or you could just use one of the three free upgrade cards you got with your new apple at some point... i've got 6 of those lying around. (they've been doing this for years....)
on my tibook g4 500, 1gb of ram - Chimera is still out performing Mozilla in the page rendering dept. Sadly I have no real numbers for you to gloss over.:-D
I bet you bug the Chimera folks they would be more than happy to put the numbers up again... heck they've probably already run the benchmarks again.
heh, i even previewed my damn post twice and missed that... i so need the ability to edit my posts...
as a sidenote: the human error resulted in this man having is business closed on him and he is banned from entering several countries around the world. doh!
Clearly I can't answer your question as I don't have access to what was in Echelon prior to Sept. 11th... While the data is in the system, it still takes people (translators, specialists, etc) to put the pieces together... maybe no one was looking - maybe people were blinded (on purpose) from looking into it... who knows...
This book clearly points out that the CIA and NSA don't share info together... and the NSA primary function is to spy on other governments not the US. Basically the book says that have been trapping US information in various ways but they aren't doing anything with it right now... it's there if they need it - but they don't spend the time looking into like they do on foreign governments. So a lot of intel on what was going while the terrorist where in the states was probably overlooked - the flaw is in how the information is handled and not how it is gathered. The NSA intercepts more than it can handle... I believe something like 20% is actually looked at a second time and so forth.
Also the NSA - while in transition to a more global format - is heavily broken into regions... so it takes someone in the western european region to report that terrorist are doing such and such.. and someone would have to compare that to what was going on the middle east. According to the book... and any research you do into the subject - a shitload of stuff goes into this databank.. most from the NSA's own tools - but some from external goverments and sources... the NSA lacks translators to make sense of non-english intercepts - this flaw has been taking advantage repeatedly over the last couple decades.
I should point out that I didn't mean NSA has a tweaked copy of Google... just that they have their own search engine which is rather Google like in nature... doh.
A book by James Bamford called "Body of Secrets"(booksamillon.com) contains tons of info on Echelon... yep they are spying on us and everyone else and they put into one large database which has the NSA's own version of Google ontop. Also governements around the world have access to this database - Bamford shows an example of how someone got blacklisted in various countries due to humor error. I'm not saying the whole deal is a bad or good thing... not until I get my hands on it. *grin*
Read the book... it is awesome.. you'll never look at our government's security system the same way again - we have a powerful system. He covers the whole thing from the start in World War II till now. Has several interesting bits in there - one on the U.S.S. Liberty (background info) incident which is fascinating really - Israel really screwed us over on that one.
Boy did that suck! I was all thrilled about the concept of this "rogue" Jedi who had figured out the plan and was trying to stop the Sith on his own since the Jedi Council is apparently taking lots of drugs which *cloud* their force powers.
As a follow up, I just installed Mozilla RC1 - and it is even faster than 0.9.9. Better yet some of the goofy timing bugs have been fixed - for instance I have a bunch of folders organizing my bookmarks on the "links" bar - and when I would click on that it would pop up two menus - one with my booksmarks and the other with the "properties"... a real pain in the ass. Fixed! YAY!
Sorry... back to the point - this new release of RC1 seriously topples IE 5.1 now. I the Microsoft Mac buinsess unit is working on the next version of their Tasman rendering engine... and I'm sure they'll bring things up to speed - but these initial ports of their software have been rather disapointing to me. While IE 5.1 for the mac brought loads of web standards and CSS improvement that no other browser at the time had - Mozilla has clearly taken the torch for best CSS/web standards browser and with these latest speed enhancements I'd venture to say it is the best browser out there for the mac.
of course... until Chimera comes along.:-D
A note about OmniWeb: While a nice effort from the OmniGroup... even the latest betas have far too many problems with CSS to even consider using this broswer full-time. Chimera is the answer because it uses Gecko. Mozilla team has already done all the work to get standards compliance in and is working closesly with developers (People like Netscape's Eric Meyer who hand-crafted the CSS spec.) Even OmniGroup themselves have said some of their engineers don't have a full grasp on the HTML spec...
Ok, that's all my bambling for today.
This is because Internet Explorer is horribly buggy - it hangs on java and large tables - something it never did in Classic OS - Clearly the port to carbon and OS X caused this. The Microsoft ports to OS X have been rather shabby so far. Windows Media Player sucks and even Office is a bit of a dog. Yet the new Photoshop 7 hauls ass. (I'm on a powerbook g4 500... not the fastest computer in the apple line-up). While most of the carbon apps are slower compared to cocoa, the Microsoft ones in particularly crash quite a bit and have issues with rendering their windows.
I've switch to Mozilla full time and after I installed the carbonized java plug-in I can do everything IE 5.1 did and more. IE 5.1 also has some silly CSS bugs (like adding a horizontal scrollbar whether it is needed or not when positioning elements relatively)
I use Chimera or Opera every now and then for testing and both are WAY faster the IE. I believe Opera is carbon as well as Mozilla - which shows that carbon.. while slower can still produce quality apps.
Actually it is impossible to find a gamecube in the Philadelphia area (suburbs at least.) Yet the Xbox is at every EB gameworld / EBX / toys'r'us in town.
To get mine I had to show up at the local Target at 1:30 in the morning where there was already 5 people waiting, by 7:30am - when a target employee came out to give us numbers, there was a lot more than the 46 gamecubes they had in stock. Not sure, but I'd say at least 25 people got turned away on a very cold Sunday Morning.
The above post in very on target as well, Nintendo pumped out like 700,000 gamecubes for launch (that inital shipment has sold out completely according to a few sites and I think Nintendo as well.) What was that - like twice the xbox launch number?
Having just made the switch from a new iBook 500 (640mb of ram) to a G4 500 with 384 of ram . . I can tell you that the speed difference OS X is nothing short of amazing. (under 10.1 - build 5L14).
While the iBook's screen is brighter . . the fact that it doesn't have dual monitor support was pretty depressing. (the powerbook's dual monitor shit is great . . effortless even - just plug in a monitor and go, no extra setup required.)
And having used powerbook for about a week now . . I must say that that it is just as sturdy . . and doesn't seem to weigh anymore (my feel for it) than my iBook.
The iBook is a wonderful machine . . don't get me wrong . . but the speed difference is VERY apparent.
The 10.1 release will be a free download. The 20$ for the cd is the price that those without broadband will sadly have to pay . . regardless . . there will be a free download of the update. The question is will it be a standalone update - or merely a software update thru the control panel.
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Um because lots of us have loved ones in the area . . and it is hard to tell which structures haven not only fallen, but taken serious damage. All I can see on the news is a massive pit of rumble . . .
Well . . . I went to dell and configred a similar 2100 to my iBook ..it came in at $2139 . . mine was $1736. That's close . . but I'm cutting corners in life as it is . . I think I'll save the dough.
Second . . the 2100 has NO internal drives . . the floppy and the combo drive are both external drives . . shit I could make a smaller laptop too if I removed the internal media.
Let us not forget that the VAIO has these Dimensions:
Width: 12.8 inches
Thickness: 2.2 inches
Depth: 10.5 inches
Weight: 6.7 lbs
While the iBook has this:
Width: 11.2 inches
Thickness: 1.35 inches
Depth: 9.1 inches
Weight : 4.9 pounds
Now . . I don't know about you . . but try using one of these bigger laptops on a crowded SEPTA train (philly mass transit) or full AirTran flight . . it sucks. With the iBook I can really take it anywhere and just get my work done and not worry about finding a space . . or getting the right bag for it . . lugging it around time . . etc.
That and I've yet to use a pc notebook (though I've only had a dell and ibm) that lasted longer than 2.5 hours . . I've used my iBook for 4.5 hours at a time.
There is no need to argue this shit to death . . every has their own opinion . . I just thought it was important to point out the size/weight difference. I mean the iBook is meant as a sub-notebook . . I don't use it as a desktop replacement . . I want a small, light, dvd/cd-rw capable notebook . . end of story. That all-in-one FX simply doesn't meant the small and light requirements I have.
My @home service (resold by comcast ironically) is superior to my Road Runner expierence in every way possible. Granted this cable modem thing is only temporary until Verizon finally cleans up my frickin phone line so I get DSL again. (long story).
Road Runner (in Tampa, FL at least) went down at least 4 to 5 times a day. Upload/Download never peaked above 350k . . during the evening it was almost as slower as 128k . . the tech support was awful.
@home on the other hand (in a suburb of Philadelphia) . . is running in the 600k range (not DSL ..but better) . . goes down about once a week and I have execellent support and service from the local company.
just my two cents . .
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Well I have been running OS X on my iBook (firewire) since March 27th and personally I'm quite impressed. Just to give some background:
iBook (firewire)
G3 366
320mb of Ram (okay so that is a little more than average)
no DVD or CDR/W
I upgraded OS X to build 4L5 (10.0.1) ( http://osx.macnn.com/news.php?id=4812 ) with the "unreleased" update that is floating around. Now for me . . . OS X is light and snappy . . I hear quite random things when I read through all the boards and newsgroups though.
Classic apps are not as fast . . but are certaintly usable. SO far I have played with Photoshop 6, Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, and Freehand 9 in classic emulation mode.
Also . . I should probably point out that I have used linux before . . I also have a full time BeOS (please don't go bankrupt!!) box at home too . . that said I use the command line and unix functions everyday . .
The default shell is TCSH . . which I found odd . . but whatever . . I think it comes with ZSH and CSH installed too. This site ( http://www.savagetranscendental.com/data/OSX/bash- osx.html ) has a precompiled Bash install for you . . which is quite nice. And for you Python freaks a precompile version is here too ( http://tony.lownds.com/macosx/ ).
I have installed the hack called Docking Maneuvers ( http://homepage.mac.com/isleep/ ), which lets you move the "dock" to the right, left, and top . . instead of just the default bottom.
I've had to go through and make some "compability" fixes . . creating symlinks for things like cc to gcc . . or/Users to/Home . . but those are just little geeky pleasures I find that make it more user friendly . . I'm sure my mom as a mac user would care less.
Speaking of which, the OS install in about 10 minutes, I rebooted . . configured the PPPoE to work with my Verizon DSL and walla I was on the internet . . so for my mom . . that being done in like 12 minutes is purty nice.
Hmm . . I'm quite enjoying it . . I haven't expierence the number of problems with IE 5.1 beta that most people have ..in fact I really have expierenced many problems at all . . it hasn't crashed once. I was sad to find out that Fortune wasn't available . . "sniffle" . . but I just grabbed the source from somewhere and compiled it. wheeee.
Let's start with the Jim Lehrer interview with Bush. He (George) states clearly that he favors Microsoft and what they have done for the technology movmement.
George W. Bush: I hope, though, that whatever settlement is done it won't ruin this company because this company has been a very interesting innovator, and so I hope the judge would keep in mind that this company is an important part of the technological revolution taking place in America.
yawn . . the interview then turns to Bush advisor Ralph Reed - who was on the Microsoft payroll. Bush tries to wiggle out the issue, etc. . but the damage is done there. What do we learn from this encounter? Bush likes Microsoft, would prefer to not see the company broken up, and has a close advisor who is paid by Microsoft. Brilliant.
Texas governor has gone on record strongly defending the software giant against the federal suit. "What I am worried about is if this company were to be broken up, this engine of change and this engine of growth," Bush said in February. "I am not sympathetic to lawsuits. Write that down."
Next,we have this article and this one and this one (which states Bush owns sares of Microsoft . . . ugh.
ok so what is my point (i have the flu . . just hold on for a second) . . Bush clearly has postive feelings towards Microsoft. I think Aschroft does too . . in the end these two hold enough strings to probably pull the case in their favor.
Anyone have an official graphic/banner for this yet? Nothing looks better than hundrerds of thousands of sites with little buttons that say download the DeCSS code here.
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or you could just use one of the three free upgrade cards you got with your new apple at some point... i've got 6 of those lying around. (they've been doing this for years....)
on my tibook g4 500, 1gb of ram - Chimera is still out performing Mozilla in the page rendering dept. Sadly I have no real numbers for you to gloss over. :-D
I bet you bug the Chimera folks they would be more than happy to put the numbers up again... heck they've probably already run the benchmarks again.
heh, i even previewed my damn post twice and missed that... i so need the ability to edit my posts... as a sidenote: the human error resulted in this man having is business closed on him and he is banned from entering several countries around the world. doh!
Clearly I can't answer your question as I don't have access to what was in Echelon prior to Sept. 11th... While the data is in the system, it still takes people (translators, specialists, etc) to put the pieces together... maybe no one was looking - maybe people were blinded (on purpose) from looking into it... who knows...
.. most from the NSA's own tools - but some from external goverments and sources... the NSA lacks translators to make sense of non-english intercepts - this flaw has been taking advantage repeatedly over the last couple decades.
This book clearly points out that the CIA and NSA don't share info together... and the NSA primary function is to spy on other governments not the US. Basically the book says that have been trapping US information in various ways but they aren't doing anything with it right now... it's there if they need it - but they don't spend the time looking into like they do on foreign governments. So a lot of intel on what was going while the terrorist where in the states was probably overlooked - the flaw is in how the information is handled and not how it is gathered. The NSA intercepts more than it can handle... I believe something like 20% is actually looked at a second time and so forth.
Also the NSA - while in transition to a more global format - is heavily broken into regions... so it takes someone in the western european region to report that terrorist are doing such and such.. and someone would have to compare that to what was going on the middle east. According to the book... and any research you do into the subject - a shitload of stuff goes into this databank
I should point out that I didn't mean NSA has a tweaked copy of Google... just that they have their own search engine which is rather Google like in nature... doh.
A book by James Bamford called "Body of Secrets" (booksamillon.com) contains tons of info on Echelon... yep they are spying on us and everyone else and they put into one large database which has the NSA's own version of Google ontop. Also governements around the world have access to this database - Bamford shows an example of how someone got blacklisted in various countries due to humor error. I'm not saying the whole deal is a bad or good thing... not until I get my hands on it. *grin*
Read the book... it is awesome.. you'll never look at our government's security system the same way again - we have a powerful system. He covers the whole thing from the start in World War II till now. Has several interesting bits in there - one on the U.S.S. Liberty (background info) incident which is fascinating really - Israel really screwed us over on that one.
Boy did that suck! I was all thrilled about the concept of this "rogue" Jedi who had figured out the plan and was trying to stop the Sith on his own since the Jedi Council is apparently taking lots of drugs which *cloud* their force powers.
fuck all.
Yes but the Qt toolkit was done in carbon: http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/Programming.html
As a follow up, I just installed Mozilla RC1 - and it is even faster than 0.9.9. Better yet some of the goofy timing bugs have been fixed - for instance I have a bunch of folders organizing my bookmarks on the "links" bar - and when I would click on that it would pop up two menus - one with my booksmarks and the other with the "properties"... a real pain in the ass. Fixed! YAY! Sorry... back to the point - this new release of RC1 seriously topples IE 5.1 now. I the Microsoft Mac buinsess unit is working on the next version of their Tasman rendering engine... and I'm sure they'll bring things up to speed - but these initial ports of their software have been rather disapointing to me. While IE 5.1 for the mac brought loads of web standards and CSS improvement that no other browser at the time had - Mozilla has clearly taken the torch for best CSS/web standards browser and with these latest speed enhancements I'd venture to say it is the best browser out there for the mac. of course... until Chimera comes along. :-D
A note about OmniWeb: While a nice effort from the OmniGroup... even the latest betas have far too many problems with CSS to even consider using this broswer full-time. Chimera is the answer because it uses Gecko. Mozilla team has already done all the work to get standards compliance in and is working closesly with developers (People like Netscape's Eric Meyer who hand-crafted the CSS spec.) Even OmniGroup themselves have said some of their engineers don't have a full grasp on the HTML spec...
Ok, that's all my bambling for today.
This is because Internet Explorer is horribly buggy - it hangs on java and large tables - something it never did in Classic OS - Clearly the port to carbon and OS X caused this. The Microsoft ports to OS X have been rather shabby so far. Windows Media Player sucks and even Office is a bit of a dog. Yet the new Photoshop 7 hauls ass. (I'm on a powerbook g4 500... not the fastest computer in the apple line-up). While most of the carbon apps are slower compared to cocoa, the Microsoft ones in particularly crash quite a bit and have issues with rendering their windows.
I've switch to Mozilla full time and after I installed the carbonized java plug-in I can do everything IE 5.1 did and more. IE 5.1 also has some silly CSS bugs (like adding a horizontal scrollbar whether it is needed or not when positioning elements relatively)
I use Chimera or Opera every now and then for testing and both are WAY faster the IE. I believe Opera is carbon as well as Mozilla - which shows that carbon.. while slower can still produce quality apps.
This is Microsoft FUD at it's best.
Actually it is impossible to find a gamecube in the Philadelphia area (suburbs at least.) Yet the Xbox is at every EB gameworld / EBX / toys'r'us in town.
To get mine I had to show up at the local Target at 1:30 in the morning where there was already 5 people waiting, by 7:30am - when a target employee came out to give us numbers, there was a lot more than the 46 gamecubes they had in stock. Not sure, but I'd say at least 25 people got turned away on a very cold Sunday Morning.
The above post in very on target as well, Nintendo pumped out like 700,000 gamecubes for launch (that inital shipment has sold out completely according to a few sites and I think Nintendo as well.) What was that - like twice the xbox launch number?
how is this flamebait? It is so far (as of 12:17am) the best post on this topic . .
Having just made the switch from a new iBook 500 (640mb of ram) to a G4 500 with 384 of ram . . I can tell you that the speed difference OS X is nothing short of amazing. (under 10.1 - build 5L14).
While the iBook's screen is brighter . . the fact that it doesn't have dual monitor support was pretty depressing. (the powerbook's dual monitor shit is great . . effortless even - just plug in a monitor and go, no extra setup required.)
And having used powerbook for about a week now . . I must say that that it is just as sturdy . . and doesn't seem to weigh anymore (my feel for it) than my iBook.
The iBook is a wonderful machine . . don't get me wrong . . but the speed difference is VERY apparent.
The 10.1 release will be a free download. The 20$ for the cd is the price that those without broadband will sadly have to pay . . regardless . . there will be a free download of the update. The question is will it be a standalone update - or merely a software update thru the control panel.
Um because lots of us have loved ones in the area . . and it is hard to tell which structures haven not only fallen, but taken serious damage. All I can see on the news is a massive pit of rumble . . .
Well . . . I went to dell and configred a similar 2100 to my iBook . .it came in at $2139 . . mine was $1736. That's close . . but I'm cutting corners in life as it is . . I think I'll save the dough.
Second . . the 2100 has NO internal drives . . the floppy and the combo drive are both external drives . . shit I could make a smaller laptop too if I removed the internal media.
- Width: 12.8 inches
- Thickness: 2.2 inches
- Depth: 10.5 inches
- Weight: 6.7 lbs
While the iBook has this:Now . . I don't know about you . . but try using one of these bigger laptops on a crowded SEPTA train (philly mass transit) or full AirTran flight . . it sucks. With the iBook I can really take it anywhere and just get my work done and not worry about finding a space . . or getting the right bag for it . . lugging it around time . . etc.
That and I've yet to use a pc notebook (though I've only had a dell and ibm) that lasted longer than 2.5 hours . . I've used my iBook for 4.5 hours at a time.
There is no need to argue this shit to death . . every has their own opinion . . I just thought it was important to point out the size/weight difference. I mean the iBook is meant as a sub-notebook . . I don't use it as a desktop replacement . . I want a small, light, dvd/cd-rw capable notebook . . end of story. That all-in-one FX simply doesn't meant the small and light requirements I have.
My @home service (resold by comcast ironically) is superior to my Road Runner expierence in every way possible. Granted this cable modem thing is only temporary until Verizon finally cleans up my frickin phone line so I get DSL again. (long story). Road Runner (in Tampa, FL at least) went down at least 4 to 5 times a day. Upload/Download never peaked above 350k . . during the evening it was almost as slower as 128k . . the tech support was awful. @home on the other hand (in a suburb of Philadelphia) . . is running in the 600k range (not DSL . .but better) . . goes down about once a week and I have execellent support and service from the local company.
just my two cents . .
Well I have been running OS X on my iBook (firewire) since March 27th and personally I'm quite impressed. Just to give some background:
- osx.html ) has a precompiled Bash install for you . . which is quite nice. And for you Python freaks a precompile version is here too ( http://tony.lownds.com/macosx/ ).
/Users to /Home . . but those are just little geeky pleasures I find that make it more user friendly . . I'm sure my mom as a mac user would care less.
.in fact I really have expierenced many problems at all . . it hasn't crashed once. I was sad to find out that Fortune wasn't available . . "sniffle" . . but I just grabbed the source from somewhere and compiled it. wheeee.
iBook (firewire) G3 366 320mb of Ram (okay so that is a little more than average) no DVD or CDR/W
I upgraded OS X to build 4L5 (10.0.1) ( http://osx.macnn.com/news.php?id=4812 ) with the "unreleased" update that is floating around. Now for me . . . OS X is light and snappy . . I hear quite random things when I read through all the boards and newsgroups though.
Classic apps are not as fast . . but are certaintly usable. SO far I have played with Photoshop 6, Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, and Freehand 9 in classic emulation mode.
Also . . I should probably point out that I have used linux before . . I also have a full time BeOS (please don't go bankrupt!!) box at home too . . that said I use the command line and unix functions everyday . .
The default shell is TCSH . . which I found odd . . but whatever . . I think it comes with ZSH and CSH installed too. This site ( http://www.savagetranscendental.com/data/OSX/bash
I have installed the hack called Docking Maneuvers ( http://homepage.mac.com/isleep/ ), which lets you move the "dock" to the right, left, and top . . instead of just the default bottom.
I've had to go through and make some "compability" fixes . . creating symlinks for things like cc to gcc . . or
Speaking of which, the OS install in about 10 minutes, I rebooted . . configured the PPPoE to work with my Verizon DSL and walla I was on the internet . . so for my mom . . that being done in like 12 minutes is purty nice.
Hmm . . I'm quite enjoying it . . I haven't expierence the number of problems with IE 5.1 beta that most people have .
. . . end of story . . really. examples you ask?
Let's start with the Jim Lehrer interview with Bush. He (George) states clearly that he favors Microsoft and what they have done for the technology movmement.
George W. Bush: I hope, though, that whatever settlement is done it won't ruin this company because this company has been a very interesting innovator, and so I hope the judge would keep in mind that this company is an important part of the technological revolution taking place in America.
yawn . . the interview then turns to Bush advisor Ralph Reed - who was on the Microsoft payroll. Bush tries to wiggle out the issue, etc. . but the damage is done there. What do we learn from this encounter? Bush likes Microsoft, would prefer to not see the company broken up, and has a close advisor who is paid by Microsoft. Brilliant.
This quote from Salon.com:
Texas governor has gone on record strongly defending the software giant against the federal suit. "What I am worried about is if this company were to be broken up, this engine of change and this engine of growth," Bush said in February. "I am not sympathetic to lawsuits. Write that down."
Next,we have this article and this one and this one (which states Bush owns sares of Microsoft . . . ugh.
Of course the deal closer is the fact the www.georgewbush.com is running Windows 2000 (According to NetCraft). Heh,heh.
ok so what is my point (i have the flu . . just hold on for a second) . . Bush clearly has postive feelings towards Microsoft. I think Aschroft does too . . in the end these two hold enough strings to probably pull the case in their favor.
Anyone have an official graphic/banner for this yet? Nothing looks better than hundrerds of thousands of sites with little buttons that say download the DeCSS code here.