Problem with Apple comparing the G4 to the G5 is that Apple still sells G4 powered Macs. Is it better for Apple to piss of current G4 Mac owners/loyalists or x86 "sparkheads"?
So what if the new G5 PowerMacs are not as fast the PIV or Xeon counterparts? Are they faster than the G4 machines they replaced? Does it now appear that Apple has processor that will continue to get faster at very nice clip (3GHz in 12 months). Hell, yes!
The [IBM] J2ME runtime will be "developed and fine-tuned" for the Tungsten line, and will be backed up by a free SDK that will work with any J2ME development environment, though IBM will naturally by touting its WebSphere Studio Device Developer set, which it will be optimising for the creation of Palm-hosted Java apps.
Well, Apple's hands aren't clean either. They axed the clone market upon which clobbered demand (or at least the prospect of future demand) for their chips. If I was Moto I'd be pissed too.
Yes and no. The problem with the Mac clones is that they weren't increasing the overall number of Mac sold, but were instead taking away from Apple's sales.
The Piccolo, Hummingbird and Hornet are all micros-helicopter and while small, are not as small as the sub-micro like the Helistar (similar to one pictured next to the chick in the story). These smaller machines can be just as expensive to buy as larger gas machines but they are usually less expensive to keep flying since you don't have to always be buying fuel, and parts are less expensive to fix when they crash(if you get one, you will crash it). All these "rotary wing aircraft" are available on HeliHobby, which all though it is experiencing a serious Slashdotting is run by a great guy.
You're right, I haven't heard if they are going to start including a Jabber client for subscribers, and there again is part of the problem. Jabber is being used, but its just not real visible. I know AT&T uses Jabber a lot, not just for person to person IMing, but to monitor various pieces of equipment, servers, routers, etc.
If you go to Jabber.org you'll see there has been a lot of large investments/installations of the Jabber protocol (usually from Jabber Inc.) recently, from companies like Intel, France Telecom, EarthLink, etc. So I think headway is being made, but there aren't large annoucements being made that Joe AOL user would notice. And maybe that is where the problem is. When a city government I was contracting for was looking for an instant messenger solution I instantly suggested Jabber, since I had worked with both the open-source Jabberd and Jabber Inc servers. Fortunately, with Jabber Inc being a local company (I live in Denver) getting them to come out and show-off their wares wasn't a difficult thing to do. But, I'm sure that outside of my boss at the time, very few, if any, of the city's IT people were aware of Jabber and were all probably thinking AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, whenever the topic of IM came up.
How does this effect the rumor status for the old story about Apple possibly using that new fangled Power-4 chip by this summer? Is this the same chip in question?
I don't know what story you're refering to but the 970 is derived from the Power4.
Does anybody know if this is a 64-bit or 32 bit-processor?
The telemarketer no-call list is a great, I've had almost no phone solicitations since the law went into effect (still get one every now and again from my phone company). If the new anti-spam laws are even a quarter as effective it will be wonderful.
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Apple has stated that developing apps for or that include Safari is not recommended since they anticipate a lot will change between now and when they release vesion 1.0.
It's funny you should say that about Java with regards to COBOL. I was at a Java users group a few months back and someone said the exact same thing. So many enterprises are building systems today with Java that are probably going to be around for quite awhile. I certainly hope so, Java has been real good to me.
From reading the interview, Belluzzo seems to be pretty amicable to whatever will get the job done, and in this case, it's Linux.
Yes, use what will get the job done. People (pro-MS/anti-Linux, anti-MS/pro-MS, repeat for Solaris, Mac, BSD...) get so blinded by their allegence to one type of technology they don't realize or refuse to accept that there might be something better out there for a given use. Sitting on my desk right now I have machines running Win2k, OSX and RedHat 7.1 all of which I use for different tasks. Could I use just one OS for all my tasks? Sure, but I perfer to use what works best in a given situation.
Yes and no. While the lawsuits are similar the one sited today was filed by Bill Simon, the lawsuit that was previously reported was filed by Thomas Woolston.
Why not just run some cat5(e) yourself? It would certainly cost less than $400 and if you bought some high quality cable (or better yet run it through a conduit) weatherproofing wouldn't be a big deal.
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Problem with Apple comparing the G4 to the G5 is that Apple still sells G4 powered Macs. Is it better for Apple to piss of current G4 Mac owners/loyalists or x86 "sparkheads"?
So what if the new G5 PowerMacs are not as fast the PIV or Xeon counterparts? Are they faster than the G4 machines they replaced? Does it now appear that Apple has processor that will continue to get faster at very nice clip (3GHz in 12 months). Hell, yes!
Something is happening on this front, look here:
The [IBM] J2ME runtime will be "developed and fine-tuned" for the Tungsten line, and will be backed up by a free SDK that will work with any J2ME development environment, though IBM will naturally by touting its WebSphere Studio Device Developer set, which it will be optimising for the creation of Palm-hosted Java apps.
Yes and no. The problem with the Mac clones is that they weren't increasing the overall number of Mac sold, but were instead taking away from Apple's sales.
Yup, that is just the app I needed ported to Windows to cause me to switch. Oh, wait, there's still iDVD, iPhoto, Safari, Aqua, etc, etc. (rolls eyes)
Come on, its *one* freakin app, and the point is to drive sales of the iPod and their online music store.
The Piccolo, Hummingbird and Hornet are all micros-helicopter and while small, are not as small as the sub-micro like the Helistar (similar to one pictured next to the chick in the story). These smaller machines can be just as expensive to buy as larger gas machines but they are usually less expensive to keep flying since you don't have to always be buying fuel, and parts are less expensive to fix when they crash(if you get one, you will crash it). All these "rotary wing aircraft" are available on HeliHobby, which all though it is experiencing a serious Slashdotting is run by a great guy.
You're right, I haven't heard if they are going to start including a Jabber client for subscribers, and there again is part of the problem. Jabber is being used, but its just not real visible. I know AT&T uses Jabber a lot, not just for person to person IMing, but to monitor various pieces of equipment, servers, routers, etc.
If you go to Jabber.org you'll see there has been a lot of large investments/installations of the Jabber protocol (usually from Jabber Inc.) recently, from companies like Intel, France Telecom, EarthLink, etc. So I think headway is being made, but there aren't large annoucements being made that Joe AOL user would notice. And maybe that is where the problem is. When a city government I was contracting for was looking for an instant messenger solution I instantly suggested Jabber, since I had worked with both the open-source Jabberd and Jabber Inc servers. Fortunately, with Jabber Inc being a local company (I live in Denver) getting them to come out and show-off their wares wasn't a difficult thing to do. But, I'm sure that outside of my boss at the time, very few, if any, of the city's IT people were aware of Jabber and were all probably thinking AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, whenever the topic of IM came up.
It's not the lack of an Outlook alternative that's the problem, it's the lack of an Outlook/Exchange combination.
And don't forget you're comparing a ~15" laptop (Dell) to a ~17" laptop (Apple). The ~15" Apple PowerBook weights 5.4lbs (2.4 kg).
I don't know what story you're refering to but the 970 is derived from the Power4.
64-bit
Nope, it was confirmed back in October of '02.
I'd take that bet, I'll say September 7th '03. "The Price is Right" rules, closest person w/o going over wins.
The telemarketer no-call list is a great, I've had almost no phone solicitations since the law went into effect (still get one every now and again from my phone company). If the new anti-spam laws are even a quarter as effective it will be wonderful.
Apple has stated that developing apps for or that include Safari is not recommended since they anticipate a lot will change between now and when they release vesion 1.0.
It's funny you should say that about Java with regards to COBOL. I was at a Java users group a few months back and someone said the exact same thing. So many enterprises are building systems today with Java that are probably going to be around for quite awhile. I certainly hope so, Java has been real good to me.
Name a mass produced laptop that does...
I would expand on the PowerBook suggestion and tell him to add an external 7200 rpm, firewire harddrive.
.Mac can handle the load but Apple will temporarily shutdown your site if you exceed a certain amount of bandwidth in a given amount of time.
Yes, use what will get the job done. People (pro-MS/anti-Linux, anti-MS/pro-MS, repeat for Solaris, Mac, BSD...) get so blinded by their allegence to one type of technology they don't realize or refuse to accept that there might be something better out there for a given use. Sitting on my desk right now I have machines running Win2k, OSX and RedHat 7.1 all of which I use for different tasks. Could I use just one OS for all my tasks? Sure, but I perfer to use what works best in a given situation.
And it was only a $150 million in non-voting stock. (Minor detial I know =)
I'm not sure how much it would have helped in the performance category but it would have reduced the J2EE implementations cost by $40,000
Read the /. FAQ for why they don't mirror.
Yes and no. While the lawsuits are similar the one sited today was filed by Bill Simon, the lawsuit that was previously reported was filed by Thomas Woolston.
Um, no. It would mean that your "state-o-the-art" PowerBook wouldn't run the previous version of the OS.
Doubtful, if a 1GHz GPUL processor runs 2x faster than a 1GHz G4 processor.
Yea, right. Since Apple has done such a poor job of allowing old apps to continue to function with a new their new OS, NOT!
Go back to sleep, you clearly need it.
Why not just run some cat5(e) yourself? It would certainly cost less than $400 and if you bought some high quality cable (or better yet run it through a conduit) weatherproofing wouldn't be a big deal.