Ah, but being a zealot for one side or the other is so much fun! Nobody here really cares whether the benchmarks mean anything or not; The numbers are like "top trumps" scores used to fight your opponent.
For the record, I switched to a Mac because it looks pretty and has a nice developer tool suite installed on it, not quite as good as MS Visual Studio but better than anything I've seen on Linux (while still remaining a big fan of Linux and a heavy Win2k user/developer.):)
Ah yes, and I remember being able to walk into PC World or Dixons and play with an Alpha desktop. Not.
It is a pretty risky claim of Apple's that the G5 is "the world's first 64-bit personal computer." However, it should be easy to see what they mean: It's the first one that you can pick up in a shop on the high street.
The skin effect is mainly important at microwave frequencies IIRC and would affect conductivity at different frequencies, I guess. What you're thinking of is likely to be the dispersion relationship of the signal - the relative speeds of transmission of different frequency components. I don't have any figures for audio-frequency dispersion of electrical signals in copper cable, though.
Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick, Motorola has been Apple's number one pain in the arse. Motorola: American company. Other pains in the backside for Apple have come from Microsoft (Windows, troubles with Mac versions of Office.) What is the Japanese problem you refer to? I'm not very up on my Apple history so I'd be interested to know.
I know that the size of (void*) is still 4, but will there be any memory management functions which will return a long long as a pointer and allow 64-bit arithmetic on it? Pointers may not be 64-bit by default, but if there's a way of using a 64 bit pointer then that will give you your >4GB blocks.
WinXP may have introduced desirable new features, but Windows Files Protection wasn't one of them. From my side of the fence (Windows developer) the link would be to MSDN.
Check out the "Requirements" section at the bottom and see that Win2k was where it was introduced.
From what I've seen of System Restore, though, that is a *very* nice feature.
OTOH, the OS X method of drag-and-drop application support removes most of the need for a system restore, as app removal is usually a straight deletion of one "file".
Judging from the features that have been demoed so far, this is an upgrade of a similar size to that from Win2k to WinXP. So, paying for it isn't too unreasonable, is it?
GSM isn't the only standard, but it is _the_ de-facto standard outside of the USA. Consider it VHS to CDMA's Betamax if you like; It is more useful to seek to replace GSM base station hardware with software than to work with CDMA.
"Wouldn't they have to make some kind of halfway plausible handwaving argument about money they are losing to get anything in a lawsuit?"
I guess not if there's a contract between Apple Computer and Apple Records that AAPL wouldn't sell music. It'd be a plain contract dispute rather than a trademark violation (see SCO v IBM for a similar situation.)
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Well, given how much it costs to buy a copy of the white album, Apple Records probably have a big pile of cash:)
OTOH, maybe Paul McCartney should have a seat on the board of Apple? I'm sure he'd get along fine with Steve and Al.
"The reality of it is that faster OS booting won't happen until, among other things, Microsoft adds save/restore peripheral functionality to drivers (making them even more complex and unreliable...)."
Alternatively, give a Mac a try. One thing which impressed the hell out of me when I first got my iBook, once I noticed that it was happening at all, is that closing the screen puts the machine to sleep, instantly. Open it up again and it's ready to go in less than three or four seconds. It doesn't seem to draw an awful lot of power when it's asleep either; I never power the thing down, yet it still has plenty of battery life if I leave it in a cupboard over the weekend.
So, using MRAM to speed up booting is perhaps fixing a problem which shouldn't exist.
As an aside, I hear that Microsoft don't use SourceSafe internally but have another source control system. I'm not surprised, because SS is a buggy, unstable bag o'sh*te.
I know I've read a bit about their source control somewhere but I've not been able to track it down again. Does anybody here know what they use?
The UK Apple Store is selling 1.6GHz G5s for 1549 pounds, which doesn't seem too bad compared to the competition. I've specced up a Dell Precision 650 with about the same equipment and it comes out to 1649 pounds. Obviously, a disposable white-box PC is going to be cheaper.
The G4s are cheaper though, at least at the low end.
If you want to test relative compiler technology, you use the fastest compiler for each platform. If you want to test the platform itself, you use software which is as close to identical between platforms as possible. Hence, gcc.
Pretty basic experimental technique is at work here.
Uh huh, they'll bring in a team of $100-an-hour witnesses to defend a $20 ticket, or whatever that is in british pounds.
I think the ticket price is 60 now if you don't go to court. If you do, they wheel in the expert witness and charge you for the privilege, plus for solicitors' costs. So, they win both ways. Unless they lose, of course:)
You're right about the whole thing not making any sense, though. The major problem in London, where the bulk of the tracking systems would be, is that about one fifth (?) of all drivers have no license and no insurance. They're hardly going to be driving around in new SUVs with trackers.
How would prosecution using an in-car logging system differ from a tachograph-based HGV driving hours prosecution?
Would it not be the case that the Crown Prosecution Service would roll out an "expert witness" to say something along the lines of "This is the speed that the box said the defendant was driving at. The box is always right, in my expert opinion." There's your prosecution testimony.
It's a terrible idea though, and one likely to fail in the way that previous attempts to do this have failed.
The Sun and the Sunday Times both being owned by Rupert Murdoch, they seem to parrot out the same lines. I'd be more worried if a newspaper which isn't owned by News Corp backed up the story.
Hang on a mo. This has been proposed several times before and hasn't happened because of the (actually, pretty pathetically limited) public outcry. So, the lying down to be stepped on hasn't happened quite yet.
I don't know whether The Sun has re-heated an old story or whether the Govt. is doing its usual keep-asking-until-they-get-the-right-answer routine.
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Hmm, I didn't quite understand what was going on in that part of the review. Is the dock no longer transparent?
Nice screen shot BTW.
Ah, but being a zealot for one side or the other is so much fun! Nobody here really cares whether the benchmarks mean anything or not; The numbers are like "top trumps" scores used to fight your opponent.
:)
For the record, I switched to a Mac because it looks pretty and has a nice developer tool suite installed on it, not quite as good as MS Visual Studio but better than anything I've seen on Linux (while still remaining a big fan of Linux and a heavy Win2k user/developer.)
Ah yes, and I remember being able to walk into PC World or Dixons and play with an Alpha desktop. Not.
It is a pretty risky claim of Apple's that the G5 is "the world's first 64-bit personal computer." However, it should be easy to see what they mean: It's the first one that you can pick up in a shop on the high street.
That was the graphics memory column. Doh! Both machines had 1GB of RAM.
The skin effect is mainly important at microwave frequencies IIRC and would affect conductivity at different frequencies, I guess. What you're thinking of is likely to be the dispersion relationship of the signal - the relative speeds of transmission of different frequency components. I don't have any figures for audio-frequency dispersion of electrical signals in copper cable, though.
Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick, Motorola has been Apple's number one pain in the arse. Motorola: American company. Other pains in the backside for Apple have come from Microsoft (Windows, troubles with Mac versions of Office.) What is the Japanese problem you refer to? I'm not very up on my Apple history so I'd be interested to know.
I know that the size of (void*) is still 4, but will there be any memory management functions which will return a long long as a pointer and allow 64-bit arithmetic on it? Pointers may not be 64-bit by default, but if there's a way of using a 64 bit pointer then that will give you your >4GB blocks.
So, any info?
WinXP may have introduced desirable new features, but Windows Files Protection wasn't one of them. From my side of the fence (Windows developer) the link would be to MSDN. Check out the "Requirements" section at the bottom and see that Win2k was where it was introduced.
WFP is a Win2k feature, actually.
From what I've seen of System Restore, though, that is a *very* nice feature.
OTOH, the OS X method of drag-and-drop application support removes most of the need for a system restore, as app removal is usually a straight deletion of one "file".
:-)
I'm looking forward to getting my grubby paws on Xcode.
Judging from the features that have been demoed so far, this is an upgrade of a similar size to that from Win2k to WinXP. So, paying for it isn't too unreasonable, is it?
GSM isn't the only standard, but it is _the_ de-facto standard outside of the USA. Consider it VHS to CDMA's Betamax if you like; It is more useful to seek to replace GSM base station hardware with software than to work with CDMA.
"Wouldn't they have to make some kind of halfway plausible handwaving argument about money they are losing to get anything in a lawsuit?"
I guess not if there's a contract between Apple Computer and Apple Records that AAPL wouldn't sell music. It'd be a plain contract dispute rather than a trademark violation (see SCO v IBM for a similar situation.)
Well, given how much it costs to buy a copy of the white album, Apple Records probably have a big pile of cash :)
OTOH, maybe Paul McCartney should have a seat on the board of Apple? I'm sure he'd get along fine with Steve and Al.
"The reality of it is that faster OS booting won't happen until, among other things, Microsoft adds save/restore peripheral functionality to drivers (making them even more complex and unreliable...)."
Alternatively, give a Mac a try. One thing which impressed the hell out of me when I first got my iBook, once I noticed that it was happening at all, is that closing the screen puts the machine to sleep, instantly. Open it up again and it's ready to go in less than three or four seconds. It doesn't seem to draw an awful lot of power when it's asleep either; I never power the thing down, yet it still has plenty of battery life if I leave it in a cupboard over the weekend.
So, using MRAM to speed up booting is perhaps fixing a problem which shouldn't exist.
As an aside, I hear that Microsoft don't use SourceSafe internally but have another source control system. I'm not surprised, because SS is a buggy, unstable bag o'sh*te.
I know I've read a bit about their source control somewhere but I've not been able to track it down again. Does anybody here know what they use?
The UK Apple Store is selling 1.6GHz G5s for 1549 pounds, which doesn't seem too bad compared to the competition. I've specced up a Dell Precision 650 with about the same equipment and it comes out to 1649 pounds. Obviously, a disposable white-box PC is going to be cheaper.
The G4s are cheaper though, at least at the low end.
I think we've been through this before.
If you want to test relative compiler technology, you use the fastest compiler for each platform. If you want to test the platform itself, you use software which is as close to identical between platforms as possible. Hence, gcc.
Pretty basic experimental technique is at work here.
Er, that would have read 60 pounds if the pound sign hadn't been stripped out. Must remember to hit "preview" in future....
Uh huh, they'll bring in a team of $100-an-hour witnesses to defend a $20 ticket, or whatever that is in british pounds.
:)
I think the ticket price is 60 now if you don't go to court. If you do, they wheel in the expert witness and charge you for the privilege, plus for solicitors' costs. So, they win both ways. Unless they lose, of course
You're right about the whole thing not making any sense, though. The major problem in London, where the bulk of the tracking systems would be, is that about one fifth (?) of all drivers have no license and no insurance. They're hardly going to be driving around in new SUVs with trackers.
How would prosecution using an in-car logging system differ from a tachograph-based HGV driving hours prosecution?
Would it not be the case that the Crown Prosecution Service would roll out an "expert witness" to say something along the lines of "This is the speed that the box said the defendant was driving at. The box is always right, in my expert opinion." There's your prosecution testimony.
It's a terrible idea though, and one likely to fail in the way that previous attempts to do this have failed.
The Sun and the Sunday Times both being owned by Rupert Murdoch, they seem to parrot out the same lines. I'd be more worried if a newspaper which isn't owned by News Corp backed up the story.
It is a worry, though.
Hang on a mo. This has been proposed several times before and hasn't happened because of the (actually, pretty pathetically limited) public outcry. So, the lying down to be stepped on hasn't happened quite yet.
I don't know whether The Sun has re-heated an old story or whether the Govt. is doing its usual keep-asking-until-they-get-the-right-answer routine.
Sorry if I haven't noticed another post on the same topic in this thread.
How come SCO's share price has rocketed in the past 24 hours? Who on earth is trading their shares at $12.67 today? Any ideas?