Personally, I'm looking forward to replacing my PII with a USB & DVI/LCD display system.. put the ugly case in the closet and run two wires (3 if you want audio) to the desktop. No more ugly box and it'll be much quieter.
But seriously, there are *many* stories where it seems 50% of the comments are funny comments of this variety - not to pick on this particular poster, but it was immediately accessable and very indicative of the typical "funny" comment - ones that require the poster to be seeped in at least 3 hours of sitcom humor a day. It is very typical of the sitcom humor breed and detracts from the overall interest of/.
Well as long as we're all committing ritual karma suicide, I'll join in and say.... 99% of the "Funny" posts are FUCKING LAME. Posters should quit trying to show the world how funny they are with their stupid and predictable little jokes - they aren't funny. If you don't have anything "informative" or "insightful" to say, don't bother posting.
Microsoft doesn't pay dividends on stock you own. Hence many critics complaints about their shifting of money to avoid paying any taxes at all.
huh? How would paying dividends cause MS to pay more in taxes?
Re:Not crappy at all: You're looking at it wrong
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However I gotta ask: Why do you care about the PPC? Is there some intrinsic fascination it holds for you or are you just trying to be post-x86. Unless you get off on porting or writing low-level stuff I can't see that as criteria for going to a Mac. Heck, you can run all of the low-level MacOS X (Darwin) code on x86 as it is for free right now. MacOS X proper does offer some neat stuff like Cocoa & Quartz and parity for Java but none of those are particularly processor-relevant.
A little bit of both. Part of me is annoyed that I still have an ancient Bios, serial port, PS/2 port and parallel port with a 25 year old instruction set architecture, when I could have more modern firmware, peripheral connectors and ISA. But mostly because I'm currently learning MIPS assembly and the transfer to PPC (or possibly IA64), shouldn't be too tough. I'm moving toward scientific computing (I'm currently a molecular biologist), and using AltiVec (or it's IA64 equivalent) looks very useful. So what I'm looking for is a cheap (I don't have much cash) dual processor workstation with an ISA with a future... and dual processor Macs are way out of my league. It'll be about a year before I move away from my PII-400, and I hope Apple (or any company that might be selling PPC boxes...maybe PPCLinux will create the opportunity - I can dream;) will have something that competes with IA64.
It's not the consumer market, but it doesn't seem to be in Apple's radar to offer cheap high performance boxes... but hey, whatever makes them money is great.
I used Macs from '88(SE) through '98(ditch my PPC-601). Maybe Apple will release a reasonably priced highend machine that competes with Intel/AMD someday... I'd love it (Oh, I'd be running Debian on it of course, I just would rather support PPC).
Re:Not crappy at all: You're looking at it wrong
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OK. You're right. I just desparately want to switch away from x86 to PowerPC, but so far I can't justify do that with any of Apple's current machines - I was hoping for more. Maybe they'll introduce something to please us "non-consumers" someday...
It's quite simple. I switched from Macs to PCs 4 years ago b/c you can get much cooler hardware for the PC. I naively thought this was about to change. Looks like Apple will be lucky to retain market share until they start thinking about THE SPECS of their machines (and not how cute they look).
It had a
13" 1280x1024 feed foward LCD display
700MHz G4
DDR Ram
Mobile Radeon
DVD
DVI connector
FireWire2
USB2
Gigabit Ethernet
Airport
Irda
Bluetooth
PCMCIA
and weighed 5lbs and cost $1800
Anything else is a lame waste of hype... Let's see people buy into this crap next time.
4000x3000 won't be here for at least a decade. The current digital interface, dvi, maxes out at 2048x1536... I'm not sure what the refresh rate would be on that.
But a 8000x6000 100Hz 52inch TV will be shweeet (in the year 2025).
What debian really needs to truly kick as is a *BSD-like 'make world' feature. We've already got all the source-build dependencies - how hard could it be? As it stands, you currently need to set up some bizarre build-daemon system to compile sources for your own particular subarchitecture.
Hey! Do you know how many shots you can get out of the battery with that setup if the LCD is turned off. I want to buy a G2/1Gig for a camp/canoe trip in several months.
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Well, I see that scrollbar performance has degraded bigtime.
Open up emacs21.1/src/xterm.c and drag the scrollbar up and down. emacs20 could handle this no problem.
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Personally, I'm looking forward to replacing my PII with a USB & DVI/LCD display system.. put the ugly case in the closet and run two wires (3 if you want audio) to the desktop. No more ugly box and it'll be much quieter.
NO. Details of cold fusion would most definitely be labeled as Informative. Insightful posts are those that express an opinion.
no. My comment is quite "insightful." no?
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But seriously, there are *many* stories where it seems 50% of the comments are funny comments of this variety - not to pick on this particular poster, but it was immediately accessable and very indicative of the typical "funny" comment - ones that require the poster to be seeped in at least 3 hours of sitcom humor a day. It is very typical of the sitcom humor breed and detracts from the overall interest of
Well as long as we're all committing ritual karma suicide, I'll join in and say.... 99% of the "Funny" posts are FUCKING LAME. Posters should quit trying to show the world how funny they are with their stupid and predictable little jokes - they aren't funny. If you don't have anything "informative" or "insightful" to say, don't bother posting.
Microsoft doesn't pay dividends on stock you own. Hence many critics complaints about their shifting of money to avoid paying any taxes at all.
huh? How would paying dividends cause MS to pay more in taxes?
However I gotta ask: Why do you care about the PPC? Is there some intrinsic fascination it holds for you or are you just trying to be post-x86. Unless you get off on porting or writing low-level stuff I can't see that as criteria for going to a Mac. Heck, you can run all of the low-level MacOS X (Darwin) code on x86 as it is for free right now. MacOS X proper does offer some neat stuff like Cocoa & Quartz and parity for Java but none of those are particularly processor-relevant.
A little bit of both. Part of me is annoyed that I still have an ancient Bios, serial port, PS/2 port and parallel port with a 25 year old instruction set architecture, when I could have more modern firmware, peripheral connectors and ISA. But mostly because I'm currently learning MIPS assembly and the transfer to PPC (or possibly IA64), shouldn't be too tough. I'm moving toward scientific computing (I'm currently a molecular biologist), and using AltiVec (or it's IA64 equivalent) looks very useful. So what I'm looking for is a cheap (I don't have much cash) dual processor workstation with an ISA with a future... and dual processor Macs are way out of my league. It'll be about a year before I move away from my PII-400, and I hope Apple (or any company that might be selling PPC boxes...maybe PPCLinux will create the opportunity - I can dream;) will have something that competes with IA64.
It's not the consumer market, but it doesn't seem to be in Apple's radar to offer cheap high performance boxes... but hey, whatever makes them money is great.
I used Macs from '88(SE) through '98(ditch my PPC-601). Maybe Apple will release a reasonably priced highend machine that competes with Intel/AMD someday... I'd love it (Oh, I'd be running Debian on it of course, I just would rather support PPC).
OK. You're right. I just desparately want to switch away from x86 to PowerPC, but so far I can't justify do that with any of Apple's current machines - I was hoping for more. Maybe they'll introduce something to please us "non-consumers" someday...
It's quite simple. I switched from Macs to PCs 4 years ago b/c you can get much cooler hardware for the PC. I naively thought this was about to change. Looks like Apple will be lucky to retain market share until they start thinking about THE SPECS of their machines (and not how cute they look).
It had a
13" 1280x1024 feed foward LCD display
700MHz G4
DDR Ram
Mobile Radeon
DVD
DVI connector
FireWire2
USB2
Gigabit Ethernet
Airport
Irda
Bluetooth
PCMCIA
and weighed 5lbs and cost $1800
Anything else is a lame waste of hype... Let's see people buy into this crap next time.
Holy Shit! They're using 100MHz RAM in 2002!
No wonder I left Macs for PCs 4 years ago.
4000x3000 won't be here for at least a decade. The current digital interface, dvi, maxes out at 2048x1536... I'm not sure what the refresh rate would be on that.
But a 8000x6000 100Hz 52inch TV will be shweeet (in the year 2025).
maybe you missed the part about MRAM
of the old zdnet stories saying Linux would never amount to crap.
kde is going to become a _major_ desktop system. It' s inevitable and obvious.
There are changlogs for 3.1[7,8] I just saw. So there are just a couple of minor version changes -> 3.20 I guess.
Looking at quake2/changes.txt it looks like the version of Quake2 that was GPL'd was 3.16. But id has released binaries of version 3.20.
Anyone know if there are major differences between these versions?
Yes. There is a comparison of IA64 -vs- The Rest.
You can check out the details at spec.org,
but I've found Ace's Hardware Top 20 Review to be a more concise and readable version.
You can see that IBM's POWER4 has a fp peak of 1169,
while Intel's Itaniam has a fp peak of 701. In int performance, the Itanium is pretty dismal.
What debian really needs to truly kick as is a *BSD-like 'make world' feature. We've already got all the source-build dependencies - how hard could it be? As it stands, you currently need to set up some bizarre build-daemon system to compile sources for your own particular subarchitecture.
bzzt! There's definitely a market. The Chinese just haven't learned the Free Software game yet.
pomona?
wow. that's a cool site. thanx.
commie pig
bzzz... wrong answer!
That quote applies to Socialism, not Communism.
Hey! Do you know how many shots you can get out of the battery with that setup if the LCD is turned off. I want to buy a G2/1Gig for a camp/canoe trip in several months.
Well, I see that scrollbar performance has degraded bigtime.
Open up emacs21.1/src/xterm.c and drag the scrollbar up and down. emacs20 could handle this no problem.
Is this on a TODO list?