Yeah, IDE is to computers what front-wheel-drive is to cars. An ugly economizing hack.
I was recently listening to a conversation in the lab where two QA guys were discussing how to add disk space to a machine, they had a bunch of spare IDE drives, and were digging around for two IDE controller cards to attach the drives to, because they already had primary and secondary IDE controllers filled. I try to imagine what happens to that machine's CPU when they striped those disks.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
No, Intel FUD is more responsible for lack of FireWire adoption industry-wide.
Real, enterprise-class storage systems ARE built on FC, but REAL, electronic video production systems are built on FireWire. At least Sony and Apple would like us all to think so.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Apple is taking the steps "backwards" to IDE because all the PC-weenies complained about having to bear the extra cost of SCSI, and having no choice to use IDE.
Now, in BTO, there USED to be a SCSI option for the Beige G3, and the B&W G3. VERY expensive, much more so than would be if you simply ordered the box diskless, and bought a 3rd party adapter and drives yourself. WAY more.
Which begs the REAL question, why doesn't Apple simply offer totally stripped down boxes, and let people buy components from third parties that are competitively priced?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I just thought of something, these guys have been around for a LONG time, since the early Cretaceous, in computer-industry terms. These guys must all be totally vested in their stock options by now.
Congrats guys, you've waited longer than any other company I know for "the big payoff". Now go buy yourself a new computer.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
in my last trip to LA, a few weeks ago, I was acutely aware that, as a white person, I was in the minority. There were very few other white people around. In fact, this is the case, statistically. Just recently, it was reported that whites are no longer the majority race in Southern California. They are the largest single group, but less than 49% are white, the rest are some variation of brown (arab, asian, afro, indian, etc).
Hm, maybe it IS the minority causing all the crime here. Maybe it's the well publicised LAPD that is well known to use racial slurs on their radio communication, maybe it's the high-profile cases of police beatings and shootings, maybe it's the drastic imbalance of wealth and power.
It's an economic problem. Not a racial problem.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I said it before, and I'll say it again, all this clumsiness is a direct result of peoples' thinking of domain names as something other than names for a computer sitting in an air conditioned room somewhere.
For corporations, organizations, there needs to be a separate directory service of some kind which can be trademarkable, censorable, and enforceable, the namespace will need to allow for space-characters, and other necessities of corporate identity. Treat it the same as you treat the Yellow Pages today. When folks want to find Apple Computer's site, they look it up in their directory, and the browser zips them to the proper place. A URL is NOT a good solution for this problem. You get this top-level duplication crap, (.net,.org,.com) squatting, other abuses, and it doesn't support a full character-set. It just ain't the right solution.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, folks would invest in R&D because since they no longer pay taxes, they'd have all sorts of extra money laying around.
(never mind that they have to use that extra money for their own private police force, private investigators to investigate their uncertified doctors, private investigators to watchdog their private investigators, their own private chemistry lab to constantly test the air and water to make sure FreindlyCo isn't dumping toxic waste, and their own private meat inspector to make sure their food isn't infected with botulism, etc. etc. ad infinitum.)
Like Kythe said before. READ the Libertarian platform. You'll be suprised.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Apple: You omitted how Microsoft quite skillfully killed the Apple platform - by making an end-run around all of the other office-suite vendors with MS Office for Mac, in terms of feature-creep, and file-format compatability (office heterogeneity), killing all serious competition, (WP was beat down pretty good, as was Claris and others). Then when all the other vendors either offered sub-par products or no products due to cancellation of development for the Mac platform - because they were starved for cash from competition in the Windows market, they released the infamously bad Office 4.0, and cancelled their product. Now there were no office apps for Macintosh - and the platform's last holdouts in the office space abandoned it. This is why the resumption of Office, Office 98 for Mac, was such a big deal, and is probably one of the greatest factors in Microsoft's resurgence. There's so much FUD and voodoo about translating office documents to/from WordPerfect and Claris/AppleWorks, that nobody will bother - even now that WordPerfect is free (no future), or that AppleWorks is actually an excellent suite for $99.
Microsoft could kill Apple (again), if they simply announce no new Office version for Mac. They've already done some recent damage by delaying IE 5 for Mac until next winter.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Excellent point, and I didn't say that it wouldn't have an impact on my life, just that I doubt it would escalate into a global conflict.
Last year, I did some onsite work at Pacific Northwest Labs, where they do some work on Chernobyl, the sarcophagus, testing, computer modeling (their supercomputers are way impressive). Some of the comments made about the spread and impact of the radioactivity of Chernobyl were very depressing. (they also manage the infamous Hanford site, and there are reports of things like, ant colonies digging up buried waste, and spreading it ouside of the marked boundries - this is no secret, it's been in the news).
A nuclear exchange on the sub continent would have severe environmental ramifications for decades. And we'll probably get a lot of refugees in the States, and UK. The rest will probably go wash up in the Ganges.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, part of the undocumentedness is obviously incompetence, not an attempt at occlusion.
How do you legally FORCE someone to do something (and do it WELL), that they are incapable of doing?
I think we'll see some injunctions about product tying, maybe some fines, and endless appeals, and flagrant abuse of the injunctions, and the Govt. not being able to do a damn thing about it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I'd have to say that my experience with Mac OS has had it's ups and downs. Lately, 8.6 on my Beige G3 has been rock-solid. Very stable. After much tweaking and searching archives on what each "mystery extension" does, and is for. And my Beige G3 was a 223MHz, and it's been overclocked to 300 for over a year now, stock cooling setup too. Funny, it's much more stable NOW than it was when I first bought it.
A year ago, I said Apple had to execute TWO major things before it could really be comparable in a serious fasion to the Wintel world. G4, and OS X. A lot of people blew a lot of smoke back then, but now, G4 is here, and OS X is kinda - sorta here, but will REALLY be here in say 8 months (give or take a few for stability issues, etc.). Unfortunately, their prices seem to be creeping up there (for the high-end machines, anyway).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Slashdot Mirror
no other reason than it rhymes with McAfee (Mi-kaf-ee), unless you pronounce it MAC-uh-fee.
You say Leenooks, and I say Lennox,
Leenooks,
Lennox,
Leenooks,
Lennox,
let's call the whole thing off!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Yeah, IDE is to computers what front-wheel-drive is to cars. An ugly economizing hack.
I was recently listening to a conversation in the lab where two QA guys were discussing how to add disk space to a machine, they had a bunch of spare IDE drives, and were digging around for two IDE controller cards to attach the drives to, because they already had primary and secondary IDE controllers filled. I try to imagine what happens to that machine's CPU when they striped those disks.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
No, Intel FUD is more responsible for lack of FireWire adoption industry-wide.
Real, enterprise-class storage systems ARE built on FC, but REAL, electronic video production systems are built on FireWire. At least Sony and Apple would like us all to think so.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Apple is taking the steps "backwards" to IDE because all the PC-weenies complained about having to bear the extra cost of SCSI, and having no choice to use IDE.
Now, in BTO, there USED to be a SCSI option for the Beige G3, and the B&W G3. VERY expensive, much more so than would be if you simply ordered the box diskless, and bought a 3rd party adapter and drives yourself. WAY more.
Which begs the REAL question, why doesn't Apple simply offer totally stripped down boxes, and let people buy components from third parties that are competitively priced?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
What would be REALLY strange is if as part of this deal, AMD required Apple to release their x86 version of OS X (with 3DNOW! support).
Okay, 6 days, no caffeine. . . Must. . . gouge. . . eyes. . . out. . . with . . . SIMM-puller. . . arrrrrgh!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I just thought of something, these guys have been around for a LONG time, since the early Cretaceous, in computer-industry terms. These guys must all be totally vested in their stock options by now.
Congrats guys, you've waited longer than any other company I know for "the big payoff". Now go buy yourself a new computer.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, McAffee,
you really make me laughee,
your software is so daffy,
makes my system run like taffy,
Oh McAffee,
for support you charge a high fee,
my disk drive you atrophe,
make me write songs just like Raffi,
(sorry, must have been the Wierd Al concert I went to last night)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
ask slashdot
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"we better not get caught,
we'll be put in institutions,
where we'll be drugged and shocked,
till we come out born again Christians"
-Dead Kennedys
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
bleh!
Vitamin B (complex) upset my stomach!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Or, He might take that money and buy some oil for some rightous foot-annointing. You never know. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Ah, but you ARE espousing racial bigotry.
in my last trip to LA, a few weeks ago, I was acutely aware that, as a white person, I was in the minority. There were very few other white people around. In fact, this is the case, statistically. Just recently, it was reported that whites are no longer the majority race in Southern California. They are the largest single group, but less than 49% are white, the rest are some variation of brown (arab, asian, afro, indian, etc).
Hm, maybe it IS the minority causing all the crime here. Maybe it's the well publicised LAPD that is well known to use racial slurs on their radio communication, maybe it's the high-profile cases of police beatings and shootings, maybe it's the drastic imbalance of wealth and power.
It's an economic problem. Not a racial problem.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Too bad I blew all my moderation points yesterday.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Your clock is 6 minutes slow.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I said it before, and I'll say it again, all this clumsiness is a direct result of peoples' thinking of domain names as something other than names for a computer sitting in an air conditioned room somewhere.
.org, .com) squatting, other abuses, and it doesn't support a full character-set. It just ain't the right solution.
For corporations, organizations, there needs to be a separate directory service of some kind which can be trademarkable, censorable, and enforceable, the namespace will need to allow for space-characters, and other necessities of corporate identity. Treat it the same as you treat the Yellow Pages today.
When folks want to find Apple Computer's site, they look it up in their directory, and the browser zips them to the proper place. A URL is NOT a good solution for this problem. You get this top-level duplication crap, (.net,
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
how 'bout www.chinkspicnigger.com ?
Be an equal opportunity bigot!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Hard time. For every employee above the level of Manager.
eh, okay, if you can get NT to boot on a 486/25 with 8 megs of RAM, you'll be eligible for parolle.
This eliminates all those sticky questions of "government control" and how to split the company, and fines being passed on to the customer.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, folks would invest in R&D because since they no longer pay taxes, they'd have all sorts of extra money laying around.
(never mind that they have to use that extra money for their own private police force, private investigators to investigate their uncertified doctors, private investigators to watchdog their private investigators, their own private chemistry lab to constantly test the air and water to make sure FreindlyCo isn't dumping toxic waste, and their own private meat inspector to make sure their food isn't infected with botulism, etc. etc. ad infinitum.)
Like Kythe said before. READ the Libertarian platform. You'll be suprised.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Apple: You omitted how Microsoft quite skillfully killed the Apple platform - by making an end-run around all of the other office-suite vendors with MS Office for Mac, in terms of feature-creep, and file-format compatability (office heterogeneity), killing all serious competition, (WP was beat down pretty good, as was Claris and others). Then when all the other vendors either offered sub-par products or no products due to cancellation of development for the Mac platform - because they were starved for cash from competition in the Windows market, they released the infamously bad Office 4.0, and cancelled their product. Now there were no office apps for Macintosh - and the platform's last holdouts in the office space abandoned it.
This is why the resumption of Office, Office 98 for Mac, was such a big deal, and is probably one of the greatest factors in Microsoft's resurgence. There's so much FUD and voodoo about translating office documents to/from WordPerfect and Claris/AppleWorks, that nobody will bother - even now that WordPerfect is free (no future), or that AppleWorks is actually an excellent suite for $99.
Microsoft could kill Apple (again), if they simply announce no new Office version for Mac. They've already done some recent damage by delaying IE 5 for Mac until next winter.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
no browser is neccesary to download the browser of your choice.
Windows 95 has shipped with a nice little app called FTP.EXE since day one.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Had Bill stayed at Harvard, we'd all be running OS/2 and LOVING it!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Excellent point, and I didn't say that it wouldn't have an impact on my life, just that I doubt it would escalate into a global conflict.
Last year, I did some onsite work at Pacific Northwest Labs, where they do some work on Chernobyl, the sarcophagus, testing, computer modeling (their supercomputers are way impressive). Some of the comments made about the spread and impact of the radioactivity of Chernobyl were very depressing. (they also manage the infamous Hanford site, and there are reports of things like, ant colonies digging up buried waste, and spreading it ouside of the marked boundries - this is no secret, it's been in the news).
A nuclear exchange on the sub continent would have severe environmental ramifications for decades. And we'll probably get a lot of refugees in the States, and UK. The rest will probably go wash up in the Ganges.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, part of the undocumentedness is obviously incompetence, not an attempt at occlusion.
How do you legally FORCE someone to do something (and do it WELL), that they are incapable of doing?
I think we'll see some injunctions about product tying, maybe some fines, and endless appeals, and flagrant abuse of the injunctions, and the Govt. not being able to do a damn thing about it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
heh, almost everyone I know that uses Microsoft is anti-Microsoft.
No, not almost. I even know a lot of Windows coders. I don't think I know ONE person who is deep down, true-blue, go-to-bat-for-Bill-Gates Microsoft.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I'd have to say that my experience with Mac OS has had it's ups and downs. Lately, 8.6 on my Beige G3 has been rock-solid. Very stable. After much tweaking and searching archives on what each "mystery extension" does, and is for. And my Beige G3 was a 223MHz, and it's been overclocked to 300 for over a year now, stock cooling setup too. Funny, it's much more stable NOW than it was when I first bought it.
A year ago, I said Apple had to execute TWO major things before it could really be comparable in a serious fasion to the Wintel world. G4, and OS X. A lot of people blew a lot of smoke back then, but now, G4 is here, and OS X is kinda - sorta here, but will REALLY be here in say 8 months (give or take a few for stability issues, etc.).
Unfortunately, their prices seem to be creeping up there (for the high-end machines, anyway).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."