a google search took me to a msg board where somebody (whom i coincidently kind of know) posts a story of finding a fresh tile.
.....I discovered it to be a "Toynbee Idea" tile - freshly placed and only minutes old. Of course I w s beside myself with exitement and I could now see exactly how, and of what materials these tiles are made.........
to read more go here then scroll down to the post by Justin K.
in short, i promise to be more investigative and jump into adventure mode. goes to show me how many other things i gloss over may be super weird. i do get very distracted by things like green lights. no mystery to that, some form of ADD i suspect. possibly having a TV with too many channels... and banner ads.... they have taught me to ignore things right in front of my face.
as i cross those tiles i always thought "darn, that thing has been there for years... can't be paint"..... then i forget (possibly the tiles have powers). i actually always assumed it was some local artist/activist thing that i was not in the loop for. and never thought to google it. poking around on google i see that one in Chile lists a Philadelphia address: Toynbee A. 2624 S. 7th Philadelphia, PA. 19148-4610 USA. now that's weird! maybe i'll SMS my 'system admin gone bike messenger' housemate and see if i can get him to go investigate the address.
it was not till reading this lovely/. article that i found out they are in other cities and outside the USA. that's really strange considering they are so well planted in the street. whatever can ooze them into asphalt probably can not be carried on a plane. then again i almost don't want to know where they come from, but i would be curious to see pictures of ones in other cities. actually, by the time the/. effect wears off i will have forgotten this whole thing. maybe.....
i have seen those here, in Philadelphia, for a long time (i guess since the 80's?) and kind of like the author i never understood them, but once the light turned green, i got on my way and totally forgot about them.
i honestly could not tell you where they are, but after seeing the picture it came back. i don't remember what the local ones say but the style of text in the same and the size of the tiles and whatnot.
for people in Philly, i am 99% sure there is one in a crosswalk on South street maybe around 4th and south? i guess when the/. effect wears off you can look up your town's documented tiles.
Am I expected to believe the computer systems that manage the cooling rods in the nearest nuke plant are secure?
maybe not? there was a story after the blackouts that back in Febuary 2003 a nuke power plant in Ohio somewhere lost it's safety systems for over 5 hours because of a worm/virus that took down the M$ system they were running. The story was on the news the same day they were reporting the Blaster worm messing up the switches in a Baltimore train yard. yikes!
Re:What about Panther gains for the G4s?
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that would be interesting to know.
a few rumor sites and mailing lists have reported (hrmmm) that in their personal unofficial tests they thought 10.3 beta was showing the biggest speed increases in CRT iMacs and the older G4 and G3 machines. granted they did not have G5s to test on, but they loaded their beta versions of 10.3 on everything from zippy G4 towers to laptops to CRT iMacs and said they felt the iMacs speed increase felt the greatest. i am curious to try it in my G4 tower (400mghz with a recently installed upgrade to 800mghz).
i know 10.2 felt much faster than 10.1 and then upgrading my video card (from a rage128) to take advantage of Quartz Extreme seemed to help too. i am not a gamer, but i do some graphics work and i thought anything to help out my G4 400mghz. all the fun stuff in Aqua that i cursed can be used now and doesnt seem to matter (genie effect, bouncing dock etc).
I guess it depends on what you are running the machines for. If you are running an intranet or webserver, then i am sure a G3 would be great... and cheaperish? yes, an AMD chip with linux is way cheaper, but......... we're talking Apples here.
i think Apple is trying to flex it's processor's muscles with the ability to link some Xserves (be it the current G4 or the future G5) and generate some real work out of the machine. A few people have talked about running them in rendering farms or for doing massive medical/scientific computations. Taking something like rendering (vector intensive) that is often done by clusters now and running software optimized for the G4/G5 (Altivec) then you will get some impressive results. The question of price/performance matters more in a world like that than desktops when people fight over who's machine can do a photoshop filter 1.8 seconds faster.
If you look at the G4 desktops that were for sale when the G5 rolled out and the prices/specs for the G5... it seems like they are actually pretty close. The G5 starts at $2000 but every one has a superdrive, as well as a few other things that seem to keep it in the same pricing world. They did not start as cheap as the G4, but they did not roll out a cheaper thrifty model (maybe when chips production is up to speed or the current speeds are upgraded?). Instead they will be keeping the G4 towers for a while (Schiller said they will make them as long as people buy them). That makes me wonder if they can eventually make a G5 Xserve for a close price match to the current G4. If not, it would be fun to have a thrifty G3 rackmount for easier server tasks (won't ever happen).
i would take this story to imply that a G5 powered Xserve is not going to be shipping anytime soon..... the Xserve is made to cluster and run in situations like this. i guess the rumor sites can speculate if it's G5 parts available or some other holdup on a G5 Xserve. unless there is some reason the desktops are better for this project that i did not pick up on?
as for the above question about Macs.... depending on what they want to really do with this, Altivec is really efficient for some computations. all flame wars aside there have always been people clustering Macs for certain uses. i do not know how much of it was user preference or the software they wanted to run or the simplicity of getting the cluster running. it is supposedly VERY simple to cluster Macs. there was a story on/. a year or so ago about a group that went from building a rack and unboxing their G4s to a running cluster in part of a day. i really don't remember the specifics but i think it was something like 30 G4s? i would guess the G5 is not that much harder... and they seem to have Apple helping. maybe they hooked up the optical cards from the Xserve...... we'll see i guess.
when the G5 was first unveiled they did have some data showing the G5 compared with a top of the line G4 and then the Intel offerings.
I don't remember what the tests were, and if they did pull those down it might be to keep the rest of the machines looking valid. Xserve is not G5 yet, let alone iMac and everything else.
i can tell you that when i played with a G5 (not in my house unfortunately) that it was WAY faster than any G4 i had used. yes, it was a 2 x 2 GHz... and it really made me think how old and slow my G4 at home was feeling. This is the first time i have really wanted to buy a newly released Mac right off the bat. if i had the money i think i would have pre-ordered. when people eventually play with them in stores, the machine will speak for itself. as for switchers, i dont know. but any Mac user will realize how fast they are right off the bat.
there was also something about a transformer blowing today too.... and somehow that caused havoc on radios used by taxis, bike messengers, the center city distric peoples and some other teams.... for a few hours they were all crosstalking, yikes!
i thought there was some issue with the drive's firmware? in that people swapping the exact same model drive bought through a 3rd party would not function with iDVD...... but maybe the new iDVD fixes that as another post mentioned. i know the older versions of backup.app were not functional with external CD-Burners.... i thinkt hey finally tweaked that, but it had been an issue
Glider PRO for Mac OS X does not have a house editor (it was never ported to OS X). The Mac OS 9 version is still the only way to create new Glider PRO houses (sorry).
that's a shame... the level editor was indeed much fun.
it's possible people don't realize this glider is not *that* improved over the one i spent many hours playing (and creating boards for) on my Mac SE way back when. The most obvious evolution to the game is..... color?
you mean www.milksucks.com? i'll agree i know plenty of vegans that eat garbage.... like french fries for meals....... i think the dairy is probably worse than meat to the body.
eating a vegan diet will control your fattyness...... it will also keep your body from being bogged down with fat and dairy and garbage so you have some energy after a hard day of sitting. i know a lot of people on here question vegetarian/vegan diets but personally i went sorta vegan almost two years ago. in the first 2 or 3 months i dropped over 40lbs without one bit of exercise. i eventually started to exercise and within about a year i was down more like 60 lbs. in almost two years i have lost a total of about 75 lbs. my weight has barely changed in months but my pants keep getting baggier (muscle weighs more than fat). in addition to the weight loss, my (chronic) asthma and nasty allergies are at a level of control i have never had in my 29 years. might not be the choice for you, but personally at 29 i feel better than i ever have in my life.
it would be cool to exercise at work, but really good exercise means raising your heartrate to about 130+ for 30 minutes. not really going to happen at a desk. do a google search for heart rate zones, but generically your max is 220 - your age. if you need a rate monitor, a decent one can be bought for $50 or even less these days. your heart rate is the real measure of your exertion, not how long it takes you to run a mile. also exercising in the lower range (around 130s for a 30 year old male) burns more fat than carbs. that's one mistake many people make. working at a higher rate will elevate your metabolism in general, but to actually burn fat calories when you work out, it does not require you killing yourself. i guess that's the theory behind those shady diet pills that have something like speed in them.
alternately, find a job somewhere that you can walk or ride a bike to work. i realize spending 10+ hours a day at work makes it hard to do much else, but really once you get into the swing of exercising after work it is a small sacrifice. instead of just watching TV, do it while on an exercise bike or something. honestly people that say "they don't have time" seem to spend their nonworking hours lounging around anyway due to lack of energy. why not spend it walking / running / jogging / biking / rowing / whatever.
Soundtrack is part of FCP4. I do not know if they always intended to roll it out this way or what, but they had to make this for Final Cut Pro to jump to the next level. Releasing this on its own is nice for people not needing the full AV app (FCP4 is $$$$$). This also makes it really easy for users of Soundtrack to someday pick up FCP and know what's going on. From what i saw today, this could replace a few apps that people use right now. Yes, pro-tools is great and can be downloaded from them for free (lite version to run without hardware) but this incorporates a few other things. No diss to Pro-Tools (even for their pokeyness with releasing an OS X version), but this does things that Pro-Tools is really not intended for (but often used for). Kind of like people who use photoshop for EVERYTHING with computer graphics!
if they were going up against something free (iTunes, iPhoto) from Apple, then i can see it hard to justify a consumer level app..... maybe. There will always be things that Apple's iApps can not and will not do in the name of simplicity. You can't tell me anyone is giving up a legit copy of Photoshop for iPhoto. Kind of off topic, but my point is that FCP and FCE are not free by any means. FCE is a lot cheaper than Premiere, but FCP is still the most money. FCE is targetted at people wanting a step up from iMovie, not people working on big films. If anything it's like Photoshop elements, which is still very much not the application that iPhoto is.
it works with most any firewire digital cameras... be them "webcams" or a digital camcorder with firewire output..... this is not like some webcam that updates every 60 seconds, it's streaming... and if you watch the demo of Job talking to somebody in France..... it looks darn good. USB cameras lack the quality.
that being said, most computers have microphones and using the full duplex audio chat has been repeatedly compared to cell phone quality. you can also do one sided video chats... so make friends with somebody the lives someplace neat, or is neat to look at and get them to buy a firewire camera.
this is still a beta and the final version will be in 10.3 when it ships, and there will be a full version for 10.2.x (for a fee i think?).
as for the Apple iSight webcam, considering most firewire webcams seem to be *about* $100, this is not too bad. it's seriously tiny, comes with a travel case (for laptop users) and a few stands to either sit atop a laptop screen, or other situations. Their justification for this was that if you are video conferencing with somebody, you want the camera right on the screen so it looks like you are talking to them, as opposed to a nice profile, or where ever other webcams often get stuck (think mine fell behind my desk... dustbunnycam)
i already hear one person describe it as being snappier®
i sware!
possible fixes.... Re:On-line banking?
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there are a few possible fixes to get it to work.
1) does your bank require pop-ups? seems simple, but i totally forgot one site i use an account to order from has a customer pop-up window. i assumed the site was bunk (mozilla blocking my pop-ups too) till safari told me the reason for the error.
2) you can tell Safari to identify itself as M$IE or whatever in the prefs. I know some sites work fine once you do this (like my university's student login thing)
3) there is a cache issue. you can try downloading Safari Enhancer . It lets you do fun things like access the debug menu and disable cache, and easily import Mozilla bookmarks. Safari is a fast browser, so with DSL i barely notice the cache being turned off and it seemed to be the only way for some sites to work properly (like some phpNuke sites i log in for).
Finally be sure you submit the bug to Apple again so they know 1.0 still fails. It's possible it's the bank's fault, but maybe not. Even if it is the bank, somebody should tell them. If AOL really dumps IE and Mac stop shipping with it, webmasters will hopefully return to following standards.
the thing with OS X is that the OS itself splits up the workload between the processors (if there is moe than one). If you are running one intensive game or AV app, or if you have 20 apps all running together... it's the OS that does the management and does not require the actual application to be written to split its work. That was a problem with multi processor machines under OS 9, the app itself had to be written to split the workload. It really only helped you out a lot if you were running one big processor intensive application THAT was specifically written for dual processors, not some goofball running 25 things at once (i am guilty of that).
There was something i read yesterday that Mac OS 10.3 is even more intended for multi processors than other versions of OS X. I can only guess they will be making all (but maybe the entry level) machine multi processor asap. It would make sense, from what info has been out, the 970/G5 chip costs Apple a lot less than the G4. The other innards of the machine are not cheap, but it doesn't seem like adding the second processor is a big financial task (if they are available). The case definately has the cooling capacity for 2 processors. Can't wait to actually see them in MWNYC in July....
I guess it's that Apple thing where "it just works". The computer is a tool to HELP YOU work and play, as opposed to the computer BEING your work and play.
i would say it's the "real" or "fast" USB 2.0 since the G4 towers have actually had (fast) USB 2.0 for a few months now (just not enabled by default in 10.2).
overall these look pretty nice.... guess they will be selling maybe 3 G4 towers till these come out in August... unless there is a mad sale.....
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wow..... but ..... oops.
well if you stop over there be sure to take some waterice or tasty kakes. sorry current resident.
that's cool.... she always seemed nice.
to read more go here then scroll down to the post by Justin K.
in short, i promise to be more investigative and jump into adventure mode. goes to show me how many other things i gloss over may be super weird. i do get very distracted by things like green lights. no mystery to that, some form of ADD i suspect. possibly having a TV with too many channels... and banner ads.... they have taught me to ignore things right in front of my face.
/. article that i found out they are in other cities and outside the USA. that's really strange considering they are so well planted in the street. whatever can ooze them into asphalt probably can not be carried on a plane. then again i almost don't want to know where they come from, but i would be curious to see pictures of ones in other cities. actually, by the time the /. effect wears off i will have forgotten this whole thing. maybe.....
as i cross those tiles i always thought "darn, that thing has been there for years... can't be paint"..... then i forget (possibly the tiles have powers). i actually always assumed it was some local artist/activist thing that i was not in the loop for. and never thought to google it. poking around on google i see that one in Chile lists a Philadelphia address: Toynbee A. 2624 S. 7th Philadelphia, PA. 19148-4610 USA. now that's weird! maybe i'll SMS my 'system admin gone bike messenger' housemate and see if i can get him to go investigate the address.
it was not till reading this lovely
i have seen those here, in Philadelphia, for a long time (i guess since the 80's?) and kind of like the author i never understood them, but once the light turned green, i got on my way and totally forgot about them.
/. effect wears off you can look up your town's documented tiles.
i honestly could not tell you where they are, but after seeing the picture it came back. i don't remember what the local ones say but the style of text in the same and the size of the tiles and whatnot.
for people in Philly, i am 99% sure there is one in a crosswalk on South street maybe around 4th and south? i guess when the
maybe not?
there was a story after the blackouts that back in Febuary 2003 a nuke power plant in Ohio somewhere lost it's safety systems for over 5 hours because of a worm/virus that took down the M$ system they were running. The story was on the news the same day they were reporting the Blaster worm messing up the switches in a Baltimore train yard. yikes!
that would be interesting to know.
a few rumor sites and mailing lists have reported (hrmmm) that in their personal unofficial tests they thought 10.3 beta was showing the biggest speed increases in CRT iMacs and the older G4 and G3 machines. granted they did not have G5s to test on, but they loaded their beta versions of 10.3 on everything from zippy G4 towers to laptops to CRT iMacs and said they felt the iMacs speed increase felt the greatest. i am curious to try it in my G4 tower (400mghz with a recently installed upgrade to 800mghz).
i know 10.2 felt much faster than 10.1 and then upgrading my video card (from a rage128) to take advantage of Quartz Extreme seemed to help too. i am not a gamer, but i do some graphics work and i thought anything to help out my G4 400mghz. all the fun stuff in Aqua that i cursed can be used now and doesnt seem to matter (genie effect, bouncing dock etc).
I guess it depends on what you are running the machines for. If you are running an intranet or webserver, then i am sure a G3 would be great... and cheaperish? yes, an AMD chip with linux is way cheaper, but......... we're talking Apples here.
i think Apple is trying to flex it's processor's muscles with the ability to link some Xserves (be it the current G4 or the future G5) and generate some real work out of the machine. A few people have talked about running them in rendering farms or for doing massive medical/scientific computations. Taking something like rendering (vector intensive) that is often done by clusters now and running software optimized for the G4/G5 (Altivec) then you will get some impressive results. The question of price/performance matters more in a world like that than desktops when people fight over who's machine can do a photoshop filter 1.8 seconds faster.
If you look at the G4 desktops that were for sale when the G5 rolled out and the prices/specs for the G5... it seems like they are actually pretty close. The G5 starts at $2000 but every one has a superdrive, as well as a few other things that seem to keep it in the same pricing world. They did not start as cheap as the G4, but they did not roll out a cheaper thrifty model (maybe when chips production is up to speed or the current speeds are upgraded?). Instead they will be keeping the G4 towers for a while (Schiller said they will make them as long as people buy them). That makes me wonder if they can eventually make a G5 Xserve for a close price match to the current G4. If not, it would be fun to have a thrifty G3 rackmount for easier server tasks (won't ever happen).
i would take this story to imply that a G5 powered Xserve is not going to be shipping anytime soon..... the Xserve is made to cluster and run in situations like this. i guess the rumor sites can speculate if it's G5 parts available or some other holdup on a G5 Xserve.
/. a year or so ago about a group that went from building a rack and unboxing their G4s to a running cluster in part of a day. i really don't remember the specifics but i think it was something like 30 G4s? i would guess the G5 is not that much harder... and they seem to have Apple helping. maybe they hooked up the optical cards from the Xserve...... we'll see i guess.
unless there is some reason the desktops are better for this project that i did not pick up on?
as for the above question about Macs.... depending on what they want to really do with this, Altivec is really efficient for some computations. all flame wars aside there have always been people clustering Macs for certain uses. i do not know how much of it was user preference or the software they wanted to run or the simplicity of getting the cluster running.
it is supposedly VERY simple to cluster Macs. there was a story on
.....for Steve Jobs to have new benchmarks for the Mac Expo in Paris in mid September? great! more fuel on the fire.
when the G5 was first unveiled they did have some data showing the G5 compared with a top of the line G4 and then the Intel offerings.
I don't remember what the tests were, and if they did pull those down it might be to keep the rest of the machines looking valid. Xserve is not G5 yet, let alone iMac and everything else.
i can tell you that when i played with a G5 (not in my house unfortunately) that it was WAY faster than any G4 i had used. yes, it was a 2 x 2 GHz... and it really made me think how old and slow my G4 at home was feeling. This is the first time i have really wanted to buy a newly released Mac right off the bat. if i had the money i think i would have pre-ordered. when people eventually play with them in stores, the machine will speak for itself. as for switchers, i dont know. but any Mac user will realize how fast they are right off the bat.
there was also something about a transformer blowing today too.... and somehow that caused havoc on radios used by taxis, bike messengers, the center city distric peoples and some other teams.... for a few hours they were all crosstalking, yikes!
i thought there was some issue with the drive's firmware? in that people swapping the exact same model drive bought through a 3rd party would not function with iDVD...... but maybe the new iDVD fixes that as another post mentioned. i know the older versions of backup.app were not functional with external CD-Burners.... i thinkt hey finally tweaked that, but it had been an issue
that's a shame... the level editor was indeed much fun.
would you call PacMan aged?
it's possible people don't realize this glider is not *that* improved over the one i spent many hours playing (and creating boards for) on my Mac SE way back when. The most obvious evolution to the game is..... color?
you mean www.milksucks.com?
i'll agree i know plenty of vegans that eat garbage.... like french fries for meals....... i think the dairy is probably worse than meat to the body.
eating a vegan diet will control your fattyness...... it will also keep your body from being bogged down with fat and dairy and garbage so you have some energy after a hard day of sitting. i know a lot of people on here question vegetarian/vegan diets but personally i went sorta vegan almost two years ago. in the first 2 or 3 months i dropped over 40lbs without one bit of exercise. i eventually started to exercise and within about a year i was down more like 60 lbs. in almost two years i have lost a total of about 75 lbs. my weight has barely changed in months but my pants keep getting baggier (muscle weighs more than fat). in addition to the weight loss, my (chronic) asthma and nasty allergies are at a level of control i have never had in my 29 years. might not be the choice for you, but personally at 29 i feel better than i ever have in my life.
it would be cool to exercise at work, but really good exercise means raising your heartrate to about 130+ for 30 minutes. not really going to happen at a desk. do a google search for heart rate zones, but generically your max is 220 - your age. if you need a rate monitor, a decent one can be bought for $50 or even less these days. your heart rate is the real measure of your exertion, not how long it takes you to run a mile. also exercising in the lower range (around 130s for a 30 year old male) burns more fat than carbs. that's one mistake many people make. working at a higher rate will elevate your metabolism in general, but to actually burn fat calories when you work out, it does not require you killing yourself. i guess that's the theory behind those shady diet pills that have something like speed in them.
alternately, find a job somewhere that you can walk or ride a bike to work. i realize spending 10+ hours a day at work makes it hard to do much else, but really once you get into the swing of exercising after work it is a small sacrifice. instead of just watching TV, do it while on an exercise bike or something. honestly people that say "they don't have time" seem to spend their nonworking hours lounging around anyway due to lack of energy. why not spend it walking / running / jogging / biking / rowing / whatever.
Soundtrack is part of FCP4. I do not know if they always intended to roll it out this way or what, but they had to make this for Final Cut Pro to jump to the next level. Releasing this on its own is nice for people not needing the full AV app (FCP4 is $$$$$). This also makes it really easy for users of Soundtrack to someday pick up FCP and know what's going on. From what i saw today, this could replace a few apps that people use right now. Yes, pro-tools is great and can be downloaded from them for free (lite version to run without hardware) but this incorporates a few other things.
No diss to Pro-Tools (even for their pokeyness with releasing an OS X version), but this does things that Pro-Tools is really not intended for (but often used for).
Kind of like people who use photoshop for EVERYTHING with computer graphics!
if they were going up against something free (iTunes, iPhoto) from Apple, then i can see it hard to justify a consumer level app..... maybe. There will always be things that Apple's iApps can not and will not do in the name of simplicity. You can't tell me anyone is giving up a legit copy of Photoshop for iPhoto. Kind of off topic, but my point is that FCP and FCE are not free by any means. FCE is a lot cheaper than Premiere, but FCP is still the most money. FCE is targetted at people wanting a step up from iMovie, not people working on big films. If anything it's like Photoshop elements, which is still very much not the application that iPhoto is.
it works with most any firewire digital cameras... be them "webcams" or a digital camcorder with firewire output..... this is not like some webcam that updates every 60 seconds, it's streaming... and if you watch the demo of Job talking to somebody in France..... it looks darn good. USB cameras lack the quality.
that being said, most computers have microphones and using the full duplex audio chat has been repeatedly compared to cell phone quality. you can also do one sided video chats... so make friends with somebody the lives someplace neat, or is neat to look at and get them to buy a firewire camera.
this is still a beta and the final version will be in 10.3 when it ships, and there will be a full version for 10.2.x (for a fee i think?).
as for the Apple iSight webcam, considering most firewire webcams seem to be *about* $100, this is not too bad. it's seriously tiny, comes with a travel case (for laptop users) and a few stands to either sit atop a laptop screen, or other situations. Their justification for this was that if you are video conferencing with somebody, you want the camera right on the screen so it looks like you are talking to them, as opposed to a nice profile, or where ever other webcams often get stuck (think mine fell behind my desk... dustbunnycam)
i already hear one person describe it as being snappier®
i sware!
there are a few possible fixes to get it to work.
1) does your bank require pop-ups? seems simple, but i totally forgot one site i use an account to order from has a customer pop-up window. i assumed the site was bunk (mozilla blocking my pop-ups too) till safari told me the reason for the error.
2) you can tell Safari to identify itself as M$IE or whatever in the prefs. I know some sites work fine once you do this (like my university's student login thing)
3) there is a cache issue. you can try downloading Safari Enhancer . It lets you do fun things like access the debug menu and disable cache, and easily import Mozilla bookmarks. Safari is a fast browser, so with DSL i barely notice the cache being turned off and it seemed to be the only way for some sites to work properly (like some phpNuke sites i log in for).
Finally be sure you submit the bug to Apple again so they know 1.0 still fails. It's possible it's the bank's fault, but maybe not. Even if it is the bank, somebody should tell them. If AOL really dumps IE and Mac stop shipping with it, webmasters will hopefully return to following standards.
the thing with OS X is that the OS itself splits up the workload between the processors (if there is moe than one). If you are running one intensive game or AV app, or if you have 20 apps all running together... it's the OS that does the management and does not require the actual application to be written to split its work. That was a problem with multi processor machines under OS 9, the app itself had to be written to split the workload. It really only helped you out a lot if you were running one big processor intensive application THAT was specifically written for dual processors, not some goofball running 25 things at once (i am guilty of that).
There was something i read yesterday that Mac OS 10.3 is even more intended for multi processors than other versions of OS X. I can only guess they will be making all (but maybe the entry level) machine multi processor asap. It would make sense, from what info has been out, the 970/G5 chip costs Apple a lot less than the G4. The other innards of the machine are not cheap, but it doesn't seem like adding the second processor is a big financial task (if they are available).
The case definately has the cooling capacity for 2 processors. Can't wait to actually see them in MWNYC in July....
I guess it's that Apple thing where "it just works". The computer is a tool to HELP YOU work and play, as opposed to the computer BEING your work and play.
time is money.......
i would say it's the "real" or "fast" USB 2.0 since the G4 towers have actually had (fast) USB 2.0 for a few months now (just not enabled by default in 10.2).
overall these look pretty nice.... guess they will be selling maybe 3 G4 towers till these come out in August... unless there is a mad sale.....