Actually what I've seen is that frequently the HR person who's responsible for the posting has only notes from a meeting with a PHB (Pointy Headed Boss) and neither of them have a clue.
I remember having a discussion with a headhunter about the "requirement" that a candidate for a particular job had to have 5 years experience with Java. Problem was, at that time Java had only been around for 3 years.
He said basically "sorry, but that's what the client wants so we can't accept your resume unless you have 5 years experience" and then suggested I rewrite my resume to match.
Didn't get the job, but if their HR and management were so lame, it was probably for the best.
I've still got a scar from catching a "glint" of reflected laser light from the industrial version of one of these. I shudder to think of the lawsuits on their way from idiots that jimmy open the safety interlock...
By the way - the machine that tattooed me had a cutting area of 8 by 10 feet, powered by a 2KW IR laser the size of a sixties IBM mainframe, and was cutting the stainless steel signs for the DeLorean dealerships - which should give you an idea of how long ago that was...
And yes, it was my own damn fault - I'd jimmied the safety interlock, but when you're a SuperTech pulling down $500/hour to get a critical machine back online, you are sometimes tempted to take STUPID risks.
(At least the safety goggles I was wearing did their job 8^)
My guess is that if Apple starts using AMD chips for anything it would be for a server product where you don't need high end graphics, just fast data schlepping.
As you mentioned, there are castles and such that have lasted for centuries. However during those centuries there have been generations of servents doing cleaning and maintenance.
More like trying to counter the established Microsoft bias. When an IS department which has spent a gadzillion bucks on MS training and certification can't explain why their server continuously gets hacked they lie to management and blame it on a rogue employee or something. Getting the real problem out in the open makes it possible for managers to use it as ammunition for making changes.
Unless I misread when I visited the site, it's pretty obvious that the DRM functions are part of the player software, not the operating system.
IM(NS)HO, somebody in control was "convinced" to use some proprietary code that uses a lot of obscure Windows API calls or is "tuned" for Windows in some way or the other.
The only reason they don't have a Mac version is because they were too lazy to design it platform independent in the first place.
Or perhaps the fact that the data is downloaded to the hard drive means somebody will be cracking the scheme soon. And perhaps they don't want to have to "fix" more than one version when that happens.
Nothing to do with DRM built into the OS for sure.
P.S. Quicktime has had DRM capability for as long as I remember - it's called "Media Keys".
When the internet was first becoming available to the public, I was pushing the company I was working at to establish a domain, set up email and so on.
The company's "technologist" who had a PHD in computer science and was (supposedly) well known as one of the best in the LA area told me with a straight face "Nobody will ever want to use email - after all we all have fax machines."
Fortunately he was soon proven wrong.
Slow? In what context??
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OK, since the original post was asking us Apple users about operations that seem faster/slower than on other systems here are my 2cents.
I'm running 10.2.1 on an old, creaky original 233Mhz G3 and it suits my needs just fine. I had a much faster G3 once, but that belonged to the company I was working for before the crash.
As a web designer by profession, Macs seem to run all the "required" software as fast or faster than the Wintel boxen I've used. (Required: Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe and Macromedia products.) I wasn't paying much attention to Mhz or anything else - it was just whatever machines were available, some new some old.
When you get under the hood (aka Unix command line) it's as fast as most of the Sun/Solaris boxen I've used.
I suspect that there's a lot of unoptimized software out there - on MacOS X both IE and Netscape are dog slow downloading via an HTTP connection. About 100 times slower than using wget from the command line on the same machine.
I came up with this one for my high school chemestry teacher while I was the TA for the class. I'm sure you know the one about the light bulb with the two terminals you lower into water. Plain water - no light. Salted water - light. Add a common ordinary flasher button under the light bulb and you get a FLASHING LIGHT. Then ask the class to explain it. This will DEFINATELY stretch their minds and you'll get answers like "Well, it's alternating current..." and such. After everybody who has given ANY opinion gets bonus points you reveal the trick and the entire class gains wisdom.
Had the same problem in Los Angeles. Was tracked down to the fact that the box that converted the fiber from the CO to the copper going to houses was not capable of supporting DSL. This was with GTE before they became Verizon.
It wasn't that they couldn't upgrade it, it was simply that they couldn't justify the expense based on expected subscriber levels in my area.
So I was forced to go to Cable Modem, which has worked out OK so far.
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Actually what I've seen is that frequently the HR person who's responsible for the posting has only notes from a meeting with a PHB (Pointy Headed Boss) and neither of them have a clue.
I remember having a discussion with a headhunter about the "requirement" that a candidate for a particular job had to have 5 years experience with Java. Problem was, at that time Java had only been around for 3 years.
He said basically "sorry, but that's what the client wants so we can't accept your resume unless you have 5 years experience" and then suggested I rewrite my resume to match.
Didn't get the job, but if their HR and management were so lame, it was probably for the best.
I've still got a scar from catching a "glint" of reflected laser light from the industrial version of one of these. I shudder to think of the lawsuits on their way from idiots that jimmy open the safety interlock...
By the way - the machine that tattooed me had a cutting area of 8 by 10 feet, powered by a 2KW IR laser the size of a sixties IBM mainframe, and was cutting the stainless steel signs for the DeLorean dealerships - which should give you an idea of how long ago that was...
And yes, it was my own damn fault - I'd jimmied the safety interlock, but when you're a SuperTech pulling down $500/hour to get a critical machine back online, you are sometimes tempted to take STUPID risks.
(At least the safety goggles I was wearing did their job 8^)
My guess is that if Apple starts using AMD chips for anything it would be for a server product where you don't need high end graphics, just fast data schlepping.
What makes you think they're not just being slashdotted? ;-)
(Or they cut off as soon as the traffic took them over their bandwidth limit
As you mentioned, there are castles and such that have lasted for centuries. However during those centuries there have been generations of servents doing cleaning and maintenance.
More like trying to counter the established Microsoft bias. When an IS department which has spent a gadzillion bucks on MS training and certification can't explain why their server continuously gets hacked they lie to management and blame it on a rogue employee or something. Getting the real problem out in the open makes it possible for managers to use it as ammunition for making changes.
Unless I misread when I visited the site, it's pretty obvious that the DRM functions are part of the player software, not the operating system.
IM(NS)HO, somebody in control was "convinced" to use some proprietary code that uses a lot of obscure Windows API calls or is "tuned" for Windows in some way or the other.
The only reason they don't have a Mac version is because they were too lazy to design it platform independent in the first place.
Or perhaps the fact that the data is downloaded to the hard drive means somebody will be cracking the scheme soon. And perhaps they don't want to have to "fix" more than one version when that happens.
Nothing to do with DRM built into the OS for sure.
P.S. Quicktime has had DRM capability for as long as I remember - it's called "Media Keys".
When the internet was first becoming available to the public, I was pushing the company I was working at to establish a domain, set up email and so on.
The company's "technologist" who had a PHD in computer science and was (supposedly) well known as one of the best in the LA area told me with a straight face "Nobody will ever want to use email - after all we all have fax machines."
Fortunately he was soon proven wrong.
OK, since the original post was asking us Apple users about operations that seem faster/slower than on other systems here are my 2cents.
I'm running 10.2.1 on an old, creaky original 233Mhz G3 and it suits my needs just fine. I had a much faster G3 once, but that belonged to the company I was working for before the crash.
As a web designer by profession, Macs seem to run all the "required" software as fast or faster than the Wintel boxen I've used. (Required: Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe and Macromedia products.) I wasn't paying much attention to Mhz or anything else - it was just whatever machines were available, some new some old.
When you get under the hood (aka Unix command line) it's as fast as most of the Sun/Solaris boxen I've used.
I suspect that there's a lot of unoptimized software out there - on MacOS X both IE and Netscape are dog slow downloading via an HTTP connection. About 100 times slower than using wget from the command line on the same machine.
Don't know why anybody should get excited about this. Unless, of course you want to beat them over
the head to support "the rest of us".
Nuff said.
I came up with this one for my high school chemestry teacher while I was the TA for the class. I'm sure you know the one about the light bulb with the two terminals you lower into water. Plain water - no light. Salted water - light. Add a common ordinary flasher button under the light bulb and you get a FLASHING LIGHT. Then ask the class to explain it. This will DEFINATELY stretch their minds and you'll get answers like "Well, it's alternating current..." and such. After everybody who has given ANY opinion gets bonus points you reveal the trick and the entire class gains wisdom.
Had the same problem in Los Angeles. Was tracked down to the fact that the box that converted the fiber from the CO to the copper going to houses was not capable of supporting DSL. This was with GTE before they became Verizon.
It wasn't that they couldn't upgrade it, it was simply that they couldn't justify the expense based on expected subscriber levels in my area.
So I was forced to go to Cable Modem, which has worked out OK so far.