There's always the iMac... Quite frankly, Apple needs a Powermac G4 equivalent-- an Core i7 with a few slots. With USB 3.0 on the horizon, and games demanding better and better graphics cards, a cheapish PCI machine might just hold its value.
On the other hand, I have a late model PowerMac G4 with one additional IDE hard drive (for time machine), one USB 2.0 card (for an iPod), and very slightly upgraded graphics in the form of a Radeon 9600 Pro.
The hard drive was taken from a firewire chassis because the bridge chip turned out to be slightly incompatible with my system, and the videocard was taken from a G5, and modded down. Even the USB card was more than trivial to obtain-- most pci cards support only the other operating system.
Today Intel Macs have a hard time with most of the third party PCIe cards, because a BIOS is assumed.
Imagine that you've upgraded both your software and hardware. The new hardware (perhaps a RAID card, or a video card) works fairly well with your new system, but not well at all with the system originally sold with your mac. Something goes wrong-- and your entire system has to be installed from scratch. If you have to upgrade from the original system first, it's a real pain, and adds another hour or two. Now, I suppose Apple could just ask to validate the original system install disks after installing the new system, but the "10.1 upgrade" required an existing 10.0 system.
Truthfully, though, the 11/750 may have been built with smaller (and faster) components. In order to not cannibalize 11/780 sales, DEC might have introduced NOOPS.
The Lisa could also be used for Macintosh development.
During this time I had been designing without programming. I had a Macintosh but no development system for the Mac. In those days, the only way to develop serious Macintosh programs was on a Lisa computer. I had ordered a Lisa from Apple in May, 1984, but I did not receive the machine until August 1. So I spent the first three months of the project doing "paper design." Without a development system, all I could do was read the manuals, study my references, and write proposals. As it happens, this can be a good thing...If it does not go on for too long. Too many games are hacked together at the keyboard rather than designed from the ground up. In this case, however, three months of paper design was too long because during the process I needed to test some ideas on the computer before I could proceed with other aspects of the design. It was with great relief that I took delivery of my Lisa and set to work on learning the system.
"Evolution, that is, the idea that human beings developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life"
That's a strange definition. Evolution implies that human beings developed over millions of years, but that implication is but a small part of Evolution. And some evolutionary biologists, including SJ Gould would quibble about "less advanced".
It's a bit like describing quantum mechanics as the idea that a cat can simultaneously be dead and not dead.
'Affected' is correct. Affect = Verb Effect = Noun
Wrong! Never try to reduce a natural language to a small set of logical rules.
affect 3 |Ëafekt; É(TM)Ëfekt| |ËÃËfÉkt| |É(TM)ËfÉkt| |ËafÉkt| noun Psychology emotion or desire, esp. as influencing behavior or action. See note at emotion.
verb [ trans. ] (often be effected) cause (something) to happen; bring about : nature always effected a cure | budget cuts that were quietly effected over four years.
What's incredibly funny is that the first result for "Mac botnet" in a Google search is a 2006 "Mac Geekery" blog entry containing a rant about how Macs will never constitute a botnet. =D Such foresight! Such fanboism!
Where were the Atari viruses? The Commodore 64 viruses? The Amiga viruses?
No. It's influenza A(H1N1)--the same broad type as "Spanish Flu." "Swine" adds nothing to the discussion, and leads people into irrelevant tangents--"Well, I don't eat pork, so I'm safe".
The real problem is that most suppliers of equipment are reluctant to support any type of patches. Many of the suppliers explicitly state that the machines may not be changed in any way (and that includes patching the OS) or you will lose all guarantee and support.
And with a bit of effort, one could even offset the screen and the buttons, so that the user is not intuitively aware of a connection between button A and function A.
The apple supplied trailers for inglourious Basterds are 2.6, 6.1, and 10.2 Mb/s for 480p, 720p, and 1080p respectively. Extrapolate that to a two hour feature film--and you'll get 2.5 GB for 480p, 5.5GB for 720p and around 9GB for a 1080p rip.
More if you like film grain, fine detail, and lossless sounds, less if you don't.
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The vast majority of Steve Jobs's patents are design patents. Bill Gates's patents are both utility patents. So, it's pretty much a tie.
USB 3.0 should be coming out in a year or so. If you plan on keeping your machine for more than two years, a PCIe slot would be helpful.
eSATA would be nice as well.
There's always the iMac... Quite frankly, Apple needs a Powermac G4 equivalent-- an Core i7 with a few slots. With USB 3.0 on the horizon, and games demanding better and better graphics cards, a cheapish PCI machine might just hold its value.
On the other hand, I have a late model PowerMac G4 with one additional IDE hard drive (for time machine), one USB 2.0 card (for an iPod), and very slightly upgraded graphics in the form of a Radeon 9600 Pro.
The hard drive was taken from a firewire chassis because the bridge chip turned out to be slightly incompatible with my system, and the videocard was taken from a G5, and modded down. Even the USB card was more than trivial to obtain-- most pci cards support only the other operating system.
Today Intel Macs have a hard time with most of the third party PCIe cards, because a BIOS is assumed.
Imagine that you've upgraded both your software and hardware. The new hardware (perhaps a RAID card, or a video card) works fairly well with your new system, but not well at all with the system originally sold with your mac. Something goes wrong-- and your entire system has to be installed from scratch.
If you have to upgrade from the original system first, it's a real pain, and adds another hour or two. Now, I suppose Apple could just ask to validate the original system install disks after installing the new system, but the "10.1 upgrade" required an existing 10.0 system.
Radeon 3850
Radeon 2600 XT
Another Radeon 3850
Truthfully, though, the 11/750 may have been built with smaller (and faster) components. In order to not cannibalize 11/780 sales, DEC might have introduced NOOPS.
The Vax 11/730 was 45 kg and 81 Liters; the 11/750, 182 kg and 588 L, and the Vax 11/780 larger still, at 1372 L and 492 kg.
source
Perhaps DEC was being clever, and concealed lead weights in a larger chassis?
Phone calls can be traced. When I encrypt other peoples data, I prefer to be compensated with eGold.
Beautiful prerendered graphics.
Low end Mac has a section it calls Road Apples. It reckons the worst macs were The Powermac 5200 and 6200
No, they didn't explode. But they did couple a 680x0 style motherboard with a PowerPC.
Because of the design, all data from the serial port, comm slot, or an ethernet card must pass though the CPU to reach RAM.
The Lisa could also be used for Macintosh development.
During this time I had been designing without programming. I had a Macintosh but no development system for the Mac. In those days, the only way to develop serious Macintosh programs was on a Lisa computer. I had ordered a Lisa from Apple in May, 1984, but I did not receive the machine until August 1. So I spent the first three months of the project doing "paper design."
Without a development system, all I could do was read the manuals, study my references, and write proposals. As it happens, this can be a good thing...If it does not go on for too long. Too many games are hacked together at the keyboard rather than designed from the ground up. In this case, however, three months of paper design was too long because during the process I needed to test some ideas on the computer before I could proceed with other aspects of the design. It was with great relief that I took delivery of my Lisa and set to work on learning the system.
Chris Crawford BALANCE OF POWER International Politics as the Ultimate Global Game
The Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology
Wikipedia says that it's in Oceanography. Still, she's not a creationist or an IDiot.
"Evolution, that is, the idea that human beings developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life"
That's a strange definition. Evolution implies that human beings developed over millions of years, but that implication is but a small part of Evolution. And some evolutionary biologists, including SJ Gould would quibble about "less advanced".
It's a bit like describing quantum mechanics as the idea that a cat can simultaneously be dead and not dead.
'Affected' is correct. Affect = Verb Effect = Noun
Wrong! Never try to reduce a natural language to a small set of logical rules.
affect 3 |Ëafekt; É(TM)Ëfekt| |ËÃËfÉkt| |É(TM)ËfÉkt| |ËafÉkt| .
noun Psychology
emotion or desire, esp. as influencing behavior or action. See note at emotion
verb [ trans. ] (often be effected)
cause (something) to happen; bring about : nature always effected a cure | budget cuts that were quietly effected over four years.
From the Oxford American Dictionary
The Chess lobby isn't quite as powerful as the Pork lobby.
To say nothing of the "16x16 chess" lobby.
What's incredibly funny is that the first result for "Mac botnet" in a Google search is a 2006 "Mac Geekery" blog entry containing a rant about how Macs will never constitute a botnet. =D Such foresight! Such fanboism!
Where were the Atari viruses? The Commodore 64 viruses? The Amiga viruses?
I get the strange impression that the authors aren't terribly clear on the difference between an Apple II and a modern Mac.
The thing is: it is swine flu
No. It's influenza A(H1N1)--the same broad type as "Spanish Flu." "Swine" adds nothing to the discussion, and leads people into irrelevant tangents--"Well, I don't eat pork, so I'm safe".
We don't need wires for privacy. We have WEP, which provides equivalent security, wirelessly. Stop living in the past.
The real problem is that most suppliers of equipment are reluctant to support any type of patches. Many of the suppliers explicitly state that the machines may not be changed in any way (and that includes patching the OS) or you will lose all guarantee and support.
Shouldn't they be using OpenBSD, then?
And with a bit of effort, one could even offset the screen and the buttons, so that the user is not intuitively aware of a connection between button A and function A.
$300
Capital letters require an extra bit.
And he shall wield a nine bladed sword. Nine bladed! Not Two, or Five, or Seven, but Nine!
The apple supplied trailers for inglourious Basterds are 2.6, 6.1, and 10.2 Mb/s for 480p, 720p, and 1080p respectively. Extrapolate that to a two hour feature film--and you'll get 2.5 GB for 480p, 5.5GB for 720p and around 9GB for a 1080p rip.
More if you like film grain, fine detail, and lossless sounds, less if you don't.