I've used guest PC last year on a ppc g4 (stupid ie only web site I needed for work). Its slow, but works. Since the site updated, I haven't needed to use it forever which makes me happy. It allowed cut and paste between Windows and Mac
This site has lots of stuff on running windows on mac
BS. Actually there are 6 reasons.Its not marketing
on
iPod Video Dissection
·
· Score: 2, Informative
You can fool some people with marketing but not everyone multiple times. The fact is the ipod works amazingly well. Is it perfect? No. But I think its the best out there and I'd buy another one if this one dies (its 2 years old, and running gread (knock on wood).
David pouge has 6 reasons in His NYTimes article...
In fact, at least six factors make the iPod such a hit: cool-looking hardware; a fun-to-use, variable-speed scroll wheel; an ultrasimple software menu; effortless song synchronization with Mac or Windows; seamless, rock-solid integration with an online music store (iTunes); and a universe of accessories. Mess up any aspect of the formula, and your iPod killer is doomed to market-share crumbs.
I got "step into liquid" because i like watching surfing. It came with a second disk, that was the movie in hi-def. Cool I thought, then after poking around the disk realized it was some windows media format that I can't play on my mac. But isn't the h268 codec good enough for hi-def movie on regular dvd?
Otherwise the larger format should win! (1 season = 1 disk sounds good to me)
You can now buy TV shows on DVD. If you get one season of a TV show thats probably 10+ hours of viewing. It takes time to watch those shows, times you aren't spending at the movies.
Intel spent much time money and engineering talent on ITanium. I think it has roots in PA-risc but has a completely new instruction set. It didn't fly, for a variety of reasons I won't go into here.
Itanium didn't work as well as expected, and by all accounts is a failure, but at least intel tried. It has some interesting features for a chip. It could be considered more inovative than grafting 64 bit instructions on a tired old 32 bit instruction set.
Who knows, maybe itanium will make a comback! (there still working on it, Don't hold your breath though)
People's expectations have changed over time. That was the old expectations. Of course any process thatis uid root should be under heavy scutiny. Apple should try to fix these problems.
One of the reasons Gopher went away and the web took off, was you could set up a server without having users login. Much more secure.
It would be more interesting to determine if the same problems exist in OS X Server.
Note that a quite a few shared web services disable remote login unless they feel there admins are up to the task.
This was a while ago, but when you give a user a local account, its almost assumed that if they really wanted to they could get root. You should take care when giving out accounts.
It like giving physical access to a machine. If you give physical access to any linux machine, its not hard to log onto it. (this is why you lock up the machines!)
A zenith notebook was my laptop in college. It had 256k ram, 2 low density floppy drives monocrome srceen (very nice though)and no harddrive. I think it had an 8087 at 4 mhz. 2 low density floppys can hold a boot ms dos disk, that can store a few "pfs write" documents and a disk for the wordprocessor. For spreadsheets I had to go to the computer lab and us one of the windows 3.1 and lotus 123.
The notebook was big, but it had the best keyboard of any notebook I've ever used
Those were the days.
bah..Thinkpads..
Re:battery life- about the same- more benchmarks
on
MacBook Pro Benchmarks
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Macworld unscientific test (dvd playing) put the g4 at 4 minutes longer battery than the mac book pro.
I looked at the page "for windows"?? Then after poking around a bit I figured out what it does. I like PHP, but it doesn't seem suitable for application development outside of the web/server arcitecture. Other languages seem better for this.
A good portioin of OS-X is BSD based. BSD is open source tested and unix. Its hard to crack BSD. The PowerPC also helps preventing buffer overflow exploits. The intel transition will be interesting.
Ok alot of post here "russia (insert any location) feels colder" how can there be globabl warming?
Global warming is "average surface tempeture" not the temperature in your area every week. Some global warming analysis predicts certain areas are going to get colder, some warmer, but on the whole warmer. Warming changes weather parterns is very difficult to calculate way (the globe has a lot of inputs and is difficult to model, although we're getting better at it)
Itanium, the next gen 64 bit chip from intel, for all its promise has ended up a huge commercial failure.
As you probably can imagine, intel put alot of R&D resources into this project at the expense of x86 development.
Thats probably the real reason they've fallen behind on the x86 x86-64 chips is because they thought everyone would be using itanium PCs by now. AMD just kept the focus on developing x86 chips.
It was a mistake by intel, but at least they tried to get us off x86. If intel can't do it, I don't think anyone can. which is sad.
From a newsweek article article After his keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs spoke to Newsweek's Steven Levy
Levy: How is battery life with the MacBook?
Jobs: About the same--this with a dual processor! Each processor is as fast as a G5, and the battery life will be the same as [the previous PowerBook's] G4.
For what its worth, digital camera companies send out "review" copies pre-production cameras. Usually close to the final production version with some problems that usually get ironed out.
my understanding is the ebook uses a new display technology (epaper). It holds the image on the screen without power like "flash memory" you use in digital cameras. So battery life is described in "# of page flips", instead of hours.
Its described in the article. How readable is in all lighting conditions is anyones guess.
I remember when Steve Jobs introduced the itunes music store, he compared it with all the p2p at the time. He said we can't beat them on price, so we have to beat them on 1. Easy of use 2. Quality of encoding/downloads (quality of music is really subjective/ fast!) 3. Selection (you have to find the songs you want)
Not many beleived you could compete with free.
The RIAA anti-piracy efforts have worked in some regards, in that they make pirating music not as easy and make the pay services better in comparison. Pay service typically have better client software as they have the revenue stream to support developers. People don't want to chance a lawsuit so they lay low, "share" fewer songs creating more leaches and poorer selection.
When it used to just be Napster, everyone was on it so the selection was great. Now there are more services with poorer selection.
I think when people think about it, they want to "do the right thing" and support the bands they like. People like downloading music. People wanted this and now they have it they are using it more.
If your doing java development netbeans is an option. Eclipse has forced it to become much better. Although it doesn't use SWT. I prefer eclipse, but have friends who swear by net beans. Unlike most people in this situation we still talk to one antoher (java ide's seems to cause religous battes, like vi vs emacs.. etc..). This kind of battles are silly.
Slashdot Mirror
There should be something "real soon now"
I've used guest PC last year on a ppc g4 (stupid ie only web site I needed for work). Its slow, but works. Since the site updated, I haven't needed to use it forever which makes me happy. It allowed cut and paste between Windows and Mac
This site has lots of stuff on running windows on mac
http://www.macwindows.com/
You can fool some people with marketing but not everyone multiple times. The fact is the ipod works amazingly well. Is it perfect? No. But I think its the best out there and I'd buy another one if this one dies (its 2 years old, and running gread (knock on wood).
David pouge has 6 reasons in His NYTimes article...
In fact, at least six factors make the iPod such a hit: cool-looking hardware; a fun-to-use, variable-speed scroll wheel; an ultrasimple software menu; effortless song synchronization with Mac or Windows; seamless, rock-solid integration with an online music store (iTunes); and a universe of accessories. Mess up any aspect of the formula, and your iPod killer is doomed to market-share crumbs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/technology/circ
I got "step into liquid" because i like watching surfing. It came with a second disk, that was the movie in hi-def. Cool I thought, then after poking around the disk realized it was some windows media format that I can't play on my mac. But isn't the h268 codec good enough for hi-def movie on regular dvd?
Otherwise the larger format should win! (1 season = 1 disk sounds good to me)
You can now buy TV shows on DVD. If you get one season of a TV show thats probably 10+ hours of viewing. It takes time to watch those shows, times you aren't spending at the movies.
That and the movie going experience is terrible.
I remember playing and playing on the apple //e. I had a friend at school and we'd exchange hints. It took a long time to finish that one.
..(I can't type sound...)
I can still here the sound fx for a "hit" and the little tune it played for winning a battle.
I also remember being attacked by the floor on the way to finish the game.
da da da
Intel spent much time money and engineering talent on ITanium. I think it has roots in PA-risc but has a completely new instruction set. It didn't fly, for a variety of reasons I won't go into here.
Itanium didn't work as well as expected, and by all accounts is a failure, but at least intel tried. It has some interesting features for a chip. It could be considered more inovative than grafting 64 bit instructions on a tired old 32 bit instruction set.
Who knows, maybe itanium will make a comback! (there still working on it, Don't hold your breath though)
People's expectations have changed over time. That was the old expectations. Of course any process thatis uid root should be under heavy scutiny. Apple should try to fix these problems.
One of the reasons Gopher went away and the web took off, was you could set up a server without having users login. Much more secure.
It would be more interesting to determine if the same problems exist in OS X Server.
Note that a quite a few shared web services disable remote login unless they feel there admins are up to the task.
This was a while ago, but when you give a user a local account, its almost assumed that if they really wanted to they could get root. You should take care when giving out accounts.
It like giving physical access to a machine. If you give physical access to any linux machine, its not hard to log onto it. (this is why you lock up the machines!)
A zenith notebook was my laptop in college. It had 256k ram, 2 low density floppy drives monocrome srceen (very nice though)and no harddrive. I think it had an 8087 at 4 mhz. 2 low density floppys can hold a boot ms dos disk, that can store a few "pfs write" documents and a disk for the wordprocessor. For spreadsheets I had to go to the computer lab and us one of the windows 3.1 and lotus 123.
The notebook was big, but it had the best keyboard of any notebook I've ever used
Those were the days.
bah..Thinkpads..
Macworld unscientific test (dvd playing) put the g4 at 4 minutes longer battery than the mac book pro.
k firstlook/index.php
They also have some benchmarks
http://www.macworld.com/2006/02/firstlooks/macboo
I suspect batterlife will varry depending if your running a native intel app vs a rosetta interpreted (ppc) app.
Warning! Don't look directly at projector when giving a presentation!
Given our current litigeous society I wonder if they'll be able to sell it.
Those 4-5 dvd tv show seasons could probably fit nicely on one hd-dvd disc.
I would like that.
-
I looked at the page "for windows"?? Then after poking around a bit I figured out what it does. I like PHP, but it doesn't seem suitable for application development outside of the web/server arcitecture. Other languages seem better for this.
And its windows only which makes it DOA for me.
A good portioin of OS-X is BSD based. BSD is open source tested and unix. Its hard to crack BSD. The PowerPC also helps preventing buffer overflow exploits. The intel transition will be interesting.
top
You can see all processes running.
I agree patching older OS's is a problem.
Where are all the OSX exploits??? I've been running without a virus scanner, although I back up frequently. Nothing, no spywear, viruses etc.
Are there probably exploits possible. Yes of course. But Apple's security record has been very very good.
This is absolute hogwash.
Ok alot of post here "russia (insert any location) feels colder" how can there be globabl warming?
Global warming is "average surface tempeture" not the temperature in your area every week. Some global warming analysis predicts certain areas are going to get colder, some warmer, but on the whole warmer. Warming changes weather parterns is very difficult to calculate way (the globe has a lot of inputs and is difficult to model, although we're getting better at it)
Itanium, the next gen 64 bit chip from intel, for all its promise has ended up a huge commercial failure.
As you probably can imagine, intel put alot of R&D resources into this project at the expense of x86 development.
Thats probably the real reason they've fallen behind on the x86 x86-64 chips is because they thought everyone would be using itanium PCs by now. AMD just kept the focus on developing x86 chips.
It was a mistake by intel, but at least they tried to get us off x86. If intel can't do it, I don't think anyone can. which is sad.
From a newsweek article article
After his keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs spoke to Newsweek's Steven Levy
Levy: How is battery life with the MacBook?
Jobs: About the same--this with a dual processor! Each processor is as fast as a G5, and the battery life will be the same as [the previous PowerBook's] G4.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10853916/site/newswee
For what its worth, digital camera companies send out "review" copies pre-production cameras. Usually close to the final production version with some problems that usually get ironed out.
my understanding is the ebook uses a new display technology (epaper). It holds the image on the screen without power like "flash memory" you use in digital cameras. So battery life is described in "# of page flips", instead of hours.
Its described in the article. How readable is in all lighting conditions is anyones guess.
Your right.
Yet You were moded a troll.
Steve jobs said the processors faster but not the drives and the memory etc, so the whole machine wouldn't be. Its not slower, thats for sure.
I remember when Steve Jobs introduced the itunes music store, he compared it with all the p2p at the time. He said we can't beat them on price, so we have to beat them on
1. Easy of use
2. Quality of encoding/downloads (quality of music is really subjective/ fast!)
3. Selection (you have to find the songs you want)
Not many beleived you could compete with free.
The RIAA anti-piracy efforts have worked in some regards, in that they make pirating music not as easy and make the pay services better in comparison. Pay service typically have better client software as they have the revenue stream to support developers. People don't want to chance a lawsuit so they lay low, "share" fewer songs creating more leaches and poorer selection.
When it used to just be Napster, everyone was on it so the selection was great. Now there are more services with poorer selection.
I think when people think about it, they want to "do the right thing" and support the bands they like. People like downloading music. People wanted this and now they have it they are using it more.
I got a new PA-RISC machine at work. The same speed as the last one. Thanks HP!
Fortan is big in the modeling world, still. Oddly enough for a language that is that old, gives clout in science and engineering worlds.
The C++ is nice but since most osx programs are written on objective c, probably of little use.
Those math libraries look like the ticket though. Everone likes highly optimized math libraries.
If your doing java development netbeans is an option. Eclipse has forced it to become much better. Although it doesn't use SWT. I prefer eclipse, but have friends who swear by net beans. Unlike most people in this situation we still talk to one antoher (java ide's seems to cause religous battes, like vi vs emacs.. etc..). This kind of battles are silly.
i ndex.html?cid=16052
http://www.netbeans.org/
http://community.java.net/netbeans/
than there is sun's java studio...what is this?? I don't know , but its free now and seems to be yet another ide.
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/devtools/free/