Apple has $30 Billion plus cash on hand. Microsoft even more. I guess they love to pay taxes, by your logic? AT&T is heavily investing into their infrastructure as the market continues to demand more.
What the hell does your subject header have to do with the content? Nothing from what I can ascertain. You didn't address it. In short, you didn't design a blog to be a money subsidy but a means to be a live journal for your extended family--one of the original intents of a blog.
Think iPod Touch for the gaming environment to get a boost and the FM Transmitter. The OLED and Radio in the iPod Touch makes the most sense and a product differentiator.
They're one of the major player on the board overseeing it's progress. They gave up autonomy to make it an open standard, You do give up control when others get to play.
Wake up. They made the changes based upon the feedback from their base. The Express slot satisfies enterprise clients and the firewire satisfies both third party hardware vendors and consumers:
MagSafe power port
Gigabit Ethernet port
One FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps)
Three USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
Mini DisplayPort
Audio line in
Audio line out
ExpressCard/34 slot
Kensington lock slot
Buy a third party product for your card reading needs.My Sony Cybershot 10.3 MP Carl Zeiss model has video out and USB. I'm not complaining.
Considering Safari 4 is in Beta you'll get a better browser experience for the iPhone when iPhone OS 3.0 is released--iPhone OS 2.0 isn't even near Safari 4's current progress.
Sorry, but Software Engineering houses most of its complexity in the actual complexity of the chosen language and Art of Design that has nothing to do with Traditional Engineering. I'll put it this way: Becoming proficient in C/C++/ObjC/Java is a matter of exposure to the language and various APIs with well-tested design patterns others have tested and shown to be useful, on a domain specific problem set.
Learning these languages is not remotely the same as learning Heat Transfer, Non-linear Dynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Machine Design, Fatigue analysis, etc.
In fact, 99.9% of all Software Engineers never touch actual traditional Engineering domain sets and thus require degrees in those fields to be able to apply their Programming Language, Frameworks/Libraries and more necessary to model, test and produce an Engineering Product for say Ballistic Missiles, Hydroelectric Power Systems, Nuclear Reactors, so on and so forth.
There is a reason you don't get looked at for a traditional Engineering position with a Software Engineering degree on your resume, versus having a traditional Engineering degree with a programming background.
How much of the commercial/open source software for consumers or enterprise clients requires the software to actually require factors of safety standards set by ABET/ASME/ASCE, etc., to actually adhere to Electromagnetic Theory, actual Mechanics and expect to be highly precise so as to be useful in modeling the Boeing 787 for FAA certification before its even run a test flight?
There is a huge difference between an actual true Engineering Discipline and Computer Science. There is a reason Bill Joy wants Computer Science to one day be on par with Mechanical Engineering. You don't see 50 differing versions of basic Calculus. You see 50 different programming languages with various pros/cons to justify their existence. This isn't acceptable in Engineering Fields that use applied Physics to make products which must guarantee Human Safety as a premium.
The biggest draws for clever programmers is the Web and Smartphones. You're not going to see Differential Equations [ODE/PDE] and Vector Analysis on their backgrounds unless they've switched careers from traditional Engineering to Programming--the money being the biggest lure.
Web Development ten years ago was mocked by traditional Software Engineers as not programming but writing scripts. How ironic that today the bulk of all "software engineers" are writing dynamic web sites/web services from the consumer to the enterprise and are fighting over getting their applications the most sales via smartphones. Cash talks bs walks in the world of the Internet. Traditional Engineering isn't a product of the Internet whereas today's drive for a lot of future chip design is to make sure the hungry mass consumers have those advanced features to see their precious content streamed to them in HD from their homes, to their phones all to keep them entertained and brain dead.
Traditional Engineering benefits from all of this progress but it's not driving these any more than email drove people to use Computers who normally would just write letter or call their friends back when a land line was the solution for all. You won't see blogs with tens of thousands of comments on a new advancement in Wind/Solar Technology specifics. You see 10,000 bemoaning posts tangentially spiraling into oblivion about how politically this or that new advancement may or may not ever be implemented and how this or that corporation blocks said advances to keep old technology in charge.
Software Engineering has evolved into keeping the masses glued to their computers where people can rant and rave by the millions. Its evolved into applying game physics to entertain kids as they continue to evolve into obese young adults incapable of being physically active. Its evolved into allowing traditionally inept large clusters of people from being more than a servant into being capable of driving a BMW, a Decati, a Porsche but still b
Stop beating your chest for a Browser that is playing catch up with standards and upcoming standards. It's a good browser. Everything else added to it is often overkill, just like the massive loads of plugin options on Firefox. Browsers should first actually be standards complete and secure, then they should fixate on extending its ability to interact with your desktop environment.
Apple designs, tests and certifies their motherboards, then it's mass manufactured overseas. Intel does not, but you can ask your friends you know that work in the Intel Fabs to challenge my assertions, or better yet we can get into a pissing contest about how many reliable friends we each have working for Intel.
If Java Hotspot is outperforming the "best" C Compilers it's due to those compiler companies spending very few, if any, cycles on getting more performance out of their compiler.
I'm an Apple investor too, and I'm not so appalled.
The differences between, say, the iMac and Mac Pro:
1. > 4GB of RAM
2. > 2 CPU cores, and they're faster
3. PCIe slots
4. 4 internal hard drives
5. Up to 2 internal optical drives
Now, I'm sure this is going to be controversial, but I'll pose the question anyway:
What would you really want to use those PCIe slots for that you couldn't find reasonably equivalent functionality via USB or Firewire? Bonus points if there are mac drivers available.
If the answer includes Gigabit Ethernet (note that we'd be talking about a *second* GigE port, since the iMac comes with one), Fiber Channel or RAID, then doesn't that imply that you'd be better served by either the Mac Pro or an XServe anyway?
What else is on the list?
SCSI? Really?
Fusion powered 3d graphics card? Are gamers really clambering to run awesome 3D games under OS X?
TV tuners and video capture? There are plenty of those for USB, FW or Ethernet.
What I'm saying is that the "mid tower" you describe *likely* doesn't differ significantly from the iMac except for not having a built-in display, those PCIe slots and extra optical and internal drive bays - and in the case of the optical and/or hard drive bays, FW800 is an alternative. And I am honestly struggling to think of why those PCIe slots are missed.
For the Mac Pro: 3 full PCI Express 2.0 x16 GPUs for OpenCL intensive Engineering applications. That's what I'm asking Apple to include from this ex-NeXT/ex-Apple Engineer. I want 2 SLI enabled Nvidia GTX 295 and 1 Quadro FX 5800 or two ATI Radeon HD 4890 and one AMD FireStreamâ 9270 to leverage the crap out of OpenCL and GrandCentral.
You were lucky. I read Chemistry at a certain well known university in the south west of england, and having done an internship at the John Innes (Institute) Centre the previous year (i.e. *real* lab work)was totally shocked at the sloppy, dirty, abused lab equipment. Safety? Standards? Nope, just the usual generic white crystalline shit on balances (my old boss at J.I.I would have nailed me to a tree if I ever left equipment in that state). Good luck if you had the misfortune that the white shit was NaCN (cyanide remedy - oh probably three months old).
(and the post grads were *worse* than the undergrads - complaining e.g. that I refused to do a standard deviation on three freaking results).
Working in a real lab is no guarentee though - remember that poor sad biochemist who was an expert on mecury toxicity who ended up killed by one drop of methyl mercury that seeped through her protective gloves?
Andy
(glad to play with considerably safer things like computers for many years)
Take your Ph.D at Washington State University. You'll discover that the rolling hills of the Palouse house quite a few world renowned Scientists with labs that are quite stringent on what you do in those laboratories. I haven't had the opportunity to check out the Plasma Physics Lab, but the Chemistry lab even includes their Safety Manual online:
http://www.ehs.wsu.edu/LSM/wsulsmhome.asp
Quite a nice group of talent to study under: http://www.chem.wsu.edu/home
You mean, your CS teachers were a bunch of idiots who DIDN'T shout at you for having insufficient test cases, bad design and terrible implementation?
The only reason the ME guys shouted is because people could get hurt. CS bugs hurt people too, google for Therac-25 to find out why.
The article talks about physical explosions you physically inept dweeb who considers CS a dangerous occupation. The News Media does more damage to financial reality than a Virus.
Slashdot Mirror
Download their 10-Q you lazy slob. Find the information for yourself. It's there for the taking.
Oh Hell: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/090507/t10-q.html
They are all here: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=t
Apple has $30 Billion plus cash on hand. Microsoft even more. I guess they love to pay taxes, by your logic? AT&T is heavily investing into their infrastructure as the market continues to demand more.
What the hell does your subject header have to do with the content? Nothing from what I can ascertain. You didn't address it. In short, you didn't design a blog to be a money subsidy but a means to be a live journal for your extended family--one of the original intents of a blog.
Think iPod Touch for the gaming environment to get a boost and the FM Transmitter. The OLED and Radio in the iPod Touch makes the most sense and a product differentiator.
Part of this BS was due to the fact that filesystems were being run as 64 bit with 32 bit kernels typically on a single CPU/core of a Multi-core CPU.
AC is brain dead for not realizing that All Engineering & Science intensive application suites will leverage OpenCL, across all platforms.
They're one of the major player on the board overseeing it's progress. They gave up autonomy to make it an open standard, You do give up control when others get to play.
No one wants to see thousands of photos of your face or your private parts.
MagSafe power port
Gigabit Ethernet port
One FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps)
Three USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
Mini DisplayPort
Audio line in
Audio line out
ExpressCard/34 slot
Kensington lock slot
Buy a third party product for your card reading needs.My Sony Cybershot 10.3 MP Carl Zeiss model has video out and USB. I'm not complaining.
Isn't it amazing how all of these advancements show up when given a little push?
Use your head. Pre is using a much newer WebKit release than iPhone OS 2.0. With iPhone OS 3.0 comes Safari 4 and the latest WebKit.
Considering Safari 4 is in Beta you'll get a better browser experience for the iPhone when iPhone OS 3.0 is released--iPhone OS 2.0 isn't even near Safari 4's current progress.
P.E. typically standards for Principle Engineer in ME, EE, CE, ChemE, MatSci, etc.
Sorry, but Software Engineering houses most of its complexity in the actual complexity of the chosen language and Art of Design that has nothing to do with Traditional Engineering. I'll put it this way: Becoming proficient in C/C++/ObjC/Java is a matter of exposure to the language and various APIs with well-tested design patterns others have tested and shown to be useful, on a domain specific problem set.
Learning these languages is not remotely the same as learning Heat Transfer, Non-linear Dynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Machine Design, Fatigue analysis, etc.
In fact, 99.9% of all Software Engineers never touch actual traditional Engineering domain sets and thus require degrees in those fields to be able to apply their Programming Language, Frameworks/Libraries and more necessary to model, test and produce an Engineering Product for say Ballistic Missiles, Hydroelectric Power Systems, Nuclear Reactors, so on and so forth.
There is a reason you don't get looked at for a traditional Engineering position with a Software Engineering degree on your resume, versus having a traditional Engineering degree with a programming background.
How much of the commercial/open source software for consumers or enterprise clients requires the software to actually require factors of safety standards set by ABET/ASME/ASCE, etc., to actually adhere to Electromagnetic Theory, actual Mechanics and expect to be highly precise so as to be useful in modeling the Boeing 787 for FAA certification before its even run a test flight?
There is a huge difference between an actual true Engineering Discipline and Computer Science. There is a reason Bill Joy wants Computer Science to one day be on par with Mechanical Engineering. You don't see 50 differing versions of basic Calculus. You see 50 different programming languages with various pros/cons to justify their existence. This isn't acceptable in Engineering Fields that use applied Physics to make products which must guarantee Human Safety as a premium.
The biggest draws for clever programmers is the Web and Smartphones. You're not going to see Differential Equations [ODE/PDE] and Vector Analysis on their backgrounds unless they've switched careers from traditional Engineering to Programming--the money being the biggest lure.
Web Development ten years ago was mocked by traditional Software Engineers as not programming but writing scripts. How ironic that today the bulk of all "software engineers" are writing dynamic web sites/web services from the consumer to the enterprise and are fighting over getting their applications the most sales via smartphones. Cash talks bs walks in the world of the Internet. Traditional Engineering isn't a product of the Internet whereas today's drive for a lot of future chip design is to make sure the hungry mass consumers have those advanced features to see their precious content streamed to them in HD from their homes, to their phones all to keep them entertained and brain dead.
Traditional Engineering benefits from all of this progress but it's not driving these any more than email drove people to use Computers who normally would just write letter or call their friends back when a land line was the solution for all. You won't see blogs with tens of thousands of comments on a new advancement in Wind/Solar Technology specifics. You see 10,000 bemoaning posts tangentially spiraling into oblivion about how politically this or that new advancement may or may not ever be implemented and how this or that corporation blocks said advances to keep old technology in charge.
Software Engineering has evolved into keeping the masses glued to their computers where people can rant and rave by the millions. Its evolved into applying game physics to entertain kids as they continue to evolve into obese young adults incapable of being physically active. Its evolved into allowing traditionally inept large clusters of people from being more than a servant into being capable of driving a BMW, a Decati, a Porsche but still b
Where are you getting those statistics? Seriously. They don't fly.
None of these features are very extensive.
Stop beating your chest for a Browser that is playing catch up with standards and upcoming standards. It's a good browser. Everything else added to it is often overkill, just like the massive loads of plugin options on Firefox. Browsers should first actually be standards complete and secure, then they should fixate on extending its ability to interact with your desktop environment.
Ever considered a life as a Postal Worker in the Midwest? Just look at this light.
Buy AppleCare and get a new system seeing as it would be thusly covered under the extended warranty.
Apple designs, tests and certifies their motherboards, then it's mass manufactured overseas. Intel does not, but you can ask your friends you know that work in the Intel Fabs to challenge my assertions, or better yet we can get into a pissing contest about how many reliable friends we each have working for Intel.
If Java Hotspot is outperforming the "best" C Compilers it's due to those compiler companies spending very few, if any, cycles on getting more performance out of their compiler.
You used to be cool.
And you guys [Java Devs] whine about Apple's version not being current?
I'm an Apple investor too, and I'm not so appalled.
The differences between, say, the iMac and Mac Pro:
1. > 4GB of RAM 2. > 2 CPU cores, and they're faster 3. PCIe slots 4. 4 internal hard drives 5. Up to 2 internal optical drives
Now, I'm sure this is going to be controversial, but I'll pose the question anyway:
What would you really want to use those PCIe slots for that you couldn't find reasonably equivalent functionality via USB or Firewire? Bonus points if there are mac drivers available.
If the answer includes Gigabit Ethernet (note that we'd be talking about a *second* GigE port, since the iMac comes with one), Fiber Channel or RAID, then doesn't that imply that you'd be better served by either the Mac Pro or an XServe anyway?
What else is on the list?
SCSI? Really?
Fusion powered 3d graphics card? Are gamers really clambering to run awesome 3D games under OS X?
TV tuners and video capture? There are plenty of those for USB, FW or Ethernet.
What I'm saying is that the "mid tower" you describe *likely* doesn't differ significantly from the iMac except for not having a built-in display, those PCIe slots and extra optical and internal drive bays - and in the case of the optical and/or hard drive bays, FW800 is an alternative. And I am honestly struggling to think of why those PCIe slots are missed.
For the Mac Pro: 3 full PCI Express 2.0 x16 GPUs for OpenCL intensive Engineering applications. That's what I'm asking Apple to include from this ex-NeXT/ex-Apple Engineer. I want 2 SLI enabled Nvidia GTX 295 and 1 Quadro FX 5800 or two ATI Radeon HD 4890 and one AMD FireStreamâ 9270 to leverage the crap out of OpenCL and GrandCentral.
You were lucky. I read Chemistry at a certain well known university in the south west of england, and having done an internship at the John Innes (Institute) Centre the previous year (i.e. *real* lab work)was totally shocked at the sloppy, dirty, abused lab equipment. Safety? Standards? Nope, just the usual generic white crystalline shit on balances (my old boss at J.I.I would have nailed me to a tree if I ever left equipment in that state). Good luck if you had the misfortune that the white shit was NaCN (cyanide remedy - oh probably three months old).
(and the post grads were *worse* than the undergrads - complaining e.g. that I refused to do a standard deviation on three freaking results).
Working in a real lab is no guarentee though - remember that poor sad biochemist who was an expert on mecury toxicity who ended up killed by one drop of methyl mercury that seeped through her protective gloves?
Andy
(glad to play with considerably safer things like computers for many years)
Take your Ph.D at Washington State University. You'll discover that the rolling hills of the Palouse house quite a few world renowned Scientists with labs that are quite stringent on what you do in those laboratories. I haven't had the opportunity to check out the Plasma Physics Lab, but the Chemistry lab even includes their Safety Manual online:
http://www.ehs.wsu.edu/LSM/wsulsmhome.asp
Quite a nice group of talent to study under:
http://www.chem.wsu.edu/home
You mean, your CS teachers were a bunch of idiots who DIDN'T shout at you for having insufficient test cases, bad design and terrible implementation?
The only reason the ME guys shouted is because people could get hurt. CS bugs hurt people too, google for Therac-25 to find out why.
The article talks about physical explosions you physically inept dweeb who considers CS a dangerous occupation. The News Media does more damage to financial reality than a Virus.