[blockquote][i] And like or not, the current crop of students at "your grandfather's well known college" will graduate into a world where Microsoft still dominates.[/i][/blockquote]So in other words, we need to perpetuate the self-fulfilling prophecy.
Aside from that, CS and programming degrees have to do with languages and idioms and constructs and ways of thinking about code. API's are just icing on the cake.
I would rather have a graduate who knew their languages inside and out who could work on my Windows machine, my Linux machine, or my Mac depending on my needs than a Micro$hill who only knew the latest WinAPI's.
Isn't Apple going to suffer the same problem that the industry has where people's systems are good enough for the apps they are using? Consider that Apple seems to be targetting the end-user arena, are users gonna care if they can run Itunes in 1 second instead of 4?
Apple customers (normal consumers) have been doing digital video editing with their rigs since the first DV iMacs back in 1998. There is a large loyal crowd that has seen DV editing and DVD authoring mature on the Macintosh. Most of them are looking for more power, but are not looking to lose all their software (and 5 years of experience) just so they can buy and beta-test the same type software on Windows for a %20 speed gain.
IF Apple happens to be a consumer of these chips, what is IBM likely to charge for them?
Apple buying these chips will help bring down the cost by introducing economies-of-scale not possible just selling them in IBM iron. As it stands the largest RISC vendor with UNIX-based OS is Apple Computer (in terms of units sold).
It really seems that most consumers complaint about Apple computers is the price, given consumers even consider them an option.
That's the key word: "option." Nobody says every Macintosh is going to have to have this new chip in it. It's more likely these will be put in the 2 "high end" workstations and the servers, and G4's will still be in everything else. Who knows, maybe the iMac will be a dual G4 1.0 one day.
I can't imagine Apple would take a hit on these to keep PowerMacs at their current prices.
Maybe Apple would start a whole new line and charge more for them. People who can't afford it (and don't need 64-bit computing) can still buy G4s.
And I don't imagine most switchers will really want to pay for speed when they get it for a commodity price in the PC world.
True, microprocessor speed is becoming a commodity. User interface, usability, and experience is not. If it were, Apple would have been gone a lonnnnng time ago.
They shrunk the size of the gates on the transistors, basically trading reliability for performance. Considering that one of the main selling points of Apples is their longevity and ability to hold value due to it, I can't help but wondering if this is the right move.
As reliable as Apples are, they are still pretty much consumer and light server iron with consumer-grade reliability. All they are doing to the 970 is scaling back from industrial server-farm $30,000 workstation reliability to normal consumer-reliability... right where Apple has always been.
I've recently been doing some video editing, I went back to my 1.8Ghz P4 Win2K system (even *that's* too slow, really, it would be inconceivable to do mpeg transcoding on the Mac!) Apple: Ghz do matter. Much as I want to go Apple, first one to 4Ghz wins my next machine.
Hmmm. If you were using a 733, my guess is that you had several setbacks on it.
The early 733-G4's were actually better than the later 733-G4'sbecause they included L3 cache.
The 733 most likely came with OSX 10.1 on it instead of the much speedier OSX 10.2. The primary difference being the graphics subsystem was fully engaged in 10.2 due to a low-level tie-in to the video-card for Quartz rendering.
OSX is still young, and even the past couple of months have seen numerous major updates to the encoders: Quictime 6.1->6.2, iDVD2->3, iMovie2->3, etc.
If you were missing any of these updates or had the older 733, you weren't getting the full force of what the Apple could do.
Since when is "Chimera" worse from a "legal" standpoint than "Camino?" This has been going on for months, yet this is the first we've heard of it? Something smells bad... real bad.
If it doesn't matter which computer you use, you won't mind if we make you use a Mac, will you? It's all the same, right? After all, you have already expressed your admirable emotional detachment.
Uh-oh. There goes the "justification" for 50% of the posts here.
This applies to any tool--the lousy hacks will go for whatever appears to be cheapest and will try to make out that it is "just as good" as the better-designed tool that would do the job better. It often turns out that the better tool is also cheaper in the long run.
As saying goes: "They know the cost of everything, and the value of nothing."
Seriously man, I haven't had to touch an IRQ on a PC since the day I ditched the 486 in 1997. It's called Plug and Play. The state of hardware over five years ago isn't really relevant, is it?
The Apple users have had a word for "Plug n Play" since 1984: "Macintosh." Welcome to the party, if only a few years late. Oh and, you're welcome to all the other parties the Mac is throwing; we'll leave a settings at the tables for you another few years (as always).
One feature lacking from Chimera I can't seem to find is to stop animated GIFs. Mozilla has it and I'd like to see it added to Chimera as well. I can't stand reading pages with dozens of animated gifs all going off at the same time. ugh.:-)
If you're using Chimera now and miss MOUSE GESTURES, there is a freeware "input method" you can install that will give you gesture support in any Cocoa program:
Bitart Cocoa Gestures
Highly recommeded by this Chimera/Gestures user....
To the point that Romaticism and the LOTR and most Fantasy itself focuses on the heroic individual over the common man is still going on. Funny how this appeals to something within the common man. Possibly the prospect of enjoying heroism is not to be reserved for the anointed few?
Wars are not won by the sole heroic individual this is true but the news tends to focus on the sole person or type of person.
Yes, it is very easy to attribute a war being won to a soldier who's putting his ass on the line instead of focussing on the supply-line truck-driver bringing the food. I wonder how that could possibly be?
How much trying to save people or sorting through rubble it Guiliani do? How much attention was put on him for his role?
How much flying airliners into buildings did bin Laden actually do? How much attention was put on him for his role? Leaders always have a privileged position in any society or movement. Your point is meaningless.
Different situation same perspective. Even in squad based war dramas there is one or two people that stick out that the story follows. Even though all are heroes STORIES focus on one or two.
There are cases of well-balanced teams doing extraordinarily well. But most small groups usually have 2 to 3 "leaders." Don't kid yourself in order to wrap yourself in the spendor of collectivist ideals.
As to not having Kings etc etc etc. What about our Celebrity Worship? How about the political families that seem to hang on and on. How many people have been mayor in CHicago in the last 50 years that wasn't named Daly? Hmm lets see.... Bush and Shrub... and as has been stated before Kennedy?
I have less objection to hero-worship than I do to collectivist claptrap about the Left being above the concept of "heroism."
That seals it. I only skimmed the article. But some of the points I see here only making it clearer that Brin's view on this story is that of a pissed-off ideologue.
In fact, as soon as something doesn't fall completely into the world-view of the Left in this nation, it is conveniently tossed into the "Nazi" or KKK bin of cultural biomedical waste.
Territorial pissings in the world of pop culture is what this article is all about. And the fact that there is a much beloved story or tradition that isn't completely emasculated by Political Correctness is reason enough to drive his pen.
Maybe the Ministry of Truth should look into making a sterilized version of The Rings so all us poor sheep out here don't get poisoned by such double-plus buh-aa-aa-aa-aaad writing.
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the Romantic elitism of many who share the same cause. Enlightenment's child -- suspicion of authority -- often comes paired with the quintessential romantic image: a smug loner who despises the masses.
As opposed to a true child of the Enlightenment, who absolutely adores the masses!
They get mixed together, even though they arise from different traditions.
Yes... must not mix elitism into my pure enlightenment! Everyone knows no true child of enlightenment can possibly be human enough to share any of the foibles of "those people."
One way to tell them apart is to observe whether a character sneers only at power-abusers -- or at everybody: Is his or her ire aimed solely upward, toward some cruel elite, or downward too, despising fellow citizens and neighbors as clueless sheep?)
Ahhh "cruelty" and "compassion." I'm glad we have a wise ruling elite to define what those words mean and who exactly they apply to, because a Romantic could never figure that out on his or her own!
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It's only been two hundred years or so -- an eyeblink -- that 'scientific enlightenment' began waging its rebellion against the nearly-universal pattern called feudalism, a hierarchic system that ruled our ancestors in every culture that developed both metallurgy and agriculture. Wherever human beings acquired both plows and swords, gangs of large men picked up the latter and took other men's women and wheat.
Erm. Feudalism is alive and well today. It is only not quite as blatant. I hear serfs tell me today I should be happy to give more than 30% of my money to the Lord of The Manor as homage for legal and military service.
They then proceeded to announce rules and 'traditions' ensuring that their sons would inherit everything.
Kennedys ("Camelot" for Pete's sake!)? Bushs? Nahhh... it couldn't happen today! </sarcasm>
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It's not a fairy tale. And it is relevent to all ages. The entire story is a metaphor for the internal (and possible social) struggle to resist the allure of unlimited power.
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[blockquote][i] And like or not, the current crop of students at "your grandfather's well known college" will graduate into a world where Microsoft still dominates.[/i][/blockquote]So in other words, we need to perpetuate the self-fulfilling prophecy. Aside from that, CS and programming degrees have to do with languages and idioms and constructs and ways of thinking about code. API's are just icing on the cake. I would rather have a graduate who knew their languages inside and out who could work on my Windows machine, my Linux machine, or my Mac depending on my needs than a Micro$hill who only knew the latest WinAPI's.
- The early 733-G4's were actually better than the later 733-G4'sbecause they included L3 cache.
- The 733 most likely came with OSX 10.1 on it instead of the much speedier OSX 10.2. The primary difference being the graphics subsystem was fully engaged in 10.2 due to a low-level tie-in to the video-card for Quartz rendering.
- OSX is still young, and even the past couple of months have seen numerous major updates to the encoders: Quictime 6.1->6.2, iDVD2->3, iMovie2->3, etc.
If you were missing any of these updates or had the older 733, you weren't getting the full force of what the Apple could do.If you don't have your health... you don't have anything.
Find out what you're about. Start now, 'cause you'll spend a lot of time figuring it out. There's a lot more to life than just a career.
Think about finding a woman you would want to be in your family instead of someone you want to have sex with.
The explanation.
Since when is "Chimera" worse from a "legal" standpoint than "Camino?" This has been going on for months, yet this is the first we've heard of it? Something smells bad... real bad.
For Entertainment purposes only!
If you don't have a file there, make one and put this in it:
// Don't play those animated gifs over and over.
user_pref("image.animation_mode", "once");
If you're using Chimera now and miss MOUSE GESTURES, there is a freeware "input method" you can install that will give you gesture support in any Cocoa program: Bitart Cocoa Gestures Highly recommeded by this Chimera/Gestures user....
After 2 Decades, We're Still Going Strong!
Time to download "Rock and Roll Volume 2" to celebrate!
And the spyware,
And the DRM,
And the instability,
And I'd buy that for a dollar!
Very funny.
That seals it. I only skimmed the article. But some of the points I see here only making it clearer that Brin's view on this story is that of a pissed-off ideologue. In fact, as soon as something doesn't fall completely into the world-view of the Left in this nation, it is conveniently tossed into the "Nazi" or KKK bin of cultural biomedical waste. Territorial pissings in the world of pop culture is what this article is all about. And the fact that there is a much beloved story or tradition that isn't completely emasculated by Political Correctness is reason enough to drive his pen. Maybe the Ministry of Truth should look into making a sterilized version of The Rings so all us poor sheep out here don't get poisoned by such double-plus buh-aa-aa-aa-aaad writing.
It's not a fairy tale. And it is relevent to all ages. The entire story is a metaphor for the internal (and possible social) struggle to resist the allure of unlimited power.