Yeah, in corporate environments it's probably not as big of a deal but when you are talking 25+ of 10k+ machines that's a lot of cash you could have saved by going w/cheaper hardware and a free OS.
10k+? A loaded dual G5 with dual 30" displays doesn't even come out to 10k. Apples are a bit more expensive than Wintel machines, but they're not THAT expensive.
You misunderstood. (probably because you didn't even read the/. post properly) he meant 25% of 10,000 machines, not $10,000/machine.
Why is it that FPS gamers seem to think that everyone likes and is good at FPSs?
I have to disagree with your idea that "the majority of the world" is good at these kinds of gestures as proven by FPS... the majority of the REAL world doesn't play FPSs non-stop. In fact, I'd put money behind my assertion that the majority of the world doesn't play FPSs at all.
It might be that Apple on Intel is a little to close to the Sun on Opteron workstation market for Sun's liking
Not likely. Apple and Sun are really in two very different market segments.
Sun has really cool hardware tricks that make their servers popular. Apple has really cool software tricks that make their Desktops popular.
People are not likely to switch from Apple to Sun or vice-versa in any major numbers. The Apple folks and Sun folks are coming from very different perspectives.
What this is is nothing to do with Sun/Apple relationship. It's just that there are newer, better ways to do this, so Apple is not going to continue to add new features to the old API when they really want developers to move on to the new one.
The problem is not sun screen being bad for you. I know I'm going to be labelled a heretic, but the problem, the way I see it is Television and computer monitors are not very good sources of vitamin D.
(BTW this is an old news story the article linked here was from May, and I know that CBC had this months ago)
I used to buy a monthly subsription to "Talk of the Nation - Science Friday" through Audible.com until I found that site....That reminds me I ought to look at audible and see if there are any subscriptions worth getting that I can't get by podcast.
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It's not something that's shown on space even. I don't really have a frame of reference to compare Eccleston to but I thought he did a very good job.
Well, not everyone wants to pay the MS Office price and Open office doesn't print for a lot of people. So something in between would be nice. I'd buy it.
NeoOffice/J might be the solution to my printing issues as it uses the MacOS Native printing drivers, but I've yet to try it.
Was anyone else disappointed that Sheapard Book isn't in any of the promotional photos or trailers?
I hope they didn't kill him off. He's listed in IMDB, but the lack of evidence that he's still a part of the crew is disturbing. I liked where his story line was going and I want to see it continue.
We have nearly 100% win 2k desktops here even though we are on a win 2k3 domain with mostly win2k3 servers. The problem is this time around some major pieces of software for us (we are a municipal government) are not winxp certified yet. The oracle databases that these run on work happily in the new environment, but the database applications themselves are lagging behind in support for the (not so) new (anymore) OS.
It's a pain because there are some fetures of XP/2k3 domains we'd like to have, but we're stuck.
Exactly, lets not forget OpenGL, MinGW, and Cygwin, fink, wine, there's lots going on in in crossplatform compiling, and emulation these days.
Most major open source projects support at minimum Linux, BSD, Windows and MacOS X.
Commercial projects are starting to catch on. Blizzard, for one, packages both Windows and Mac versions in the same box for all thier products.
With Intel based MacOS systems I think things will actually get easier because there'd be less work to do in optimizing for different processor architectures.
Personally I think there'd be a lot less of a problem this time around because people don't have to start almost from scratch to write the same program for different platforms anymore. Cross platform development has gone a long ways in the past 5 years, let alone the past 20.
I was wondering when someone was going to try and organize Creative Commons stuff into a central TV station that people can go to. The name isn't very good. ACTLab doesn't feel like a name for a place to go for media... but that's ok.
Good timing on the/. announcement. If there is no media or software to download yet they might not be slashdotted.
I graduated from a great school with a degree in Mathematics a few weeks ago and am having a tough time finding a job. Why?
You've set unreasonable expectations for yourself.
Almost no one finds a job within a few weeks of graduating. The rule of thumb for this sort of thing is 1 month for every $10 thousand/year you expect to make.
Keep at it, don't lose your focus or give up too early. You will find an employer that recognizes the value of hiring someone who has learned how to learn and has a very strong general background in mathematics.
Most likely what will happen is there will be a check for some sort of built in ID that only Apple hardware would use built into the installer. As far as I know Darwin already works on most Intel beige box machines, and that's the part that matters. If Darwin will install on your Beige Box, then MacOS will once someone cracks that verification check....If they don't put a verification check of some sort in then there'd be absolutely nothing stopping you from installing it on any old Intel box....you just would not be able to get any support from Apple.
I just bought a G5 tower, but I'm not upset about this move, except for the fact that powerpc G5 seems to be much more energy efficient than current Intels (at least the pentium 4 line, maybe the pentium-M technology is going to become more mainstream?)
The stats I found while trying to decide which machine to buy put my Dual 2.0ghz G5 in around 148W maximum power use, Tom's Hardware rated dual core AMD 2.4ghz at 185W and Intel 3.2ghz at 315W...quite a difference for 3 machines in roughly the same class for processing power.
This is just a more efficient way of tape trading, which is what we used to do before broadband took off.
I became a Babylon 5 fan via tape trading, and now, after a long wait, I own the full series of DVDs....and I'm waiting for more to be produced so I can buy that too.
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Yeah, in corporate environments it's probably not as big of a deal but when you are talking 25+ of 10k+ machines that's a lot of cash you could have saved by going w/cheaper hardware and a free OS.
/. post properly) he meant 25% of 10,000 machines, not $10,000/machine.
10k+? A loaded dual G5 with dual 30" displays doesn't even come out to 10k. Apples are a bit more expensive than Wintel machines, but they're not THAT expensive.
You misunderstood. (probably because you didn't even read the
Why is it that FPS gamers seem to think that everyone likes and is good at FPSs?
I have to disagree with your idea that "the majority of the world" is good at these kinds of gestures as proven by FPS... the majority of the REAL world doesn't play FPSs non-stop. In fact, I'd put money behind my assertion that the majority of the world doesn't play FPSs at all.
Wireless Power?
You'll have to talk to Mr. Tesla about that one.
It might be that Apple on Intel is a little to close to the Sun on Opteron workstation market for Sun's liking
Not likely.
Apple and Sun are really in two very different market segments.
Sun has really cool hardware tricks that make their servers popular. Apple has really cool software tricks that make their Desktops popular.
People are not likely to switch from Apple to Sun or vice-versa in any major numbers. The Apple folks and Sun folks are coming from very different perspectives.
What this is is nothing to do with Sun/Apple relationship. It's just that there are newer, better ways to do this, so Apple is not going to continue to add new features to the old API when they really want developers to move on to the new one.
You have to take boot up time into account.
The problem is not sun screen being bad for you.
I know I'm going to be labelled a heretic, but the problem, the way I see it is Television and computer monitors are not very good sources of vitamin D.
(BTW this is an old news story the article linked here was from May, and I know that CBC had this months ago)
Try This.
...That reminds me I ought to look at audible and see if there are any subscriptions worth getting that I can't get by podcast.
I used to buy a monthly subsription to "Talk of the Nation - Science Friday" through Audible.com until I found that site.
It's not something that's shown on space even. I don't really have a frame of reference to compare Eccleston to but I thought he did a very good job.
Try BBC Kids if you have Cable/Satellite.
Well, not everyone wants to pay the MS Office price and Open office doesn't print for a lot of people. So something in between would be nice. I'd buy it.
NeoOffice/J might be the solution to my printing issues as it uses the MacOS Native printing drivers, but I've yet to try it.
I hope so.
I'd really like to see more of Firefly.
Was anyone else disappointed that Sheapard Book isn't in any of the promotional photos or trailers?
I hope they didn't kill him off. He's listed in IMDB, but the lack of evidence that he's still a part of the crew is disturbing. I liked where his story line was going and I want to see it continue.
I think that's more like
Sony: "We'd love to sell Marantz"
HP/Compaq would be
Apex: "We'd love to sell Marantz"
We have nearly 100% win 2k desktops here even though we are on a win 2k3 domain with mostly win2k3 servers. The problem is this time around some major pieces of software for us (we are a municipal government) are not winxp certified yet. The oracle databases that these run on work happily in the new environment, but the database applications themselves are lagging behind in support for the (not so) new (anymore) OS.
It's a pain because there are some fetures of XP/2k3 domains we'd like to have, but we're stuck.
Exactly, lets not forget OpenGL, MinGW, and Cygwin, fink, wine, there's lots going on in in crossplatform compiling, and emulation these days.
Most major open source projects support at minimum Linux, BSD, Windows and MacOS X.
Commercial projects are starting to catch on. Blizzard, for one, packages both Windows and Mac versions in the same box for all thier products.
With Intel based MacOS systems I think things will actually get easier because there'd be less work to do in optimizing for different processor architectures.
Why not?
:)
What's the point of having cake you can't eat?
Personally I think there'd be a lot less of a problem this time around because people don't have to start almost from scratch to write the same program for different platforms anymore. Cross platform development has gone a long ways in the past 5 years, let alone the past 20.
I was wondering when someone was going to try and organize Creative Commons stuff into a central TV station that people can go to.
/. announcement. If there is no media or software to download yet they might not be slashdotted.
The name isn't very good. ACTLab doesn't feel like a name for a place to go for media... but that's ok.
Good timing on the
A lot of code that we think of as OSX lives in things like Aqua, above the kernel level.
Exactly, above the kernel level... where it is already abstracted from the hardware.
I graduated from a great school with a degree in Mathematics a few weeks ago and am having a tough time finding a job. Why?
You've set unreasonable expectations for yourself.
Almost no one finds a job within a few weeks of graduating.
The rule of thumb for this sort of thing is 1 month for every $10 thousand/year you expect to make.
Keep at it, don't lose your focus or give up too early. You will find an employer that recognizes the value of hiring someone who has learned how to learn and has a very strong general background in mathematics.
Most likely what will happen is there will be a check for some sort of built in ID that only Apple hardware would use built into the installer. As far as I know Darwin already works on most Intel beige box machines, and that's the part that matters. If Darwin will install on your Beige Box, then MacOS will once someone cracks that verification check. ...If they don't put a verification check of some sort in then there'd be absolutely nothing stopping you from installing it on any old Intel box. ...you just would not be able to get any support from Apple.
That's a shock.
I hope they are going to some modern firmware like EFI at least.
Doesn't XP still require the computer to have a full BIOS in order to get it installed?
I can't see Apple abandoning OpenFirmware to go to a BIOS based system.
Just because they are going to use Intel chips doesn't mean that they are designing it for Windows.
I just bought a G5 tower, but I'm not upset about this move, except for the fact that powerpc G5 seems to be much more energy efficient than current Intels (at least the pentium 4 line, maybe the pentium-M technology is going to become more mainstream?)
...quite a difference for 3 machines in roughly the same class for processing power.
The stats I found while trying to decide which machine to buy put my Dual 2.0ghz G5 in around 148W maximum power use, Tom's Hardware rated dual core AMD 2.4ghz at 185W and Intel 3.2ghz at 315W
These guys are still in business?
This is just a more efficient way of tape trading, which is what we used to do before broadband took off.
...and I'm waiting for more to be produced so I can buy that too.
I became a Babylon 5 fan via tape trading, and now, after a long wait, I own the full series of DVDs.
Has anyone actually tried this with the logitech LX700?
I've got the gnome key mapping set up for some of the keys, but the rest don't even show a key code in xev, so I'm not sure how you'd map them