I think a lot of Americans don't realize why America became the superpower it is.
For thousands and thousands of years, the way to increase your nation's power was to go and invade the other nation, subjugate them, and take their stuff.
The problem is that's a pretty expensive way of going about things. The answer?
Immigration!
Why fight through the world subjugating people when you can just open up the gates of immigration and the best, brightest and hardest working of the other nation's populace will voluntarily and at their own expense subjugate themselves?
Much cheaper and more effective than invasion!
That works until you reach critical population mass and if you haven't vigorously invested in training and education of that critical mass you screw yourself out of that leadership position, with respect to the rest of the world.
The American dream used to be a house in the country. Now it's a house in another country.
This research is a joke.
I never met a superior foreign engineering student to my fellow American engineering students. In fact, I discovered many of them[Foreign Engineering talent] became very proficient in cheating exams and when caught would play dumb. My favorite was watching our Thermosystems exam where the three idiots were so "intelligent" that they didn't even bother to realize they all answered the multi-stage systems verbatim.
Hell, I discovered that if you were American, articulate and extroverted in Mechanical Engineering professors raised the bar on your design projects and presentations over your foreign counterparts. You were knocked for being better because they expected you to be better. The logic is similar to friendship where you have a mutual friendship with a person who has you and their other friend who is such a lowlife that any positive behavior is rewarded and any social behavior besides being stellar is punished. I actually had a best friend of decades tell me, ``You're right. I have extremely high expectations of you over him, because you have always expected such levels of yourself, whereas he never has done that.''
Needless to say, that friendship ended.
But ultimately, the ``talent'' was hired because of their advantageous VISA status to that of the US Engineering talent. Foreign help has a different set of accounting criteria to that of the American counterpart.
Weaker video all around next to the old systems and a even bigger mac pro rip off $2500 for a core i7 based system with ONLY ONE CPU and nvidia 9500 video as the GT 120 is a 9500. What a ati card pay $200 more for a 4870 512 makeing it cost $150 + $200 = $350 makeing it about $100 more then other places you can get core i7 systems with better base video and the same cpu speed FOR ABOUT $1000+ less some even with 6gb of DDR3 ram. And why mini DP on a full size video card why not full DP with a DP to mini DP cable?
The old $1,199.00 $1,499.00 level imacs used to have ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory and ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory in the $2,199.00 one now they have slower and weaker NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics on board video in the $1,199.00 $1,499.00 ones and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 with 512MB memory in the $2,199.00.
The mac mini is still a ripoff $599.00 for 1 GB OF RAM? $50 more for 2gb and $150 more for 4gb?
# [Add $150.00] for a 2.26 cpu
120GB is still small.
The $799.00 mini has the same 2.0 cpu but 2gb of ram and a 320gb hd. It should have at least 128 - 256 vram that does not come from system but it does not.
For about $500 you can get a X2 7750 and 790gx board with 128 side port ram with 4gb of ram apple should of put more in to the mini.
What planet are you on? These Xeon Core i7 are the first in the industry. Intel hasn't even released their information on the Xeon 5500 Nehalem because Apple got them early.
Apple Pricing and accounting practices are in the Domestic United States of America. Got a problem? Bitch the US Government. While you're at your own government, bitch to them how come it is I'm so hosed by purchasing a product manufactured in Asia, but only sold in the UK.
While I agree that it's a big gap (I've always hated iMacs, mainly because my monitors tend to have a much longer lifespan than the rest of the computer), who is an expandable mid-ranged desktop targeted at?
Geeks and gamers.
Who is Apple not targeting?
See above.
They have home user machines and workstations. All of these machines are capable of running World of Warcraft which is the only game anyone plays on the Mac anyway.
Pardon me but making only the high end iMac and Mac Pro capable of GPU options is bulls***; and I'm a former employee of both NeXT and Apple. I sure as frack won't wait for Apple to actually leverage what they developed [OpenCL] if this is the crap they offer for 2009. The Mac Pro is great. Too bad they hose you with only 1 PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot. I'd love to see at least 2 if I'm to know I've got a system that will do some heavy lifting.
I don't give a rusty f*** to buy a Tesla system for this, nor do I see any information from Apple that they will support such an option because they don't provide a second f'n PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot--a requirement.
I sure as hell won't buy a secondary Mac Pro so I can have 2 GPUs as nodes to build upon. Some inside Apple are that arrogantly myopic to think many would do so.
"We're very focused on both Apple as a competitor and Linux as a competitor," Ballmer said.
And concerns regarding Google's open-source mobile operating system Android are not far behind.
"I think the dynamics with Linux is changing somewhat," Ballmer said. "I assume we'll see Android-based, Linux-based laptops, in addition to phones, and we'll see Google more and more as a competitor in the desktop operating system business than we ever have before."
"The truth of the matter is all the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android," Ballmer said.
Apple's market share in the PC space is growing due to the iPhone and iPod, all thanks to OS X.
The truth of the matter is that Linux and OS X are eroding Microsoft's dominance, but OS X is the bigger player.
Opera 10, just like Opera 9.63 crashes constantly and is only a Qt3 buggy build for amd64. Mum seems to be the word on how it is that i386 has Qt4, but not amd64.
Intel, Nvidia and AMD helped Apple formulate the original proposal for OpenCL... Intel makes Apple's CPUs, Nvidia increasingly makes the GPUs (sometimes 2 in a single laptop). So there's bound to be some smack-talking about CPUs vs. GPUs and all that.
I think Apple will be the first to have OpenCL support in an OS, and as others follow suit and we see more CPUs and GPUs in machines, this little tiff might conceivably end up meaning... something.
Yes, it could mean Apple moves to AMD/ATi combo integrated and dedicated seeing as AMD will be OpenCL compliant by the time Snow Leopard is here.
They hire groups under the auspices of being an individual based upon that clause. It's a Many to Many digraph under the auspices of being a One to Many position.
Think of it is as an individual with many personal agendas and these messengers are just part of that overall personality.
SCSI, FireWire, LLVM Project [Clang and more], OpenCL and much more goes directly into Apple OS and Hardware solutions. I don't even want to touch the Industrial Design, ASIC development and more that Apple is developing.
Close, but no cigar. Corporations may be people in some legal respects, but they sure as hell can't vote. It's people like us who give politicians their jobs, and it's people like us who can just as easily take them away.
How the hell do you think they get away with lobbying the crap out of Congress?
1st Amendment:
...or the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress [lobby] of grievances.
Somehow, people/a person includes Corporations because our tax code classification Corporations as "individual" entities and thus the bs loop-hole that people have ignored and not challenged. It's a f'n joke.
When item B is co-dependent on item A being developed with item A's money; and I have no license to redistribute and/or have item B with item A how long do you think this "experiment in interpreting the law" will last?
Nah! Not in the land of Slashdot, when it's clear by the myopic rants that Apple couldn't have possibly done background work and we should expect this corporation to collapse by such lack of effort in T minus 20 years and counting.
Wozniak wasn't part of the NeXT Camp, nor was almost everyone else that worked at NeXT on black hardware.
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The ML are just responsible for the View part in the MVC architecture.
To make a complete application, you need also the Model and the Controller.
You added nothing to counter the parent poster's attempt to claim Markup Languages are soon to be programming languages.
The MVC paradigm is language agnostic.
Nevermind the fact that the entire thread from the grandparent poster devolved into a lesson of how poorly most english speakers write in the english language, it's not surprising that the discussion of what is or is not a programming language quickly devolved into snippets of non-sense.
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I think a lot of Americans don't realize why America became the superpower it is.
For thousands and thousands of years, the way to increase your nation's power was to go and invade the other nation, subjugate them, and take their stuff.
The problem is that's a pretty expensive way of going about things. The answer?
Immigration!
Why fight through the world subjugating people when you can just open up the gates of immigration and the best, brightest and hardest working of the other nation's populace will voluntarily and at their own expense subjugate themselves?
Much cheaper and more effective than invasion!
That works until you reach critical population mass and if you haven't vigorously invested in training and education of that critical mass you screw yourself out of that leadership position, with respect to the rest of the world.
The American dream used to be a house in the country. Now it's a house in another country.
This research is a joke.
I never met a superior foreign engineering student to my fellow American engineering students. In fact, I discovered many of them[Foreign Engineering talent] became very proficient in cheating exams and when caught would play dumb. My favorite was watching our Thermosystems exam where the three idiots were so "intelligent" that they didn't even bother to realize they all answered the multi-stage systems verbatim.
Hell, I discovered that if you were American, articulate and extroverted in Mechanical Engineering professors raised the bar on your design projects and presentations over your foreign counterparts. You were knocked for being better because they expected you to be better. The logic is similar to friendship where you have a mutual friendship with a person who has you and their other friend who is such a lowlife that any positive behavior is rewarded and any social behavior besides being stellar is punished. I actually had a best friend of decades tell me, ``You're right. I have extremely high expectations of you over him, because you have always expected such levels of yourself, whereas he never has done that.''
Needless to say, that friendship ended.
But ultimately, the ``talent'' was hired because of their advantageous VISA status to that of the US Engineering talent. Foreign help has a different set of accounting criteria to that of the American counterpart.
Weaker video all around next to the old systems and a even bigger mac pro rip off $2500 for a core i7 based system with ONLY ONE CPU and nvidia 9500 video as the GT 120 is a 9500. What a ati card pay $200 more for a 4870 512 makeing it cost $150 + $200 = $350 makeing it about $100 more then other places you can get core i7 systems with better base video and the same cpu speed FOR ABOUT $1000+ less some even with 6gb of DDR3 ram. And why mini DP on a full size video card why not full DP with a DP to mini DP cable?
The old $1,199.00 $1,499.00 level imacs used to have ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory and ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory in the $2,199.00 one now they have slower and weaker NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics on board video in the $1,199.00 $1,499.00 ones and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 with 512MB memory in the $2,199.00.
The mac mini is still a ripoff $599.00 for 1 GB OF RAM? $50 more for 2gb and $150 more for 4gb?
# [Add $150.00] for a 2.26 cpu
120GB is still small.
The $799.00 mini has the same 2.0 cpu but 2gb of ram and a 320gb hd. It should have at least 128 - 256 vram that does not come from system but it does not.
For about $500 you can get a X2 7750 and 790gx board with 128 side port ram with 4gb of ram apple should of put more in to the mini.
What planet are you on? These Xeon Core i7 are the first in the industry. Intel hasn't even released their information on the Xeon 5500 Nehalem because Apple got them early.
The only parts of Apple that is really American is their R&D and sales and marketing parts
And the only parts of Apple that distinguish a Mac from any old Lenovo or Lenovo-compatible PC is their R&D and sales and marketing parts.
Just a small trinket. Yep! That Lenovo workstation when opened up is just like the Mac Pro! Not even close.
Your point?
Apple Pricing and accounting practices are in the Domestic United States of America. Got a problem? Bitch the US Government. While you're at your own government, bitch to them how come it is I'm so hosed by purchasing a product manufactured in Asia, but only sold in the UK.
Oh I forgot! Business laws are nation specific.
Insightful? *rolls eyes*
While I agree that it's a big gap (I've always hated iMacs, mainly because my monitors tend to have a much longer lifespan than the rest of the computer), who is an expandable mid-ranged desktop targeted at?
Geeks and gamers.
Who is Apple not targeting?
See above.
They have home user machines and workstations. All of these machines are capable of running World of Warcraft which is the only game anyone plays on the Mac anyway.
Pardon me but making only the high end iMac and Mac Pro capable of GPU options is bulls***; and I'm a former employee of both NeXT and Apple. I sure as frack won't wait for Apple to actually leverage what they developed [OpenCL] if this is the crap they offer for 2009. The Mac Pro is great. Too bad they hose you with only 1 PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot. I'd love to see at least 2 if I'm to know I've got a system that will do some heavy lifting.
I don't give a rusty f*** to buy a Tesla system for this, nor do I see any information from Apple that they will support such an option because they don't provide a second f'n PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot--a requirement.
I sure as hell won't buy a secondary Mac Pro so I can have 2 GPUs as nodes to build upon. Some inside Apple are that arrogantly myopic to think many would do so.
Apple's market share in the PC space is growing due to the iPhone and iPod, all thanks to OS X.
The truth of the matter is that Linux and OS X are eroding Microsoft's dominance, but OS X is the bigger player.
Opera 10, just like Opera 9.63 crashes constantly and is only a Qt3 buggy build for amd64. Mum seems to be the word on how it is that i386 has Qt4, but not amd64.
I'm not impressed with Opera 10.
My iBook 1Ghz G4 with 1.5GB of Ram runs Safari Beta 4 very well. Go break the bank and spend $40 for RAM. Or you can always upgrade system.
Nitro has more street cred.
Squirrelfish sounds like a slimy little douchebag trying to get out from under a last call chick who has him pinned at the end of the bar.
``Diana Ross is calling, Michael. She says you have her other glove?''
Exactly! Oh but I can't live without my Twitter!! It just makes me all a flutter!
Can we get back to the f'n point of this thread? D-Programming.
Never used NeXTStep or Openstep I see?
Intel, Nvidia and AMD helped Apple formulate the original proposal for OpenCL... Intel makes Apple's CPUs, Nvidia increasingly makes the GPUs (sometimes 2 in a single laptop). So there's bound to be some smack-talking about CPUs vs. GPUs and all that.
I think Apple will be the first to have OpenCL support in an OS, and as others follow suit and we see more CPUs and GPUs in machines, this little tiff might conceivably end up meaning... something.
Yes, it could mean Apple moves to AMD/ATi combo integrated and dedicated seeing as AMD will be OpenCL compliant by the time Snow Leopard is here.
They hire groups under the auspices of being an individual based upon that clause. It's a Many to Many digraph under the auspices of being a One to Many position.
Think of it is as an individual with many personal agendas and these messengers are just part of that overall personality.
SCSI, FireWire, LLVM Project [Clang and more], OpenCL and much more goes directly into Apple OS and Hardware solutions. I don't even want to touch the Industrial Design, ASIC development and more that Apple is developing.
Close, but no cigar. Corporations may be people in some legal respects, but they sure as hell can't vote. It's people like us who give politicians their jobs, and it's people like us who can just as easily take them away.
How the hell do you think they get away with lobbying the crap out of Congress?
Somehow, people/a person includes Corporations because our tax code classification Corporations as "individual" entities and thus the bs loop-hole that people have ignored and not challenged. It's a f'n joke.
They're not selling it to people without Macs. Macs are a requirement to run the operating system right there on the retail box.
You have clearly no idea how much code the past 2 decades NeXT and Apple have donated to the lovely people of BSD.
When item B is co-dependent on item A being developed with item A's money; and I have no license to redistribute and/or have item B with item A how long do you think this "experiment in interpreting the law" will last?
Euclid's Unabridged Elements
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Elements/Euclid/e/9780760763124/?itm=1
Nah! Not in the land of Slashdot, when it's clear by the myopic rants that Apple couldn't have possibly done background work and we should expect this corporation to collapse by such lack of effort in T minus 20 years and counting.
Wozniak wasn't part of the NeXT Camp, nor was almost everyone else that worked at NeXT on black hardware.
The ML are just responsible for the View part in the MVC architecture. To make a complete application, you need also the Model and the Controller.
You added nothing to counter the parent poster's attempt to claim Markup Languages are soon to be programming languages.
The MVC paradigm is language agnostic.
Nevermind the fact that the entire thread from the grandparent poster devolved into a lesson of how poorly most english speakers write in the english language, it's not surprising that the discussion of what is or is not a programming language quickly devolved into snippets of non-sense.