once the reaction starts, it'll spread to all the turbinium in the planet. Mars will go into global meltdown. That's why the aliens never turned it on.
right, doing all the driver support would kill them. I don't think apple's ready to kill their lucrative hardware revenue stream for an incredibly risky software model.
But, I do see that they could ask people wanting to use OS X on their non-apple hardware to check out Darwin for x86 and just drop in the proprietary bits. Then they don't have to support all that low level stuff since you're doing it yourself.
Still I have a feeling, they'll put some really great proprietary hardware in the mac's alongside the Intel processors.
now all the people making fun of it are going to get accounts. Way to let the secret out.:-)
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i agree with you. I keep in touch with most of my friends on it. It's kind of replaced most of my personal email. I've seen some really great bands off of it, hooked up off of it, threw some great parties, and gotten to know some really great people too. I run a book club off it too.
I originally got on it, because friendster was really buggy at the time, and my ex on the time was on it.
it's hilarious too in that I'll go to the bar, and see people I've seen on myspace, and we'll talk about it like it's some guilty pleasure. it's pretty funny when a girl you've never met tells you that they know you when they only know you from myspace.
but yeah, hopefully Fox recognizes that the brand is stronger than fox, and doesn't try to insert some of their coporate DNA into it.
I think we're mostly in agreement here, you're just more articulate.:-)
I've seen fundraising nonprofits fold because the administrators got too big for their britches. So I see what you mean by the compsensation.
but bringing the post back to the original poster, I volunteer for the local chamber of commerce in a struggling neighborhood. Since i'm on the membership committee, we look for new and current business owners, i.e. retail shops, restaurants, and provide a marketing resource for them to bounce off ideas to grow their business. We compete with the government as a resource, namely the alderman's office. Some use us, some don't, but generally the ones that do, find success.
My point is that it's a private institution. It can handle a little bit of competition.
what's interesting about the article is that the company is a not-for-profit organization. I look at most not-for-profits as being in the interest of the community. that's why they get tax breaks. On the other hand, harboring a database like this, seems to me outside of the public interest. I mean really, why are we giving them tax breaks if they are going to act like this?
reading this really raised some eyebrows for me.
The not-for-profit organisation paid out 46% of its total expenses of $404m in salaries and fringe benefits last year, with its executive director receiving a total compensation package of over $1m.
he gets paid more than the president?
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it seems that they are threatened financially by this. I wonder how many universities would make a switch or use PubChem as a supplement?
On the other hand, the possession of all those impossible technologies which render spaceflight quick and easy does create a different problem, which Star Trek never addressed: once you've got such amazing capabilities, why bother flying through space?
Manifest Destiny. Sci-fi as a genre effectively replaced the Western in our culture. It essentially distills ideals and morals from the viewer by putting characters into lawless, or unknown governing situations.
the last great western, The Wild Bunch was about the death of the western. it recognized it was losing to technology, and noted this by dragging one of the heros by a car, not a horse, and the main character used a machine gun to kill the enemies off. It's also noted for being excessively violent at the time, which most westerns. (I liked a lot of the 90's revival westerns too, but those were primarily retrospective/historic genre films)
Arguably, the movie that really killed the western was star wars: new hope.
after reading all the forum posts here, arsforum, and the macrumors board, and then the daring fireball post, I too have concluded that Intel will produce ppc chips, and/or be in on a killer app type product like the iPod. a tablet iPad?
either way it has to have huge buzz to compete with these rumors, and Intel HAS to be involved.
maybe intel will license or buy from freescale the rights. maybe it is OS X on a pentium m in a mobile tablet for video, etc. Either thing would rock. The latter would have the same killer app quality as the iPod has, I think
I think you may be right that this may some mutant chip altogether. Rather than executing x86 instructions, intel can cut the fat, write to a ppc instruction set, and pipeline that thing to China. Since the original AIM agreement is absolved, I'm pretty sure Intel can use the PPC ISA.
IBM has been focused on the Cell and XBox 360 chips, while the g5 has stagnated. I'm sure Intel was burned by the xbox 360 choosing IBM, and would like to get that xbox revenue stream back. This seems like a smart way to start. I'm fairly sure that Freescale would love to give an altivec license to intel.
As a big time Myth and Myth II player in my young adulthood, I too was really bummed about the whole Bungie buyout, and initially this had me pretty bummed too. But with computers, my biggest problem was with Windows and the software, not necessarily the hardware. The x86 ISA is probably the least attractive ISA out there, and if intel can get out from under it by writing to a ppc ISA I'm okay with that.
My brother works for an anime company as a sales guy. When they do the conventions, they're always stuck in the elevator after hours on their way to dinner with someone dressed in evangelion or whatnot, going to the allnight showing marathon.
His joking reaction? a gutteral 'Freak!' or 'Ner-urd!' (sounded like a fog-horn)
Last time, his sales partner put his hand to his elbow, with a smile, "not freaks, revenue."
So now, he says "dude, did you check out that revenue?!" laughing all the way...
Terrible, I know. but please, rename your post, "Star Wars Revenue"
Didn't Dolly die prematurely? What would happen if I got a new liver, then would it deteriorate more quickly than normal? would it be able to withstand the incredible abuse that we humans put our bodies through, or does the squeezing out of the nucleus help the longevity of the resulting product?
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My dad used to be a translator. Namco / Midway hired him to interpret for Toru Iwatani when he visited the states, back in the early nineties. I remember my dad came back from that job, showed us his card, and told us he beat the creator at a game of Ms. Pac Man.
my brother and I immediately fell on our knees. We knew our dad was good, but that good? Then my dad said toru said he doesn't really play the games all that much
...iPad. Like a pad of paper, to draw on, to write on, read notes, and present art or view video. the name would converge with the Pages software metaphor, and of course fit in the i* naming convention.
I can see it as a good product for kids, students,\ artists and business people having to make a presentation of any sort. The apple cool factor really appeals to all those markets, and could help the iPad over other tablet designs.
It seems like it's a 5.5 x 8.5 design, which is exactly the same size as my note books in college, and my sketchbooks in art school. that size format is perfect for college because of the desk size in most lecture halls, and is really great for rough sketching. That's also about the size of Vintage International's novels.
It's bigger than most PDA's but I could really see this as a huge revitalization for that market, as well as the subnotebook/tablet market. I always thought the biggest deficiency of the PDA was the lack of natural handwriting input, the small form factor, and the lack of backward software compatibility. The Subnotebook/tablet really didn't appeal to me because of the keyboards were too small (and i have small hands!), no handwriting recognition, too many hardware features and they seemed too thick for me.
Convergence between these two categories could be a real money winner if apple tries to keep the feature set down following the success of the mini. leave out the modem, Ethernet, maybe video out, non-upgradable memory, USB, Firewire, and instead go with wifi, bluetooth, Dock connector, stereo minijack, and combo drive.
I could see something like this come in at $749 and really start where newton left off. Newton was folded, largely because it was way before its time and it was introduced at a point in Apple's development where everything was based on creating more margin. now that they are more consumer oriented, something like this could really fly.
I could see this really take off in a commercial environment, like say, for restaurants. Put one of these into a traditional juke box form factor and voila! Instant Americana.
Umm, I agree with your choice of app as far as it's GUI consistency (that's a pun:-), but without the altivec unit, G4's are essentially the same as G3's. In the interest of fairness, it wouldn't be a reliable test.
I'm not exactly sure how the current batch similarly clocked g3 and g4's compare, but back when the first g4's were interoduced, they were actually slightly slower than their non SIMD counterparts, at non SIMD calculations.
I think the better bench for comparing crossplatform 3d will come with Maya.
The cube would have fit into the market Apple wanted it in (Post imac,preMinitower) if they had added one PCI Slot. Firewire and USB expandibility is still a growing market, and even so, can't replace the need for an extra PCI slot for an extra video card, or more importantly, a high end sound card, where then the machine could be a real hit among Audio Professionals due to the lack of a fan.
As an art student, I'm really interested in this site simply for the vacuumforming know how. Something to take the mold making class to the next level.
yeah it's really cool. But even cooler, and a little less involved would be the Imperial Guard.
This thought is called flexibility. And I can't underline this term even more. One of the key things why I use UNIX to it's full extend, and learned to love it, is flexibility. Small applications like sed, awk, find, grep, ls, cp and the others only contribute to this. Good editors like vi or emacs even extends this idea.
Back in the old days of Apple had a technology that tried to address this called OpenDoc. Essentially it was a document centric technology, that pushed the application subordinate to the document. The result was that you'd have a document that was created by a bunch of small applications providing limited functionality on their own, but when combined gave the user real flexibility in what they wanted in a document. Basically, it was poised as a more flexible alternative to OLE, where it didn't require a larger application like word. IIRC, it was based off SOM. It was like a gui to java beans.
Obvously, it never took off. It suffered from poor marketing and management, as many projects at Apple did at the time. Also it was really buggy. It's memory management really sucked. It was supposed to be cross platform too, but that got nixed when MS realized it competed with their technology ( and their whole development model).
ha ha you're from peoria!
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( if you don't know Peoria, in the middle of illinois, is where such fine citizens as Matthew Hale 'hail' from)
Dude you forgot the slant eyes:-)
You know, on the The Straight Dope, when asked the reason why Europeans expanded around the world and other races didn't, they concluded that the factors of the topology of Europe, the multitude of different languages, and defensible terrain, made the Europeans
obnoxious
Get out of my face, you ignorant twit.
Some one please moderate this down to -1x10^-98751234443
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once the reaction starts, it'll spread to all the turbinium in the planet. Mars will go into global meltdown. That's why the aliens never turned it on.
as campy as that movie was, I still like it.
right, doing all the driver support would kill them. I don't think apple's ready to kill their lucrative hardware revenue stream for an incredibly risky software model.
But, I do see that they could ask people wanting to use OS X on their non-apple hardware to check out Darwin for x86 and just drop in the proprietary bits. Then they don't have to support all that low level stuff since you're doing it yourself.
Still I have a feeling, they'll put some really great proprietary hardware in the mac's alongside the Intel processors.
At 7 square miles per plant, that is 7000 square miles,
actually, from the Sandia Website, it's 10,000 square miles. a farm 100 miles by 100 miles in the southwestern US could provide as much energy as is needed to power the entire country.
seems like they figured the cloudy days in that number .
now all the people making fun of it are going to get accounts. Way to let the secret out. :-)
i agree with you. I keep in touch with most of my friends on it. It's kind of replaced most of my personal email. I've seen some really great bands off of it, hooked up off of it, threw some great parties, and gotten to know some really great people too. I run a book club off it too.
I originally got on it, because friendster was really buggy at the time, and my ex on the time was on it.
it's hilarious too in that I'll go to the bar, and see people I've seen on myspace, and we'll talk about it like it's some guilty pleasure. it's pretty funny when a girl you've never met tells you that they know you when they only know you from myspace.
but yeah, hopefully Fox recognizes that the brand is stronger than fox, and doesn't try to insert some of their coporate DNA into it.
(I'm 27 in case you were wondering )
I think we're mostly in agreement here, you're just more articulate. :-)
I've seen fundraising nonprofits fold because the administrators got too big for their britches. So I see what you mean by the compsensation.
but bringing the post back to the original poster, I volunteer for the local chamber of commerce in a struggling neighborhood. Since i'm on the membership committee, we look for new and current business owners, i.e. retail shops, restaurants, and provide a marketing resource for them to bounce off ideas to grow their business. We compete with the government as a resource, namely the alderman's office. Some use us, some don't, but generally the ones that do, find success.
My point is that it's a private institution. It can handle a little bit of competition.
reading this really raised some eyebrows for me.
he gets paid more than the president?
it seems that they are threatened financially by this. I wonder how many universities would make a switch or use PubChem as a supplement?
Manifest Destiny. Sci-fi as a genre effectively replaced the Western in our culture. It essentially distills ideals and morals from the viewer by putting characters into lawless, or unknown governing situations.
the last great western, The Wild Bunch was about the death of the western. it recognized it was losing to technology, and noted this by dragging one of the heros by a car, not a horse, and the main character used a machine gun to kill the enemies off. It's also noted for being excessively violent at the time, which most westerns. (I liked a lot of the 90's revival westerns too, but those were primarily retrospective/historic genre films)
Arguably, the movie that really killed the western was star wars: new hope.
after reading all the forum posts here, arsforum, and the macrumors board, and then the daring fireball post, I too have concluded that Intel will produce ppc chips, and/or be in on a killer app type product like the iPod. a tablet iPad?
either way it has to have huge buzz to compete with these rumors, and Intel HAS to be involved.
maybe intel will license or buy from freescale the rights. maybe it is OS X on a pentium m in a mobile tablet for video, etc. Either thing would rock. The latter would have the same killer app quality as the iPod has, I think
I think you may be right that this may some mutant chip altogether. Rather than executing x86 instructions, intel can cut the fat, write to a ppc instruction set, and pipeline that thing to China. Since the original AIM agreement is absolved, I'm pretty sure Intel can use the PPC ISA.
IBM has been focused on the Cell and XBox 360 chips, while the g5 has stagnated. I'm sure Intel was burned by the xbox 360 choosing IBM, and would like to get that xbox revenue stream back. This seems like a smart way to start. I'm fairly sure that Freescale would love to give an altivec license to intel.
As a big time Myth and Myth II player in my young adulthood, I too was really bummed about the whole Bungie buyout, and initially this had me pretty bummed too. But with computers, my biggest problem was with Windows and the software, not necessarily the hardware. The x86 ISA is probably the least attractive ISA out there, and if intel can get out from under it by writing to a ppc ISA I'm okay with that.
true. It is nice though to make fun of the people you're siphoning their vacation money from without them knowing it.
He decided to be a bit nicer after my friend, the food scientist, was driving around GenCon, asking "Hey nerd, can I have a doughnut?"
My brother works for an anime company as a sales guy. When they do the conventions, they're always stuck in the elevator after hours on their way to dinner with someone dressed in evangelion or whatnot, going to the allnight showing marathon.
His joking reaction? a gutteral 'Freak!' or 'Ner-urd!'
(sounded like a fog-horn)
Last time, his sales partner put his hand to his elbow, with a smile, "not freaks, revenue."
So now, he says "dude, did you check out that revenue?!" laughing all the way...
Terrible, I know. but please, rename your post, "Star Wars Revenue"
Didn't Dolly die prematurely? What would happen if I got a new liver, then would it deteriorate more quickly than normal? would it be able to withstand the incredible abuse that we humans put our bodies through, or does the squeezing out of the nucleus help the longevity of the resulting product?
My dad used to be a translator. Namco / Midway hired him to interpret for Toru Iwatani when he visited the states, back in the early nineties. I remember my dad came back from that job, showed us his card, and told us he beat the creator at a game of Ms. Pac Man.
my brother and I immediately fell on our knees. We knew our dad was good, but that good? Then my dad said toru said he doesn't really play the games all that much
...iPad. Like a pad of paper, to draw on, to write on, read notes, and present art or view video. the name would converge with the Pages software metaphor, and of course fit in the i* naming convention.
I can see it as a good product for kids, students,\ artists and business people having to make a presentation of any sort. The apple cool factor really appeals to all those markets, and could help the iPad over other tablet designs.
It seems like it's a 5.5 x 8.5 design, which is exactly the same size as my note books in college, and my sketchbooks in art school. that size format is perfect for college because of the desk size in most lecture halls, and is really great for rough sketching. That's also about the size of Vintage International's novels.
It's bigger than most PDA's but I could really see this as a huge revitalization for that market, as well as the subnotebook/tablet market. I always thought the biggest deficiency of the PDA was the lack of natural handwriting input, the small form factor, and the lack of backward software compatibility. The Subnotebook/tablet really didn't appeal to me because of the keyboards were too small (and i have small hands!), no handwriting recognition, too many hardware features and they seemed too thick for me.
Convergence between these two categories could be a real money winner if apple tries to keep the feature set down following the success of the mini. leave out the modem, Ethernet, maybe video out, non-upgradable memory, USB, Firewire, and instead go with wifi, bluetooth, Dock connector, stereo minijack, and combo drive.
I could see something like this come in at $749 and really start where newton left off. Newton was folded, largely because it was way before its time and it was introduced at a point in Apple's development where everything was based on creating more margin. now that they are more consumer oriented, something like this could really fly.
As noted in the MacRumors Forums, the 1st coincides with the release of these two tiger books
The missing Manual: tiger ed.
O'Reilly's learning Unix for Tiger
based on this, I'd be bullish on it being announced on the 1st.
I think the issue for apple is that the proprietary parts could be used for 'innovative' MS technologies, as long as MS supplied the source code.
It'd be nice for OS X to be released under GPL, but I think impractical
I could see this really take off in a commercial environment, like say, for restaurants. Put one of these into a traditional juke box form factor and voila! Instant Americana.
>>It's dosn't use the altivec unit (AFAIK),
:-), but without the altivec unit, G4's are essentially the same as G3's. In the interest of fairness, it wouldn't be a reliable test.
Umm, I agree with your choice of app as far as it's GUI consistency (that's a pun
I'm not exactly sure how the current batch similarly clocked g3 and g4's compare, but back when the first g4's were interoduced, they were actually slightly slower than their non SIMD counterparts, at non SIMD calculations.
I think the better bench for comparing crossplatform 3d will come with Maya.
The cube would have fit into the market Apple wanted it in (Post imac,preMinitower) if they had added one PCI Slot. Firewire and USB expandibility is still a growing market, and even so, can't replace the need for an extra PCI slot for an extra video card, or more importantly, a high end sound card, where then the machine could be a real hit among Audio Professionals due to the lack of a fan.
If I remember correctly, Cyan used Hypercard as the engine for Myst.
As an art student, I'm really interested in this site simply for the vacuumforming know how. Something to take the mold making class to the next level. yeah it's really cool. But even cooler, and a little less involved would be the Imperial Guard.
Back in the old days of Apple had a technology that tried to address this called OpenDoc. Essentially it was a document centric technology, that pushed the application subordinate to the document. The result was that you'd have a document that was created by a bunch of small applications providing limited functionality on their own, but when combined gave the user real flexibility in what they wanted in a document. Basically, it was poised as a more flexible alternative to OLE, where it didn't require a larger application like word. IIRC, it was based off SOM. It was like a gui to java beans.
Obvously, it never took off. It suffered from poor marketing and management, as many projects at Apple did at the time. Also it was really buggy. It's memory management really sucked. It was supposed to be cross platform too, but that got nixed when MS realized it competed with their technology ( and their whole development model).
( if you don't know Peoria, in the middle of illinois, is where such fine citizens as Matthew Hale 'hail' from)
:-)
Dude you forgot the slant eyes
You know, on the The Straight Dope, when asked the reason why Europeans expanded around the world and other races didn't, they concluded that the factors of the topology of Europe, the multitude of different languages, and defensible terrain, made the Europeans
obnoxious
Get out of my face, you ignorant twit.
Some one please moderate this down to -1x10^-98751234443