Vuescan is a great product, but it doesn't have built-in support for GPL, so your pimping will unfortunately fall mostly on deaf ears. This kind of licensing crap is why i think the BSD license is better...
so you're saying that the lack of clearly defined paths for tasks, inconsistencies between applications, and counter-intuitive behavior are good things for the 'average' computer user?
i think it would be very difficult to classify microsoft as having 'due cause' in regards to the legal ability to access the computer patient data is stored on. i agree with you. most people don't understand the hipaa regs (they are amazingly obtruse, after all); even 'consultants' who are supposed to know this sort of thing don't all seem to get it. i can't wait to hear the vp of is where i work talk his way out of this one, since he used the hipaa legislation as his reason to switch the mission critical platform from aix to windows. what kind of person calls a database running on windows NT a 'data vault'? seems a bit erroneous, given the fundamental flaw in windows cryptographics. maybe a 'data wallsafe', or 'data cashbox'. not a vault...
what happens if you copy your CD collection to your iPod, and then you later decide to do a clean install of os X 10.2 on your mac? will it let you sync the music back, or no?
i like iTunes a lot, and i've been considering an iPod, but if apple is trying to do some kind of behind-the-scenes DRM appeasement i'll ditch this shit in a second.
they've already fiddled with things enough to keep someone from using dd to quick-copy a cdrom under os X.
yep, and in typical fashion, the hordes of unwashed ignorant fuckers who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel listened to the marketing shit that vhs was 'just as good' as betamax, and even if that wasn't *exactly* true, it would get better, and so don't be left out! your friends will laugh at you!
oh, by the way, that piss-pouring comment is directed mostly at you windows users...
of course firewire won't replace usb in dipship peecee land - intel doesn't own firewire like it does USB. the pc platform is dictated as much by intel and microsoft as apple dictates the mac. the only difference is, apple doesn't have to *pretend* that their stuff is multi-OS compatible, and so it works a lot better.
usb 2.0 sucks, face it. the transfer rate isn't anywhere near what the theoretical maximum is (kinda like PCI, or your average pc/mac memory bus, or...). on a 7200 rpm hard disk in a firewire/usb2.0 enclosure, i can get 35MB/sec sustained read from the firewire drive, and about 15MB/sec from the USB 2.0. isn't that great! is your excuse the fact that the technology is new? better firmware needed? better drivers? fuck that - i'll stick with something that works now, not some bs technology whose main attraction is exactly what was stated - name recognition by moronic 0wn3rs of some knock-off clone their brother-in-law assembled. and stop your posturing like windows users are more technically inclined. most computer users are ignorant, because the technology in their machine isn't important, as long as it works. and windows has certainly made a name for itself there, eh? oh yeah, and intel hardware, too, what with plug and play and 20-something year old BIOS and all (base and extended memory even now - isn't that great?).
consider - just by market share alone, there have to be more stupid motherfuckers using windows than using the mac. does that mean that only stupid people use windows?
anyhow, back to the point, if usb 1.1 is meant for low-bandwidth peripherals (and i believe it was), and firewire is meant for high-speed devices, what the fuck is usb 2.0? are you really going to plug your keyboard and mouse into the same port that your external raid array is connected to? please... the whole problem with firewire is typical apple licensing bullshit - not a failure of the technology.
of course, if you used a cooked filesystem instead of raw i/o, then the choice of tape drives would've been a non-issue. so which one was more important?
perhaps if your definition of coolness or what makes a car attractive or what makes life good were different, you'd be buying green stuff, instead of helping to squander the world's resources to fuel your greed for instant gratification. corporations decide what's cool, you buy it (literally and figuratively), love it for a week or two, and then toss it. i love consumerism...
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so what's the correct terminology to use when corporations and funded special interests run the government? republicanism? democracy?
there doesn't seem to be an agreement even at apple. for mac os X, apple's PR stuff states:
Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0,
operating-system services based on 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), high-performance networking facilities, and support for multiple integrated file systems.
for Darwin, apple's PR stuff states:
What is Darwin? Darwin is the core of Mac OS X.
The Darwin kernel is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking.
any darwin developer want to pipe up and set the record straight?
double precision 'crawls' on the g4 because it uses the regular fp units, not the vector processors. an application would have to be modified to use the vector operations to get the speed boost from the altivec units, similar to the need for an application to be coded with the newer instructions to use SSE2. a lot of commercial software available doesn't take advantage of any sort of SIMD instruction for either ia32 or ppc.
apple finally published a paper on doing multiprecision floating point (octuple precision, in the paper) just recently using the altivec, but the amount of information available for correctly using the altivec isn't much, i grant.
one big difference between ia32 and ppc and altivec is that while ia32 have integer and flaoting point units, the ppc chips have integer, floating point, and vector processing units. SSE and SSE2 are performed in your fp units.
i'm not one of those hysterical people who insanely insists that the G4 is superior to everything, but i think a lot of software isn't optimized properly for altivec (especially when it's a port from the ia32 platform).
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Maybe you got modded down because you spell like a second grade "special-needs" student. Just a thought.
Vuescan is a great product, but it doesn't have built-in support for GPL, so your pimping will unfortunately fall mostly on deaf ears.
This kind of licensing crap is why i think the BSD license is better...
i don't use epson drivers with my umax scanner, so they didn't ruin it for me...
if you're developing for windows, that might be true....
so you're saying that the lack of clearly defined paths for tasks, inconsistencies between applications, and counter-intuitive behavior are good things for the 'average' computer user?
i think it would be very difficult to classify microsoft as having 'due cause' in regards to the legal ability to access the computer patient data is stored on. i agree with you. most people don't understand the hipaa regs (they are amazingly obtruse, after all); even 'consultants' who are supposed to know this sort of thing don't all seem to get it. i can't wait to hear the vp of is where i work talk his way out of this one, since he used the hipaa legislation as his reason to switch the mission critical platform from aix to windows.
what kind of person calls a database running on windows NT a 'data vault'? seems a bit erroneous, given the fundamental flaw in windows cryptographics. maybe a 'data wallsafe', or 'data cashbox'. not a vault...
anyhow... to summarize, i agree with you.
last time i checked, OpenLDAP was free too. Amazing that you can compile software on platforms other than Linux!
i like iTunes a lot, and i've been considering an iPod, but if apple is trying to do some kind of behind-the-scenes DRM appeasement i'll ditch this shit in a second.
they've already fiddled with things enough to keep someone from using dd to quick-copy a cdrom under os X.
yep, and in typical fashion, the hordes of unwashed ignorant fuckers who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel listened to the marketing shit that vhs was 'just as good' as betamax, and even if that wasn't *exactly* true, it would get better, and so don't be left out! your friends will laugh at you!
oh, by the way, that piss-pouring comment is directed mostly at you windows users...
of course firewire won't replace usb in dipship peecee land - intel doesn't own firewire like it does USB. the pc platform is dictated as much by intel and microsoft as apple dictates the mac. the only difference is, apple doesn't have to *pretend* that their stuff is multi-OS compatible, and so it works a lot better.
usb 2.0 sucks, face it. the transfer rate isn't anywhere near what the theoretical maximum is (kinda like PCI, or your average pc/mac memory bus, or...). on a 7200 rpm hard disk in a firewire/usb2.0 enclosure, i can get 35MB/sec sustained read from the firewire drive, and about 15MB/sec from the USB 2.0. isn't that great! is your excuse the fact that the technology is new? better firmware needed? better drivers? fuck that - i'll stick with something that works now, not some bs technology whose main attraction is exactly what was stated - name recognition by moronic 0wn3rs of some knock-off clone their brother-in-law assembled. and stop your posturing like windows users are more technically inclined. most computer users are ignorant, because the technology in their machine isn't important, as long as it works. and windows has certainly made a name for itself there, eh? oh yeah, and intel hardware, too, what with plug and play and 20-something year old BIOS and all (base and extended memory even now - isn't that great?).
consider - just by market share alone, there have to be more stupid motherfuckers using windows than using the mac. does that mean that only stupid people use windows?
anyhow, back to the point, if usb 1.1 is meant for low-bandwidth peripherals (and i believe it was), and firewire is meant for high-speed devices, what the fuck is usb 2.0? are you really going to plug your keyboard and mouse into the same port that your external raid array is connected to? please... the whole problem with firewire is typical apple licensing bullshit - not a failure of the technology.
and that platform isn't exactly noted for its amazing load-handling ability or rock-solid stability.
of course, if you used a cooked filesystem instead of raw i/o, then the choice of tape drives would've been a non-issue. so which one was more important?
architecture *is* an accurate reflection of the state of influential society at the time.
but what if he's running linux on an old 386? he's broken the three-month throwaway cycle computers live now...
perhaps if your definition of coolness or what makes a car attractive or what makes life good were different, you'd be buying green stuff, instead of helping to squander the world's resources to fuel your greed for instant gratification. corporations decide what's cool, you buy it (literally and figuratively), love it for a week or two, and then toss it. i love consumerism...
so what's the correct terminology to use when corporations and funded special interests run the government? republicanism? democracy?
lmao
so i guess there is something to that lame argument that an MCSE is better than a college degree?
naw, he works for microsoft...
Not one 'Post-9/11' reference! wtf?!
for mac os X, apple's PR stuff states
for Darwin, apple's PR stuff states:
any darwin developer want to pipe up and set the record straight?
c'mon, mod this up, someone. it's funny!
it's half-life with better graphics!
I wonder if the multiplayer mod mentioned in the carmack interview is id's port of HL's team fortress. hmmm...
double precision 'crawls' on the g4 because it uses the regular fp units, not the vector processors. an application would have to be modified to use the vector operations to get the speed boost from the altivec units, similar to the need for an application to be coded with the newer instructions to use SSE2. a lot of commercial software available doesn't take advantage of any sort of SIMD instruction for either ia32 or ppc.
apple finally published a paper on doing multiprecision floating point (octuple precision, in the paper) just recently using the altivec, but the amount of information available for correctly using the altivec isn't much, i grant.
one big difference between ia32 and ppc and altivec is that while ia32 have integer and flaoting point units, the ppc chips have integer, floating point, and vector processing units. SSE and SSE2 are performed in your fp units.
i'm not one of those hysterical people who insanely insists that the G4 is superior to everything, but i think a lot of software isn't optimized properly for altivec (especially when it's a port from the ia32 platform).
great point!