Apple has already publically stated that they're not going to try and prevent people from running other OSes on their products. Just because they're not actively helping the linux community doesn't mean they oppose them. It's just a new hardware profile, with what used to be an obscure boot loader. It will take time, but I suspect that windows XP will be bootable by august, and windows hasta la vista will either install from CD/DVD, or be nearly that easy.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but leasing was invented to help car dealerships extract more money from idiot car buyer's wallets. Oh, sure, the salesman will try and tell you you're actually saving money by leasing, but in reality you get hit with return fees, over-allocated mileage fees, depreciation adjustment fees, etc etc ad nauseum.
Obviously you should keep a car as long as it's in good shape and/or is less than 150,000 miles and/or less than 10 years old. Due to American tastes to own a "new car", the lease becomes an attractive option (note I didn't use the term "smart") for those who don't want to be burdened with an "old" car after three years, and can continiously drive a new car.
Conclusion: It's dumb, but a lot of people still do it either because a) They don't fully understand what they're doing or b) They're greedy. There is an excessively small proportion of people who do c) which is save money somehow. Somebody always pipes up that they somehow saved money, somehow convincing everybody else that the 200 horror stories about leasing a car is the worst idea ever and they'll only buy from here on out.
So were video phones. Since my girlfriend has a pc, she can't see me as any larger than a postage stamp (macs allow for full screen video). You still can't call your grandma on the video phone.
OF COURSE YOU CAN GET MORE ACCURATE RESULTS WHEN YOU PUT IN AN IMAGINARY EXTRA OBJECT
So, you're uh, kidding, right? Are you at all familiar with Copernicus? He's credited with comming up with the first heliocentric model (meaning the earth isn't at the center of the universe). How did he do it? He took all the data recorded about how the planets and sun revolved around the earth, and then replotted it in such a fashion that the earth was the "third rock from the sun". Suprise, suprise, this exercise in what he thought was futility, several hundred years later was rediscovered and became modern astronomy canon. All because he shifted some things around.
On the mac there's already a great "1 button app" that converts specifically to "ipod video format" called iSquint. Just drag any divx xvid avi mpeg etc file on to the app, select "optimize for ipod" or TV, and move the slider bar from "tiny" to "go crazy!". An episode of southpark optimized for the ipod at regular compression is 27 megs, and is totally acceptable to watch on a TV. You can always use the sony PSP converter on windows, since the video ipod will just downsample those h.264 files for you.
Not to mention there's already "ipod video-ized" torrents avalible now.
...and that it only takes 15-30 minutes tops to download, and you don't feel guilty about only having a download ratio of 0.64, since your ISP throttles the hell out of your down speed if you UL any more than 8.5kb/s
Do you get 3% off of your Xbox when they finally deliver it to you, since you let them sit on your (collective) 3 Billion dollars in preorders for 6 months? 6% is a pretty low number, I bet they make closer to 18% on new stores that are built in the long run on that money you helped them "invest" with for 6 months...
I never preorder. I'll collect interest on my money, thanks.
does solaris require open firmware? or will it run on a BIOS machine? the new macs seem to emulate open firmware, seeing as how the boot drive selection is the same on intel and PPC macs.
Because I'm sure you love being chided more than twice about being wrong:)
The chip in the Xbox 2 is very similar to what's in a power mac G5. The chip that's going in to the PS3 is pretty much unlike anything avalible today.
That said, it's possible that there will be a 1/4 speed xbox2 emulator for the G5 powermacs at some point, seeing as how the G5s were shipped to xbox2 developers as development machines. You might be able to play geometry wars at full speed (and that's about all that matters really, isn't it?)
If Sony ever releases a cell based Viao with a cell-compiled version of Vista, you might see a PS3 emulator down the road, but I doubt we'll ever see anything along the lines of "Bleem!" again.
Do you use some sort of third party synching app? I use iTunes because it's an integrated software/hardware product that's extremely easy to use, and will rip/sync all my CDs into MP3 format for my iPod.
Instead of waiting for each system to boot, you can run them all and instantly switch from one to the other.
I'm just waiting for fast OS switching, ala fast user switching. The technology is already there (safe sleep to the hard drive for OSX, sleep for Windows) - someone just has to implement it.
quit being lazy and get a mac, which allows you to adjust the volume of each audio component of each application. one volume slider for all wav files is SO 1995:)
I've heard upgrading is buggy. The only upgrade, rather than total reinstall was from 10.1 to 10.2.
My itunes library is stored on an external disk drive, since my laptop's hard drive is only 20 gigs (music library = 25.x gigs). Somewhere there's a file that stores all this information (where the music is stored, and what it's ratings are), and while i've backed that up before, in the past they haven't been compatible (like, 10.3 had a newer version of itunes preinstalled, i think) or were corrupt, or something. You can imagine my frustration. I've finally given up for the moment.
I also feel 10.4 is "buggy". Constant hang ups, way too much time spent watching the spinning beach ball, etc etc. I've had four seperate crashes.
This is compared to 10.3.8 though. Flawless uptime, lickity split quick, no hang ups ever. I'm sure 10.4 does great on a modern G4, but my 550mhz/512mb ram tibook absolutely crawls with photoshop and firefox open in 10.4. I'd downgrade, but I really don't feel like re-rating all 25,000 songs on iTunes again:)
As for them going back to the Pentium 3's P6 archetecture; I personally think it's a saddening defeat, not only for Intel, but for us consumers as well. It means that the Pentium 4 simply didn't work, and that in order for computers to get faster, they have to become more effecient. This means no longer can we take it for granted that we can simply turn up the clockrate and expect more performance, at least, not without cooking our expensive new processors. It means that we've entered a whole new era of computing.
I don't mean to be a troll, but you're an idiot. Intel spends 10 billion dollars a year on research. Ten Billion Dollars. The P4 was a marketing descision, not an engineering descision. Durring they hey-day of the gigahertz wars, marketing said to engineering "we want a faster processor - no matter what, otherwise we'll lose our market dominance", and engineering invested their time in the P4, rather than continue developing the P3.
There's a ton of literature on this, and plenty of benchmarks from when the original P4s came out that the thunderbird core was more efficent clock for clock than a P4. It was stated from the beginning by Tom's hardware and Ars Technica that the P4 was flawed from the beginning.
That said, I'm buying a Yonah (32 bit) or Merom (64 bit) Powerbook when they're actually shipping (my guess - July or August 2006).
I thought the accepted english spelling of the whale guy's name was Jonah? Maybe you're referring to the true spelling that I haven't heard of.... I was reading an article the other day about Jesus' name being misspelled, and that the proper spelling starts with a Y.
Maybe they put the ceramic tiles on the inside? If they switched to Titanium for the frame from aluminum, you jump up about 2000 degrees in melting temperature, so the frame doesn't have to be as safely insulated.
Aluminum melting point = 1400F (or thereabouts); Titanium melting point = 3500F (or thereabouts).
Some aluminum alloys have melting points near or below 1000F, so insullation is more impostant. By starting over from scratch, you can avoid the aluminum spaceframe design and work with modern materials.
Exactly. I would have never bought Socom 3, nor would the other 48,000 people who were playing the game simeltaniously only a few days after it came out, if it wern't for the popularity of the online gameplay in Socom 2.... which I had only heard about via its online popularity.
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Apple has already publically stated that they're not going to try and prevent people from running other OSes on their products. Just because they're not actively helping the linux community doesn't mean they oppose them. It's just a new hardware profile, with what used to be an obscure boot loader. It will take time, but I suspect that windows XP will be bootable by august, and windows hasta la vista will either install from CD/DVD, or be nearly that easy.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but leasing was invented to help car dealerships extract more money from idiot car buyer's wallets. Oh, sure, the salesman will try and tell you you're actually saving money by leasing, but in reality you get hit with return fees, over-allocated mileage fees, depreciation adjustment fees, etc etc ad nauseum.
Obviously you should keep a car as long as it's in good shape and/or is less than 150,000 miles and/or less than 10 years old. Due to American tastes to own a "new car", the lease becomes an attractive option (note I didn't use the term "smart") for those who don't want to be burdened with an "old" car after three years, and can continiously drive a new car.
Conclusion: It's dumb, but a lot of people still do it either because a) They don't fully understand what they're doing or b) They're greedy. There is an excessively small proportion of people who do c) which is save money somehow. Somebody always pipes up that they somehow saved money, somehow convincing everybody else that the 200 horror stories about leasing a car is the worst idea ever and they'll only buy from here on out.
My kingdom for a mod point
So were video phones. Since my girlfriend has a pc, she can't see me as any larger than a postage stamp (macs allow for full screen video). You still can't call your grandma on the video phone.
Video ipods (& also 4th gens) don't support firewire, thus aren't bootable on macs.
OF COURSE YOU CAN GET MORE ACCURATE RESULTS WHEN YOU PUT IN AN IMAGINARY EXTRA OBJECT
So, you're uh, kidding, right? Are you at all familiar with Copernicus? He's credited with comming up with the first heliocentric model (meaning the earth isn't at the center of the universe). How did he do it? He took all the data recorded about how the planets and sun revolved around the earth, and then replotted it in such a fashion that the earth was the "third rock from the sun". Suprise, suprise, this exercise in what he thought was futility, several hundred years later was rediscovered and became modern astronomy canon. All because he shifted some things around.
On the mac there's already a great "1 button app" that converts specifically to "ipod video format" called iSquint. Just drag any divx xvid avi mpeg etc file on to the app, select "optimize for ipod" or TV, and move the slider bar from "tiny" to "go crazy!". An episode of southpark optimized for the ipod at regular compression is 27 megs, and is totally acceptable to watch on a TV. You can always use the sony PSP converter on windows, since the video ipod will just downsample those h.264 files for you.
Not to mention there's already "ipod video-ized" torrents avalible now.
...and that it only takes 15-30 minutes tops to download, and you don't feel guilty about only having a download ratio of 0.64, since your ISP throttles the hell out of your down speed if you UL any more than 8.5kb/s
Do you get 3% off of your Xbox when they finally deliver it to you, since you let them sit on your (collective) 3 Billion dollars in preorders for 6 months? 6% is a pretty low number, I bet they make closer to 18% on new stores that are built in the long run on that money you helped them "invest" with for 6 months...
I never preorder. I'll collect interest on my money, thanks.
does solaris require open firmware? or will it run on a BIOS machine? the new macs seem to emulate open firmware, seeing as how the boot drive selection is the same on intel and PPC macs.
Because I'm sure you love being chided more than twice about being wrong :)
The chip in the Xbox 2 is very similar to what's in a power mac G5. The chip that's going in to the PS3 is pretty much unlike anything avalible today.
That said, it's possible that there will be a 1/4 speed xbox2 emulator for the G5 powermacs at some point, seeing as how the G5s were shipped to xbox2 developers as development machines. You might be able to play geometry wars at full speed (and that's about all that matters really, isn't it?)
If Sony ever releases a cell based Viao with a cell-compiled version of Vista, you might see a PS3 emulator down the road, but I doubt we'll ever see anything along the lines of "Bleem!" again.
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Do you use some sort of third party synching app? I use iTunes because it's an integrated software/hardware product that's extremely easy to use, and will rip/sync all my CDs into MP3 format for my iPod.
Instead of waiting for each system to boot, you can run them all and instantly switch from one to the other.
I'm just waiting for fast OS switching, ala fast user switching. The technology is already there (safe sleep to the hard drive for OSX, sleep for Windows) - someone just has to implement it.
quit being lazy and get a mac, which allows you to adjust the volume of each audio component of each application. one volume slider for all wav files is SO 1995 :)
:)
/amused mac user poking friendly fun
I've heard upgrading is buggy. The only upgrade, rather than total reinstall was from 10.1 to 10.2.
My itunes library is stored on an external disk drive, since my laptop's hard drive is only 20 gigs (music library = 25.x gigs). Somewhere there's a file that stores all this information (where the music is stored, and what it's ratings are), and while i've backed that up before, in the past they haven't been compatible (like, 10.3 had a newer version of itunes preinstalled, i think) or were corrupt, or something. You can imagine my frustration. I've finally given up for the moment.
I also feel 10.4 is "buggy". Constant hang ups, way too much time spent watching the spinning beach ball, etc etc. I've had four seperate crashes.
:)
This is compared to 10.3.8 though. Flawless uptime, lickity split quick, no hang ups ever. I'm sure 10.4 does great on a modern G4, but my 550mhz/512mb ram tibook absolutely crawls with photoshop and firefox open in 10.4. I'd downgrade, but I really don't feel like re-rating all 25,000 songs on iTunes again
There's a ton of literature on this, and plenty of benchmarks from when the original P4s came out that the thunderbird core was more efficent clock for clock than a P4. It was stated from the beginning by Tom's hardware and Ars Technica that the P4 was flawed from the beginning.
That said, I'm buying a Yonah (32 bit) or Merom (64 bit) Powerbook when they're actually shipping (my guess - July or August 2006).
I thought the accepted english spelling of the whale guy's name was Jonah? Maybe you're referring to the true spelling that I haven't heard of.... I was reading an article the other day about Jesus' name being misspelled, and that the proper spelling starts with a Y.
Maybe they put the ceramic tiles on the inside? If they switched to Titanium for the frame from aluminum, you jump up about 2000 degrees in melting temperature, so the frame doesn't have to be as safely insulated.
Aluminum melting point = 1400F (or thereabouts); Titanium melting point = 3500F (or thereabouts).
Some aluminum alloys have melting points near or below 1000F, so insullation is more impostant. By starting over from scratch, you can avoid the aluminum spaceframe design and work with modern materials.
Hops are a very close relative of another member of the cannabis family. Other products might hold these trace chemicals, too.
And the fact that the console version of COD2 raped my grandmother and killed my sister.
Exactly. I would have never bought Socom 3, nor would the other 48,000 people who were playing the game simeltaniously only a few days after it came out, if it wern't for the popularity of the online gameplay in Socom 2.... which I had only heard about via its online popularity.
And if you'd read more closely, the rumor is an Apple DVR, with speculation that the rumored product could include a 3.5" hard drive.
Summary: Apple needs to make my current laptop.
My penis is this big: _________ (laptop model). If I could get an apple flavored penis, I'd buy it.