Actually, stopping when you feel better is a pretty good idea. The bug is gone, and the body will take care of the rest. The more time you expose organisms to antibiotics, the more time they have to adapt to it.
And that, my friend, is how we now have MDRTB.. yes for you kids at home, thats "Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis". And no, I don't think "being healthy" is gonna save you from that one.
In the design industry, which is one of the biggest users of Macs, this is quite common. Design companies replace their machines quite often. They often have no choice, and for exactly the problems that article claims afflict PCs.
This is because "design", unlike word processing and spreadsheets and whatever else PC users in business do, requires fast machines and actually gets a higher ROI when you aren't sitting around waiting for files to render. Thus, Macs in design are replaced way more often that PCs. This has nothing to do with the life cycle of Macs, it has to do with the type of work they are used for. Trying to compare the life cycle of Macs in design roles to PCs in accounting is like asking why you have to replace tires in the indy 500 every few laps when your camry at home can go 40k miles with the same tires. PCs in accounting can only go as fast as you can type, Macs in design can only go as fast as they can render/compress video/etc...
In the consumer space, this is quite different. Many people keep Macs 4 or 5 years and can run the new OS updates and applications because they are essentially just doing email/web/word processing/and syncing their ipod. My father has an old G4 tower that runs OSX 10.4 quite fine, and I think it even shipped with OS9 (it was the last of the G4s to do so). He's not making money off of FCP or Photoshop and he can't run Aperture on it, however. But I am sure it will run Leopard OK because OSX doesn't seem to get a whole lot slower when they rev it, and in many cases gets faster. At some point it will be "unsupported", but if you notice, Apple's most recent hardware "phase out" was machines that didn't ship with built in firewire and a G3 processor. Thats basically every machine back to the original iMac (or pretty close). Faster machines will be faster, but thats true in WinXP land too...
Another way to look at this is to look at the pace of software innovation by microsoft (or lack thereof). The reason you can run XP (which up until a month ago was the current MS OS) on a 5 year old machine is because XP is a 5 year old OS. Nothing has been added to XP as far as functionality that would demand a faster computer during that time. Likewise, no new graphics subsystems that provide increased functionality, etc... In that same period of time, Apple has revved their OS almost 5 times, each time adding fairly significant new functionality that took advantage of the new era hardware that was available at the time. 2k/XP are essentially the same exact OS, so there is no wonder you can get XP to run on a machine with 128MB of RAM and a 4GB HDD. XP doesn't have Quartz Extreme, CoreImage, CoreAudio, etc.. and applications that take advantage of them to use/abuse faster hardware...
Apple doesn't extent any support for old systems. It doesn't offer any support for any old products. Once an Apple product has been replaced by a new model you're out of luck. Of course, there's a good support community out there for older Apple devices, but Apple can't take credit for that. Anyone running OSX 10.3 or older wont be getting any updates any time soon.
This is just not true. First of all, define "support". Applecare supports Apple's hardware (meaning they stock replacement parts for service) for 5 years. Apple's warranty covers the machines for 1 year of out the box, with an available extension to 3 years. If you are a business or large enterprise, you can (as with other enterprise vendors) pay for enterprise support to cover all machines in your organization for a very long time, as well as sign yourself up to be a self servicing customer where your IT dept can order replacement parts directly from Apple, just as any retailer/service center would. Most agreements include guaranteed response time, and parts replacement. I'd say thats pretty normal "support" for a computer company, at least as far as hardware is concerned.
Perhaps the people in Denmark don't carry these genes at the rate of people in other countries. Thus, they could be exposed to the same toxins, but not have a problem dealing with them.
Its possible that the number of people who carry the genetic mutations that allow for autism to develop is constant over time, but the exposure to the environmental triggers have increased in the past 20 years. This is what people who say Autism has increased due to the number of vaccines that were added to the schedule in the 80s/90s... and the initial reports of a dropoff of autistic diagnoses after mercury was removed from the vaccines starting in the late 1990s.
I don't know for sure what exactly causes autism, but I do know for a fact that there isn't any good reason to have mercury in vaccines or dental fillings. Its been a known toxin for centuries...
Is there a/usr/bin/bypass for when my OS X box has a "spinning wheel of dealth" attack?:-)
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Sorry to hear about this book. However:
LDAP Programming, Management, and Integration by Clayton Donley
is an excellent book on the basics of how LDAP works and how to set up LDAP services.
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I'll admit they can be more expensive in some cases. But 50%, give me a break man. Try to find a 1" thin widescreen notebook from Dell with built in 802.11g, Firewire 800, USB 2, DVD Burner, GigE etc... if they even make one, it will be price competitive with a powerbook.
You see, the thing is. For office PCs, dell makes very cheap proccessor+HDD boxes. They have built in graphics, slower busses, smaller HDDs and barely any modern connectivity. Sure you can add those things, but the price is no longer 599$. Apple just doesn't make the low end like that. So sure, if you compare feature for feature with the lowest of the low PCs, you can always find a cheaper dell.
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You can't get 20 PCs for 10k that are worth any further than you can throw them. Seriously, you can build PCs and buy crapbox PCs for cheap, but don't expect any vendor support and don't expect them to run for more than 5 minutes without you fixing them. I know Macs are not cheap, but if you price them out feature for feature with any other tier one vendor they are at least in the realm of being competitive.
Yeah but you aren't spending all day doing photoshop for a living. In that case, you would want the fastest box you can get for those filters. Because if you are running them 50x a day and you can shave a few minutes of render time per day. That adds up to a lot of productivity. (hence the need for a dual G5).
I agree with you though. I have a similar PC setup that I build 2 years ago and I see no reason to upgrade it. Maybe so ad-aware and virus scan go a little faster... heh.
Or the trend that laptops are going to make up the majority of purchases. Look at the success of the Centrino chipset and Apple's powerbooks. Among other things, these machines run 5+ hours on the battery. Thats way more important for a laptop in my eyes than getting a few more FPS in quake.
Thats interesting. In the main lab where I go to school, there is a few hundred windows PCs and a few hundred powermac G5s. I'd say the systems are used about equally.
Mac OS X has this feature too, in conjunction with network login. Your home directory is stored on the server, and your settings and files follow you around to any computer you log into, so long as it is bound to the LDAP server that stores these settings. It is not the same as card access, but provides similar benefits.
The irony here is, there wouldn't be a mac/apple story if it weren't for Apple having gone to OS X and a more open software philosophy.
What is the value of such a statement? The fact is, they did move to OSX which heavily leverages open standards and because of this, you can expect that customers who care about such things would look at them seriously.
The above statement has about as much weight as "supposing IBM didn't back Linux, we would be hearing about mainframes are dead", or "supposing Microsoft wasn't a monopoly, we wouldn't be talking about their business practices".
Perhaps Apple has developed an excellent solution to do such a thing as a result off their retail initiative? Last I checked, at Apple retail stores, iMacs were used as POS terminals as well as information resources so Apple retail employees can track customer issues, and inventory.
Perhaps this is the "custom code" they are speaking of?
Actually, the hardware is made from off the shelf components. Last time I checked they used PCI cards, AGP video cards, DDR ram, ATA/SATA drives, USB ports, etc... what's not standard about that? Just because they don't allow clones, doesn't mean they don't use standard components.
The G5 also uses less power per instruction crunched than the AMD chip or the intel chips. That can be critical, especially when you are dealing with putting 40 of them in a rack. (Thats not even counting the bill from the power company).
In a sense, what Apple does is even worse than moving jobs to India - they eliminate the need of paying for them.
No, they make it so you can spend time actually adding value to the organization for which you work, rather than wasting time doing things in an obsolete way. Instead of typing in IPs all day maybe you could do something productive.
The single biggest difference between how *NIX systems operate and how Windows operates is that the default account on a Windows system is effectively root. So, when anything gets executed (harmful or not) it can wreak havoc on the system. It is not sandboxed to a home directory, and thus can go about modifying system files, taking over server processes, and installing spambots. In UNIX this couldn't happen, because you need to explicitly run something as root to have this kind of access. Since your default user account is not root, the likelihood of this happening is not high. Likewise, most server processes in UNIX run as their own users. So, even if they are broken into, the damange can most of the time be limited to thier user space and not effect the rest of the system. On windows, this is not the case.
Where do you go to school? Our school is C/C++/Java on UNIX/Linux/OSX based systems. The idea is not to teach you any particular technology, but to teach you the theory that goes behind building computing systems and software, so that when you graduate and the language that was cool your freshman year is not cool anymore, you still have the skills to apply to the next greatest thing.
PS: MS practically gives away software to universities. Office is like 45$, Windows 15$ and MSVC.Net is less than 100$.
Yes the problem with standard TCP/IP is it isn't bootstrapping enough for a home user to plug two or three computers together and see them all on a network without configuring a lot of stuff. Typical client server tcp/ip apps require you to know the address or name of each server, or at least to run an SLP server.
Give me a break. It is not obvious that they are wrong about these claims. If you watched the WWDC demo last year and then stayed for any of the sessions they showed exactly what the G5 was faster at and what it wasn't. In fact their literature clearly stated that in some areas the G5 wasn't faster than a Xeon solution.
At the end of the day, the fact remains, the G5 gets more work done per watt than a Xeon. Considering that they are comparably priced, in a cluster solution, with the money you save on electricity you can buy a few extra nodes to make up the nominal speed difference.
You are right. In fact this is the whole point of the original AOL-TWX merger. Unfortunately AOL and TWX can't see their head from their ass and don't seem to notice that they should leverage AOL's content, ease of use, and intuitive software to make TWX/AOL the broadband provider. I mean you talk about adding value, AOL now has a lot better software and content than many of the "plain" broadband ISPs can provide. Their email has very good junk filters, it doesn't attract virii like outlook, and their content is second to none. But no, no, AOL still tries to leverage their dial up business and charges 20$ a month to "bring your own access" even if you have a TWX cable modem. WTF is that, if you get TWX cable modem AOL should be your ISP. How about AOL gets back to what made them great, making the internet easy and creating communities and content. Please AOL, don't sell out to MSN, the will just kill your development since the online battle will be won by a monopoly. Oh and come on, how about some ads that talk about how AOL is better than comcast and their trashy web mail and spyware they install. What does an AOL "optimized" connection mounted on top of a car with some trashy dude acting surprised do for me.
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Once the cable carriers can do PVD/DVR from the station downtown and include it in their default digital box, you will have no reason to get TiVO. Unless of course TiVO licenses their stuff to the carriers...
OSX alientated a LOT of longtime Mac users that wanted nothing to do with Unix or command lines.
Yes and no. If you ask my dad he probably doesn't even know the terminal.app exists and has no reason to use it. He happily edits along in photoshop, surfs the web, and checks his email. You are looking at this with your "slashdot" goggles on. Most people are just happy to know that they can get the security and stability of a UNIX based operating system, without having to go to the command line.
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And that, my friend, is how we now have MDRTB.. yes for you kids at home, thats "Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis". And no, I don't think "being healthy" is gonna save you from that one.
This is because "design", unlike word processing and spreadsheets and whatever else PC users in business do, requires fast machines and actually gets a higher ROI when you aren't sitting around waiting for files to render. Thus, Macs in design are replaced way more often that PCs. This has nothing to do with the life cycle of Macs, it has to do with the type of work they are used for. Trying to compare the life cycle of Macs in design roles to PCs in accounting is like asking why you have to replace tires in the indy 500 every few laps when your camry at home can go 40k miles with the same tires. PCs in accounting can only go as fast as you can type, Macs in design can only go as fast as they can render/compress video/etc...
In the consumer space, this is quite different. Many people keep Macs 4 or 5 years and can run the new OS updates and applications because they are essentially just doing email/web/word processing/and syncing their ipod. My father has an old G4 tower that runs OSX 10.4 quite fine, and I think it even shipped with OS9 (it was the last of the G4s to do so). He's not making money off of FCP or Photoshop and he can't run Aperture on it, however. But I am sure it will run Leopard OK because OSX doesn't seem to get a whole lot slower when they rev it, and in many cases gets faster. At some point it will be "unsupported", but if you notice, Apple's most recent hardware "phase out" was machines that didn't ship with built in firewire and a G3 processor. Thats basically every machine back to the original iMac (or pretty close). Faster machines will be faster, but thats true in WinXP land too...
Another way to look at this is to look at the pace of software innovation by microsoft (or lack thereof). The reason you can run XP (which up until a month ago was the current MS OS) on a 5 year old machine is because XP is a 5 year old OS. Nothing has been added to XP as far as functionality that would demand a faster computer during that time. Likewise, no new graphics subsystems that provide increased functionality, etc... In that same period of time, Apple has revved their OS almost 5 times, each time adding fairly significant new functionality that took advantage of the new era hardware that was available at the time. 2k/XP are essentially the same exact OS, so there is no wonder you can get XP to run on a machine with 128MB of RAM and a 4GB HDD. XP doesn't have Quartz Extreme, CoreImage, CoreAudio, etc.. and applications that take advantage of them to use/abuse faster hardware...
This is just not true. First of all, define "support". Applecare supports Apple's hardware (meaning they stock replacement parts for service) for 5 years. Apple's warranty covers the machines for 1 year of out the box, with an available extension to 3 years. If you are a business or large enterprise, you can (as with other enterprise vendors) pay for enterprise support to cover all machines in your organization for a very long time, as well as sign yourself up to be a self servicing customer where your IT dept can order replacement parts directly from Apple, just as any retailer/service center would. Most agreements include guaranteed response time, and parts replacement. I'd say thats pretty normal "support" for a computer company, at least as far as hardware is concerned.
It is true that with OSX, Apple only patches 1 OS
Terminal Server/Citrix solves the problem of having to run Windows apps. Just get a beast Dell server and give everyone a login. Problem solved... :-)
Perhaps the people in Denmark don't carry these genes at the rate of people in other countries. Thus, they could be exposed to the same toxins, but not have a problem dealing with them.
Its possible that the number of people who carry the genetic mutations that allow for autism to develop is constant over time, but the exposure to the environmental triggers have increased in the past 20 years. This is what people who say Autism has increased due to the number of vaccines that were added to the schedule in the 80s/90s... and the initial reports of a dropoff of autistic diagnoses after mercury was removed from the vaccines starting in the late 1990s.
I don't know for sure what exactly causes autism, but I do know for a fact that there isn't any good reason to have mercury in vaccines or dental fillings. Its been a known toxin for centuries...
Is there a /usr/bin/bypass for when my OS X box has a "spinning wheel of dealth" attack? :-)
AMSR
Sorry to hear about this book. However:
LDAP Programming, Management, and Integration by Clayton Donley
is an excellent book on the basics of how LDAP works and how to set up LDAP services.
I'll admit they can be more expensive in some cases. But 50%, give me a break man. Try to find a 1" thin widescreen notebook from Dell with built in 802.11g, Firewire 800, USB 2, DVD Burner, GigE etc... if they even make one, it will be price competitive with a powerbook.
You see, the thing is. For office PCs, dell makes very cheap proccessor+HDD boxes. They have built in graphics, slower busses, smaller HDDs and barely any modern connectivity. Sure you can add those things, but the price is no longer 599$. Apple just doesn't make the low end like that. So sure, if you compare feature for feature with the lowest of the low PCs, you can always find a cheaper dell.
You can't get 20 PCs for 10k that are worth any further than you can throw them. Seriously, you can build PCs and buy crapbox PCs for cheap, but don't expect any vendor support and don't expect them to run for more than 5 minutes without you fixing them. I know Macs are not cheap, but if you price them out feature for feature with any other tier one vendor they are at least in the realm of being competitive.
Yeah but you aren't spending all day doing photoshop for a living. In that case, you would want the fastest box you can get for those filters. Because if you are running them 50x a day and you can shave a few minutes of render time per day. That adds up to a lot of productivity. (hence the need for a dual G5).
I agree with you though. I have a similar PC setup that I build 2 years ago and I see no reason to upgrade it. Maybe so ad-aware and virus scan go a little faster... heh.
Or the trend that laptops are going to make up the majority of purchases. Look at the success of the Centrino chipset and Apple's powerbooks. Among other things, these machines run 5+ hours on the battery. Thats way more important for a laptop in my eyes than getting a few more FPS in quake.
Thats interesting. In the main lab where I go to school, there is a few hundred windows PCs and a few hundred powermac G5s. I'd say the systems are used about equally.
Mac OS X has this feature too, in conjunction with network login. Your home directory is stored on the server, and your settings and files follow you around to any computer you log into, so long as it is bound to the LDAP server that stores these settings. It is not the same as card access, but provides similar benefits.
The irony here is, there wouldn't be a mac/apple story if it weren't for Apple having gone to OS X and a more open software philosophy.
What is the value of such a statement? The fact is, they did move to OSX which heavily leverages open standards and because of this, you can expect that customers who care about such things would look at them seriously.
The above statement has about as much weight as "supposing IBM didn't back Linux, we would be hearing about mainframes are dead", or "supposing Microsoft wasn't a monopoly, we wouldn't be talking about their business practices".
Perhaps Apple has developed an excellent solution to do such a thing as a result off their retail initiative? Last I checked, at Apple retail stores, iMacs were used as POS terminals as well as information resources so Apple retail employees can track customer issues, and inventory.
Perhaps this is the "custom code" they are speaking of?
Actually, the hardware is made from off the shelf components. Last time I checked they used PCI cards, AGP video cards, DDR ram, ATA/SATA drives, USB ports, etc... what's not standard about that? Just because they don't allow clones, doesn't mean they don't use standard components.
The G5 also uses less power per instruction crunched than the AMD chip or the intel chips. That can be critical, especially when you are dealing with putting 40 of them in a rack. (Thats not even counting the bill from the power company).
In a sense, what Apple does is even worse than moving jobs to India - they eliminate the need of paying for them.
No, they make it so you can spend time actually adding value to the organization for which you work, rather than wasting time doing things in an obsolete way. Instead of typing in IPs all day maybe you could do something productive.
The single biggest difference between how *NIX systems operate and how Windows operates is that the default account on a Windows system is effectively root. So, when anything gets executed (harmful or not) it can wreak havoc on the system. It is not sandboxed to a home directory, and thus can go about modifying system files, taking over server processes, and installing spambots. In UNIX this couldn't happen, because you need to explicitly run something as root to have this kind of access. Since your default user account is not root, the likelihood of this happening is not high. Likewise, most server processes in UNIX run as their own users. So, even if they are broken into, the damange can most of the time be limited to thier user space and not effect the rest of the system. On windows, this is not the case.
Where do you go to school? Our school is C/C++/Java on UNIX/Linux/OSX based systems. The idea is not to teach you any particular technology, but to teach you the theory that goes behind building computing systems and software, so that when you graduate and the language that was cool your freshman year is not cool anymore, you still have the skills to apply to the next greatest thing.
PS: MS practically gives away software to universities. Office is like 45$, Windows 15$ and MSVC.Net is less than 100$.
Yes the problem with standard TCP/IP is it isn't bootstrapping enough for a home user to plug two or three computers together and see them all on a network without configuring a lot of stuff. Typical client server tcp/ip apps require you to know the address or name of each server, or at least to run an SLP server.
Give me a break. It is not obvious that they are wrong about these claims. If you watched the WWDC demo last year and then stayed for any of the sessions they showed exactly what the G5 was faster at and what it wasn't. In fact their literature clearly stated that in some areas the G5 wasn't faster than a Xeon solution.
At the end of the day, the fact remains, the G5 gets more work done per watt than a Xeon. Considering that they are comparably priced, in a cluster solution, with the money you save on electricity you can buy a few extra nodes to make up the nominal speed difference.
You are right. In fact this is the whole point of the original AOL-TWX merger. Unfortunately AOL and TWX can't see their head from their ass and don't seem to notice that they should leverage AOL's content, ease of use, and intuitive software to make TWX/AOL the broadband provider. I mean you talk about adding value, AOL now has a lot better software and content than many of the "plain" broadband ISPs can provide. Their email has very good junk filters, it doesn't attract virii like outlook, and their content is second to none. But no, no, AOL still tries to leverage their dial up business and charges 20$ a month to "bring your own access" even if you have a TWX cable modem. WTF is that, if you get TWX cable modem AOL should be your ISP. How about AOL gets back to what made them great, making the internet easy and creating communities and content. Please AOL, don't sell out to MSN, the will just kill your development since the online battle will be won by a monopoly. Oh and come on, how about some ads that talk about how AOL is better than comcast and their trashy web mail and spyware they install. What does an AOL "optimized" connection mounted on top of a car with some trashy dude acting surprised do for me.
Once the cable carriers can do PVD/DVR from the station downtown and include it in their default digital box, you will have no reason to get TiVO. Unless of course TiVO licenses their stuff to the carriers...
OSX alientated a LOT of longtime Mac users that wanted nothing to do with Unix or command lines.
Yes and no. If you ask my dad he probably doesn't even know the terminal.app exists and has no reason to use it. He happily edits along in photoshop, surfs the web, and checks his email. You are looking at this with your "slashdot" goggles on. Most people are just happy to know that they can get the security and stability of a UNIX based operating system, without having to go to the command line.