I know you can get USB devices for serial and ps/2 ports for PC. I'm assuming they'd probably work for a Mac, but I could be wrong. For most people these days those ports are quite useless. If 800x600 is fine for you, that's cool. For most of us it is not. Also, with Mac OS X you actually do get an overall speed improvement with a good video card. And it looks like the next version of OS X will bring even more improvements with CoreImage. It actually uses the hardware in the video card for more than just games.
What you've read is wrong. I have an old g4 450mhz machine at home w/ 512 megs of PC100 ram, a simple Radeon Mac Edition video card, and a UATA-66 20gig hard drive. It's quite zippy. The video card made a pretty big difference in terms of the feel of everything (it is the lowest end card that supports Quartz Extreme). I'm not sugesting I'd want to do any hard core work on it, but for running Firefox, AdiumX (aim client), and iTunes it's great.
Question, how useable is a pII-450 (or a pIII-450 if they existed)?
I have a g4-450 w/ 512mb ram at home with one upgrade (Radeon Mac Edition, vs the stock Rage 128 Pro, cost me about $35 on ebay). The thing is snappy and perfectly responsive with OS 10.3.5 (the latest publicly released version of Mac OS). Sure some things like Garage Band completely hose it (it is below the minimum specs for Garage Band). But for every day use it's wonderful.
Windows XP is sluggish on my p4 3ghz machine with a gig of ram.
The CPUs Apple uses are simply better than Intel CPUs. I feel perfectly comfortable saying a G5 1.8ghz would smoke a p4 3.4ghz. Not to mention the better OS you get. Mac OS X is, IMHO, what Linux wishes it could be. Solid UNIX core, with a very nice GUI built on top of it. It really makes me wonder why there aren't any OSS projects out there yet with the goal of ripping off the OS X gui.
Right now I'm just waiting until the PowerBook line gets upgraded so I can drop my IBM laptop. I'd buy an iBook, but the 1024z768 resolution is a deal breaker for me. Way too small.
Oracle doubles in price with a dual core chip too. I'm pretty certain Oracle has stated that for licensing purposes, a single chip with hyper threading counts as two chips. A dual core chip definately counts as two in that case.
Then they are entering into a bad business agreement. Explain how it's exactly wrong to import a DVD from Europe. I can drink imported beer, smoke imported cigarettes, wear imported clothes. Why not watch imported movies?
They don't, you can download the Fedora CDs, pop them in, it will detect that it can do an upgrade and you can tell it to go ahead, just like Windows. Most Linux distros just provide other ways to accomplish the same task. If you wanted to, you could download the source for every single new package, compile it, and install everything by hand.
"The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon."
I know it's a troll, but just in the off chance it's not, I'd love to hear more of the person's reasoning, maybe he has a real point.
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Or you could do the same with modified antennas that a computer could read and end up with a far more natural system.
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I'd really love to see some statistics proving that point.
Web development isn't real work? Video production isn't real work? Audio editing isn't real work?
Those 3 items are 90% of the work I do on a computer, and I'd love to see you do any of them with a pen and paper. Not one of them would be simplified with a 3d mouse, or even a 3d desktop. Extra monitors on the other hand, provide a great benifate to all of those areas. And all a second monitor does is extend your 2d work area.
I can't back this up at all, but I would imagine that true 3d applications are nothing more than a small percentage of work done on computers. I'd say the vast majority of all work related computer use is office applications. Yes a good deal of it could be done on paper, but with a lot more effort.
Very good question. IMHO the Mac OS X approach makes the best use out of any GUI to use any 3d features. Make the windows 3d surfaces, so you can do neat stuff like expose. Rotating windows, and sticky notes are really just a showoff of technology. I just can't imagine that being usefull.
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Possibly, but for general use, there is no reason for people to start using them. Not to mention, think of how tired your arm would get after hours of work on your computer.
I'm sure for specialized tasks 3d mice make perfect sense, and are probably already in use. I just don't want to have them shoved on normal use.
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Seriously, what's the point of a 3d mouse? We have 2d GUIs.
There's an option somewhere to turn off the double quotes, and that damned "code hint" popup or whatever they call it. The new devel version 1.1.0 is also much better. The only thing that ZendStudio still has on PHPEclipse is the debugger and the profiler. The debugger in ZendStudio is hands down better, and AFAIK PHPEclipse doesn't have a profiler.
It's been a couple years since I touched a VX-2000, but IIRC the progressive scan on it is nothing short of complete shit. 15fps I think. It looks down right awful. Other than that, it's a pretty good camera. Good quality video for not too much money.
Because some of us are running pII-300Mhz linux machines that take forever to compile. Binary packages are a good thing. I can do a "yum update" and update about 50 packages in a half hour or so. I don't want to think about how long it would take me to upgrade them all compiling from source.
I really don't think your point about.deb being older than.rpm is true. I have nothing other than memory to back this up, but I'm prety certain that.rpm was around before before the Debian distro existed.
Korea and Japan merged in 20XX to form KoPan. After merging they engaged in a hostile take over of China, using their Ultra-Mech 5000s to destroy the Chinese government. Where were you during history class?
As far as I can see the deal mentions nothing requiring the iPod to be functional. In fact it implies it does not need to work 100%: "Is your iPod battery starting to fade? Before you pay for a replacement battery for your same old device, consider upgrading to a brand new Dell 15GB1 DJ." Honestly I doubt they care about the condition, they might try to harvest the hard drive, but the rest is probably garbage.
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I know you can get USB devices for serial and ps/2 ports for PC. I'm assuming they'd probably work for a Mac, but I could be wrong. For most people these days those ports are quite useless. If 800x600 is fine for you, that's cool. For most of us it is not. Also, with Mac OS X you actually do get an overall speed improvement with a good video card. And it looks like the next version of OS X will bring even more improvements with CoreImage. It actually uses the hardware in the video card for more than just games.
What you've read is wrong. I have an old g4 450mhz machine at home w/ 512 megs of PC100 ram, a simple Radeon Mac Edition video card, and a UATA-66 20gig hard drive. It's quite zippy. The video card made a pretty big difference in terms of the feel of everything (it is the lowest end card that supports Quartz Extreme). I'm not sugesting I'd want to do any hard core work on it, but for running Firefox, AdiumX (aim client), and iTunes it's great.
Question, how useable is a pII-450 (or a pIII-450 if they existed)?
I have a g4-450 w/ 512mb ram at home with one upgrade (Radeon Mac Edition, vs the stock Rage 128 Pro, cost me about $35 on ebay). The thing is snappy and perfectly responsive with OS 10.3.5 (the latest publicly released version of Mac OS). Sure some things like Garage Band completely hose it (it is below the minimum specs for Garage Band). But for every day use it's wonderful.
Windows XP is sluggish on my p4 3ghz machine with a gig of ram.
The CPUs Apple uses are simply better than Intel CPUs. I feel perfectly comfortable saying a G5 1.8ghz would smoke a p4 3.4ghz. Not to mention the better OS you get. Mac OS X is, IMHO, what Linux wishes it could be. Solid UNIX core, with a very nice GUI built on top of it. It really makes me wonder why there aren't any OSS projects out there yet with the goal of ripping off the OS X gui.
Right now I'm just waiting until the PowerBook line gets upgraded so I can drop my IBM laptop. I'd buy an iBook, but the 1024z768 resolution is a deal breaker for me. Way too small.
Oracle doubles in price with a dual core chip too. I'm pretty certain Oracle has stated that for licensing purposes, a single chip with hyper threading counts as two chips. A dual core chip definately counts as two in that case.
I agree. Show Garage Band, Final Cut Pro, Motion, or Soundtrack running on a PC, and I'd be the first in line to buy this.
Then they are entering into a bad business agreement. Explain how it's exactly wrong to import a DVD from Europe. I can drink imported beer, smoke imported cigarettes, wear imported clothes. Why not watch imported movies?
They don't, you can download the Fedora CDs, pop them in, it will detect that it can do an upgrade and you can tell it to go ahead, just like Windows. Most Linux distros just provide other ways to accomplish the same task. If you wanted to, you could download the source for every single new package, compile it, and install everything by hand.
Install all patches for your distro:
yum -y update
Or to upgrade the distro (although not recomended):
rpm -ivh http://...../fedora-release.rpm
yum -y update
It will take a long time to run, but it does work.
The end...
"The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon."
That man is way too smart to be a human.
I know it's a troll, but just in the off chance it's not, I'd love to hear more of the person's reasoning, maybe he has a real point.
Or you could do the same with modified antennas that a computer could read and end up with a far more natural system.
I'd really love to see some statistics proving that point.
Web development isn't real work?
Video production isn't real work?
Audio editing isn't real work?
Those 3 items are 90% of the work I do on a computer, and I'd love to see you do any of them with a pen and paper. Not one of them would be simplified with a 3d mouse, or even a 3d desktop. Extra monitors on the other hand, provide a great benifate to all of those areas. And all a second monitor does is extend your 2d work area.
I can't back this up at all, but I would imagine that true 3d applications are nothing more than a small percentage of work done on computers. I'd say the vast majority of all work related computer use is office applications. Yes a good deal of it could be done on paper, but with a lot more effort.
Very good question. IMHO the Mac OS X approach makes the best use out of any GUI to use any 3d features. Make the windows 3d surfaces, so you can do neat stuff like expose. Rotating windows, and sticky notes are really just a showoff of technology. I just can't imagine that being usefull.
Possibly, but for general use, there is no reason for people to start using them. Not to mention, think of how tired your arm would get after hours of work on your computer.
I'm sure for specialized tasks 3d mice make perfect sense, and are probably already in use. I just don't want to have them shoved on normal use.
Seriously, what's the point of a 3d mouse? We have 2d GUIs.
There's an option somewhere to turn off the double quotes, and that damned "code hint" popup or whatever they call it. The new devel version 1.1.0 is also much better. The only thing that ZendStudio still has on PHPEclipse is the debugger and the profiler. The debugger in ZendStudio is hands down better, and AFAIK PHPEclipse doesn't have a profiler.
It's been a couple years since I touched a VX-2000, but IIRC the progressive scan on it is nothing short of complete shit. 15fps I think. It looks down right awful. Other than that, it's a pretty good camera. Good quality video for not too much money.
Something like PHPEclipse?
Because some of us are running pII-300Mhz linux machines that take forever to compile. Binary packages are a good thing. I can do a "yum update" and update about 50 packages in a half hour or so. I don't want to think about how long it would take me to upgrade them all compiling from source.
I really don't think your point about .deb being older than .rpm is true. I have nothing other than memory to back this up, but I'm prety certain that .rpm was around before before the Debian distro existed.
Korea and Japan merged in 20XX to form KoPan. After merging they engaged in a hostile take over of China, using their Ultra-Mech 5000s to destroy the Chinese government. Where were you during history class?
As far as I can see the deal mentions nothing requiring the iPod to be functional. In fact it implies it does not need to work 100%: "Is your iPod battery starting to fade? Before you pay for a replacement battery for your same old device, consider upgrading to a brand new Dell 15GB1 DJ." Honestly I doubt they care about the condition, they might try to harvest the hard drive, but the rest is probably garbage.
0.9 kept telling me to upgrade to 0.9. Now 0.9.1 keeps telling me to upgrade to 0.9. I think it really liked the 0.9 release.
Hopefully this isn't needed, but that should be yum upgrade not upgrada.
This has worked for me, dunno about anyone else:
_ Red_Hat _Linux_with_yum.html
1) get the new fedora-release rpm from an official download site and install it.
2) run yum upgrada
3) take a nap
4) reboot and hopefully you have a working system
Or follow the directions here:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading