all MC68k series processors from that point forward are 32 bit, up to and including the little-used 68060. (By that time it was sort of unnecessary. Apple only went up to the 68040.)
Somone should tell any company still using Palm OS 4 and older. My Sony Clie T665 uses a Motorola DragonBallVZ CPU - a member of the 68k family. (i don't know if it is dirived from the 040, 050 or 060, but i do know it's a 68k)
Now what I want to know is, did apple ever use the MMU available in most of its 32 bit 680x0 processors? Or by the time they discovered the wonder of protected memory, was their OS powerpc-only?
the MMU was used for the Virtual Memory system introduced in System 7. without an MMU, you couldn't do VM.
Why are you comparing incremental updates to OS X against major versions of Windows? Apple hasn't released a MAJOR OS upgrade since the original OS X -- if they had, it would have been version 11, not 10.1, 10.2, etc.
Why are you comparing incremental updates to Windows against major versions of Mac OS? Microsoft hasn't released a MAJOR OS upgrade since the original Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) -- if they had, it would have been version 6, not 5.1. (XP)
And which ONE version of XP are you referring to? There are at least five distinct flavors: Home, Professional, Server, Media Center, Tablet PC Edition...
interesting... Mac OS X (non-server) does everything all of the above variations on XP do.(Media Center? iMovie. TabletPC? InkWell. Home? Samba. Professional? Samba.;) Server? Samba, Apache, Bind, and Postfix.) and then there is server which puts a pretty face on apache, postfix, and bind.:)
you forgot 64-bit, Media Center 2003, TabletPC 2003 ect. Microsoft did some minor updates to a few of thier subset produts, and if you have the old versions, you are SOL. at least with apple, when you upgrade one of them, you upgrade all of them.
Where's the Client version of Mac OS X Server 1.0? (Hint: Apples consumer OS at the time was Mac OS 8.5)
Just like Microsoft with NT & Windows 3.1.1, Apple trickled the new archetecture of OS X from the top down. but it only took apple 3 years to do it. it took Microsoft... 15 years?
i started working at my local CompUSA as a sales drone (please no jokes - i've been done there for years) when it 1st opened, and we had dumb terminals for our POS and inventory. this meant that a sales person could generate a quote at any inventory station, hand the customer a piece of paper and they in turn hand the paper to the cashier who enters the number at the top and takes the money. the cool thing (in my inexperienced humble opinion at the time) as that as sales (and returns) went through, the inventory would be updated in real time.
fast forward 3 months (yes, 3 months after the store opened!) and we moved over to a stupid frame-buffer based POS (it wasn't a GUI, you'll see why soon) that ran on some form of NT (i'm guessing NT4 because they looked like windows95 but these things had 24/7 uptime) now the cashiers had to know what key to press to do a specific thing (yes the dumb terminals had this too, but then they/we could tab from field to field) one operation at a time (it wasn't driven by the screen - as that was used to show the current recipt, and advertisements - but by the little green thing that shows the total!) with the new system, generated quotes were next to useless, (and soon we stopped generating them, and all but 1 printer used for those quotes disappeared from the sales floor) and, here is the best part: the inventory took up to 3 days to refresh! oh, we could still look up the all important % of service plans to everything else sold, but we couldn't rely on the computer to tell us what was in stock!
soon lines grew, due mostly to the lost productivity of the cashiers, and they haven't shrunk since.
today? the cashiers who knew the old system (yeah, there are one or two left) miss the good old says of the dumb terminals, and CompUSA still uses the POS that is a POS.
the moral of the story? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. especially after only 3 months from rollout.
instead of something more standard and accepted. ObjC is older than perl. this means that it as close to a standard as perl is. (they are both both de facto)
you have 16 degrees of control: 1) relative X axis 2) relative Y axis 3) absolute X axis 4) absolute Y axis 5) tilt X axis* 6) tilt Y axis* 7) pressure sensitive (z axis) 8) and it knows which end of the pen your using! 16) double it with a 2nd pen & Dual Track!
*When using a mouse, you have rotate, and a scroll wheel
Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Mods remember: this is not a karma whore as "funny" mods don't give any karma.
actually i was thinking of "What You Leave Behind," being the final (2 part) episode of the series. "Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels" (being in season 6) was near the beginning of the story arc that What You Leave Behind concluded. It _did_ have a few good battle scenes, but most of it was shots of people on DS9 - nee Tarok Nor - panicking, and Sisco commanding ships from an exploding Defiant bridge.
the Federation fleet even failed at Wolf 359, it took the Enterprise coming along later to exploit a bug in the Borg systems to take out that ship!
no, Voyager just took the Borg from being this menacing supervillain to the silly cyborgs to be kicked in the shins. (just one of my many gripes with ST:Voy)
not big but good: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn:) (produced by ILM no less)
big but not that great: one of the last episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (don't remember which one in particular) - yes, you can stuff too many ships on screen at once!
while not a fight per se, it was still funny: the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Worf slides from one quantum universe to another, and finally the Enterprise finds he hole that caused Worf to start sliding... 1500 Enterprise D's anyone? (and yes, one was semi-hostile and blew up another semi-hostile one - that was a small fight)
just getting silly and out there: the orbital fight at the beginning of the lost in space movie <shudder>
finally, while not in a movie, there were a couple of good orbital flights in Halo: The Fall of Reach - it's same that we had to loose Keyes in The Flood/Combat Evolved:\
it DOES work with ICQ (just choose new chat with person and type in an ICQ number) and one you didn't even mention - SMS. (just choose new chat with person and enter +1 and the 10 digit phone number of the phone you want to message)
both of these are actually supported by AOL, so by extension it works with all AIM clients - iChat included
so what's to stop me from passing my DVD-A to a friend to do the exact same thing with his portable device?
oh, by the way, a system like you described was tried by Sony with ATRAC3 and Clie's and MiniDisc players. it would encrypt the music stored on your computer until you brought the Clie/MiniDisc back, and told it's software to remove it from the Clie/MiniDisc, then it would go ahead and decrypt it on your computer. (heaven forbid you lose your portable player/media!) your system adds to Sony's mess in that you still have the read only DVD-A disc that you can't change encryption on.
afaik, that system failed miserably because there were alternatives for both the Clie (MP3) and MiniDisc (???) that weren't Digital Restrictions Management encumbered.
([insert Unicode character 2622 here] What's with the slashcode stripping accents from words like Clie and Resume?! if went to the trouble to type the character with an accent, i want to see the character with an accent in my post! the same goes for (TM), (R) and (C) too, not some triple character BS, this is the 21st century, most of us have computers that know how to display these fancy unicode characters! [insert Unicode character 2620 here])
I'm sure they will do something similar to the iTMS where you can put the track onto your portable but you can't get it off because it's now encrypted with your players key which is one-way.
from a read only disc? the only way i can see them doing that is with an active internet connection. uhg.
this is less of a but and more of the finder being stupid.
i NEVER, EVER trust what the finder says because it only updates that figure once every 10 minutes or so. a much more reliable option is to open up the terminal and run df -h. this tells you the current usage information for all mounted disks. (rather than the free space of the disk that is up to 10 minutes out of date) just like in every other unix environment.
the good news is that this update does have the finder updating other stuff correctly, so this may be covered. i still won't ever trust it again.
if you push the power button (but don't hold it) the computer asks if you want to shut down. all 4 of the choices are hot keyed... return for shut down, escape for cancel, 'r' for restart and 's' for sleep. next time your 'book does that (i've seen it on every model PowerBook that Mac OS X runs on, and i would assume that iBooks with the OF hack do it as well) just push the power button, count to 5 (some times it takes a while for that window to show up) and simply push 's'. problem solved.
what is even stranger is when you don't attach/detach any devices and it does this. i can only assume that it's having a bad dream and the PMU wakes it long enough to see that the screen is still closed.
i actually have these directions printed and attached to the palm rest of a client's Lombard because his does it twice a month. frequently enough to be annoying, but not frequently enough to remember the steps to get out of it.
USB key fob huh? i useualy stick with either the brand name (i've got a QuickDrive!) or just the DiskOnKey, or KeyDrive. Or USB hard drive? but there are actual hard drive's that plug into USB, i'm assuming you're referring to the flash memory with a USB plug on it. a hard drive it is not. Memory stick? while flash memory, Memory Stick (TM) isn't quite the same thing as a KeyDrive, Memory Stick (TM) needs a separate reader if you want to use it for storage other than with your Sony digital camera, or Sony Clie. (besides, i've been calling SIMMS, and DIMMS memory sticks for years more than Sony Memory Stick has been on the market)
if by terrorists they mean porn, than, yes, this purchase makes sense... it might be able to sift though [insert government official name here]'s porn collection!
what? half of [insert above government official name here]'s porn collection is 3 TB? quick get a few more of these racks!
a) i've seen single sided disks that do this (see A Bugs Life) b) as a anti-piracy measure, as well as a way to increase the quality of the throughput, the movie studio's prefer DVD-9 (dual layer, single sided) c)DVD-18 (dual sided, dual layer) disks, are quite expensive to produce (read: low yields)
I didn't see Apple's commercial, but if it was nothing more than the instrumental in the song, then I'd say Eminem has something of a double standard.
it's actually everything except the instruments. it's a 10 year old kid yelling the words a cappella. (just like the other ads that you can still see here)
i always thought apple would get in trouble over that ad, just for other reasons... a 10 year old kid singing along to Eminem... for shame!
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all MC68k series processors from that point forward are 32 bit, up to and including the little-used 68060. (By that time it was sort of unnecessary. Apple only went up to the 68040.)
Somone should tell any company still using Palm OS 4 and older. My Sony Clie T665 uses a Motorola DragonBallVZ CPU - a member of the 68k family. (i don't know if it is dirived from the 040, 050 or 060, but i do know it's a 68k)
Now what I want to know is, did apple ever use the MMU available in most of its 32 bit 680x0 processors? Or by the time they discovered the wonder of protected memory, was their OS powerpc-only?
the MMU was used for the Virtual Memory system introduced in System 7. without an MMU, you couldn't do VM.
Why are you comparing incremental updates to OS X against major versions of Windows? Apple hasn't released a MAJOR OS upgrade since the original OS X -- if they had, it would have been version 11, not 10.1, 10.2, etc.
:)
Why are you comparing incremental updates to Windows against major versions of Mac OS? Microsoft hasn't released a MAJOR OS upgrade since the original Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) -- if they had, it would have been version 6, not 5.1. (XP)
And which ONE version of XP are you referring to? There are at least five distinct flavors: Home, Professional, Server, Media Center, Tablet PC Edition...
interesting... Mac OS X (non-server) does everything all of the above variations on XP do.(Media Center? iMovie. TabletPC? InkWell. Home? Samba. Professional? Samba.;) Server? Samba, Apache, Bind, and Postfix.) and then there is server which puts a pretty face on apache, postfix, and bind.
you forgot 64-bit, Media Center 2003, TabletPC 2003 ect. Microsoft did some minor updates to a few of thier subset produts, and if you have the old versions, you are SOL. at least with apple, when you upgrade one of them, you upgrade all of them.
and $69 for the full version of Mac OS X, whats your point? everyone else is talking about the retail prices, not the educational discount prices
Where's the Client version of Mac OS X Server 1.0? (Hint: Apples consumer OS at the time was Mac OS 8.5)
Just like Microsoft with NT & Windows 3.1.1, Apple trickled the new archetecture of OS X from the top down. but it only took apple 3 years to do it. it took Microsoft... 15 years?
i started working at my local CompUSA as a sales drone (please no jokes - i've been done there for years) when it 1st opened, and we had dumb terminals for our POS and inventory. this meant that a sales person could generate a quote at any inventory station, hand the customer a piece of paper and they in turn hand the paper to the cashier who enters the number at the top and takes the money. the cool thing (in my inexperienced humble opinion at the time) as that as sales (and returns) went through, the inventory would be updated in real time.
fast forward 3 months (yes, 3 months after the store opened!) and we moved over to a stupid frame-buffer based POS (it wasn't a GUI, you'll see why soon) that ran on some form of NT (i'm guessing NT4 because they looked like windows95 but these things had 24/7 uptime) now the cashiers had to know what key to press to do a specific thing (yes the dumb terminals had this too, but then they/we could tab from field to field) one operation at a time (it wasn't driven by the screen - as that was used to show the current recipt, and advertisements - but by the little green thing that shows the total!) with the new system, generated quotes were next to useless, (and soon we stopped generating them, and all but 1 printer used for those quotes disappeared from the sales floor) and, here is the best part: the inventory took up to 3 days to refresh! oh, we could still look up the all important % of service plans to everything else sold, but we couldn't rely on the computer to tell us what was in stock!
soon lines grew, due mostly to the lost productivity of the cashiers, and they haven't shrunk since.
today? the cashiers who knew the old system (yeah, there are one or two left) miss the good old says of the dumb terminals, and CompUSA still uses the POS that is a POS.
the moral of the story? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. especially after only 3 months from rollout.
It's just too bad that Apple practically requires you to use Objective-C to access their core libraries
oh?
*Python
*Perl
*Java (the language, not the runtime)
and lastly
*C/C++
instead of something more standard and accepted.
ObjC is older than perl. this means that it as close to a standard as perl is. (they are both both de facto)
so what you want is one of these
you have 16 degrees of control:
1) relative X axis
2) relative Y axis
3) absolute X axis
4) absolute Y axis
5) tilt X axis*
6) tilt Y axis*
7) pressure sensitive (z axis)
8) and it knows which end of the pen your using!
16) double it with a 2nd pen & Dual Track!
*When using a mouse, you have rotate, and a scroll wheel
see my most recent journal entry :)
Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Mods remember: this is not a karma whore as "funny" mods don't give any karma.
actually i was thinking of "What You Leave Behind," being the final (2 part) episode of the series. "Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels" (being in season 6) was near the beginning of the story arc that What You Leave Behind concluded. It _did_ have a few good battle scenes, but most of it was shots of people on DS9 - nee Tarok Nor - panicking, and Sisco commanding ships from an exploding Defiant bridge.
the Federation fleet even failed at Wolf 359, it took the Enterprise coming along later to exploit a bug in the Borg systems to take out that ship!
no, Voyager just took the Borg from being this menacing supervillain to the silly cyborgs to be kicked in the shins. (just one of my many gripes with ST:Voy)
*watches the women run away from the geek*
not big but good: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn :) (produced by ILM no less)
:\
big but not that great: one of the last episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (don't remember which one in particular) - yes, you can stuff too many ships on screen at once!
while not a fight per se, it was still funny: the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Worf slides from one quantum universe to another, and finally the Enterprise finds he hole that caused Worf to start sliding... 1500 Enterprise D's anyone? (and yes, one was semi-hostile and blew up another semi-hostile one - that was a small fight)
just getting silly and out there: the orbital fight at the beginning of the lost in space movie <shudder>
finally, while not in a movie, there were a couple of good orbital flights in Halo: The Fall of Reach - it's same that we had to loose Keyes in The Flood/Combat Evolved
it DOES work with ICQ (just choose new chat with person and type in an ICQ number) and one you didn't even mention - SMS. (just choose new chat with person and enter +1 and the 10 digit phone number of the phone you want to message)
both of these are actually supported by AOL, so by extension it works with all AIM clients - iChat included
Saying that a codec contains spyware is like saying that you can get a virus from a ping.
you can get viruses from pings?!
* grabs his aluminum foil hat. and wraps it around his ethernet port *
(thats a joke for those who don't dabble in such matters)
so what's to stop me from passing my DVD-A to a friend to do the exact same thing with his portable device?
oh, by the way, a system like you described was tried by Sony with ATRAC3 and Clie's and MiniDisc players. it would encrypt the music stored on your computer until you brought the Clie/MiniDisc back, and told it's software to remove it from the Clie/MiniDisc, then it would go ahead and decrypt it on your computer. (heaven forbid you lose your portable player/media!) your system adds to Sony's mess in that you still have the read only DVD-A disc that you can't change encryption on.
afaik, that system failed miserably because there were alternatives for both the Clie (MP3) and MiniDisc (???) that weren't Digital Restrictions Management encumbered.
([insert Unicode character 2622 here] What's with the slashcode stripping accents from words like Clie and Resume?! if went to the trouble to type the character with an accent, i want to see the character with an accent in my post! the same goes for (TM), (R) and (C) too, not some triple character BS, this is the 21st century, most of us have computers that know how to display these fancy unicode characters! [insert Unicode character 2620 here])
I'm sure they will do something similar to the iTMS where you can put the track onto your portable but you can't get it off because it's now encrypted with your players key which is one-way.
from a read only disc? the only way i can see them doing that is with an active internet connection. uhg.
this is less of a but and more of the finder being stupid.
i NEVER, EVER trust what the finder says because it only updates that figure once every 10 minutes or so. a much more reliable option is to open up the terminal and run df -h. this tells you the current usage information for all mounted disks. (rather than the free space of the disk that is up to 10 minutes out of date) just like in every other unix environment.
the good news is that this update does have the finder updating other stuff correctly, so this may be covered. i still won't ever trust it again.
if you push the power button (but don't hold it) the computer asks if you want to shut down. all 4 of the choices are hot keyed... return for shut down, escape for cancel, 'r' for restart and 's' for sleep. next time your 'book does that (i've seen it on every model PowerBook that Mac OS X runs on, and i would assume that iBooks with the OF hack do it as well) just push the power button, count to 5 (some times it takes a while for that window to show up) and simply push 's'. problem solved.
what is even stranger is when you don't attach/detach any devices and it does this. i can only assume that it's having a bad dream and the PMU wakes it long enough to see that the screen is still closed.
i actually have these directions printed and attached to the palm rest of a client's Lombard because his does it twice a month. frequently enough to be annoying, but not frequently enough to remember the steps to get out of it.
USB key fob huh?
i useualy stick with either the brand name (i've got a QuickDrive!) or just the DiskOnKey, or KeyDrive.
Or USB hard drive?
but there are actual hard drive's that plug into USB, i'm assuming you're referring to the flash memory with a USB plug on it. a hard drive it is not.
Memory stick?
while flash memory, Memory Stick (TM) isn't quite the same thing as a KeyDrive, Memory Stick (TM) needs a separate reader if you want to use it for storage other than with your Sony digital camera, or Sony Clie. (besides, i've been calling SIMMS, and DIMMS memory sticks for years more than Sony Memory Stick has been on the market)
Do you like math, computers, biology, electronics, chemsitry, literature, history, music, photography, sailing, mountain biking, or cooking, etc.
:(
:D
as a matter of a fact i do. the problem is, all of the above (save maybe math) cost money
i'd elaborate, but i have obligations at my local computer club board meeting to goto... now
if by terrorists they mean porn, than, yes, this purchase makes sense... it might be able to sift though [insert government official name here]'s porn collection!
what? half of [insert above government official name here]'s porn collection is 3 TB? quick get a few more of these racks!
like me... right now....
oh hi mister teacher! did you know about the new Slashdot context in Novell?
around here, the PUC is in SBC's pocket....
the PUC has set a minimum price anyone can charge for DSL. it's quite annoying!
a) i've seen single sided disks that do this (see A Bugs Life)
b) as a anti-piracy measure, as well as a way to increase the quality of the throughput, the movie studio's prefer DVD-9 (dual layer, single sided)
c)DVD-18 (dual sided, dual layer) disks, are quite expensive to produce (read: low yields)
I didn't see Apple's commercial, but if it was nothing more than the instrumental in the song, then I'd say Eminem has something of a double standard.
it's actually everything except the instruments. it's a 10 year old kid yelling the words a cappella. (just like the other ads that you can still see here)
i always thought apple would get in trouble over that ad, just for other reasons... a 10 year old kid singing along to Eminem... for shame!