Hey, don't be an ass. People responded to tell you how to find the control you bitched about not being able to find.
My guess is you have it set to turn off font smothing on fonts of the size you are seeing on the screen.
Its not like this feature just doesn't work.... Oh, and it isn't going to just change everything on your screen right away, it will take effect as the apps repaint their windows.
A point which everyone in this thread seems to be ignorant of.
Apple will release Mac OS X so that it only works on Mac hardware.
Two weeks later some darwin hackers will report that with their custom kernal, you can install OS X from your DVD onto generic hardware.
People who don't want to buy Macs,but do want to run OS X, will go out, buy the DVD for $100 or so, and install it on non-apple hardware.
Some of these people will report it to slashdot, and some poster in the forums will go "In your face Steve Jobs! HAHAHAHAA!!!!"
And Apple will count the $100 they got from that sale, and put it in the bank without a complaint.
I mean, come on-- what company doesn't want to sell their software? Sure, Apple doesn't want to support an infinite variety of hardware combinations-- and so they will only officially support OS X on their hardware.
Everybody wins. The hackers can run it on commodity hardware, Apple sells more OS, and doesn't ahve to worry about supporting the garbage that most fly by night PC companies put out-- and on better quality hardwware like Dell or HP, all these customers of Dell and HP running Mac OS X only makes it more likely that Dell and HP will come to Apple to license the OS.
Probably Apple will do something to make it difficult to pirate OS X, and that strategy will likely be to make the install too big to distribute via P2P. (Maybe 4G is not too big, but its too big for me, and for anyone but the most dedicated pirate.)
Eventually, some PC manufacturer is going to sign a deal with Apple and sell machines with OS X installed... Apple doesn't have a problem with clones, contrary to popular belief. Apple has a problem with low quality clones, and a BIG problem with subsidizing a clone market. The previous Mac design was such that Apple lost money on every clone sold... the new business model will have Apple making an OS license fee on every clone sold.
OS X on generic hardware is a non-story. Apple won't care-- all they care about is not having to support crap hardware, and making their license fee for selling the software.
The iPod's margins are close the the margin on a mac. The OS Upgrade cost for OS X is probably equal to or better than the margin on selling a macintosh.
Therefore, the Microsoft model will work fine for Apple-- the only difference is that Apple will produce its own hardware. IT will compete with its customers, but it will still have customers signing up, happy with those terms.
I can come up with two things I like about our president:
- He hasn't acted on his stated intention to ban more types of firearms, and renew the assault weapons ban.
- He hasn't let his warmongering get to the point that he's nuked anyone yet.
That said, he's still giving Lincoln a run for the money as worst president ever.
I hated Clinton, until Bush came around and showed me what real fiscal irresponsibility was. These guys and Bush's dad make Reagan look great by comparsion... (And reagan's only problem was fiscal irresponsibility and a fetish for persecuting fags.)
Soap, Ballot and Jury are apparently quite out. The supreme court ruled that the constitution was irrelevant in the california medial marijuana case, elections are obviously dishonest, with people just arguing over who it was that cheated the most.
Is civil war the only thing that is left?
I think 40 years of soviet style tyranny may happen before civil war occurs.
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You say you don't deny the holocaust, but you would say that a holocaust survivor talking abou the parallels between nazi germany and america is violating goodwins law, and is therefore a "loon".
Godwins law is based on the premise that it can't happen here. It is this kind of denial that lets it happen. What do you think the people who lived thru germany
Today, on Lew Rockwell.com I found the following:
Those were the magic words of the time: "Papiere Bitte. (Translation: "Papers, Please.") Hearing those words, even now, causes dull echoes of sounds akin to bodies hitting dirt, or bullets penetrating flesh to thud into my mind. Because, if those papers weren't correctly in order, or, if you were a Jew sneakily present in any place (including the grocery store) which displayed the usual "NO JEWS OR DOGS ALLOWED" sign, you were dead meat - literally. And, yes, of course I'm talking about my childhood as a little Jewish kid in Nazi Germany.
No one ever forgets stench. Whether it is a long-forgotten encounter with a ripe skunk, or a ripe egg, or a ripe decomposing body, once one of those odors has been brain-documented, then even the slightest tinge of such an aroma pops back up immediately, along with the circumstances under which it first offended the nostrils.
And, that's what's happening now. I smell the long-forgotten skunk, the long-forgotten rot of fascism. What is happening all around can no longer be denied. What I ran away from so desperately in 1938 is coming back full circle. Only the jack-boots have not yet arrived.
America quite literally saved my life. The love and gratitude deep in my heart for this country will never go away. But I'm scared now. Haunted by deep fear for the generations to come, who may wind up as I did - looking over their shoulders, scurrying for cover, mute with terror. And it hurts.
Think I'm some kind of elderly nut-job neurotically manufacturing dictatorship? Well, let's look at the 82 billion dollar defense bill passed just a few weeks ago, which (with a vote tally of 100 to 0) had the Real ID Act hidden inside it. This law allows a national identification process in which each and every person in the U.S.A. will be on computer.
This ID will be based on driver's license applications, although it isn't just for driving. Just like the infamous "Internal Passport" of Nazi Germany, no one will need it unless needing to fly, cash checks, apply for jobs, walk the streets, enter federal buildings - or drive. As stated in Time magazine on May 15, 2005, "If you are a wealthy recluse with liquid assets, it doesn't concern you." Everyone else better watch out! Well, maybe that wealthy recluse had better watch out also. After all, he/she might be of a forbidden religion, or of suspicious racial origin.
Legal "ID Theft" and legal "illegal surveillance"? The Real ID Act links driver's licenses of all states, creating a data base including the private details of every single U.S. citizen. It mandates that your driver's license share a common machine-readable digital photo of you, all the better to track your every movement. It hands the federal government unfunded mandate power to dictate what data all states must collect for license holders, including everything from fingerprints to retinal scans. And, if you don't drive, you'll still need to submit to the national ID card. How else, after all, will the cop who doesn't like the shape of your face, or the fact that you are (God Forbid) wearing a turban get to arrest you? Yes, "Papiere Bitte" has come home to roost.
And, folks, that's only the beginning. More technically sophisticated techniques will be implemented as they occur. If the Nazis had had electronic surveillance, phone bugging and all else that the Patriot Act not only condones but advises, there would have been an even tighter grip on the populace.
After all, the Patriot Act is modeled directly after Gestapo methods: Those 3:00 AM home intrusions - without warrant or reason for arrest - will get
Germany's invasion of poland was an attempt to combat terrorism. Poland was a clear and present danger to germany.
Government's always have a good excuse... but if you look at their actions you can see the truth. If Republicans wanted to protect the country from a diffuse threat like terrorism, they would support a diffuse defense, like private ownership of guns.
But they have taken the anti-gun position, with Bush calling for renewal of the AWB, etc.
After 9/11 Bush took no action to restore gun rights, but lots of action to make it harder on gun owners, and everyone else who might want to fly.
And you recognize one of the inherent problems with democracy-- by definition, the minority is not represented.
Some would argue that even if that minority is %1, the majority doesn't have a right to initiate force against it... or put another way, that a just country would have a very limited government such that you wouldn't have the "tyranny of the majority".
Looking at the last two presidents we've had in office, its clear that we have tyranny of the majority here.
I say politicians should be replaced with proxies-- real representatives.
IF you show up in congress, and your constituants are %70 opposed to a given bill, then your vote is split 70/30. And if someone no longer represents your positions, you should be able to change your proxy at any time--- no need for elections. Let the members be anyone who has proxy documents for %1 of the population or more.
Do it electronically, so that if the bum violates his mandate, he can be thrown out as people shift their allegience to other politicans.
I don't care if this makes the life of a politican more difficult-- it should be-- they are wasting our lives by extracting our lives out in the form of taxes to spend for thier pet projects, often at our own detriment.
They should be held accountable.
Thus, democracy-- any election-- is a violation of the minorities rights, if the elected person does something they disagree with.
Otherwise, its "Three wolves and a sheep voting to see what to have for dinner".
Neither republicans nor democrats want fair elections. Notice that all their campaign reform laws make it harder for third parties (Eg: you can't spend money unless you money comes from a major party, and you can't get major party status unless you won one of the previous elections, etc.)
I think as long as voting has been going on in this country, political parties have been trying to manipulate the system to concentrate power for themselves-- they've been very successful.
Another example of this is gerrymandering... both parties do it, and they do it ruthlessly.
What we need is for the americans to wake up and realize that our elections are nowhere near close to being fair, objective, or accurate.
I find it interesting that the above was moderated 4 informative.
But the fact is, there is no evidence of fraud on the Rossi campaign-- the votes were counted and he won.
The votes were counted again, and he won.
Then the democrats made sure the votes were counted a third time-- but this time they used a different methodology, and amazingly, discovered thousands of new ballots! The vote counts went way up between the 2 "recount" and the third "recount" (making them really new counts.)
Finally after adding thousands of "Found" ballots, the democrats won.
That's the fraud- -the democrats threw the election.
King county is heavily democratic and those doing the counting were supervised by democrats.
When someone alleged fraud and makes a lot of disparaging comments and then gets modded up like this, its clear to me that the mods are moding based on their political opinion, not the quality of the post.
In the hope of escaping this biased moderation, let me point out that I think the republicans engaged in election fraud to get Bush re-elected, and that is an even bigger scandal, or should be. But in Washington, the repubs didn't have the power, and didn't cheat... the democrats did.
How can it be unintentional when more ballots are counted than there are registered voters or people who voted?
Think for yourself.
The judge read off a litany of fraud when I heard him.. I'm surprised to hear him say something as idiotic as what you quote, but then I probably shouldn't be.
But the facts are the facts.
Where did all those extra ballots come from? And what possible way could they have been creted that wasn't fraudulent?
Try arguing the facts, rather than quoting someone else who agrees with you-- that's the fallacy of authority.
I think the real value lies in the OS, not in the PowerPC.
The PowerPC has some nice advantages over intel chips... but the PowerPC is a single line from a single manufacturer for a single customer. (The "PowerPC" used in the cell and xbox 360 are chips that would not be effective in a desktop, and are not interchangeable.)
Thus Apple, which can't meet its commitments because its supplier isn't delivering chips in quantity or quality that it needs, is switching to a supplier that can, and that has effective competition to switch to if it can't.
Apple is not a struggling computer maker, as you seem to think. Apple is posting record profits and has spent the last couple years trying to keep supply meeting demand... sure, recently they have finally gotten adequate supply.
But generally their problem is losing sales because they are out of stock-- not having to desperately find people to buy their products.
In fact, supply is probably the real reason they went to intel-- intel has lots of fabs, wheras IBM has one making the powerPC. Intel has lots of customers wanting chips, and so they have a differentiated product line. The PowerPC for apple is a single line, and that makes it harder to select the right processor price point for your various products.... and magnifies the impact of supply problems, which both IBM and motorola have had.
Apple got too successful to stick with a single, low volume, CPU supplier, IOW.
Your ray tracer was poorly implemented. Clearly you are not using altivec, or core image. Your "Benchmark" is like all the benchmarks pc weenies use to justify their claims-- simply code that effectively measures clockrate by not really using the CPU correctly.
The PowerPC costs less than Pentiums... though I'm sure Apple got a hell of a deal from intel. The power PC is a risc architecture and has a smaller die. I don't know who screwed the pooch on the heat issues, but there's no PC in the mini formfactor, you'll notice. And when aopen tried to introduce one recently it costs $200 more than the mac mini.
All of those suggestions are based on the assumption that the election is conducted in a valid manner, except the last one.
As for the last one, the fraud in our election system has been printed in newspapers and blogs across the country, and has been backed up with hard evidence regularly.
I'm complaining in the hope that some people will actually wake up and stop living in the fantasy land idea of what this country is that their government sells them.
As for me, I have retirement plans in place. The US will not be getting my tax dollars for too much longer.
I'm voting in the most effective way-- with my feet.
I see what you're saying, but I think you're missing an important point: A Cell Processor does not have a PowerPC.
Or, put another way, all the features that are important to the Desktop marketplace, are not important to the games space. A cell processor may have 3 "PowerPC" cores, running at 3.2GHz, but that doesn't mean that its the same as having 3 PowerPC G5s in it. More like it has 3 PowerPC 601s in it (G1). There's a lot of features that are needed in a desktop processor that just aren't there in the cell processor, and it remains to be seen whether the cell processor is going to be viable or not.
I think part of Apple's deal with intel is going to be rights to the intel instruction set. If, in the future, Apple is not able to derive sufficient innovative features then they can go to an external fab..... what apple moved to was not so much the intel CPUs, but the intel instruction set.
And basically, that instruction set is dominant-- it gets apple a LOT of credibility and brings it out of the cold of being the fringe.
The marketplace has spoken and unfortunately, innovation is not their priority (otherwise Apple would be dominant and Microsoft would be long gone.)
Apple will continue to innovate, but on this issue, where they have to bet the company, they have to bet it on the safest thing.
Remember, also, that Apple does not control the CPU--its core competancy is not there. So, either this gives them more control over their CPUs, or it removes their vulnerability at not having control over that critical piece... or both.
They were hurt by the PowerPC, and they are eliminating that threat to their business.
I see it as a good move, though I think tis going to be confusing to the marketplace for awhile.
Infortunately, GnuStep will never have the support on Linux or Windows that Cocoa does on the Mac.
There is an offshoot called, I think, mgstep, that shows promise.
But an operating system foundation framework needs good OS support and so GnuStep is going to be hurt by that-- not enough developers or time.
On the other hand, if you are a Mac fan, then writing for Cocoa and porting to GnuStep may well be a wonderful way to go.
I think Apple should work on GnuStep and ship it with iTunes so that Mac Developers can immediately get Windows and Linux compatibility with some sort of one-button-build process.
Why make up shit like that? Doom 3 runs on Panther. No driver update is needed.
Sure, they improved all the graphics code for Tiger, but by your argument they'd have to never innovate, or you could say that they were doing it just because it sucked before.
You're an idiot who doesn't know shit about what you're talking about.
I remember when slashdot was inhabited by software developers.... it really sucks that its been taken over by script kiddies.
I think they integrated some or all of the development tools for WebObjects into XCode. But to deploy it, you still need Mac OS X Server.
Used to be you could buy WO seperately and deploy it under OS X, but if you had OS X Server then deployment was free there as well (Eg if you bought WO you could deploy it to two machines.)
They have changed the business model--- VERY interesting. I was thinking WO was dying, but it seems rather than being killed off its been integrated.
I'd be totally estatic if updates to OSX Server were less than $500.
Anyway, much thanks for pointing this out to me! This is generally very good news! I knew EOModeler had been integrated with Xcode, but I didn't know that they'd gotten rid of the seperate dev tools... hot fricking damn!
Earth. The question is, what have you been smoking?
You're wrong-- Apple does much of the graphics processing on the GPU, which is optimized for it. The rendering pipeline is years ahead of Microsoft.
And its quite fast, and stable, and has been for 5 years. OpenGL support on the Mac is top notch.
You can continue to spew all this made up crap you want, Coward, but you have never pointed to a concrete example or given us any reason to believe you-- and what you say is just simplistic "no itsnot!" garbage.
LOL, you shouldn't make stuff like that up on Slashdot. You're likely to run into someone who actually HAS developed games for the Mac... oh, look, you have.
Apple has excellent support for multimedia, and has since before Windows 95. IT got better with OSX, not worse. Maybe windows is better, but there's no way Linux is. Hell, in linxu there isn't even a consistent set of hardware... let alone a rich set of frameworks to make development a dream.
I'm sure linux is coming along great... but Apple has a 20 year head start on the desktop, and 20 years mroe time to make an excellent environment for game developers, and they have.
There are some games that are not ported to the MAc, but that's always going to be the case for marginal games.
Its clear to me you've never tried to write game code under OS X... your beef is over something else, maybe your own inadequacy.
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Hey, don't be an ass. People responded to tell you how to find the control you bitched about not being able to find.
My guess is you have it set to turn off font smothing on fonts of the size you are seeing on the screen.
Its not like this feature just doesn't work.... Oh, and it isn't going to just change everything on your screen right away, it will take effect as the apps repaint their windows.
A point which everyone in this thread seems to be ignorant of.
Apple will release Mac OS X so that it only works on Mac hardware.
Two weeks later some darwin hackers will report that with their custom kernal, you can install OS X from your DVD onto generic hardware.
People who don't want to buy Macs
Some of these people will report it to slashdot, and some poster in the forums will go "In your face Steve Jobs! HAHAHAHAA!!!!"
And Apple will count the $100 they got from that sale, and put it in the bank without a complaint.
I mean, come on-- what company doesn't want to sell their software? Sure, Apple doesn't want to support an infinite variety of hardware combinations-- and so they will only officially support OS X on their hardware.
Everybody wins. The hackers can run it on commodity hardware, Apple sells more OS, and doesn't ahve to worry about supporting the garbage that most fly by night PC companies put out-- and on better quality hardwware like Dell or HP, all these customers of Dell and HP running Mac OS X only makes it more likely that Dell and HP will come to Apple to license the OS.
Probably Apple will do something to make it difficult to pirate OS X, and that strategy will likely be to make the install too big to distribute via P2P. (Maybe 4G is not too big, but its too big for me, and for anyone but the most dedicated pirate.)
Eventually, some PC manufacturer is going to sign a deal with Apple and sell machines with OS X installed... Apple doesn't have a problem with clones, contrary to popular belief. Apple has a problem with low quality clones, and a BIG problem with subsidizing a clone market. The previous Mac design was such that Apple lost money on every clone sold... the new business model will have Apple making an OS license fee on every clone sold.
OS X on generic hardware is a non-story. Apple won't care-- all they care about is not having to support crap hardware, and making their license fee for selling the software.
The iPod's margins are close the the margin on a mac. The OS Upgrade cost for OS X is probably equal to or better than the margin on selling a macintosh.
Therefore, the Microsoft model will work fine for Apple-- the only difference is that Apple will produce its own hardware. IT will compete with its customers, but it will still have customers signing up, happy with those terms.
I can come up with two things I like about our president:
- He hasn't acted on his stated intention to ban more types of firearms, and renew the assault weapons ban.
- He hasn't let his warmongering get to the point that he's nuked anyone yet.
That said, he's still giving Lincoln a run for the money as worst president ever.
I hated Clinton, until Bush came around and showed me what real fiscal irresponsibility was. These guys and Bush's dad make Reagan look great by comparsion... (And reagan's only problem was fiscal irresponsibility and a fetish for persecuting fags.)
Your sig is very appropriate to this thread.
Soap, Ballot and Jury are apparently quite out. The supreme court ruled that the constitution was irrelevant in the california medial marijuana case, elections are obviously dishonest, with people just arguing over who it was that cheated the most.
Is civil war the only thing that is left?
I think 40 years of soviet style tyranny may happen before civil war occurs.
You say you don't deny the holocaust, but you would say that a holocaust survivor talking abou the parallels between nazi germany and america is violating goodwins law, and is therefore a "loon".
Godwins law is based on the premise that it can't happen here. It is this kind of denial that lets it happen. What do you think the people who lived thru germany
Today, on Lew Rockwell.com I found the following:
Those were the magic words of the time: "Papiere Bitte. (Translation: "Papers, Please.") Hearing those words, even now, causes dull echoes of sounds akin to bodies hitting dirt, or bullets penetrating flesh to thud into my mind. Because, if those papers weren't correctly in order, or, if you were a Jew sneakily present in any place (including the grocery store) which displayed the usual "NO JEWS OR DOGS ALLOWED" sign, you were dead meat - literally. And, yes, of course I'm talking about my childhood as a little Jewish kid in Nazi Germany.
No one ever forgets stench. Whether it is a long-forgotten encounter with a ripe skunk, or a ripe egg, or a ripe decomposing body, once one of those odors has been brain-documented, then even the slightest tinge of such an aroma pops back up immediately, along with the circumstances under which it first offended the nostrils.
And, that's what's happening now. I smell the long-forgotten skunk, the long-forgotten rot of fascism. What is happening all around can no longer be denied. What I ran away from so desperately in 1938 is coming back full circle. Only the jack-boots have not yet arrived.
America quite literally saved my life. The love and gratitude deep in my heart for this country will never go away. But I'm scared now. Haunted by deep fear for the generations to come, who may wind up as I did - looking over their shoulders, scurrying for cover, mute with terror. And it hurts.
Think I'm some kind of elderly nut-job neurotically manufacturing dictatorship? Well, let's look at the 82 billion dollar defense bill passed just a few weeks ago, which (with a vote tally of 100 to 0) had the Real ID Act hidden inside it. This law allows a national identification process in which each and every person in the U.S.A. will be on computer.
This ID will be based on driver's license applications, although it isn't just for driving. Just like the infamous "Internal Passport" of Nazi Germany, no one will need it unless needing to fly, cash checks, apply for jobs, walk the streets, enter federal buildings - or drive. As stated in Time magazine on May 15, 2005, "If you are a wealthy recluse with liquid assets, it doesn't concern you." Everyone else better watch out! Well, maybe that wealthy recluse had better watch out also. After all, he/she might be of a forbidden religion, or of suspicious racial origin.
Legal "ID Theft" and legal "illegal surveillance"? The Real ID Act links driver's licenses of all states, creating a data base including the private details of every single U.S. citizen. It mandates that your driver's license share a common machine-readable digital photo of you, all the better to track your every movement. It hands the federal government unfunded mandate power to dictate what data all states must collect for license holders, including everything from fingerprints to retinal scans. And, if you don't drive, you'll still need to submit to the national ID card. How else, after all, will the cop who doesn't like the shape of your face, or the fact that you are (God Forbid) wearing a turban get to arrest you? Yes, "Papiere Bitte" has come home to roost.
And, folks, that's only the beginning. More technically sophisticated techniques will be implemented as they occur. If the Nazis had had electronic surveillance, phone bugging and all else that the Patriot Act not only condones but advises, there would have been an even tighter grip on the populace.
After all, the Patriot Act is modeled directly after Gestapo methods: Those 3:00 AM home intrusions - without warrant or reason for arrest - will get
Germany's invasion of poland was an attempt to combat terrorism. Poland was a clear and present danger to germany.
Government's always have a good excuse... but if you look at their actions you can see the truth. If Republicans wanted to protect the country from a diffuse threat like terrorism, they would support a diffuse defense, like private ownership of guns.
But they have taken the anti-gun position, with Bush calling for renewal of the AWB, etc.
After 9/11 Bush took no action to restore gun rights, but lots of action to make it harder on gun owners, and everyone else who might want to fly.
9/11 is an excuse, like the reichstag fire.
Which is his right, by the way, underr the constitution.
The idea that the legislature is the only proper channel is false, and is not supported by the state's constitution.
If the courts didn't have authority to rule on matters of law, according to the constitution, then there would be no use for courts at all.
The constitution gives them this authority.
Yes, that is a superior solution.
And you recognize one of the inherent problems with democracy-- by definition, the minority is not represented.
Some would argue that even if that minority is %1, the majority doesn't have a right to initiate force against it... or put another way, that a just country would have a very limited government such that you wouldn't have the "tyranny of the majority".
Looking at the last two presidents we've had in office, its clear that we have tyranny of the majority here.
I say politicians should be replaced with proxies-- real representatives.
IF you show up in congress, and your constituants are %70 opposed to a given bill, then your vote is split 70/30. And if someone no longer represents your positions, you should be able to change your proxy at any time--- no need for elections. Let the members be anyone who has proxy documents for %1 of the population or more.
Do it electronically, so that if the bum violates his mandate, he can be thrown out as people shift their allegience to other politicans.
I don't care if this makes the life of a politican more difficult-- it should be-- they are wasting our lives by extracting our lives out in the form of taxes to spend for thier pet projects, often at our own detriment.
They should be held accountable.
Thus, democracy-- any election-- is a violation of the minorities rights, if the elected person does something they disagree with.
Otherwise, its "Three wolves and a sheep voting to see what to have for dinner".
Neither republicans nor democrats want fair elections. Notice that all their campaign reform laws make it harder for third parties (Eg: you can't spend money unless you money comes from a major party, and you can't get major party status unless you won one of the previous elections, etc.)
I think as long as voting has been going on in this country, political parties have been trying to manipulate the system to concentrate power for themselves-- they've been very successful.
Another example of this is gerrymandering... both parties do it, and they do it ruthlessly.
What we need is for the americans to wake up and realize that our elections are nowhere near close to being fair, objective, or accurate.
I find it interesting that the above was moderated 4 informative.
But the fact is, there is no evidence of fraud on the Rossi campaign-- the votes were counted and he won.
The votes were counted again, and he won.
Then the democrats made sure the votes were counted a third time-- but this time they used a different methodology, and amazingly, discovered thousands of new ballots! The vote counts went way up between the 2 "recount" and the third "recount" (making them really new counts.)
Finally after adding thousands of "Found" ballots, the democrats won.
That's the fraud- -the democrats threw the election.
King county is heavily democratic and those doing the counting were supervised by democrats.
When someone alleged fraud and makes a lot of disparaging comments and then gets modded up like this, its clear to me that the mods are moding based on their political opinion, not the quality of the post.
In the hope of escaping this biased moderation, let me point out that I think the republicans engaged in election fraud to get Bush re-elected, and that is an even bigger scandal, or should be. But in Washington, the repubs didn't have the power, and didn't cheat... the democrats did.
How can it be unintentional when more ballots are counted than there are registered voters or people who voted?
Think for yourself.
The judge read off a litany of fraud when I heard him.. I'm surprised to hear him say something as idiotic as what you quote, but then I probably shouldn't be.
But the facts are the facts.
Where did all those extra ballots come from? And what possible way could they have been creted that wasn't fraudulent?
Try arguing the facts, rather than quoting someone else who agrees with you-- that's the fallacy of authority.
A different bios is not a huge difference. Waht is the cost of the bios as a percentage of the price of the machine?
Your language example is silly on the face of it, and a mischaracterization.
But you're not a PC.
I think the real value lies in the OS, not in the PowerPC.
The PowerPC has some nice advantages over intel chips... but the PowerPC is a single line from a single manufacturer for a single customer. (The "PowerPC" used in the cell and xbox 360 are chips that would not be effective in a desktop, and are not interchangeable.)
Thus Apple, which can't meet its commitments because its supplier isn't delivering chips in quantity or quality that it needs, is switching to a supplier that can, and that has effective competition to switch to if it can't.
Apple is not a struggling computer maker, as you seem to think. Apple is posting record profits and has spent the last couple years trying to keep supply meeting demand... sure, recently they have finally gotten adequate supply.
But generally their problem is losing sales because they are out of stock-- not having to desperately find people to buy their products.
In fact, supply is probably the real reason they went to intel-- intel has lots of fabs, wheras IBM has one making the powerPC. Intel has lots of customers wanting chips, and so they have a differentiated product line. The PowerPC for apple is a single line, and that makes it harder to select the right processor price point for your various products.... and magnifies the impact of supply problems, which both IBM and motorola have had.
Apple got too successful to stick with a single, low volume, CPU supplier, IOW.
Your ray tracer was poorly implemented. Clearly you are not using altivec, or core image. Your "Benchmark" is like all the benchmarks pc weenies use to justify their claims-- simply code that effectively measures clockrate by not really using the CPU correctly.
The PowerPC costs less than Pentiums... though I'm sure Apple got a hell of a deal from intel. The power PC is a risc architecture and has a smaller die. I don't know who screwed the pooch on the heat issues, but there's no PC in the mini formfactor, you'll notice. And when aopen tried to introduce one recently it costs $200 more than the mac mini.
All of those suggestions are based on the assumption that the election is conducted in a valid manner, except the last one.
As for the last one, the fraud in our election system has been printed in newspapers and blogs across the country, and has been backed up with hard evidence regularly.
I'm complaining in the hope that some people will actually wake up and stop living in the fantasy land idea of what this country is that their government sells them.
As for me, I have retirement plans in place. The US will not be getting my tax dollars for too much longer.
I'm voting in the most effective way-- with my feet.
I see what you're saying, but I think you're missing an important point: A Cell Processor does not have a PowerPC.
Or, put another way, all the features that are important to the Desktop marketplace, are not important to the games space. A cell processor may have 3 "PowerPC" cores, running at 3.2GHz, but that doesn't mean that its the same as having 3 PowerPC G5s in it. More like it has 3 PowerPC 601s in it (G1). There's a lot of features that are needed in a desktop processor that just aren't there in the cell processor, and it remains to be seen whether the cell processor is going to be viable or not.
I think part of Apple's deal with intel is going to be rights to the intel instruction set. If, in the future, Apple is not able to derive sufficient innovative features then they can go to an external fab..... what apple moved to was not so much the intel CPUs, but the intel instruction set.
And basically, that instruction set is dominant-- it gets apple a LOT of credibility and brings it out of the cold of being the fringe.
The marketplace has spoken and unfortunately, innovation is not their priority (otherwise Apple would be dominant and Microsoft would be long gone.)
Apple will continue to innovate, but on this issue, where they have to bet the company, they have to bet it on the safest thing.
Remember, also, that Apple does not control the CPU--its core competancy is not there. So, either this gives them more control over their CPUs, or it removes their vulnerability at not having control over that critical piece... or both.
They were hurt by the PowerPC, and they are eliminating that threat to their business.
I see it as a good move, though I think tis going to be confusing to the marketplace for awhile.
Infortunately, GnuStep will never have the support on Linux or Windows that Cocoa does on the Mac.
There is an offshoot called, I think, mgstep, that shows promise.
But an operating system foundation framework needs good OS support and so GnuStep is going to be hurt by that-- not enough developers or time.
On the other hand, if you are a Mac fan, then writing for Cocoa and porting to GnuStep may well be a wonderful way to go.
I think Apple should work on GnuStep and ship it with iTunes so that Mac Developers can immediately get Windows and Linux compatibility with some sort of one-button-build process.
But we're not there yet.
I love how my comment is moderated as a troll, but the parent, which really IS a troll, isn't.
That was a rather weak attempt at a troll.
Or are we supposed to assume that you really think that the speed of the processor is measured by one of its clock rates?
Most Intel processors run at about 2.8GHz, making them in the same performance range as the 1.4GHz PowerPC in the mini.
Why make up shit like that? Doom 3 runs on Panther. No driver update is needed.
Sure, they improved all the graphics code for Tiger, but by your argument they'd have to never innovate, or you could say that they were doing it just because it sucked before.
You're an idiot who doesn't know shit about what you're talking about.
I remember when slashdot was inhabited by software developers.... it really sucks that its been taken over by script kiddies.
LOL, they buy powerpc boxes every day to port their games to the Mac.
Go to any CompUSA or Apple Store and see dozens upon dozens of titles ported to the mac. Topline titles like Doom 4 get ported. Marginal titles don't.
I don't think you've ever programmed a mac game, or worked for a game developer.
I think they integrated some or all of the development tools for WebObjects into XCode. But to deploy it, you still need Mac OS X Server.
Used to be you could buy WO seperately and deploy it under OS X, but if you had OS X Server then deployment was free there as well (Eg if you bought WO you could deploy it to two machines.)
They have changed the business model--- VERY interesting. I was thinking WO was dying, but it seems rather than being killed off its been integrated.
I'd be totally estatic if updates to OSX Server were less than $500.
Anyway, much thanks for pointing this out to me! This is generally very good news! I knew EOModeler had been integrated with Xcode, but I didn't know that they'd gotten rid of the seperate dev tools... hot fricking damn!
Earth. The question is, what have you been smoking?
You're wrong-- Apple does much of the graphics processing on the GPU, which is optimized for it. The rendering pipeline is years ahead of Microsoft.
And its quite fast, and stable, and has been for 5 years. OpenGL support on the Mac is top notch.
You can continue to spew all this made up crap you want, Coward, but you have never pointed to a concrete example or given us any reason to believe you-- and what you say is just simplistic "no itsnot!" garbage.
LOL, you shouldn't make stuff like that up on Slashdot. You're likely to run into someone who actually HAS developed games for the Mac... oh, look, you have.
Apple has excellent support for multimedia, and has since before Windows 95. IT got better with OSX, not worse. Maybe windows is better, but there's no way Linux is. Hell, in linxu there isn't even a consistent set of hardware... let alone a rich set of frameworks to make development a dream.
I'm sure linux is coming along great... but Apple has a 20 year head start on the desktop, and 20 years mroe time to make an excellent environment for game developers, and they have.
There are some games that are not ported to the MAc, but that's always going to be the case for marginal games.
Its clear to me you've never tried to write game code under OS X... your beef is over something else, maybe your own inadequacy.