Well, the US never prosecuted a firm. Shell trades with Cuba, and said up yours to the US government. Shell isn't boycotted. The problem with the US boycot of Cuba is, that they are the only one who boycot Cuba. Most other country's allow trade with Cuba. Including the EEC.
I should have mentioned - I have HP-branded, specific-for-LaserJet, $2 more than other brands paper.
I've found out that the best paper to use is the cheapest paper I could find. With HP-branded paper you've bound to get paperjam's. I've serviced lots of 5si, 4MV's, 5000tn's and other HP-printers. The only reason they've got constant paperjam's was HP-branded paper. After switching over to cheap 80grams A4 paper no more paperjam's.
Why on earth would I want to watch a DVD on my computer? The only conceivable reason I can come up with is easy video captures. Is that what everyone is doing?
Ehh, I have a Powerbook G3series with the DVD-kit and it rocks. Second, if I want to view it on my TV I connect the TV to the video-out on my Powerbook. The biggest reason why I bought a DVD-kit was it's price and the fact that I can reset the regioncode after five times changing of. The price was $ 249- for the drive and card.
Re:Apple barely ever had os on time + marketing go
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Bullshit. Fact is, that the problem with Apple started when they throw everything on the Performa series. After killing the Performa line and drop $ 800,000,000 of inventory. Apple started to make computers with the PPC750 (better know as G3). This "saved" Apple, because they had only $ 1,100,000,000 of cash left. They sold so much G3 computers that there was enough money to develop the iMac. The iMac is a succes like their G3bw and later G4 machines. You have to wait between 2 weeks and 2 month's for a G3 powerbook. Apple has problems with keeping up with demand. The second thing is, that they switched to build on demand. This means that if you order a Mac, it is build. No more invetory. The only exclusion is the iMac which is build for Apple by LG.
Well, you could always hack on OSX DP3 (or DP4, though I have heard it's out there, I haven't seen it yet)
Guess what. Because DR4 is so stable Apple is calling it a Beta. DR4 doesn't exist, it is now called MacOS X beta(*). Which means that with any luck MacOS X will be released within half a year (which happened with all the previous versions).
The problem here in The Netherlands is, that almost 93% of all households got cable. Some cablecompany's supply 50 channels and charge around Fl 14,95 (+/- $ 7 )a month for it. Others only give you only 25 channels and ask Fl 29,95 a month for it (around $ 13).
Photoshop is NOT an accurate test. Standard benchmark tests are much more accurate. I know for a fact that Adobe's Photoshop engineers love Macs and work very hard to optimize everything for the Mac. Why do you think Apple is always quoting Photoshop performance as a benchmark?
The core of Photoshop is the same for every platform. It is written in C. The only difference is the graphical shell. With Altivec enabled a G4 runs round around comparable Pentiums. Especially with compression/decompression. A G4 500 Mhz can compress a videostream (MPEG2) in realtime, a Pentium/// 600 can't. Second, the G4 as we know it (ppc7400) has a 5 stage pipeline. It is going to be replaced by a new version with a 7 stage pipeline (called the PPC 7450 ?). This chip will start at 650 and at the end of this year should run at 1 Ghz using only 8 watts (peak). Compared to the Pentium/// a G4 (PPC) uses 3 to 4 times less power.
Well, they invented the CD and the compactcassette. The tape they are using is not available for VHS. They are using the same which they use for DV. When other company's are going to sell the same type of videorecorder, tapes will be made by TDK and different other firms.
Apple in 1979 released DOS 3.2 soon to be followed by DOS 3.3 in 1980. This was the operatingsystem Apple used on the Apple ][(+) with the 140 K 5.25 inch drives. In 1983 Apple released ProDOS which supported things like subdirectory's and hard drives. This was before the Mac and HFS (the first Mac uses MFS which didn't supported real subdirectory's).
Just shut down our exchange server (here in the US) in the past 10 min (that's why I'm on/. not hard at work).
The problem is not the server. Shutting down the mailserver doesn't help much. The problem is Outlook and Outlook express. Anybody who is using Eudora (Pro) or Lotus Notes doesn't have a problem at all. And this "virus" doesn't work on MacOS, Linux, Solaris. Only if you are using that crap from Redmond you have a problem. The only reason why mailserver are going down is the sheer number of messages. I also found out that this "virus" damaged a lot of.jpg files on our Linux-server. But this was because the infected machines replaced lot's of files....
Huh, what has the Macintosh to do with Nvidea? A least Apple open up it's designs some years ago. And Apple is using of the shelf part nowadays. So, don't compare Apple with a company which doesn't open up it's design. Mvgr, Anson
As I understand it the only reason they still use ILS and not GPS is that the gov't messes up the GPS signal so it is not accurate enough.
That's why they use DGPS here in Europe. DGPS is GPS with a shortwave receiver. There are some shortwave transmitters in Europe which send a correction signal for GPS. The result is, that DGPS has the same precision as military GPS.. The Swiss use DGPS on one of their airports.
According to a test in the German CT a year ago a G3bw at 300 Mhz had a sustained transfer speed of 50 Mbyte/sec with Gigabit ethernet. A very expensive Intel machine with 64 bits PCI (like the Apple g3bw) could only transfer 25 Mbyte/sec sustained with OS/2. With NT and Linux the transferspeed dropped to 22 Mbyte/sec. Technically the Mac has a lot better IO-system. O yeah, the Mac was running MacOS 8.6. And with 100baseT and average Mac (G3 233) can outperform every Intel based computer. Due to the fact that every intel clone has to be backwards compatible with the first IMB XT the I/O performance really lags compared with Apple Mac's, Sun sparc's and Digital Alpha's. With the introduction of MacOS 8.6 there was a problem with different ethernet switches which couldn't keep up with the Mac. It is possible to get 100Mbit/sec sustained without a problem. Every Intel PC I know has a limit of only 86 Mbit/sec. with 100baseT. This has something to do with interrupts/sec.
The thing I really liked about Windows CE was the fact that it was probably the most stable OS that ever came out of the Microsoft stable.
Huh? They admit that Windows is crap. If Windows CE is the most stable OS from M$ then I fear the worst. I've seen Windows CE crash several times. My Palm never crashed. The only reason WinCE exist is to give mobile users the same functionality as desktop users like system crashes and protection errors. The PalmOS is next to very stable also very open. Everything you want to know about the PalmOS is available. And there are tons of Palm emulators available for almost every OS on the market (Linux, MacOS, Windows, BeOS etc..). I've never seen a WinCE emulator for MacOS or Linux. Why, because it is not "open".
Nobody really likes new technologies that add significant cost through royalties -- see FireWire (ahem) IEEE 1394. USB was free, which is why everyone had those controllers on their motherboards years before they had anything to plug into them.
Wrong!!! Like Firewire to add USB costs money. To be precise $ 0,25 a port. Contrary to firewire where this fee is split in 7 the fee for USB goes directly to Intel. At first you had to pay $ 1- a port for Firewire to the Firewire consortium (existing of Apple, Sony, JVC, Intel (yep, Intel is a member of it too!!!) and 3 other company's. Second, because Intel did build USB in their chipsets USB was on the market a little bit longer. The biggest problem was not the availibility of USb but the drivers and support. That's the biggest difference between Firewire and USB. Firewire is a much more mature technology and is aimed at video and data storage instead of input and output devices like mouses and printers.
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I think the problem is that Intel want to set a standard. Problem is, that Intel alone (like M$) can't set a standard. To set a standard you need more than one supplier and more than one firm using this standard. Look at Firewire (IEEE 1394B) which has become a standard after two years. With the introduction of DDRam (double data Sdram) i think that Intel has a big problem. The fact is, that AMD, Apple and other company's are going for DDram instead of RAMbus. DDram has almost the same price as normal Sdram. Second, every ram manufactory can make DDram. RAMbus uses a different process, and because of patent issues is more expensive to manufactor than DDram. In the end, Intel will switch to 133 Mhz SDram and DDram.
Silk has been used for insulation since the invention of electricity. Up to the invention of plastics silk was the most used insulation material for copperwires. The only problem is, that after more than 50 years it decays.
Normally at 8:06 I take the train to Amsterdam. At 8:45 I take the metro from Amsterdam CS to where I work. Around 09:00 I arive here, and with a lunchbreak from 12:30 till 13:00 i'll work till 17:50. I'm arive at home around 19:00. This is a normal day. But most of the time I leave at 18:50. And because of the time difference between LA and Amsterdam, I get phonecalls after 20:00 from LA when there are some problems with our Metaframe and database server. Second, because most server maintenance has to be done after working hours, I find that at home I spend a lot of time on working from home in the evening (sometimes till 23:00). If you count the travel time on average I haven't much sparetime. What I also found out is that I have 26 holidays. Last year I had 11.5 left. This means that theoretically I can take 37.5 days off. This isn't possible because I am responsible for the network and all servers (sysadmin). And because it is very hard to find an extra sysadmin here in The Netherlands I think that if i'm lucky I can get 5 days off this year...
They may be France's closest allies, but they're also pretty damn powerful enemies. If France tried to go to war with the US and the UK, they'd find the whole might of NATO turned against them. That would be outright suicide. First of all. This won't happen. Why? France is a member of NATO and of the EC. Second, why should they. They formed a joint army with Germany and the Benelux country's. And they have much influence in Europe. The only problem we in the EC have is Great-Britain. They are Fuc&^* things up all of the time.
I'm one of the 20% of computer users on earth which doesn't like and doesn't use Windows. Even at work i'm using Linux. To run some software I have VMware to run Winsux NT.
Ehh, 256 interrupts and fast DMA is already available on the macintosh. Quitte interesting to do a/proc/interrupts on a LinuxPPC running Mac. And it supports Open Firmware.
Well, about that Chinese embassy. The US is a master in getting lost. In the Gulf war there was an army unit which made the mistake of being somewhere else than where they should be (the difference was something of 30 Km). Even GPS doesn't prevent human errors.... Mvgr, Anson
Well, if you want a good prebuild computer i wouldn't advice to buy a Compaq. First, the cheaper models are build by Acer. Second, of the 44 computers I bought 8 were DOA and 16 had problems. The model was Deskpro 2000 5166. Mvgr, Anson
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Well, the US never prosecuted a firm.
Shell trades with Cuba, and said up yours to the US government.
Shell isn't boycotted.
The problem with the US boycot of Cuba is, that they are the only one who boycot Cuba.
Most other country's allow trade with Cuba.
Including the EEC.
Try the Netherlands.
Contrary to English law, there is no law which make webproviders liable for the content they host.
I should have mentioned - I have HP-branded, specific-for-LaserJet, $2 more than other brands paper.
I've found out that the best paper to use is the cheapest paper I could find.
With HP-branded paper you've bound to get paperjam's.
I've serviced lots of 5si, 4MV's, 5000tn's and other HP-printers.
The only reason they've got constant paperjam's was HP-branded paper.
After switching over to cheap 80grams A4 paper no more paperjam's.
Why on earth would I want to watch a DVD on my computer? The only conceivable reason I can come up with is easy video captures. Is that what everyone is doing?
Ehh, I have a Powerbook G3series with the DVD-kit and it rocks.
Second, if I want to view it on my TV I connect the TV to the video-out on my Powerbook.
The biggest reason why I bought a DVD-kit was it's price and the fact that I can reset the regioncode after five times changing of.
The price was $ 249- for the drive and card.
Bullshit.
Fact is, that the problem with Apple started when they throw everything on the Performa series.
After killing the Performa line and drop $ 800,000,000 of inventory.
Apple started to make computers with the PPC750 (better know as G3).
This "saved" Apple, because they had only $ 1,100,000,000 of cash left.
They sold so much G3 computers that there was enough money to develop the iMac.
The iMac is a succes like their G3bw and later G4 machines.
You have to wait between 2 weeks and 2 month's for a G3 powerbook.
Apple has problems with keeping up with demand.
The second thing is, that they switched to build on demand.
This means that if you order a Mac, it is build.
No more invetory.
The only exclusion is the iMac which is build for Apple by LG.
Well, you could always hack on OSX DP3 (or DP4, though I have heard it's out there, I haven't seen it yet)
Guess what.
Because DR4 is so stable Apple is calling it a Beta.
DR4 doesn't exist, it is now called MacOS X beta(*).
Which means that with any luck MacOS X will be released within half a year (which happened with all the previous versions).
The problem here in The Netherlands is, that almost 93% of all households got cable.
Some cablecompany's supply 50 channels and charge around Fl 14,95 (+/- $ 7 )a month for it.
Others only give you only 25 channels and ask Fl 29,95 a month for it (around $ 13).
Photoshop is NOT an accurate test. Standard benchmark tests are much more accurate. I know for a fact that Adobe's Photoshop engineers love Macs and work very hard to optimize everything for the Mac. Why do you think Apple is always quoting Photoshop performance as a benchmark?
The core of Photoshop is the same for every platform.
It is written in C.
The only difference is the graphical shell.
With Altivec enabled a G4 runs round around comparable Pentiums.
Especially with compression/decompression.
A G4 500 Mhz can compress a videostream (MPEG2) in realtime, a Pentium
Second, the G4 as we know it (ppc7400) has a 5 stage pipeline.
It is going to be replaced by a new version with a 7 stage pipeline (called the PPC 7450 ?).
This chip will start at 650 and at the end of this year should run at 1 Ghz using only 8 watts (peak).
Compared to the Pentium
Well, they invented the CD and the compactcassette.
The tape they are using is not available for VHS.
They are using the same which they use for DV.
When other company's are going to sell the same type of videorecorder, tapes will be made by TDK and different other firms.
Apple in 1979 released DOS 3.2 soon to be followed by DOS 3.3 in 1980.
This was the operatingsystem Apple used on the Apple ][(+) with the 140 K 5.25 inch drives.
In 1983 Apple released ProDOS which supported things like subdirectory's and hard drives.
This was before the Mac and HFS (the first Mac uses MFS which didn't supported real subdirectory's).
Just shut down our exchange server (here in the US) in the past 10 min (that's why I'm on
The problem is not the server.
Shutting down the mailserver doesn't help much.
The problem is Outlook and Outlook express.
Anybody who is using Eudora (Pro) or Lotus Notes doesn't have a problem at all.
And this "virus" doesn't work on MacOS, Linux, Solaris.
Only if you are using that crap from Redmond you have a problem.
The only reason why mailserver are going down is the sheer number of messages.
I also found out that this "virus" damaged a lot of
But this was because the infected machines replaced lot's of files....
3dfx is the 80x86 & nvidia is the mac.
Huh, what has the Macintosh to do with Nvidea?
A least Apple open up it's designs some years ago.
And Apple is using of the shelf part nowadays.
So, don't compare Apple with a company which doesn't open up it's design.
Mvgr,
Anson
As I understand it the only reason they still use ILS and not GPS is that the gov't messes up the GPS signal so it is not accurate enough.
That's why they use DGPS here in Europe.
DGPS is GPS with a shortwave receiver.
There are some shortwave transmitters in Europe which send a correction signal for GPS.
The result is, that DGPS has the same precision as military GPS..
The Swiss use DGPS on one of their airports.
According to a test in the German CT a year ago a G3bw at 300 Mhz had a sustained transfer speed of 50 Mbyte/sec with Gigabit ethernet.
A very expensive Intel machine with 64 bits PCI (like the Apple g3bw) could only transfer 25 Mbyte/sec sustained with OS/2.
With NT and Linux the transferspeed dropped to 22 Mbyte/sec.
Technically the Mac has a lot better IO-system.
O yeah, the Mac was running MacOS 8.6.
And with 100baseT and average Mac (G3 233) can outperform every Intel based computer.
Due to the fact that every intel clone has to be backwards compatible with the first IMB XT the I/O performance really lags compared with Apple Mac's, Sun sparc's and Digital Alpha's.
With the introduction of MacOS 8.6 there was a problem with different ethernet switches which couldn't keep up with the Mac.
It is possible to get 100Mbit/sec sustained without a problem.
Every Intel PC I know has a limit of only 86 Mbit/sec. with 100baseT.
This has something to do with interrupts/sec.
The thing I really liked about Windows CE was the fact that it was probably the most stable OS that ever came out of the Microsoft stable.
Huh?
They admit that Windows is crap.
If Windows CE is the most stable OS from M$ then I fear the worst.
I've seen Windows CE crash several times.
My Palm never crashed.
The only reason WinCE exist is to give mobile users the same functionality as desktop users like system crashes and protection errors.
The PalmOS is next to very stable also very open.
Everything you want to know about the PalmOS is available.
And there are tons of Palm emulators available for almost every OS on the market (Linux, MacOS, Windows, BeOS etc..).
I've never seen a WinCE emulator for MacOS or Linux.
Why, because it is not "open".
Nobody really likes new technologies that add significant cost through royalties -- see FireWire (ahem) IEEE 1394. USB was free, which is why everyone had those controllers on their motherboards years before they had anything to plug into them.
Wrong!!!
Like Firewire to add USB costs money.
To be precise $ 0,25 a port.
Contrary to firewire where this fee is split in 7 the fee for USB goes directly to Intel.
At first you had to pay $ 1- a port for Firewire to the Firewire consortium (existing of Apple, Sony, JVC, Intel (yep, Intel is a member of it too!!!) and 3 other company's.
Second, because Intel did build USB in their chipsets USB was on the market a little bit longer.
The biggest problem was not the availibility of USb but the drivers and support.
That's the biggest difference between Firewire and USB.
Firewire is a much more mature technology and is aimed at video and data storage instead of input and output devices like mouses and printers.
I think the problem is that Intel want to set a standard.
Problem is, that Intel alone (like M$) can't set a standard.
To set a standard you need more than one supplier and more than one firm using this standard.
Look at Firewire (IEEE 1394B) which has become a standard after two years.
With the introduction of DDRam (double data Sdram) i think that Intel has a big problem.
The fact is, that AMD, Apple and other company's are going for DDram instead of RAMbus.
DDram has almost the same price as normal Sdram.
Second, every ram manufactory can make DDram.
RAMbus uses a different process, and because of patent issues is more expensive to manufactor than DDram.
In the end, Intel will switch to 133 Mhz SDram and DDram.
Silk has been used for insulation since the invention of electricity.
Up to the invention of plastics silk was the most used insulation material for copperwires.
The only problem is, that after more than 50 years it decays.
Normally at 8:06 I take the train to Amsterdam.
At 8:45 I take the metro from Amsterdam CS to where I work.
Around 09:00 I arive here, and with a lunchbreak from 12:30 till 13:00 i'll work till 17:50.
I'm arive at home around 19:00.
This is a normal day.
But most of the time I leave at 18:50.
And because of the time difference between LA and Amsterdam, I get phonecalls after 20:00 from LA when there are some problems with our Metaframe and database server.
Second, because most server maintenance has to be done after working hours, I find that at home I spend a lot of time on working from home in the evening (sometimes till 23:00).
If you count the travel time on average I haven't much sparetime.
What I also found out is that I have 26 holidays.
Last year I had 11.5 left.
This means that theoretically I can take 37.5 days off.
This isn't possible because I am responsible for the network and all servers (sysadmin).
And because it is very hard to find an extra sysadmin here in The Netherlands I think that if i'm lucky I can get 5 days off this year...
Heiniken.
It was running NT but they switched to Sun because their server went down every 10 minutes (heheh).
They may be France's closest allies, but they're also pretty damn powerful enemies. If France tried to go to war with the US and the UK, they'd find the whole might of NATO turned against them. That would be outright suicide. First of all. This won't happen. Why? France is a member of NATO and of the EC. Second, why should they. They formed a joint army with Germany and the Benelux country's. And they have much influence in Europe. The only problem we in the EC have is Great-Britain. They are Fuc&^* things up all of the time.
I'm one of the 20% of computer users on earth which doesn't like and doesn't use Windows.
Even at work i'm using Linux.
To run some software I have VMware to run Winsux NT.
Ehh, 256 interrupts and fast DMA is already available on the macintosh. /proc/interrupts on a LinuxPPC running Mac.
Quitte interesting to do a
And it supports Open Firmware.
Well, about that Chinese embassy.
The US is a master in getting lost.
In the Gulf war there was an army unit which made the mistake of being somewhere else than where they should be (the difference was something of 30 Km).
Even GPS doesn't prevent human errors....
Mvgr,
Anson
Well, if you want a good prebuild computer i wouldn't advice to buy a Compaq.
First, the cheaper models are build by Acer.
Second, of the 44 computers I bought 8 were DOA and 16 had problems.
The model was Deskpro 2000 5166.
Mvgr,
Anson