Im all in favor of the frequent updates, but one place where they can cause problems is when apple updates some of it's core 'features' which are actualy open source software. For example update 10.0.1 upgraded OS X's "Web Sharing service" (aka apache) from the 14 point release to #16. This is all good unless you happened to have upgraded to 19 yourself, in which case you were promptly downgraded. They might have fixed this problem with the more recent releases. because 10.0.2 didnt overwrite my instalation of SSH. only time will tell.
It may not be as bad as you think. I know people who have used the same princeton email address for years as a personal acount. youd think they would be submerged in about 100 pieces of spam a day, but remarkably enough, only about one or two gets through the email filters the university uses. I think that since the university has more of an intrest in protecting its users from such email so they dont have to rotate logins every 10 years for the profs theyre more likely to take a proactive stance towards spammers.
Hey wait a minute, didn't apple give the person who was one of the lead developers of Mach a high profile (probably lucrative) job? yet they're not "giving back to the community" well get over it, unless you've actually written some of the code apple uses you have no right to complain. Even if you have you knew what you were getting when you released it so stop bitching.
Why is apple using open source? if you think its for you or the open source community you're dead wrong. Apple is making sure the foundation of it's OS is open source for mac developers. They're doing it so that if company A needs feature Y then instead of just complaining about it they can help take action. and they're doing it so that if company B doesn't understand how feature Z works they can just take a look. The 'free labor' that the poster refers to isn't apple's main concern, but would you realistically expect them to dissuade it?
I knew a kid a while back that attended a well known college who effectively cut off internet access from most of Bulgaria by setting a computer lab full of sun workstations to continuously ping several prominent ISP's servers for a while. I was 12 at the time so i dont know the details (besides the fact that he was expelled) and i imagine that It would be harder today, but it just shows how smaller countries with less developed infrastructures are extremely easy targets for that kind of thing.
Apple has said before that theyre not going to use open source as a grave yard for projects they no longer have an intrest in. And i commend them for that. hypercard has been dead in terms of development for years. I dont see anything remarkable about this. (the fact that its still in use speaks wonders about how far ahead of it's time it was.)
Well yes it will make the station move.... but if you want to get picky playing a dvd on earth would make the earth move too...... be careful next time you load up the matrix.
It would solve SO MANY problems if every unsolicited email's subject line had to start with "ADV: " that would make it unbelievably easy for users to filter out this crap. If a company sends you an email without that prefix, forward it to your local law office done, no more spam. maybe there should be a prefix for solicited stuff too as in the emails that amazon.com seems to think you want just because you bought 32 photography books from them for a course you were teaching... two years ago.... DAMN YOU AMAZON.
this would make spaming useless and it would cut off after a while because no one would even be bothered with reading the subject line. oh and if you say being forced to add a prefix to teh subject line of an email is a violation of free speach im going to cut your balls off with rusty garden clippers. and yes i am a member of the ACLU
Does this mean that the government is going to raise the speed limits by 5 miles? I mean although no police officer will admit it speed limits are generaly set five below whats acceptable for the area because of the inaccuracy of radar guns (can you imagine how easy it would be to go to court over a speeding ticket where you were going 26 in a 25 zone?) so does this mean that speed limits are going to increase slightly to allow for the same (acceptable) driving practices, or are we all going to have to slow down?
I think that THIS is the reason Microsoft wants into the console market. They see future consoles as limited home computers with a tv for a monitor. If they were to ignore it and sony's ps2 took off it could cut into their sales. Now with the X-Box they have the best of both worlds, they still dominate the traditional 'computer' OS market, AND they have a large chunk of both hardware and software sales for the console market. Its a blatant attempt to extend their monopoly and because of something that happended about an hour ago The government wont do anything about it.
Maybe theyll have to take Tarzan of the shelves. again too, back in the day it was removed from the shelves of LA public libraries because Tarzan was "living in sin" with Jane....
Bah, your first two reasons are completely out there. first of all ms owns about 200million of apple stock. apple has about $14 in assets to back every share in the market. with apple stock hanging below $20 microsoft can do whatever it wants with that stock its not over valued so its not going to take a hit it cant rebound from if microsoft dumps its shares. Win2k for the G4? apple would love that (steve's always thought of apple as a hardware company which also happens to make the software for its boxes)
the last point is valid however apple needs office to survive.
aside from all this the REAL reason apple wont port to x86 is that it would lose the tight hardware software integration that helps make it easy to use and mantain. This integration is jobs main focus at the moment and i doubt he'd throw it away for a 51% stake in microsoft (nor would i want him to)
Since is sounds like 3d is of little importance to you I would go with the ATI card due to the fact that it is the CURRENT 2d king on the mac and its better supported. However, if things keep on going as they are ATI will be pushed out of the mac space completely leaving me to wonder whether future apple OSes will be better optimized for the nVidia cards. This is of course speculation but if you want my advice Buy ATI for a machine youre going to be using over the next year or two then upgrading, but go with the GeForce for a machine which has to last you into 2005.
Looking to add the DVD-r drive to a pc you just purchased Be My Guest. that PowerMac is looking awfully good right now isnt it?(and yes that IS the same drive)
ACTUALY you may have experience in retail but obviously youve never worked anywhere selling macs recently, because apple is offering big incentives to the salespeople who sell cubes. not sure what the exact cash figure is, but i was told while working as an apple rep at the wiz that if i sold a customer a g4 cube, the lucky man who got to ring up the purchase would be extreamly happy.
The new powerbook's display ratio is 4:3. most HDTV sets are 16:9 (just like the Apple Cinema Display) as for using the HDTV standard im not sure what you mean by this but unless apple pulled some amazing magic trick of some sort theres no HDTV decoding going on inside that little box, as much as i wish.
Its doubtful that the first iteration of the GeForce 2 go will make it into a power book for the simple reason that apple isnt willing to sacrifice battery life in exchange for alot more 3d power, as much as I would love to play quake on that 15.1 wide screen display it just wouldnt make sense for the market theyre in. in laptops Transmeta (and apple for that matter) has it right battery life is king.
This is the second recent advance pertaining to diamonds. Jewlery quality diamonds can now be made in a cost effective way??5{ndustrial diamonds are created. If this becomes main stream i expect to see "bedazzler" to replace those cheap pieces of plastic with read diamonds soon.
I think i read this at arstechnica go check it out.
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Im all in favor of the frequent updates, but one place where they can cause problems is when apple updates some of it's core 'features' which are actualy open source software. For example update 10.0.1 upgraded OS X's "Web Sharing service" (aka apache) from the 14 point release to #16. This is all good unless you happened to have upgraded to 19 yourself, in which case you were promptly downgraded. They might have fixed this problem with the more recent releases. because 10.0.2 didnt overwrite my instalation of SSH. only time will tell.
bandwidth.
It may not be as bad as you think. I know people who have used the same princeton email address for years as a personal acount. youd think they would be submerged in about 100 pieces of spam a day, but remarkably enough, only about one or two gets through the email filters the university uses. I think that since the university has more of an intrest in protecting its users from such email so they dont have to rotate logins every 10 years for the profs theyre more likely to take a proactive stance towards spammers.
Hey wait a minute, didn't apple give the person who was one of the lead developers of Mach a high profile (probably lucrative) job? yet they're not "giving back to the community" well get over it, unless you've actually written some of the code apple uses you have no right to complain. Even if you have you knew what you were getting when you released it so stop bitching.
Why is apple using open source? if you think its for you or the open source community you're dead wrong. Apple is making sure the foundation of it's OS is open source for mac developers. They're doing it so that if company A needs feature Y then instead of just complaining about it they can help take action. and they're doing it so that if company B doesn't understand how feature Z works they can just take a look. The 'free labor' that the poster refers to isn't apple's main concern, but would you realistically expect them to dissuade it?
I knew a kid a while back that attended a well known college who effectively cut off internet access from most of Bulgaria by setting a computer lab full of sun workstations to continuously ping several prominent ISP's servers for a while. I was 12 at the time so i dont know the details (besides the fact that he was expelled) and i imagine that It would be harder today, but it just shows how smaller countries with less developed infrastructures are extremely easy targets for that kind of thing.
Apple has said before that theyre not going to use open source as a grave yard for projects they no longer have an intrest in. And i commend them for that. hypercard has been dead in terms of development for years. I dont see anything remarkable about this. (the fact that its still in use speaks wonders about how far ahead of it's time it was.)
Amen brother.
Well yes it will make the station move.... but if you want to get picky playing a dvd on earth would make the earth move too...... be careful next time you load up the matrix.
this would make spaming useless and it would cut off after a while because no one would even be bothered with reading the subject line.
oh and if you say being forced to add a prefix to teh subject line of an email is a violation of free speach im going to cut your balls off with rusty garden clippers. and yes i am a member of the ACLU
Does this mean that the government is going to raise the speed limits by 5 miles? I mean although no police officer will admit it speed limits are generaly set five below whats acceptable for the area because of the inaccuracy of radar guns (can you imagine how easy it would be to go to court over a speeding ticket where you were going 26 in a 25 zone?) so does this mean that speed limits are going to increase slightly to allow for the same (acceptable) driving practices, or are we all going to have to slow down?
Ha. most news sites would take that as a compliment.
I think that THIS is the reason Microsoft wants into the console market. They see future consoles as limited home computers with a tv for a monitor. If they were to ignore it and sony's ps2 took off it could cut into their sales. Now with the X-Box they have the best of both worlds, they still dominate the traditional 'computer' OS market, AND they have a large chunk of both hardware and software sales for the console market. Its a blatant attempt to extend their monopoly and because of something that happended about an hour ago The government wont do anything about it.
Maybe theyll have to take Tarzan of the shelves. again too, back in the day it was removed from the shelves of LA public libraries because Tarzan was "living in sin" with Jane....
God bless the Google cache.
aside from all this the REAL reason apple wont port to x86 is that it would lose the tight hardware software integration that helps make it easy to use and mantain. This integration is jobs main focus at the moment and i doubt he'd throw it away for a 51% stake in microsoft (nor would i want him to)
Since is sounds like 3d is of little importance to you I would go with the ATI card due to the fact that it is the CURRENT 2d king on the mac and its better supported. However, if things keep on going as they are ATI will be pushed out of the mac space completely leaving me to wonder whether future apple OSes will be better optimized for the nVidia cards. This is of course speculation but if you want my advice Buy ATI for a machine youre going to be using over the next year or two then upgrading, but go with the GeForce for a machine which has to last you into 2005.
that PowerMac is looking awfully good right now isnt it?(and yes that IS the same drive)
ACTUALY you may have experience in retail but obviously youve never worked anywhere selling macs recently, because apple is offering big incentives to the salespeople who sell cubes. not sure what the exact cash figure is, but i was told while working as an apple rep at the wiz that if i sold a customer a g4 cube, the lucky man who got to ring up the purchase would be extreamly happy.
The new powerbook's display ratio is 4:3. most HDTV sets are 16:9 (just like the Apple Cinema Display) as for using the HDTV standard im not sure what you mean by this but unless apple pulled some amazing magic trick of some sort theres no HDTV decoding going on inside that little box, as much as i wish.
oops the weed must be taking effect because I forgot to mention that the GeForce uses about 2x the power that the rage mobility does.
Its doubtful that the first iteration of the GeForce 2 go will make it into a power book for the simple reason that apple isnt willing to sacrifice battery life in exchange for alot more 3d power, as much as I would love to play quake on that 15.1 wide screen display it just wouldnt make sense for the market theyre in. in laptops Transmeta (and apple for that matter) has it right battery life is king.
I know the asian kung-fu knock off movies are in style right now, but am i the only one asking how the hell do you pronounce that???
I think i read this at arstechnica go check it out.
So next time mike28345@msn.com sends me an email about 'hot wet sex' i cant click on the link??? but i trusted mike28345 so much before this.