And that is true, not long ago I bought a veb cam, well as usual there was no Mac support for it, I tought well usually they work anyway. As printers and many other peripherals work on multiple platforms.
Well this one didn't, I was cheap I know, then I tought well I just hook it up to my Windows PC. Installed the drivers etc all according to manual.
Did it work, well hardly it was pure crap from the beginning. Since then, I never buy products that hasn't outspoken support for multiple platforms. And I get quality products then. It's a simple quality check to do on products. If they support all platforms, they actually put some time on it to make it work. If not there is a great risk it's all crap. But then, that is not entirely true, but holds water quite well when it comes to "unknown" products.
Well you and I can figure it out, but far from everyone. People have trouble going from windows version to an other windows version. So changing systems is far from just like that in a company.
And companies needs workers that do their job also, not just tweaking with their computers. They still need that old dude who knows his engineering, but cant handle a computer, and all the other "ill-literate" employees.
Therefor, Windows to Linux migration is more problematic, as everything changes. Than Win to OSX, that keeps some familiarity.
Nope, have you traveld there, I my self hava a Credit card, with a bank card. I only choose Debit or credit. Abroad, credit is always used. But it's the same card.
I got 2 Credit cards, one MasterCard one Visa both have Debit which are connected to the same bank account. Traveling in Germany/Australia, there was few shops that had Maestro, something that is old and dead in the country I live in. While traveling in Poland and Czech I never had a problem with buying food or gas to the car.
Germany and Australia turned out to be a nightmare. Buying food in a store chain that exists here in finland where they accept all from Visa to American express. Would only accept Maestro. An that was in a place not long away from dense tourist are during winter times. We quite fast learned to make sure to fill up gas in the bigger cities. And not even there where you able to go to any gasoline station.
Remember quite well also some 17 years ago traveling with my dad trough Europe. As he had his own company he had Shell Cards, Germans hadn't even seen such a thing, on the Shell stations. Where you in rest of europe could drive up to an shell station give them the card and fill up.
Where I am from, only those with creditability get an credit card. That means If you have a credit card you've already proven that you have the money. And the seller will always get his money never the less. So why bother, here people without credit cards are the one unable to pay. Both Master and Visa will cancel your card if you don't pay. I was traveling and ended up being late with one payment. Visa did close my card. Master Card didn't. Since then I've made sure they have different due dates. So incase while abroad one would be closed I would have the other.
Back home I payed the bills and couple of days later Visa was opened.
Nope, the studies I look at are from companies who actually did migrate, and did studies in advance. There are plenty of independent studies to take part of.
All platforms have their con and pros. Being biased is of no use.
Germans are well, germans, there is a reason why their industries are known for high quality. And it's a culture thing. Germans seems not the change easily. They seem to keep to ways of old, that have been proved to work.
It's not an easy thing to be a tourist in germany or any of the german speaking countries. Credit cards are shunned. Only people with no credibility uses them there ( according to their own mind ). Coins and paper receipt money is what counts.
It's not easy either for a German to be a tourist, as they don't own Credit cards. The Euro has though made it bit simpler for them within EU.
I guess it's same culture that makes it hard for them to adapt to a new operating system, it's not the same as it used to be, so their blank. But for sure they are good at producing.
Yes, these companies migrating from Windows to Linux are making a misstake, they should choose MacOSX instead.
Reason is simple, third party support is comparable with Windows and what is not available to the mac is usually not worthy to have most often low quality stuff.
Second there is little training needed. You have most of the same software around, and they work in quite similar way. Though the system is way different. Studies have shown that in the long run, OSX becomes cheapest to maintain. The initial cost is however quite much higher as Apple doesn't sell their hardware with much reduced price at all even if you order large quantities.
But been following a few reports of different migration models, within 5 years the mac investment has paid of. The advantage Mac has over Linux is support, maintenance and training costs. Linux has advantage when it comes to investment costs.
yes but before the imac, USB peripherals where just as non existent. There where no utilization of USB before the iMacs. They propelled the USB market, and now it's living on it's own.
But I doubt that whitout the iMacs then that we would be using USB2 and 3 today.
Yep so it does. But others are keen on theoretical figures. However USB performance is upgraded with computer hardware performance upgrade. Firewire performance is not affected as long as the hardware is fast enough.
So you just confirmed what I said. Well maybe I was bit pessimistic with 60MB/s. But as you said a good drive can do 75-85MB/s.
Burst is different, which is only small files, and with small files speed matters less.
If you only get 5MB/s on a raid on FireWire800 something is wrong. Cant say about the box. But the interface should sustain a minimum 25MB/s Then i consider it multiplexing. So 50MB/s should be no problem over Firewire800.
Regular consumer drives rarely go over 60MB/s. I would like to say 50MB/s but I du understand that some development has happened. A good drive might do 80MB/s.
But an drive that gets 110MB/s is surely no consumer grade hard drive.
Now I'm talking Hard drive speed, not cached speed. If the hard drive can use it's cache it can reach some higher speeds, but will not sustain that speed.
So if you talk maximum speed of the disk for a short burst... well maybe then. But they average way below that.
Please look at the *nix/Unix trea at wikipedia.org.
You'll see that Linux stand alone from any other, the others have inherited each other here and there from UNIX. Linux hasn't
Well that said, if anyone made the certification, some version of linux could probably be certified as UNIX. MacOSX 10.0-10.4 are to be considered *nix. While MacOSX 10.5-10.6 are to be considered UNIX.
The ipod's all of them play standard formats. Which is less you can say about zune or creative. Yeah they all play mpeg1 part 3 (mp3) but few play MPEG4 material, the ipod does.
Not impossible, but you need to have raptors or similar drives in there on separate controllers I guess. Or some SCSI disks for getting up to 500MB/s.
I have standard Sata 300Gbps 3x250GB 7200 RMP in raid 0 and that gives me a sustained write or read around 250MB/s so if you got som 15000 RMP drives there you just might be correct. But 500MB/s sounds bit too impressive to me.
Nope they where not standard... they where usua, but connectors etc could be different from device to device even though they implemented the same protocols etc.
USB is closer to a standard, and Firewire is an standard, governed by IEEE. OpenCL is a Standard that Apple initiated but is governed now by Khronos Group.
In that sense Googles WebM is not a standard but MPEG 4 is which has h.264 and is governed by ISO/IEC. h.264 even has an ISO number.
So while some tote Apples webkit as an Standard it's not a standard, but its an open platform.
And to the one trolling about usb in PC back in 1996. Yeah there was some PCs who had USB ports but far from all. Even less there where no peripherals using USB then. The Apple iMac propelled USB market. And nearly every USB peripheral that came out then had matching color for each iMac color.
~99.5% of all USB peripherals back then where designed for the Macs. Especially the iMacs.
I remember the times when the using iomega Zip disk on a PC, slow as HD diskette. On the mac almost as fast as the internal hard drive, plug n play even.
Didn't your read up, there was a time line on how fast the Sahara dessert would be revegetated, it would be able to restore itself totally with no interference from humans at all.
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And that is true, not long ago I bought a veb cam, well as usual there was no Mac support for it, I tought well usually they work anyway. As printers and many other peripherals work on multiple platforms.
Well this one didn't, I was cheap I know, then I tought well I just hook it up to my Windows PC. Installed the drivers etc all according to manual.
Did it work, well hardly it was pure crap from the beginning. Since then, I never buy products that hasn't outspoken support for multiple platforms. And I get quality products then. It's a simple quality check to do on products. If they support all platforms, they actually put some time on it to make it work. If not there is a great risk it's all crap. But then, that is not entirely true, but holds water quite well when it comes to "unknown" products.
Well you and I can figure it out, but far from everyone. People have trouble going from windows version to an other windows version. So changing systems is far from just like that in a company.
And companies needs workers that do their job also, not just tweaking with their computers. They still need that old dude who knows his engineering, but cant handle a computer, and all the other "ill-literate" employees.
Therefor, Windows to Linux migration is more problematic, as everything changes. Than Win to OSX, that keeps some familiarity.
Nope, have you traveld there, I my self hava a Credit card, with a bank card. I only choose Debit or credit. Abroad, credit is always used. But it's the same card.
I got 2 Credit cards, one MasterCard one Visa both have Debit which are connected to the same bank account. Traveling in Germany/Australia, there was few shops that had Maestro, something that is old and dead in the country I live in. While traveling in Poland and Czech I never had a problem with buying food or gas to the car.
Germany and Australia turned out to be a nightmare. Buying food in a store chain that exists here in finland where they accept all from Visa to American express. Would only accept Maestro. An that was in a place not long away from dense tourist are during winter times. We quite fast learned to make sure to fill up gas in the bigger cities. And not even there where you able to go to any gasoline station.
Remember quite well also some 17 years ago traveling with my dad trough Europe. As he had his own company he had Shell Cards, Germans hadn't even seen such a thing, on the Shell stations. Where you in rest of europe could drive up to an shell station give them the card and fill up.
Where I am from, only those with creditability get an credit card. That means If you have a credit card you've already proven that you have the money. And the seller will always get his money never the less. So why bother, here people without credit cards are the one unable to pay. Both Master and Visa will cancel your card if you don't pay. I was traveling and ended up being late with one payment. Visa did close my card. Master Card didn't. Since then I've made sure they have different due dates. So incase while abroad one would be closed I would have the other.
Back home I payed the bills and couple of days later Visa was opened.
It's not rocket science.
Nope, the studies I look at are from companies who actually did migrate, and did studies in advance. There are plenty of independent studies to take part of.
All platforms have their con and pros. Being biased is of no use.
Germans are well, germans, there is a reason why their industries are known for high quality. And it's a culture thing. Germans seems not the change easily. They seem to keep to ways of old, that have been proved to work.
It's not an easy thing to be a tourist in germany or any of the german speaking countries. Credit cards are shunned. Only people with no credibility uses them there ( according to their own mind ). Coins and paper receipt money is what counts.
It's not easy either for a German to be a tourist, as they don't own Credit cards. The Euro has though made it bit simpler for them within EU.
I guess it's same culture that makes it hard for them to adapt to a new operating system, it's not the same as it used to be, so their blank. But for sure they are good at producing.
Yes, these companies migrating from Windows to Linux are making a misstake, they should choose MacOSX instead.
Reason is simple, third party support is comparable with Windows and what is not available to the mac is usually not worthy to have most often low quality stuff.
Second there is little training needed. You have most of the same software around, and they work in quite similar way. Though the system is way different. Studies have shown that in the long run, OSX becomes cheapest to maintain. The initial cost is however quite much higher as Apple doesn't sell their hardware with much reduced price at all even if you order large quantities.
But been following a few reports of different migration models, within 5 years the mac investment has paid of. The advantage Mac has over Linux is support, maintenance and training costs. Linux has advantage when it comes to investment costs.
But all of them are cheaper than MS licenses.
yes but before the imac, USB peripherals where just as non existent. There where no utilization of USB before the iMacs. They propelled the USB market, and now it's living on it's own.
But I doubt that whitout the iMacs then that we would be using USB2 and 3 today.
Yep so it does. But others are keen on theoretical figures. However USB performance is upgraded with computer hardware performance upgrade. Firewire performance is not affected as long as the hardware is fast enough.
jepp, and that is why it is a *nix not UNIX. As we'll never know if it actually qualifies. But hey so what, live with it it's close enough.
yes few play MPEG4, but MPEG4 contains a lot of formats. AAC is MPEG4p3. h.264 is MPEG4p10.
And why don't just eat your own words search for ipod in text you'll find out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Efficiency_Advanced_Audio_Coding
PS. iTunes Music is DRM free and been so for quite a while.
So you just confirmed what I said. Well maybe I was bit pessimistic with 60MB/s. But as you said a good drive can do 75-85MB/s.
Burst is different, which is only small files, and with small files speed matters less.
If you only get 5MB/s on a raid on FireWire800 something is wrong. Cant say about the box. But the interface should sustain a minimum 25MB/s Then i consider it multiplexing. So 50MB/s should be no problem over Firewire800.
Apple made the first dock able laptop, it sux that they don't do it anymore.
Well as long as it runs i flash, that 50MB will be 50GB
Regular consumer drives rarely go over 60MB/s. I would like to say 50MB/s but I du understand that some development has happened. A good drive might do 80MB/s.
But an drive that gets 110MB/s is surely no consumer grade hard drive.
Now I'm talking Hard drive speed, not cached speed. If the hard drive can use it's cache it can reach some higher speeds, but will not sustain that speed.
So if you talk maximum speed of the disk for a short burst... well maybe then. But they average way below that.
Please look at the *nix/Unix trea at wikipedia.org.
You'll see that Linux stand alone from any other, the others have inherited each other here and there from UNIX. Linux hasn't
Well that said, if anyone made the certification, some version of linux could probably be certified as UNIX. MacOSX 10.0-10.4 are to be considered *nix. While MacOSX 10.5-10.6 are to be considered UNIX.
The ipod's all of them play standard formats. Which is less you can say about zune or creative. Yeah they all play mpeg1 part 3 (mp3) but few play MPEG4 material, the ipod does.
Have you tested your raid for that?
Not impossible, but you need to have raptors or similar drives in there on separate controllers I guess. Or some SCSI disks for getting up to 500MB/s.
I have standard Sata 300Gbps 3x250GB 7200 RMP in raid 0 and that gives me a sustained write or read around 250MB/s so if you got som 15000 RMP drives there you just might be correct. But 500MB/s sounds bit too impressive to me.
Nope they where not standard... they where usua, but connectors etc could be different from device to device even though they implemented the same protocols etc.
USB is closer to a standard, and Firewire is an standard, governed by IEEE. OpenCL is a Standard that Apple initiated but is governed now by Khronos Group.
In that sense Googles WebM is not a standard but MPEG 4 is which has h.264 and is governed by ISO/IEC. h.264 even has an ISO number.
So while some tote Apples webkit as an Standard it's not a standard, but its an open platform.
And to the one trolling about usb in PC back in 1996. Yeah there was some PCs who had USB ports but far from all. Even less there where no peripherals using USB then. The Apple iMac propelled USB market. And nearly every USB peripheral that came out then had matching color for each iMac color.
~99.5% of all USB peripherals back then where designed for the Macs. Especially the iMacs.
I remember the times when the using iomega Zip disk on a PC, slow as HD diskette. On the mac almost as fast as the internal hard drive, plug n play even.
And wether condition would change rapidly thanx to vegetation.
How about reading skills?
Didn't your read up, there was a time line on how fast the Sahara dessert would be revegetated, it would be able to restore itself totally with no interference from humans at all.
And the desserts in US, are due to what? Haven't you read what the agriculture there does to the soil?
And you tottaly missed the huge point of it!!!
"The conclusion was that the Sahara could recover by it self if we took the Mammals out of the area for about two centuries!"
And the biggest mammal that gives problem is what mammal, humans.
I repost my answer to that:
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/decertification-part-ii-history-sahara-desert-attempt-stop-decertification-6 [nowpublic.com]
ok sorry lingual error.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbre_du_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
Sahara was quite green just a few thousand years ago.
warning more serious link, maybe too much for average slashdoter to handle.
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/decertification-part-ii-history-sahara-desert-attempt-stop-decertification-6