These original mac -> anything mods only count if you do one of two things.
1, Anything involving still having a display built in. Extra marks for using the original CRT, normal marks for replacing it with another, lose some points for putting an LCD in... it kinda looks funny.
2, Make a fishtank. Or some way of dispensing beer.
Just throwing the shit from a Windows box in it doesn't really count.
Another vote for Valgrind, it's been absolutely wonderful for finding and eliminating memory leak bugs. Not nearly as slow as you would expect it to be either.
I sent the (lead?) developer some email a while back, saying how entirely l33t he is and hoping that somebody somewhere had given him a job using these skills. The answer? Yup. Works for ARM.
Must go, I think there's a dead router. On a Sunday.
Basically, no. OSX is incredibly video memory hungry. My iBook only has 16Mb so with a few big applications open the driver has to start sloshing textures up and down the AGP bus. Like, not manically, but enough to slow it noticably and enough to slow expose down a treat.
Later iBooks had twice as much VRAM... and I can't comment on the G4 iBooks - I don't even know if the hack works to be honest.
Anyway, I got a Mac to see if I liked it, and I do. I've since landed some Mac development work so the iBook has turned into my main development box. Consequently the order for a 1.25GHz PB happened.
To be honest, I doubt if I could have been able to bear developing at the 1024x768 that would have been my best bet without the hack.
I doubt someone who's overclocked an FX5200 will go right out and buy an FX5950 Ultra right after overclocking it...
True. But they might get the nVidia 'religion' back again. And, let's face it, nVidia need all the fanboys they can get right now.
how many slashdotters who might have bought an ATI card might buy the second most expensive card nvidia makes now?
Well, gotta be good news for nVidia, right? So why not do it? Why not make the cards deliberately up-clockable from the BIOS?
Basically product differentiation is about getting people to pay the maximum amount they are happy with. So, I don't have $400 for an ultra-pro-turbo, but I do have $300 for a vanilla and this is the tidbit that makes me part with my money in nV's direction. Well... gonna be up for it, aren't they?
Related story: I applied the screen spanning hack to my iBook so I could use it in a more "PowerBook" style. Having whetted by appetite I've now gone off and bought the real thing. BIOS hacks as a loss leader?
I know the video capture card sounds like a more "complete" solution, but you might want to think twice about hooking a PS2 up to it.
For a start I imagine there are some significant latency issues associated with video capture which, while fine for watching telly, might be a bit of a problem for playing games.
Secondly, as this is more subtle, almost all the point of a PS2 is that it is devoid of hassle. Open door, put disk in, close door and you're there. Having to make sure the PC is on, you've got the capture application working properly, and (in the case of Linux) doing whatever X11 voodoo shit that needs to be done is just not the point of having a playstation.
Sony sell a really nice 14" flatscreen TV. Maybe get one?
Dave
Re:Observations of an insider on S3's chances...
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I've heard these arguments - particularly the one about how retail sales are basically irrelevant - in a number of places, and hearing it again just confirms my suspicions about how true they are.
Compare and contrast: Number of Radeons sold in boxes at retail vs number of GeForce class chips shipped in Dells. Doesn't bear thinking about. And, as we all suspected, the very high end videocard business *actually* *is* a dickwar.
The thing I don't quite get is why S3, who I think have a healthy business licensing IP into embeddded chipsets, northbridges and what have you, would want to be involved in the consumer shitfight? Probably just trying to build a little market presence, eh?
As a C++ programmer I... kinda agree actually. But I still don't think running Java stored procedures is a good idea.
Note that this is a very different kettle of fish from running Java on the server. Server side Java is just getting bigger, basically, and one of the things that is making this happen is increasing scalability.
However, three tier apps are generally bottlenecked around the database - because by necessity there can only be one of them. Therefore, while stored procedures and triggers are valid parts of the enterprise developers' toolbox, they have to be used sparingly because of how critical performance is on the DB.
The astounding thing about the subject line is that this is *exactly* what actually happened.
Holy shit, nice one.
why the hell are my taxes flowing into that sandpit as fast as they get taken out of my pocket?
Investment, on a kinda global scale. The US needs oil more than anyone else. The Arab world has it. The problem with the Arab world is that the US doesn't control it, and therefore they can do more or less what the fuck they like with the price of oil. And frequently do, making the US their bitches.
Under the circumstances a hundred billion, or two, has got to be a good way to spend some cash.
Your cash, to be exact. The money you could have spent. The resources which could have been under your control, and which could have gone towards whatever it is that you wanted to do with it. Except that it was extracted at a federal level to... ahhh... flow into a sandpit, IIRC.
The art is to leave it a few days then check macfixit.com for fallout.
As an aside, I can never tell if Apple's QA procedures for these releases are crap, or if it's just that the Apple using community are noisy bastards as soon as something doesn't work.
But more seriously, I agree with the parent post wholeheartedly. Salon have a big enough rig to not get slashdotted, and they make money by pushing a ten second advert onto my screen. Just leave them be.
It's quality journalism, and I see no good reason to rob them of their $0.01 per page view or however much it is.
who's going to buy the $50 widgits (that cost $1 to make overseas)?
Interesting question. My answers, in no particular order:
* They will be $10 widgets, not $50 ones. God bless the market. * The Japanese, Singaporeans, Malaysians and a few of the up and coming Chinese. * Do you really need it?
The office space thing is absolutely wrong. Sorry, but it is.
I'm currently in an incubator - i.e. sharing space with about a dozen other small 'trying like hell' companies. It costs too much, but we and the other companies in there regularly get together to land contracts that any one of us individually couldn't get.
It's not just incubators that get this. I saw a similar effect when working in some serviced offices. Get to know the people around you, become known as a man that can, work will arrive all of it's own accord and suddenly the rent starts to look like a bit of a bargain.
I am 2ms ping away from the webserver on a 10Mbit connection, and I can't get it.
I think, and I may well be wrong, that there is no description of multicasting on the server. Certainly most of NZ's Internet infrastructure isn't multicast capable, and I never did see how they were going to manage to stream this.
There was a brief effort to get Akamai involved. But... well. Oh well.
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These original mac -> anything mods only count if you do one of two things.
... it kinda looks funny.
1, Anything involving still having a display built in. Extra marks for using the original CRT, normal marks for replacing it with another, lose some points for putting an LCD in
2, Make a fishtank. Or some way of dispensing beer.
Just throwing the shit from a Windows box in it doesn't really count.
Dave
Duke Falcon Forever?
Dave
Another vote for Valgrind, it's been absolutely wonderful for finding and eliminating memory leak bugs. Not nearly as slow as you would expect it to be either.
I sent the (lead?) developer some email a while back, saying how entirely l33t he is and hoping that somebody somewhere had given him a job using these skills. The answer? Yup. Works for ARM.
Must go, I think there's a dead router. On a Sunday.
Dave
A good two and a half months before 1st April. Go join the queue. Behind SCO.
Dave
It is, eh. A not entirely stupid way of running a service pack beta without hosing your main machine.
But not as cool as VMWare.
Dave
Cool. Go for it, you'll be very happy - the new iBooks are a bargain.
First mac?
Dave
Wasn't the iBook hack good enough?
... and I can't comment on the G4 iBooks - I don't even know if the hack works to be honest.
Basically, no. OSX is incredibly video memory hungry. My iBook only has 16Mb so with a few big applications open the driver has to start sloshing textures up and down the AGP bus. Like, not manically, but enough to slow it noticably and enough to slow expose down a treat.
Later iBooks had twice as much VRAM
Anyway, I got a Mac to see if I liked it, and I do. I've since landed some Mac development work so the iBook has turned into my main development box. Consequently the order for a 1.25GHz PB happened.
To be honest, I doubt if I could have been able to bear developing at the 1024x768 that would have been my best bet without the hack.
I doubt someone who's overclocked an FX5200 will go right out and buy an FX5950 Ultra right after overclocking it...
True. But they might get the nVidia 'religion' back again. And, let's face it, nVidia need all the fanboys they can get right now.
Dave
how many slashdotters who might have bought an ATI card might buy the second most expensive card nvidia makes now?
... gonna be up for it, aren't they?
Well, gotta be good news for nVidia, right? So why not do it? Why not make the cards deliberately up-clockable from the BIOS?
Basically product differentiation is about getting people to pay the maximum amount they are happy with. So, I don't have $400 for an ultra-pro-turbo, but I do have $300 for a vanilla and this is the tidbit that makes me part with my money in nV's direction. Well
Related story: I applied the screen spanning hack to my iBook so I could use it in a more "PowerBook" style. Having whetted by appetite I've now gone off and bought the real thing. BIOS hacks as a loss leader?
Dave
The concept was good, but it got replaced by something called email.
Dave
I see someone's had their new years joint then?
Dave
I know the video capture card sounds like a more "complete" solution, but you might want to think twice about hooking a PS2 up to it.
For a start I imagine there are some significant latency issues associated with video capture which, while fine for watching telly, might be a bit of a problem for playing games.
Secondly, as this is more subtle, almost all the point of a PS2 is that it is devoid of hassle. Open door, put disk in, close door and you're there. Having to make sure the PC is on, you've got the capture application working properly, and (in the case of Linux) doing whatever X11 voodoo shit that needs to be done is just not the point of having a playstation.
Sony sell a really nice 14" flatscreen TV. Maybe get one?
Dave
I've heard these arguments - particularly the one about how retail sales are basically irrelevant - in a number of places, and hearing it again just confirms my suspicions about how true they are.
Compare and contrast: Number of Radeons sold in boxes at retail vs number of GeForce class chips shipped in Dells. Doesn't bear thinking about. And, as we all suspected, the very high end videocard business *actually* *is* a dickwar.
The thing I don't quite get is why S3, who I think have a healthy business licensing IP into embeddded chipsets, northbridges and what have you, would want to be involved in the consumer shitfight? Probably just trying to build a little market presence, eh?
Dave
As a C++ programmer I ... kinda agree actually. But I still don't think running Java stored procedures is a good idea.
Note that this is a very different kettle of fish from running Java on the server. Server side Java is just getting bigger, basically, and one of the things that is making this happen is increasing scalability.
However, three tier apps are generally bottlenecked around the database - because by necessity there can only be one of them. Therefore, while stored procedures and triggers are valid parts of the enterprise developers' toolbox, they have to be used sparingly because of how critical performance is on the DB.
Cheers,
Dave
The astounding thing about the subject line is that this is *exactly* what actually happened.
... ahhh ... flow into a sandpit, IIRC.
Holy shit, nice one.
why the hell are my taxes flowing into that sandpit as fast as they get taken out of my pocket?
Investment, on a kinda global scale. The US needs oil more than anyone else. The Arab world has it. The problem with the Arab world is that the US doesn't control it, and therefore they can do more or less what the fuck they like with the price of oil. And frequently do, making the US their bitches.
Under the circumstances a hundred billion, or two, has got to be a good way to spend some cash.
Your cash, to be exact. The money you could have spent. The resources which could have been under your control, and which could have gone towards whatever it is that you wanted to do with it. Except that it was extracted at a federal level to
Do have fun.
Dave
Exactly. Were you not paying attention? The whole point of invading Iraq was to give contracts for it's rebuilding to American companies.
Do you see a German cellphone provider? Hmmm?
How about a French railway system going in?
Exactly. The yoosay and their allies invaded Iraq, the yoosay claims the prize. And as for giving it away? Pah! Hippies!
Dave
The art is to leave it a few days then check macfixit.com for fallout.
As an aside, I can never tell if Apple's QA procedures for these releases are crap, or if it's just that the Apple using community are noisy bastards as soon as something doesn't work.
Anyway, leave it a few days. 10.2.7 says so.
Dave
They have the context menus nailed right down
They do not. In 10.3 open the finder, right click on any of the items on the left hand side. Open an email and right click on it.
Apple need to get over the whole "we didn't invent right click" thing, and the sooner the better.
Dave
They definately offered. The rumor is that the offer was accepted.
Wouldn't surprise me at all - and I would be very surprised if the number in question was less than $100M.
Dave
ObAOL: Me too!
But more seriously, I agree with the parent post wholeheartedly. Salon have a big enough rig to not get slashdotted, and they make money by pushing a ten second advert onto my screen. Just leave them be.
It's quality journalism, and I see no good reason to rob them of their $0.01 per page view or however much it is.
Dave
Wouldn't it be better to focus (as an elective course) on cross-platform development like Java, which can run on Mac?
No, because Java on a Mac runs slowly like you wouldn't believe. Objective-C is faster and, honestly, is no harder than Java.
Apart from the memory management.
Dave
No, but they do know about throwing money at people who do.
Dave
Similarly, somehow, I was thinking that they had finally got value for money for their $160k.
The valuable lessons are almost always the hard ones.
Dave
who's going to buy the $50 widgits (that cost $1 to make overseas)?
Interesting question. My answers, in no particular order:
* They will be $10 widgets, not $50 ones. God bless the market.
* The Japanese, Singaporeans, Malaysians and a few of the up and coming Chinese.
* Do you really need it?
Dave
The office space thing is absolutely wrong. Sorry, but it is.
I'm currently in an incubator - i.e. sharing space with about a dozen other small 'trying like hell' companies. It costs too much, but we and the other companies in there regularly get together to land contracts that any one of us individually couldn't get.
It's not just incubators that get this. I saw a similar effect when working in some serviced offices. Get to know the people around you, become known as a man that can, work will arrive all of it's own accord and suddenly the rent starts to look like a bit of a bargain.
Dave
I am 2ms ping away from the webserver on a 10Mbit connection, and I can't get it.
... well. Oh well.
I think, and I may well be wrong, that there is no description of multicasting on the server. Certainly most of NZ's Internet infrastructure isn't multicast capable, and I never did see how they were going to manage to stream this.
There was a brief effort to get Akamai involved. But
Dave