In fact, I saw an article that showed that, on the PC side, Excel never got any speed gain in years. It was like having you old Pentium 90Mhz for some tasks.
In fact, if you look that the benchmarks, a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz is about the same speed as a PowerPC 603e 100Mhz in the floating point numbers (column "Décimaux") due to a bug in the mathlib of Excel..
This means that, when old code is forgotten and built onto, switching machines might not make you work faster;)
Exactly! And I believe it was the point of the tests!
They didn't only test start-time operations, but scrolling through word files, counting words, etc! Thing is, how come a Dual-2.4Ghz Athlon can't count words in a Word document faster than a 8Mhz M68000?
Is there really must-have features for your work that Word3 didn't have?
We have to agree, though, that this consumerism made the computer market evolve really quickly.
Like Apple is still selling MacOS 9 on Performas..
These errors are long gone. In fact, they are gone since the introduction of MacOS X.. in 2000!
And it's not like the hexadecimal code in a blue screen was that helpful. Yeah, you know it's a driver that caused it.. so what? I knew that before the bsod!
Firefox leaves nothing elsewhere on MacOS X, all the libraries and data files are inside the application bundle. Since you are the one who copied FireFox in the Application Directory, you are allowed to write and modify it! Simple as that!
Yes, with the proper LDAP structure. This is what I'm doing @ home and it works like a charm! I could have 5000 machines, be it Mac or Linux, they would all require the same login/passwords!
The thing is, ARD let's you send a package to be installed on all clients at once. Than there's apple OpenDirectory, that let's you control the clients parameters centrally. Heck, it doesn't even have to be an Apple Server, you can get this functionnality with OpenLDAP and the proper schemas!
With my server (Linux), it's about 4h work getting from a wipped disk to functionnal, but sometimes it's a couple of days before I remmember the little tweak I did last year that made me happy.
With my clients (OS X), it's about 2h and everything's there (home directory, games, updates). Than it's a couple of days before I remmember the little tweak... you get the idea;)
Than, if I get to read about some new tweak, utility, parameter or anything that could be usefull to me, it get's tried that's for shure!
It's Bill's fault if Internet Explorer automatically installs a spyware, but not if John Doe's software let's viruses through.
Remind's me of old times, when it was Win95 vs MacOS 7. A PC crashed, it was the application's fault. A Mac crashed, the Mac was the problem. It's still a lot like this these times...
Taligent was in projet before Win95 hit the streets.
Shure, it didn't get to market, like Copland too, but they were trying to get there too, it just got longer (it's called backward compatibility, you know..)
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I do not agree!
A translucent terminal let's me read the content under it while doing stuff in it.
Drop shadows helps you know which windows is the front most.
IIRC, if the iPhone uses NetInfo like MacOS X does on Macs, that password might be usefull only in single user mode.
That, and it's better for some CSS rendering!
My three column website CSS is best viewed with Safari, not that I intended it to, but it does..
Yes, but not 300 times faster!
;)
In fact, I saw an article that showed that, on the PC side, Excel never got any speed gain in years. It was like having you old Pentium 90Mhz for some tasks.
In fact, if you look that the benchmarks, a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz is about the same speed as a PowerPC 603e 100Mhz in the floating point numbers (column "Décimaux") due to a bug in the mathlib of Excel..
This means that, when old code is forgotten and built onto, switching machines might not make you work faster
Exactly! And I believe it was the point of the tests!
They didn't only test start-time operations, but scrolling through word files, counting words, etc! Thing is, how come a Dual-2.4Ghz Athlon can't count words in a Word document faster than a 8Mhz M68000?
Is there really must-have features for your work that Word3 didn't have?
We have to agree, though, that this consumerism made the computer market evolve really quickly.
I allready talked to him about his work a while ago, he told me everything is compagny secret.
:P
Unless I can him drunk, which I won't be able to for a while, I won't get anything
I know one of the guys who worked on the coin, he'll be please to know that the coin looked to have so advanced technology! ;)
And you still don't..
well, I never got to find anything related to that!
Like Apple is still selling MacOS 9 on Performas..
These errors are long gone. In fact, they are gone since the introduction of MacOS X.. in 2000!
And it's not like the hexadecimal code in a blue screen was that helpful. Yeah, you know it's a driver that caused it.. so what? I knew that before the bsod!
Easy!
Firefox leaves nothing elsewhere on MacOS X, all the libraries and data files are inside the application bundle. Since you are the one who copied FireFox in the Application Directory, you are allowed to write and modify it! Simple as that!
Yes, with the proper LDAP structure. This is what I'm doing @ home and it works like a charm! I could have 5000 machines, be it Mac or Linux, they would all require the same login/passwords!
The thing is, ARD let's you send a package to be installed on all clients at once. Than there's apple OpenDirectory, that let's you control the clients parameters centrally. Heck, it doesn't even have to be an Apple Server, you can get this functionnality with OpenLDAP and the proper schemas!
I wouldn't want any kid near a Zune, squirting sounds pornographic!
Yeah, that's right!
;)
With my server (Linux), it's about 4h work getting from a wipped disk to functionnal, but sometimes it's a couple of days before I remmember the little tweak I did last year that made me happy.
With my clients (OS X), it's about 2h and everything's there (home directory, games, updates). Than it's a couple of days before I remmember the little tweak... you get the idea
Than, if I get to read about some new tweak, utility, parameter or anything that could be usefull to me, it get's tried that's for shure!
So 10.4.9 has no known remote vulnerability! good! Could you do it again with everything in sharing activated?
I would have liked to see the results of MacOS X after the 10.4.9 update, since it resolved a lot of security vulnerabilities.
Maybe we should patent patenting stuff, and than we could sue people who patent something?
Not quite true, MSN Messenger is now UB.
But it still doesn't have audio or video, which open source projects do have!
CoreImage and CoreVideo came with 10.4, as is CoreData.
The 2 first get's used in some games and some compositing software, the other is still in it's infancy and should get more maturity with 10.5.
So, to the user, it's almost as big a step between 10.3 and 10.4 than between WinXP and WinVista.
You mean the software kind or the latex kind?
(just kidding)
True, but the responsability still lies in the PHP app.
Not only it can change apps, but it execute commands with it's priviledges too. (like download a mass mailer and start sending junk mail).
I don't agree to that neither.
It's Bill's fault if Internet Explorer automatically installs a spyware, but not if John Doe's software let's viruses through.
Remind's me of old times, when it was Win95 vs MacOS 7. A PC crashed, it was the application's fault. A Mac crashed, the Mac was the problem. It's still a lot like this these times...
So it's Linus' fault if Apache or Sendmail has a security problem?
The software has to be secure from top to bottom. If your PHP app has a security problem, it can do bad things on your machine no mather the OS.
Taligent was in projet before Win95 hit the streets.
Shure, it didn't get to market, like Copland too, but they were trying to get there too, it just got longer (it's called backward compatibility, you know..)
It's not not what I meant, and you know that.
And I never meant that Apple's way is what it should be on Windows or KDE or Gnome neither!
I just said that it makes sense in MacOS X.