i.e. assuming you are going to be keeping the backed-up data both on your computer HD and your backup HD), an IDE HD is perfectly safe. It's not like we're talking about 3.5" floppies here.
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Everyone is making the same point, and it was addressed in the article. He basically believes that every time you moved back in time it would create a "branch" so to speak, that would continue on in the altered way. It would be impossible to affect your own timeline.
It'd sorta be like if you had a game of Civilization that you'd saved every 100 years from 100 A.D to 2000 A.D. Then you went back to 500 A.D. and made different choices and again saved every 100 years. The stuff from 100-500 would be unchanged, and there would be two separate histories from 500-2000. You could repeat this indefinitely, making branches off the branches and so forth.
Our last G4 Mac deployment (25 400Mhz blue/white)...
You know I think I have an idea why your Blue and White G4s were DOA: Apple never made Blue and White G4s, so you must be some incredible idiot who got ripped off by someone looking to make a buck by selling G3s to people dumb enough to not know the difference.
His point is that if Macs have better(faster) components(such as RAM, HD, video card) than PCs with faster processors, then the Macs may still be faster.
The problem is, Macs don't. Apple needs to get it's act together, stop using PC133, stop using ATA/66, and get some better processors too.
I'm in China. I hate the Chinese government. I post a message saying so on slashdot. Cisco's system lets the Chinese track down who I am, and they execute me.
Are Cisco's sins still so minor?
I always thought "holy"
of course he uses passwords, the point is that it's more secure if he tells everyone else what they are...
Apple's implementation of 802.11b is called "Airport". So I wasn't too surprised to read that Airport is as secure as 802.11b
Already it's tough to get people to spend the extra cash on those HDTV sets. Lets throw in some copy protection too, to make HDTV even more unappealing! Then we can all be stuck with NTSC for the rest of our natural lives.
this post is starting at +1. Slashdot editors can bite my shiny metal ass for being hypocritical censoring fucks
I've used OS X since the PB. It's still slow. I like it, I use it as my OS 100% of the time now, but it's still slow. Quartz still has no hardware acceleration. That sucks.
one nuclear power plant makes 30,000lbs of waste per year. sending one pound of something into space costs $10,000.
now multiply those two numbers together to determine the cost of waste disposal using your plan. for one plant. for one year. then ask yourself who is going to pay for that
Yeah, posts about the iWalk are really off topic in a discussion about the iWalk. I don't even give a shit about karma, but idiot moderators piss me off. So here's a +1 for you to mod down.
Get ready for metamod, bitch.
I've seen that too. I still think it's real, but that jump is pretty bad. We'll all know in 4 days anyway, but if this is a hoax it's by far the best ever.
Check out the bootup movie and the other stills - the logo is there to let you choose how you want the OS oriented on the screen(vertical or horizontal). Watch the bootup movie to see how he changes the orientation by spinning the wheel and pressing the button on the bottom.
People have a lot of reasons why it's fake, but I think this is just way too elaborate. It's gotta be the real thing.
MacOS X cannot be used on existing hardware
That statement makes no logical sense. What can Mac OS X be used on? Hardware that will be released 10 years from now? I wonder how Apple got those screenshots.
Well it took them 17 years to do it the first time, so don't hold your breath.
Why would Apple not want that kind of publicity?
Just copy the URL, paste it into your address bar, and hit enter. Or, some browsers let you turn off the referer information(iCab and possibly also OmniWeb for Mac, maybe Mozilla too)
Quiet, you'll scare people here. Everyone likes to think that they're unique, and that the way in which they're unique makes them better than everyone else. Some people are actually delusional enough to be able to convince themselves that a life of computer programming and money will feel fulfilling to them when they're 80 years old, dying alone in their mansion, wondering if anyone will show up for the funeral.
So that somehow makes their contributions worthless?
Would it be possible to show us the quality of this codec somehow? Maybe start with uncompressed video, and have the DivX, VP3, etc. people all compress it down to a specific bitrate, and you do the same. Then once it's compressed down to that bitrate you could decompress it(since we don't have a decoder...), thus letting the general public see the quality of your codec.
Would that work? Because there are a lot of codecs, and unless you can show that this one is better than the others, I really don't see why people would be interested.
Yeah, isn't capitalism great?
What, like tape doesn't fail? What is the chance that you are going to lose the data on your computer and the data on your hard drive backup on the same day?
I think for an average person backing up to prevent accidental destruction of personal documents(i.e. assuming you are going to be keeping the backed-up data both on your computer HD and your backup HD), an IDE HD is perfectly safe. It's not like we're talking about 3.5" floppies here.
Why would you do that when you can get a 120GB IDE drive for $200?
Dave Rhodes - your ass is grass.