You might get better performance from a FireWire enclosure.
"Might" isn't really the word you're looking for. "Will definitely", even on a PC - FW400 is still faster than USB2 even though supposedly USB2 is 480Mbit/s because of the way the architecture is designed.
USB is much more CPU-bound than FW because of the master/slave architecture. If you google around a bit you will find that FW beats USB in pretty much every benchmark. You could argue that it just depends on your chipset but the bottom line is that it is far easier to find a firewire chipset that outperforms a USB chipset than vice versa.
Also it's just nice to get a disk that has the ability to be daisy-chained with another disk via another FW port on the back; most LaCie drives do this. And if you're going LaCie and you have a Powerbook you might as well get the FW800 disks especially for video editing...
I don't get where most people are getting that their devices are set up to auto-discover. All of my devices (my PB, my cell phone, my PDA) require that I set them as "discoverable" for a certain period of time - on my phone, it lets me set it as discoverable for 10 seconds; my PDA was set off by default; the PB requires me to set it as discoverable.
I leave my cell phone's radio on so I can use Salling Clicker with it, but that's about it.
I think that "powergaming your career" is quite possibly the best phrase I have seen in this entire article. I plan on using this in the future. It's great.
And I'm not saying that Linux is better in this regard, KDE suffers largley from the same problem (in this and other areas). OS X OTOH always moves IIRC. OS X moves if you're dragging to a location that's on the same partition. If you're dragging to a location that's not on the same partition it adds a gigantic green "+" to the mouse pointer to let you know that it's copying and you can press fruit to make it a move. (I'm sure a Ctrl will make it turn a move into a copy but I never have occasion to use that one.)
The idea here is that it's what you're going to want to do. If you've just inserted a disk of some sort you're probably going to want to copy the files off it, you're not going to want to move things. Same with network shares and the like.
Windows' ".exe files are SPECIAL and should be linked when you drag them" bugs the living daylights out of me, however. But that's due to OS X's wonderful concept of "here is an application file. It's really a directory with a bunch of files in it but you don't know that. It's just... a file."
Incidentally, if you click on a button in a background window in OS X, not only will the window take focus (which I see as a plus) but the button you pressed will be processed as a regular click as if it were in the foreground when you clicked it. No, it won't always do this. It depends on the program you're activating this way, and the inconsistency sucks. Apple needs to put a clear choice in the Aqua HIG.
And if freely available...why do they need DRM on them in the first place?
This is what I don't understand. Somewhere else a poster (presumably MSFT employee) was talking about how they were "sensitive documents" that needed DRM attached and that the MHT format was open, but the DRM method wasn't, and that was the only problem.
So basically we're releasing these encrypted documents to the PUBLIC with a COMPLETELY OPEN LICENSE, all you have to do is use a program that can read our DRM! Sure, we could just... well, save it decrypted, but that's insecure, y'know. Can't have stuff unencrypted. Even if the key to decrypt it is lying right next to it.
I know we all bash Microsoft a lot - I try to avoid it, but I'm sorry, someone up there is just being a fucking moron in this case.
They're not actually using "bugs in the emulator" - all emulator assisted speed runs are, are runs that involve massive use of savestates. It's possible that there ARE those glitches that you speak of, but it takes more to activate them than what you're seeing - remember that all computers generate pseudorandom numbers so a condition may be engineered to occur there that you're not exactly reproducing.
All legitimate runs are given as a movie file in the emulator's format so it can be played back using only button presses, anyway.
Because basically they already have. The iPod is just a "smart" FW drive; and Macs can boot directly from Firewire drives already. It's quite possible (and I've done it) to simply install a copy of OS X on an iPod and boot from it. Makes an excellent emergency boot disk. It wouldn't take much effort to extend this to what he's talking about.
I actually had one that did something like this. I think it had tab and backspace there, and I forget what the third key was. It's been a while since I have seen one like this, though.
The license gives you more rights than copyright law. If you actually read it sometime:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited
by law if you do not accept this License. (emphasis mine)
Seems to me the license is allowing you more freedom than copyright law does.
The thread starter was saying GPL software is a clone of non-free software. Not a clone of other free software.
Then why the iTunes complaint that started the whole thing?
He's dead on, too, I can't think of a single thing that I could say "Yeah, well, I have THIS" when someone started saying something about Linux. However, I have many things I can do that with on OSX. Guess which one I use.:)
An 'all-in-one' OS just doesn't make that much sense anymore, most people don't care about all of the bells and whistles, they just want something that is fast and easy to use. Errr... no? Explain the success of OSX, where you do not need to buy a single separate program - *maybe* Office if you really really need Word or somesuch. But hey, that one isn't really "in the OS" in Windows either. (And Works is quite fine for most applications.) iApps + Safari + Mail = everything most people want to do with a computer at home.
(although some slimmer OS like the Hurd would work even better and it will be coming into its own by the time Longhorn is released) Ah, I have just been trolled. Oh well, I wasted a little time already, might as well laugh at you for mentioning Hurd... Wasn't that supposed to be "coming into its own" about 10 years ago?
It's Apples that all look the same. A PC can look like whatever you want.
Maybe you've never heard of ShapeShifter. And you can change the look of your Apple box, too, it's just that it actually looks good to begin with. I had to spend three hours before I finally had a desktop that looked good with Linux. My iBook looked good the first time I turned it on. And every app looks like it belongs in my desktop environment, rather than out of some random other person's. Sorry, I *like* the consistency.
You can also install hacks that change the Finder's brushed-metal look. Or the look of the entire OS. By default you can change to have the "Graphite" theme as well; if you truly want to be different then you can do that.
Macs are for people who just want to get on with what they're doing, rather than screw with settings infinitely to get something that looks decent to them. Sorry, but I want something that looks good to begin with; I can tweak it later if I want.
It is even worst with the NVidia drivers where its actually compiled into the Linux kernel. This is proprietary code compiled into the kernel people!!.
No, it is not. It is compiled code, loaded into the kernel after it boots. Hence, a "module". You can't compile it into the kernel without the original source.
You still have a MAC address. If you want to believe that Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft don't have a database with your MAC address in it, that's your business, but more than one computer user has learned the hard way that the MAC address identifies them.
That's wonderful. Wait, just a second...
ifconfig en0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
Oh, "snap", now they have a different address to trace.
At one point in old versions of Windows, you could type "NYC Q77" (New York City, and the flight number) and it would come up with a skull, a Star of David, some other evil symbol that I don't recall, a plane and two tower-like objects...:P
I should do this to the people selling "RedOctane Style" DDR pads on ebay. It's such a scam, their pads are horrible quality, but even I was duped by them once, and I've had friends almost suckered themselves...
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You might get better performance from a FireWire enclosure.
"Might" isn't really the word you're looking for. "Will definitely", even on a PC - FW400 is still faster than USB2 even though supposedly USB2 is 480Mbit/s because of the way the architecture is designed.
USB is much more CPU-bound than FW because of the master/slave architecture. If you google around a bit you will find that FW beats USB in pretty much every benchmark. You could argue that it just depends on your chipset but the bottom line is that it is far easier to find a firewire chipset that outperforms a USB chipset than vice versa.
Also it's just nice to get a disk that has the ability to be daisy-chained with another disk via another FW port on the back; most LaCie drives do this. And if you're going LaCie and you have a Powerbook you might as well get the FW800 disks especially for video editing...
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I don't get where most people are getting that their devices are set up to auto-discover. All of my devices (my PB, my cell phone, my PDA) require that I set them as "discoverable" for a certain period of time - on my phone, it lets me set it as discoverable for 10 seconds; my PDA was set off by default; the PB requires me to set it as discoverable.
I leave my cell phone's radio on so I can use Salling Clicker with it, but that's about it.
I think that "powergaming your career" is quite possibly the best phrase I have seen in this entire article. I plan on using this in the future. It's great.
And I'm not saying that Linux is better in this regard, KDE suffers largley from the same problem (in this and other areas). OS X OTOH always moves IIRC.
OS X moves if you're dragging to a location that's on the same partition. If you're dragging to a location that's not on the same partition it adds a gigantic green "+" to the mouse pointer to let you know that it's copying and you can press fruit to make it a move. (I'm sure a Ctrl will make it turn a move into a copy but I never have occasion to use that one.)
The idea here is that it's what you're going to want to do. If you've just inserted a disk of some sort you're probably going to want to copy the files off it, you're not going to want to move things. Same with network shares and the like.
Windows' ".exe files are SPECIAL and should be linked when you drag them" bugs the living daylights out of me, however. But that's due to OS X's wonderful concept of "here is an application file. It's really a directory with a bunch of files in it but you don't know that. It's just... a file."
Incidentally, if you click on a button in a background window in OS X, not only will the window take focus (which I see as a plus) but the button you pressed will be processed as a regular click as if it were in the foreground when you clicked it.
No, it won't always do this. It depends on the program you're activating this way, and the inconsistency sucks. Apple needs to put a clear choice in the Aqua HIG.
That's not green, that's pink. Perhaps you mean the Gas Chamber. :)
I don't quite understand why, but for some reason, this comment made me laugh. Maybe it's just the filename "bullshit"...
And if freely available...why do they need DRM on them in the first place?
This is what I don't understand. Somewhere else a poster (presumably MSFT employee) was talking about how they were "sensitive documents" that needed DRM attached and that the MHT format was open, but the DRM method wasn't, and that was the only problem.
So basically we're releasing these encrypted documents to the PUBLIC with a COMPLETELY OPEN LICENSE, all you have to do is use a program that can read our DRM! Sure, we could just... well, save it decrypted, but that's insecure, y'know. Can't have stuff unencrypted. Even if the key to decrypt it is lying right next to it.
I know we all bash Microsoft a lot - I try to avoid it, but I'm sorry, someone up there is just being a fucking moron in this case.
They're not actually using "bugs in the emulator" - all emulator assisted speed runs are, are runs that involve massive use of savestates. It's possible that there ARE those glitches that you speak of, but it takes more to activate them than what you're seeing - remember that all computers generate pseudorandom numbers so a condition may be engineered to occur there that you're not exactly reproducing.
All legitimate runs are given as a movie file in the emulator's format so it can be played back using only button presses, anyway.
An SSN is only supposed to be used for identification
Really? Weird! I wonder why this card here says "NOT TO BE USED FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES", then?
Why is Apple the only one that could pull it off?
Because basically they already have. The iPod is just a "smart" FW drive; and Macs can boot directly from Firewire drives already. It's quite possible (and I've done it) to simply install a copy of OS X on an iPod and boot from it. Makes an excellent emergency boot disk. It wouldn't take much effort to extend this to what he's talking about.
I actually had one that did something like this. I think it had tab and backspace there, and I forget what the third key was. It's been a while since I have seen one like this, though.
He didn't even do it for karma - Funny mods and all that ;)
Strange. Both the new laptops I've bought actually had, on the hard drive, a package file for me to double click and install the dev tools...
:)
While there might be a CD, this is better...
Toast does it without burning, yes... just use it to decode the m4p and then encode back with program of choice :)
The license gives you more rights than copyright law. If you actually read it sometime:
Seems to me the license is allowing you more freedom than copyright law does.
The thread starter was saying GPL software is a clone of non-free software. Not a clone of other free software.
:)
Then why the iTunes complaint that started the whole thing?
He's dead on, too, I can't think of a single thing that I could say "Yeah, well, I have THIS" when someone started saying something about Linux. However, I have many things I can do that with on OSX. Guess which one I use.
I know there's a clone of LaunchBar for Windows. As for exactly where it is... but it looks EXACTLY LIKE LaunchBar.
And I *love* LB for my Mac, it saves me so much time and dock space... true essential tool.
An 'all-in-one' OS just doesn't make that much sense anymore, most people don't care about all of the bells and whistles, they just want something that is fast and easy to use.
Errr... no? Explain the success of OSX, where you do not need to buy a single separate program - *maybe* Office if you really really need Word or somesuch. But hey, that one isn't really "in the OS" in Windows either. (And Works is quite fine for most applications.) iApps + Safari + Mail = everything most people want to do with a computer at home.
(although some slimmer OS like the Hurd would work even better and it will be coming into its own by the time Longhorn is released)
Ah, I have just been trolled. Oh well, I wasted a little time already, might as well laugh at you for mentioning Hurd... Wasn't that supposed to be "coming into its own" about 10 years ago?
It's Apples that all look the same. A PC can look like whatever you want.
Maybe you've never heard of ShapeShifter. And you can change the look of your Apple box, too, it's just that it actually looks good to begin with. I had to spend three hours before I finally had a desktop that looked good with Linux. My iBook looked good the first time I turned it on. And every app looks like it belongs in my desktop environment, rather than out of some random other person's. Sorry, I *like* the consistency.
You can also install hacks that change the Finder's brushed-metal look. Or the look of the entire OS. By default you can change to have the "Graphite" theme as well; if you truly want to be different then you can do that.
Macs are for people who just want to get on with what they're doing, rather than screw with settings infinitely to get something that looks decent to them. Sorry, but I want something that looks good to begin with; I can tweak it later if I want.
It is even worst with the NVidia drivers where its actually compiled into the Linux kernel. This is proprietary code compiled into the kernel people!!.
No, it is not. It is compiled code, loaded into the kernel after it boots. Hence, a "module". You can't compile it into the kernel without the original source.
That's wonderful. Wait, just a second...Oh, "snap", now they have a different address to trace.
Fun fun. Everything is configurable.
At one point in old versions of Windows, you could type "NYC Q77" (New York City, and the flight number) and it would come up with a skull, a Star of David, some other evil symbol that I don't recall, a plane and two tower-like objects... :P
I should do this to the people selling "RedOctane Style" DDR pads on ebay. It's such a scam, their pads are horrible quality, but even I was duped by them once, and I've had friends almost suckered themselves...