Heh, our research group needs fast x86 machines for medical image processing because 1) our customers want NT machines with nice happy Windows-based software to process life critical data (God only knows why.) and 2) Our professors have this attitude that we don't need to optimize the algorithms because machines will only get faster.
Both groups should be taken out and sporked as soon as possible.
But you're forgetting an additional use of this "innovation". What happens when one of those 1,000 people decides to email his 999 coworkers the latest copy of his 50MB Word file. Now you've got about 50GB of data out on the network, all copies of this single file, which will probably never be modified by those 999 people.
When some luser does that on my network, I'll be sure to make certain they know the depth of their mistake by means of repeated application of the clue stick.
except that because of the economics of volume production, at least a few weeks ago, every 450 MHz PII I found was about $20 or so more than the 450-PIII at the same shop... if the PII's had been significantly cheaper, I would have gotten that (or a celery...)
Where are you shopping? I just checked PriceWatch, and PII/450s are around $110-$130 and PIII/450s start at $230.
Bruce Campbell *is* uber macho. He is the coolest person in the entire world.
Betcher ass! Check this out. Meeting Bruce was one of the coolest things in my life (so far.) A group on the UW-Madison campus that shows films arranged for him to attend and hold a question and answer session after a showing of Army of Darkness. He is completely personable and doesn't have an ounce of star attitude. Anyone not knowing who he was would think is just some ordinary Joe. He spent about 1-2 hours after the movie answering questions and telling stories (some hilarious ones about Sam Raimi) and then another 2-3 hours signing autographs and talking to people in the autograph line. I wish I had had a video camera with me.
It would be nice if Xfree would be a bit more descriptive.. rather then forcing its users to "try and see your problem has been resolved" or "read the source code".
Exactly. I see no note about supporting the 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo 3 in the what's new section, but those cards are listed in the supported cards section. As far as I know, this is the first release of XFree that supported the cards without downloading special stuff from 3Dfx. Or am I wrong?
At the bottom they claim John Carmack said that the next id software game will be exclusively for MacOS X!!!
I can't believe that would mean no Windows or Linux version??
No, what he meant was that for any future games that ID does, the only version of MacOS that will be supported will be MacOS X, which makes perfect sense to me. Anyone that meets the hardware requirements to run the game will meet the hardware requirements to run MacOS X, and if that is the case, why the hell would he bother with a MacOS 9 version?
Watching demo it occured to me that they might be using PDF for the icons instead of a bitmap. This gains you several things: you can scale them, rotate, make transparent, anything you want with no loss of resolution. Also, take a close look, on one of the screens during the demo Steve minimized a web page and the icon was a minature version of the web page. I figured that since Quartz is PDF based, the web page was probably being converted into PDF format (by making calls to the normal ToolBox routines like DrawText, etc.) and this PDF was probably being retained, it would be pretty simple to scale that to the right size for the icon. I image that simply issuing some sort of scale command and attaching a pointer to the PDF would be enough. All that is left is optimizing the engine that draws the PDF to the screen, which I'm sure they've done already anyway.
Of course, this is only my humble guess, I could be completely wrong.
Wow...the PowerPC chips use a lot less power than the Intel chips. No wonder Mac laptop battery life is so much...oh, wait...Mac laptop battery life is the same as comparable PC laptop battery life.
Do they have the same battery life? According to Apple's web site, the iBook runs up to 6 hours on a single battery, the PowerBook runs up to 5 on a single battery, and you can put 2 batteries in it (one would go in the spot normally used for the CDROM/DVD drive.) I went to Dell's web site and for two of the three laptops available, the times were 2.5 hours/battery and the third was 3.5-4 hours/battery. I didn't take a lot of time to look, but I assume that you can put two batteries in if you forgo the CDROM/DVD drive. So, you were saying?
Well, ok, in most areas Linux beats Mac OS in the reliability department. But both beat Windows, and Linux is so far behind in the other two categories that it's not even an option for most users.
Where I work I admin a MacOS X Server machine that provides AppleShare (and Samba) file services. There is a web interface that lets you control the AppleShare file server remotely. Once of the things it does is give you a table view of all the current connections and how long they've been connected. Below is a list of the current active connections connect times. What this means, of course, is that each of these client Macs has been running at least as long as they've been connected to the server. I was rather surprised at some of these connect times:
What? what makes you think we need to ask *permission*? And which "god" are we going to ask permission from? It makes as much sense to ask my cat.
Well, I just asked Thor and he said it was OK. Well, I think he said it was OK. He was somewhat hard to understand, as he tends to bellow a lot. Plus, he'd been drinking some nasty-ass mead all day. He said something like, "Verily, [something something] smite thee with mightly Mjollnir [something something] asunder!" I told him to sit his hairy Norse ass down and drink his fscking mead. So there you have it, Thor says it is a "go"!
Maybe IDG's lawyers should see if IDG publishes a law book for dummies. They qualify, I think.
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How do you "Apple fanatic" people put up with this shit? Intel hardware is pretty disgusting, but at least you don't have to deal with this kind of bait-and-switch crap.
Well, I can tell you how I plan to deal with it. I'm an Apple supporter of many years who recently (about 1.5-2 yrs ago) started dabbling with Linux, first with MkLinux on my PowerMac clone, then with a dedicated Intel/Linux box from VA Research (now VA Linux Systems.) It was a bit of a rocky start, but the more I use it, the more I like it and the less tolerant I am of crashes when I use my Mac. It looks like I got in at about the right time, too, just when Linux was really starting to take off.
Anyway, after I bought my blue & white G3/300 a while ago, I was so impressed with the design of the case that I decided that I'd make my next Linux box a PowerMac/LinuxPPC box. Recently, I've started taking a look at putting together a 500 MHz Athlon box instead. This decision by Apple, which apparently has been reversed, convinces me I probably should go with the Athlon box. I'm still going to take a wait-and-see attitude with Mac OS X client, but if they mess that one up, I'm gone, probably for good.
I don't care if creationism is taught in schools. I object when stereotyping of any sort is taught in schools. Calling all creationists fools is stereotyping.
But you are all fools, since clearly, as any right-thinking person knows, the universe was created by the Invisible Pink Unicorn. This fact is clearly stated in the book of the Unicorn, and that proves it.
All I want to know is: where the hell did all the water from the flood go? Has anyone calculated the necessary amount of water to completely cover the surface of the earth?
May I have my MS Education(TM) now, please? When I get my MS Diploma(TM), I will get a really good MS Job(TM) that pays lots of MS Bucks(TM) (I couldn't do MS Money(TM), that is already taken.) Then I'll be MS Happy(TM).
I read that book. If the physics depicted in the book are accurate, this is some serious shit. Basically, a renegade faction of a government used, I think, 8 nukes to create the soliton wave. Six to separate the Ross Ice Shelf from Antartica proper, one airburst above the shelf to "shove" the shelf causing the soliton wave and another higher airburst to knock out (EMP) anyone capable of reporting the wave, which was traveling (I think) at around 200 miles/hour. From the devestation described in the book, it would only be used by freaky insane people. Who live on high ground. Really high ground. The book explained (if I recall correctly) that the difference between a soliton wave and a normal tidal wave is that the energy of a tidal wave is carried by the movement of water across the surface of the ocean and thus dissapates, whereas the energy in the soliton is a pulse traveling through the water and loses energy much more slowly than a tidal wave. I don't know how acurate the science in the book is, but it was a good read.
Until the G3 arrived, Macs ranged from insanely difficult(those stupid "pizza-box" cases on the 6100 for example) to nearly impossible(the SE) to get inside of.
I think you are confusing the 6100 with some other model. I had a Centris 610, which uses the exact same case as the 6100 series and to get into it, you pop two catch tabs on the back and the cover comes off. Everything was completely accessible after that.
This suffers from the logical flaw that only things in favor of God are religious. If I say, "There is no God," surely it is as religious a statement as if I say, "There is a God." And surely the separation of church and state should prevent the state from requiring both the teaching of the former and the teaching of things which assume the former.
My disbelief of your God is founded in lack of scientific evidence of same. If you want me to believe, then pony up the proof. I don't believe in anything that doesn't have some scientific basis. Sorry, but using that criterion, your God falls into the same category as Thor, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Zeus, and The Invisible Pink Unicorn.
If you are going to claim that application of science in this manner is religious, then I'm thinking one of us doesn't know what "religious" means.
Not only prosecuted, but condemmed to hell until 1994 when the Pope accepted that the Earth did in fact revolve around the sun and issued Galileo an official pardon.
Well, at least they're quick to admit their errors. It took them only, what, 350 years to admit that the earth revolves around the sun. Can you understand why I don't want people like that having any control over my life whatsoever?
I have no desire to force everyone else to live according to my religion. However, I oppose efforts by those of other religions, including humanism, naturalism, and atheism, to force me to live by theirs.
If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color.
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No, you can't. It uses the Sorenson codec.
I think the person meant to say "immersed in water and without its protective sheath", but then what do I know?
Heh, our research group needs fast x86 machines for medical image processing because 1) our customers want NT machines with nice happy Windows-based software to process life critical data (God only knows why.) and 2) Our professors have this attitude that we don't need to optimize the algorithms because machines will only get faster.
Both groups should be taken out and sporked as soon as possible.
But you're forgetting an additional use of this "innovation". What happens when one of those 1,000 people decides to email his 999 coworkers the latest copy of his 50MB Word file. Now you've got about 50GB of data out on the network, all copies of this single file, which will probably never be modified by those 999 people.
When some luser does that on my network, I'll be sure to make certain they know the depth of their mistake by means of repeated application of the clue stick.
except that because of the economics of volume production, at least a few weeks ago, every 450 MHz PII I found was about $20 or so more than the 450-PIII at the same shop... if the PII's had been significantly cheaper, I would have gotten that (or a celery...)
Where are you shopping? I just checked PriceWatch, and PII/450s are around $110-$130 and PIII/450s start at $230.
Good guess, but nope. This is what netcraft says about our site at work (it runs on MacOS X Server 1.1:
"xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on MacOSX"
Bruce Campbell *is* uber macho. He is the coolest person in the entire world.
Betcher ass! Check this out. Meeting Bruce was one of the coolest things in my life (so far.) A group on the UW-Madison campus that shows films arranged for him to attend and hold a question and answer session after a showing of Army of Darkness. He is completely personable and doesn't have an ounce of star attitude. Anyone not knowing who he was would think is just some ordinary Joe. He spent about 1-2 hours after the movie answering questions and telling stories (some hilarious ones about Sam Raimi) and then another 2-3 hours signing autographs and talking to people in the autograph line. I wish I had had a video camera with me.
It would be nice if Xfree would be a bit more descriptive.. rather then forcing its users to "try and see your problem has been resolved" or "read the source code".
Exactly. I see no note about supporting the 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo 3 in the what's new section, but those cards are listed in the supported cards section. As far as I know, this is the first release of XFree that supported the cards without downloading special stuff from 3Dfx. Or am I wrong?
At the bottom they claim John Carmack said that the next id software game will be exclusively for MacOS X!!!
I can't believe that would mean no Windows or Linux version??
No, what he meant was that for any future games that ID does, the only version of MacOS that will be supported will be MacOS X, which makes perfect sense to me. Anyone that meets the hardware requirements to run the game will meet the hardware requirements to run MacOS X, and if that is the case, why the hell would he bother with a MacOS 9 version?
Watching demo it occured to me that they might be using PDF for the icons instead of a bitmap. This gains you several things: you can scale them, rotate, make transparent, anything you want with no loss of resolution. Also, take a close look, on one of the screens during the demo Steve minimized a web page and the icon was a minature version of the web page. I figured that since Quartz is PDF based, the web page was probably being converted into PDF format (by making calls to the normal ToolBox routines like DrawText, etc.) and this PDF was probably being retained, it would be pretty simple to scale that to the right size for the icon. I image that simply issuing some sort of scale command and attaching a pointer to the PDF would be enough. All that is left is optimizing the engine that draws the PDF to the screen, which I'm sure they've done already anyway.
Of course, this is only my humble guess, I could be completely wrong.
Wow...the PowerPC chips use a lot less power than the Intel chips. No wonder Mac laptop battery life is so much...oh, wait...Mac laptop battery life is the same as comparable PC laptop battery life.
Do they have the same battery life? According to Apple's web site, the iBook runs up to 6 hours on a single battery, the PowerBook runs up to 5 on a single battery, and you can put 2 batteries in it (one would go in the spot normally used for the CDROM/DVD drive.) I went to Dell's web site and for two of the three laptops available, the times were 2.5 hours/battery and the third was 3.5-4 hours/battery. I didn't take a lot of time to look, but I assume that you can put two batteries in if you forgo the CDROM/DVD drive. So, you were saying?
Can we say "Kryotech"? I think thats cool enough.
And how much additional power does the Kryotech cooling unit use?
Well, ok, in most areas Linux beats Mac OS in the reliability department. But both beat Windows, and Linux is so far behind in the other two categories that it's not even an option for most users.
Where I work I admin a MacOS X Server machine that provides AppleShare (and Samba) file services. There is a web interface that lets you control the AppleShare file server remotely. Once of the things it does is give you a table view of all the current connections and how long they've been connected. Below is a list of the current active connections connect times. What this means, of course, is that each of these client Macs has been running at least as long as they've been connected to the server. I was rather surprised at some of these connect times:
Total Connected Users: 18
Connected For...(day hr:min)
42 06:22
31 08:47
31 08:42
28 07:27
27 08:46
24 00:42
21 06:59
19 04:39
18 05:26
17 05:45
17 03:08
14 03:23
13 06:41
13 02:37
12 02:14
7 08:45
6 08:20
2 05:27
Billy J. Mabray smells like kitty litter.
What? what makes you think we need to ask *permission*? And which "god" are we going to ask permission from? It makes as much sense to ask my cat.
Well, I just asked Thor and he said it was OK. Well, I think he said it was OK. He was somewhat hard to understand, as he tends to bellow a lot. Plus, he'd been drinking some nasty-ass mead all day. He said something like, "Verily, [something something] smite thee with mightly Mjollnir [something something] asunder!" I told him to sit his hairy Norse ass down and drink his fscking mead. So there you have it, Thor says it is a "go"!
Maybe IDG's lawyers should see if IDG publishes a law book for dummies. They qualify, I think.
How do you "Apple fanatic" people put up with this shit? Intel hardware is pretty disgusting, but at least you don't have to deal with this kind of bait-and-switch crap.
Well, I can tell you how I plan to deal with it. I'm an Apple supporter of many years who recently (about 1.5-2 yrs ago) started dabbling with Linux, first with MkLinux on my PowerMac clone, then with a dedicated Intel/Linux box from VA Research (now VA Linux Systems.) It was a bit of a rocky start, but the more I use it, the more I like it and the less tolerant I am of crashes when I use my Mac. It looks like I got in at about the right time, too, just when Linux was really starting to take off.
Anyway, after I bought my blue & white G3/300 a while ago, I was so impressed with the design of the case that I decided that I'd make my next Linux box a PowerMac/LinuxPPC box. Recently, I've started taking a look at putting together a 500 MHz Athlon box instead. This decision by Apple, which apparently has been reversed, convinces me I probably should go with the Athlon box. I'm still going to take a wait-and-see attitude with Mac OS X client, but if they mess that one up, I'm gone, probably for good.
I don't care if creationism is taught in schools. I object when stereotyping of any sort is taught in schools. Calling all creationists fools is stereotyping.
But you are all fools, since clearly, as any right-thinking person knows, the universe was created by the Invisible Pink Unicorn. This fact is clearly stated in the book of the Unicorn, and that proves it.
All I want to know is: where the hell did all the water from the flood go? Has anyone calculated the necessary amount of water to completely cover the surface of the earth?
May I have my MS Education(TM) now, please? When I get my MS Diploma(TM), I will get a really good MS Job(TM) that pays lots of MS Bucks(TM) (I couldn't do MS Money(TM), that is already taken.) Then I'll be MS Happy(TM).
I read that book. If the physics depicted in the book are accurate, this is some serious shit. Basically, a renegade faction of a government used, I think, 8 nukes to create the soliton wave. Six to separate the Ross Ice Shelf from Antartica proper, one airburst above the shelf to "shove" the shelf causing the soliton wave and another higher airburst to knock out (EMP) anyone capable of reporting the wave, which was traveling (I think) at around 200 miles/hour. From the devestation described in the book, it would only be used by freaky insane people. Who live on high ground. Really high ground. The book explained (if I recall correctly) that the difference between a soliton wave and a normal tidal wave is that the energy of a tidal wave is carried by the movement of water across the surface of the ocean and thus dissapates, whereas the energy in the soliton is a pulse traveling through the water and loses energy much more slowly than a tidal wave. I don't know how acurate the science in the book is, but it was a good read.
Until the G3 arrived, Macs ranged from insanely difficult(those stupid "pizza-box" cases on the 6100 for example) to nearly impossible(the SE) to get inside of.
I think you are confusing the 6100 with some other model. I had a Centris 610, which uses the exact same case as the 6100 series and to get into it, you pop two catch tabs on the back and the cover comes off. Everything was completely accessible after that.
This suffers from the logical flaw that only things in favor of God are religious. If I say, "There is no God," surely it is as religious a statement as if I say, "There is a God." And surely the separation of church and state should prevent the state from requiring both the teaching of the former and the teaching of things which assume the former.
My disbelief of your God is founded in lack of scientific evidence of same. If you want me to believe, then pony up the proof. I don't believe in anything that doesn't have some scientific basis. Sorry, but using that criterion, your God falls into the same category as Thor, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Zeus, and The Invisible Pink Unicorn.
If you are going to claim that application of science in this manner is religious, then I'm thinking one of us doesn't know what "religious" means.
Not only prosecuted, but condemmed to hell until 1994 when the Pope accepted that the Earth did in fact revolve around the sun and issued Galileo an official pardon.
Well, at least they're quick to admit their errors. It took them only, what, 350 years to admit that the earth revolves around the sun. Can you understand why I don't want people like that having any control over my life whatsoever?
I have no desire to force everyone else to live according to my religion. However, I oppose efforts by those of other religions, including humanism, naturalism, and atheism, to force me to live by theirs.
If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color.