I would say this is a good idea if you believe that the ends justify the means, the means being the same tactics that McCarthy used during the Red Scare. Sorry, I think that is anything but healthy. I call it very socially destructive even if the intent is pure.
Criticism is one thing, but using such tactics by students, neighbors, etc. for the purpose of "turning people in" is exactly the thing that totalitarian regimes are known to do. They try to make it a hostile environment to any opinion that isn't sanctioned by the group that sets up this sort of thing.
I think people may be missing the fact that the dual core thing might be throwing a wrench into the mix, which could account for all of the discrepencies. There aren't many native apps, and I think the iLife suite isn't multi-processor capable yet, so a benchmarks won't show the benefits of the second core.
If nothing else, it is showing commitment to established roadmaps. That is important to high end and certain specialized needs, the only way they will commit to a new product is knowing whether it will be available a certain number of years. This is important so that a product doesn't have to go through a costly redesign for a different chip too often. If a manufacturer breaks that commitment, then it will be hard to regain that trust or even bother using that company's products in the next design.
It doesn't cover mail order, web order or sales to businesses. I bet mail and web order might be leaning toward AMD soon. Sales for business use is a different animal, many businessess are more conservative than makes sense to be.
I sold my dad a 2x 500MHz Xeon for a desktop a couple years ago. It still runs non-stop and is pretty darn quiet too, the system only has two fans, both are 12cm, so there's no stupid high pitch.
From the tags, it appears it was assembled in 1997. I think it's too bad that the chip makers moved away from the processor cards, though I understand that it is a cost cutting move.
Yet I've read between the lines and investigated some of the companies buying out "dry" fields and finding more that have magically refilled a certain amount.
I would imagine that is probably because not all the cavities in a field were truly empty, not that more was made.
Any Invader Zim fan will tell you that McMeatyBurgers are the only thing that is sanitary because it's space meat, thus, not even bacteria can digest it.
The stated cost of one tape drive is like the cost of two 400GB hard drives, then there's the cost of the tapes. I haven't had a hard drive fail in a long time, maybe the one I've had fail was ten years ago.
The contrast thing rings true for me too. Some people thought I was silly when I complained about Apple's MacBook web page, the "fine print" was in dark grey on black. Heck, the medium grey on black wasn't all that easy to read either. While I can read it, it slows me down a little. I like to have better contrast than that, I wonder if there is a readability guideline or study somewhere that suggests an optimum contrast.
If you didn't want things like Flash, you wouldn't be buying a Mac anyway.
Why would you be saying that when most flash objects are actually just tacky web ads? I think it is disturbing that ads with sound and motion are used on sites whose primary content is text.
I really got turned off to flash when there was a (so claimed) glitch that caused an ad to blink white black white, people on the site complained, and later, more ads from the same company did that, this time, surely intentional.
Firefox on PPC is kind of inefficient, sometimes it makes enough load to kick the CPU fan to high speed. I would not want to run that in an emulated environment. The same goes for Thunderbird, that one can really be a dog for reasons I don't know.
I wonder though, as long as the user is allowed to run code from their own home directory, there is always a risk they'll agree to something they shouldn't. Sure, it likely won't dig into the OS but could still send garbage out and even host a server.
I would say that the heat dissipation of the G5 processor also kicks ass, I didn't need a furnace this winter. On the down side, if I put a heavy load on it long enough, the fans hit a pretty annoying pitch and amplitude, far more annoying than the very quiet 2GHz Xeon systems I had.
To be fair, IE for Mac was discontinued because Safari became a somewhat viable option. Windows Media Player wasn't very good, as bad as I've heard Flip4Mac is, I understand it is at least a little better and doesn't require maintaining a separate media player as it is a plugin or Codec that works in Quicktime, which I think suits the "Mac way" better.
There are already a lot of products designed to stack under a Mac mini, I have actually designed and made a couple but never really marketed them. Like you say, they don't stack with integrated power and I/O connections, those have to be separate cables, so they are a bit messier. I would hope they don't pass analog connections through the row or stack, that would be bad.
It looks to me that the Symantec rep himself agreed to a given time frame, so I don't see what the problem is, this was pre-legal action. I would suggest that such evidence should be ready when they make a claim, and also have contacted the Spybot developers at the same time or before posting a knowledge base article. Though I do agree that Spybot should have gotten a screen grab.
But anyway, I've had more trouble per unit time per installation with Symantec's products than I ever have with Spybot. Actually, I don't think I've had a problem with Spybot causing problems, ever, on the dozen computers I have installed it on.
Apple had about 4% of the personal computer market 3Q05, and it still seems to be growing. It has been three years since Apple has been near 1.5, and that was apparently in 4Q03 at 1.7%. Dell still sells about 8x more computers than Apple does, but at much lower costs and much lower margins.
It doesn't hurt to point out that part of the excitement was about iPod sales, I think the predictions were 9 to 11 million units last quarter and Apple announced they soundly beat those predictions by selling 14 million.
In this case, the cells are vector processors, not necessarily CPUs, IIRC, much like what is in a GPU. Maybe a high performance GPU isn't as necessary, just use a DAC? At any rate, we'll eventually find out when the real product hits to know if this is what it is and actually competitive.
10mbps is just as fast as I can run to the video store and back (depending on the codec used and other parameters, but its close).
10 millibits per second doesn't get much. 10 Mbps is a different animal, that can stream as much as two decent DVD streams at half max bitrate, like video on demand.
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I would say this is a good idea if you believe that the ends justify the means, the means being the same tactics that McCarthy used during the Red Scare. Sorry, I think that is anything but healthy. I call it very socially destructive even if the intent is pure.
Criticism is one thing, but using such tactics by students, neighbors, etc. for the purpose of "turning people in" is exactly the thing that totalitarian regimes are known to do. They try to make it a hostile environment to any opinion that isn't sanctioned by the group that sets up this sort of thing.
I think people may be missing the fact that the dual core thing might be throwing a wrench into the mix, which could account for all of the discrepencies. There aren't many native apps, and I think the iLife suite isn't multi-processor capable yet, so a benchmarks won't show the benefits of the second core.
Are you sure it isn't a tripe?
If nothing else, it is showing commitment to established roadmaps. That is important to high end and certain specialized needs, the only way they will commit to a new product is knowing whether it will be available a certain number of years. This is important so that a product doesn't have to go through a costly redesign for a different chip too often. If a manufacturer breaks that commitment, then it will be hard to regain that trust or even bother using that company's products in the next design.
It doesn't cover mail order, web order or sales to businesses. I bet mail and web order might be leaning toward AMD soon. Sales for business use is a different animal, many businessess are more conservative than makes sense to be.
I sold my dad a 2x 500MHz Xeon for a desktop a couple years ago. It still runs non-stop and is pretty darn quiet too, the system only has two fans, both are 12cm, so there's no stupid high pitch.
From the tags, it appears it was assembled in 1997. I think it's too bad that the chip makers moved away from the processor cards, though I understand that it is a cost cutting move.
Its in the preferences...I found it just recently...it might be under Videos or Advanced.
Inded, you are Rignt. Here it is:
Edit->Preferences. Select Playback tab. Check "Play videos" at the bottom, in the drop-down box pick "full screen".
Yet I've read between the lines and investigated some of the companies buying out "dry" fields and finding more that have magically refilled a certain amount.
I would imagine that is probably because not all the cavities in a field were truly empty, not that more was made.
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That's funny, it doesn't taste like McDonalds
Any Invader Zim fan will tell you that McMeatyBurgers are the only thing that is sanitary because it's space meat, thus, not even bacteria can digest it.
The stated cost of one tape drive is like the cost of two 400GB hard drives, then there's the cost of the tapes. I haven't had a hard drive fail in a long time, maybe the one I've had fail was ten years ago.
I've seen a few pop-unders with Firefox. Also, some styles of pop-ups still get by Firefox 1.5.
The contrast thing rings true for me too. Some people thought I was silly when I complained about Apple's MacBook web page, the "fine print" was in dark grey on black. Heck, the medium grey on black wasn't all that easy to read either. While I can read it, it slows me down a little. I like to have better contrast than that, I wonder if there is a readability guideline or study somewhere that suggests an optimum contrast.
for an attempt to have "eternal internet glory" for being the first to get a Production Macintosh to run Window
Supposedly that was already done ten years ago for some Macs, when there was a PPC port of Windows NT.
On a Mac, run AquaFirefoxSet and most of the aesthetic problems of Firefox on a Mac will go away.
If you didn't want things like Flash, you wouldn't be buying a Mac anyway.
Why would you be saying that when most flash objects are actually just tacky web ads? I think it is disturbing that ads with sound and motion are used on sites whose primary content is text.
I really got turned off to flash when there was a (so claimed) glitch that caused an ad to blink white black white, people on the site complained, and later, more ads from the same company did that, this time, surely intentional.
Firefox on PPC is kind of inefficient, sometimes it makes enough load to kick the CPU fan to high speed. I would not want to run that in an emulated environment. The same goes for Thunderbird, that one can really be a dog for reasons I don't know.
I wonder though, as long as the user is allowed to run code from their own home directory, there is always a risk they'll agree to something they shouldn't. Sure, it likely won't dig into the OS but could still send garbage out and even host a server.
I would say that the heat dissipation of the G5 processor also kicks ass, I didn't need a furnace this winter. On the down side, if I put a heavy load on it long enough, the fans hit a pretty annoying pitch and amplitude, far more annoying than the very quiet 2GHz Xeon systems I had.
To be fair, IE for Mac was discontinued because Safari became a somewhat viable option. Windows Media Player wasn't very good, as bad as I've heard Flip4Mac is, I understand it is at least a little better and doesn't require maintaining a separate media player as it is a plugin or Codec that works in Quicktime, which I think suits the "Mac way" better.
There are already a lot of products designed to stack under a Mac mini, I have actually designed and made a couple but never really marketed them. Like you say, they don't stack with integrated power and I/O connections, those have to be separate cables, so they are a bit messier. I would hope they don't pass analog connections through the row or stack, that would be bad.
It looks to me that the Symantec rep himself agreed to a given time frame, so I don't see what the problem is, this was pre-legal action. I would suggest that such evidence should be ready when they make a claim, and also have contacted the Spybot developers at the same time or before posting a knowledge base article. Though I do agree that Spybot should have gotten a screen grab.
But anyway, I've had more trouble per unit time per installation with Symantec's products than I ever have with Spybot. Actually, I don't think I've had a problem with Spybot causing problems, ever, on the dozen computers I have installed it on.
Apple had about 4% of the personal computer market 3Q05, and it still seems to be growing. It has been three years since Apple has been near 1.5, and that was apparently in 4Q03 at 1.7%. Dell still sells about 8x more computers than Apple does, but at much lower costs and much lower margins.
It doesn't hurt to point out that part of the excitement was about iPod sales, I think the predictions were 9 to 11 million units last quarter and Apple announced they soundly beat those predictions by selling 14 million.
In this case, the cells are vector processors, not necessarily CPUs, IIRC, much like what is in a GPU. Maybe a high performance GPU isn't as necessary, just use a DAC? At any rate, we'll eventually find out when the real product hits to know if this is what it is and actually competitive.
10mbps is just as fast as I can run to the video store and back (depending on the codec used and other parameters, but its close).
10 millibits per second doesn't get much. 10 Mbps is a different animal, that can stream as much as two decent DVD streams at half max bitrate, like video on demand.