I haven't been able to notice a performance hit from Rosetta. Just compare the recommended specifications for which the games were developed to the specs of even a low end Mac Mini. The hardware advances of the last few years swallow up the Rosetta layer.
I'll admit, a lot of more recent games and software take a massive performance hit. The Filmaker Universal Binary is supposedly ten times faster on an Intel Mac than the Power PC version. While Starcraft and Diablo II might be faster as Universal Binaries, given their age and the specs they were designed for, I'm not sure such a theoretical performance boost is worth the effort.
Having a Universal Binary is nice, but it's hardly a necessity. There's a group dedicated to getting Mac OS X running on stock Intel hardware, and they've noticed that there are numerous portions of OS X itself that still use Rosetta, such as (If I'm remembering this correctly) the portions of the Font rendering engine.
The Intel Macs have VT technology, but a firmware bug is preventing it from working on some Mac Minis. Apple is working on this, and the most recent firmware seems to have resolved this for at least some users. Sadly, the firmware patch isn't showing up in software update for all users so it had to be downloaded separately.
It's not intentionally turned off. There seems to be a firmware bug causing some issues. Apple has been working on this, and the latest firmware updates supposedly resolve the problem.
Of course a separate bug is preventing the updated firmware from showing up the Software Update for some Minis, so you have to manually hunt it down form Apple and download an installer.
Given the fact that Apple introduced the Mini largely to lure in Windows users, and the fact that they're recommending Parallels in some of there advertising, I suspect resolving this issue is a priority.
Based on my experiences, it looks like the reason you can't use a USB device on Mac and PC simultaneously has to do with the low level access being granted.
For example:
I have some NTFS formatted USB Drives. Mac OS X can only READ them, it can't write or delete files.
If I give W2K in Parallels control of the USB drive, I can suddenly use it to delete files, move files and so on.
I normally attach these USB Drives to the Parallels W2K, and map it as a network drive on the Mac. That gives me full control of the NTFS volume from both Oses..
I suspect Parallels just doesn't want to deal with the headaches of managing simultaneous access at a level low enough for W2K to have full control to the point where it can write a file system that OS X can't.
That depends. Are you in the UK, where this ruling occurred?
All kidding aside, it looks like this ruling would keep people in the UK from peeling that label off the laptop and transferring it to someone else.
My old Thinkpad has a Windows 98 license key on the bottom. It looks like this ruling would prevent me from, for example, installing that copy of Windows 98 on a PC for my sister and giving it to her. It might even prevent me from installing that license in a copy of Parallels running on my Mac, or using it in a VMWare image on my work PC.
You forget, that it's the translator that determines the ultimate meaning of a work.
Translators are often seen a functionaries, people who convert one language into another, magically preserving the meaning and ideas of the original.
This idealistic view of translators is complete and utter bu**s**t, and any translator worth their salt will tell you so, particularly if they've ever translated poetry.
Just take a look at the various translations out there of popular works. Examine, for example, how the meanings of many passages from the book of Psalms are changed by the fact that the translators of the King James edition put poetry ahead of meaning.
You mention Chaucer. I've read it in he original Middle English, and you know what? The editions most kids read in High School and even College are astoundingly sanitized. A lot of the filth and sexual humor has been stripped away or minimized.
To take another Biblical example, did you ever wonder why there was a passage saying that you should no give the proceeds from the sale of a Dog to the Temple?
"Dog" was popular slang for a male prostitute during the reign of King James. The Bible already forbade donating the proceeds from a prostitutes work being donated, and the "Dog" passage simply expanded that prohibition to both genders, in case there was any doubt.
However, the translators were uncomfortable with explicit references to male prostitutes, especially since King James was himself gay. So they used the slang term "dog." Once that slang meaning of "Dog" fell out of use, the entire meaning of the verse changed.
Why do you think Rabbis learn Hebrew, and most Christian denominations require Greek in Seminary? You might want to sit down and listen to a good sermon on "The four kinds of Love." the topic is a popular one, because there are four different Greek words, with very distinct meanings, that get translated as the relatively vague "love" in English translations of the Bible. I'm not recommending this for religious reasons, but as an exercise in translation, and how a poor translation can change the meaning of the text.
Saying "It will always be translated" is tantamount to saying "It will always be available in an edited and revised format."
One of my company's clients used VMWare to virtualize the server software we provide them. A few months back they had a massive power outage that caused them to lose large portions of their primary data center.
They weren't running one of our replicated setups, so we were expecting to spend the next week rebuilding the server and configuring our software.
Instead, they grabbed the most recent backup of the VMWare image and booted it up on a completely different server over 100 miles away.
End result?
About a day's lost data and an hour of down time. (The backup was already at the remote site)
I've been pushing for VMWare usage in our test environment to reduce our hardware needs and time spent restoring Ghost images, but a few managers are still dubious, and are afraid we might "miss some hardware issues" if we go that route.
In which case the Bush administration should be pushing this with all it's might!
Just think about the possibilities. Things like the Bill of Rights being rendered completely unreadable by the next generation. "The Federalist Papers" would be locked away by the education of the masses, and none of the political writing of the per Republican era would be accessible unless some "deviant" decided to translate it or create an audio file, which would of course get them locked up for distribution of "subversive" content. Whose to say it's the REAL Bill of Rights if no one can read it?
We could go back to the good old days of illiterate masses with the only readers using Latin.
Most of his cash "vanished" shortly before his arrest, and his assets were never frozen.
When Lay collapsed, his personal assistant called Lay's personal doctor, not an ambulance. It was Lay's personal physician who pronounced Lay dead.
Lay's will, revised just a couple of months ago, calls for his cremation, and his widow was out of the country when he died. She's reportedly having medical complications from "The shock of her belove husband's sudden death." As a result, she's not expected to return to the states for the funeral.
Details on who signed the death certificate are fuzzy, but there are no plans for an autopsy. He's scheduled for cremation tomorrow morning.
Any bets there's no actual body in the casket, or if there is, it's not Ken Lay's?
Billions are now being spent nationwide by American CEOs on similar contingency plans for faking one's own death and moving vast financial resources to a safe location out of the country.
Ken Lay has become quite a roll model for Corporate CEOs all over the country. He made a vast fortune, and despite being caught, manged to keep a large number of his cohorts from facing any real repercussions while escaping with his own fortune largely intact.
Kent doesn't exactly have an "image". They are just another college in the Midwest that no one cares about.
That's total BS.
I grew up in the Midwest, and Kent has a reputation.
It's a party school known for football and rapist jocks. Go through the morgue of any nearby city newspaper and you'll see a stories about sexual assault cases on a monthly, often weekly basis.
There are no virgins on the Kent campus, although many women were never given a choice in the matter.
Oh, I get it, when you said "no one cares about" Kent you were talking from the viewpoint of someone on one of the coasts, no doubt thinking of the Midwest as "Flyover Country."
Remember, the Midwest cares about the coasts just as much as the coasts care about it. Which is to say, "Not much at all."
Looking at the source, it's a Frontpage generated monstrosity covered with animated GIFs and links to Animated GIFs
meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"
And they're using a free counter from webstats4u.com for their site statistics.
I don't think I'll be loading it in a web browser anytime soon. Anyone care to comment on what the site looks like when you open it with something other than VIM?
You know what? If I were to cancel the subscription, I'd STILL be able to listen to all that media without paying an extra penny.
Hell, I'll even be able to download a new copy from audible.com at my preferred quality level.
All without paying extra or maintaining a subscription.
While I'm sure the iPod compatibility helps a lot, they were doing well when they were selling their own player, and the Audible Otis was CRAP. Hell, they were doing so well, Apple approached THEM about making the iPod compatible with Audible.com content.
My point is, if you offer a reasonable price for content, even if it's DRMed out the wazoo, iPod compatibility is optional.
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Nature itself perhaps...
Unfortunately, neither is a Universal Binary...
I don't see that as an issue.
I haven't been able to notice a performance hit from Rosetta. Just compare the recommended specifications for which the games were developed to the specs of even a low end Mac Mini. The hardware advances of the last few years swallow up the Rosetta layer.
I'll admit, a lot of more recent games and software take a massive performance hit. The Filmaker Universal Binary is supposedly ten times faster on an Intel Mac than the Power PC version. While Starcraft and Diablo II might be faster as Universal Binaries, given their age and the specs they were designed for, I'm not sure such a theoretical performance boost is worth the effort.
Having a Universal Binary is nice, but it's hardly a necessity. There's a group dedicated to getting Mac OS X running on stock Intel hardware, and they've noticed that there are numerous portions of OS X itself that still use Rosetta, such as (If I'm remembering this correctly) the portions of the Font rendering engine.
The Intel Macs have VT technology, but a firmware bug is preventing it from working on some Mac Minis. Apple is working on this, and the most recent firmware seems to have resolved this for at least some users. Sadly, the firmware patch isn't showing up in software update for all users so it had to be downloaded separately.
It's not intentionally turned off. There seems to be a firmware bug causing some issues. Apple has been working on this, and the latest firmware updates supposedly resolve the problem.
Of course a separate bug is preventing the updated firmware from showing up the Software Update for some Minis, so you have to manually hunt it down form Apple and download an installer.
Given the fact that Apple introduced the Mini largely to lure in Windows users, and the fact that they're recommending Parallels in some of there advertising, I suspect resolving this issue is a priority.
Starcraft has an OS X native installer. You don't NEED to run it in Parallels!
Just Google for "Starcraft OS X" and pick a download site. It's not even a third party hack, Blizzard did it themselves.
Blizzard also released a Diablo II OSX Universal Binary Installer.
Gee, I wonder what Blizzard games are still selling for Mac OS X...?
Based on my experiences, it looks like the reason you can't use a USB device on Mac and PC simultaneously has to do with the low level access being granted.
For example:
I have some NTFS formatted USB Drives. Mac OS X can only READ them, it can't write or delete files.
If I give W2K in Parallels control of the USB drive, I can suddenly use it to delete files, move files and so on.
I normally attach these USB Drives to the Parallels W2K, and map it as a network drive on the Mac. That gives me full control of the NTFS volume from both Oses..
I suspect Parallels just doesn't want to deal with the headaches of managing simultaneous access at a level low enough for W2K to have full control to the point where it can write a file system that OS X can't.
Ping me in about a week. I plan to test Planescape this weekend if I get the time.
Some of the posts are from folks who seem to have missed the fact that this is a high school, and most the kids there are required to attend by law.
That depends. Are you in the UK, where this ruling occurred?
All kidding aside, it looks like this ruling would keep people in the UK from peeling that label off the laptop and transferring it to someone else.
My old Thinkpad has a Windows 98 license key on the bottom. It looks like this ruling would prevent me from, for example, installing that copy of Windows 98 on a PC for my sister and giving it to her. It might even prevent me from installing that license in a copy of Parallels running on my Mac, or using it in a VMWare image on my work PC.
You forget, that it's the translator that determines the ultimate meaning of a work.
Translators are often seen a functionaries, people who convert one language into another, magically preserving the meaning and ideas of the original.
This idealistic view of translators is complete and utter bu**s**t, and any translator worth their salt will tell you so, particularly if they've ever translated poetry.
Just take a look at the various translations out there of popular works. Examine, for example, how the meanings of many passages from the book of Psalms are changed by the fact that the translators of the King James edition put poetry ahead of meaning.
You mention Chaucer. I've read it in he original Middle English, and you know what? The editions most kids read in High School and even College are astoundingly sanitized. A lot of the filth and sexual humor has been stripped away or minimized.
To take another Biblical example, did you ever wonder why there was a passage saying that you should no give the proceeds from the sale of a Dog to the Temple?
"Dog" was popular slang for a male prostitute during the reign of King James. The Bible already forbade donating the proceeds from a prostitutes work being donated, and the "Dog" passage simply expanded that prohibition to both genders, in case there was any doubt.
However, the translators were uncomfortable with explicit references to male prostitutes, especially since King James was himself gay. So they used the slang term "dog." Once that slang meaning of "Dog" fell out of use, the entire meaning of the verse changed.
Why do you think Rabbis learn Hebrew, and most Christian denominations require Greek in Seminary? You might want to sit down and listen to a good sermon on "The four kinds of Love." the topic is a popular one, because there are four different Greek words, with very distinct meanings, that get translated as the relatively vague "love" in English translations of the Bible. I'm not recommending this for religious reasons, but as an exercise in translation, and how a poor translation can change the meaning of the text.
Saying "It will always be translated" is tantamount to saying "It will always be available in an edited and revised format."
One of my company's clients used VMWare to virtualize the server software we provide them. A few months back they had a massive power outage that caused them to lose large portions of their primary data center.
They weren't running one of our replicated setups, so we were expecting to spend the next week rebuilding the server and configuring our software.
Instead, they grabbed the most recent backup of the VMWare image and booted it up on a completely different server over 100 miles away.
End result?
About a day's lost data and an hour of down time. (The backup was already at the remote site)
I've been pushing for VMWare usage in our test environment to reduce our hardware needs and time spent restoring Ghost images, but a few managers are still dubious, and are afraid we might "miss some hardware issues" if we go that route.
In which case the Bush administration should be pushing this with all it's might!
Just think about the possibilities. Things like the Bill of Rights being rendered completely unreadable by the next generation. "The Federalist Papers" would be locked away by the education of the masses, and none of the political writing of the per Republican era would be accessible unless some "deviant" decided to translate it or create an audio file, which would of course get them locked up for distribution of "subversive" content. Whose to say it's the REAL Bill of Rights if no one can read it?
We could go back to the good old days of illiterate masses with the only readers using Latin.
Is he REALLY dead?
Most of his cash "vanished" shortly before his arrest, and his assets were never frozen.
When Lay collapsed, his personal assistant called Lay's personal doctor, not an ambulance. It was Lay's personal physician who pronounced Lay dead.
Lay's will, revised just a couple of months ago, calls for his cremation, and his widow was out of the country when he died. She's reportedly having medical complications from "The shock of her belove husband's sudden death." As a result, she's not expected to return to the states for the funeral.
Details on who signed the death certificate are fuzzy, but there are no plans for an autopsy. He's scheduled for cremation tomorrow morning.
Any bets there's no actual body in the casket, or if there is, it's not Ken Lay's?
Billions are now being spent nationwide by American CEOs on similar contingency plans for faking one's own death and moving vast financial resources to a safe location out of the country.
Ken Lay has become quite a roll model for Corporate CEOs all over the country. He made a vast fortune, and despite being caught, manged to keep a large number of his cohorts from facing any real repercussions while escaping with his own fortune largely intact.
Kent doesn't exactly have an "image". They are just another college in the Midwest that no one cares about.
That's total BS.
I grew up in the Midwest, and Kent has a reputation.
It's a party school known for football and rapist jocks. Go through the morgue of any nearby city newspaper and you'll see a stories about sexual assault cases on a monthly, often weekly basis.
There are no virgins on the Kent campus, although many women were never given a choice in the matter.
Oh, I get it, when you said "no one cares about" Kent you were talking from the viewpoint of someone on one of the coasts, no doubt thinking of the Midwest as "Flyover Country."
Remember, the Midwest cares about the coasts just as much as the coasts care about it. Which is to say, "Not much at all."
I would agree, but most Geek chicks are pretty hot, so I'm not going to complain.
Besides, one of my friends is REALLY into the "Big Bear" thing, so I doubt he'd complain about the image of a beach full of nude Geeks.
Looking at the source, it's a Frontpage generated monstrosity covered with animated GIFs and links to Animated GIFs
meta name="GENERATOR"
content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"
And they're using a free counter from webstats4u.com for their site statistics.
I don't think I'll be loading it in a web browser anytime soon. Anyone care to comment on what the site looks like when you open it with something other than VIM?
Why would they need a podcast? They've got an entire news network.
Because it's yet another way to fearmonger to the masses of course!
Hometown Tales Because every town has one.
Bad Cop, No Donut A weekly summary of North American Police Abuse
Crap From the Past Music from the 70's and 80's that FUN to listen to. "A graduate course in Pop Music"
Polyamory Weekly Polyamory Weekly: a show about polyamory, or ethical non-monogamous relationships
Not safe for work, but Distorted View is a twisated, sick summary of the day's dumb news stories and the host's lack of money.
So when't the Faux News Podcast going to come out?
Well, if you're at the high end executive level of a major corporation, you can get in just to any of them faster than that.
Dim Ignorance
Dim Bliss
Ignorance == Bliss
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eMusic sells straight MP3 files.
And they even have the entirety of the Frank Zappa Library.
I have a subscription to audible.com
You know what? If I were to cancel the subscription, I'd STILL be able to listen to all that media without paying an extra penny.
Hell, I'll even be able to download a new copy from audible.com at my preferred quality level.
All without paying extra or maintaining a subscription.
While I'm sure the iPod compatibility helps a lot, they were doing well when they were selling their own player, and the Audible Otis was CRAP. Hell, they were doing so well, Apple approached THEM about making the iPod compatible with Audible.com content.
My point is, if you offer a reasonable price for content, even if it's DRMed out the wazoo, iPod compatibility is optional.
Grab a camera and a microphone.
Put on something you'd expect to see a broadcast journalist to wear on TV
Grab a friend to operate the camera.
Go out on the street.
Interview random people about "The Sony Root Kit Debacle."
Watch the clueless looks you get, even if you try this stunt on the MIT Campus.
Joe Six Pack and most the nation most the nation know nothing about the Sony Root Kit.
Hold on there buckaroo.
You're asking American parents to take responsibility for something?
What country are YOU from???