This is simply not true. This sounds like an Apple enthusiast spreading unfounded comments.
Only tasks which are multithreaded or actually run as seperate parallel tasks will make use of the second cpu. This is true under Linux, too. Or any operating system come to think of it.
Computers aren't magic y'know, they arent able to parallelise (sp?) a task which wasn't written with concurrency and parallelism (again sp?) in mind in the first place.
I'm a little lost.. To install Office I grab the folder off the CD and drag it to the Applications folder.. I know where I just dragged the folder, so I can find it when I need the app. It's not a mysterious thing to most people.. If I want a shortcut, I drag the app to the to dock and a shortcut is created.. I click the Word icon on the dock, or in the Applications folder and Word launches. It looks nicer similar to and contains most of the Windows version of Word..
This is exactly what I was talking about. Although I agree that these are all nice easy, logical things to do. However, these are all things you cannot do on Windows, and no secretary has ever been told they can do this. My point is that the environments are different and a non-techie person has trouble figuring out the new system.
I know of 6 people who sat down in front of OS X for 5 minutes at the Apple Store or at a friends place and have decided to sell their Windows machines (many of which are under a year old) for new Macs and OS X. These are geeks and teachers mostly who have never used anything but Windows or Unix and immediately recognized how much friendlier OS X felt.. A number of the researchers here have purchased Macs for their desks. They code in project builder (which are generally run on Athalon boxes running Linux), write papers using TexShop (PDFLaTeX), touch up figures using Adobe Illustrator for OS X, read the interdepartmental memos using Word v.X, and maintain their grades in an Excel v.X spreadsheet... The point is that a lot of people are seeing Macs and saying "Wow! You mean I just drag and drop things where I want them and it works? Damn!! That's cool!" and that's what Apple is selling...
Great. Good for you. Good for them. But I was NOT disputing the fact that Mac OS X is rather good. In fact you seem to be replying to an argument which I never started.
In fact to be honest, I kinda wish I could afford a mac, mainly because the NeXT-like oo-programming environment looks like it's going to be the future (years ahead of everyone else), and the heavy encouragement of using Objective-C (which is an absolutely beautiful language).
Actually I was discussing this with a friend the other day. I was saying that even if I did have the money to buy a mac, I probably would not get one, because if I DID have that kind of money, there are better things I could do with it. That's one of the troubles of macs if you ask me, they are just expensive enough to not make it worth it. Anyway, I'm not meaning to start a flamewar.
Uhhm, actually, I've performed the Pepsi/Coke Taste Test on my mother. She commented, "and it doesn't crash?" A damned shame indeed that her work requires her to use Winblows. And why are these 'Word Bird' examples always female, anyway?
Well she must be smarter than anyone ive ever had to teach:).
The 'Word Bird' examples are because I used to work in the IT department of a large company. I figured out that over half of the workstations on site were operated by female secretaries running word. And nothing else.
I think you're referring more to *protocols* here, as in "computers can all figure out TCP/IP." The more important comparison, I think, is to ask whether you can fit Honda parts onto a BMW, or vice versa. No? Does that affect sales of those cars any? The answer is... no. There are billions and billions of after-market parts for every car under the sun. The same is true whether you run x86, UltraSparcs, or *gasp* even Macs.
I've never been that good at analogies.
But what I meant really were higher level protocols, such as mail protocols, filesharing protocols (I'm thinking SMB) etc. Specifically when Microsoft take an existing standard and turn it inso some strange propriatery (and closed) mutation which will only work on their selected platform. (ie- outlook express's protocol which is frankly bizzare)
...And, I could be wrong, but I don't think than anyone is calling either of those cars endangered or that their existence is threatened.
That's because it's a slightly different situation. A BMW and a Mercedes are driven in (essentially) the same way as any other car. As a general rule, you only have to be able to drive any car and you can drive a Mercedes or BMW pretty competently.
Try giving a Word Bird (who has only ever started up windows and double clicked on 'Microsoft Word 97') MacOS X. To her at least, the experience is completely bewildering.
Also, on a slightly lesser note, cars can all drive on the same roads. I know it is less of an issue nowadays, but incompatibilities are (at least percieved by most people to be) quite a problem when working in business environments (I'm thinking of.doc format here for instance, but also network protocols/structure etc.)
Maybe it would be better for security, but I was thinking about being able to NEVER use a monitor, from when you first power up. AFAIK ssh is not installed by default on MacOS X, whereas I think telnet is enabled.
I must say that I was quite disappointed when companies started putting MicroDrives into MP3 players, because IMHO it defeated what was about half the point of an MP3 player.
That point was that an MP3 player had no moving parts which, in turn, meant that:
-There was very long battery life, because most energy in a (walkman/discman) is wasted by the actual mechanical movement of the media.
-You could do (within reasonable limits) whatever you wanted to it without worrying about it skipping, jittering or corrupting.
-The device would be very reliable. (Moving parts are far more likely to break than solid state hardware)
Now, I appreciate the fact that SSDs are many times more expensive, and therefore on a cheap device you can only practically have about 32 - 96 MB of storage (128M at best), but I still feel that the future of MP3 players and the like rely on the industry to develop cheaper Solid State Devices.
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You don't get it: these guys are just really committed NSYNC fans.
"Big, even for our standards"
"Count the days, count the minutes, count on being blown away"
"Beyond the rumour sites, way beyond"
"A backstage pass to the future"
Maybe they're going to admit that MacOS X was just a joke and here's the real new OS...
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Still, whatever comes out is my next computer purchase:-)
What, even if it's a 2' naked rubber robotic doll of Steve Jobs?
Yes, I have a friend who runs it on a mac. Actually, I saw it first on his mac. Ive played it a lot on his mac, but it really didnt feel much different. (In fact, it looked a bit worse, because he was using the riva 128 that shipped with his g4, which i don't think gets the colour balance quite right)
Plus I would have to sell my left nipple to be able to afford one.
I'm sorry, but this is very old news, if it can be called news at all. X Plane has been doing this for years. It is nothing new.
I have been using X Plane for over a year personally and am looking forward to the Linux port. (I haven't been able to 'play' it for a few months since my windows partition died a horrible death)
Either your too old, or your too young, or it's racial issues...
You mean:
Either you're too old, or you're too young, or it's racial issues...
Come on, I expect this sort of thing from the trolls and thirteen year olds, but you're supposed to be setting an example. Wake up. This mistake should not be made, even by ten year olds.
I tried using Linux KDE as a desktop last year and was disappointed with the speed of the graphical interface. I could watch the dialogs painting and this was on a 900MHz machine.
That's funny. I run kde 2.2.1 on my K6-2 350Mhz, and I notice NO (or very little, well, as much as windows anyway) sluggishness. In fact I dont think I've booted windows for about 6 months now: kde's doing me fine. Are you sure you are using accelerated drivers for your graphics card?
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Microsoft has a bug database? So that's what ASCI White has been doing for the past few years.
Well, at least that'll finally put an end to the GNOME v KDE debate.
Only tasks which are multithreaded or actually run as seperate parallel tasks will make use of the second cpu. This is true under Linux, too. Or any operating system come to think of it.
Computers aren't magic y'know, they arent able to parallelise (sp?) a task which wasn't written with concurrency and parallelism (again sp?) in mind in the first place.
This is exactly what I was talking about. Although I agree that these are all nice easy, logical things to do. However, these are all things you cannot do on Windows, and no secretary has ever been told they can do this. My point is that the environments are different and a non-techie person has trouble figuring out the new system.
I know of 6 people who sat down in front of OS X for 5 minutes at the Apple Store or at a friends place and have decided to sell their Windows machines (many of which are under a year old) for new Macs and OS X. These are geeks and teachers mostly who have never used anything but Windows or Unix and immediately recognized how much friendlier OS X felt.. A number of the researchers here have purchased Macs for their desks. They code in project builder (which are generally run on Athalon boxes running Linux), write papers using TexShop (PDFLaTeX), touch up figures using Adobe Illustrator for OS X, read the interdepartmental memos using Word v.X, and maintain their grades in an Excel v.X spreadsheet... The point is that a lot of people are seeing Macs and saying "Wow! You mean I just drag and drop things where I want them and it works? Damn!! That's cool!" and that's what Apple is selling...
Great. Good for you. Good for them. But I was NOT disputing the fact that Mac OS X is rather good. In fact you seem to be replying to an argument which I never started.
In fact to be honest, I kinda wish I could afford a mac, mainly because the NeXT-like oo-programming environment looks like it's going to be the future (years ahead of everyone else), and the heavy encouragement of using Objective-C (which is an absolutely beautiful language).
Actually I was discussing this with a friend the other day. I was saying that even if I did have the money to buy a mac, I probably would not get one, because if I DID have that kind of money, there are better things I could do with it. That's one of the troubles of macs if you ask me, they are just expensive enough to not make it worth it. Anyway, I'm not meaning to start a flamewar.
Well she must be smarter than anyone ive ever had to teach :).
The 'Word Bird' examples are because I used to work in the IT department of a large company. I figured out that over half of the workstations on site were operated by female secretaries running word. And nothing else.
I think you're referring more to *protocols* here, as in "computers can all figure out TCP/IP." The more important comparison, I think, is to ask whether you can fit Honda parts onto a BMW, or vice versa. No? Does that affect sales of those cars any? The answer is... no. There are billions and billions of after-market parts for every car under the sun. The same is true whether you run x86, UltraSparcs, or *gasp* even Macs.
I've never been that good at analogies.
But what I meant really were higher level protocols, such as mail protocols, filesharing protocols (I'm thinking SMB) etc. Specifically when Microsoft take an existing standard and turn it inso some strange propriatery (and closed) mutation which will only work on their selected platform. (ie- outlook express's protocol which is frankly bizzare)
That's because it's a slightly different situation. A BMW and a Mercedes are driven in (essentially) the same way as any other car. As a general rule, you only have to be able to drive any car and you can drive a Mercedes or BMW pretty competently.
Try giving a Word Bird (who has only ever started up windows and double clicked on 'Microsoft Word 97') MacOS X. To her at least, the experience is completely bewildering.
Also, on a slightly lesser note, cars can all drive on the same roads. I know it is less of an issue nowadays, but incompatibilities are (at least percieved by most people to be) quite a problem when working in business environments (I'm thinking of .doc format here for instance, but also network protocols/structure etc.)
Ah. Well now I know.
Maybe it would be better for security, but I was thinking about being able to NEVER use a monitor, from when you first power up. AFAIK ssh is not installed by default on MacOS X, whereas I think telnet is enabled.
Be a man: Telnet.
That point was that an MP3 player had no moving parts which, in turn, meant that:
-There was very long battery life, because most energy in a (walkman/discman) is wasted by the actual mechanical movement of the media.
-You could do (within reasonable limits) whatever you wanted to it without worrying about it skipping, jittering or corrupting.
-The device would be very reliable. (Moving parts are far more likely to break than solid state hardware)
Now, I appreciate the fact that SSDs are many times more expensive, and therefore on a cheap device you can only practically have about 32 - 96 MB of storage (128M at best), but I still feel that the future of MP3 players and the like rely on the industry to develop cheaper Solid State Devices.
*shudder*
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God, I'm going to get so many 'foes' doing this. I'm simply doing this because I would have found it very useful.
Does this imply that when you state this, you do become a lawyer?
Cool.
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"Count the days, count the minutes, count on being blown away"
"Beyond the rumour sites, way beyond"
"A backstage pass to the future"
Maybe they're going to admit that MacOS X was just a joke and here's the real new OS...
What, even if it's a 2' naked rubber robotic doll of Steve Jobs?
Whatever makes you happy.
Plus I would have to sell my left nipple to be able to afford one.
I have been using X Plane for over a year personally and am looking forward to the Linux port. (I haven't been able to 'play' it for a few months since my windows partition died a horrible death)
You mean:
Either you're too old, or you're too young, or it's racial issues...
Come on, I expect this sort of thing from the trolls and thirteen year olds, but you're supposed to be setting an example. Wake up. This mistake should not be made, even by ten year olds.
Useful: it is only spelt with one 'l'.
And before you ask, yes, I do have a deathwish for my karma.
That's funny. I run kde 2.2.1 on my K6-2 350Mhz, and I notice NO (or very little, well, as much as windows anyway) sluggishness. In fact I dont think I've booted windows for about 6 months now: kde's doing me fine. Are you sure you are using accelerated drivers for your graphics card?
You mean ensure. (Actually, according to some definitions what you said can be correct, but really it should be ensure)
And before you ask, yes, I do have a deathwish for my karma.
You mean preferable, it is spelt with only one 'r'.
And before you ask, yes, I do have a deathwish for my karma.
It should be its, it's is only an abbreviation for "It is".
I'm assuming that this is just a typo, and you realise that it should be "...sad as I am..."
...And before you ask, yes, I do have a deathwish for my karma.
It shoud be its, not it's: that is an abbreviation for It is solely.
And before you ask, yes, I do have a deathwish for my karma...
Useful, it is spelt with one 'l'.