This is a case where you can thank Microsoft and Apple. What is the one thing that eats bandwidth like nothing else?
Video conferencing.
Sure the telcos would love to kill it, but everyone else wants it to be the next big thing. Apple is pushing it with iChat AV and MS is pushing it with Messenger. Yahoo and AOL are doing it as well.
Video needs lots of outgoing bandwidth. Lots of people want to video conference.
The real danger is the opposite of what you suggested- not that VirtualPC will work poorly with 3rd party software, but that it'll work too well. What if Microsoft uses VirtualPC to convince other software vendors (mainly Adobe) to downsize or eliminate their Mac software divisions? If companies can sell programs to Mac users without writing Mac code, why would they bother to program for two separate platforms?
Then, once Mac-specific development is good and dead, Microsoft can discontinue VirtualPC and kill Apple completely.
Not really as Apple has proven that they are more than capable of writing killer software (See FinalCut Pro, SoundTrack and LiveType) in the pro space. If Apple were to feel that Adobe were not going produce any more Mac software you would probably see Apple replace Photoshop and InDesign with some really killer software. Apple has the people and the knowhow. They also have a very stuborn CEO that doesn't like to be stuffed around with.
I am not usually this paranoid, but why, after reading this article, do I suspect that Amazon will shortly be announcing that they will be reselling Microsoft's music service instead of Apple's iTunes Music Store...
Our current server is a 750HMz Duron with 256MB of RAM. It handles email (SMPT, POP3, IMAP and webmail), about a hundred individual web sites (not very high traffic, about 15000 requests per day average), Jabber (public server, listed on the jabber.org site), a web-cam and a few other things. Its load average sits at under 0.20. In fact I'm running top on it right now, and the most CPU-intensive thing it's doing is running top.
Post a link to your server here and we will see how well it runs. Go on... I dare ya!:P
Why do I have a vision of every Apple employee after hearing that news just give one big collective
*meh*
and continue developing cool products. Seriously... I don't think anyone really cares that MS has dropped IE. It's not like they did enhanced it over the past two years. Safari and Camino on the other hand are making great strides.
I can't say we get a lot of SMS Spam... maybe 1 or 2 messages a week... but the main difference is that SMS Spam requires immediate attention, which makes is 10 times more annoying.
With email spam, you receive it at your leisure when you get the rest of your email. So you are essentially getting it when you are mentally prepared to.
SMS spam on the other hand interupts whatever it is you are doing because your phone beeps and demands attention. This means that if the message you get is spam, it is much more annoying because unlike getting a message from a friend, it is something completely worthless and nowhere near as interesting as what you were doing in the first place.
More fool the New Zeland public for allowing the government to completely sell off their main communications provider. That is one company the goverment should control or own.
I realise your just trolling, but to be perfectly honest, slashdot karma means absolutely sqat to me. I just posted it because it helps people get the article... in much the same way as people post mirrors to large file downloads.
And if you are so concerned with storage space... why are you filling it up further by posting a comment that brings absolutely nothing to the discussion?
Have you ever loaded a faulty CD into a high speed (30X or higher) CD-ROM player, heard it spin up to incredible speeds, rattling and whining, and thought to yourself: "this thing is going to explode"? When CDs came out they were heralded as the solution for the need for high storage-high speed information devices, transferring data at a whopping 150kb/s, but like all technologies, 1x CD players quickly became obsolete as the need for higher and higher transfer rates pushed for faster players, and, with them, higher rotational speeds. As we advance into the 21st century CD players are reaching the ultimate speed limit: we are getting to the point where the CD player simply can not spin the CD any faster or else the CD will literally fly apart. On the interests of the advancement of high speed computing PowerLabs brings to you:
THE ULTIMATE CD SPEED LIMIT! WARNING: This page is written for amusement only: These experiments are VERY hazardous!; A high speed rotating CD Rom is a bomb ready to explode and will send razor sharp plastic shrapnel in all directions when least expected. DO not attempt to replicate any of the experiments described below!
Setup:
Before an experiment could be devised where a CD would be rotated to complete failure, a proper motor had to be obtained that would be capable of achieving those high rotational velocities with the load presented by a CD. Although a CD is very light and aerodynamic, when it starts to spin at a couple tens of thousandths of rotations per minute the drag created by air around its surface can be to slow the motor down considerably. High torque motors are very common and cheap, as are small high speed motors. Unfortunately however, high speed, high torque motors are a much rarer and expensive find.
My choice was to use a Dremel tool as the motor. It was cheap, easily available, and, more importantly, the rated 35000RPM spindle speed meant that it had some real potential for spinning things to destruction.
At 35000RPM very small imperfections and balancing errors can lead to extreme vibration; so much, in fact, that it would be possible to damage the bearings or bend the axle on the tool if something as heavy as a CD was to start wobbling (bear in mind that the Dremel tool was designed for very small, light weight loads and even then many of its attachments carry warnings not to be used at full speed). One of the first challenges of the research was to find a means to secure the CD perfectly in the middle of the tool. A custom made CNC lathe spun aluminum holder was considered but before I ever left the room I realized that the cylindrical sanding attachments Dremel makes not only fit a CD hole perfectly, but also have adjustable width so that the CD could be gripped in place. With the CD in place and the dremel plugged in, it was time for the fun to begin!
The Dremel was switched on and the rotational velocity was gradually increased to its maximum, at which point the CD hummed and whined in a very menacing manner. Mildly disappointed that it had not exploded, I realized that it wanted out; a quick jerk at the tool and the CD slid out of the holder and contacted the carpet whilst spinning at ungodly speeds. It peeled out a bit in front of me and proceeded to make its way to the door at a very high speed. On contacting the closed door, the CD did a most unexpected thing: it first bounced back a few inches, and then, when it hit the door again, it jumped straight up the door and struck the ceiling, exploding into thousands of fragments which rained down on the entire room. This first experiment was unfortunately not videoed, but it served to get everyone in the room to put glasses on and cower away behind pieces of furniture, whilst people in the hall corridor quickly made their way to my door to ask what was going on. Now, with an audience, the camera was taken out and the real experimentation began...
ÂA standard compact disk has a diameter of 12cm. If this disk is to spin at 35000RPM, th
Also, 802.11g is overkill for current cable modem speeds (upto 800Mbp/s is what I understand). I am not sure you can get that much more over cable at current cable quality (most houses are RG56 and not even RG8, which is what is recommended).
You are confusing 802.11g with IEEE1394b. 802.11g only runs at 54Mbs, which while still lower than 1394, it is greater than what cable can provide. (Oh... and 1394 isn't wireless yet.)
I had exactly the same problem as a friend of mine bought that same Norah Jones album. It wouldn't play on my newer Macs, but I have discovered a wonderful thing... A few years ago, Apple released optical drives that supported DVD's and CD's. These drives didn't have any burning capability, but they can do one really cool feature. They are completely blind to EMI's copy protection. I put the CD in, iTunes recognised it and I ripped the CD to AIFF.
I was then able to burn those raw uncompressed files to a new uncontaminated red-book audio CD. I was going to sell that Cube, but now I think I will keep it just for playing crippled CD's.
Does it "just work", like my Mac does? Does it interface perfectly with all my audio hardware? Can I export directly from it to a DVD editing package on the same machine?
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it not so much about making the interface bigger, it's about trying to move away from the fact that one pixel is no longer a definite size. How do you see a font that is 10 pixels high on a 300dpi screen?
Basically, Apple and MS are trying to make everything a vector so that the entire interface can be scaled in real-time to whatever size you want. The higher the resoultion of the screen, the sharper the text is, without making it so small you can't read it.
Don't forget that AOL and Telstra are very large rivals. They probably have some form of peering agreement and if AOL is blocking Telstra, then that is data that AOL isn't download from Telstra which swings the peering ratios.
Telstra is probably not blocking AOL though, which further increases the ratios in AOL's favour.
If this can't be done on a PC, exactly how did Apple manage to make a DVD reflect off a spinning 3D model at WWDC last year?
With a high-end video card, a Mac could quite easily do just that... render a 3D model and composite it onto a realtime movie in realtime. Their entire display engine is a real time compositor.
Has anyone considered the posibility that SARS is actually an engineered virus? It would surpise me if it was created by North Korea to wipe out the South. Hell, we get enough of that theme from movies and video games to discount it. Think of the public hysteria if it came out that this was actually the case.
Then again, it could be good-ol' Mother Nature bringing the population down to managable levels.
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Next + Apple + Nothing Real (Shake) + Emagic (Logic & Soundtrack) + Racer Graphics (Hardware) + Zayante (Firewire Stuff) + Silicon Grail (RAYZ) + PowerComputing (Clones) + Prismo Graphics (LiveType) + Astarte (iDVD) + FocalPoint (Cinema Tools) + Casidy & Greene (iTunes)
I think Apple seems to have gotten the hang of acquiring other companies.
This is a case where you can thank Microsoft and Apple. What is the one thing that eats bandwidth like nothing else?
Video conferencing.
Sure the telcos would love to kill it, but everyone else wants it to be the next big thing. Apple is pushing it with iChat AV and MS is pushing it with Messenger. Yahoo and AOL are doing it as well.
Video needs lots of outgoing bandwidth. Lots of people want to video conference.
Problem solved.
Not really as Apple has proven that they are more than capable of writing killer software (See FinalCut Pro, SoundTrack and LiveType) in the pro space. If Apple were to feel that Adobe were not going produce any more Mac software you would probably see Apple replace Photoshop and InDesign with some really killer software. Apple has the people and the knowhow. They also have a very stuborn CEO that doesn't like to be stuffed around with.
Why is it that companies out there always try and reinvent the wheel and usually die trying?
There are companies out there who have proven that they can host movie trailers without dieing under the load.
Awww give him a break. How are average Americans supposed to know where a country is if it hasn't been invaded by America yet?
But then again... Australia is an anagram for "A Trial USA".
Aren't those portions in between the east coast and the west coast?
You don't need to be in cahoots with organised crime, when you ARE the organised crime.
It's a sad time to be in when all Police/Law Enforcement People and Politicians are deemed corrupt until proven otherwise.
I am not usually this paranoid, but why, after reading this article, do I suspect that Amazon will shortly be announcing that they will be reselling Microsoft's music service instead of Apple's iTunes Music Store...
Our current server is a 750HMz Duron with 256MB of RAM. It handles email (SMPT, POP3, IMAP and webmail), about a hundred individual web sites (not very high traffic, about 15000 requests per day average), Jabber (public server, listed on the jabber.org site), a web-cam and a few other things. Its load average sits at under 0.20. In fact I'm running top on it right now, and the most CPU-intensive thing it's doing is running top.
:P
Post a link to your server here and we will see how well it runs. Go on... I dare ya!
Why do I have a vision of every Apple employee after hearing that news just give one big collective
*meh*
and continue developing cool products. Seriously... I don't think anyone really cares that MS has dropped IE. It's not like they did enhanced it over the past two years. Safari and Camino on the other hand are making great strides.
I can't say we get a lot of SMS Spam... maybe 1 or 2 messages a week... but the main difference is that SMS Spam requires immediate attention, which makes is 10 times more annoying.
With email spam, you receive it at your leisure when you get the rest of your email. So you are essentially getting it when you are mentally prepared to.
SMS spam on the other hand interupts whatever it is you are doing because your phone beeps and demands attention. This means that if the message you get is spam, it is much more annoying because unlike getting a message from a friend, it is something completely worthless and nowhere near as interesting as what you were doing in the first place.
More fool the New Zeland public for allowing the government to completely sell off their main communications provider. That is one company the goverment should control or own.
I realise your just trolling, but to be perfectly honest, slashdot karma means absolutely sqat to me. I just posted it because it helps people get the article... in much the same way as people post mirrors to large file downloads.
And if you are so concerned with storage space... why are you filling it up further by posting a comment that brings absolutely nothing to the discussion?
Ahh well... I guess I should have RTFA before I posted it to Slashdot :P
Have you ever loaded a faulty CD into a high speed (30X or higher) CD-ROM player, heard it spin up to incredible speeds, rattling and whining, and thought to yourself: "this thing is going to explode"? When CDs came out they were heralded as the solution for the need for high storage-high speed information devices, transferring data at a whopping 150kb/s, but like all technologies, 1x CD players quickly became obsolete as the need for higher and higher transfer rates pushed for faster players, and, with them, higher rotational speeds. As we advance into the 21st century CD players are reaching the ultimate speed limit: we are getting to the point where the CD player simply can not spin the CD any faster or else the CD will literally fly apart. On the interests of the advancement of high speed computing PowerLabs brings to you:
THE ULTIMATE CD SPEED LIMIT!
WARNING: This page is written for amusement only: These experiments are VERY hazardous!; A high speed rotating CD Rom is a bomb ready to explode and will send razor sharp plastic shrapnel in all directions when least expected. DO not attempt to replicate any of the experiments described below!
Setup:
Before an experiment could be devised where a CD would be rotated to complete failure, a proper motor had to be obtained that would be capable of achieving those high rotational velocities with the load presented by a CD. Although a CD is very light and aerodynamic, when it starts to spin at a couple tens of thousandths of rotations per minute the drag created by air around its surface can be to slow the motor down considerably. High torque motors are very common and cheap, as are small high speed motors. Unfortunately however, high speed, high torque motors are a much rarer and expensive find.
My choice was to use a Dremel tool as the motor. It was cheap, easily available, and, more importantly, the rated 35000RPM spindle speed meant that it had some real potential for spinning things to destruction.
At 35000RPM very small imperfections and balancing errors can lead to extreme vibration; so much, in fact, that it would be possible to damage the bearings or bend the axle on the tool if something as heavy as a CD was to start wobbling (bear in mind that the Dremel tool was designed for very small, light weight loads and even then many of its attachments carry warnings not to be used at full speed). One of the first challenges of the research was to find a means to secure the CD perfectly in the middle of the tool. A custom made CNC lathe spun aluminum holder was considered but before I ever left the room I realized that the cylindrical sanding attachments Dremel makes not only fit a CD hole perfectly, but also have adjustable width so that the CD could be gripped in place. With the CD in place and the dremel plugged in, it was time for the fun to begin!
The Dremel was switched on and the rotational velocity was gradually increased to its maximum, at which point the CD hummed and whined in a very menacing manner. Mildly disappointed that it had not exploded, I realized that it wanted out; a quick jerk at the tool and the CD slid out of the holder and contacted the carpet whilst spinning at ungodly speeds. It peeled out a bit in front of me and proceeded to make its way to the door at a very high speed. On contacting the closed door, the CD did a most unexpected thing: it first bounced back a few inches, and then, when it hit the door again, it jumped straight up the door and struck the ceiling, exploding into thousands of fragments which rained down on the entire room. This first experiment was unfortunately not videoed, but it served to get everyone in the room to put glasses on and cower away behind pieces of furniture, whilst people in the hall corridor quickly made their way to my door to ask what was going on. Now, with an audience, the camera was taken out and the real experimentation began...
ÂA standard compact disk has a diameter of 12cm. If this disk is to spin at 35000RPM, th
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RealPC was written by Insignia Solutions (makers of SoftWindows) in response to Connectix releasing VirtualPC.
It was then later sold to FWB when Insignia went under.
You are confusing 802.11g with IEEE1394b. 802.11g only runs at 54Mbs, which while still lower than 1394, it is greater than what cable can provide. (Oh... and 1394 isn't wireless yet.)
I had exactly the same problem as a friend of mine bought that same Norah Jones album. It wouldn't play on my newer Macs, but I have discovered a wonderful thing... A few years ago, Apple released optical drives that supported DVD's and CD's. These drives didn't have any burning capability, but they can do one really cool feature. They are completely blind to EMI's copy protection. I put the CD in, iTunes recognised it and I ripped the CD to AIFF.
I was then able to burn those raw uncompressed files to a new uncontaminated red-book audio CD. I was going to sell that Cube, but now I think I will keep it just for playing crippled CD's.
OK, so this seems pretty cool...
Does it "just work", like my Mac does?
Does it interface perfectly with all my audio hardware?
Can I export directly from it to a DVD editing package on the same machine?
it not so much about making the interface bigger, it's about trying to move away from the fact that one pixel is no longer a definite size. How do you see a font that is 10 pixels high on a 300dpi screen?
Basically, Apple and MS are trying to make everything a vector so that the entire interface can be scaled in real-time to whatever size you want. The higher the resoultion of the screen, the sharper the text is, without making it so small you can't read it.
Don't forget that AOL and Telstra are very large rivals. They probably have some form of peering agreement and if AOL is blocking Telstra, then that is data that AOL isn't download from Telstra which swings the peering ratios.
Telstra is probably not blocking AOL though, which further increases the ratios in AOL's favour.
If the US wants to stop terrorists getting hold of bad things, then the various US government agencies should stop selling them!
If this can't be done on a PC, exactly how did Apple manage to make a DVD reflect off a spinning 3D model at WWDC last year?
:P
With a high-end video card, a Mac could quite easily do just that... render a 3D model and composite it onto a realtime movie in realtime. Their entire display engine is a real time compositor.
So why can't a PC do this?
Oh yeah... Apple only make Macs.
Has anyone considered the posibility that SARS is actually an engineered virus? It would surpise me if it was created by North Korea to wipe out the South. Hell, we get enough of that theme from movies and video games to discount it. Think of the public hysteria if it came out that this was actually the case.
Then again, it could be good-ol' Mother Nature bringing the population down to managable levels.