This is a large reason why Apple went to Intel. The lastest Powerpc chips have been sucking up the devs at IBM and they were not working on the G4 and G5. The cell chips are more made for imbedded and set top markets and plain old suck on the desktop. The G4 1.33 is about as fast for normal FPU tasks as the cell. The great graphic capabilities of these processors are not going to be used for 99% of all apps, even things like Photoshop, so the PPC is somewhat of a dead end for the desktop market.
If everyone here searched for Tiger on google and found a furries site and clicked on it, pretty soon it would rank number one on google and be the I Feel Lucky results. I wonder what they would do then?
Apple has been producing Dual processor computers since 1996. Don't beleve me?v http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac/sta ts/powermac_9500_180mp.html/ Also, when was the last time you used OS X? I am guessing never or when it was out 4 years ago. My iBook g3 900 is very speedy with x.3.9 and the use of built in excelleration of video processes with the OS really speeds things up.
Medicaid and many other government programs will PAY IN FULL for a top of the line communication system for someone who is diagnosed with that condition. I work in the medical field, and have helped people get a machine like this. I would contact your local disability actvist center and ask them about grants and or programs to recive a computer. It might take 4-6 months, but it is free, and designed especially for them. Often times they will send someone out to help fit it and train the person when they get it. I am not really sure if a home made device is the way to go. Seeing how expensive and complex the devices are now days, and how well they work, try to help this person by weeding through the paper work to get a brand new one for them.
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I collect old transistor radios and most of them pick up AM with only three transistors. All that happened here was you have an FCC class B or C device that gives off radio waves (computer) and a lead on the board picks it up. What are transistors used for? Amplfying signals. You have 10 swiches and transistors. The switches turn on and off. After a while, you will come up with a circuit that acts as an amplifier off a RF signal. The idea that it uses 10 transistors just means that it is a more comlext circuit than a regular AM radio circuit. If you have your computer case off, and have a very sensitve AM radio near by, you can hear the computer parts "working" there is even music made from the RF sounds from a computer. AM radio stands for Amplitude Modulation. What is an AM radio wave if you look at it? It is a sine wave. I don't see the big deal about it, especially when they were looking for a way to generate a sine wave. Wake me up when the circuit starts doing math.
sorry, its actually 2.8 mhz for bandwith. so if you do the division, it would be roughly 450 khz. I am not sure that it works this way, as I only have a 2 channel setup. The problem with having the external DAC is many times SACDs are 6 channel, and no DAC out there (That I know of) can do 6.1 Dolby Processing. I am not sure if this arument works with PCM decoding, since I don't know much about it.
I have an SACD player and I can play all the burned CD copies that I want. The only thing that you can't do rip the 4.7g data stream. You CAN RIP A SACD HYBRID DISK TO MP3. It will play in any regular cd player. This includes cd drives.
You can use an external DAC to decode regular cds. The SACD format is much higher than 96/192khz. It is about 1.2 MHZ (I am not kidding) The only time you were correct was about 3 years ago when the SACD-1 (which was 5k) came out. Also Phillips, Marantz, Cary audio, Classe, and many other brands do use SACD. I have a Marantz SACD player at my house.
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If this came out when scooters were still "in" it might have been some what cool, but I live in Wisconsin, and I am sure as hell not going to use this in winter. What is the point of this? I am sure its nice, but riding your bike would be easier. Also, many municipalities do now allow anykind of wheeled transportation on sidewalks (wheelchairs are allowed). I would not go down main street at 10 miles per hour on one of these with people pulling in and out. I doesn't even look that manuverable. I am sure what is left of the Silicon Valley techies that have jobs will get these, but no one else.
Why doesn't he bring out his stirling cycle engine that he is also hyping. That would have been alot more useful.
My cat knocked over my PC with a AMD1.2 MP with thermal protection software and sensors that worked and within 5 seconds, there was a horrible smell and a fried CPU. My Pentium 733s fan failed and it ran for 2 hours until the computer shut down. I like AMD but for the love of God, Don't let your cpu's fry so fast!
I have noticed that AtheOS is aimed twards the desktop market, but yet the underlying code might make a good server. Have you ever though about making a server version?
I just think I sould add my 2 cents. If you look at the people who worked at NASA at the time, many of the programmers were in there 30s and 40s when they started working at NASA in the 1950s. (the inventors of the ENIAC were in there 30s when it was made) You then figure 20 years after they started working there they would have been in their 50s the time of the viking missions. Add another 25 years to that, and vola! the origional programmers would be in their late 70s and early 80s. That is the average life expectancy of a person. (BTW most people you see in the old movies in the controll rooms were chain smokers, not too good for the ole lungs) Even now, and as pointed out during y2k many people who were called out of there retirement in their 60s to fix code they made in the 70s, and 80s. You would be quite suprised on how old the tech force in this country really is.
I disagree with what you said that Newspapers and radio broadcasts are not dying off. The last time I looked the area I lived in had one daily newspaper, instead of the 3 that I had when I was a child (I am only 18 and I live in an area of 300,000 people) All the newspapers were profitable, then cnn came along (on our local cable) and the three had to combine to stay profitable. The same with radio, there used to be quite a few good local news stations and now there are none. (other than NPR) Also Music stations are dimishing very quickly. (It might be the need for profit and all the mergers and buyouts by corperations that have caused this), but I think TV, Cable TV and the internet have greatly harmed Newspapers and Radio boadcast.
Broadcast TV news is no longer any good, and (remember Walter Cronkite (sp?) and David Brinkly and Chet Huntly) and the top story in today's newspaper was Concert attendace at the county Fair and not China Getting the 2008 olimpics (that was on page 8) I just think that corperate interersts have gotten too out of hand. I use a library more than 3 times a week, and hear how book costs are up so high, that our library's book budget ran out this june. I am aginst Napster and MP3 trading (its stealing folks, get over it) but the use of the library is one thing that Is an american institution that should never go away.,
IDNG (I do not gamble) nor do I have the money to, but It is quite different keeping track of winnings and loosings and prefs for games than Safeway looking to see what I buy. I do not want my Health Insurance co seeing that I only use pure butter, not margrine, or that I got some Jack Daniels the other day. They could draw conclusions. (For instance the JD was for a maranade for Portibella Mushrooms) I do not see how the games you prefer to play and your wins and losses compare to tracking what food you buy. Greater harm can be done than this. (If you are dumb enough to gamble)
I love science and hope to make a career out of it but why does it frighten these astronomers that they were wrong? Did they expect that they could know everything and by studying a oddball (our solar system) and apply the knowledge to something as big as space?
I don't know why they have this kind of attitude that they know everything, and if they find something that they think is impossible it scares them, or then they try to debunk it right away. Sometimes I find that when I meet scientists that they have the biggest egos of all the people I have known.
Why is this a troll, deep down inside you all know that the above is true. I must admit, I have illegal mp3s, and a few software titles, and I am trying to fix that. Just becuase you steal from a large company with profits does not make it right.
I don't use napster anymore becuae I know it is wrong. I do not agree with the RIAA but respect the law. It is wrong to steal. Period.
Ok, so not everyone can use linux. Not every one can use a dos prompt. That is why we have GUI. Stop pretending you are so much better than anyone else and that others shouldn't have access to computers and avanced technology. My 60+ year old uncle happens to have a doctorite in history, and doesn't have time to learn how to use a command prompt. He uses a mac, most of you wouldn't argue that he is smart, but why should he have to learn how to use a command line interface for typing his next book in Appleworks? Grandma doesn't want to be a luddite, but why should she have to login, type startx or whatever windowing system she is using, then go though a POS patched together interface to use email?
This has bothered me for a long tine how the people on slashdot or so elitist, and think others shouldn't use a computer if they don't know. linux, bsd, solaris, (instert unix like operating system here). We should help people by making tech easy for everyone to use. What do you want, 5% of the population to know computers, the others to rely on you and your greatness? That would just fulfill a horrible Orwillian fantisy of the smart only having power. Get over it, that others want to use computers to forward their knowledge.
Well, there were lots of people arrested for no go reason in Philly, and I dbout that his affiliation had anything to do with it. Hell, I was arrested for walking through a protest zone.
And BTW I don't like any of the canidiates, but don't turn slashdot into a political soapbox. All you are going to start is a flame war.
Steve has announced the long-awaited next-generation optical, buttonless mouse and expanded USB keyboard. A new TV ad was shown showcasing the input devices, which will be available on the Apple Store later this year for about $60 US. They will ship with all the new Macs announced today. Apple's iTools Web service has been updated to support extra iDisk space (available at $1 per MB per year), numerous new Mac.com email features, an expanded database of Kid-Safe sites, and expanded Mac.com Home Page features. Apple has announced the immediate availability of two dual-processor PowerMac G4s at 450 and 500MHz, with the low-end model sporting a single 450MHz processor. All three models will sport 1,000BaseT (Gigabit) Ethernet built-in. As many expected, Apple demonstrated Mac OS X Public Beta today, but release is scheduled for September. The new iMac line-up sports the new mouse and keyboard across the board, and begins with the $799 "Indigo" 350MHz/64MB/7.5GB model -- but this entry-level unit will not be available until September. The immediately available models include the $999 400MHz/64MB/10GB/AirPort iMac DV (available in Indigo and Ruby), the $1299 450MHz/64MB/20GB/DVD/AirPort iMac DV-Plus (Indigo, Ruby, and Sage), and the $1499 500MHz/128MB/30GB/DVD/AirPort iMac DV SE (New Graphite or Snow). Other specs and the motherboard chipset are the same as the previous models. iMovie 2 has been demonstrated. It will support an unlimited number of source video clips, a new user interface and numerous other new features, and will be bundled on all Firewire-equipped desktop Macs for free. A stand-alone version will be downloadable over the Internet for $50. Bungie and Microsoft reps came up on stage to announce that not only will Bungie's Halo come out for the Mac, but Microsoft is working to port all of its games to the platform! "But there's one last thing...." Here it comes.:-) You guessed it...the PowerMacintosh G4 Cube (see it on Apple.com!). Fanless, with a well-concealed sloat-loading DVD-ROM drive (on top of the box!), 450MHz ($1799) and 500MHz ($2299) versions will be available soon. The 500MHz model will apparently be available only through the Apple Store. Similar to predictions, the measurements of the Cube are 7.7x7.7x9.8 inches. Several new monitors were introduced. All are powered by the computer, and sport a single connection that carries power, DVI, and USB to reduce cable count. The new models include a 17" flat CRT for $499, a revamped 15" Flat Panel Studio Display for $999, and a revamped Cinema Display 22" that supports the new single-cable system. The surprise of Apple positioning the Cube not below the full-size PowerMac G4, but above (despite its lesser price/performance) clearly shows Apple's desire to latch on to the current trend of accelerating high-end and lagging low-end sales. Stay tuned as we continue to cover the latest news from Macworld Expo New York 2000..... At least it is now official
This is just one of the last straws for rumor sites trying to get people to visit their site instead of their compeditors. Being a (mostly) mac person, and reading the various usenet groups ie: comp.mac.advocacy this is just a prick war between the rumor sites to see if they can guess at what Apple is going to release next. There is alot of hatred and fingerpointing between all these sites to try to get visitors. It is just pathetic if you look at it. Another fish I have to fry is that of all places Slashdot is following this. I mean, I remember the"good ol days" when you were lucky to even get news about Apple. I have come to expect more of social issues, and Open source stuff, then mac stuff that I can see 8 different perspecives by visiting http://www.macsurfer.com So for the Love of God, please don't post this stuff until it is final. For the last couple of weeks, it seems like there has been more news on Apple than many other companies that are just as important. I just hope slashdot doesn't degenerate into a rumor mill like some other sites that shall be unamed.
This is a very old concept as it has been said, but if you want specicfic tasks done, you build a specialized processor. Now all we need to do is build a GRAPE 7 for SETI or Distributed.net.
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This is a large reason why Apple went to Intel. The lastest Powerpc chips have been sucking up the devs at IBM and they were not working on the G4 and G5. The cell chips are more made for imbedded and set top markets and plain old suck on the desktop. The G4 1.33 is about as fast for normal FPU tasks as the cell. The great graphic capabilities of these processors are not going to be used for 99% of all apps, even things like Photoshop, so the PPC is somewhat of a dead end for the desktop market.
If everyone here searched for Tiger on google and found a furries site and clicked on it, pretty soon it would rank number one on google and be the I Feel Lucky results.
I wonder what they would do then?
Apple has been producing Dual processor computers since 1996. Don't beleve me?va ts/powermac_9500_180mp.html/
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Also, when was the last time you used OS X? I am guessing never or when it was out 4 years ago. My iBook g3 900 is very speedy with x.3.9 and the use of built in excelleration of video processes with the OS really speeds things up.
Medicaid and many other government programs will PAY IN FULL for a top of the line communication system for someone who is diagnosed with that condition. I work in the medical field, and have helped people get a machine like this. I would contact your local disability actvist center and ask them about grants and or programs to recive a computer. It might take 4-6 months, but it is free, and designed especially for them. Often times they will send someone out to help fit it and train the person when they get it. I am not really sure if a home made device is the way to go. Seeing how expensive and complex the devices are now days, and how well they work, try to help this person by weeding through the paper work to get a brand new one for them.
Animals are cute, till there are too many.
I collect old transistor radios and most of them pick up AM with only three transistors. All that happened here was you have an FCC class B or C device that gives off radio waves (computer) and a lead on the board picks it up. What are transistors used for? Amplfying signals. You have 10 swiches and transistors. The switches turn on and off. After a while, you will come up with a circuit that acts as an amplifier off a RF signal. The idea that it uses 10 transistors just means that it is a more comlext circuit than a regular AM radio circuit. If you have your computer case off, and have a very sensitve AM radio near by, you can hear the computer parts "working" there is even music made from the RF sounds from a computer. AM radio stands for Amplitude Modulation. What is an AM radio wave if you look at it? It is a sine wave. I don't see the big deal about it, especially when they were looking for a way to generate a sine wave.
Wake me up when the circuit starts doing math.
sorry, its actually 2.8 mhz for bandwith. so if you do the division, it would be roughly 450 khz. I am not sure that it works this way, as I only have a 2 channel setup. The problem with having the external DAC is many times SACDs are 6 channel, and no DAC out there (That I know of) can do 6.1 Dolby Processing. I am not sure if this arument works with PCM decoding, since I don't know much about it.
I have an SACD player and I can play all the burned CD copies that I want. The only thing that you can't do rip the 4.7g data stream. You CAN RIP A SACD HYBRID DISK TO MP3. It will play in any regular cd player. This includes cd drives.
You can use an external DAC to decode regular cds. The SACD format is much higher than 96/192khz. It is about 1.2 MHZ (I am not kidding) The only time you were correct was about 3 years ago when the SACD-1 (which was 5k) came out. Also Phillips, Marantz, Cary audio, Classe, and many other brands do use SACD. I have a Marantz SACD player at my house.
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If this came out when scooters were still "in" it might have been some what cool, but I live in Wisconsin, and I am sure as hell not going to use this in winter. What is the point of this? I am sure its nice, but riding your bike would be easier. Also, many municipalities do now allow anykind of wheeled transportation on sidewalks (wheelchairs are allowed). I would not go down main street at 10 miles per hour on one of these with people pulling in and out. I doesn't even look that manuverable. I am sure what is left of the Silicon Valley techies that have jobs will get these, but no one else.
Why doesn't he bring out his stirling cycle engine that he is also hyping. That would have been alot more useful.
My cat knocked over my PC with a AMD1.2 MP with thermal protection software and sensors that worked and within 5 seconds, there was a horrible smell and a fried CPU. My Pentium 733s fan failed and it ran for 2 hours until the computer shut down. I like AMD but for the love of God, Don't let your cpu's fry so fast!
I have noticed that AtheOS is aimed twards the desktop market, but yet the underlying code might make a good server. Have you ever though about making a server version?
I just think I sould add my 2 cents. If you look at the people who worked at NASA at the time, many of the programmers were in there 30s and 40s when they started working at NASA in the 1950s. (the inventors of the ENIAC were in there 30s when it was made) You then figure 20 years after they started working there they would have been in their 50s the time of the viking missions. Add another 25 years to that, and vola! the origional programmers would be in their late 70s and early 80s. That is the average life expectancy of a person. (BTW most people you see in the old movies in the controll rooms were chain smokers, not too good for the ole lungs) Even now, and as pointed out during y2k many people who were called out of there retirement in their 60s to fix code they made in the 70s, and 80s. You would be quite suprised on how old the tech force in this country really is.
I disagree with what you said that Newspapers and radio broadcasts are not dying off. The last time I looked the area I lived in had one daily newspaper, instead of the 3 that I had when I was a child (I am only 18 and I live in an area of 300,000 people) All the newspapers were profitable, then cnn came along (on our local cable) and the three had to combine to stay profitable. The same with radio, there used to be quite a few good local news stations and now there are none. (other than NPR) Also Music stations are dimishing very quickly. (It might be the need for profit and all the mergers and buyouts by corperations that have caused this), but I think TV, Cable TV and the internet have greatly harmed Newspapers and Radio boadcast. Broadcast TV news is no longer any good, and (remember Walter Cronkite (sp?) and David Brinkly and Chet Huntly) and the top story in today's newspaper was Concert attendace at the county Fair and not China Getting the 2008 olimpics (that was on page 8) I just think that corperate interersts have gotten too out of hand. I use a library more than 3 times a week, and hear how book costs are up so high, that our library's book budget ran out this june. I am aginst Napster and MP3 trading (its stealing folks, get over it) but the use of the library is one thing that Is an american institution that should never go away.,
Ever Heard of dreads? My buddy didn't wash his hair for a year.
IDNG (I do not gamble) nor do I have the money to, but It is quite different keeping track of winnings and loosings and prefs for games than Safeway looking to see what I buy. I do not want my Health Insurance co seeing that I only use pure butter, not margrine, or that I got some Jack Daniels the other day. They could draw conclusions. (For instance the JD was for a maranade for Portibella Mushrooms) I do not see how the games you prefer to play and your wins and losses compare to tracking what food you buy. Greater harm can be done than this. (If you are dumb enough to gamble)
I love science and hope to make a career out of it but why does it frighten these astronomers that they were wrong? Did they expect that they could know everything and by studying a oddball (our solar system) and apply the knowledge to something as big as space?
I don't know why they have this kind of attitude that they know everything, and if they find something that they think is impossible it scares them, or then they try to debunk it right away. Sometimes I find that when I meet scientists that they have the biggest egos of all the people I have known.
Why is this a troll, deep down inside you all know that the above is true. I must admit, I have illegal mp3s, and a few software titles, and I am trying to fix that. Just becuase you steal from a large company with profits does not make it right.
I don't use napster anymore becuae I know it is wrong. I do not agree with the RIAA but respect the law. It is wrong to steal. Period.
Ok, so not everyone can use linux. Not every one can use a dos prompt. That is why we have GUI. Stop pretending you are so much better than anyone else and that others shouldn't have access to computers and avanced technology.
My 60+ year old uncle happens to have a doctorite in history, and doesn't have time to learn how to use a command prompt. He uses a mac, most of you wouldn't argue that he is smart, but why should he have to learn how to use a command line interface for typing his next book in Appleworks?
Grandma doesn't want to be a luddite, but why should she have to login, type startx or whatever windowing system she is using, then go though a POS patched together interface to use email?
This has bothered me for a long tine how the people on slashdot or so elitist, and think others shouldn't use a computer if they don't know. linux, bsd, solaris, (instert unix like operating system here).
We should help people by making tech easy for everyone to use. What do you want, 5% of the population to know computers, the others to rely on you and your greatness? That would just fulfill a horrible Orwillian fantisy of the smart only having power. Get over it, that others want to use computers to forward their knowledge.
Once it can make my morning coffee, I will get it, but I think this is hype and trying to scare other companies of the market.
Well, there were lots of people arrested for no go reason in Philly, and I dbout that his affiliation had anything to do with it. Hell, I was arrested for walking through a protest zone. And BTW I don't like any of the canidiates, but don't turn slashdot into a political soapbox. All you are going to start is a flame war.
Steve has announced the long-awaited next-generation optical, buttonless mouse and expanded USB keyboard. A new TV ad was shown showcasing the input devices, which will be available on the Apple Store later this year for about $60 US. They will ship with all the new Macs announced today. :-)
Apple's iTools Web service has been updated to support extra iDisk space (available at $1 per MB per year), numerous new Mac.com email features, an expanded database of Kid-Safe sites, and expanded Mac.com Home Page features.
Apple has announced the immediate availability of two dual-processor PowerMac G4s at 450 and 500MHz, with the low-end model sporting a single 450MHz processor. All three models will sport 1,000BaseT (Gigabit) Ethernet built-in.
As many expected, Apple demonstrated Mac OS X Public Beta today, but release is scheduled for September. The new iMac line-up sports the new mouse and keyboard across the board, and begins with the
$799 "Indigo" 350MHz/64MB/7.5GB model -- but this entry-level unit will not be available until September. The immediately available models include the $999 400MHz/64MB/10GB/AirPort iMac DV (available in Indigo and Ruby), the $1299 450MHz/64MB/20GB/DVD/AirPort iMac DV-Plus (Indigo, Ruby, and Sage), and the $1499 500MHz/128MB/30GB/DVD/AirPort iMac DV SE (New Graphite or Snow). Other specs and the motherboard chipset are the same as the previous models.
iMovie 2 has been demonstrated. It will support an unlimited number of source video clips, a new user interface and numerous other new features, and will be bundled on all Firewire-equipped desktop Macs for free. A stand-alone version will be downloadable over the Internet for $50. Bungie and Microsoft reps came up on stage to announce that not only will Bungie's Halo come out for the Mac, but Microsoft is working to port all of its games to the platform! "But there's one last thing...." Here it comes.
You guessed it...the PowerMacintosh G4 Cube (see it on Apple.com!). Fanless, with a well-concealed sloat-loading DVD-ROM drive (on top of the box!), 450MHz ($1799) and 500MHz ($2299) versions will be available soon. The 500MHz model will apparently be available only through the Apple Store. Similar to predictions, the measurements of the Cube are 7.7x7.7x9.8 inches.
Several new monitors were introduced. All are powered by the computer, and sport a single connection that carries power, DVI, and USB to reduce cable count. The new models include a 17" flat CRT for $499, a revamped 15" Flat Panel Studio Display for $999, and a revamped Cinema Display 22" that supports the new single-cable system.
The surprise of Apple positioning the Cube not below the full-size PowerMac G4, but above (despite its lesser price/performance) clearly shows Apple's desire to latch on to the current trend of accelerating high-end and lagging low-end sales. Stay tuned as we continue to cover the latest news from Macworld Expo New York 2000..... At least it is now official
This is just one of the last straws for rumor sites trying to get people to visit their site instead of their compeditors. Being a (mostly) mac person, and reading the various usenet groups ie: comp.mac.advocacy this is just a prick war between the rumor sites to see if they can guess at what Apple is going to release next.
There is alot of hatred and fingerpointing between all these sites to try to get visitors. It is just pathetic if you look at it.
Another fish I have to fry is that of all places Slashdot is following this. I mean, I remember the"good ol days" when you were lucky to even get news about Apple. I have come to expect more of social issues, and Open source stuff, then mac stuff that I can see 8 different perspecives by visiting http://www.macsurfer.com So for the Love of God, please don't post this stuff until it is final. For the last couple of weeks, it seems like there has been more news on Apple than many other companies that are just as important. I just hope slashdot doesn't degenerate into a rumor mill like some other sites that shall be unamed.
This is a very old concept as it has been said, but if you want specicfic tasks done, you build a specialized processor. Now all we need to do is build a GRAPE 7 for SETI or Distributed.net.