Strengths:
-- They are not kidding when they say 100 CD's. I have about 900 mp3 files on my hardrive - It took me barely 4 hours to copy them all down onto the PJB. The sound quality is good - and with the size of the hard drive encoding above 128kpbs is now a valid alternative. Structuring and arranging my MP3 files on the hard drive is simple and intuitive
I think it's hard to say firewire is just nice when it comes to the time needed to upload files.
I'm sittiing in my office in Stillwater, Oklahoma, a little college town of 40,000 residents, yet, while some may be connected via copper, I have 6 pair of fiber coming into the basement (2 are in use). Our city contracted with a small telco in Oklahoma, Chickasaw, to install a fiber ring in the city to connect the schools and municipal buildings to the Internet. After that was complete, chickasaw was free to sell access without the city's intervention.
For a price that's too low to advertise, I have the equivalent of a full-duplex T-1 line. Our transciever gives us a 10mb connection to the central office where their router then packet shapes us down to the bandwidth we're paying for.
Here's a ping from our router to our ISP over our fiber connection:
*** Success rate is 100 percent, round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/1 ms
There's no way we would have this kind of connectivity without the city's help. I get to laugh as salespeople from Sprint, AT&T, etc. call and try to sell us ADSL or copper T-lines for more than we pay for our fiber connectivity.
Not only do we have a fiber connection to our ISP, but we also ride fiber all the way to the Internet, so we get great throughput.
Regards,
Ben
One thing that impresses me about OS X is the speed at which it has evolved.
In just the past 3 months, numerous changes have been made to Classic and the Finder.
I get the feeling that the engineers have had a lot of sleepless nights while Jobs cracks the whip over their heads
The only reason I comment on this is because I'm hopeful that the momentum is going to be there for quite a while. By next year, OS X will hopefully still not have any competition from Microsoft.
Personally, I can't wait until July! I think we're going to hear a lot of cool announcements and see some new apps that we never thought would run on a Macintosh.
Now, if we could only eliminate any need for Microsoft products, that would be Nirvana. StarOffice, here I come!
For those who don't know, even though classic apps can't benefit from protected mem, etc. they do share OS X's memory managment, so 9.1 running under classic thinks that is has 1 gig of RAM to work with. That eliminates a lot of problems with the old OS running out of memory with too many applications open. In fact, I haven't been able to crash classic yet by opening even 10-15 simultaneous apps like photoshop, golive, imageready, etc.
What I love about OS X is that I'll be able to stick it on my boss' laptop. Put all 3 of his applications in the dock, and let him go to town as a non-administrative user!
The only really bad thing about "classic" is that gaming just sucks. Slow games like "The Sims" will work, but you'll get your ass fragged in a heartbeat if you try to play Unreal Tournament.
Oh, and would Adobe please say something??? They're making us nervous.
Now that's just silly.
Windows produced in house? Isn't it windows and NT server that are always having some new back door exposed that was put there by a disgruntled programmer?
How many back doors does NT have anyway?
This reminds me of a line from "Army of Darkness."
"First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me.... blow."
As a long-time mac user that's how I feel about porting to x86. After all the flames about how macintosh sucks that I've endured for years and years, now suddenly windows users want OS X. Well, I'm running it right now, I love it, and you can't have it!
And please, DON'T buy a macintosh. You hate them anyway. Stick with good old windows and "put on your eyeshades, put in your earplugs, you know where to put the cork..."
Ahh, Whistler, that looks like one cool version of windows! I think they made the trash can look different. Whoop-dee-doo!
Note: My hostilities are only toward Microsoft automatons.
5%? On behalf of Microsoft, I would like to thank you for continuing to spread FUD about Apple. Our propaganda must be working. What is your source for that number?
If linux has such a better share than that, then how come classroom computer labs across the country have what seems like a good supply of macs? There are entire mac labs on campus here. I can't say that there are any Linux labs. At least macs are being USED by people. I'd say that the large portion of linux boxes that are "threatening" microsoft's market share are doing the same thing that my linux box is doing, sitting in the basement serving web pages, not sitting on my desk.
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Strengths:
-- They are not kidding when they say 100 CD's. I have about 900 mp3 files on my hardrive - It took me barely 4 hours to copy them all down onto the PJB. The sound quality is good - and with the size of the hard drive encoding above 128kpbs is now a valid alternative. Structuring and arranging my MP3 files on the hard drive is simple and intuitive
I think it's hard to say firewire is just nice when it comes to the time needed to upload files.
-Ben
I'm sittiing in my office in Stillwater, Oklahoma, a little college town of 40,000 residents, yet, while some may be connected via copper, I have 6 pair of fiber coming into the basement (2 are in use). Our city contracted with a small telco in Oklahoma, Chickasaw, to install a fiber ring in the city to connect the schools and municipal buildings to the Internet. After that was complete, chickasaw was free to sell access without the city's intervention. For a price that's too low to advertise, I have the equivalent of a full-duplex T-1 line. Our transciever gives us a 10mb connection to the central office where their router then packet shapes us down to the bandwidth we're paying for. Here's a ping from our router to our ISP over our fiber connection: *** Success rate is 100 percent, round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/1 ms There's no way we would have this kind of connectivity without the city's help. I get to laugh as salespeople from Sprint, AT&T, etc. call and try to sell us ADSL or copper T-lines for more than we pay for our fiber connectivity. Not only do we have a fiber connection to our ISP, but we also ride fiber all the way to the Internet, so we get great throughput. Regards, Ben
Before anyone else posts a FUD message about OS X, please go to: Apple's Web Site
You might learn something. Unless, of course, you're afraid to learn new things.
Ummmm. Root isn't enabled by default. Go back to your PC. Please.
In just the past 3 months, numerous changes have been made to Classic and the Finder.
I get the feeling that the engineers have had a lot of sleepless nights while Jobs cracks the whip over their heads
The only reason I comment on this is because I'm hopeful that the momentum is going to be there for quite a while. By next year, OS X will hopefully still not have any competition from Microsoft.
Personally, I can't wait until July! I think we're going to hear a lot of cool announcements and see some new apps that we never thought would run on a Macintosh.
Now, if we could only eliminate any need for Microsoft products, that would be Nirvana. StarOffice, here I come!
-BEN
Give me Omniweb. It's not free, but it renders web pages in gorgeous anti-aliased text, as OS X was built to do.
I bet IE is programmed to wait until you log in as root and then corrupt your kernel with Microsoft propaganda
OOOohhh Navy Seals!!!
What I love about OS X is that I'll be able to stick it on my boss' laptop. Put all 3 of his applications in the dock, and let him go to town as a non-administrative user!
The only really bad thing about "classic" is that gaming just sucks. Slow games like "The Sims" will work, but you'll get your ass fragged in a heartbeat if you try to play Unreal Tournament.
Oh, and would Adobe please say something??? They're making us nervous.
Now that's just silly. Windows produced in house? Isn't it windows and NT server that are always having some new back door exposed that was put there by a disgruntled programmer? How many back doors does NT have anyway?
This reminds me of a line from "Army of Darkness." "First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me.... blow." As a long-time mac user that's how I feel about porting to x86. After all the flames about how macintosh sucks that I've endured for years and years, now suddenly windows users want OS X. Well, I'm running it right now, I love it, and you can't have it! And please, DON'T buy a macintosh. You hate them anyway. Stick with good old windows and "put on your eyeshades, put in your earplugs, you know where to put the cork..." Ahh, Whistler, that looks like one cool version of windows! I think they made the trash can look different. Whoop-dee-doo! Note: My hostilities are only toward Microsoft automatons.
5%? On behalf of Microsoft, I would like to thank you for continuing to spread FUD about Apple. Our propaganda must be working. What is your source for that number?
If linux has such a better share than that, then how come classroom computer labs across the country have what seems like a good supply of macs? There are entire mac labs on campus here. I can't say that there are any Linux labs. At least macs are being USED by people. I'd say that the large portion of linux boxes that are "threatening" microsoft's market share are doing the same thing that my linux box is doing, sitting in the basement serving web pages, not sitting on my desk.