Actually... as long apple stays in business, I could careless what their market share is. I know between my house and my inlaws house's it's in the upper 70% ratio of macs to pcs. Ever since I got a mac I have convinced them to go the same way. This has reduced the "friendly inlaw house calls" down to about 1 every 6 months instead of one every few weeks.
Seriously! You ever get stuck making house calls to fix friend's computers? Ever since I've convinced people to go mac they've been more functional (making dvd's, photo albums, burning CD's, No Email viruses) and I get almost no calls from friends asking for help. They don't have the same issues as with Windows or even worse would be linux.
Cost. DVDs cost more and also bandwidth isn't free. So whether they're letting you download it off their site or they're giving them away at their booth... I believe just about everything you need should be able to fit on a 800mb disk. I think the ones that push over a few hundred megs just have stuff "because they can".
No deadlines (OpenSource) == better code, eventually.
Better code maybe, not not a better product. Without deadlines I sit around and code and test, and recode, and test, and recode, and test..... It takes a deadline for me to finishup whatever bugs are left quite testing and push it out the door for other people to test and find bugs.
Interesting... Everyone has the debate of Linux GPL vs putting Linux out there with a BSD license. Would would be the problem of letting an older linux kernel tree off and call it something else and go with a BSD license? If it dies a horrible death, so be it, the main GPL linux tree will continue... But that way it could give the debate a run for it's money.
The conclusion of it is that, even if MacOS X is one hell of an operating system, Linux is fun. I love to use the same plataform on my x86 desktop I've grown used to for more than 6 years than on my PPC based laptop. And I still have the chance to reboot and use Panther for the amusement of it.
How much time was spent getting linux working to your liking and your amount of time spent getting OSX working to your liking?
Now would you please tell me a reason why I shouldn't use it?
OSX is a completely refined UNIX based OS. It has commercial application support by major vendors and is breeze to upgrade/update/patch/etc.
I have used Linux as a desktop for a good part of a year. I also now own 3 macs running OSX. I would NEVER go back to Linux as my desktop. Linux was a pain to maintain. I felt like I was spending more time updating my box than actually using it.
You may ask, why bother updating your linux desktop all the time? The Answer, Linux is not ready to be a stable desktop yet. You always update thinking the next newest release of EVERYTHING will stabailize your machine and speed it up. New Kernel release, rebuild the kernel. New KDE release, chase down and update all the dependencies. New Gnome release, rebuild the newest gdk, glibc, etc..
I've been there, done that. I just want to use a UNIX based desktop where I can admin all my box, do development, and have major vendor/application support (Microsoft Office, photoshop, final cut pro, Shake, Logic, Cubase, etc).
Sure on linux you CAN try to use GIMP, OpenOffice, and who knows what for video editing/sound, but it always feels like you're using a BETA application. Nothing on linux seems to feel like it's a professional COMPLETED application.
UH, you said use AFS over NFS but didn't give any reason to use AFS except sometimes you've seen files get ZEROED out when using AFS. So do you want to give a "GOOD" reason to use AFS over NFS? Not that I don't agree, I'm just curious to know if you have any facts to backup your statement.
I would like to ask, as a completely serious question, aside from the matter of personal preference, the whole, "Linux is better than anything else in the world," thing, why in the hell would anyone feel a need to install Linux on a Mac?
Ok, I can think of 1 reason... NFS is not Multi-threaded in OSX. Apple has focused on their AFS protocol (which is insanely fast). But not everyone can switch from NFS to AFS or needs flexibility that NFS provides. Just about everything else that runs on linux can be compiled to run on OSX.
Don't get me wrong, I drink plenty of coke, but sometimes if I've had quite a bit over the space of a few days it starts tasting horrible and makes me wonder why people ever started drinking this over fruit juices or other drinks.
4ounces of cocaine, 1qt alcohol in the flavorings.... man, talk about a drink with some "kick"... No wonder people latched onto this so eagerly. If you had NO IDEA what was in it and downed a few of those in a few hours, you'd be ontop of the world.
A friend of mine looked at the source code yesterday. He immediately recieved a phone call from a man who identifed himself as Bill Gates. The man whispered to him, "Seven days..." and then just hung up.
Notice how www.sco.com isn't in DNS right now at all?? The DOS is pointing to www.sco.com, so if you REALLY want to test your network out have SCO colocate www.sco.com for a short period of time. I'm sure you'd have some good data from that.
The watermark on any finished product is a fine idea, but they place a huge watermark (and not exactly a subtle, transparent one) across the entire modelling view, which makes using the product for longer than about 20 minutes impossible unless you want a spliting headache.
Exactly. The watermark makes the LEARNING edition completely worthless. I can't even play with lighting or get a feel of how to use the textures cause the renders are so ruined by the watermark. I've been stupid enough to buy it twice. The second time I heard a rumor that the watermark was lifted. Blah.
They should name it "Good for learning how to model, but trying to do anything with lighting or textures is not going to happen". But even on that note, if you can't see a final render of the model, how are you supposed to learn how to even model?
There were rumors of apple buying 3dStudio back in December 2003. I couldn't see that happen because there is no current OSX Port. For apple to add that software to their Pro apps it would take quite a bit of development before being able to add that feather to their cap. That rumor must have confused 3dstudio with Alias Maya???
What "Linux on a PDA" needs is backing from a big vendor with plenty of cash to back it up.
I'll say it once again. What linux needs is to drop the stupid GPL and go with a BSD license to allow a company to dump a bunch of money into their own tree of linux and gaurentee that they could make their investment dollars back. Otherwise, it will ALWAYS be stated how "Next year will be the Year LINUX will take over".. The year will never arrive otherwise. It will always be several steps behind the competition.
Quicktime Streaming Server / Darwin Streaming Server don't offer switching between several different cameras... they just stream the current DV input....
My only experiance with video editing is with finalcutpro on osx. Is there anything like VideoToaster out there currently in the market for realtime video broadcasts? I know apple does their keynotes with several cameras, live, etc. Do they use Avid for this? Any ideas?
I would see people telneting into satalites from time to time while I worked at Motorola as a unix admin. I was at the plant that built & maintained the hardware and software for the satalites for Iridium. It was interesting to hear engineers talk about the expensive mass of satalites which was at the time (2000) an already outdated network with not enough bandwidth.
The iridium network has only one location on the planet where communications actually uplinks and downlinks to land communications. Of course they have the ability to communicate to any one of the three or four sites if one were to fail, but it would only use one at any given time.
So if you made a call in antartica on a iridium sat phone to someone on a land line it would back haul the traffic using line of sight communications leap frogging each satalite before having the uplink/downlink to the ground. So I think it was a total of like 6 hops or something max unless there were of course other issues with the network, it could reroute through any visible satalites.
So the bandwidth of the entire network is limited to that one uplink/downlink which rotates satalites on an almost hourly basis. So it's not like they could make 1 satalite that could support more bandwidth communication to the ground than the others, they're all built the same. Any iridium sataliate can take the place of any other.
I know it's way off topic, but interesting to me none the less..
25% of people think they own an HDTV, when the actual number is less than 10%. What can be done to make manufacturers get their heads into the real world?
You think that it's a mistake that 25% of the people bought an HDTV READY TV thinking that it was HDTV ENABLED? Bill Gates has taught the world well... Build on the hype, sell on the hype, deliver later what they thought they already had.
I'd suggest staying away from CIS. It seems like the market is saturated with I-know-redhat-so-I-must-be-a-unix-systems-engineer . If you're really good with computers/programming you will rise to the top and be a value to the company you end up working for. If not, you will always be on the choping block, being fired and having to be looking for a new job every few years rolling with the flux of e-commerce.
I'd suggest sticking with your day job. CIS isn't all it was back in the 90's when funds were bottomless and the likes of you could get a job as a small time tech support phone operator at a local ISP and be the top dog in a major corporation within 5 years.
What really made "The Emperor's New Groove" for me was the "kronk" character who the voice was Patrick Warburton. If it weren't for him the movie woulda' been completely boring to me. It really took me being forced by the kids to watch it two or three times in the period of a month or two to actually enjoy it though.
Hate MS all you want, but xbox has been a great machine.
From the sounds of it, if you hate microsoft buy an XBox and use it as a PVR. They're taking a serious financial hit for each person doing this. Sounds like a great way to bring down the empire.
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Seriously! You ever get stuck making house calls to fix friend's computers? Ever since I've convinced people to go mac they've been more functional (making dvd's, photo albums, burning CD's, No Email viruses) and I get almost no calls from friends asking for help. They don't have the same issues as with Windows or even worse would be linux.
Cost. DVDs cost more and also bandwidth isn't free. So whether they're letting you download it off their site or they're giving them away at their booth... I believe just about everything you need should be able to fit on a 800mb disk. I think the ones that push over a few hundred megs just have stuff "because they can".
Thank you for your efforts! To repay you we will saturate your bandwidth and overload your server.
Interesting... Everyone has the debate of Linux GPL vs putting Linux out there with a BSD license. Would would be the problem of letting an older linux kernel tree off and call it something else and go with a BSD license? If it dies a horrible death, so be it, the main GPL linux tree will continue... But that way it could give the debate a run for it's money.
I have used Linux as a desktop for a good part of a year. I also now own 3 macs running OSX. I would NEVER go back to Linux as my desktop. Linux was a pain to maintain. I felt like I was spending more time updating my box than actually using it.
You may ask, why bother updating your linux desktop all the time? The Answer, Linux is not ready to be a stable desktop yet. You always update thinking the next newest release of EVERYTHING will stabailize your machine and speed it up. New Kernel release, rebuild the kernel. New KDE release, chase down and update all the dependencies. New Gnome release, rebuild the newest gdk, glibc, etc..
I've been there, done that. I just want to use a UNIX based desktop where I can admin all my box, do development, and have major vendor/application support (Microsoft Office, photoshop, final cut pro, Shake, Logic, Cubase, etc).
Sure on linux you CAN try to use GIMP, OpenOffice, and who knows what for video editing/sound, but it always feels like you're using a BETA application. Nothing on linux seems to feel like it's a professional COMPLETED application.
4ounces of cocaine, 1qt alcohol in the flavorings.... man, talk about a drink with some "kick" ... No wonder people latched onto this so eagerly. If you had NO IDEA what was in it and downed a few of those in a few hours, you'd be ontop of the world.
A friend of mine looked at the source code yesterday. He immediately recieved a phone call from a man who identifed himself as Bill Gates. The man whispered to him, "Seven days..." and then just hung up.
Creepy huh?
ok, that was really funny...
Please sir, could I have some more?
Notice how www.sco.com isn't in DNS right now at all?? The DOS is pointing to www.sco.com, so if you REALLY want to test your network out have SCO colocate www.sco.com for a short period of time. I'm sure you'd have some good data from that.
I know it will be released eventually for OSX, it'd be nice if it was a direct release not a port... Someday...
Both times they offered it weeks or months earlier if you pay the $20 for the media and shipping.
They should name it "Good for learning how to model, but trying to do anything with lighting or textures is not going to happen". But even on that note, if you can't see a final render of the model, how are you supposed to learn how to even model?
There were rumors of apple buying 3dStudio back in December 2003. I couldn't see that happen because there is no current OSX Port. For apple to add that software to their Pro apps it would take quite a bit of development before being able to add that feather to their cap. That rumor must have confused 3dstudio with Alias Maya???
Quicktime Streaming Server / Darwin Streaming Server don't offer switching between several different cameras... they just stream the current DV input....
My only experiance with video editing is with finalcutpro on osx. Is there anything like VideoToaster out there currently in the market for realtime video broadcasts? I know apple does their keynotes with several cameras, live, etc. Do they use Avid for this? Any ideas?
The iridium network has only one location on the planet where communications actually uplinks and downlinks to land communications. Of course they have the ability to communicate to any one of the three or four sites if one were to fail, but it would only use one at any given time.
So if you made a call in antartica on a iridium sat phone to someone on a land line it would back haul the traffic using line of sight communications leap frogging each satalite before having the uplink/downlink to the ground. So I think it was a total of like 6 hops or something max unless there were of course other issues with the network, it could reroute through any visible satalites.
So the bandwidth of the entire network is limited to that one uplink/downlink which rotates satalites on an almost hourly basis. So it's not like they could make 1 satalite that could support more bandwidth communication to the ground than the others, they're all built the same. Any iridium sataliate can take the place of any other.
I know it's way off topic, but interesting to me none the less..
I'd suggest sticking with your day job. CIS isn't all it was back in the 90's when funds were bottomless and the likes of you could get a job as a small time tech support phone operator at a local ISP and be the top dog in a major corporation within 5 years.
What really made "The Emperor's New Groove" for me was the "kronk" character who the voice was Patrick Warburton. If it weren't for him the movie woulda' been completely boring to me. It really took me being forced by the kids to watch it two or three times in the period of a month or two to actually enjoy it though.