The report is well written and a documents a large amount of work done by the review board and NASA in attempting to understand the core of the issue. Impressive.
Apple announced the G5 base Xserve systems only a couple of weeks ago and they top out at 2GHz currently using a 90nm version of the PPC 970. They have not announced any systems based on G5s with higher clock speeds.
Can you point to documentation about systems using 2.3+ GHz G5s (PPC970/fx etc.) and when those will be available and when VTech / public will be getting them?
The main reason, so far stated, that they are swapping the systems is for space saving and power savings (electrical and cooling) thanks to the 90nm G5s being used.
Note I directly referred to an update for IE in my post. I said nothing about not being able to run other browsers on Window XP... in fact I also stated that other browsers did exist that had blocking features. So your post is misguided.
My half-hearted point is that MS is slow to get this feature out because it is tied to a service pack release instead simply as an update to IE directly.
Also in reality (as illustrated by others posts) the average Joe doesn't download alternate browsers. Some don't even know options exist...
My better half still likes to use (mostly out of habit) IE on Mac OS X and I am amazed by the number of pop up/under ads that take place whenever I use her laptop temporarily.
I am basically pleasantly ignorant of the magnitude of the issue since I use Safari and OmniWeb on my systems, which block such things.
Isn't it nice that they have to wait for a whole XP service pack to be qualified and released before they can get an update to IE so they can block pop-ups, something that most other current browsers provide and some of those for a while.
I guess Apple saw Rio's announcement at 8 am and decided that they needed to catch up so two hours later (after finishing the design, testing, pricing, etc.) they announce the iPod mini.
The new Rio sure has me excited! Actually any device with a clitoral button control just gets me excited, is that wrong?
Anyway let the market decide... I personally bet the iPod mini will do well against the Rio Nitrus.
As of Panther you can even create a functional web browser in Cocoa without writing a single line of code, this includes backwards/forwards navigation controls, other common controls, etc. To do this you simply drag and drop elements into a window/view in Interface Builder and wire up a few things graphically... you don't even need to compile it to use it. (I tried it myself for the fun of it, it takes less then 5 mins)
Apple is also using Web Kit for various things other then Safari in Panther, like the help viewer, Xcode, etc. Third parties are also quickly starting to use it for imbedded HTML display.
Rather cool.
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"The private market, if left uninhibited by tariffs, regulations, and restrictions, could do a better job of getting us to the moon."
Nothing is preventing a private business from doing this except for the massive up front costs involved. It is apparent the no company has yet been able to convince enough investors of a return on investment to front the cash needed to make it happen.
However a few private companies are trying to do the much smaller step of edge of space travel and that is because the costs are vastly smaller and the potential returns for investors are closer at had and at lower risk.
NASA and like education/government entities exists to take on high risk space travel, space exploration and related projects that no company is likely to attack themselves because no direct returns are expected. Sure they are more bureaucratic then some would like but they are far more then what you believe them to be.
By the way your definition of mercantilism is a little off from the norm.
The rails are can be used as a digital communication channel. Also you can tackle any speed related issues using a wireless technology that is not affected by it.
So you have a local on board cell / wifi to keep common devices happy and a rail based or wireless link out of the train to the outside world.
Not really that difficult of solution to solve given the tech we have to day.
Actually Mac OS X provides a JVM by default. Currently both J2SE 1.3.1 and J2SE 1.4.1 are provided in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) installs. J2SE 1.4.2 is currently under development by Apple and will likely be released in the next couple of months. (Note Apple implements this themselves, it is not Sun provided.)
Mac OS X also provides mostly complete bindings between Java and the Cocoa frameworks.
Historically a few Mac OS X provided tools have been written in Java (the Calculator for example). I have not checked on this in 10.2 or 10.3.
Did I say anything in my post about the copying of expose? No. I was not making an such claim on way or the other.
I was only pointing out the difference between expose and what had existed as stated in you post.
I will say, which you also stated in a way, that Metacity is a poor mans version of expose and for good reason, it is hard to do without the abstractions that exist in a windowing system like Quartz backed by hardware based transformation.
The way expose does it thing is far different then tiling of windows or thumbnails. It actually scales, translates, and alphas _live_ windows without affecting the actual window itself or involving the application that owns the window.
So in a way pieces of the concept have existed but the method used and the capabilities of Apple's expose if greatly different then what came before. They did a lot more then just put the pieces together.
They built a drawing environment with appropriate abstractions, boundaries, and constructs that has allowed them and third-party developers to implement features like this. The foundations that allow expose have been in Mac OS X from the beginning (99ish) and its seeds come from OpenStep/NeXTStep back in the early nineties.
The moon doesn't have any atmosphere so dust doesn't blow around like on earth.
Sure lunar impacts kick up dust but they shouldn't cause much of an issue over the life times of the units in question. The dust scattered is generally well localized, with the particles following ballistic trajectories.
Actually I don't think you understand what Expose does.
It doesn't resize or move windows as "Tile Windows Horizontally/Vertically" does.
It uses the window compositing built into the QuartzCompositor to _scale_ and _translate_ windows using OpenGL hardware. The windows themselves are not changed (no resize events are sent to applications, etc.) and are fully live (the applications don't know Expose is transforming their windows).
"There's no reason, though, why the public would have been informed. NASA's silly behavior with SOHO is certainly evidence enough of their willingness to hide data when it applies to issues of comets!"
The NASA/US does not hold all the keys to astronomy and scientist generally don't keep their mouth shut unless working on top secret projects for their respective governments (hunting for asteroids, etc. are not top secret). Astronomy is actually one of the most open interactive fields in science.
Don't believe the moves.
What is this talk about SOHO? What nefarious activity are you implying?
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Thanks for the link!
The report is well written and a documents a large amount of work done by the review board and NASA in attempting to understand the core of the issue. Impressive.
As a comparison to what they are replacing (not counting extra RAM)...
....$97,588.56 per month*.
(Higher Ed. pricing)
Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz
Unit Price: 2,673.00
Subtotal: $2,940,300.00
So they are saving some money in the deal unless Apple discounted them by not shipping with video adapters, keyboards, etc. (likely)
Note that the recently announced Xserve systems are already using PPC 970s built in the 90nm process (IBM's process by the way not Apple's).
Also note that the press release states that they will be switching to the "current" Xserve systems not waiting months for a potential speed bump.
Your speculations have merit but I think the current fact go against them at this time.
In theory the now have room for another 2,000 or so Xserve systems thanks to space savings... they may speed it up that way.
Ok then... please don't state speculation as fact like you did in your prior post.
I think you may have your facts wrong...
Apple announced the G5 base Xserve systems only a couple of weeks ago and they top out at 2GHz currently using a 90nm version of the PPC 970. They have not announced any systems based on G5s with higher clock speeds.
Can you point to documentation about systems using 2.3+ GHz G5s (PPC970/fx etc.) and when those will be available and when VTech / public will be getting them?
The main reason, so far stated, that they are swapping the systems is for space saving and power savings (electrical and cooling) thanks to the 90nm G5s being used.
Note I directly referred to an update for IE in my post. I said nothing about not being able to run other browsers on Window XP... in fact I also stated that other browsers did exist that had blocking features. So your post is misguided.
My half-hearted point is that MS is slow to get this feature out because it is tied to a service pack release instead simply as an update to IE directly.
Also in reality (as illustrated by others posts) the average Joe doesn't download alternate browsers. Some don't even know options exist...
Yeah...
My better half still likes to use (mostly out of habit) IE on Mac OS X and I am amazed by the number of pop up/under ads that take place whenever I use her laptop temporarily.
I am basically pleasantly ignorant of the magnitude of the issue since I use Safari and OmniWeb on my systems, which block such things.
Isn't it nice that they have to wait for a whole XP service pack to be qualified and released before they can get an update to IE so they can block pop-ups, something that most other current browsers provide and some of those for a while.
;-)
That is innovation for ya
They also reported that a lot of the scientists use Mac OS X on PowerBooks for their day to day work.
-Shawn
Just browse slashdot with a threshold of +3 (or so), you don't see all the goat sex, GNAA, etc. crap that way.
Life is much better at +3...
(some punk is obviously spamming the GNAA stuff)
Never underestimate the power of sugar water!
I guess Apple saw Rio's announcement at 8 am and decided that they needed to catch up so two hours later (after finishing the design, testing, pricing, etc.) they announce the iPod mini.
The new Rio sure has me excited! Actually any device with a clitoral button control just gets me excited, is that wrong?
Anyway let the market decide... I personally bet the iPod mini will do well against the Rio Nitrus.
Apple made Web Kit a public framework as of Mac OS X 10.2.7/8 (around Oct. 2003).
This page covers how to use it.
As of Panther you can even create a functional web browser in Cocoa without writing a single line of code, this includes backwards/forwards navigation controls, other common controls, etc. To do this you simply drag and drop elements into a window/view in Interface Builder and wire up a few things graphically... you don't even need to compile it to use it. (I tried it myself for the fun of it, it takes less then 5 mins)
Apple is also using Web Kit for various things other then Safari in Panther, like the help viewer, Xcode, etc. Third parties are also quickly starting to use it for imbedded HTML display.
Rather cool.
"The private market, if left uninhibited by tariffs, regulations, and restrictions, could do a better job of getting us to the moon."
Nothing is preventing a private business from doing this except for the massive up front costs involved. It is apparent the no company has yet been able to convince enough investors of a return on investment to front the cash needed to make it happen.
However a few private companies are trying to do the much smaller step of edge of space travel and that is because the costs are vastly smaller and the potential returns for investors are closer at had and at lower risk.
NASA and like education/government entities exists to take on high risk space travel, space exploration and related projects that no company is likely to attack themselves because no direct returns are expected. Sure they are more bureaucratic then some would like but they are far more then what you believe them to be.
By the way your definition of mercantilism is a little off from the norm.
Ummm... the iPod already does this. Or are you talking about having this in just a smaller form factor?
Take a look inside of one and decide for yourself... hint not much room for any standard battery type.
The rails are can be used as a digital communication channel. Also you can tackle any speed related issues using a wireless technology that is not affected by it.
So you have a local on board cell / wifi to keep common devices happy and a rail based or wireless link out of the train to the outside world.
Not really that difficult of solution to solve given the tech we have to day.
Actually Mac OS X provides a JVM by default. Currently both J2SE 1.3.1 and J2SE 1.4.1 are provided in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) installs. J2SE 1.4.2 is currently under development by Apple and will likely be released in the next couple of months. (Note Apple implements this themselves, it is not Sun provided.)
Mac OS X also provides mostly complete bindings between Java and the Cocoa frameworks.
Historically a few Mac OS X provided tools have been written in Java (the Calculator for example). I have not checked on this in 10.2 or 10.3.
Did I say anything in my post about the copying of expose? No. I was not making an such claim on way or the other.
I was only pointing out the difference between expose and what had existed as stated in you post.
I will say, which you also stated in a way, that Metacity is a poor mans version of expose and for good reason, it is hard to do without the abstractions that exist in a windowing system like Quartz backed by hardware based transformation.
The way expose does it thing is far different then tiling of windows or thumbnails. It actually scales, translates, and alphas _live_ windows without affecting the actual window itself or involving the application that owns the window.
So in a way pieces of the concept have existed but the method used and the capabilities of Apple's expose if greatly different then what came before. They did a lot more then just put the pieces together.
They built a drawing environment with appropriate abstractions, boundaries, and constructs that has allowed them and third-party developers to implement features like this. The foundations that allow expose have been in Mac OS X from the beginning (99ish) and its seeds come from OpenStep/NeXTStep back in the early nineties.
No because they are trying to spin things into a bad light, things that Apple has always said was the case from the get go of the iTMS.
The moon doesn't have any atmosphere so dust doesn't blow around like on earth.
Sure lunar impacts kick up dust but they shouldn't cause much of an issue over the life times of the units in question. The dust scattered is generally well localized, with the particles following ballistic trajectories.
It has been greatly cut down from what is supposed to do, it is also not even finished being built.
We are getting jack shit from it because folks don't have the guts to stay the course in under taking sich a major task.
Actually I don't think you understand what Expose does.
It doesn't resize or move windows as "Tile Windows Horizontally/Vertically" does.
It uses the window compositing built into the QuartzCompositor to _scale_ and _translate_ windows using OpenGL hardware. The windows themselves are not changed (no resize events are sent to applications, etc.) and are fully live (the applications don't know Expose is transforming their windows).
This is greatly different then tiling windows.
"There's no reason, though, why the public would have been informed. NASA's silly behavior with SOHO is certainly evidence enough of their willingness to hide data when it applies to issues of comets!"
The NASA/US does not hold all the keys to astronomy and scientist generally don't keep their mouth shut unless working on top secret projects for their respective governments (hunting for asteroids, etc. are not top secret). Astronomy is actually one of the most open interactive fields in science.
Don't believe the moves.
What is this talk about SOHO? What nefarious activity are you implying?