The RAID is actually a separate product that connects to the fibre channel card that you put in your 1u XServe. As I read it, there's no upgrade necessary, as the RAID box itself is the upgrade.
It seems fair to me that they would trademark their implementation of it. Like AltiVec is just another SIMD, but Motorola calls it AltiVec and Apple calls it the Velocity Engine. Not much to it, though I agree that it can be confusing to the consumer. Particularly when the Microsoft marketing engine presents things so effectively to the average computer user.
But it's big, ugly, hot, and heavy. Call me a gay Mac user, but having a small, efficient, elegant, pleasing-to-use notebook is well worth a 300MHz tradeoff. If you gave me that Alienware thing for free, I'd still use my 867MHz PowerBook exclusively. The difference is in the quality of the experience, not the numbers printed on the chips.
The DVD drive actually has to run a motor and a laser that whole time, which certainly takes more power.
Beyond that, you've very effectively laid out the entire reason that the PC MHz cult is just wrong: You can do all those thing as well at ~1GHz or 800MHz as you can at 1.7GHz.
Photoshop isn't the reason I love my Mac and will never buy another PC. The reason I love my Mac and will never buy another PC is that it just works. The OS is effective, the apps work well and consistently I just don't have the problems that I have in Windows. I don't care if it's a bit more expensive or if it's a bit slower. I care that I can get more work done and I experience a tenth of the frustration. That's the difference between a Mac and a PC. No numbers, just results. Plugging my parents' DV camera in the FireWire ports on my PowerBook and making a really neat movie result just because I have a spare hour to kill is the difference. I wouldn't conceive of doing that on a PC. I know that it would turn into two hours of frustration and irritation. I don't have the time or the patience for that, I just want to do something that works and have fun doing it.
I feel so out of touch with most modern performance people. I don't play any games at all and have just not seen any compelling difference between my 867MHz PowerBook and the big honkin' PCs that measure in GHz. Even the stuff I do do (Photoshop, etc.) isn't really impacted by anything other than tons of RAM. So, as someone who doesn't play video games all day, I just don't feel any need for "bigger faster more," and I think I'm happier because of it.
Pretty close. This is a reasonably (if fluffy) overview of the history of Taligent/Pink and the relevance of NeXT in the story. Interesting read. The mid-'90s were quite a time in OS/computer development. Back when things were still exciting, as I see it.
And a few geek hobbyists will be able to do what Apple failed to do after ten years of pumping millions of dollars into Copland? You'll recall that they tried to "bolt on a little pre-emptive MT, protected memory, and a real VM" and ended up scrapping the project and buying NeXT.
Because it's 2^10? Because things in the computer world tend to happen in powers of two or multiples of other things? 1600x1200 = 800x600x(2x2). Because it makes more sense than arbitrarily rounding things?
That's the beauty of pitchfork mobs: each person brings his own. You have to pay only for the gasoline into which they dip their torches before setting out.
Line of sight? What are you talking about? 802.11b is a robust, capable standard. And solutions have vanished for laptops? What laptops are you buying?
I think it has something to do with government control. In the US, the FCC is hell bent of making communications as profitable as possible for industry at the expense of the consumer. While I'm sure pay phone costs have increased, it's just one more little inconvenience that contributes to a symphony of expenses and slights that make the telecom system in this country a nightmare.
I suspect my priorities are very different from those of other people. If a site is totally broken like that, it doesn't matter me. When all webpages look equally blah, it makes me very upset, as I all I can think of is how much experience and pleasant quality I'm missing with every further page load. That's why I absolutely never use Chimera.
I don't mean location. As long as tables and frames aren't grossly wrong, that doesn't bother me. I mean text line spacing, proper anti aliasing, general appearance. OmniWeb is still king, and Safari is nice. Gecko browsers look equally bad on all platforms.
Please tell me you're not a native speaker of English and/or in the course of your job you never have to interact with another human being in a written form!
That's the problem. A lot of people want to have phone booths around but never use them either. You know what's happening? They're disappearing. If you really like pay phones, put your $0.35 where your mouth is and call home.
Good intentions don't make money for Ma Bell.
Of course this has nothing to do with the floppy drive as the payphone revenue stream has nothing in common with computer hardware. But the notion is the same.
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You're precisely the person Michael Dell couldn't give a damn about. You're never going to buy his computer, so he doesn't need to worry about what you think.
It's rough, but it's the case. Where would the world be in companies had to take into account the needs of the people who love to criticise but never have any plans on purchasing their products?
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The RAID is actually a separate product that connects to the fibre channel card that you put in your 1u XServe. As I read it, there's no upgrade necessary, as the RAID box itself is the upgrade.
It seems fair to me that they would trademark their implementation of it. Like AltiVec is just another SIMD, but Motorola calls it AltiVec and Apple calls it the Velocity Engine. Not much to it, though I agree that it can be confusing to the consumer. Particularly when the Microsoft marketing engine presents things so effectively to the average computer user.
But it's big, ugly, hot, and heavy. Call me a gay Mac user, but having a small, efficient, elegant, pleasing-to-use notebook is well worth a 300MHz tradeoff. If you gave me that Alienware thing for free, I'd still use my 867MHz PowerBook exclusively. The difference is in the quality of the experience, not the numbers printed on the chips.
The DVD drive actually has to run a motor and a laser that whole time, which certainly takes more power.
Beyond that, you've very effectively laid out the entire reason that the PC MHz cult is just wrong: You can do all those thing as well at ~1GHz or 800MHz as you can at 1.7GHz.
Photoshop isn't the reason I love my Mac and will never buy another PC. The reason I love my Mac and will never buy another PC is that it just works. The OS is effective, the apps work well and consistently I just don't have the problems that I have in Windows. I don't care if it's a bit more expensive or if it's a bit slower. I care that I can get more work done and I experience a tenth of the frustration. That's the difference between a Mac and a PC. No numbers, just results. Plugging my parents' DV camera in the FireWire ports on my PowerBook and making a really neat movie result just because I have a spare hour to kill is the difference. I wouldn't conceive of doing that on a PC. I know that it would turn into two hours of frustration and irritation. I don't have the time or the patience for that, I just want to do something that works and have fun doing it.
I feel so out of touch with most modern performance people. I don't play any games at all and have just not seen any compelling difference between my 867MHz PowerBook and the big honkin' PCs that measure in GHz. Even the stuff I do do (Photoshop, etc.) isn't really impacted by anything other than tons of RAM. So, as someone who doesn't play video games all day, I just don't feel any need for "bigger faster more," and I think I'm happier because of it.
Pretty close. This is a reasonably (if fluffy) overview of the history of Taligent/Pink and the relevance of NeXT in the story. Interesting read. The mid-'90s were quite a time in OS/computer development. Back when things were still exciting, as I see it.
And a few geek hobbyists will be able to do what Apple failed to do after ten years of pumping millions of dollars into Copland? You'll recall that they tried to "bolt on a little pre-emptive MT, protected memory, and a real VM" and ended up scrapping the project and buying NeXT.
Dude, I try and be an optimistic fellow, but your post has absolutely no redeeming value. You've contributed nothing to anybody with it. Well done.
Because it's 2^10? Because things in the computer world tend to happen in powers of two or multiples of other things? 1600x1200 = 800x600x(2x2). Because it makes more sense than arbitrarily rounding things?
Only the really good ones like Object COBOL.
I thought half of the reason people bought AMD chips was to overclock them. Am I wrong?
That's the beauty of pitchfork mobs: each person brings his own. You have to pay only for the gasoline into which they dip their torches before setting out.
Three hours later and no posts?
Spam sucks. Woot.
It seems the grammar's messed with you. You don't need an apostrophe to pluralize things.
It's set as my homepage. And with Safari, I can get to it *really quickly*.
His point was that it's stupid and broken, not that there may be a workaround.
Line of sight? What are you talking about? 802.11b is a robust, capable standard. And solutions have vanished for laptops? What laptops are you buying?
I think it has something to do with government control. In the US, the FCC is hell bent of making communications as profitable as possible for industry at the expense of the consumer. While I'm sure pay phone costs have increased, it's just one more little inconvenience that contributes to a symphony of expenses and slights that make the telecom system in this country a nightmare.
I suspect my priorities are very different from those of other people. If a site is totally broken like that, it doesn't matter me. When all webpages look equally blah, it makes me very upset, as I all I can think of is how much experience and pleasant quality I'm missing with every further page load. That's why I absolutely never use Chimera.
I don't mean location. As long as tables and frames aren't grossly wrong, that doesn't bother me. I mean text line spacing, proper anti aliasing, general appearance. OmniWeb is still king, and Safari is nice. Gecko browsers look equally bad on all platforms.
Yea, the ultra-cheap Dell boxes use what they call "Integrated Intel®Extreme 3D Graphics," which I understand to be shared memory, onboard video.
Please tell me you're not a native speaker of English and/or in the course of your job you never have to interact with another human being in a written form!
Good intentions don't make money for Ma Bell.
Of course this has nothing to do with the floppy drive as the payphone revenue stream has nothing in common with computer hardware. But the notion is the same.
You're precisely the person Michael Dell couldn't give a damn about. You're never going to buy his computer, so he doesn't need to worry about what you think.
It's rough, but it's the case. Where would the world be in companies had to take into account the needs of the people who love to criticise but never have any plans on purchasing their products?