From DVI to ADC, the cable adapter doesn't do any magic- the DVI and ADC signals are the same, but arranged in Apple's shell so that Apple can use a nifty squeeze-quick-release instead of the thumbscrews that DVI and VGA used.
I'm not the parent-poster you replied to, but I'll answer your question as if I were:
1962 Chevrolet Impala. No microcontrollers. 1968 VW Beetle. No microcontrollers.
Used to have a 1981 BMW 320iS. One microcontroller, which had no effect on the car's driveability or emissions when removed. Apparently, it had been dead for years.
If I understand you correctly, money perverts everything it touches. You want more money in the hands of the average person.
Therefore, you want the average person to be more perverse?
The answer is, money doesn't pervert everything it touches. You simply have to go about creating wealth for yourself and helping others do the same, rather than pointing fingers at the people who are successful at it, but not helping others do the same.
And if that's all they are, and all they will ever be, then there's no reason to upgrade, outside of the dedicated gamer who needs the faster parts. The three former uses simply don't require it and haven't for years.
So what must they do if they want to keep inspiring people to buy? Give us new uses.
The multimedia PC is a step in that direction- using the computer as a home jukebox is a great idea, except that certain interests are determined to undermine that use.
Apple's making an attempt at it with their bundling of video editing software aimed at the home movie maker.
We need to see more moves in this direction that stretch the definition of what a computer is for, for the regular home user.
Then, and only then, will people have a reason to go out and buy new machines.
Come now. You do realise that Bob Barr (republican from Georgia) was one of the most pro-individual-privacy legislators there was. He was bad on leglization of medical marijuana, and he lost his primary, but don't go overboard with association of one party for privacy and one against.
You propose taxing corporations and individuals in the same or similar manner.
That sounds great on the surface, except that it doesn't work that way in real life, because corporations don't pay taxes, as such- they pass them on to others. Who really pays taxes when they're levied on a corporation?
employees, in the form of lower wages.
customers, in the form of higher prices.
shareholders, in the form of lower investment value.
Now, I know you may not care about the last one, but when you tax a corporation, you're really punishing the very people you rely on to spur the economy.
So then, it is inconceivable to you that Apple might not have progressed in the ten years since you last looked at one of their products? That seems a little silly, since we both know that other personal computers have progressed.
Re:Wow (Score:2) by Rakarra (rakNarraO@SpacbPellA.Mnet) on Monday October 21, @02:18PM (#4497592) (User #112805 Info) Jesse Helms? I never would have thought a High Ranking Republican would get involved like this- and on the side of the smaller guy. The Republicans are generally not friends with Hollywood and the music industry. The Democrats are traditionally those industries' allies.
Except of course for Howard Coble, R-NC who co-sponsored the p2p hacking bill we all disliked.
Rebecca Mercuri has a checklist which asks several questions which must be answered for an electronic voting system to be secure, accurate, and trustworthy.
The bar is set pretty high, so unless each question can be answered, electronic voting is a poor solution.
What means is used to separate voter identity from voted ballot?
How is the balloting process secured such that voter submissions can not
be observed, or recorded in any way that is traceable to the individual
voter?
What actions on the system are audited?
How is the auditing process precluded from associating voters with cast
ballots?
How is the audit trail accessed and used?
Who is permitted to access the system (through all aspects of handling)?
What facilities are provided for recount purposes?
How are voters authenticated and authorized to cast ballots?
What access controls are in place to ensure single ballot per voter per
election?
If multiple systems are deployed, how are voters tracked so the same person
does not vote in different formats?
What controls are used to ensure that the correct ballot is provided to
the voter?
What controls are provided to ensure that each ballot item is voted properly?
How are all forms of tampering detected and prevented?
How is vote confirmation provided without ballot-face receipt?
How is the voter prevented from retaining a copy of the cast ballot?
How does the system assure that each ballot has been correctly recorded?
How does the voter know that a cast ballot has been accepted?
How is vote tabulation correctness assured?
What features are employed to ensure operability of the voting system throughout
the election?
How are downtimes handled in the event that they do occur?
What alternative balloting system is available for voters when the system
is down?
How do the poll workers and system administrators know that the system
is operating correctly?
How is the voting system precluded from use when deemed inoperable?
You're obviously reading much more into my earlier reply than I actually wrote.
Moshe Bar isn't a Mac user- he's a linux user. Accusing him of being as stupid as a Mac user is inaccurate and ill-deserved. He chose his words poorly, and you, like many others, understood that he ties wireless performance to the OS.
For a Mac, that's almost the case, since it's pretty rare that you would use anything other than the Apple Airport card for wireless (although for those of us with older powerbooks, or other needs, it is possible to use proxim, cisco, and lucent cards. Users of those cards are not in the majority.)
Moshe Bar's primary language isn't English. You'll forgive this apparent error. I'm pretty certain that he was simply citing the experience and obsvering that the kid with the iBook got signal where he didn't- and that he knows as well as anyone that OS isn't a factor.
As for Fair Use, and Apple, I never claimed that Apple protects fair use. You assigned that to me.
I only suggested that there are ways in which you can do what you want, and Apple won't prevent you from doing them. They don't assist you, but they stay out of your way, which is worth remembering.
Apple protects itself from liability. Shipping a DVD Player application without region management and anti-commercial-skipping would be, as a business decision, suicidal- like asking the MPAA to joust, when you're armed with a dead flower instead of a metal spear.
Haven't they got enough problems, having shipped the iPod, which the RIAA would readily like to outlaw?
Do NOT run OS X on an ibook. ibook G3 CPUs are not fast enough to run OS X at a usable speed when doing anything that shows off a lot of 2D stuff (A few days ago I wrote a simple C++ program that finds prime numbers and displays them in real-time, and the terminal updates were using almost as many CPU cycles as the number generator was.). Java is also very slow on the G3 ibooks. Other ibook issues include:
- DVD/CD-Rom flakiness on OS X (The DVD/CD drive doesn't always recognize a CD after the disc has been in a while.
- Power management problems. OS X does not always wake up after the ibook has been closed/ opened.
- CPU heat. The G3 CPUs in ibooks put out enough heat to be very uncomfortable when in one's lap.
What you're saying is, don't run OS X on a G3 processor. I say you're incorrect.
I have a G3/333 with 512mb RAM running 10.2, and it's not bad. It isn't a speed demon, but it's fast enough.
The G3 puts out less heat than the G4. It isn't uncomfortably warm, it's just fine- and the cooling fan as only come on once in the 12 months I've had the thing.
Sleep issues- must be something about your/the iBook. Every other machine I have around (powerbook 333, powerbook g4, powerbook pismo) wakes without problems.
Are you running OS X 10.2.1? I highly recommend that you do.
The Apple Airport Card has an antenna which runs within the inside of the laptop. In the iBook, the antenna runs up the sides of the screen frame. In the Powerbook, it runs along both sides of the palmrest. In the Thinkpad, there is no internal antenna- the card simply juts out the side.
Antennae make a difference, and Apple engineering did pretty nicely when they incorporated the antennna in the whole product line, desktops included. It's hard to fault this good technical design advantage.
Regarding DVD Playback: For a long time now, on Windows and on Mac, people have defeated region limitations, either by flashing the DVD drive with new firmware, or by using other software. It's pretty common. Of course, commerical skipping is still an annoyance.
Wi-Lan isn't Wi-Fi (802.11b)- wi-lan is W-OFDM, wireless t1/e1- and they have a great technology for the reception of HDTV so that you don't get the silly black blocks that disrupt signal,-- but instead, the FCC chose to back 8-VSB, an inferior technology.
The greater question is, why is the FCC deciding this? They didn't decide which cell phone technology was going to reign, only which frequencies we'd use.
commentary: If we were to follow the 'lead' from
the ATSC then this is what the future would look like. The Americans are still in denial
about the Brazilian (and other) DTT test results
(denying the basic facts that a single carrier system can never work for
wireless DTT) and have carried out their own tests arriving at their own
conclusions using incorrectly configured
DVB-T equipment. The sooner the US drops its single carrier
8-VSB based standard in favour of an OFDM solution the better for all
concerned. A report summarising why DTV is not happening in the US (example of flawed thinking: DTV does
not necessarily mean HDTV). Unfortunately, DVB and ISDB have (so far) been unable to agree on
a common OFDM way forward even though both standards are nearly exactly
the same (ISDB improved the DVB-T standard with the addition
of extra time interleaving, band segmentation and the option for 4k carriers).
However, due to the wide acceptance of DVB-T and its myriad other supporting
standards it is unlikely that ISDB compliant equipment will ever be deployed
outside of Japan.
Take-up of Digital TV in the UK
has been the most successful in the world in percentage terms (the
US is not far behind); but can it continue to grow
at the same pace? ITVdigital, the DTT service provider in the UK,
launched with an early (2k carrier) release of DVB-T and had been reasonably
successful (although I am sure some would disagree?) with over 1.2 million
subscribers up to the end of 2001. Unfortunately, due to a
combination
of factors ITVdigital
are in danger of closing down and are currently in administration.
The BBC in their annual R&D review for
2000-2001 (Digital Television Distribution
section) list some of the issues associated with DTT in the UK and give
an interesting insight into how improvements can be achieved. Thanks to
the wealth of experience gained in the UK other European DTT service providers
will be able to provide a more advanced and improved service to their
customers. Get the insider views on the UK DTT experience from the following
newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv;
They demanded that an inferior technology be used instead of Wi-Lan- and in fact the president of Wi-Lan had some great comments about letting the marketplace and engineers decide rather than the FCC, whose job it is to determine which frequency will be used, and other than that, get out of the way.
I'm running for the NC State House as the Libertarian candidate.
I've been a/.er for a few years and decided it was time to get involved as opposed to only replying on/. -
See my site at http://victormarks.org - unfortunately you won't see my stance on IP issues/copyright law on that page, simply because as a state representative, it's a non-issue- those laws are made in US congress, not the state legislature.
Tara really latched onto Coble's prominent "I've-been-bought" issue, and has done well with it- however, the Coble bill isn't going to go anywhere- even Republican candidates I know are writing Coble telling him to put it to rest.
It is impossible for them not to pirate the software. iDVD is only supplied as a free application with a SuperDrive that Apple sells you.
UNTRUE. Apple sells iDVD2 on it's website store for $19.99. It is listed as an upgrade version. The license is standard EULA but doesn't seem to require any prior existing copy of iDVD, and it doesn't check for one. It only checks for the SuperDrive while starting the application.
So, you can buy a SuperDrive, and Apple is happy to sell you the software. I fail to see the problem. In fact, I have a g4/400 powermac which I installed a DVR-104 SuperDrive into.
I then purchased the iDVD2 Upgrade software from Apple and it installed with ease, as expected.
I am using a computer that is out of warranty, so I don't worry about voiding any warranty. It works beautifully, if not a little longer at preparing video for burning onto the DVD disc.
You can't take old hard drives and put them in a new machine, and finding ISA on a P4 / newest AMD-compatible board is getting harder as well.
The slots in Mac SE/30, LC series, Color Classic, and others were all compatible- and that series spanned several years.
The slots in some very early powerPC powermacs were called NuBus, and that slot was also present in some of the 68k architecture. Equate this slot to MicroChannel.
For several years now, Apple's used PCI.
Up until 1998, Apple used SCSI and Serial. Post-1998, it's IDE, USB, and FireWire.
I can run the open-source Darwin, the mostly-open-source OS X, or I can run a Free Software OS if I choose.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/DVI_monitor_cab les.html#adc
Has a neat summary about DVI at the bottom of the page.
ADC is pretty similar to DVI-I in that it carries USB, Digital, and Analog video signals.
Here is a link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/Devel oper_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/PowerMacG4Cube/trin-5 7.html all about ADC connector and the signals it carries.
I'm not the parent-poster you replied to, but I'll answer your question as if I were:
1962 Chevrolet Impala. No microcontrollers.
1968 VW Beetle. No microcontrollers.
Used to have a 1981 BMW 320iS. One microcontroller, which had no effect on the car's driveability or emissions when removed. Apparently, it had been dead for years.
Wait:
If I understand you correctly, money perverts everything it touches. You want more money in the hands of the average person.
Therefore, you want the average person to be more perverse?
The answer is, money doesn't pervert everything it touches. You simply have to go about creating wealth for yourself and helping others do the same, rather than pointing fingers at the people who are successful at it, but not helping others do the same.
The only 17inch studio display that could make static popping was the long discontinued 17 inch CRT. This has been gone for two years.
The 17in studio display is and has been an LCD, and LCDs don't make static popping noises.
And, this article isn't about the 17in studio display, it's about 17in LCD iMacs.
So, the mod who rated your post was as mis-informed as you are.
Computers are currently a few common things:
Word processor
Email/Web/Chat
Accounting
Games
And if that's all they are, and all they will ever be, then there's no reason to upgrade, outside of the dedicated gamer who needs the faster parts. The three former uses simply don't require it and haven't for years.
So what must they do if they want to keep inspiring people to buy? Give us new uses.
The multimedia PC is a step in that direction- using the computer as a home jukebox is a great idea, except that certain interests are determined to undermine that use.
Apple's making an attempt at it with their bundling of video editing software aimed at the home movie maker.
We need to see more moves in this direction that stretch the definition of what a computer is for, for the regular home user.
Then, and only then, will people have a reason to go out and buy new machines.
Come now.
You do realise that Bob Barr (republican from Georgia) was one of the most pro-individual-privacy legislators there was. He was bad on leglization of medical marijuana, and he lost his primary, but don't go overboard with association of one party for privacy and one against.
That sounds great on the surface, except that it doesn't work that way in real life, because corporations don't pay taxes, as such- they pass them on to others. Who really pays taxes when they're levied on a corporation?
Now, I know you may not care about the last one, but when you tax a corporation, you're really punishing the very people you rely on to spur the economy.
So then, it is inconceivable to you that Apple might not have progressed in the ten years since you last looked at one of their products? That seems a little silly, since we both know that other personal computers have progressed.
May I point you to my campaign website: www.VictorMarks.com ?
Ethan, living in CA, married- Ethan?
/. or learn the legislative system and bend it to represent us.
Holy Cow!
running for office is necessary- we can either sit and whine on
by Rakarra (rakNarraO@SpacbPellA.Mnet) on Monday October 21, @02:18PM (#4497592)
(User #112805 Info)
Jesse Helms? I never would have thought a High Ranking Republican would get involved like this- and on the side of the smaller guy.
The Republicans are generally not friends with Hollywood and the music industry. The Democrats are traditionally those industries' allies.
Except of course for Howard Coble, R-NC who co-sponsored the p2p hacking bill we all disliked.
Vote for me, NC House district 34
http://www.victormarks.com
The bar is set pretty high, so unless each question can be answered, electronic voting is a poor solution.
Yes, Diamond Multimedia really made the first stand a few years ago when they fought to be able to sell mp3 players.
Apple has only been the recent target due to their "Rip. Mix. Burn." campaign.
You're obviously reading much more into my earlier reply than I actually wrote.
Moshe Bar isn't a Mac user- he's a linux user. Accusing him of being as stupid as a Mac user is inaccurate and ill-deserved. He chose his words poorly, and you, like many others, understood that he ties wireless performance to the OS.
For a Mac, that's almost the case, since it's pretty rare that you would use anything other than the Apple Airport card for wireless (although for those of us with older powerbooks, or other needs, it is possible to use proxim, cisco, and lucent cards. Users of those cards are not in the majority.)
Moshe Bar's primary language isn't English. You'll forgive this apparent error. I'm pretty certain that he was simply citing the experience and obsvering that the kid with the iBook got signal where he didn't- and that he knows as well as anyone that OS isn't a factor.
As for Fair Use, and Apple, I never claimed that Apple protects fair use. You assigned that to me.
I only suggested that there are ways in which you can do what you want, and Apple won't prevent you from doing them. They don't assist you, but they stay out of your way, which is worth remembering.
Apple protects itself from liability. Shipping a DVD Player application without region management and anti-commercial-skipping would be, as a business decision, suicidal- like asking the MPAA to joust, when you're armed with a dead flower instead of a metal spear.
Haven't they got enough problems, having shipped the iPod, which the RIAA would readily like to outlaw?
What you're saying is, don't run OS X on a G3 processor. I say you're incorrect.
I have a G3/333 with 512mb RAM running 10.2, and it's not bad. It isn't a speed demon, but it's fast enough.
The G3 puts out less heat than the G4. It isn't uncomfortably warm, it's just fine- and the cooling fan as only come on once in the 12 months I've had the thing.
Sleep issues- must be something about your/the iBook. Every other machine I have around (powerbook 333, powerbook g4, powerbook pismo) wakes without problems.
Are you running OS X 10.2.1? I highly recommend that you do.
Regarding wireless cards:
The Apple Airport Card has an antenna which runs within the inside of the laptop. In the iBook, the antenna runs up the sides of the screen frame. In the Powerbook, it runs along both sides of the palmrest. In the Thinkpad, there is no internal antenna- the card simply juts out the side.
Antennae make a difference, and Apple engineering did pretty nicely when they incorporated the antennna in the whole product line, desktops included. It's hard to fault this good technical design advantage.
Regarding DVD Playback:
For a long time now, on Windows and on Mac, people have defeated region limitations, either by flashing the DVD drive with new firmware, or by using other software. It's pretty common. Of course, commerical skipping is still an annoyance.
just checked- four are dead. the rest at the bottom are working. It's still worth reading.
OOF.
I know three of them do. The rest I culled from my bookmarks, and they -USED- to. That's the nature of the web, lousy thing.
Wi-Lan isn't Wi-Fi (802.11b)- wi-lan is W-OFDM, wireless t1/e1- and they have a great technology for the reception of HDTV so that you don't get the silly black blocks that disrupt signal,-- but instead, the FCC chose to back 8-VSB, an inferior technology.
The greater question is, why is the FCC deciding this? They didn't decide which cell phone technology was going to reign, only which frequencies we'd use.
Sources? http://www.wi-lan.com
commentary: If we were to follow the 'lead' from the ATSC then this is what the future would look like. The Americans are still in denial about the Brazilian (and other) DTT test results (denying the basic facts that a single carrier system can never work for wireless DTT) and have carried out their own tests arriving at their own conclusions using incorrectly configured DVB-T equipment. The sooner the US drops its single carrier 8-VSB based standard in favour of an OFDM solution the better for all concerned. A report summarising why DTV is not happening in the US (example of flawed thinking: DTV does not necessarily mean HDTV). Unfortunately, DVB and ISDB have (so far) been unable to agree on a common OFDM way forward even though both standards are nearly exactly the same (ISDB improved the DVB-T standard with the addition of extra time interleaving, band segmentation and the option for 4k carriers). However, due to the wide acceptance of DVB-T and its myriad other supporting standards it is unlikely that ISDB compliant equipment will ever be deployed outside of Japan.
Take-up of Digital TV in the UK has been the most successful in the world in percentage terms (the US is not far behind); but can it continue to grow at the same pace? ITVdigital, the DTT service provider in the UK, launched with an early (2k carrier) release of DVB-T and had been reasonably successful (although I am sure some would disagree?) with over 1.2 million subscribers up to the end of 2001. Unfortunately, due to a combination of factors ITVdigital are in danger of closing down and are currently in administration. The BBC in their annual R&D review for 2000-2001 (Digital Television Distribution section) list some of the issues associated with DTT in the UK and give an interesting insight into how improvements can be achieved. Thanks to the wealth of experience gained in the UK other European DTT service providers will be able to provide a more advanced and improved service to their customers. Get the insider views on the UK DTT experience from the following newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv;
They didn't mandate the signal? They surely did.
They demanded that an inferior technology be used instead of Wi-Lan- and in fact the president of Wi-Lan had some great comments about letting the marketplace and engineers decide rather than the FCC, whose job it is to determine which frequency will be used, and other than that, get out of the way.
I've been a /.er for a few years and decided it was time to get involved as opposed to only replying on /. -
See my site at http://victormarks.org - unfortunately you won't see my stance on IP issues/copyright law on that page, simply because as a state representative, it's a non-issue- those laws are made in US congress, not the state legislature.
Instead, state legislatures get to deal with laws concering EULAs, ( http://www.cptech.org/ecom/ucita/ ), laws concerning model health acts , ( http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id2454/pg1/ ) and other threats to our rights to live our lives without intrusion.
Tara really latched onto Coble's prominent "I've-been-bought" issue, and has done well with it- however, the Coble bill isn't going to go anywhere- even Republican candidates I know are writing Coble telling him to put it to rest.
Vote Libertarian! http://victormarks.org
actually, you're mistaken.
While it's listed as an upgrade version, it installs without hesitation when no prior version is found. I bought it and am very satisfied.
The original iDVD would run with no SuperDrive installed. The iDVD2 software checks when the application is started.
UNTRUE. Apple sells iDVD2 on it's website store for $19.99. It is listed as an upgrade version. The license is standard EULA but doesn't seem to require any prior existing copy of iDVD, and it doesn't check for one. It only checks for the SuperDrive while starting the application.
So, you can buy a SuperDrive, and Apple is happy to sell you the software. I fail to see the problem. In fact, I have a g4/400 powermac which I installed a DVR-104 SuperDrive into.
I then purchased the iDVD2 Upgrade software from Apple and it installed with ease, as expected.
I am using a computer that is out of warranty, so I don't worry about voiding any warranty. It works beautifully, if not a little longer at preparing video for burning onto the DVD disc.
So, that shoots down your piracy argument.
So, you can put MicroChannel cards in your PC?
Designs advance.
You can't take old hard drives and put them in a new machine, and finding ISA on a P4 / newest AMD-compatible board is getting harder as well.
The slots in Mac SE/30, LC series, Color Classic, and others were all compatible- and that series spanned several years.
The slots in some very early powerPC powermacs were called NuBus, and that slot was also present in some of the 68k architecture. Equate this slot to MicroChannel.
For several years now, Apple's used PCI.
Up until 1998, Apple used SCSI and Serial. Post-1998, it's IDE, USB, and FireWire.
I can run the open-source Darwin, the mostly-open-source OS X, or I can run a Free Software OS if I choose.
An ID was required for all flights taken from 1996 until present.