There's no doubt it will be a pile of plasticy crap too - I've yet to see a PC laptop that doesn't look cheap and tacky. Even the fancy Sny Vaios (which also carry the hefty price premium) look cheap. Ever seen an IBM Thinkpad? Their build quality is better than a Powerbook's.
This is strange if you think about it from an evolutionary point of view.
You would think that, if anything, the brain would be designed for optimum efficiency/intelligence when standing up, since that's when it's needed the most. Cavemen didn't need to do heavy thinking while lying on their backs, about to fall asleep: they needed to be sharpest while upright, hunting animals, looking for food, and so forth.
Of my three close friends who did undergrad physics with me in the 80's, two of them have kids who (they think) have Asperger's.
Uh huh. My point exactly. Asperger's is simply not that common. Many people seem quick to self-diagnose, as a way of explaining their own (or their childrens') poor social skills.
Yes, but in 36 years, cars have gotten safer, more comfortable, and more reliable, as well as cleaner-burning. All that requires extra weight, and thus hurts efficiency.
The government would not let you sell a 1969 bug as a new model - it would never meet the safety or emissions requirements.
If you put a modern engine in a 1969 bug, I'm sure you would get wonderful mileage. And you'd risk death in accidents that people in modern cars walk away from with nary a scratch.
"you can gain a huge advantage simply by spending money on nice hardware."
How so? Maybe you'll be able to run with better graphics at the same framerate on your Falcon Mach V, but the plebians with the lesser systems can still turn down their graphics enough to counteract any advantage that might give you.
You should check your facts before you accuse other people of spreading FUD. If you read the very article you link (at ArsTechnica), you will see confirmation that Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled in Tiger.
From the second to last pair of paragraphs in your link...
"There's one final barrier to hardware-accelerated bliss. Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled by default in Mac OS X 10.4.0. That's right, the whiz-bang new technology you just read all about is not actually used in Tiger unless it's explicitly enabled using the Quartz Debug application. Even then, it only applies to applications that are launched after it was turned on. It also appears that Q2DE is re-disabled when you quit the Quartz Debug application.
Why develop something as impressive as Quartz 2D Extreme and then leave it turned off by default? My inquiries to Apple have gone unanswered, so I can only speculate about the reasoning behind this decision. My best guess is that all of the bugs could not be excised from Q2DE in time for Tiger's launch date, and that it will be enabled by default in a subsequent update--perhaps as early as version 10.4.1."
"Also, isn't it peculiar that when you complete a complex or lengthy game you rarely want to replay it, yet short games are often endlessly replayable?"
Not really. I'd say many more people play a 20-hour game once, than a five-minute game 240 times.
I don't think anyone sees cities as "sinful, bad evil that should be fled at all cost". I would imagine that most people just dislike them because of what they are: polluted, crowded, smelly, noisy, dirty, ugly, expensive, unsafe things that should be fled at all cost.
I wonder if a passing dust devil, of the same sort that periodically clear the dust off the rover's solar panels, might be able to blow some of the sand away from the wheels?
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I think he means this is the first time it's hit 90% on the way down, as opposed to 90% on the way up.
"An elegant weapon from a more civilized age," said the old man, shortly before hacking some drunk's arm off in a bar.
Right in front of me, I have a ten-month-old 15" Aluminum Powerbook and a six-month-old Thinkpad T42p. I use both of them every day.
I would be in heaven if I could run Mac OS X on the Thinkpad. The Powerbook may look pretty, but the Thinkpad is better-engineered and better-built.
There's no doubt it will be a pile of plasticy crap too - I've yet to see a PC laptop that doesn't look cheap and tacky. Even the fancy Sny Vaios (which also carry the hefty price premium) look cheap.
Ever seen an IBM Thinkpad? Their build quality is better than a Powerbook's.
This is strange if you think about it from an evolutionary point of view.
You would think that, if anything, the brain would be designed for optimum efficiency/intelligence when standing up, since that's when it's needed the most. Cavemen didn't need to do heavy thinking while lying on their backs, about to fall asleep: they needed to be sharpest while upright, hunting animals, looking for food, and so forth.
A friend of mine tried it about a year ago, and while I don't remember his exact comments, I don't remember him saying anything about slowness.
I think it means [2^(11281)] + 1. But I could be wrong.
Of my three close friends who did undergrad physics with me in the 80's, two of them have kids who (they think) have Asperger's.
Uh huh. My point exactly. Asperger's is simply not that common. Many people seem quick to self-diagnose, as a way of explaining their own (or their childrens') poor social skills.
What about the many Slashdotters who only think they have Aspergers, and use it as an excuse to excuse their anti-social behavior?
Yes, but in 36 years, cars have gotten safer, more comfortable, and more reliable, as well as cleaner-burning. All that requires extra weight, and thus hurts efficiency.
The government would not let you sell a 1969 bug as a new model - it would never meet the safety or emissions requirements.
If you put a modern engine in a 1969 bug, I'm sure you would get wonderful mileage. And you'd risk death in accidents that people in modern cars walk away from with nary a scratch.
One thing that does make a difference is how fast you drive on the highway. I know I get much worse mileage driving at 80-90 than I do at 60-70.
What the hell? This looks like Lord of the Rings, except with little kids instead of hobbits.
I don't remember the books being like that when I read them (gra
"you can gain a huge advantage simply by spending money on nice hardware."
How so? Maybe you'll be able to run with better graphics at the same framerate on your Falcon Mach V, but the plebians with the lesser systems can still turn down their graphics enough to counteract any advantage that might give you.
You should check your facts before you accuse other people of spreading FUD. If you read the very article you link (at ArsTechnica), you will see confirmation that Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled in Tiger.
From the second to last pair of paragraphs in your link...
"There's one final barrier to hardware-accelerated bliss. Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled by default in Mac OS X 10.4.0. That's right, the whiz-bang new technology you just read all about is not actually used in Tiger unless it's explicitly enabled using the Quartz Debug application. Even then, it only applies to applications that are launched after it was turned on. It also appears that Q2DE is re-disabled when you quit the Quartz Debug application.
Why develop something as impressive as Quartz 2D Extreme and then leave it turned off by default? My inquiries to Apple have gone unanswered, so I can only speculate about the reasoning behind this decision. My best guess is that all of the bugs could not be excised from Q2DE in time for Tiger's launch date, and that it will be enabled by default in a subsequent update--perhaps as early as version 10.4.1."
Why not just call it 10.3.10?
Orchids, buddy. Orchids.
I may not understand the symbolism, but at least I'm not a snobby geek.
Maybe trainspotting has died down because all you get on Google now are results for that wretched movie.
Oh, that's the joke, that you misused the word "offshored"?
I see you're using the term "humor" quite loosely.
Except, India and China are on the same continent.
India could offshore their tech support to the US...
"Also, isn't it peculiar that when you complete a complex or lengthy game you rarely want to replay it, yet short games are often endlessly replayable?"
Not really. I'd say many more people play a 20-hour game once, than a five-minute game 240 times.
"does anyone know when Debian will adopt X.org?"
2013?
They are very happy squandering more and more money into bigger and bigger trucks so any proposition to do otherwise is viewed as communist
Any proposition to force them to do otherwise. See the difference?
And don't you think that the very fact that you need to explain the "idea of having livable cities" suggests why people might be fleeing them?
I don't think anyone sees cities as "sinful, bad evil that should be fled at all cost". I would imagine that most people just dislike them because of what they are: polluted, crowded, smelly, noisy, dirty, ugly, expensive, unsafe things that should be fled at all cost.
I wonder if a passing dust devil, of the same sort that periodically clear the dust off the rover's solar panels, might be able to blow some of the sand away from the wheels?
It might take a while, but hey...