Because companies/schools don't want to pay the evil_roy premium for an administrator. At most sites, the admin is born out of need. It's typically someone who does the administration in their free time. They don't want (or need) command lines and difficult setup routines to get a machine off the ground.
Enter Apple. They provide the same stability of the BSD machine you speak of and give the average administator access to the system through nice graphical tools. While all of the other zelots push for more command line like server packages, Apple can attract customers who may have selected Windows as their server platform and gain market share.
Then look at Sun, HP, IBM, Redhat, etc. All ask that users pay for their upgrades to the operating systems, even if they are only bug fix releases. While I don't agree on paying for a bug fix, I would pay for new software features, like iCal, iSync, etc. It's not like 10.2 is nothing but bug fixes....those come through Software Update for free.
To the point, I have a lot of music. I don't really keep track of the exact number of CDs or the exact number of bytes I consume. So I guess and that's all I did.
For the disbelievers, I collect CDs. That means owning all of the imports, early CDs and some strange music that I can only find at small shops. I frequent Atomic Records and always on the hunt for new sounds. You didn't think it was 1000 Top 40 CDs?
I've gone past saying bye bye to disk space a long time ago. My MP3 collection alone takes up 160 GB (and all are legal...I have the CD's for any RIAA twit who wants to check). For this I'm going to need a whole new computer.
Most PC users should start seeing IEEE 1394 in the near future. Sony is really pushing to use it with their new digital hub like PCs and in their products. Besides, now that the Mac users have paid with their first born for FireWire devices, the market is prime for PC cheapskates to pick up on our trend.
Not as quite as the Cube thing, but my last machine was a monster. I went through four power supplies. Each time the bearings in the fans would start to go and it sounded like a crop duster was flying overhead when I started my computer. ANYTHING is quiter than that. Now my PowerBook, that's nuts when the fans finally kick in....
I don't know answers to some of your questions, but here's been my Unix to Mac conversion experience:
Heat and Noise
Granted my old PC was a monster with all those fans, but I've been shocked by how quite the G4 I bought for my wife is. The amount of heat is about the same, but I've found the cases to transfer the heat better than some of the PC cases I've owned in the past.
SMP Support
My god, I couldn't believe how well OS X handles this. I often just open the CPU monitor to watch the near perfect load balancing. I had a 400 MHz dual G4. Under OS 9, there were only a handful of applications that could even use both processors. Now, OS X takes care of that detail and it's like an instant speed boost.
Memory vs MHz
Even when I purchased PCs, I always took memory as a more critical upgrade that the small MHz difference that I could find. To this day, I have maxed out all of my machines with memory, even if it means passing up the next processor line. Memory is cheaper and still makes a difference in how fast applications will respond.
Yeah, and what do they teach CS students? Reuse. Don't try to reinvent the wheel every time you need to do something. So why should the OS be any different? Looks like someone's a little pissed that Apple got to the goal before GNOME or KDE ever caught up.
This is true of all those Automatic Update tools, including Red Carpet and Windows Update. They all use DNS to find the software on the Net and then install the modules without too much fuss. The only real work around is to know what you're installing. Download from what you believe to be the correct source, always look for a public verification key and then install it.
Yes, but I don't want to wait for years until all of the changes are done. We've hit the point in development where we need real, supported threads. We need a better OO system to help us manage our code and Perl doesn't do that now. If we wait, the world is just going to pass us by. If we move, then why would I want to give money to support the development of Perl.
The changes to Perl need to be made the same wa Perl came to live...by Larry and other hobby programmers working in their free time to develop something. Don't keep laying a guilt trip on the development community for money when we won't see anything useful for 3+ years.
So is eWeek, InfoWorld, CTO, Business 2.0, and all of those other business trade journals, yet managers use those opinions all the time to discuss and make decisions that will affect the industry as well as their company. It's due to their professional attitudes that these sources of information become the corner of business decisions. (And why MS likes to spend more money on ads with these sources.)
It's amazing that the same people crying to give Linux a chance because it's superior to Windows don't want to give other opinions a chance when they go against the group-thought that is rampant on this site. The point is that Slashdot isn't a professional looking site and managers will stay away from the ideas and products pushed, despite how technically superior they operate.
1980s: No one ever got fired for buying IBM
1990s and beyond: No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft
Regardless of if this is an Apple benchmark or not, the G4 is designed around Photoshop without a question. Comparing other platforms to it is not really fair. Now, if they could get the same results with other media programs on open, then we must give credit where credit is due.
On a side note, I ran through the benchmarks and didn't really see any meat. I never believe a benchmark until they tell me what and how the test was performed....it's just an engineer thing.
So the benchmark only tested them on Photoshop, which is a AltVec optimized applicaiton from the beginning? That and where is the rest of the benchmark data? Doesn't seem to be a real fair comparison.
I did a search at the local bookstores (Barnes and Noble and Borders included) but around here they don't carry that kind of stuff. I guess the one time charge is $10 (or at least is was). No great loss over $10. Still better that spending $1,000s on WebSphere only to be disapointed.
Since the whole JCP issue, has anyone heard of Sun making efforts to J2EE certify the JBoss package? Not that I really care about the label. It would just be kinda fun to include that on a status report sometime....hey look, that free software I wanted to develop with is certified just like WebSphere.
Does anyone have these documents? I'm working on a project in JBoss and didn't know how good the paid documentation really is. Do they still leave a lot of information out or are they mostly complete?
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Want another fun bug in Java with Windows I/O. Create a File object and get a stream. Close the stream and then try to use File.delete(). For some reason, Windows doesn't release the file right away and the delete fails. Even more fun, the delete method is the only method that doesn't throw an IOException. Looks like Sun dropped the ball on this one.
No...they can make it up in selling games an the XBox Live access. For every game sold, some of the money goes back to Microsoft. Nintendo has been doing this for years and has made some nice cash on the deal. As for the Ultimate TV, they can sell subscriptions to the whole online channel guide too.
This is more than just pushing some MS products into the home. When they have a large section of the American population using this new XBox/Ultimate TV, then you sell the developer kits to third parties and allow them to use the platform you setup, of course for a fee.
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Because companies/schools don't want to pay the evil_roy premium for an administrator. At most sites, the admin is born out of need. It's typically someone who does the administration in their free time. They don't want (or need) command lines and difficult setup routines to get a machine off the ground.
Enter Apple. They provide the same stability of the BSD machine you speak of and give the average administator access to the system through nice graphical tools. While all of the other zelots push for more command line like server packages, Apple can attract customers who may have selected Windows as their server platform and gain market share.
Then look at Sun, HP, IBM, Redhat, etc. All ask that users pay for their upgrades to the operating systems, even if they are only bug fix releases. While I don't agree on paying for a bug fix, I would pay for new software features, like iCal, iSync, etc. It's not like 10.2 is nothing but bug fixes....those come through Software Update for free.
By that same logic, I shouldn't have to pay when I upgraded from Windows 95 to Windows 98 (but I did). So why should this be any different?
To the point, I have a lot of music. I don't really keep track of the exact number of CDs or the exact number of bytes I consume. So I guess and that's all I did.
For the disbelievers, I collect CDs. That means owning all of the imports, early CDs and some strange music that I can only find at small shops. I frequent Atomic Records and always on the hunt for new sounds. You didn't think it was 1000 Top 40 CDs?
I've gone past saying bye bye to disk space a long time ago. My MP3 collection alone takes up 160 GB (and all are legal...I have the CD's for any RIAA twit who wants to check). For this I'm going to need a whole new computer.
Most PC users should start seeing IEEE 1394 in the near future. Sony is really pushing to use it with their new digital hub like PCs and in their products. Besides, now that the Mac users have paid with their first born for FireWire devices, the market is prime for PC cheapskates to pick up on our trend.
Not as quite as the Cube thing, but my last machine was a monster. I went through four power supplies. Each time the bearings in the fans would start to go and it sounded like a crop duster was flying overhead when I started my computer. ANYTHING is quiter than that. Now my PowerBook, that's nuts when the fans finally kick in....
I don't know answers to some of your questions, but here's been my Unix to Mac conversion experience:
Heat and Noise
Granted my old PC was a monster with all those fans, but I've been shocked by how quite the G4 I bought for my wife is. The amount of heat is about the same, but I've found the cases to transfer the heat better than some of the PC cases I've owned in the past.
SMP Support
My god, I couldn't believe how well OS X handles this. I often just open the CPU monitor to watch the near perfect load balancing. I had a 400 MHz dual G4. Under OS 9, there were only a handful of applications that could even use both processors. Now, OS X takes care of that detail and it's like an instant speed boost.
Memory vs MHz
Even when I purchased PCs, I always took memory as a more critical upgrade that the small MHz difference that I could find. To this day, I have maxed out all of my machines with memory, even if it means passing up the next processor line. Memory is cheaper and still makes a difference in how fast applications will respond.
Good luck with the Mac upgrade.
He probably figures that it isn't worth doing until he has a really good reason to go to the US.
Well, we provide no good reason, unless you like to have Mr. Gates and Mickey rule everything you do. I'd call it a gift.
Yeah, and what do they teach CS students? Reuse. Don't try to reinvent the wheel every time you need to do something. So why should the OS be any different? Looks like someone's a little pissed that Apple got to the goal before GNOME or KDE ever caught up.
This is true of all those Automatic Update tools, including Red Carpet and Windows Update. They all use DNS to find the software on the Net and then install the modules without too much fuss. The only real work around is to know what you're installing. Download from what you believe to be the correct source, always look for a public verification key and then install it.
Yes, but I don't want to wait for years until all of the changes are done. We've hit the point in development where we need real, supported threads. We need a better OO system to help us manage our code and Perl doesn't do that now. If we wait, the world is just going to pass us by. If we move, then why would I want to give money to support the development of Perl.
The changes to Perl need to be made the same wa Perl came to live...by Larry and other hobby programmers working in their free time to develop something. Don't keep laying a guilt trip on the development community for money when we won't see anything useful for 3+ years.
So is eWeek, InfoWorld, CTO, Business 2.0, and all of those other business trade journals, yet managers use those opinions all the time to discuss and make decisions that will affect the industry as well as their company. It's due to their professional attitudes that these sources of information become the corner of business decisions. (And why MS likes to spend more money on ads with these sources.)
It's amazing that the same people crying to give Linux a chance because it's superior to Windows don't want to give other opinions a chance when they go against the group-thought that is rampant on this site. The point is that Slashdot isn't a professional looking site and managers will stay away from the ideas and products pushed, despite how technically superior they operate.
1980s: No one ever got fired for buying IBM
1990s and beyond: No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft
Regardless of if this is an Apple benchmark or not, the G4 is designed around Photoshop without a question. Comparing other platforms to it is not really fair. Now, if they could get the same results with other media programs on open, then we must give credit where credit is due.
On a side note, I ran through the benchmarks and didn't really see any meat. I never believe a benchmark until they tell me what and how the test was performed....it's just an engineer thing.
So the benchmark only tested them on Photoshop, which is a AltVec optimized applicaiton from the beginning? That and where is the rest of the benchmark data? Doesn't seem to be a real fair comparison.
The Slashdot editors do not embrace Free Software, they are ONLY running away from Microsoft.
Sometimes we don't all want to feel like developers. It's good to be a user every now and then.
Does it feel like infected with the Code Red worm? Stupid Windows 2000 box.....
I do recall something of that nature, but I don't think it was all of OpenGL. Just a subset of stuff they couldn't duplicate into DirectX.
What? You can write scripts that run on Windows? How does the script know where to move the mouse?
I did a search at the local bookstores (Barnes and Noble and Borders included) but around here they don't carry that kind of stuff. I guess the one time charge is $10 (or at least is was). No great loss over $10. Still better that spending $1,000s on WebSphere only to be disapointed.
Since the whole JCP issue, has anyone heard of Sun making efforts to J2EE certify the JBoss package? Not that I really care about the label. It would just be kinda fun to include that on a status report sometime....hey look, that free software I wanted to develop with is certified just like WebSphere.
Does anyone have these documents? I'm working on a project in JBoss and didn't know how good the paid documentation really is. Do they still leave a lot of information out or are they mostly complete?
Want another fun bug in Java with Windows I/O. Create a File object and get a stream. Close the stream and then try to use File.delete(). For some reason, Windows doesn't release the file right away and the delete fails. Even more fun, the delete method is the only method that doesn't throw an IOException. Looks like Sun dropped the ball on this one.
No...they can make it up in selling games an the XBox Live access. For every game sold, some of the money goes back to Microsoft. Nintendo has been doing this for years and has made some nice cash on the deal. As for the Ultimate TV, they can sell subscriptions to the whole online channel guide too.
This is more than just pushing some MS products into the home. When they have a large section of the American population using this new XBox/Ultimate TV, then you sell the developer kits to third parties and allow them to use the platform you setup, of course for a fee.