I think you may be missing the vital element here. This guy isn't writing some GPL'd code for linux while working for "mom's Windows only software". He wrote a valid application for OS X while working for Apple as an OS X applications programmer. Yes, it is ridiculous that we (as a whole) slam MS and don't slam other companies, but just because this is another of those proprietary companies doesn't make their actions reprehensible either. Apple could quite likely be in the legal right here. Is it a reasonable demand to place on their employees? Probably not, but it is legal (most likely).
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I'd want my girlfriend wearing anything fishy as a bikini. That stuffs hard enough to keep clean without Adding a fish smell to it.
Matlab currently runs beautifully on my G4 Quicksilver. Mathworks (or whatever they are now) just rereleased this last August or something. Runs nicely though. Can't speak for the others you mentioned however.
-You realize that a lot of professional musicians and music studios use Macs right? That makes the S/P DIF connector for audio a strong (or at least reasonable) possibility, especially when you consider Apple's latest forays into the digital music industry. 1 Point possible.
-Phasing out NVidia doesn't mean that they aren't ever using them, it means slowly replacing them. This first offering of the G5 (Apple's name for the chip whether or not it is what the manufacturers want to call it that) is quite likely to still ship with a mix of NVidia and ATI cards. 1 point possible.
-1 GHz bus. IBM listed a 900 MHz bus as it's expected bus speed but only a 1.8 GHz processor. Is it possible that they have both been tweaked thus enabling the better specs? I think so. 2 points possible.
-USB 2.0 is the standard now, and Apple has been resisting it long enough. It makes sense that they would upgrade now. 1 point possible.
-FireWire 400. Why stick with this? Good question. I think I agree with you here since the 800 ports would be backwards compatible with any 400 device. 1 point impossible
I also agree with your "possible" specs for the serial ATA, 8GB DDR and bluetooth/airport support. 3 points possible. So from my perspective it is a possible 7 out of 8.
And let's not forget driving in heavy city traffic. I routinely drive within 2 or 3 carlenths (far less than 100m) of cars on the DC beltway at 70 miles an hour, whether I want to or not. Granted it is more common to be bumper to bumper at 10 miles an hour, but the problem still exists. How does this thing differentiate between acceptable traffic and dangerous conditions?
Have you ever asked TiVo to implement them via suggestion or customer survice comments/surveys? Seriously, the best way to get the features you want is to ask for them and not wait for TiVo to think about them.
On another note, as someone who may try and build a commercial product similar to TiVO, I'd like to know what are these dozens of features that you would love to have?
Only a million dollars? From 5% of the market share, just in the US? You must be kidding. If this went cross-platform worldwide the money these people would make is astonomical. It's easy to use, and damn near addictive because you don't see the cost until you get your credit card bill a month later. Let's say, an average comsumer buys 2 CDs a month for approximately $30 (US). Now let's take the same user and give them access to all the same songs at $1 apiece. Plus when they download those songs let's just "suggest" they look at 5 more that are like each one. You have built in advertisement while the person is actually making the purchase, it is convenient, and they don't see any real tangible evidence that they've spent the money unless the go to the effort of burning CDs from the downloads. It's an ingenious system that has nowhere to go but up as far as profitibility is concerned. This week $1 million, next week 1.2 million. Next year, 100 million. 2 years from now, worldwide, the sky's the limit.
The Apple Store keeps a record of your purchases IIRC. Perhaps there will be a way (if you can prove your computer is dead) that you can download the songs again for no charge if you lose the data?
Okay, for all of you out there who insist on pointing out that there are Non )S X versions of Shake, take into account that the OP might have meant the first version of Shake that didn't require Mac OS 9.x or "Classic". I doubt the poster meant that it was "Mac only". Read for comprehension. Thank you.
"Nvidia about the time they started making Mac video cards said that adding endian support is *trivial*. Specifically they were talking about BI-endian support." Well of course...everyone knows it's easy to get BI support, they like everything. It's the "not so BI" that you have to get on board.
Everything's easier using SKATs...God I miss being able to spell a Korean word in English characters and have people know what the hell I meant and how to say it.
Err...Pho is Vietnamese not Korean, though the Baang may be the same. I don't know Vietnamese so I couldn't say for sure.
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The biggest problem There will have is the system requirements. "System requirements are pretty steep ? you'll need an 800mhz processor, and an OpenGL capable ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce or NForce graphics card. As you can imagine, the pre-beta was not very stable, but the beta world should be much more reliable." I think most of the people that "chat" online as a primary activity are those that don't buy a new cutting edge system every two years. Most of the people I know who aren't "geeks" and even a lot of the geeks are still running 500 MHz systems with built in video or generic video cards. There is no way that people will really use this if they have to buy a new system just to run it.
That only works if you have a pay phone available. Especially now, phone companies just aren't putting them in places as much as they used to. I have also had need to call my daughter's school from my car and tell them I was stuck in traffic on the beltway because some jackass was drunk (or on his cell phone) and plowed through the Jersey wall and effectively blocked both directions of an 8 lane highway. Where is my pay phone then? Pay phones have a place and so do cell phones.
Aren't ProEngineer and Unigraphics considered CAD packages? Both of those run on *nix machines just fine. I've never used AutoCAD, so I can't compare the three but I found both ProE and UniGraphics to be excellent tools, if a little difficult to train people on at first.
It may or may not be far but think of the possible scenario. 100 years ago: Some young lady from Perth meets a young man from a less than acceptable family. She finds herself attracted to him and ends up pregnant. Her family can't have anyone else find out, so she is sent away or she moves with the father's family away to Yorkshire and then moves back after he dies in some farming accident, bringing her children with her. The father's family stays in Yorkshire, and voila you have a family connection a "long distance" of 200 miles very easily explained. Or like a deleted scene from Blade II says: "Never underestimate the power of pussy. One hair from it will destroy a man." (Another poster mentioned something about/. readers walking 200 miles to get laid.)
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Somebody please mod this up...it's hilarious.
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I think you may be missing the vital element here. This guy isn't writing some GPL'd code for linux while working for "mom's Windows only software". He wrote a valid application for OS X while working for Apple as an OS X applications programmer. Yes, it is ridiculous that we (as a whole) slam MS and don't slam other companies, but just because this is another of those proprietary companies doesn't make their actions reprehensible either. Apple could quite likely be in the legal right here. Is it a reasonable demand to place on their employees? Probably not, but it is legal (most likely).
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If the universe is idiot-proof, how did all the idiots get in?
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I'd want my girlfriend wearing anything fishy as a bikini. That stuffs hard enough to keep clean without Adding a fish smell to it.
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Man, we definitely use our Wangs in different ways.
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Damnit...if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. It's "Metallica Rulz!"
Matlab currently runs beautifully on my G4 Quicksilver. Mathworks (or whatever they are now) just rereleased this last August or something. Runs nicely though. Can't speak for the others you mentioned however.
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"billions of yen is really not that much (1bil yen = 8.5mil USD"
Yeah that's not worth my time or effort. 8.5 mil just doesn't cut it.
A salary, and a huge budget.
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-Phasing out NVidia doesn't mean that they aren't ever using them, it means slowly replacing them. This first offering of the G5 (Apple's name for the chip whether or not it is what the manufacturers want to call it that) is quite likely to still ship with a mix of NVidia and ATI cards. 1 point possible.
-1 GHz bus. IBM listed a 900 MHz bus as it's expected bus speed but only a 1.8 GHz processor. Is it possible that they have both been tweaked thus enabling the better specs? I think so. 2 points possible.
-USB 2.0 is the standard now, and Apple has been resisting it long enough. It makes sense that they would upgrade now. 1 point possible.
-FireWire 400. Why stick with this? Good question. I think I agree with you here since the 800 ports would be backwards compatible with any 400 device. 1 point impossible
I also agree with your "possible" specs for the serial ATA, 8GB DDR and bluetooth/airport support. 3 points possible. So from my perspective it is a possible 7 out of 8.
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And let's not forget driving in heavy city traffic. I routinely drive within 2 or 3 carlenths (far less than 100m) of cars on the DC beltway at 70 miles an hour, whether I want to or not. Granted it is more common to be bumper to bumper at 10 miles an hour, but the problem still exists. How does this thing differentiate between acceptable traffic and dangerous conditions?
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Have you ever asked TiVo to implement them via suggestion or customer survice comments/surveys?
Seriously, the best way to get the features you want is to ask for them and not wait for TiVo to think about them.
On another note, as someone who may try and build a commercial product similar to TiVO, I'd like to know what are these dozens of features that you would love to have?
bkr
Only a million dollars? From 5% of the market share, just in the US? You must be kidding. If this went cross-platform worldwide the money these people would make is astonomical. It's easy to use, and damn near addictive because you don't see the cost until you get your credit card bill a month later. Let's say, an average comsumer buys 2 CDs a month for approximately $30 (US). Now let's take the same user and give them access to all the same songs at $1 apiece. Plus when they download those songs let's just "suggest" they look at 5 more that are like each one. You have built in advertisement while the person is actually making the purchase, it is convenient, and they don't see any real tangible evidence that they've spent the money unless the go to the effort of burning CDs from the downloads. It's an ingenious system that has nowhere to go but up as far as profitibility is concerned. This week $1 million, next week 1.2 million. Next year, 100 million. 2 years from now, worldwide, the sky's the limit.
bkr
The Apple Store keeps a record of your purchases IIRC. Perhaps there will be a way (if you can prove your computer is dead) that you can download the songs again for no charge if you lose the data?
bkr
Okay, for all of you out there who insist on pointing out that there are Non )S X versions of Shake, take into account that the OP might have meant the first version of Shake that didn't require Mac OS 9.x or "Classic". I doubt the poster meant that it was "Mac only". Read for comprehension. Thank you.
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"Nvidia about the time they started making Mac video cards said that adding endian support is *trivial*.
Specifically they were talking about BI-endian support."
Well of course...everyone knows it's easy to get BI support, they like everything. It's the "not so BI" that you have to get on board.
bkr
Everything's easier using SKATs...God I miss being able to spell a Korean word in English characters and have people know what the hell I meant and how to say it.
Err...Pho is Vietnamese not Korean, though the Baang may be the same. I don't know Vietnamese so I couldn't say for sure.
The biggest problem There will have is the system requirements. "System requirements are pretty steep ? you'll need an 800mhz processor, and an OpenGL capable ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce or NForce graphics card. As you can imagine, the pre-beta was not very stable, but the beta world should be much more reliable." I think most of the people that "chat" online as a primary activity are those that don't buy a new cutting edge system every two years. Most of the people I know who aren't "geeks" and even a lot of the geeks are still running 500 MHz systems with built in video or generic video cards. There is no way that people will really use this if they have to buy a new system just to run it.
bkr
That only works if you have a pay phone available. Especially now, phone companies just aren't putting them in places as much as they used to. I have also had need to call my daughter's school from my car and tell them I was stuck in traffic on the beltway because some jackass was drunk (or on his cell phone) and plowed through the Jersey wall and effectively blocked both directions of an 8 lane highway. Where is my pay phone then? Pay phones have a place and so do cell phones.
Too bad Lucas hasn't produced a great work since 1977.
Aren't ProEngineer and Unigraphics considered CAD packages? Both of those run on *nix machines just fine. I've never used AutoCAD, so I can't compare the three but I found both ProE and UniGraphics to be excellent tools, if a little difficult to train people on at first.
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It may or may not be far but think of the possible scenario. 100 years ago: Some young lady from Perth meets a young man from a less than acceptable family. She finds herself attracted to him and ends up pregnant. Her family can't have anyone else find out, so she is sent away or she moves with the father's family away to Yorkshire and then moves back after he dies in some farming accident, bringing her children with her. The father's family stays in Yorkshire, and voila you have a family connection a "long distance" of 200 miles very easily explained. Or like a deleted scene from Blade II says: "Never underestimate the power of pussy. One hair from it will destroy a man." (Another poster mentioned something about /. readers walking 200 miles to get laid.)
From the article...
"The journaled file system, which will run atop the Mac's traditional HFS file scheme, will be switched off by default;"
That's all I have to say about that.
"See, after gymanstics class all the chicks go out to the football field to stare at the sweaty jocks."
No they don't! They go to the locker room to shower together. Oh Wait! NEvermind, that was just in a movie...forget I said it.
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