>> I upgrade from a third party right after I get a new computer. >> That isn't an option here, so just bite the bullet and do it
He suggests you can't throw in an off the shelf PC DIMM in there while in fact you can.
And as far as keyboards, Apple keyboards are pretty good. Mice, that's another story, but I like the keyboard that came with my G5. Also, good luck finding an USB keyboard connected to a PC, and good luck finding a PC keyboard port on this iMac.
You can buy a third party DIMM and throw it in. Why do you say it's not an option? Now, not including keyboard and mouse is a cheap move on Apple's part. I mean, come on, how am I expected to use the damn thing without a keyboard?
And there will be no way in heck to escape its control. Let's say 5 years down the road bigwigs decide that whatever-comes-next is a big thing. They can tell whoever is using _their_ patents to cease and desist doing so. Same thing, I'm sure, will happen if an OSS project is threatening their market position is some market segment.
destroys it and sweeps the remaining dust under the rug. Five times more effective - that sure sounds pretty dangerous to them.
Watch for PR campaigns explaining to the layman just how dangerous this plastic is, why it shouldn't be used and researched and just how much better the good ol' oil is.
His predictions are distinct events with binary outcomes. 50% would mean he got half of them right which is what he would statistically get if he assigned outcomes at random (wins/loses, buys/doesn't buy, releases/doesn't release, etc.).
Seriously, though, 73% is a pretty poor prediction accuracy. Think about it, if you predicted outcomes of events at random as binary answers, you'd get 50% "accuracy".
IBM Power _architecture_ is 64 bit from the ground up. G3/4 processors were specifically castrated because the market wasn't ready for 64 bit. G5 is less castrated. Who knows, maybe sometime in the future we'll get the full blown multi-core IBM Power chips running in our Macs.
:0). I think I sowed some seeds there. Maybe you need to get into some hobbies to spend your free time meaningfully? Just maybe? I mean, come on, you're killing 7 hours of your time per week "on average" on this crap after all. There are fifty two weeks in a year. This means you're spending 13 full days (here by "day" I mean 24 hours) of your life every year watching this bullshit. Think about it.
is a 1-year old running around the house and trying crayons on the walls. That's what I call entertainment, dude. No strippers. No alcohol.
Oh, and he wakes up at 5:30 in the morning.
Before he was born I played guitar, built tube guitar amplifiers, did some hobby programming, and enjoyed digital photography.
The only hobby that I can find a little bit of time for now is digital photography. Would I rather be spending this time mindlessly watching TV? Somehow I don't think that would be very smart. And I can buy a pretty good lens for $900, every year.
I don't spend ANY time watching TV. I stopped watching it about two and a half years ago, and it's been so great, I don't see myself paying for this crap again. Not a penny. In fact my current TV is an imported multi-standard (for watching foreign PAL DVDs) which can't even pick up the signal from the air. The standards are different.
My news requirements are served by the "Internets" and by NPR when I drive to work in the morning. I rely on rented DVDs for entertainment. All in all, renting DVD costs me less than $10 a month. I only watch what I want, ad-free.
Think about it, $75 a month is $900 a year. You could buy yourself something nice(r) for Christmas if you weren't watching all this crap.
Actually this is sort of like competition
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When there's no free ride, programmers will have to compete with each other on who can squeeze that last bit of performance out of existing hardware. So you can kinda sorta predict the revival of the performance-conscious programming.
Let alone for a service that allows me to record this poorly made chewing gum for brain. It's really scary to see that some folks pay $70 for TV and then go out and pay extra for this stuff. I sense a full-blown addiction there. It's deeply rooted, and it turns one's brains into propaganda receivers.
Come on, folks, you bash x86 architecture (and rigtfully so) and then you turn around and bash Intel for trying to break away from this architecture and do something wildly different and superior. Their only failure was that they haven't "bet the farm" on Itanium. If they did, we'd be running EPIC-architecture 64 bit systems by now. As things stand, the only two viable desktop choices are IBM/Motorola Power architecture (that's 64 bit from the ground up) and this old tired x86 architecture with 64-bit extensions duct taped to its side.
I bought some RedHat stock recently because I thought it wouldn't fall any lower than it was. Guess what, the week after it was 30% less. Luckily I didn't invest much there. So I'm kind of wary of buying their stock now. I don't know them to go out of business, which is something that will happen if I buy their stock four or five times.
Come on, HP, do you seriously expect me to drop hundreds of dollars for something that looks this bad even compared to a _Dell_? It's a _personal_ computing device, aesthetics are of utmost importance. If I don't enjoy looking at this thing every day all day long, I'll just leave it at home and after a while list it on eBay.
G5, 64 bits, twice as many as 32 (what else do you need to know?), does digital pictures, email, video, etc. You're surfing the Internet within 5 minutes of unpacking the damn thing.
You only plug a USB cable into your PC. No other wires involved. Of course only idiots can expect quality AD/DA for $129, but that's beside the point. The point is that Justin is a bit too late to the game to make any serious money on this project.
A company called Line 6 has been offering stadalone guitar effects/amps simulation devices for years now. Recently they came out with the concept of "model packs" whereby you can purchase an additional set of models for $50 or so. This thing is built around a real DSP which means it can run circles around a mid-level PC, despite consuming less power and being a lot smaller.
They also offer a $129 digital interface with a simplified versions of the same algorithms running entirely on a PC. The interface provides 24 bit AD/DA conversion and a volume knob.
I just don't see anyone jumping to Cockos Jesus whatever all of a sudden. I hope you don't paying for this with your own money, too.
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>> I upgrade from a third party right after I get a new computer.
>> That isn't an option here, so just bite the bullet and do it
He suggests you can't throw in an off the shelf PC DIMM in there while in fact you can.
And as far as keyboards, Apple keyboards are pretty good. Mice, that's another story, but I like the keyboard that came with my G5. Also, good luck finding an USB keyboard connected to a PC, and good luck finding a PC keyboard port on this iMac.
You can buy a third party DIMM and throw it in. Why do you say it's not an option? Now, not including keyboard and mouse is a cheap move on Apple's part. I mean, come on, how am I expected to use the damn thing without a keyboard?
after a home run. Way to go, Apple. Release products that kick ass and people will come to you. If that's not capitalism then I don't know what is.
for reverse engineering their viruses.
And there will be no way in heck to escape its control. Let's say 5 years down the road bigwigs decide that whatever-comes-next is a big thing. They can tell whoever is using _their_ patents to cease and desist doing so. Same thing, I'm sure, will happen if an OSS project is threatening their market position is some market segment.
destroys it and sweeps the remaining dust under the rug. Five times more effective - that sure sounds pretty dangerous to them.
Watch for PR campaigns explaining to the layman just how dangerous this plastic is, why it shouldn't be used and researched and just how much better the good ol' oil is.
His predictions are distinct events with binary outcomes. 50% would mean he got half of them right which is what he would statistically get if he assigned outcomes at random (wins/loses, buys/doesn't buy, releases/doesn't release, etc.).
That's why I said "binary" outcomes. Yes or no. Which is what all his predictions boil down to, ultimately.
tions will be between 50 and 75%. :0)
Seriously, though, 73% is a pretty poor prediction accuracy. Think about it, if you predicted outcomes of events at random as binary answers, you'd get 50% "accuracy".
Cuz' if it is, I'll be downloading your stuff off the CVS shortly, putting up my own CVS and writing my own installer to sell for $29.95.
Which is duct-taped to 8-bit instruction set of Intel's 8088 processor.
IBM Power _architecture_ is 64 bit from the ground up. G3/4 processors were specifically castrated because the market wasn't ready for 64 bit. G5 is less castrated. Who knows, maybe sometime in the future we'll get the full blown multi-core IBM Power chips running in our Macs.
And you just sit there, eat chips, drink beer and fart. CREATE something. ACHIEVE something. LEARN something. TV won't give you that.
If these simple ideas don't penetrate your thick skull, nothing will.
:0). I think I sowed some seeds there. Maybe you need to get into some hobbies to spend your free time meaningfully? Just maybe? I mean, come on, you're killing 7 hours of your time per week "on average" on this crap after all. There are fifty two weeks in a year. This means you're spending 13 full days (here by "day" I mean 24 hours) of your life every year watching this bullshit. Think about it.
is a 1-year old running around the house and trying crayons on the walls. That's what I call entertainment, dude. No strippers. No alcohol.
Oh, and he wakes up at 5:30 in the morning.
Before he was born I played guitar, built tube guitar amplifiers, did some hobby programming, and enjoyed digital photography.
The only hobby that I can find a little bit of time for now is digital photography. Would I rather be spending this time mindlessly watching TV? Somehow I don't think that would be very smart. And I can buy a pretty good lens for $900, every year.
I don't spend ANY time watching TV. I stopped watching it about two and a half years ago, and it's been so great, I don't see myself paying for this crap again. Not a penny. In fact my current TV is an imported multi-standard (for watching foreign PAL DVDs) which can't even pick up the signal from the air. The standards are different.
My news requirements are served by the "Internets" and by NPR when I drive to work in the morning. I rely on rented DVDs for entertainment. All in all, renting DVD costs me less than $10 a month. I only watch what I want, ad-free.
Think about it, $75 a month is $900 a year. You could buy yourself something nice(r) for Christmas if you weren't watching all this crap.
When there's no free ride, programmers will have to compete with each other on who can squeeze that last bit of performance out of existing hardware. So you can kinda sorta predict the revival of the performance-conscious programming.
Let alone for a service that allows me to record this poorly made chewing gum for brain. It's really scary to see that some folks pay $70 for TV and then go out and pay extra for this stuff. I sense a full-blown addiction there. It's deeply rooted, and it turns one's brains into propaganda receivers.
Come on, folks, you bash x86 architecture (and rigtfully so) and then you turn around and bash Intel for trying to break away from this architecture and do something wildly different and superior. Their only failure was that they haven't "bet the farm" on Itanium. If they did, we'd be running EPIC-architecture 64 bit systems by now. As things stand, the only two viable desktop choices are IBM/Motorola Power architecture (that's 64 bit from the ground up) and this old tired x86 architecture with 64-bit extensions duct taped to its side.
I bought some RedHat stock recently because I thought it wouldn't fall any lower than it was. Guess what, the week after it was 30% less. Luckily I didn't invest much there. So I'm kind of wary of buying their stock now. I don't know them to go out of business, which is something that will happen if I buy their stock four or five times.
Come on, HP, do you seriously expect me to drop hundreds of dollars for something that looks this bad even compared to a _Dell_? It's a _personal_ computing device, aesthetics are of utmost importance. If I don't enjoy looking at this thing every day all day long, I'll just leave it at home and after a while list it on eBay.
that re-digitized HDTV stream will have better quality than direct rip from a DVD.
G5, 64 bits, twice as many as 32 (what else do you need to know?), does digital pictures, email, video, etc. You're surfing the Internet within 5 minutes of unpacking the damn thing.
You only plug a USB cable into your PC. No other wires involved. Of course only idiots can expect quality AD/DA for $129, but that's beside the point. The point is that Justin is a bit too late to the game to make any serious money on this project.
A company called Line 6 has been offering stadalone guitar effects/amps simulation devices for years now. Recently they came out with the concept of "model packs" whereby you can purchase an additional set of models for $50 or so. This thing is built around a real DSP which means it can run circles around a mid-level PC, despite consuming less power and being a lot smaller.
They also offer a $129 digital interface with a simplified versions of the same algorithms running entirely on a PC. The interface provides 24 bit AD/DA conversion and a volume knob.
I just don't see anyone jumping to Cockos Jesus whatever all of a sudden. I hope you don't paying for this with your own money, too.