Yes, it's not a memory management tool but it's still indispensable on Linux. Valgrind finds stuff no other checker could. They cannot port it to other platforms soon enough.
Given that it's free I didn't want use their bandwidth so I also got it through BitTorrent. I always use http/ftp when I paid for something, BitTorrent for free stuff. That seems fair to me.
You're right, weather is really weird this year. Spring didn't happen. I'm in shorts and sandals for about a week now and it was snowing two weeks ago. I might be wrong but it doesn't feel like it's warming a lot, at least not here.
I'm in eastern Canada. The worst winter of my life is easily January/February 2004. I don't think it peeped over -20C more than a couple of times during those two months (I remember starting my car one morning and the car thermometer read -37C, despite the car being in the sun and that it was at 8:45 AM, I don't want to imagine what the temperature was at 4 AM). This winter kicked in late but wasn't warm and stuck around a fair bit longer than normal with frequent snow fall even in late April (I'm on my summer tires since last week). It all depends on your locality. What you're seeing in BC doesn't necessarily describe the entire situation too well.
How long has this been going on? How many times has SCO amended or changed their claims completely? Even the judge commented at one point that they don't have any proof. And yet this continues. Is it normal in the US legal system to hold the parties in court indefinitely?
I have a Radeon 9000 in my old PowerBook and a ATI x1900XT in my MacPro. Never had a problem with either. The x1900 in MacPro works fine in Windows and Linux as well, games and all. I remember the old ATI divers from some years ago were crap but it's OK these days.
They know that intel can do gpus and really good ones if they tried
Then I guess Intel hasn't really tried yet because they haven't yet produced a half decent graphics chip in their history (current integrated graphics lineup *stinks* compared to ATI/NVidia integrated stuff). I don't think anyone is afraid of discrete Intel graphics cards.
Been watching too much CNN, have you? The only real resentment is from oil companies outside Russia because Putin won't play ball with them. They are no threat. This is all about installing a US-business friendly government in Russia and nothing else.
No, he understood it fine, you aren't. Quote from the article (right at the top of it):
But in a move that could alienate some customers, MSN-bought tracks will not be compatible with the new gadget.
and:
In addition to causing problems for existing MSN-customers hoping to transfer files to the Zune player, the move could also leave users and manufacturers of other Plays For Sure compatible devices out in the cold.
I had my car stolen when I was in school. 12 year old Honda Accord. Didn't think anyone would bother to steal the POS so I didn't insure against theft (money saving student). After it got stolen I called the cops and the first thing they asked me was whether the car was insured against theft. Since it wasn't, they wouldn't even take a report! Can you believe that? Anyway, I found the car a couple of days later 5 parking spots away from where I left it. The steering column was busted. There was a pair of size 9 rollerblades in the trunk (thief with size 9 feet?) and six jugs of bleach (???).
This was in local papers: a woman here in town (Ottawa, ON) had her house repeatedly broken into. After reporting to the cops and complaining that she has to buy a new lock each time they told her to leave the door unlocked!
I am a Mac developer acually and the machine is a total overkill for my purpose. They have traditionally left that gap between the low end Power Mac and iMac and now it just widened quite a bit. Maybe they'll slot something in there but I doubt it.
They have nothing in the lineup between the piece of furniture (that happens to be PC as well) called iMac and the $2500 quad-core Woodcrest. It seems you have to have a PCI slot you have to pay through the teeth. To add insult to injury, they toss in the junky NVidia 7300 (all for measly $2500). They are just missing a huge segment of the market and that's why they're stuck at 4% for ever now. This is just stupid.
The article is short on technical facts, that's true. But there is more to Mac security than obscurity. I keep reading comments on this story and it's amazing how clueless most Windows users are about Mac OS and UNIX in general. Mac OS *is* more secure despite being a smaller target. Sony's rootkit wouldn't work on OS X because it doesn't run anything executable off CDs/DVDs after it mounts them (I was affected by that on Windows). Mail.app doesn't run executable code under any circumstances - Outlook type viruses out the door! There are no true administrator accounts, not in the Windows sense of the word. The admin accounts on OS X aren't really admin at all. They just can 'sudo' into admin account and to do that, user is prompted to enter their password. Did you try running anything on XP with a "limited" account? Half of the software doesn't work including some stuff from Microsoft themselves. Mac OS ships with a single port open to the outside world (mDNSResponder). Compare that to Windows.
Real security starts with the OS vendor, not with users. MS has delegated the work of securing their OS to the end users (and it's an impossible to task to boot). I refuse to spend my time doing their work them...
See here. I bet there are a whole bunch of good, small ISPs where you are. I am with a small ISP and they are a refreshment after Rogers (local cable, 40% packet loss at peak times) and Bell. No phoney "unlimited" accounts, all ports open, servers allowed, static IPs available, no scripted $7/hr bots on the phones, SLAs available...
But this is exactly what this is about, to get you to postpone your purchasing until they acutally ship the product. This is a page out of the MS book. They are flooding the review web sites with these "reviews" where Intel supplied all the sofware/hardware and people are thinking: wait, this Conroe isn't bad, maybe I want to wait for it to finally come out. This is completely lame and I don't know why this gets posted on the Slashdot front page. Until there is an independent review this is nothing more than a press release.
x1600 has some advantages. Your X850XT doesn't have AVIVO, dual-link DVI (note, that's not dual DVI), shader model 3 or hardware H.264 decoding support. It is faster though. x1600 will also run cooler and draw less power since it's a 90 nm die.
What about gaming? I looked at their site and I don't see a response time listed for the monitor which is usually not a good thing. These big buggers then to be on the slower side when it comes to response times. Also, will it support 1600x1200 without streching (meaning, just have two black bars left and right of the screen)?
The prices aren't bloated (OK, maybe a bit for the high end PowerMacs but everything else is very reasonable). That article doesn't go too deep into how much time you spend maintaining Windows. If your time is worth anything, then there is really no comparison.
Very true! But it'll last way longer with a 64 bit chip (they'll move to 64 bit eventually, probably sooner rather than later considering there is a substantial benefit to 64 bit x86). Don't get me wrong, that is still a beautiful piece of hardware running even better software.
You do realize these laptops are 32 bit only? The 64 bit portable CPU (Merom core) will be available by year end (together with the matching desktop core - Conroe). It also seems that the current core (Yonah) has 64 bit instruction set support (AMD64/EMT64/x86-64, whatever you want to call it) although it has been disabled by Intel. The interesting bit for me will be the upcoming iBook. I want to see how Core Solo stacks up against the G4 (seeing that Duo doesn't really clean out the house against the single G5). I think there may be a couple of surprises.
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Yes, it's not a memory management tool but it's still indispensable on Linux. Valgrind finds stuff no other checker could. They cannot port it to other platforms soon enough.
Given that it's free I didn't want use their bandwidth so I also got it through BitTorrent. I always use http/ftp when I paid for something, BitTorrent for free stuff. That seems fair to me.
You're right, weather is really weird this year. Spring didn't happen. I'm in shorts and sandals for about a week now and it was snowing two weeks ago. I might be wrong but it doesn't feel like it's warming a lot, at least not here.
I'm in eastern Canada. The worst winter of my life is easily January/February 2004. I don't think it peeped over -20C more than a couple of times during those two months (I remember starting my car one morning and the car thermometer read -37C, despite the car being in the sun and that it was at 8:45 AM, I don't want to imagine what the temperature was at 4 AM). This winter kicked in late but wasn't warm and stuck around a fair bit longer than normal with frequent snow fall even in late April (I'm on my summer tires since last week). It all depends on your locality. What you're seeing in BC doesn't necessarily describe the entire situation too well.
How long has this been going on? How many times has SCO amended or changed their claims completely? Even the judge commented at one point that they don't have any proof. And yet this continues. Is it normal in the US legal system to hold the parties in court indefinitely?
I have a Radeon 9000 in my old PowerBook and a ATI x1900XT in my MacPro. Never had a problem with either. The x1900 in MacPro works fine in Windows and Linux as well, games and all. I remember the old ATI divers from some years ago were crap but it's OK these days.
They know that intel can do gpus and really good ones if they tried
Then I guess Intel hasn't really tried yet because they haven't yet produced a half decent graphics chip in their history (current integrated graphics lineup *stinks* compared to ATI/NVidia integrated stuff). I don't think anyone is afraid of discrete Intel graphics cards.
Been watching too much CNN, have you? The only real resentment is from oil companies outside Russia because Putin won't play ball with them. They are no threat. This is all about installing a US-business friendly government in Russia and nothing else.
Amen to that. And why is this modded a flamebait? Don't like to hear a discerning opinion? Oh, I forgot, this is /.
January at the earliest. The really sweet ones (cheap and low power) will come in the spring when they do a die shrink to 45 nm.
No, he understood it fine, you aren't. Quote from the article (right at the top of it):
But in a move that could alienate some customers, MSN-bought tracks will not be compatible with the new gadget.
and:
In addition to causing problems for existing MSN-customers hoping to transfer files to the Zune player, the move could also leave users and manufacturers of other Plays For Sure compatible devices out in the cold.
Sleep with the devil, wake up with the fleas...
Good info. Too bad I don't have any mod points.
I had my car stolen when I was in school. 12 year old Honda Accord. Didn't think anyone would bother to steal the POS so I didn't insure against theft (money saving student). After it got stolen I called the cops and the first thing they asked me was whether the car was insured against theft. Since it wasn't, they wouldn't even take a report! Can you believe that? Anyway, I found the car a couple of days later 5 parking spots away from where I left it. The steering column was busted. There was a pair of size 9 rollerblades in the trunk (thief with size 9 feet?) and six jugs of bleach (???).
This was in local papers: a woman here in town (Ottawa, ON) had her house repeatedly broken into. After reporting to the cops and complaining that she has to buy a new lock each time they told her to leave the door unlocked!
I am a Mac developer acually and the machine is a total overkill for my purpose. They have traditionally left that gap between the low end Power Mac and iMac and now it just widened quite a bit. Maybe they'll slot something in there but I doubt it.
They have nothing in the lineup between the piece of furniture (that happens to be PC as well) called iMac and the $2500 quad-core Woodcrest. It seems you have to have a PCI slot you have to pay through the teeth. To add insult to injury, they toss in the junky NVidia 7300 (all for measly $2500). They are just missing a huge segment of the market and that's why they're stuck at 4% for ever now. This is just stupid.
The article is short on technical facts, that's true. But there is more to Mac security than obscurity. I keep reading comments on this story and it's amazing how clueless most Windows users are about Mac OS and UNIX in general. Mac OS *is* more secure despite being a smaller target. Sony's rootkit wouldn't work on OS X because it doesn't run anything executable off CDs/DVDs after it mounts them (I was affected by that on Windows). Mail.app doesn't run executable code under any circumstances - Outlook type viruses out the door! There are no true administrator accounts, not in the Windows sense of the word. The admin accounts on OS X aren't really admin at all. They just can 'sudo' into admin account and to do that, user is prompted to enter their password. Did you try running anything on XP with a "limited" account? Half of the software doesn't work including some stuff from Microsoft themselves. Mac OS ships with a single port open to the outside world (mDNSResponder). Compare that to Windows.
Real security starts with the OS vendor, not with users. MS has delegated the work of securing their OS to the end users (and it's an impossible to task to boot). I refuse to spend my time doing their work them...
See here. I bet there are a whole bunch of good, small ISPs where you are. I am with a small ISP and they are a refreshment after Rogers (local cable, 40% packet loss at peak times) and Bell. No phoney "unlimited" accounts, all ports open, servers allowed, static IPs available, no scripted $7/hr bots on the phones, SLAs available...
But this is exactly what this is about, to get you to postpone your purchasing until they acutally ship the product. This is a page out of the MS book. They are flooding the review web sites with these "reviews" where Intel supplied all the sofware/hardware and people are thinking: wait, this Conroe isn't bad, maybe I want to wait for it to finally come out. This is completely lame and I don't know why this gets posted on the Slashdot front page. Until there is an independent review this is nothing more than a press release.
I'm using the latest ones in Windows and Linux without any problems what so ever. What kind of problems are you having?
x1600 has some advantages. Your X850XT doesn't have AVIVO, dual-link DVI (note, that's not dual DVI), shader model 3 or hardware H.264 decoding support. It is faster though. x1600 will also run cooler and draw less power since it's a 90 nm die.
What about gaming? I looked at their site and I don't see a response time listed for the monitor which is usually not a good thing. These big buggers then to be on the slower side when it comes to response times. Also, will it support 1600x1200 without streching (meaning, just have two black bars left and right of the screen)?
The prices aren't bloated (OK, maybe a bit for the high end PowerMacs but everything else is very reasonable). That article doesn't go too deep into how much time you spend maintaining Windows. If your time is worth anything, then there is really no comparison.
Very true! But it'll last way longer with a 64 bit chip (they'll move to 64 bit eventually, probably sooner rather than later considering there is a substantial benefit to 64 bit x86). Don't get me wrong, that is still a beautiful piece of hardware running even better software.
You do realize these laptops are 32 bit only? The 64 bit portable CPU (Merom core) will be available by year end (together with the matching desktop core - Conroe). It also seems that the current core (Yonah) has 64 bit instruction set support (AMD64/EMT64/x86-64, whatever you want to call it) although it has been disabled by Intel. The interesting bit for me will be the upcoming iBook. I want to see how Core Solo stacks up against the G4 (seeing that Duo doesn't really clean out the house against the single G5). I think there may be a couple of surprises.
Try browsing with ads blocked and you'll be amazed how much quicker everything is. The slowest part of loading a page usually are the ads and it easily gets very annoying if you are going back and forth a lot within a set of pages. I don't have a problem with ads but I do have a problem with waiting for a page to load too long.