Let's not forget Intel (and AMD, for that matter) are NOT only in the CPU business. They make a variety of products other than their famous x86 line of microprocessors which are used in many devices for many, many purposes.
For exmple, find yourself a Macintosh Performa 400 (circa 1994) and open the lid. Have a look at that motherboard, and there is a chip on it with a nice fat AMD logo. It isn't the CPU, but it is there (I don't recall exactly its function, however).
This rumor probably stemmed from Apple looking into using a controller chipset from Intel. it could have been something simple like improved performance for the USB bus, it could have been Hypertransport, and it might not even have been a serious inquiry, perhaps just some routine business research. If Apple could buy Intel parts instead of another compeditor's and it was cheaper, faster, more reliable, better integrated, etc. then they would most certainly do it, and probably looked into it to see if it was feasible. It's called "Research and Development", something most technology companies don't seem to do properly anymore.
As for the CPU rumor, absolutely not. Apple has commited the long haul to the PowerPC, and to switch to Intel they would need to have every product at least recompiled, and in many cases much more work would have to be done first. MacOS X is not designed for the x86 architecture, and neither is Apple's motherboard design, which would need a complete overhaul as well. Emulation is out of the question as well, as anyone who has tried PearPC can tell you, yes it gets the job done and is improving all the time, but it makes a 3GHz CPU make OS X feel like it was on a 400MHz CPU. That is certainly not a competitive advantage, that is much worse than the situation is now. Anyone who has tried a G5 will tell you those machines are blindingly fast, to switch now would be a step in the opposite direction. It would create an entaglement of hardware and software issues, a rats nest of abstraction which would only serve to grind the machine to a screeching, crashing halt.
That, and having a hardware character generator in a Mac just makes me feel dirty!;-)
Not only that, but if Microsoft has their hand in the content delivery of 90% of the World Wide Web (which they currently do) then they will attempt to dictate how users interact with it (which they currently do) with non-standard HTML extensions and proprietary solutions which ignore any open standards and are pushed as "better" simply because Microsoft made them up.
The net effect of that is that web developers start to use Microsoft's nonstandard markup/features because it is quicker and easier, and since you can't use IE on anything but Windows (the Mac version has long been discontinued and was never full-featured anyway), you'll have to purchase a copy of it if you want to be able to use all the features on the Internet. A very dirty tactic indeed.
Religion is a good example of human society acting for the quick fix and the now rather than planning ahead. It is also a good example of how it is impossible to plan ahead because you can never really know what the future holds.
When religion was created it was a very good idea. Taking a step back, it gave rules on how to properly advance the human race into something better, and it achieved a higher level of obedience through constant paranoia of an unknown and ominous threat. You could outsmart your mother, the cops, or your King, but God can always see you.
It provided a model of behavior that achieved peace and cooperation, in some cases it also provided health guidelines; for example the Jews have Kosher rules -- the most commonly known is that pigs are considered filthy and should not be eaten. Before proper food handling (remmeber we're talking B.C. here), there were no preventative measures against things like Hookworm (which is a really nasty, nasty, nasty thing...my girlfriend is a bio major and did a report on it...GAH). It also achieved population control; the human race needed strength in numbers and denouncing homosexuality and inbreeding and other such practices ensured the most efficient production of people.
Now we've advanced to the point where we no longer need such values as denouncing homosexuality or food restrictions, because we've gained the education to counteract these problems, and the human race is beginning to show strong signs of overpopulation. However, religion lives on, and some till feel they must hold strong to these old practices for the same fear of God that was held when the texts where originally written.
Unfortunately there is no way to explain this to someone who has build their concious thought around the parameters of religion. The human brain operates on pattern recognition and though process is no different. It's almost like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on a smaller level; stimuli will always invoke the most strongly programmed response first, and the more frequent the response, the more strongly engrained it becomes. You can easily see how this can lead to lifelong devotion to strong religious practices, even if some of which, by all other reasoning, are completely backwards from what other life experience has taught a preson.
I believe firmly in forgiveness, in cooperation, fairness, and being a good and loving person to all those around me, and dispite temptation otherwise, I know I need to keep myself from evil and do what is right and decent for all of my friends, loved ones, and all of mankind. Sounds like a prayer, right? Well, I also believe that homosexuality does not hurt me or anyone else, I believe a naked breast or a dirty word does not harm me or anyone else, on television or otherwise. I believe that smoking pot or doing other drugs or drinking is not morally harmful or myself or anyone else. MOST IMPORTANTLY, I believe that fear of the awkwardness of explaining sexual topics, drug/alcohol related topics, and basic morality topics keeps much of scociety focused on letting the ancient texts speak for them, much like how modern television is used as a babysitter for children.
I am aware of the harm I can do to myself an others through excess and I live with those rules as parameters, while bearing in mind that the world is a very different place than it was all those centuries ago, and the rules have forever changed. Some of these rules I have learned though example from not one but many religions. The ultimate goal of a religion is peace; if you live for that, it is enough. Never force values on another, you cannot truly believe if you are forced too.
The shuttle's new fuel tank, supposedly redesigned to be safer, has a crack in it.
Nope, the foam insulation has a crack in it. RTFA.
Hmm, what caused the Columbia disaster, pieces of foam?
Oh you knew that, but failed to mention it resulting in a more urgent tone for more attention?
Meanwhile, there will be a second shuttle on standby, just in case the first one has problems after being hit by foam, etc. If the first shuttle has a design flaw, what's to say the second one isn't afflicted by the same problem?
Most likely, the same guys who found the first problem, using the newly created safety procedures, to ensure the same flaw didn't happen twice?
The hairline crack is on the side of the tank opposite the shuttle. No one is sending astronauts to their death, this article is looking for a flame war.
Nice troll. In case you can't read, I had a legitimate reason for making such a statement. I guess you can say it makes me feel like using a Mac is like using primitive, obsolete equipment like a VAX or PDP machine, but I'm not one to bitch about asthetics for my own peace of mind alone.
If that annoys you so much you need to take a step back and prioritize your life.
You can visit my website and make donations to my crusade for justice in this matter by going to http://www.its-not-MAC.org...
"MAC", in all capitals, stands for Media Access Control, and is the hardware address of your Ethernet card.
"Mac" is short for "Macintosh", which is the computer made by Apple.
Call me a stickler but I believe there is just as good a reason for this convention to be enforced as there is for the difference between "KB","Kb","kb", and "kB" to be enforced. Reply if you really need me to elaborate further.
One feature he mentioned that was a big one for the next version of photoshop, and something they were having a lot of trouble with, was Layer Filters. Much like the Adjustment Layer, you can apply a filter on a layer and turn the effects of the filter on and off. It's more than the LayerEffects because those are limited to drop shadows and glows and the like, where LayerFilters let you apply a blur or noise or even KPT and third-party filters.
God, I have been waiting for that for a long time...
I would just stand it up on it's side on one of those big wheels and go back to sleep. If it beeped i'd just hit the off button.
...unless it is weighted onthe bottom in which case the spinning would knock it onto my head. Or you could design some kind of rotating weight system inside which would off-balance it and make it roll forward or backwards...not quite as versitile though, and probably much slower and less agile...
Technically not so. If I am "renting" television show service from the cable company, it should, like music, be useable at my convinience. The broadcast flag undermines that.
Tell me, what's the reason for restricting iTunes' streaming capabilities? It used to be five simultaneous users, now it's 5 per day.
Think of this: iTMS DRM is broken, but wose than that, programs like MyTunes Redux plauge college campus networks, which are a haven for Apple's largest demographic of music buyers. Now that all music listed in anyone's iTunes library can be copied remotely, Apple has basically created a filesharing program for LANs. Everyone can surf though everyone else's music all day, find what they like and download it.
This is the problem that iTunes sharing was supposed to fix.
Now, if not everyone can see all the music all the time, this method will be a pain in the ass. it's going to get messy for a while and perhaps will kill the sharing feature but in the end the result is suposed to be you go to your friend's computer who you know has good taste and listen to their music.
There might be a technical reason involving the way MyTunes Redux works for instituting such a limitation. I have no real knowledge of how iTunes sharing/streaming is accomplished so I leave it as an excerise to the reader to figure that out.
Western Union spokeswoman Danielle Periera said the company has no other way to verify that transfer requests are valid.
"We try hard to stay one step ahead of them and recognize that scam artists are sophisticated and often change their schemes," she said.
Furthermore, when logging in to the Western Union website, one has to yell their password by megaphone in the direction of corporate HQ. Western Union spokeswoman Danielle Periera said the company has no other way to verify that transfer requests are valid.
Truly spoken like someone who graduated in the early 70s.
It seems these days (and I'm sure it's gotten worse since I graduated in 1999) teachers are only concerened with producing standardized results, in the hopes that the school's budget is increased and they recieve a raise in pay.
The best teachers are still the ones that made you feel like you wern't in class.
Quothe "grab_grab_the_haddock", original poster of the screenshot:
Funny? It's absolutely priceless. Only MikeHunt would be stupid enough to so passionately debunk a blatantly photoshopped image which was put up for a joke. Hilarious.
Apparently, nothing is real on the Internet anymore.
Here in Massachusetts we're usually covered in snow at this time. This year was the first time I've seen it rain in January and melt all the snow...however just a few days ago there was a snow storm and we're back up to a whole 2 inches.
Wow.
Last year at this time we had more like 2 feet, and the tempature was -38 with the wind chill....bitter, bitter cold. That's also extreme for the area, though...the weather has been odd.
Now I know why "per CPU", which seemed like slang, was in EULAs...it's a clever way to get MP and MC (oh god, glad i don't own a MP/MC system!) users to pay more.
Big business needs to learn they cant' keep sucking money out of all of us around every corner they can or we're all going to be too broke to afford their products (at which time they'll just "blame open source" or something).
Of course, if FOSS kills them legitimately, they can't sue for giving something away, now can they?:-D
Point #2: Secretaries are not elected, they are chosen to the cabinet by the president. And you try and convince all the dumbass rednecks wh have been systematically bred that we shouldn't elect a president because he likes God. All Bush ever had to do was be like "I love Jesus" and he won all the blind sheep in this country.
Religion is for believing, not for voting. I'll stop now before this incited a flame war but just know that about 49.9% of Americans aren't happy with the President and the country...and about another 48% of Americans "don't understand why the country is so screwed up with that wonderful God-loving Bush in the White House"...
The other 1% are rich because they own stock in oil companies.
...TypoGenerator's programmers created the brushes and the canvas, Google creates the paint, and you are still the artist that bring those tools together.
...in a completely new and awsome way, however, but as long as you're thinking along those lines, that seems to make more sense to me. Thoughts?
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Let's not forget Intel (and AMD, for that matter) are NOT only in the CPU business. They make a variety of products other than their famous x86 line of microprocessors which are used in many devices for many, many purposes.
For exmple, find yourself a Macintosh Performa 400 (circa 1994) and open the lid. Have a look at that motherboard, and there is a chip on it with a nice fat AMD logo. It isn't the CPU, but it is there (I don't recall exactly its function, however).
This rumor probably stemmed from Apple looking into using a controller chipset from Intel. it could have been something simple like improved performance for the USB bus, it could have been Hypertransport, and it might not even have been a serious inquiry, perhaps just some routine business research. If Apple could buy Intel parts instead of another compeditor's and it was cheaper, faster, more reliable, better integrated, etc. then they would most certainly do it, and probably looked into it to see if it was feasible. It's called "Research and Development", something most technology companies don't seem to do properly anymore.
As for the CPU rumor, absolutely not. Apple has commited the long haul to the PowerPC, and to switch to Intel they would need to have every product at least recompiled, and in many cases much more work would have to be done first. MacOS X is not designed for the x86 architecture, and neither is Apple's motherboard design, which would need a complete overhaul as well. Emulation is out of the question as well, as anyone who has tried PearPC can tell you, yes it gets the job done and is improving all the time, but it makes a 3GHz CPU make OS X feel like it was on a 400MHz CPU. That is certainly not a competitive advantage, that is much worse than the situation is now. Anyone who has tried a G5 will tell you those machines are blindingly fast, to switch now would be a step in the opposite direction. It would create an entaglement of hardware and software issues, a rats nest of abstraction which would only serve to grind the machine to a screeching, crashing halt.
That, and having a hardware character generator in a Mac just makes me feel dirty!
Not only that, but if Microsoft has their hand in the content delivery of 90% of the World Wide Web (which they currently do) then they will attempt to dictate how users interact with it (which they currently do) with non-standard HTML extensions and proprietary solutions which ignore any open standards and are pushed as "better" simply because Microsoft made them up.
The net effect of that is that web developers start to use Microsoft's nonstandard markup/features because it is quicker and easier, and since you can't use IE on anything but Windows (the Mac version has long been discontinued and was never full-featured anyway), you'll have to purchase a copy of it if you want to be able to use all the features on the Internet. A very dirty tactic indeed.
Religion is a good example of human society acting for the quick fix and the now rather than planning ahead. It is also a good example of how it is impossible to plan ahead because you can never really know what the future holds.
When religion was created it was a very good idea. Taking a step back, it gave rules on how to properly advance the human race into something better, and it achieved a higher level of obedience through constant paranoia of an unknown and ominous threat. You could outsmart your mother, the cops, or your King, but God can always see you.
It provided a model of behavior that achieved peace and cooperation, in some cases it also provided health guidelines; for example the Jews have Kosher rules -- the most commonly known is that pigs are considered filthy and should not be eaten. Before proper food handling (remmeber we're talking B.C. here), there were no preventative measures against things like Hookworm (which is a really nasty, nasty, nasty thing...my girlfriend is a bio major and did a report on it...GAH). It also achieved population control; the human race needed strength in numbers and denouncing homosexuality and inbreeding and other such practices ensured the most efficient production of people.
Now we've advanced to the point where we no longer need such values as denouncing homosexuality or food restrictions, because we've gained the education to counteract these problems, and the human race is beginning to show strong signs of overpopulation. However, religion lives on, and some till feel they must hold strong to these old practices for the same fear of God that was held when the texts where originally written.
Unfortunately there is no way to explain this to someone who has build their concious thought around the parameters of religion. The human brain operates on pattern recognition and though process is no different. It's almost like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on a smaller level; stimuli will always invoke the most strongly programmed response first, and the more frequent the response, the more strongly engrained it becomes. You can easily see how this can lead to lifelong devotion to strong religious practices, even if some of which, by all other reasoning, are completely backwards from what other life experience has taught a preson.
I believe firmly in forgiveness, in cooperation, fairness, and being a good and loving person to all those around me, and dispite temptation otherwise, I know I need to keep myself from evil and do what is right and decent for all of my friends, loved ones, and all of mankind. Sounds like a prayer, right? Well, I also believe that homosexuality does not hurt me or anyone else, I believe a naked breast or a dirty word does not harm me or anyone else, on television or otherwise. I believe that smoking pot or doing other drugs or drinking is not morally harmful or myself or anyone else. MOST IMPORTANTLY, I believe that fear of the awkwardness of explaining sexual topics, drug/alcohol related topics, and basic morality topics keeps much of scociety focused on letting the ancient texts speak for them, much like how modern television is used as a babysitter for children.
I am aware of the harm I can do to myself an others through excess and I live with those rules as parameters, while bearing in mind that the world is a very different place than it was all those centuries ago, and the rules have forever changed. Some of these rules I have learned though example from not one but many religions. The ultimate goal of a religion is peace; if you live for that, it is enough. Never force values on another, you cannot truly believe if you are forced too.
And that, friends, is my most humbling opinion.
I believe that was the funniest thing I read on the Internet today, sir!
...and I read a lot on the Internet!
You can't triple-stamp a double-stamp! You can't triple-stamp a double-stamp!
The hairline crack is on the side of the tank opposite the shuttle. No one is sending astronauts to their death, this article is looking for a flame war.
Nice troll. In case you can't read, I had a legitimate reason for making such a statement. I guess you can say it makes me feel like using a Mac is like using primitive, obsolete equipment like a VAX or PDP machine, but I'm not one to bitch about asthetics for my own peace of mind alone.You can visit my website and make donations to my crusade for justice in this matter by going to http://www.its-not-MAC.org...
"MAC", in all capitals, stands for Media Access Control, and is the hardware address of your Ethernet card.
"Mac" is short for "Macintosh", which is the computer made by Apple.
Call me a stickler but I believe there is just as good a reason for this convention to be enforced as there is for the difference between "KB","Kb","kb", and "kB" to be enforced. Reply if you really need me to elaborate further.
I would just stand it up on it's side on one of those big wheels and go back to sleep. If it beeped i'd just hit the off button.
...unless it is weighted onthe bottom in which case the spinning would knock it onto my head. Or you could design some kind of rotating weight system inside which would off-balance it and make it roll forward or backwards...not quite as versitile though, and probably much slower and less agile...
Either way, I want one!
Technically not so. If I am "renting" television show service from the cable company, it should, like music, be useable at my convinience. The broadcast flag undermines that.
This is the problem that iTunes sharing was supposed to fix.
Now, if not everyone can see all the music all the time, this method will be a pain in the ass. it's going to get messy for a while and perhaps will kill the sharing feature but in the end the result is suposed to be you go to your friend's computer who you know has good taste and listen to their music.
There might be a technical reason involving the way MyTunes Redux works for instituting such a limitation. I have no real knowledge of how iTunes sharing/streaming is accomplished so I leave it as an excerise to the reader to figure that out.
...BRILLIANT!
Truly spoken like someone who graduated in the early 70s.
It seems these days (and I'm sure it's gotten worse since I graduated in 1999) teachers are only concerened with producing standardized results, in the hopes that the school's budget is increased and they recieve a raise in pay.
The best teachers are still the ones that made you feel like you wern't in class.
Quothe "grab_grab_the_haddock", original poster of the screenshot: Apparently, nothing is real on the Internet anymore.
Here in Massachusetts we're usually covered in snow at this time. This year was the first time I've seen it rain in January and melt all the snow...however just a few days ago there was a snow storm and we're back up to a whole 2 inches.
Wow.
Last year at this time we had more like 2 feet, and the tempature was -38 with the wind chill....bitter, bitter cold. That's also extreme for the area, though...the weather has been odd.
Now I know why "per CPU", which seemed like slang, was in EULAs...it's a clever way to get MP and MC (oh god, glad i don't own a MP/MC system!) users to pay more.
Big business needs to learn they cant' keep sucking money out of all of us around every corner they can or we're all going to be too broke to afford their products (at which time they'll just "blame open source" or something).
Of course, if FOSS kills them legitimately, they can't sue for giving something away, now can they?
Point #1: Yes I agree.
Point #2: Secretaries are not elected, they are chosen to the cabinet by the president. And you try and convince all the dumbass rednecks wh have been systematically bred that we shouldn't elect a president because he likes God. All Bush ever had to do was be like "I love Jesus" and he won all the blind sheep in this country.
Religion is for believing, not for voting. I'll stop now before this incited a flame war but just know that about 49.9% of Americans aren't happy with the President and the country...and about another 48% of Americans "don't understand why the country is so screwed up with that wonderful God-loving Bush in the White House"...
The other 1% are rich because they own stock in oil companies.
Arkansas?
Nope, not down yet.. I just posted right after you and then i finally got it to load.
I suppose that makes my post incorrect inmy assumptions, partially.
...TypoGenerator's programmers created the brushes and the canvas, Google creates the paint, and you are still the artist that bring those tools together.
...in a completely new and awsome way, however, but as long as you're thinking along those lines, that seems to make more sense to me. Thoughts?