Universities dont teach their students on sun boxes any more. Well not unless they are given away.
Hmmm . . . I beg to differ. At the University of Delaware our three central servers are all Suns: two Sun Fire 6800s (one with 8 750MHz. Ultra IIIs and 16GB RAM and one with 16 procs and 32GB) and an Ultra Enterprise 5000. Most of the rest of the machines (mail server, net gateways, storage) are also Sun Fires. When I took my Calc and Differential Equations courses, we used Sun workstations connected to the central servers. All programming courses at UD use X Terminals or Sun boxes that are connected to the main network as well.
I'm not saying that this is true of all Universities anymore, just that there's at least one place still teaching its students on non-donated Suns.:)
For more information on the University's hardware, see this page.
Ah, but there was a free update from OS 8 to 8.1, from OS 8.5 to 8.6, and from OS 9 to 9.1 and then 9.2. I can't remember if you had to pay to go from OS 7.5 to 7.6 or not, but the fact remains that the vast majority of decimal point releases have been free upgrades.
Even if Apple wanted to charge for this particular update, they shouldn't charge OS X users the full price. Heck, Microsoft didn't make everyone buy the FULL version of XP when it came out, did they? They have the upgrade version and the full version, with the upgrades priced ~$100 cheaper. If Apple were to charge existing OS X users half price ($65) for Jaguar, then I think there would be substantially fewer complaints. There's no reason people should have to buy another FULL version of OS X when they already have one; in other words, existing users are paying the same price as users who are installing OS X for the first time.
Actually, the original poster is right. Taken from this dictionary.com definition, to hedge one's bet means: "to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss." Thus (at least in the original poster's opinion), Sony is betting both for and against the RIAA. If the RIAA wins, then Sony's bet on this car CD player loses, bu the DRM plan wins. If the RIAA loses, then so does Sony's DRM plan, but the in-car CD ripper wins. Therefore Sony has hedged its bets with regards to the RIAA.
At my high school they still teach Pascal as the prerequisite for the C/C++ course. I don't know what sense that makes, although I guess it gives the kids a grounding in some kind of programming before letting them play around with C.
"If the cause of the issue is determined to be a bug by Microsoft, the incident will not be charged. Microsoft Support Professionals are responsible for determining the nature of the bug."
And just how many bugs do you suppose Microsoft has found this way?
Please note that the AIM-9x != AOL Instant Messenger for Windows 95/98. (Although the destructive effects on the lives of those who come into contact with them are striking similar . ..)
I don't think anybody would cut a corner like THAT to save ~$30
You may not want to cut that corner when you're buying just one machine, but consider the situation I was in recently. I had $5000 to build 8 machines for a science lab. I could choose any parts I wanted, but I could spend no more than $5000. And, on top of that, I had to purchase from "reliable" vendors like buy.com, outpost.com, etc.. So, rather than inflate my system $40-50 a machine by going for a 750MHz. Athlon, I chose a 750MHz. Duron. As far as this lab is concerned, it won't make one bit of difference, as the Duron has been shown to have 80-90% of the speed of an Athlon at the same price. Therefore, why spend 50% more money for only 10% more speed? It just doesn't make sense, especially when you're on a budget. The Duron is the perfect chip in these situations. Combined with a KT133 motherboard, I doubt anyone can tell the difference between a Duron and an Athlon at the same clock speed (unless you're running Q3 or UT at some high resolution).
What about the other Palm announcements?
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Other than the VIIx and the previously mentioned M100, Palm also introduced two special edition Vx models (in "champagne" and "millenium blue"), an ethernet cradle (overpriced at $250 if you ask me) that can be used to sync Pilots over the network, and a new, "blazingly fast" 33.6 modem. The VIIx wasn't the only major announcement, perhaps/. should have read the *whole* press release
I don't think that Dell has a fear of Intel as such, they're probably just playing it safe. It's the old "Nobody ever got fired for buying." First it happened with IBM, now Microsoft and Intel. Dell isn't scared of Intel, if anything, it should be the other way around. Intel should be afraid that Dell, one of its largest customers, and one of the few that remains Intel-only, would switch to AMD or Transmeta for its desktop processors.
As it turns out, these cards are a tad higher than most other PCI cards, which means that only certain machines can support them. Those models apparantly are the only Macs with the headroom to install these cards. Macs that came with actual G3 and G4 processors installed are not compatible. Go figure. . .
AFAIK, the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) and the Power Macintosh G4 series both had 64 bit 33MHz PCI slots, with the Blue G3 having one 32 bit 66MHz slot. Funny that those models aren't listed as compatible with these cards. I wonder why?
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Nah, the poster's just on the other side of the Date Line. Monday's the 8th over there.
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Universities dont teach their students on sun boxes any more. Well not unless they are given away.
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Hmmm . . . I beg to differ. At the University of Delaware our three central servers are all Suns: two Sun Fire 6800s (one with 8 750MHz. Ultra IIIs and 16GB RAM and one with 16 procs and 32GB) and an Ultra Enterprise 5000. Most of the rest of the machines (mail server, net gateways, storage) are also Sun Fires. When I took my Calc and Differential Equations courses, we used Sun workstations connected to the central servers. All programming courses at UD use X Terminals or Sun boxes that are connected to the main network as well.
I'm not saying that this is true of all Universities anymore, just that there's at least one place still teaching its students on non-donated Suns.
For more information on the University's hardware, see this page.
Actually, that's already been done.
Ah, but there was a free update from OS 8 to 8.1, from OS 8.5 to 8.6, and from OS 9 to 9.1 and then 9.2. I can't remember if you had to pay to go from OS 7.5 to 7.6 or not, but the fact remains that the vast majority of decimal point releases have been free upgrades.
Even if Apple wanted to charge for this particular update, they shouldn't charge OS X users the full price. Heck, Microsoft didn't make everyone buy the FULL version of XP when it came out, did they? They have the upgrade version and the full version, with the upgrades priced ~$100 cheaper. If Apple were to charge existing OS X users half price ($65) for Jaguar, then I think there would be substantially fewer complaints. There's no reason people should have to buy another FULL version of OS X when they already have one; in other words, existing users are paying the same price as users who are installing OS X for the first time.
Just my two cents.
Nick
With apologies to Yakov Smirnov:
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In Soviet Union, tetris plays you . .
Nick
Actually, the original poster is right. Taken from this dictionary.com definition, to hedge one's bet means: "to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss." Thus (at least in the original poster's opinion), Sony is betting both for and against the RIAA. If the RIAA wins, then Sony's bet on this car CD player loses, bu the DRM plan wins. If the RIAA loses, then so does Sony's DRM plan, but the in-car CD ripper wins. Therefore Sony has hedged its bets with regards to the RIAA.
Nick
At my high school they still teach Pascal as the prerequisite for the C/C++ course. I don't know what sense that makes, although I guess it gives the kids a grounding in some kind of programming before letting them play around with C.
Nick
My favorite part of the above-linked page:
"If the cause of the issue is determined to be a bug by Microsoft, the incident will not be charged. Microsoft Support Professionals are responsible for determining the nature of the bug."
And just how many bugs do you suppose Microsoft has found this way?
Nick
Raytheon makes the sharp-turning AIM-9X missile.
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Please note that the AIM-9x != AOL Instant Messenger for Windows 95/98. (Although the destructive effects on the lives of those who come into contact with them are striking similar . .
Ah well, it sounded better in my head. Honestly.
I don't think anybody would cut a corner like THAT to save ~$30
You may not want to cut that corner when you're buying just one machine, but consider the situation I was in recently. I had $5000 to build 8 machines for a science lab. I could choose any parts I wanted, but I could spend no more than $5000. And, on top of that, I had to purchase from "reliable" vendors like buy.com, outpost.com, etc.. So, rather than inflate my system $40-50 a machine by going for a 750MHz. Athlon, I chose a 750MHz. Duron. As far as this lab is concerned, it won't make one bit of difference, as the Duron has been shown to have 80-90% of the speed of an Athlon at the same price. Therefore, why spend 50% more money for only 10% more speed? It just doesn't make sense, especially when you're on a budget. The Duron is the perfect chip in these situations. Combined with a KT133 motherboard, I doubt anyone can tell the difference between a Duron and an Athlon at the same clock speed (unless you're running Q3 or UT at some high resolution).
Other than the VIIx and the previously mentioned M100, Palm also introduced two special edition Vx models (in "champagne" and "millenium blue"), an ethernet cradle (overpriced at $250 if you ask me) that can be used to sync Pilots over the network, and a new, "blazingly fast" 33.6 modem. The VIIx wasn't the only major announcement, perhaps /. should have read the *whole* press release
I don't think that Dell has a fear of Intel as such, they're probably just playing it safe. It's the old "Nobody ever got fired for buying ." First it happened with IBM, now Microsoft and Intel. Dell isn't scared of Intel, if anything, it should be the other way around. Intel should be afraid that Dell, one of its largest customers, and one of the few that remains Intel-only, would switch to AMD or Transmeta for its desktop processors.
As it turns out, these cards are a tad higher than most other PCI cards, which means that only certain machines can support them. Those models apparantly are the only Macs with the headroom to install these cards. Macs that came with actual G3 and G4 processors installed are not compatible. Go figure. . .
They're asking ~$4500 for the 4 G3's and ~$6500 for the 4 G4's. Each board comes with 128MB of RAM. This courtesy of http://www.xlr8yourmac.com
AFAIK, the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) and the Power Macintosh G4 series both had 64 bit 33MHz PCI slots, with the Blue G3 having one 32 bit 66MHz slot. Funny that those models aren't listed as compatible with these cards. I wonder why?