AFAIK, Apple brought Airport and that was a Really New Idea (even if they didn't invent it). If Apple didn't license this technology from Lucent do you really think we would be using Wifi right now ?
And tell me more about this Really New Idea concept. What do you consider as being the latest RNI ?
When you write that it's a problem when innovators are making lots of cash and do as much they can to keep making cash, you are talking about fantasy world. I have the same dream as you. But as you say very well, it is the way it is. You describe it as a problem, I trying to show you that it's not.
I wish rich people would give me lots of cash, but I don't write on Slashdot that it's a problem they don't...
As for the shouting part, it was intended for all the people whining that corps are making lots of cash. In this case it's my wording that was poor.
I sure hope you don't think it's up to the innovators to create these open standards. Let's see how it would work (in your fantasy world) : 1) Take risk spending cash to create something new 2) Make it stick 3) Profit 4) Give it all away so rumith can get rich quickly Guess what, nobody will even go to step 1 if you add your funky step 4. Now, if somebody else (like ISO...) would work on making standards that's a different story... Stop shouting at the innovators and become one.
American plan: America should be on top. Chinese plan: America should not be on top. Chinese plan : China should be on top. American plan : China should not be on top.
Here, I'm right and you are wrong because I said so.
It's not because I have a 5-digit Slashdot UID that I have to be a OSS/FSF extremist. Actually why do I bother replying to somebody who doesn't even use his Slashdot UID (if you don't have one it's even worse) .
You need and you'll need to do some authentification before seeing all the folders on there. That's why they are using the mounting phase right now. Tiger will most likely change the authentification phase and won't go through the mounting step.
>Some people are complaining about it not being wall mountable
iMac product page. Next to the VESA logo, you can read: "The iMac offers the smallest footprint ever, but you can make that zero with an optional VESA mount. Hang it from the wall or swing it around on your desk." So, now the iMac has a high-end feature, cool!!
You obviously have no clue what you are talking about.
FileMaker Pro has been relationnal since version 3. Even worse, the migration from any 3.X, 4.X, 5.X, 6.X to version 7 is handled by FileMaker itself. You even have a 190 pages document describing all the changes and the tweak needed in case of something goes wrong.
I'm not saying the problem is painless, it all depends on the level on complexity you have in your current system. I just migrated a _very_ complex solution (80 tables, over 120 links, 1900 fields, 600 Scripts) to version 7 from 5.5. It's all documented on one A4 sheet.
> If I create a Flash animation I do not have to > worry about how it will appear on > Mac/Linux/Windows/Netscape/Mozilla/IE/Opera
Sure, you don't have to worry about how it will appear on my Linux PPC box, it won't appear at all. Macromedia doesn't want to hear from us (LinuxPPC users)
I've been using it for over 6 month now (as a free try out at the beginning) and I never had any trouble. I got this email about the week down time, I didn't even realise there was any downtime. I'm not a "power" user though, I check my mail twice a day and back things up every week...
During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle
First thing we do is we get them to fight each other... What the hell? Are we not smarter than that? Why are we all so childish? No wonder why he escaped...
Right.. like built-in SCSI? I can only feel sorry for you if you think you are going to get equal fileserving performance on IDE. As for four drives, that assumes you are configuring two of them as IDE *SLAVES* with mediocre performance.
You are obviously misreading my statement (which is surprising for somebody pretending to be a scientist...) I believe that built-in SCSI is not part of the services Apple is offering (it doesn't make you less right... There is no SCSI option for the XServe)
but there are plenty of other x86 servers where you can get Registered ECC DDR ram. As far as I know there is no way the current Apple "servers" will support ECC ram...
Give me more details. Which servers? How much do they cost? What are the spec? Why is it an issue?
For a nice reality check: We just ordered another 20 dual Athlon XP2000 boxes at $1100 a piece. No apple logo or gigabit ethernet, but the SPECbench performance is 3 times higher at 1/3 the price...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen a SPECbench of these XServe machines yet... Making up stories again aren't you?? I won't even go on about the licensing issues...
Well, you don't seem to know much about cache latencies; L2 is 5-10 times faster than L3, so double L2 will usually gain much more performance than adding L3.
You don't seem to know much about L3 cache, bah it's OK you'll get some info all by yourself, I'm sure...
Listen, it's not a war like, there is no real winner or loser here. Each machine is supposed to be filling a need, there is many many different needs out there, end of story. There is no point being all pumped up, or sarcastic about all this, it just make you sounds like a spoiled kid. I just hope you would have better things to do with your time than that. I know I do...
- you are right no need for a NIC card. $189 big deal - but the rest is needed to match the level of services Apple is offering - how much for UNLIMITED client license with Windows? Let's go for Linux shall we... - where is the DDR ram? - Dell has twice the L2 ram, but what about L3 ram? - where is the forth hard drive? - $1500, but 18GB HD? I think an upgrade is needed there... - max internal storage? 219GB against 480GB, and that's very important - let's mention the lack of Firewire, but no big deal there
After studying my history of installs on Windows Update site, I believe you are very right. I actually had a lot of unsuccessful installs. So they are actually making up stories again!! Damn
Adding to the point of the previous replier (?), I think there have been more security hotfixes. Could you get me the url where you got this info from? The url you are giving is not showing any of my security downloads (there is a whole mess of stuff there, and nothing about IE or the XML parser of IE). The closest being the cumulative patch for IE but that only one of them.
I think a lot of patches don't have a security bulletin attached to. Most likely, they are editing security bulletins only for pb found by "outsiders", is this possible?
I'll check if I can find something closer to my numbers. When I talked about 10 patches, I was talking ONLY about Urgent Fixes, which are for the most part in my case security fixes. I did not include new soft, or driver updates.
Yep, I for sure believe your point that these have been reported by outside companies or individuals and MS did not find them. But I've never seen so many security fixes in such a short amount of time. All I'm saying is that they are improving a lot. And that's all I care about really.
This is horse shit. I'm using Win2k and for the past two weeks I got patches every couple of days just for the OS. That about 10 patches since they decided to work on their security.
I'm not saying they are delivering either, but they are doing stuff. Time will tell if it is actually real work or just smoke.
What about a Apple Newton?? Lots on ebay, very tough, multithreading, 166Mhz ARM (a real one, not Intel half CISC one...), lovely to use (very impressive actually). I even think it's better than EPOC. I haven't looked under yet though...
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AFAIK, Apple brought Airport and that was a Really New Idea (even if they didn't invent it). If Apple didn't license this technology from Lucent do you really think we would be using Wifi right now ?
And tell me more about this Really New Idea concept. What do you consider as being the latest RNI ?
When you write that it's a problem when innovators are making lots of cash and do as much they can to keep making cash, you are talking about fantasy world. I have the same dream as you. But as you say very well, it is the way it is. You describe it as a problem, I trying to show you that it's not.
I wish rich people would give me lots of cash, but I don't write on Slashdot that it's a problem they don't...
As for the shouting part, it was intended for all the people whining that corps are making lots of cash. In this case it's my wording that was poor.
I sure hope you don't think it's up to the innovators to create these open standards. Let's see how it would work (in your fantasy world) :
1) Take risk spending cash to create something new
2) Make it stick
3) Profit
4) Give it all away so rumith can get rich quickly
Guess what, nobody will even go to step 1 if you add your funky step 4. Now, if somebody else (like ISO...) would work on making standards that's a different story...
Stop shouting at the innovators and become one.
Chinese plan: America should not be on top. Chinese plan : China should be on top.
American plan : China should not be on top.
Here, I'm right and you are wrong because I said so.
It happens to the best of us. Don't worry.
It's not because I have a 5-digit Slashdot UID that I have to be a OSS/FSF extremist. Actually why do I bother replying to somebody who doesn't even use his Slashdot UID (if you don't have one it's even worse) .
Maybe the moderator did catch the irony in my post, unlike you... I haven't even met Linus once in my life for God sake.
Wooh, this is news.
Next week, how I used Macs since 2003 at work.
What a revolution !
Android from Google . Where have you been for the past 6 month ? Challenge result are on Monday.
You should check out Transmission, it's a great, clean and small piece of software
What? They are downloading their TV?
Jesus, we are quite behind in France, we still have to go and buy these damn TV from Darty!!
The thing is, nobody is asking you any money to take a picture of it, even at night!! Biiiig difference.
You need and you'll need to do some authentification before seeing all the folders on there. That's why they are using the mounting phase right now. Tiger will most likely change the authentification phase and won't go through the mounting step.
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kTag
>Some people are complaining about it not being wall mountable
iMac product page. Next to the VESA logo, you can read:
"The iMac offers the smallest footprint ever, but you can make that zero with an optional VESA mount. Hang it from the wall or swing it around on your desk."
So, now the iMac has a high-end feature, cool!!
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kTag
You obviously have no clue what you are talking about.
FileMaker Pro has been relationnal since version 3. Even worse, the migration from any 3.X, 4.X, 5.X, 6.X to version 7 is handled by FileMaker itself. You even have a 190 pages document describing all the changes and the tweak needed in case of something goes wrong.
I'm not saying the problem is painless, it all depends on the level on complexity you have in your current system. I just migrated a _very_ complex solution (80 tables, over 120 links, 1900 fields, 600 Scripts) to version 7 from 5.5. It's all documented on one A4 sheet.
> If I create a Flash animation I do not have to
> worry about how it will appear on
> Mac/Linux/Windows/Netscape/Mozilla/IE/Opera
Sure, you don't have to worry about how it will
appear on my Linux PPC box, it won't appear at all.
Macromedia doesn't want to hear from us (LinuxPPC users)
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kTag
I've been using it for over 6 month now (as a free try out at the beginning) and I never had any trouble. I got this email about the week down time, I didn't even realise there was any downtime. I'm not a "power" user though, I check my mail twice a day and back things up every week...
-- kTag
During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle
First thing we do is we get them to fight each other...
What the hell? Are we not smarter than that?
Why are we all so childish?
No wonder why he escaped...
-- kTag
Right.. like built-in SCSI? I can only feel sorry for you if you think you are going to get equal fileserving performance on IDE. As for four drives, that assumes you are configuring two of them as IDE *SLAVES* with mediocre performance.
You are obviously misreading my statement (which is surprising for somebody pretending to be a scientist...) I believe that built-in SCSI is not part of the services Apple is offering (it doesn't make you less right... There is no SCSI option for the XServe)
but there are plenty of other x86 servers where you can get Registered ECC DDR ram. As far as I know there is no way the current Apple "servers" will support ECC ram...
Give me more details. Which servers? How much do they cost? What are the spec? Why is it an issue?
For a nice reality check: We just ordered another 20 dual Athlon XP2000 boxes at $1100 a piece. No apple logo or gigabit ethernet, but the SPECbench performance is 3 times higher at 1/3 the price...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen a SPECbench of these XServe machines yet... Making up stories again aren't you?? I won't even go on about the licensing issues...
Well, you don't seem to know much about cache latencies; L2 is 5-10 times faster than L3, so double L2 will usually gain much more performance than adding L3.
You don't seem to know much about L3 cache, bah it's OK you'll get some info all by yourself, I'm sure...
Listen, it's not a war like, there is no real winner or loser here. Each machine is supposed to be filling a need, there is many many different needs out there, end of story. There is no point being all pumped up, or sarcastic about all this, it just make you sounds like a spoiled kid. I just hope you would have better things to do with your time than that. I know I do...
-- kTag
Let's get down and dirty then, shall we:
- you are right no need for a NIC card. $189 big deal
- but the rest is needed to match the level of services Apple is offering
- how much for UNLIMITED client license with Windows? Let's go for Linux shall we...
- where is the DDR ram?
- Dell has twice the L2 ram, but what about L3 ram?
- where is the forth hard drive?
- $1500, but 18GB HD? I think an upgrade is needed there...
- max internal storage? 219GB against 480GB, and that's very important
- let's mention the lack of Firewire, but no big deal there
Conclusion: Dell is not a clear winner.
--kTag
After studying my history of installs on Windows Update site, I believe you are very right. I actually had a lot of unsuccessful installs. So they are actually making up stories again!! Damn
Adding to the point of the previous replier (?), I think there have been more security hotfixes. Could you get me the url where you got this info from? The url you are giving is not showing any of my security downloads (there is a whole mess of stuff there, and nothing about IE or the XML parser of IE). The closest being the cumulative patch for IE but that only one of them.
I think a lot of patches don't have a security bulletin attached to. Most likely, they are editing security bulletins only for pb found by "outsiders", is this possible?
I'll check if I can find something closer to my numbers. When I talked about 10 patches, I was talking ONLY about Urgent Fixes, which are for the most part in my case security fixes. I did not include new soft, or driver updates.
Yep, I for sure believe your point that these have been reported by outside companies or individuals and MS did not find them. But I've never seen so many security fixes in such a short amount of time. All I'm saying is that they are improving a lot. And that's all I care about really.
This is horse shit. I'm using Win2k and for the past two weeks I got patches every couple of days just for the OS. That about 10 patches since they decided to work on their security.
I'm not saying they are delivering either, but they are doing stuff. Time will tell if it is actually real work or just smoke.
Repeat after me: a community a no value without cohesion (no need to shout by the way)
What about a Apple Newton?? Lots on ebay, very tough, multithreading, 166Mhz ARM (a real one, not Intel half CISC one...), lovely to use (very impressive actually). I even think it's better than EPOC. I haven't looked under yet though...