That's one of the things that is so cool with Apple (well, Next's old) development tools. When you are writing the program you select which processor(s) you wish to compile for. It compiles the binaries and sticks all apps into one folder. When the user double clicks that folder, it launches the correct binary for the processor!
I agree it would be cool to see OS-X on Intel/Alpha/Sparc hardware. I realize that it could cannibalize Apple's hardware sales, but if they only brought OS-X server to i586, then they might not hurt their sales. Apple doesn't sell *true* server hardware. Also, businesses may feel more comfortable buying into a Samba server replacement for WinNT from Apple as opposed to (insert your favorite linux vendor here). OS X Server is much more expensive than the client, so they will be making back their money that they "lost" from software sales.
but before Apple does that, they need to optimize their OS greatly. It feels really slow (people say its because of a poorly written finder, but that still needs improvement) and it's a memory hog (an 800x600 window uses just under 2MB of memory...imagine what having lots of windows open does to system performance)
awhile back/. had an article on the Space (ie. Pioneer 10/11) not moving as fast and as far as expected when they were leaving the galaxy. Could the Neutrino's be the reason?
Yea, You could also try Toolshed51.com The owner of the site was kicked out of my University for posting "offensive" stuff about the university president on his webpage! He's been out to get school administrators since then, so let him know who you are and he will certainly get you a special deal on hosting...
I like the idea of engines that burn alternative fuels, but I don't like the ones that burn food items. I agree that they are renewable, but it comes down to the idea that we are burning our food! If a major crop bug strikes, what will become more important, feeding the population or allowing the rich to drive their SUVs?
I did the same thing...provided several discs worth of information to them. How about we play a little of their game? I propose that we charge $.01 (US) per time that someone looks up our songs in their databases? Since they are getting $.06/user, it shouldn't be too bad for them and it sounds fair to both parties!
I realize that this may seem obvious, be we need to reward Micron & Infineon by purchasing their RAM products. They spent tons of money fighting an unjust cause. The next time I purchase RAM, it will be for one of these two brands
I wish Apple would release a Quicktime player under the GPL. I realize that they can't release the Sorenson Codec due to licensing issues, but if they could make the player GPL and have the codecs imported through a neat plugin (even if the codec is binary only), Apple would likely get the support of Linux enthusiasts who port plugins from other codecs (like Divx) to Quicktime!
Plus, Apple is lagging way behind in the streaming market, with a GPL'd codec running on Linux/*BSD/Solaris boxes, their marketshare will certainly increase!
Yes, the US still has analog networks in the 800MHz band. Most semi-populated areas have full digital coverage (how they can call it "digital" but still use radio waves is beyond me:-) ). The PCS Band (~1900 MHz) is digital only, and all future pieces of spectrum that is released by the government will be digital only
As for the post above yours that talks about the 2.4Mb/sec data transfer speed, don't count on it. That is known as a 16x rateset, and it takes up so many resources, that the operators couldn't ever let anyone use that rate set. Also, even if you *could* get that transfer speed, it would only be that fast if you were standing still, when you start moving, your data speed drops considerably.
I can't believe that after all of these posts, no one has mentioned to wire their houses with fiber optics! Sure, it might be more expensive than 100BT ethernet, but it has amazing bandwidth and it won't become obselete anytime soon!
I know that this is a random plug, but I get my service from toolshed51.com The service they provide is excellent, they have the PHP, Apache & mySQL tools installed and they run FreeBSD that is constantly patched for security holes. You should contact them!
PS--I don't have any affiliation except that I'm a satisfied customer!
While this is just a Senate hearing, and the Senate is currently not debating any bills that could pass through, I thought that the best part of the article was the RIAA's new website: http://www.nofreelunchster.com/
On it, they show how "hip" they are by putting anti-fair-use materials onto MP3s and distributing them for free! They even have a newsletter you can sign up for. (heh, I feel bad for Taco...I wonder how many Trolls will sign him up for that letter:-) )
Although the spacecraft arrives at Mars in October, it will use the same aerobraking maneuver used by the earlier Mars Global Surveyor, so it won't actually be ready for operations for another 2-3 months after that
Could you explain a bit more about that maneuver? I browsed through the URL you posted above, but it seems that they currently only have links to the live feed of the launch site.
We got lots of cool things from the space program during the cold war.
We leared how to launch satalittes, both in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and GEO (Geosynchrinous (sp?) Orbit). That allows your GPS and DirectTV systems to work. Also, materials like teflon were invented for the astronauts.
There are tons of things that the Space Program has given us. So many of these things are so common that we assume that they were just invented by some company!
Since you are the "Server Marketing Guy" at Microsoft, and not the director of corporate strategies, as so many people seem to think, here are a few questions that you might be able to answer.:-)
In what situations have you found that Microsoft Windows NT/2000 servers preform better on similiar hardware than Linux/Unix/BSD systems? What situations do Unix servers work better?
Oh yeah, they also have to make the system, unlike Iridium, work in buildings, or anywhere in the vicinity of a city. With Iridium you have to go through hell to try and make a call with tall buildings around.
The scarry thing is, compared to Globalstar, Iridium is 10x better at making these sorts of calls.
I think that NASA is making a huge mistake by picking Globalstar over Iridium. First, Globalstar only works in Latitudes between 60 degrees north & 60 degrees south. It turns itself off when it is over the oceans to recharge its batteries, and when its over the land, it needs to be near a basestation to make it work
Iridium does all of its call processing in space, so it will work anyplace in the world, during any time of the day.
Why is everyone so excited that someone else can hack something to get them the service they want? Each time we hack something, the big companies learn something new about how things were hacked, and it makes it much more difficult to hack things in the future.
What we need to do is identify what rights we have as consumers (and, no, not the right to pirate), then pressure our governments to create a law that forces RIAA, MPAA, M$, and other Copyright-based companies to protect our fair-use rights!
I've written my Representative in Congress, have you? (...assuming you live in the US...write your government leaders in your own countries)
I once held an informal poll among the undergrads and concluded that almost all of them chose courses they could get high marks in, and almost all of them would opt to get a high mark than to focus on learning
I think that is an obvious statement. If you take classes that you think that you will enjoy the subject matter, you are more likely to spend more time studying it, which means you are far more likely to do well in it.
Cheating happened lots in my school, but I'm glad to say that I was able to graduate without cheating, as it has helped me greatly. It's much harder to cheat in the industry!
Don't worry. We can always release killer bats to get the moths, and giant carnivorous hedgehogs to kill the bats.
This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart saves those Brazilian Iguana looking things (which were supposed to be killed). It turns out that they were eating the pigeons and everyone liked that, but there population was too large, so they planned on bringing in snakes to kill them, and then to bring in gorillas to kill the snakes. The Gorillas would all freeze to death in the Winter.
While I don't mean to take anything away from the NEAR team, IIRC, the first mission to do something like that was Galieo, which swung by an asteriod on its way to Jupiter...
Fox is currently taking a poll on what you'd like to see for the Simpsons Video releases. Make sure you vote (I'm probably too late for this already, though)
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The Installation Notes says that you need a VESA 2.0 compatiable video card and VMWare doesn't emulate such a video card.
That's one of the things that is so cool with Apple (well, Next's old) development tools. When you are writing the program you select which processor(s) you wish to compile for. It compiles the binaries and sticks all apps into one folder. When the user double clicks that folder, it launches the correct binary for the processor!
I agree it would be cool to see OS-X on Intel/Alpha/Sparc hardware. I realize that it could cannibalize Apple's hardware sales, but if they only brought OS-X server to i586, then they might not hurt their sales. Apple doesn't sell *true* server hardware. Also, businesses may feel more comfortable buying into a Samba server replacement for WinNT from Apple as opposed to (insert your favorite linux vendor here). OS X Server is much more expensive than the client, so they will be making back their money that they "lost" from software sales.
but before Apple does that, they need to optimize their OS greatly. It feels really slow (people say its because of a poorly written finder, but that still needs improvement) and it's a memory hog (an 800x600 window uses just under 2MB of memory...imagine what having lots of windows open does to system performance)
awhile back /. had an article on the Space (ie. Pioneer 10/11) not moving as fast and as far as expected when they were leaving the galaxy. Could the Neutrino's be the reason?
If they have mass, then we must include that mass in all calculations, but for some reason they don't want to :-)
The current standard model does not predict the masses of neutrinos, but its equations are simpler if neutrinos have no mass.
That's like saying calculating the velocity of an object is easier to calcuate if we don't count friction!
Yea, You could also try Toolshed51.com The owner of the site was kicked out of my University for posting "offensive" stuff about the university president on his webpage! He's been out to get school administrators since then, so let him know who you are and he will certainly get you a special deal on hosting...
I like the idea of engines that burn alternative fuels, but I don't like the ones that burn food items. I agree that they are renewable, but it comes down to the idea that we are burning our food! If a major crop bug strikes, what will become more important, feeding the population or allowing the rich to drive their SUVs?
I did the same thing...provided several discs worth of information to them. How about we play a little of their game? I propose that we charge $.01 (US) per time that someone looks up our songs in their databases? Since they are getting $.06/user, it shouldn't be too bad for them and it sounds fair to both parties!
I realize that this may seem obvious, be we need to reward Micron & Infineon by purchasing their RAM products. They spent tons of money fighting an unjust cause. The next time I purchase RAM, it will be for one of these two brands
I wish Apple would release a Quicktime player under the GPL. I realize that they can't release the Sorenson Codec due to licensing issues, but if they could make the player GPL and have the codecs imported through a neat plugin (even if the codec is binary only), Apple would likely get the support of Linux enthusiasts who port plugins from other codecs (like Divx) to Quicktime!
Plus, Apple is lagging way behind in the streaming market, with a GPL'd codec running on Linux/*BSD/Solaris boxes, their marketshare will certainly increase!
You mean you still have analog networks in the US
:-) ). The PCS Band (~1900 MHz) is digital only, and all future pieces of spectrum that is released by the government will be digital only
Yes, the US still has analog networks in the 800MHz band. Most semi-populated areas have full digital coverage (how they can call it "digital" but still use radio waves is beyond me
As for the post above yours that talks about the 2.4Mb/sec data transfer speed, don't count on it. That is known as a 16x rateset, and it takes up so many resources, that the operators couldn't ever let anyone use that rate set. Also, even if you *could* get that transfer speed, it would only be that fast if you were standing still, when you start moving, your data speed drops considerably.
Hello Roblimo,
Today is April 23, 2001. This article should have appeared on April 1, 2001. Please change the timestamp.
I can't believe that after all of these posts, no one has mentioned to wire their houses with fiber optics! Sure, it might be more expensive than 100BT ethernet, but it has amazing bandwidth and it won't become obselete anytime soon!
I know that this is a random plug, but I get my service from toolshed51.com The service they provide is excellent, they have the PHP, Apache & mySQL tools installed and they run FreeBSD that is constantly patched for security holes. You should contact them!
PS--I don't have any affiliation except that I'm a satisfied customer!
While this is just a Senate hearing, and the Senate is currently not debating any bills that could pass through, I thought that the best part of the article was the RIAA's new website: http://www.nofreelunchster.com/
:-) )
On it, they show how "hip" they are by putting anti-fair-use materials onto MP3s and distributing them for free! They even have a newsletter you can sign up for. (heh, I feel bad for Taco...I wonder how many Trolls will sign him up for that letter
Although the spacecraft arrives at Mars in October, it will use the same aerobraking maneuver used by the earlier Mars Global Surveyor, so it won't actually be ready for operations for another 2-3 months after that
Could you explain a bit more about that maneuver? I browsed through the URL you posted above, but it seems that they currently only have links to the live feed of the launch site.
Mr. Troll, enjoy your lunch :-)
We got lots of cool things from the space program during the cold war.
We leared how to launch satalittes, both in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and GEO (Geosynchrinous (sp?) Orbit). That allows your GPS and DirectTV systems to work. Also, materials like teflon were invented for the astronauts.
There are tons of things that the Space Program has given us. So many of these things are so common that we assume that they were just invented by some company!
Since you are the "Server Marketing Guy" at Microsoft, and not the director of corporate strategies, as so many people seem to think, here are a few questions that you might be able to answer. :-)
In what situations have you found that Microsoft Windows NT/2000 servers preform better on similiar hardware than Linux/Unix/BSD systems? What situations do Unix servers work better?
Oh yeah, they also have to make the system, unlike Iridium, work in buildings, or anywhere in the vicinity of a city. With Iridium you have to go through hell to try and make a call with tall buildings around.
The scarry thing is, compared to Globalstar, Iridium is 10x better at making these sorts of calls.
I think that NASA is making a huge mistake by picking Globalstar over Iridium. First, Globalstar only works in Latitudes between 60 degrees north & 60 degrees south. It turns itself off when it is over the oceans to recharge its batteries, and when its over the land, it needs to be near a basestation to make it work
Iridium does all of its call processing in space, so it will work anyplace in the world, during any time of the day.
Why is everyone so excited that someone else can hack something to get them the service they want? Each time we hack something, the big companies learn something new about how things were hacked, and it makes it much more difficult to hack things in the future.
What we need to do is identify what rights we have as consumers (and, no, not the right to pirate), then pressure our governments to create a law that forces RIAA, MPAA, M$, and other Copyright-based companies to protect our fair-use rights!
I've written my Representative in Congress, have you? (...assuming you live in the US...write your government leaders in your own countries)
I once held an informal poll among the undergrads and concluded that almost all of them chose courses they could get high marks in, and almost all of them would opt to get a high mark than to focus on learning
I think that is an obvious statement. If you take classes that you think that you will enjoy the subject matter, you are more likely to spend more time studying it, which means you are far more likely to do well in it.
Cheating happened lots in my school, but I'm glad to say that I was able to graduate without cheating, as it has helped me greatly. It's much harder to cheat in the industry!
Don't worry. We can always release killer bats to get the moths, and giant carnivorous hedgehogs to kill the bats.
This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart saves those Brazilian Iguana looking things (which were supposed to be killed). It turns out that they were eating the pigeons and everyone liked that, but there population was too large, so they planned on bringing in snakes to kill them, and then to bring in gorillas to kill the snakes. The Gorillas would all freeze to death in the Winter.
...maybe I just watch too much tv?
heh, you forgot credit card number, too :-)
While I don't mean to take anything away from the NEAR team, IIRC, the first mission to do something like that was Galieo, which swung by an asteriod on its way to Jupiter...
Fox is currently taking a poll on what you'd like to see for the Simpsons Video releases. Make sure you vote (I'm probably too late for this already, though)