I completely agree. Also, looking at my iMac CoreDuo CPU monitor, there's not even a blink up in CPU time while doing these operations. My PowerBook G4 400Mhz works better and better with each MacOS X revision, so I guess Eye Candy isn't what is slowing it down;)
Well, they use the trend to sell, that's for shure, but I think it was needed. I mean, sales were desastrous, they made a good computer with a great look, and it selled!
Do you really think there's no substance in the product they sell?
That's wierd. My familly have been using Macs since I was 2 1/2 (1985). I use a Mac at home with Linux PCs, but I work in IT for a school board 100% WinTel. Apple is still a name I can't way at work, it is just BAD(TM) and just "Not a real computer".
And here you say that you don't like Apple because it's too much of a trend? Does that mean you liked it 8 years ago when everyone was saying Apple is dying?
I believe there's still a huge counter-trend against Apple, and since the iPod and iMac, there's now a counter-trend against Apple's trend.. I guess it's always going to be the "Bad Apple(TM)"
I am working for a school board in Quebec. I am the person responsible for maintaining the spam and virus filter.. and one of the method used to monitor the health of my system is statistics.
We were getting about 1200/1300 spam per day, with an average of 120 virus per day. Spam was steady (about 1000/day in the weekend, increasing in the middle of the week to 1400/day). Recently, the average as gone down to 1100 spam/day.
I know it's not much, but it still shows that there's been a montly progression of less spam. I guess, since our domain name ends with.qc.ca, that regulations could be a factor..
I tested McAfee and ClamAV with a Eicar.com test file compressed as Eicar.rar, and both of them got it. Since it's the 2 products used at work, we consider ourselves OK as long as the signatures gets updated.. which is done automaticly:)
It shouldn't even be an argument (sorry if I get rude with anyone here)..
I have harsh views about religion as a whole.. and I know what I'm talking about since I was a really fervous believer when I was younger.
I guess I just become marxist/leninist before I even knew what marx/lenin said/did.. (just surrounding religion, btw, don't think I'm all for communism or something, that's not true).
We know that there could be a huge lot of other habitable planets, yet a lot of us are still too egocentric to even think about the possibility that there could be an other race.
Even worst, at some point there we 2 'human' races on earth, but one got killed because they were too dependant on their environnement.
There is a difference between closed standard and closed source.
Quicktime is closed source, but it's an open standard. There is a Open Sourced Quicktime player for Linux, what is not Open is the Sorenson Codec. Sorenson != Quicktime, Sorenson != Apple.
Your post should have been : "Stop using the closed Sorenson Codec".. but you said Quicktime..
This has been repeated countless times on SlashDot.. but it seams you were not aware of it..
Yeah.. I skipped this part because I didn't want to say anything dirty.. I have a gay friend than would have kicked his ass and drug him in the street for that:P
Hum.. wait.. I thought they were againts DMCA, that the allied to tell the GVT that it was used wrongly..
Also, I thought that they were providing jobs for opensource developpers, that they were returning the sources back to the originator of the projects they used (think safari) and that people liked them for that?
And.. when did Apple ever said that if you made something good, they'd ship it with the OS? I mean.. Chimera developpers have a right to hope for that.. but not to expect it! And.. I'm shure the KHTML guys are happy to get the bugfixes Apple made!
I'll conclude by saying that you have to uderstand that Apple is a compagny, living to make and sell products. They can't give everything away.. and they have to protect parts of what they do. I think they are a good mix of open/closed source, they provide good usability, speed, functionnality ans stability thanks to that mix. You have the right to disagree... but right now I'm disagreeing with you on some points;)
According to this benchmark, on the same website.. Adobe Products under MacOS X are not well designed for dual cpu machines. If you look at the scores, the dual CPU machines get almot the same rating that the single cpus..
Final Cut Pro is an other story..
So.. if you "double" the Mac score.. you gets beatten now?;)
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It's a Toshiba harddrive that sits in my PowerBook..
From factory!
On Mac it's called Assistant, you insensitive clod! ;)
He's talking about the hacked drivers and bootloader edition ;)
I completely agree. Also, looking at my iMac CoreDuo CPU monitor, there's not even a blink up in CPU time while doing these operations. My PowerBook G4 400Mhz works better and better with each MacOS X revision, so I guess Eye Candy isn't what is slowing it down ;)
Well.. according to Wikipedia, it is false to say that Apple stole it from Xerox, because it extended a lot from the work done at Parc.
They bought it from Xerox, but they were unhappy with the terms of the contract seeing what Apple did with it.
This is why Apple won in court against Xerox. It is a urban legend that Apple stole it from Xerox.
What about the machine is EFI but has BIOS backward compatibility?
root account is disabled by default on MacOS X.. unless he openned it up?
Humkay.. I understand better now..
Well, they use the trend to sell, that's for shure, but I think it was needed. I mean, sales were desastrous, they made a good computer with a great look, and it selled!
Do you really think there's no substance in the product they sell?
That's wierd. My familly have been using Macs since I was 2 1/2 (1985). I use a Mac at home with Linux PCs, but I work in IT for a school board 100% WinTel. Apple is still a name I can't way at work, it is just BAD(TM) and just "Not a real computer".
And here you say that you don't like Apple because it's too much of a trend? Does that mean you liked it 8 years ago when everyone was saying Apple is dying?
I believe there's still a huge counter-trend against Apple, and since the iPod and iMac, there's now a counter-trend against Apple's trend.. I guess it's always going to be the "Bad Apple(TM)"
Is it like a troll? Do you have to feed it for it to stop?
I am working for a school board in Quebec. I am the person responsible for maintaining the spam and virus filter.. and one of the method used to monitor the health of my system is statistics.
.qc.ca, that regulations could be a factor..
We were getting about 1200/1300 spam per day, with an average of 120 virus per day. Spam was steady (about 1000/day in the weekend, increasing in the middle of the week to 1400/day). Recently, the average as gone down to 1100 spam/day.
I know it's not much, but it still shows that there's been a montly progression of less spam. I guess, since our domain name ends with
Robots using human bodies as batteries.
I tested McAfee and ClamAV with a Eicar.com test file compressed as Eicar.rar, and both of them got it. Since it's the 2 products used at work, we consider ourselves OK as long as the signatures gets updated.. which is done automaticly :)
I hope the overlord is sexy, so we can enjoy the streaking!
Now we will be able to tell that the anal retentive retard really is a teenage prick trying to impress others!
At that weight, it's not a notebook, but a dictionnairy!
Creationism?
It shouldn't even be an argument (sorry if I get rude with anyone here)..
I have harsh views about religion as a whole.. and I know what I'm talking about since I was a really fervous believer when I was younger.
I guess I just become marxist/leninist before I even knew what marx/lenin said/did.. (just surrounding religion, btw, don't think I'm all for communism or something, that's not true).
We know that there could be a huge lot of other habitable planets, yet a lot of us are still too egocentric to even think about the possibility that there could be an other race.
Even worst, at some point there we 2 'human' races on earth, but one got killed because they were too dependant on their environnement.
How's that againts creationism?
If we are alone in the universe.. God created it like Microsoft is writing software, i.e. lots of loss of space!
There is a difference between closed standard and closed source.
Quicktime is closed source, but it's an open standard. There is a Open Sourced Quicktime player for Linux, what is not Open is the Sorenson Codec. Sorenson != Quicktime, Sorenson != Apple.
Your post should have been : "Stop using the closed Sorenson Codec".. but you said Quicktime..
This has been repeated countless times on SlashDot.. but it seams you were not aware of it..
Repeat after me :
:)
-Quicktime is not closed
-Quicktime is not a format
-Quicktime is not closed
-Quicktime is not a format
Now do that while bunking you head on the wall until you mother takes you to the hospital
Yeah.. I skipped this part because I didn't want to say anything dirty.. I have a gay friend than would have kicked his ass and drug him in the street for that :P
Hum.. wait.. I thought they were againts DMCA, that the allied to tell the GVT that it was used wrongly..
;)
Also, I thought that they were providing jobs for opensource developpers, that they were returning the sources back to the originator of the projects they used (think safari) and that people liked them for that?
And.. when did Apple ever said that if you made something good, they'd ship it with the OS? I mean.. Chimera developpers have a right to hope for that.. but not to expect it! And.. I'm shure the KHTML guys are happy to get the bugfixes Apple made!
I'll conclude by saying that you have to uderstand that Apple is a compagny, living to make and sell products. They can't give everything away.. and they have to protect parts of what they do. I think they are a good mix of open/closed source, they provide good usability, speed, functionnality ans stability thanks to that mix. You have the right to disagree... but right now I'm disagreeing with you on some points
Because it will reflect what the Mac "should" get..
The score they are showing is the score the Mac got with only 1 CPU running the App.. (more or less)..
If you go have a look at the benchmarks I posted.. you'll see that the Adobe apps doesn't use the 2 CPU efficiently..
According to this benchmark, on the same website.. Adobe Products under MacOS X are not well designed for dual cpu machines. If you look at the scores, the dual CPU machines get almot the same rating that the single cpus..
;)
Final Cut Pro is an other story..
So.. if you "double" the Mac score.. you gets beatten now?