Apple only "support" 8gb because they only support apple memory upgrades. And they choose not to sell 8gb DIMMs. Hence, it is unsupported by apple. The machine will take 16gb just fine, and kits are readily available from OWC.
Sounds like your employers are behind the curve. We've been standardising on 4gb of RAM for our end user desktops to run Outlook, Word and Excel. Since 2007.
Furthermore - killing Osama means that his friends/family/future generations/etc will want revenge. And the whole reason for the "terrorists" wanting to attack the USA hasn't gone away in any case. FIX YOUR FUCKING FOREIGN POLICY and you'll be less of a target. Keep attacking other countries in an attempt to spread the current corrupted version of "democracy" and you'll simply prolong the bullshit. Which is kinda cool for the defence contractors, so perhaps that is actually the real objective.
You think? How much media coverage is OWS getting at the moment? And thats in your OWN country. If there's shit going down overseas that isn't politically desirable for the public in your country to know, do you really think the major media corporations are going to be reporting it?
News flash: if the US government doesn't want you to have a fair trial, they call you an unlawful combatant or a terrorist and ship you off to guantanamo to have an unfair trial.
How is it relevant that most people cannot fix a bug? The distinction is inherent; open-source and closed-source ANYTHING are indistinguishable except for the fact that improvements to the open-source variant are much more readily available.
Theory and reality are not the same thing. Otherwise, surely we would have had an easy to use reliable linux desktop by 1997. As it is, its 2011, and the unix desktopo is still a shambles. Yes, you CAN use it to get things done. However on every single open souce unix distribution i have used since 1995, there have been bugs, shit that just plain doesn't work as it should, etc.
I'm looking at you, 3d composting, audio mixing, etc.
Yes, there are things abuot OS X and Windows i do not like. But they are ahead of the curve compared to linux, when your assertion that anyone can fix open source software should enable Linux to catch up and overtake. Well, its been 15 years now (started with slackware 3.1), I'm still waiting.
Given that it is available fairly cheaply from the app store, i'm quite sure that they'll be rolling around in agony over it. Oh, wait, i mean rolling around dollars. That's it.
Exactly. Lots of developers WANT their software to be extended and used in commercial apps, because that means that the commercial developer doesn't have to waste time reinventing the wheel, and can spend more time on their actual app, thus we all end up with more reliable/complete software as a result. The GPL is against a programmer being able to guarantee getting an income for work he spends on developing an app that is not interesting to open source hobbyist programmers.
This is IMHO a large part of why there is so much work on the linux desktop making stuff "pretty" or "cool" (and reinventing the UI every 18 months to copy what microsoft or apple are doing) and not enough making the core functionality actually work.
With BSD, society as a whole need to spend less time reinventing the wheel, if they write software for a living.
BSD enables a company to take BSD licensed code that is well tested, and include it in commercial software. This is an intended FEATURE, so that people coding boring as fuck apps that hold no interest to open source developers can have a reliable product that people who are willing to shell out money can pay to use.
If say, the original TCP/IP implementation was GPLed, we would not have the internet today.
Apple has been busy building a new datacenter for it.... no doubt mostly for storage for itunes/iCloud/app store, but i'm guessing as a consequence they have an absolute shitload of free CPU time sitting there under utilised.
Its the apple mice. The sensititvity doesn't go very high. Plug in a logitech and the situation changes. Also, lion appears to accelerate the apple mice more.
Don't care myself anymore anyway, i'm addicted to the trackpad and guestures.
Agreed, on a multi-monitor setup, it sucks. But, after a while of going back from multi-monitor setups to the ability to use multiple desktops so easily, i'm not so sure of the value of multi monitor setups anymore, for what i do (and i've been a multi monitor user since 1999).
One big monitor with enough real estate works out better.
I have a multi monitor setup with my macbook pro at home, and find myself using one screen constantly.
So, plan is to just buy a big 27" thunderbolt display and be done with it.
If you buy the full sized apple keyboard (wired) it has all the keys, and more besides. Or plug in a third party keyboard, or get a wireless third party keyboard. Only the laptop and wireless keyboards are missing the keys and thats due to the small size - the wireless keyboard is the same as a laptop keyboard.
I just built a dashcode app on the weekend with the latest SDK, on my new macbook pro that has never had a pre-lion OS on it. So, uh... stop talking out of your arse.
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64mb in a 486? doubtful. most people i know who had more than 8-16mb of ram had pentiums.
Apple only "support" 8gb because they only support apple memory upgrades. And they choose not to sell 8gb DIMMs. Hence, it is unsupported by apple. The machine will take 16gb just fine, and kits are readily available from OWC.
my i7-2720 supports 16gb. and it is about to be superseded by ivy bridge...
Sounds like your employers are behind the curve. We've been standardising on 4gb of RAM for our end user desktops to run Outlook, Word and Excel. Since 2007.
maybe they should switch to clang.
Furthermore - killing Osama means that his friends/family/future generations/etc will want revenge. And the whole reason for the "terrorists" wanting to attack the USA hasn't gone away in any case. FIX YOUR FUCKING FOREIGN POLICY and you'll be less of a target. Keep attacking other countries in an attempt to spread the current corrupted version of "democracy" and you'll simply prolong the bullshit. Which is kinda cool for the defence contractors, so perhaps that is actually the real objective.
You think? How much media coverage is OWS getting at the moment? And thats in your OWN country. If there's shit going down overseas that isn't politically desirable for the public in your country to know, do you really think the major media corporations are going to be reporting it?
You mean like the geneva convention?
News flash: if the US government doesn't want you to have a fair trial, they call you an unlawful combatant or a terrorist and ship you off to guantanamo to have an unfair trial.
The GPL doesn't even require that. It requires that you make the source available on request. This could be by COD freight of floppies or CDs.
NAT is not protection.
Theory and reality are not the same thing. Otherwise, surely we would have had an easy to use reliable linux desktop by 1997. As it is, its 2011, and the unix desktopo is still a shambles. Yes, you CAN use it to get things done. However on every single open souce unix distribution i have used since 1995, there have been bugs, shit that just plain doesn't work as it should, etc.
I'm looking at you, 3d composting, audio mixing, etc.
Yes, there are things abuot OS X and Windows i do not like. But they are ahead of the curve compared to linux, when your assertion that anyone can fix open source software should enable Linux to catch up and overtake. Well, its been 15 years now (started with slackware 3.1), I'm still waiting.
Given that it is available fairly cheaply from the app store, i'm quite sure that they'll be rolling around in agony over it. Oh, wait, i mean rolling around dollars. That's it.
Exactly. Lots of developers WANT their software to be extended and used in commercial apps, because that means that the commercial developer doesn't have to waste time reinventing the wheel, and can spend more time on their actual app, thus we all end up with more reliable/complete software as a result. The GPL is against a programmer being able to guarantee getting an income for work he spends on developing an app that is not interesting to open source hobbyist programmers.
This is IMHO a large part of why there is so much work on the linux desktop making stuff "pretty" or "cool" (and reinventing the UI every 18 months to copy what microsoft or apple are doing) and not enough making the core functionality actually work.
With BSD, society as a whole need to spend less time reinventing the wheel, if they write software for a living.
It still doesn't make the open variant of the BSD code unavailable.
BSD enables a company to take BSD licensed code that is well tested, and include it in commercial software. This is an intended FEATURE, so that people coding boring as fuck apps that hold no interest to open source developers can have a reliable product that people who are willing to shell out money can pay to use.
If say, the original TCP/IP implementation was GPLed, we would not have the internet today.
Apple has been busy building a new datacenter for it.... no doubt mostly for storage for itunes/iCloud/app store, but i'm guessing as a consequence they have an absolute shitload of free CPU time sitting there under utilised.
OK, tell your phone to say, book a calendar appointment or set an alarm. Or check/read your email. Siri is more than voice recognition.
technically, what you are doing is just as illegal as torrenting the movie.
Its the apple mice. The sensititvity doesn't go very high. Plug in a logitech and the situation changes. Also, lion appears to accelerate the apple mice more.
Don't care myself anymore anyway, i'm addicted to the trackpad and guestures.
You've got really no idea what sort of stuff xcode does, do you?
Agreed, on a multi-monitor setup, it sucks. But, after a while of going back from multi-monitor setups to the ability to use multiple desktops so easily, i'm not so sure of the value of multi monitor setups anymore, for what i do (and i've been a multi monitor user since 1999).
One big monitor with enough real estate works out better.
I have a multi monitor setup with my macbook pro at home, and find myself using one screen constantly.
So, plan is to just buy a big 27" thunderbolt display and be done with it.
If you buy the full sized apple keyboard (wired) it has all the keys, and more besides. Or plug in a third party keyboard, or get a wireless third party keyboard. Only the laptop and wireless keyboards are missing the keys and thats due to the small size - the wireless keyboard is the same as a laptop keyboard.
I just built a dashcode app on the weekend with the latest SDK, on my new macbook pro that has never had a pre-lion OS on it. So, uh... stop talking out of your arse.
64gb of ECC RAM would cost more than 5k by itself.