Maybe instead of backing up 400GB a day, you're backing up 10Gb a day, because you're one of the 100 000 small businesses in North America who use servers for email and office documents.
Maybe instead of dropping one of your external USB hard drives on precisely the 600th day you need your backup, you don't. And you spend less than $400 on FIVE external drives that do a differential backup daily in 2 minutes!
In this world, you don't spend thousand on a tape drive, you don't wait hours for a backup, and you live happily ever after. Welcome to the world of the small business where IT managers are the "computer guy" and people like spending $1200, not $6000 for new servers.
Carmack is a programming genuis, but I'm afraid all this big talk about PLAYABLE unique, detailed outdoor scences and 32-64 player vast outdoor battles are really coming from a company and programmer that has never released an engine capable of these features.
Carmack is continually pushing the envelope for textural detail and geometry, always at the price of map size. The numbers of online player for Doom3 and Quake 4 are proof of failed attempts on Ids last major releases.
I'm very, very skeptical that ET: Quake Wars will be able to deliver cutting edge graphics and massive outdoor scenes.
For multiplayer games, there is a short list of successful games that have delivered quality graphics and massive maps: Tribes 1-2 BF1942 BFV BF2
Linux has a decent FS driver for NTFS. Last time I checked, writing was experimental, but it has worked flawlessly for me. Does BSD not have a similar driver? Or is BSD code on OSX a pain in the ass?
Do you really boot into OSX and open your Linux "toolbox"? Or are you left with a small handful of Linux code that actually runs on OSX?
higher than average PC quality No it's not. It's PC hardware with an Apple case. Repeat after me, it is PC hardware. Apple Intel Hardware=PC Intel Hardware, that's why you're booting Windows XP!
Apple x86 machines are jumping to the top of the list for performance vs price So you're saying that your Apple Intel Duo is right up there with the Dell Intel Duo, with the exact same CPUs, I'd hope so. What is your point?
Something that Apple Fanatics have been saying for years but no one really believed them. Until Apple swapped to Intel hardware and now those same Apple fanatics are still saying the same thing. Problem is, once again, Apple Intel Hardware=PC Intel Hardware.
It's like the T-shirt made in the same Chinese factory, one half sent to Walmart to sell at $7 the other half sent to Designer store tagged at $50. It's hilarious to see these Apple fanatics rave about the quality and workmanship of their $5 shirts.
Now, take Apples teet out of your mouth and mod me down!
Value, utter garbage, high-end hardware, what a nice selection of vague terms your argument is backed up with.
Here is something specific to put in your pipe: How exactly is Adobe Photoshop and Premiere utter crap on Intel Duo running WinXP, but not on the same Intel Duo running OSX? Its the same hardware, shortcuts, speed, GUI. Where is the utter garbage? Where is your red herring fanboy!
The fact is that Macs are starting to run identical hardware to PCs and 90% of those old tired, biased photoshop filter benchmarks, which are the real utter crap of platform comparisions, mean alsolutely nothing now. You're running our hardware now!
Remember the slow hardware that was 10% slower running a len flare on that 2gb PSD? We'll you're running it now bitch! Funny how now that you're using our hardware, it's not so shitty anymore. So now it's the OS that makes these identical apps work so flawlessly?
Give me a fucking break. Hire a company to clean out your windows systems every 2 months? The utter crap is spewing out of your mouth.
Is ANYONE buying this bullshit? Unfortunately I know the answer to that question.
But anyone who has any knowledge of business would realize that the money you spend on Dewalt, goes directly to the company owning the brand, Black and Decker. Which is directly related to the parents point that, buying Dewalt could be a protest of Walmarts control over Black and Decker. But since they are the EXACT SAME COMPANY financialy, every one of your Dewalt dollars dissapears into the Black and Decker finance soup, it is not earmarked for Dewalt.
My point: Boycotting Black and Decker and buying Dewalt outside of Walmart does little to nothing to protest Black and Decker at Walmart!
This is a rant valid for many mainstream consumer products that Walmart sells. But does Walmart really sell the majority of Video Games? Where are your numbers? Sources?
Is this "article" any more than a C- short essay with no sources?
Slashdot! Stop posting this armchair journalist blog crap.
- Age 8 to 17, hardcore PC user and mac "hater" - Age 18 to 23, hardcore PC user and ambivalent mac spectator - Age 24-26, PC user and occasional Mac user (to help friends and family) - Age 26-28, iPod owner several times over, and fan of Mac OS X technology (still PC user) - Age 29, PowerMac G5 and Mac Mini user, and an Apple sticker on the back of my car.
THEY'VE WON. THEY'VE WON = They may use my ass as they please. I am now part of the different collective and will assimilate all other life forms. Resistance is futile. I am Steve Job's personal whore.
At least you're somewhat aware of your transformation from objective tech user (Age 24-26) to Apple whoreboy.
But its really sad to see the Slashdot community to go from a can do, toaster modding bunch of creative tech junkies, into an Apple teet sucking, iPod praising pussies, sucking up Apples marketing crap and pretending it just the natural, uncommercialized evolution from Linux to a solid GUI. And everyone using Windows and a non Apple Ipod is missing something.
Please, please pull that giant Apple marketing dildo out of your collective asses.
Windows is not broken, OSX is not infallable, and Ipods are ubertrendy. If you're going to be a whore, that's fine. But don't do it under the guise that it's the right thing, trying to rationalize your weakness to flutter into the mainstream.
If you can't list 100 reasons why OSX is better than Windows and vice versa, another 20 why an Ipod is better than its -$100 counterpart and vice versa, you have lost all objectivity. You are now an ignorant whore, and you've lost the plot.
The sky is not falling, Microsoft is not purposely making shitty code, the man is not stealing your hard earned dollars. The line between the weekend commando, dressing their kids up in cammo in the paranoia of pretecting themselves from democracy, and the M$ hater genuinely thinking that Bill is purposely ruining the world, is paper thin.
Both MS and APPLE are here for one reason, increasing shareholder value. Whoever convinces the market that they aren't wins.
Respect to Steve Jobs, for convincing some of what I thought were the most objective people on the internet, to think different.
Following Microsoft's issue of new shiny silver stickers that say "Vista Capable" on the bottom:
Fuzzy Stickerz inc. released a new scratch and sniff sticker that smells like real butered popcorn. Unconfirmed rumors suggest that Microsoft may stage a hostile takeover of Fuzzy Stickerz and add thier popcorn smell technology to the new Vista stickers. While informed tech readers are unphased by the annoucement, tabloid news sites are confused and shocked that Microsoft would demand that Vista will only operate using buttered keyboards.
You may be confused with ADB vs. USB? "In my view the bus topology of USB is somewhat limiting. One of the original intentions of USB was to reduce the amount of cabling at the back of your PC. Apple people will say the idea came from the Apple Desktop Bus, where both the keyboard, mouse and some other peripherals could be connected together (daisy chained) using the one cable."
Apple was the vendor that really caused USB to take off...8 or 9 years ago. WTF are you talking about? Mac touted firewire as the hot swap connector of choice, they only introduced USB reluctantly after computer hardware makers said collectively "FUCK YOU APPLE, WERE ONLY MAKING PERIPHERALS IN USB". Then and only then did Macs come with USB, long after it was standard PC issue.
To this day it's hard to find any use for firewire aside from external storage and DV transfers.
The Macbook pro w/ 2.16ghz Duo ran a photoshop script in 1:10 The Acer Duo w/ 2.0ghz Duo ran a photoshop script in 1:11
The Mac Duo laptop with a 8% higher clocked CPU ran a benchmark 1.4% faster than the Acer Duo. If anything, this looks bad for the Mac Duo. Why is it seeing such a tiny improvement when it is 160mhz faster?
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If you're using Picasa to burn CDs, and you think that 50% of picasa do the same, well you my friend are definately smoking some bad shit.
Like the man said, go back to sleep.
Maybe instead of backing up 400GB a day, you're backing up 10Gb a day, because you're one of the 100 000 small businesses in North America who use servers for email and office documents.
Maybe instead of dropping one of your external USB hard drives on precisely the 600th day you need your backup, you don't. And you spend less than $400 on FIVE external drives that do a differential backup daily in 2 minutes!
In this world, you don't spend thousand on a tape drive, you don't wait hours for a backup, and you live happily ever after. Welcome to the world of the small business where IT managers are the "computer guy" and people like spending $1200, not $6000 for new servers.
Why buy the book when you can Gwigle?
Flirts? Ha! Sun has made it to fourth base with Ubuntu.
"Sun Puts its Weight Behind Ubuntu Linux", that has to be awkward.
So the only post that clearly shows why this article is a fake gets 30% overrated?
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give.modpoints 5
Carmack is a programming genuis, but I'm afraid all this big talk about PLAYABLE unique, detailed outdoor scences and 32-64 player vast outdoor battles are really coming from a company and programmer that has never released an engine capable of these features.
Carmack is continually pushing the envelope for textural detail and geometry, always at the price of map size. The numbers of online player for Doom3 and Quake 4 are proof of failed attempts on Ids last major releases.
I'm very, very skeptical that ET: Quake Wars will be able to deliver cutting edge graphics and massive outdoor scenes.
For multiplayer games, there is a short list of successful games that have delivered quality graphics and massive maps:
Tribes 1-2
BF1942
BFV
BF2
Id is completely missing from the list.
Linux has a decent FS driver for NTFS. Last time I checked, writing was experimental, but it has worked flawlessly for me. Does BSD not have a similar driver? Or is BSD code on OSX a pain in the ass?
Do you really boot into OSX and open your Linux "toolbox"? Or are you left with a small handful of Linux code that actually runs on OSX?
At least it's better than windows
No it's not.
higher than average PC quality
No it's not. It's PC hardware with an Apple case. Repeat after me, it is PC hardware. Apple Intel Hardware=PC Intel Hardware, that's why you're booting Windows XP!
Apple x86 machines are jumping to the top of the list for performance vs price
So you're saying that your Apple Intel Duo is right up there with the Dell Intel Duo, with the exact same CPUs, I'd hope so. What is your point?
Something that Apple Fanatics have been saying for years but no one really believed them.
Until Apple swapped to Intel hardware and now those same Apple fanatics are still saying the same thing. Problem is, once again, Apple Intel Hardware=PC Intel Hardware.
It's like the T-shirt made in the same Chinese factory, one half sent to Walmart to sell at $7 the other half sent to Designer store tagged at $50. It's hilarious to see these Apple fanatics rave about the quality and workmanship of their $5 shirts.
Now, take Apples teet out of your mouth and mod me down!
Value, utter garbage, high-end hardware, what a nice selection of vague terms your argument is backed up with.
Here is something specific to put in your pipe:
How exactly is Adobe Photoshop and Premiere utter crap on Intel Duo running WinXP, but not on the same Intel Duo running OSX? Its the same hardware, shortcuts, speed, GUI. Where is the utter garbage? Where is your red herring fanboy!
The fact is that Macs are starting to run identical hardware to PCs and 90% of those old tired, biased photoshop filter benchmarks, which are the real utter crap of platform comparisions, mean alsolutely nothing now. You're running our hardware now!
Remember the slow hardware that was 10% slower running a len flare on that 2gb PSD? We'll you're running it now bitch! Funny how now that you're using our hardware, it's not so shitty anymore. So now it's the OS that makes these identical apps work so flawlessly?
Give me a fucking break.
Hire a company to clean out your windows systems every 2 months? The utter crap is spewing out of your mouth.
Is ANYONE buying this bullshit? Unfortunately I know the answer to that question.
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But anyone who has any knowledge of business would realize that the money you spend on Dewalt, goes directly to the company owning the brand, Black and Decker. Which is directly related to the parents point that, buying Dewalt could be a protest of Walmarts control over Black and Decker. But since they are the EXACT SAME COMPANY financialy, every one of your Dewalt dollars dissapears into the Black and Decker finance soup, it is not earmarked for Dewalt.
My point: Boycotting Black and Decker and buying Dewalt outside of Walmart does little to nothing to protest Black and Decker at Walmart!
So what you're really saying is:
n=1 u=0 stdev=0
Ya don't say!
Computer Users to Real Networks: .rm files? ROFL!! .rm?
Real who?
Oh the
Won't let us play
BWAHAHAAHAHAHA aaaaaa that's a good one.
Those kids!!
uh DeWalt is Black and Decker.
This is a rant valid for many mainstream consumer products that Walmart sells.
But does Walmart really sell the majority of Video Games? Where are your numbers? Sources?
Is this "article" any more than a C- short essay with no sources?
Slashdot! Stop posting this armchair journalist blog crap.
We do agree on one thing AC.
Your post, like any useless reeking terd, is best left anonymous.
My transition has been like this:
- Age 8 to 17, hardcore PC user and mac "hater"
- Age 18 to 23, hardcore PC user and ambivalent mac spectator
- Age 24-26, PC user and occasional Mac user (to help friends and family)
- Age 26-28, iPod owner several times over, and fan of Mac OS X technology (still PC user)
- Age 29, PowerMac G5 and Mac Mini user, and an Apple sticker on the back of my car.
THEY'VE WON.
THEY'VE WON = They may use my ass as they please. I am now part of the different collective and will assimilate all other life forms. Resistance is futile. I am Steve Job's personal whore.
At least you're somewhat aware of your transformation from objective tech user (Age 24-26) to Apple whoreboy.
...the desktop search that comes with MSN toolbar
http://toolbar.msn.com/tour_suite/pc.aspx
Mod me into oblivion, please.
But its really sad to see the Slashdot community to go from a can do, toaster modding bunch of creative tech junkies, into an Apple teet sucking, iPod praising pussies, sucking up Apples marketing crap and pretending it just the natural, uncommercialized evolution from Linux to a solid GUI. And everyone using Windows and a non Apple Ipod is missing something.
Please, please pull that giant Apple marketing dildo out of your collective asses.
Windows is not broken, OSX is not infallable, and Ipods are ubertrendy.
If you're going to be a whore, that's fine. But don't do it under the guise that it's the right thing, trying to rationalize your weakness to flutter into the mainstream.
If you can't list 100 reasons why OSX is better than Windows and vice versa, another 20 why an Ipod is better than its -$100 counterpart and vice versa, you have lost all objectivity. You are now an ignorant whore, and you've lost the plot.
The sky is not falling, Microsoft is not purposely making shitty code, the man is not stealing your hard earned dollars.
The line between the weekend commando, dressing their kids up in cammo in the paranoia of pretecting themselves from democracy, and the M$ hater genuinely thinking that Bill is purposely ruining the world, is paper thin.
Both MS and APPLE are here for one reason, increasing shareholder value. Whoever convinces the market that they aren't wins.
Respect to Steve Jobs, for convincing some of what I thought were the most objective people on the internet, to think different.
Following Microsoft's issue of new shiny silver stickers that say "Vista Capable" on the bottom:
Fuzzy Stickerz inc. released a new scratch and sniff sticker that smells like real butered popcorn. Unconfirmed rumors suggest that Microsoft may stage a hostile takeover of Fuzzy Stickerz and add thier popcorn smell technology to the new Vista stickers. While informed tech readers are unphased by the annoucement, tabloid news sites are confused and shocked that Microsoft would demand that Vista will only operate using buttered keyboards.
News for American Nerds. American stuff that matters to Americans.
So any article not quoting in USD or Imperial is useless to you?
Please walk to your local tattoo shop and have:
"IM AMERICAN AND HOPELESSLY FUCKING INGORANT"
put in bold letters on your forehead.
Pass this tip along to all other Americans unable to convert units and gain value from International information.
Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.1 4.03.1212-1214 (4.00.950B) 8/24/96-8/27/97 USB support: yes
i mac&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q253756/
When did Macs get USB? Not till 1998 with the iMac
http://www.apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=
You may be confused with ADB vs. USB?
"In my view the bus topology of USB is somewhat limiting. One of the original intentions of USB was to reduce the amount of cabling at the back of your PC. Apple people will say the idea came from the Apple Desktop Bus, where both the keyboard, mouse and some other peripherals could be connected together (daisy chained) using the one cable."
Apple was the vendor that really caused USB to take off...8 or 9 years ago.
WTF are you talking about? Mac touted firewire as the hot swap connector of choice, they only introduced USB reluctantly after computer hardware makers said collectively "FUCK YOU APPLE, WERE ONLY MAKING PERIPHERALS IN USB".
Then and only then did Macs come with USB, long after it was standard PC issue.
To this day it's hard to find any use for firewire aside from external storage and DV transfers.
Apparently I am blind:x
The Macbook pro w/ 2.16ghz Duo ran a photoshop script in 1:10
The Acer Duo w/ 2.0ghz Duo ran a photoshop script in 1:11
The Mac Duo laptop with a 8% higher clocked CPU ran a benchmark 1.4% faster than the Acer Duo.
If anything, this looks bad for the Mac Duo.
Why is it seeing such a tiny improvement when it is 160mhz faster?