I for one would buy an Apple branded flying car. But it'd better be available in any color I want as long as its white with silver highlights.
Oh and it'd better have DRM that just works to prevent you from using anyone's map or parking space that didn't come from the Apple Flying Car Store (unless you happen to crack it with jVolantor first.)
And what about that cure for cancer? It'll only be a niche product since 90% + of the people don't have cancer anyway!
And DNF........keep on dreaming. The Second Coming will happen first.
They've had the Pentium 4 moniker for longer than either the P3 or P2 I believe. Time to retire it...where's the Pentium 5?
Or...
Why not drop the Pentium name entirely and go with something new? Yeah yeah I know brand recognition...but so what? Intel could just launch a new ad campaign designed around the new name. They've got the bucks and they did it before.
And I'd be really interested in knowing if this new architecture, whatever its called, will be what's in next year's Mactels. (I'm still scratching my head at why they'd drop the bomb then wait an entire year to release any hardware. Seems to me like it'll do nothing but hamper the sales of the PPC line....but I digress...)
Can I hold out a thimbleful of hope that the new chip will be priced sanely? I had wanted to build a mini desktop Pentium M gaming box this year, but it would have easily been a few hundred bucks more than the A64 XPC I built instead.
Why is it that Intel's pricing is consistenly higher than AMD's, yet Intel has the manufacturing capacity advantage?
I have a DirecTivo (not HD) and it works fine without a phone line plugged in. It'll just pop up an annoying message every 2-3 weeks or so if it can't dial up.
It gets its program data from the satellite, and as far as I know (and from asking questions on tivo community forums www.tivocommunity.com) it only actually needs to dial up to confirm PPV purchases. I don't use PPV so I don't care.
It is possible to hack the tivo so the messages don't show up, and with the recent 6.2 tivo software update (check your tivo's information page to see if you have it) the USB ports are supposed to be enabled, but you still need to hack it to be able to use a network device and call in that way.
I haven't hacked my box yet, but I did on my previous standalone Series 1 and its not hard. Lots of instructions floating around the web.
Exactly. I've tried Cedega/WineX on-and-off for about 3 years or so. Sometimes it'll play the games I want to play, but most of the time not. And even when it is working, its sporadic, and like you mention, only a selected subset of games actually work.
For this reason only, I keep a PC with WinXP for games.
You know what I think? I think this country could learn a thing or two from the open source software movement. Let's make all of our laws open source, and let's rewrite or eliminate the laws that don't make any sense.
There'd have to be public forums moderated by judges or whomever, but a lot of good might come of it. As it is, in theory the people own the government and make the laws, but in practice of course it's a lot different.
Most of the common people have no control over the laws enforced on them, and either just accept them or do nothing to make things better.
Jobs also discussed a new technology called Rosetta, that he described as "a dynamic binary translator." It runs existing PowerPC applications on the Intel platform, he said. Jobs described Rosetta as "lightweight," and said "it's nothing like Classic."
OK, I want to see actual measurements please. Some discussion about the entrails of this new beast too.
Also, the question occurred to me about Classic's fate. Will there also be a 680x0 emulator included for Intel OS X, or will Classic cease to be?
Then again, on an Intel Mac, it would kick ass to be able to run Wine, maybe even Transgaming's Cedega! Then you'd be able to play nearly ANY PC game on a Mac at full speed! Woohoo!
Another question though, what will they do to ensure only an Apple computer can run OS X? From the article, it appears they have it running on a PC already, but I don't see any mention if its a standard PC or some custom job. If it's standard, I hope they have enough fingers to plug the holes in the dike...there's gonna be a flood of pirated x86 OS X copies.
Please. Go read others comments. Apple could easily port the OS to run on x86, AND keep their monopoly on hardware.
How? Simple. Don't use Wintel designed motherboards. Make a proprietary motherboard architecture just like they have now with PowerPC based boards, except with an x86 CPU in place of the Gx chip. And don't use Wintel BIOSes. Stay with OpenFirmware or something similar.
Then just make it so that the OS requires an Apple mobo to run. How? Use a chipset that no one else uses or has Windows drivers for, and make sure it stays that way.
Therefore, people can't take OS X and put it on their generic beige/black/metal box, and neither will Windows run on Apple's proprietary box.
Seems like when people hear the words "Mac OS" and "x86" in the same sentence, they immediately jump to the conclusion that it means Mac OS X on bog standard Wintel hardware. WRONG!! Apple is primarily a hardware company. There's no way they could compete pricewise with the likes of Dell or even people like us who build boxes from parts. Therefore, they'll keep it so their OS only works on their hardware, and continue to sell niche computers that are seen as being trendy, stylish, better designed, etc.
I'm going to wait and see what really is announced though. Personally, I agree with others that the Athlon64 would be a better choice than the Pentium 4. But maybe they'll go with the Pentium M for the low end machines and laptops, and still have the G5 in the PowerMac, at least until they have ported and optimized all their productivity applications to run on X86.
Hey, I'm gonna go to the shiteria after that huge lunch in the cafeteria...
God! That's awful. Someone should put the smack down on those parents. WTF?
Times like this I think Congress should do something useful for a change, enact a law of approved names. Nobody gets to pick anything off the list else there be banination.
As a kid, my brother and a neighborhood friend played "Space", which was mostly based on Star Wars. We had our own characters though, and we had our own stories and even different "versions" of Space.
For instance, Space 3D was a version where we made believe we were actors playing the characters we had invented, and we would have "scenes" and "Action!" "Cut!" "Instant Replay!" and the like.
For Space, Star Wars was our "bible". Although our Millenium Falcon (I can't remember what we called our ship) was my friend's backyard porch and steps.
I think the balance comes from not being aligned with a pure light/good side or a pure dark/evil side, but from a careful combination of the two.
Perhaps we'll see in VII-IX a retooling of the Jedi Order as being one where the light and dark powers are studied equally, and it becomes a matter of discipline, wisdom, and self-control to know when to use those powers for good and not evil.
Palpatine said that "the dark side is a gateway to powers some consider unnatural." Perhaps thats the crux of the issue. The Jedi reject these powers out of hand as being "evil", while the Sith embrace them as a means to further their ambitions. (I got the impression, though, from watching ROTS yesterday that the power he spoke of to prolong/preserve life was in fact a lie to lure Anakin over...)
If this power exists, it seems to me a truly new order of Jedi would use it for good, to heal the sick, resurrect the dead, and prevent death as well as extending lives. But then there's the question of ethics and who decides when and on whom to use it?
Hmm...I'm walking down the nerdy path now...must stop...
I clearly remember seeing "Episode IV...V...VI" in the scrollers when watching Star Wars oh so long ago...because I remember wondering and asking friends what they thought that meant. Where were the previous episodes??? Maybe they weren't major releases, sort of low budget Dr. Who/Star Trek style campy crap made for TV?
Am I mistaken? Was that an afterthought edit? I was only 2 when ANH came out, so I don't think I read that at least. Must've been on TV...we didn't get a VCR until 1986ish...
Anyone know if those episodes were really named as such on the original theatrical releases?
My brother had a head injury as well, which was why I mentioned it.
As for toes, well, I wouldn't advocate chopping them off, but I just don't see why they have to be 5 individual digits like your fingers are. My own toes are all short and stubby (except the big toes) and completely useless, and occasionally I get ingrown toenails. I've wished there was a way to (painlessly) remove the nails and kill the nailbed so they wouldn't regrow.
Interesting ideas, but they all seem to require artificial evolution by means of selective breeding or genetic modification. I don't think any of those are likely to evolve naturally.
My own wish list:
- Regeneration of whole organs and body parts
- Perhaps in conjunction with that, duplication of vital organs such as the heart. If one fails, the second is the back up until the primary can regenerate. Perhaps one could even have a "back up brain" as well located in the chest...at least to act as a memory repository in the event of traumatic head injury. Once the brain has regenerated, the back up brain would reinstall one's memories.
- Conscious control of nearly every bodily function (perhaps at least partly autonomous) including the ability to adjust levels of body fat and hair and energy usage at will. Don't want any hair? Turn off your folicles (conversely, you could have them hyperactivated, growing lots of hair quickly if you so desired. Same goes for that spare-tire, blubber-butt and thunder-thighs. Not living in a feast and famine environment? Tell the fscking fat cells to shutdown!)
- Elimination of useless body parts such as toes, toenails and fingernails. The foot would work just as well with one big "toe" that spread from one side of the foot to the other without individual toes. Perhaps simply skinning over the existing digits and fusing the bones, although not to the point that the foot isn't flexible enough for normal walking. (Toenails...oh I hate them...ingrown are the worst.)
- Improved memory and cognitive processes, perhaps including a method of data transfer/communication that can work directly between minds, a la Vulcan mind meld or Matrix data port.
- And of course greatly enhanced lifespan, with little or no senescence.
- Or perhaps, in combination with the mind meld ability, one could make a "child" or clone of oneself and transfer one's self (consciousness and all memory) into that clone after which the old body dies. This would be just as good as immortality, but if it was the only method of reproduction, soon everyone alive would merely be the continued clones of people who were born long long ago. There wouldn't be any new people, true children. Not sure how that would play out.
I've been seeing dead and smashed cellphones on the ground these days. I even saw a girl who was talking on one at a red light, and as soon as it turned green, she threw it out the window and smashed on the pavement.
What is with this disposable society?? We just throw these high tech gadgets away like litter.
I for one am not a litter bug, and when it comes to technology, I'm a pack rat. I just don't understand how people can do that.
Why are there 3 words for this place? Holland, Netherlands, Dutch??
Also makes me wonder why in Spanish, Germany is called Alemania. Is that because they're crazy about beer there? And why is it "Germany" and "German" in English but "Deutschland" and "Deutsch" in German?!
Why don't we call foreign countries/people by what they call themselves instead of some word that from our own language?? It would seem to make things simpler to me.
I know a million other people are going to say this, but...
The G5 at 2.7 GHz is significantly more powerful than a P4 at 3.8. The best comparison is to the Athlon64 or Opteron (also a 64-bit cpu.) And as has been said before, 2.7 is actually higher than the fastest current A64 (which appears to be the 4000+ at 2.4 GHz.)
And don't forget the whole apples to oranges deal.
Thats for the 2.0 GHz chips, but you get the idea. Thats been posted before too. Go ahead mod me redundant. Does it show the G5 is always faster than an Opteron. No. So what? Pick the tool you like/that does the job you need. If you like OS X, doesn't get better than that. If not, you can still get your x86-64 box for less.
Am I totally impressed by the G5? No. Too much money, and I don't need that much power anyway. I recently replaced my Powerbook G4 with a Mini. 80-90% of the capabilities but at 20% the price.
I'd love to have a G5 dual-core Mini with a Geforce 6800GT, but that just ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
I was thinking more along the lines of a case that matches the Mini's, but just taller so it can take bigger drives inside. May as well throw in additional FW and USB ports too.
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Am I the only one who first thought of Farscape instead of Cold War era nukes?
Come on people!
I for one would buy an Apple branded flying car. But it'd better be available in any color I want as long as its white with silver highlights.
Oh and it'd better have DRM that just works to prevent you from using anyone's map or parking space that didn't come from the Apple Flying Car Store (unless you happen to crack it with jVolantor first.)
And what about that cure for cancer? It'll only be a niche product since 90% + of the people don't have cancer anyway!
And DNF........keep on dreaming. The Second Coming will happen first.
Holy crap, you mean you own a 15 MEGAWATT generator?
Jesus!
They've had the Pentium 4 moniker for longer than either the P3 or P2 I believe. Time to retire it...where's the Pentium 5?
Or...
Why not drop the Pentium name entirely and go with something new? Yeah yeah I know brand recognition...but so what? Intel could just launch a new ad campaign designed around the new name. They've got the bucks and they did it before.
And I'd be really interested in knowing if this new architecture, whatever its called, will be what's in next year's Mactels. (I'm still scratching my head at why they'd drop the bomb then wait an entire year to release any hardware. Seems to me like it'll do nothing but hamper the sales of the PPC line....but I digress...)
Can I hold out a thimbleful of hope that the new chip will be priced sanely? I had wanted to build a mini desktop Pentium M gaming box this year, but it would have easily been a few hundred bucks more than the A64 XPC I built instead.
Why is it that Intel's pricing is consistenly higher than AMD's, yet Intel has the manufacturing capacity advantage?
I have a DirecTivo (not HD) and it works fine without a phone line plugged in. It'll just pop up an annoying message every 2-3 weeks or so if it can't dial up.
It gets its program data from the satellite, and as far as I know (and from asking questions on tivo community forums www.tivocommunity.com) it only actually needs to dial up to confirm PPV purchases. I don't use PPV so I don't care.
It is possible to hack the tivo so the messages don't show up, and with the recent 6.2 tivo software update (check your tivo's information page to see if you have it) the USB ports are supposed to be enabled, but you still need to hack it to be able to use a network device and call in that way.
I haven't hacked my box yet, but I did on my previous standalone Series 1 and its not hard. Lots of instructions floating around the web.
Exactly. I've tried Cedega/WineX on-and-off for about 3 years or so. Sometimes it'll play the games I want to play, but most of the time not. And even when it is working, its sporadic, and like you mention, only a selected subset of games actually work.
For this reason only, I keep a PC with WinXP for games.
You know what I think? I think this country could learn a thing or two from the open source software movement. Let's make all of our laws open source, and let's rewrite or eliminate the laws that don't make any sense.
There'd have to be public forums moderated by judges or whomever, but a lot of good might come of it. As it is, in theory the people own the government and make the laws, but in practice of course it's a lot different.
Most of the common people have no control over the laws enforced on them, and either just accept them or do nothing to make things better.
Nice. I wish we could build the sort of ship that Sisko did in that DS9 episode.
Look around, that won't happen. OS X will still be tied to Apple-branded hardware.
Wow, that was the best one ever!
Too Much Spare Time Productions, indeed!
Well, for one thing, I refuse to repeat visits to sites that use flashing banner ads.
Jobs also discussed a new technology called Rosetta, that he described as "a dynamic binary translator." It runs existing PowerPC applications on the Intel platform, he said. Jobs described Rosetta as "lightweight," and said "it's nothing like Classic."
OK, I want to see actual measurements please. Some discussion about the entrails of this new beast too.
Also, the question occurred to me about Classic's fate. Will there also be a 680x0 emulator included for Intel OS X, or will Classic cease to be?
Then again, on an Intel Mac, it would kick ass to be able to run Wine, maybe even Transgaming's Cedega! Then you'd be able to play nearly ANY PC game on a Mac at full speed! Woohoo!
Another question though, what will they do to ensure only an Apple computer can run OS X? From the article, it appears they have it running on a PC already, but I don't see any mention if its a standard PC or some custom job. If it's standard, I hope they have enough fingers to plug the holes in the dike...there's gonna be a flood of pirated x86 OS X copies.
Please. Go read others comments. Apple could easily port the OS to run on x86, AND keep their monopoly on hardware.
How? Simple. Don't use Wintel designed motherboards. Make a proprietary motherboard architecture just like they have now with PowerPC based boards, except with an x86 CPU in place of the Gx chip. And don't use Wintel BIOSes. Stay with OpenFirmware or something similar.
Then just make it so that the OS requires an Apple mobo to run. How? Use a chipset that no one else uses or has Windows drivers for, and make sure it stays that way.
Therefore, people can't take OS X and put it on their generic beige/black/metal box, and neither will Windows run on Apple's proprietary box.
Seems like when people hear the words "Mac OS" and "x86" in the same sentence, they immediately jump to the conclusion that it means Mac OS X on bog standard Wintel hardware. WRONG!! Apple is primarily a hardware company. There's no way they could compete pricewise with the likes of Dell or even people like us who build boxes from parts. Therefore, they'll keep it so their OS only works on their hardware, and continue to sell niche computers that are seen as being trendy, stylish, better designed, etc.
I'm going to wait and see what really is announced though. Personally, I agree with others that the Athlon64 would be a better choice than the Pentium 4. But maybe they'll go with the Pentium M for the low end machines and laptops, and still have the G5 in the PowerMac, at least until they have ported and optimized all their productivity applications to run on X86.
Hey, I'm gonna go to the shiteria after that huge lunch in the cafeteria...
God! That's awful. Someone should put the smack down on those parents. WTF?
Times like this I think Congress should do something useful for a change, enact a law of approved names. Nobody gets to pick anything off the list else there be banination.
As a kid, my brother and a neighborhood friend played "Space", which was mostly based on Star Wars. We had our own characters though, and we had our own stories and even different "versions" of Space.
For instance, Space 3D was a version where we made believe we were actors playing the characters we had invented, and we would have "scenes" and "Action!" "Cut!" "Instant Replay!" and the like.
For Space, Star Wars was our "bible". Although our Millenium Falcon (I can't remember what we called our ship) was my friend's backyard porch and steps.
I've thought along those lines too.
I think the balance comes from not being aligned with a pure light/good side or a pure dark/evil side, but from a careful combination of the two.
Perhaps we'll see in VII-IX a retooling of the Jedi Order as being one where the light and dark powers are studied equally, and it becomes a matter of discipline, wisdom, and self-control to know when to use those powers for good and not evil.
Palpatine said that "the dark side is a gateway to powers some consider unnatural." Perhaps thats the crux of the issue. The Jedi reject these powers out of hand as being "evil", while the Sith embrace them as a means to further their ambitions. (I got the impression, though, from watching ROTS yesterday that the power he spoke of to prolong/preserve life was in fact a lie to lure Anakin over...)
If this power exists, it seems to me a truly new order of Jedi would use it for good, to heal the sick, resurrect the dead, and prevent death as well as extending lives. But then there's the question of ethics and who decides when and on whom to use it?
Hmm...I'm walking down the nerdy path now...must stop...
Not to mention the gaggle of video games based on Star Wars.
And just like Star Trek games, Star Wars games almost all suck.
I clearly remember seeing "Episode IV...V...VI" in the scrollers when watching Star Wars oh so long ago...because I remember wondering and asking friends what they thought that meant. Where were the previous episodes??? Maybe they weren't major releases, sort of low budget Dr. Who/Star Trek style campy crap made for TV?
Am I mistaken? Was that an afterthought edit? I was only 2 when ANH came out, so I don't think I read that at least. Must've been on TV...we didn't get a VCR until 1986ish...
Anyone know if those episodes were really named as such on the original theatrical releases?
My brother had a head injury as well, which was why I mentioned it.
As for toes, well, I wouldn't advocate chopping them off, but I just don't see why they have to be 5 individual digits like your fingers are. My own toes are all short and stubby (except the big toes) and completely useless, and occasionally I get ingrown toenails. I've wished there was a way to (painlessly) remove the nails and kill the nailbed so they wouldn't regrow.
Interesting ideas, but they all seem to require artificial evolution by means of selective breeding or genetic modification. I don't think any of those are likely to evolve naturally.
My own wish list:
- Regeneration of whole organs and body parts
- Perhaps in conjunction with that, duplication of vital organs such as the heart. If one fails, the second is the back up until the primary can regenerate. Perhaps one could even have a "back up brain" as well located in the chest...at least to act as a memory repository in the event of traumatic head injury. Once the brain has regenerated, the back up brain would reinstall one's memories.
- Conscious control of nearly every bodily function (perhaps at least partly autonomous) including the ability to adjust levels of body fat and hair and energy usage at will. Don't want any hair? Turn off your folicles (conversely, you could have them hyperactivated, growing lots of hair quickly if you so desired. Same goes for that spare-tire, blubber-butt and thunder-thighs. Not living in a feast and famine environment? Tell the fscking fat cells to shutdown!)
- Elimination of useless body parts such as toes, toenails and fingernails. The foot would work just as well with one big "toe" that spread from one side of the foot to the other without individual toes. Perhaps simply skinning over the existing digits and fusing the bones, although not to the point that the foot isn't flexible enough for normal walking. (Toenails...oh I hate them...ingrown are the worst.)
- Improved memory and cognitive processes, perhaps including a method of data transfer/communication that can work directly between minds, a la Vulcan mind meld or Matrix data port.
- And of course greatly enhanced lifespan, with little or no senescence.
- Or perhaps, in combination with the mind meld ability, one could make a "child" or clone of oneself and transfer one's self (consciousness and all memory) into that clone after which the old body dies. This would be just as good as immortality, but if it was the only method of reproduction, soon everyone alive would merely be the continued clones of people who were born long long ago. There wouldn't be any new people, true children. Not sure how that would play out.
I'll admit I watched ST:V. I actually did like some of the episodes, but mostly watched it just because it was Trek.
But Kes....mmmmmmmm. I had a crush on her for a long time. So girlishly cute but with a sexy sultry voice....drool.
But then they axed her to put in robo-bimbo. Meh.
And then they brought Kes back for an episode and she was old...and fat! Gah.....destroyed my fantasies.
I've been seeing dead and smashed cellphones on the ground these days. I even saw a girl who was talking on one at a red light, and as soon as it turned green, she threw it out the window and smashed on the pavement.
What is with this disposable society?? We just throw these high tech gadgets away like litter.
I for one am not a litter bug, and when it comes to technology, I'm a pack rat. I just don't understand how people can do that.
Why are there 3 words for this place? Holland, Netherlands, Dutch??
Also makes me wonder why in Spanish, Germany is called Alemania. Is that because they're crazy about beer there? And why is it "Germany" and "German" in English but "Deutschland" and "Deutsch" in German?!
Why don't we call foreign countries/people by what they call themselves instead of some word that from our own language?? It would seem to make things simpler to me.
And don't get me started about China...
If I had mod points, I'd mod you a troll.
I know a million other people are going to say this, but...
The G5 at 2.7 GHz is significantly more powerful than a P4 at 3.8. The best comparison is to the Athlon64 or Opteron (also a 64-bit cpu.) And as has been said before, 2.7 is actually higher than the fastest current A64 (which appears to be the 4000+ at 2.4 GHz.)
And don't forget the whole apples to oranges deal.
http://www.barefeats.com/g5op.html
Thats for the 2.0 GHz chips, but you get the idea. Thats been posted before too. Go ahead mod me redundant. Does it show the G5 is always faster than an Opteron. No. So what? Pick the tool you like/that does the job you need. If you like OS X, doesn't get better than that. If not, you can still get your x86-64 box for less.
Am I totally impressed by the G5? No. Too much money, and I don't need that much power anyway. I recently replaced my Powerbook G4 with a Mini. 80-90% of the capabilities but at 20% the price.
I'd love to have a G5 dual-core Mini with a Geforce 6800GT, but that just ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
Yuck! Ugly.
I was thinking more along the lines of a case that matches the Mini's, but just taller so it can take bigger drives inside. May as well throw in additional FW and USB ports too.