So far my experience is vastly different on several different systems... I have had nothing but solid stability from my desktop systems, TiBook, and iBook.
So what PowerBook do you have and what version of Mac OS X are you using? Did you update to the latest DVD player?
For files that have type & creator properly set you will have no issues (same as in MacOS).
File extensions are not required in Mac OS X but they are recommended by Apple. They are recommended because MOST other OSes use file extensions to type files and this is a wired world we live in.
So file extensions are NOT madatory but ARE recommended and type & creator are still used when needed.
10.1.3 also has improved support for setting application preferences even for files that have creator set (didn't used to allow one to change app prefs if creater was set).
ATA66 - Why would you need a faster bus when the system has ONE harddrive. No consumer grade harddrive can saturate ATA66. So why put in something that costs a little more for no benefit to the end user.
PC100 - The G4 used in the systems FSB doesn't gain much from going higher (PC133 gives only a slight increase). So again why up the price for little gain.
Stereo sound - Umm... Mac OS X supports multi-channel sound. You can buy surround sound systems that connect via USB. Again why up the price for something that most consumers wouldn't need.
15 LCD display... yup that is so last month. Few system have been shipping with 15 LCD by default until recently.
GeForce2 MX - It only driving a 15" LCD and does it well enough for game play. Sure you don't get 120+ FPS but my eyes don't scan that fast what about yours? Also I don't think that the LCD screen can update that quickly anyways. So again why add the cost...
I guess I should sell my TV, stereo system, DVD player because the tech started shipping more then two years ago.
Basically many hardware vendors attempt to up the numbers on things when on the whole it doesn't gain much for the system. It is the difference between competing based on the numbers as opposed to the product/solution.
According to an interview I heard on NPR with Fiorina, she's hoping that HP will emerge as an IBM -- a large tech conglomerate with many profit-making business units. The problem is, they're trying to do it with two units (PCs and imaging) that IBM found unprofitable enough to get (mostly) out of.
Both HP and Compaq produce far more then just PCs and imaging products. HP & Compaq are high up in the storage and storage networking markets. Compaq is strong in the midrange server market and HP in the high end server market. HP is very strong in the backup device market both in the low end and high end (tapes, etc.). HP has networking hardware. etc...
The two companies combined will have the breadth of products like IBM. They will exceed the solution capability of Dell, Gateway, Sun and EMC.
The 600 million is only if HP stopped the merger not if HP share holders voted the merge down.
HP & Compaq have localized all trade secret sharing to a few hundred individuals. Only they will be affected if the merge doesn't happen.
All in all HP has done a VERY good job dealing with the merger and preparing for the integration tasks. If the merge is on... I think people may be surprised how well and quickly it will happen.
Actually not sure how much difference would be realized, it would improve things but...
The reason I say this is because Altivec has a very power permute capability that gives it the upper hand in RC5. I do not believe SSE2 has this capability.
I mostly agree... but if Apple did release Mac OS X for Intel systems Windows wouldn't be greatly affected by it. Instead the chances for Linux on the desktop would be impacted.
Basically Apple would do little to hurt Microsoft but it could greatly hinder Linux on the desktop.
I personally think the only way Mac OS X on Intel would be successful and not suffer the fate of BeOS would be to provide a Classic equivalent for Windows software. It would take at least a year (after the release of developer tools) for enough Intel versions of Mac OS X apps to show up to make it a viable alternative Windows. Having a classic like environment would buy time as well as be a great value proposition long term. Now developing, maintaining and supporting such a beast will not be easy or without great cost.
Mac OS X has a great driver development environment called I/O Kit. IOKit makes it very easy to write drivers that are portable across processor and system architectures.
I have written a driver for a PCI adapter that runs fine under Darwin for PCC and x86. It took me nearly zero lines of code to allow for this, basically my driver inherited all the functionality from I/O Kit. The only thing I had to do was use a simple I/O Kit provided set of methods to read and write data that automatically handles endian issues (only when reading/writing to structs that required a certain endianess).
Any well written driver can be portable as long as the driver environment is portable. So I/O Kit is not unique in this regard; however, in my experience it is far easier to work in then other driver environments.
Yes, the force will diminish as the space craft gets farther and farther from the closest source of solar wind (our Sun on the outbound voyage).
One thing to remember this is SPACE which has relatively low friction, hence space craft will maintain near constant velocity if no external, non-frictional, forces are applied (solar window, gravity, magnetic fields, etc.).
The space craft will under go the greatest acceleration while closest to the Sun but it will not slow down as the the accelerating force drops off, it just won't accelerate as rapidly. It also has a VERY long time to accelerate.
Well in theory a good solar sail would capture a vast majority of the solar window and this would act as a great shield if the core of the space craft is in front of the sail. The main concern remaining would be forms of radiation and those would require shielding. The earth does a good job protecting us with a mix of atmosphere and magnetosphere (not rock and water).
The craft could use an artificial magnetosphere to help protect it, in fact this could act as huge solar sail.
I have access to news from outside of the USA on my TV, via the internet, get them in my mail, and can buy them at the corner store.
The fact that I can access news sources from outside of the USA says something doesn't it?
All news sources have some level of bias that stems from cultural or nationalistic influences (news isn't spit out by machines but by humans). That is why it is very important that a population have access to information from as many sources as possible. Only with that can individuals (to the extent their personal biases allow) can form well balanced opinions and views.
I in general I don't like the idea of any censorship; however, we are talking SCHOOLS and LIBRARIES in this case. It is sensible that CHILDREN should not have easy access to pornographic and violent information at an institution that is expected to educate children without direct parental supervision.
Or is it wrong for parents to "censor" what their children can view and hear? Do you think movie ratings are a form of censorship... (the goal of "censorware" is the same)?
How do you leap from a government that dictates what it citizens can view to equating that with mandating that schools have software in place to manage access to content that most parents do not what their children to have access to. There is a huge difference between the two.
So how does the blocking of access to free information (China) equate to the monitoring of possible criminal/terrorist individuals (USA)?
I would say they are completely different things motivated by different desires. One is to keep control over the minds of a population and the other is to keep safe a population that has the right to free will. Don't equate the two.
I think the USA is one of the few countries in the world that, in general, gives more rights to criminals then to the police and federal agencies. That is a good thing! (as long as the police and federal agencies can still carry out their jobs).
Mac OS X should also include IPv6 support when it begins shipping on March 24th. If it is not in the consumer release it will be in Mac OS X Server release (due after the consumer release).
Correct, It utilizes a thing Apple calls Quartz which is a PDF based imaging system. It is vector based imaging system... which mean you can blend, scale, rotate, etc. and the images are rendered at the optimum resolution for the device it is displaying on (this includes things like printers).
Granted not all of the OS currently utilizes this ability to its fullest but as video and processing systems get better it will be leveraged more and more.
A nice thing about Quartz is you utilize its interfaces and its core can be ported to utilize 2D or SIMD acceleration behind your back. This is what Apple has done for the Velocity Engine in the PowerPC G4 (74x0).
Why is it unacceptable to catalog DNA of innocent citizens? And how does it serve no greater good?
In the US parents often have the finger prints of there children recorded into a national database. This DB is used to help the police and other organizations find missing children. Having DNA "finger prints" instead would greatly improve this ability (people are more likely to leave DNA evidence then finger prints).
I could come up with many scenarios that illustrate the benefits.
By the way... You are fooling yourself if you don't think you already have "serial number" associated with you. Think credit cards, phone numbers, (in the US) social security number, etc. I would love to have an identifier that, with high probability, links the above pseudo serial numbers to me, the physical me.
It would be hard, given current technology, to have someone hijack my identity if it was tied to my DNA. I am far more worried about someone using my identity than having a governmental body, one's whose existence is sanctioned by the citizenry, somehow abuse my DNA finger print.
Sure by your example you only have a 1 in 100 chance of targeting the correct suspect. but... It means you have eliminated 900,000 possible suspects.
The police could easily check alibis of the 100 to eliminate more suspects. Then do deeper DNA comparisons between the DNA evidence and the remaining suspects (ones that don't have a good alibi).
Also why does everyone think that the database will have you complete gnome? Do know how big that is and how difficult is to scan an individuals gnome? The database will contain the minimum set of genetic markers that insure a decent level of differentiation.
This relatively small set of markers is an extremely small amount of your total genetic information. It would be impossible for anyone to clone you or even for insurance companies to pry into you genetic predispositions (unless the markers used in the database happened to hit on one).
But how would a company make money off TCP, HTTP, etc? How would they collect money at the same time as getting others to accept and impliment the idea. It is hard to have a stanard become a standard unless it is free/open (unless the corporation "MS" or individual has strong controll over the market "LT").
In the case of one click Amazon protects it not just because it makes them money but to keep a competative edge over the compatition.
Yes the concept of one click is simple but that doesn't make the patent invalid. Remeber Amazon has millions and millions of customers, services large volumes of transactions, etc... do think doing that is simple?
The mercury would still evaporate in vacume (as long as it was above absolute zero; it is going to be heated by all of the visiable light, etc. hitting it)... not sure how fast. The resin idea could work if it was fluid like the mercury and didn't interfer with the wave lengths being sampled.
I though about using magnetic fields to contain the mercury but I don't know off the top of my head if mercury responds to magnetic forces (well). Also I am not sure if enough power could be gerenated to maintain the magnetic field.
RISC doesn't mean fewer instructions it mostly implies the instructions are simpler (don't do memory loads before addition followed by a memory write). Also RISC processor are more register based than memory based; in other words operations happen on registers on the CPU and the result go back into registers on the CPU.
This allows simplier op code dispatch logic and simpler functional units.
As you stated all of the major CISC CPUs have a more RISC like core that is fed by a decoder that splits legicy CISC instructions into more RISC like ops (or more likely microops).
Well... Mercury has a relatively strong cohesive force, which in turn gives mercury a good surface tension. In zero g this would cause a volume of mercury to form a spherical blob. In theory the blob could be brought in contact with a container or dish that had was attractive (and I don't mean good looking) to mercury. The mercury would then distribute itself along the surface... spin the dish to get a parabolic surface and you have mirror. The only problem [trust me...;)] is how to keep the mercury from slowly evaporating.
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So far my experience is vastly different on several different systems... I have had nothing but solid stability from my desktop systems, TiBook, and iBook.
So what PowerBook do you have and what version of Mac OS X are you using? Did you update to the latest DVD player?
Actually not true...
For files that have type & creator properly set you will have no issues (same as in MacOS).
File extensions are not required in Mac OS X but they are recommended by Apple. They are recommended because MOST other OSes use file extensions to type files and this is a wired world we live in.
So file extensions are NOT madatory but ARE recommended and type & creator are still used when needed.
10.1.3 also has improved support for setting application preferences even for files that have creator set (didn't used to allow one to change app prefs if creater was set).
ATA66 - Why would you need a faster bus when the system has ONE harddrive. No consumer grade harddrive can saturate ATA66. So why put in something that costs a little more for no benefit to the end user.
PC100 - The G4 used in the systems FSB doesn't gain much from going higher (PC133 gives only a slight increase). So again why up the price for little gain.
Stereo sound - Umm... Mac OS X supports multi-channel sound. You can buy surround sound systems that connect via USB. Again why up the price for something that most consumers wouldn't need.
15 LCD display... yup that is so last month. Few system have been shipping with 15 LCD by default until recently.
GeForce2 MX - It only driving a 15" LCD and does it well enough for game play. Sure you don't get 120+ FPS but my eyes don't scan that fast what about yours? Also I don't think that the LCD screen can update that quickly anyways. So again why add the cost...
I guess I should sell my TV, stereo system, DVD player because the tech started shipping more then two years ago.
Basically many hardware vendors attempt to up the numbers on things when on the whole it doesn't gain much for the system. It is the difference between competing based on the numbers as opposed to the product/solution.
According to an interview I heard on NPR with Fiorina, she's hoping that HP will emerge as an IBM -- a large tech conglomerate with many profit-making business units. The problem is, they're trying to do it with two units (PCs and imaging) that IBM found unprofitable enough to get (mostly) out of.
Both HP and Compaq produce far more then just PCs and imaging products. HP & Compaq are high up in the storage and storage networking markets. Compaq is strong in the midrange server market and HP in the high end server market. HP is very strong in the backup device market both in the low end and high end (tapes, etc.). HP has networking hardware. etc...
The two companies combined will have the breadth of products like IBM. They will exceed the solution capability of Dell, Gateway, Sun and EMC.
I think this could be the start of something big.
The 600 million is only if HP stopped the merger not if HP share holders voted the merge down.
HP & Compaq have localized all trade secret sharing to a few hundred individuals. Only they will be affected if the merge doesn't happen.
All in all HP has done a VERY good job dealing with the merger and preparing for the integration tasks. If the merge is on... I think people may be surprised how well and quickly it will happen.
Actually not sure how much difference would be realized, it would improve things but...
The reason I say this is because Altivec has a very power permute capability that gives it the upper hand in RC5. I do not believe SSE2 has this capability.
I mostly agree... but if Apple did release Mac OS X for Intel systems Windows wouldn't be greatly affected by it. Instead the chances for Linux on the desktop would be impacted.
Basically Apple would do little to hurt Microsoft but it could greatly hinder Linux on the desktop.
I personally think the only way Mac OS X on Intel would be successful and not suffer the fate of BeOS would be to provide a Classic equivalent for Windows software. It would take at least a year (after the release of developer tools) for enough Intel versions of Mac OS X apps to show up to make it a viable alternative Windows. Having a classic like environment would buy time as well as be a great value proposition long term. Now developing, maintaining and supporting such a beast will not be easy or without great cost.
I have written a driver for a PCI adapter that runs fine under Darwin for PCC and x86. It took me nearly zero lines of code to allow for this, basically my driver inherited all the functionality from I/O Kit. The only thing I had to do was use a simple I/O Kit provided set of methods to read and write data that automatically handles endian issues (only when reading/writing to structs that required a certain endianess).
Any well written driver can be portable as long as the driver environment is portable. So I/O Kit is not unique in this regard; however, in my experience it is far easier to work in then other driver environments.
Yes, the force will diminish as the space craft gets farther and farther from the closest source of solar wind (our Sun on the outbound voyage).
One thing to remember this is SPACE which has relatively low friction, hence space craft will maintain near constant velocity if no external, non-frictional, forces are applied (solar window, gravity, magnetic fields, etc.).
The space craft will under go the greatest acceleration while closest to the Sun but it will not slow down as the the accelerating force drops off, it just won't accelerate as rapidly. It also has a VERY long time to accelerate.
Well in theory a good solar sail would capture a vast majority of the solar window and this would act as a great shield if the core of the space craft is in front of the sail. The main concern remaining would be forms of radiation and those would require shielding. The earth does a good job protecting us with a mix of atmosphere and magnetosphere (not rock and water).
The craft could use an artificial magnetosphere to help protect it, in fact this could act as huge solar sail.
I have access to news from outside of the USA on my TV, via the internet, get them in my mail, and can buy them at the corner store.
The fact that I can access news sources from outside of the USA says something doesn't it?
All news sources have some level of bias that stems from cultural or nationalistic influences (news isn't spit out by machines but by humans). That is why it is very important that a population have access to information from as many sources as possible. Only with that can individuals (to the extent their personal biases allow) can form well balanced opinions and views.
-S
I in general I don't like the idea of any censorship; however, we are talking SCHOOLS and LIBRARIES in this case. It is sensible that CHILDREN should not have easy access to pornographic and violent information at an institution that is expected to educate children without direct parental supervision.
Or is it wrong for parents to "censor" what their children can view and hear? Do you think movie ratings are a form of censorship... (the goal of "censorware" is the same)?
How do you leap from a government that dictates what it citizens can view to equating that with mandating that schools have software in place to manage access to content that most parents do not what their children to have access to. There is a huge difference between the two.
-S
So how does the blocking of access to free information (China) equate to the monitoring of possible criminal/terrorist individuals (USA)?
I would say they are completely different things motivated by different desires. One is to keep control over the minds of a population and the other is to keep safe a population that has the right to free will. Don't equate the two.
I think the USA is one of the few countries in the world that, in general, gives more rights to criminals then to the police and federal agencies. That is a good thing! (as long as the police and federal agencies can still carry out their jobs).
-S
Mac OS X should also include IPv6 support when it begins shipping on March 24th. If it is not in the consumer release it will be in Mac OS X Server release (due after the consumer release).
Correct, It utilizes a thing Apple calls Quartz which is a PDF based imaging system. It is vector based imaging system... which mean you can blend, scale, rotate, etc. and the images are rendered at the optimum resolution for the device it is displaying on (this includes things like printers).
Granted not all of the OS currently utilizes this ability to its fullest but as video and processing systems get better it will be leveraged more and more.
A nice thing about Quartz is you utilize its interfaces and its core can be ported to utilize 2D or SIMD acceleration behind your back. This is what Apple has done for the Velocity Engine in the PowerPC G4 (74x0).
It is fast!
Why is it unacceptable to catalog DNA of innocent citizens? And how does it serve no greater good?
In the US parents often have the finger prints of there children recorded into a national database. This DB is used to help the police and other organizations find missing children. Having DNA "finger prints" instead would greatly improve this ability (people are more likely to leave DNA evidence then finger prints).
I could come up with many scenarios that illustrate the benefits.
By the way... You are fooling yourself if you don't think you already have "serial number" associated with you. Think credit cards, phone numbers, (in the US) social security number, etc. I would love to have an identifier that, with high probability, links the above pseudo serial numbers to me, the physical me.
It would be hard, given current technology, to have someone hijack my identity if it was tied to my DNA. I am far more worried about someone using my identity than having a governmental body, one's whose existence is sanctioned by the citizenry, somehow abuse my DNA finger print.
Oops! I meant 999,900 (my shift op must be broken).
Sure by your example you only have a 1 in 100 chance of targeting the correct suspect. but... It means you have eliminated 900,000 possible suspects.
The police could easily check alibis of the 100 to eliminate more suspects. Then do deeper DNA comparisons between the DNA evidence and the remaining suspects (ones that don't have a good alibi).
Also why does everyone think that the database will have you complete gnome? Do know how big that is and how difficult is to scan an individuals gnome? The database will contain the minimum set of genetic markers that insure a decent level of differentiation.
This relatively small set of markers is an extremely small amount of your total genetic information. It would be impossible for anyone to clone you or even for insurance companies to pry into you genetic predispositions (unless the markers used in the database happened to hit on one).
Give the system discussed a try here
Yes you are correct... sort of.
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But how would a company make money off TCP, HTTP, etc? How would they collect money at the same time as getting others to accept and impliment the idea. It is hard to have a stanard become a standard unless it is free/open (unless the corporation "MS" or individual has strong controll over the market "LT").
In the case of one click Amazon protects it not just because it makes them money but to keep a competative edge over the compatition.
Yes the concept of one click is simple but that doesn't make the patent invalid. Remeber Amazon has millions and millions of customers, services large volumes of transactions, etc... do think doing that is simple?
[by you I don't mean "cduffy" but others on
The mercury would still evaporate in vacume (as long as it was above absolute zero; it is going to be heated by all of the visiable light, etc. hitting it) ... not sure how fast. The resin idea could work if it was fluid like the mercury and didn't interfer with the wave lengths being sampled.
I though about using magnetic fields to contain the mercury but I don't know off the top of my head if mercury responds to magnetic forces (well). Also I am not sure if enough power could be gerenated to maintain the magnetic field.
RISC doesn't mean fewer instructions it mostly implies the instructions are simpler (don't do memory loads before addition followed by a memory write). Also RISC processor are more register based than memory based; in other words operations happen on registers on the CPU and the result go back into registers on the CPU.
This allows simplier op code dispatch logic and simpler functional units.
As you stated all of the major CISC CPUs have a more RISC like core that is fed by a decoder that splits legicy CISC instructions into more RISC like ops (or more likely microops).
Well... Mercury has a relatively strong cohesive force, which in turn gives mercury a good surface tension. In zero g this would cause a volume of mercury to form a spherical blob. In theory the blob could be brought in contact with a container or dish that had was attractive (and I don't mean good looking) to mercury. The mercury would then distribute itself along the surface... spin the dish to get a parabolic surface and you have mirror. The only problem [trust me... ;)] is how to keep the mercury from slowly evaporating.
Beta uses hotspot version 1.3.
I have seen statements from "reliable" sources that it will ship with the full JRE 1.3 "package".
Ummm... what?
Cool applet!
Did anyone else notice the "satellite" named UFO-1 flying around?