Remember those kids from England (or was it Ireland?) that tried to sue Facebook because professors of them found pictures THEY uploaded on there and they got into trouble because of that?
Well - That's why those Terms of Service are there! Google has a LOT of money, and as it is custom, this generates a certain urge to sue for a nice few millions within the general populace for the most braindead things...
Granted, they don't mind datamining at Google, but these passages are mainly in there to indemnify their own butts! They're not gonna sell your holiday snaps to some photostock agency, so calm down...
Gee, i wonder what this Kernel Extension that the Rosetta Launch daemon calls is good for: 'AppleTPMACPI.kext'..and what's with that Class contained in its.plist called 'com_apple_driver_AppleTPMClient'?
No TPM, riiight.... That Infineon-Chip is just a dummy!;-)
We must surely all be hallucinating!
Here's Apples Transitionkit Motherboard (well - minus the COM and LPT-Ports!), and looky looky, what's that about TPM in the column on the right?
If i want BS, I'll throw a laxative party at the local farm!
This has been in the PDF that AMD published on the day it made its lawsuit public exactly verbatim ever since DAY ONE!
Why does this become such a big revelation all of a sudden? Oh, right, i forgot: People don't read PDFs!....
What's more sad is that even ElReg didn't read it apparently...
AWESOME - Though that would be WMV3, not WMV9...
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The Video Codec is WMV3, the whole shebang together with the new audio Codec and lots of DRM is just called Windows Media 9!
Thank you, Jon!;-) I've been waiting for that for a long time, and the WMV3-videos that wouldn't run with Mplayer and VLC REALLY started to piss me off...
MSoids spilling Astroturf all over this thread... Just wait for MS actual response and then use that in your next BSA-audit!;-)
To all the people saying MS is not responsible for this: Does that mean Ford can blame "their subcontractor" when their cars go up in flames due to a bad gas nozzle made by said subcontractor?
Last time i checked it said "(c) Microsoft" on the box and everywhere in the program!...
This will change in OS X 10.4, or so I've heard, which will, like Longhorn and Cairo, use the GPU for 2D rendering acceleration.
Hmm, maybe it will not come in Longhorn afterall... WinFS was thrown out, Avalon was thrown out, just in order to make the "2006 deadline" that still was 2005 just a few months ago - But Windows users rejoice: Of the former "four pillars" that the "complete rewrite" Longhorn was supposed to be based on, the only one left that will be Longhorn exclusive is TCPA/DRM Support! Now isn't that something worth waiting for another 2 years?...
I'm curious about what it is that makes 'third-generation' rendering engines so great? What is it that these do that GDI either cannot already do or couldn't be made to do easily? (without a rewrite)
Basically from what i gathered it is down to Vectors STAYING Vectors after rendering. Which means you can modify them, and this means you can do nice animation things with it like scaling and warping. With 2nd Gen GUIs the Vector is just part of the Bitmap after it was drawn..
But John Siracusa has it all covered most excellently here. Good read!
What will be exciting will be if the VT G5 cluster can gain an Rmax of over 10 TFLOPS.
It won't. 6-7 TFLOPS is a realistic guesstimate, Top10 would be really good.
a) it isn't even known if Mellanox has the OSX-drivers ready, so they might have to use GBit-EN, which would have a huge impact on performance. b) This is the first Supercomputer cluster using Infiniband, OS X and G5s. Apple has no Knowhow in the area whereas Linux and Myrinet/Quadrics have been optimized and tested for years! Do you really think they can match that all on their own in a 3-months timeframe? c) Apple isn't the only one submitting new clusters to the Top500 in November. The US is bent to beat the "humiliation" of the Japanese Earth Simulator, did you already forget?;-)
To all the ones who like to scream "cheating" and "lying" trying to blame Apple:
The formula FPops/cycle * MHz * number of CPUs is the formula for all Rpeak-Values in the Top500! It's the way Rpeak is calculated! Try it yourself by dividing the listed Rpeak-numbers down and you'll end up with the FPops/cycle for each CPU-Type!;-) Intersting: IBM-PPCs (Power4, Power3, G5) have 4 FPops/cycle, Itanic dito, x86 has 2 FPops/cycle and Alpha (!) aswell! Yes, Alpha, the FPU-Monster!;-)
This 4 FPops/cycle "FMAC-feature" (besides the price and Altivec!) probably explains why they went with G5s in the first place!
P.S.: Did you know that test by the german Magazine C't using IBMs XLC/XLC and P4s/Xeons with Intels ICC basically proved what apple claimed with their GCC comparison? That the G4 is faster than a 3Ghz P4/Xeon Dual 3GHz in FPU but slower in Integer? And the IBM-Compiler is still in beta, mind you!;-)
So much for cheating lying Apple, hehe! Ofcourse, Slashdot, The Register, the Inquirer, Wired and all the rest would NEVER write an article about that, a supposed "Mac-User" who's accusing Apple of cheating without having the glance of a clue is just so much better, and who are they to admit they made a mistake?
I'm still getting the same number. Where's the factor of two I missed?
2 CPUs in each Mac!
FYI: The formula FPops/cycle * MHz * number of CPUs is the formula for all Rpeak-Values in the Top500! Try it yourself by dividing the listed Rpeak-numbers down and you'll end up with the FPops/cycle for each CPU-Type!;-) Intersting: IBM-PPCs (Power4, Power3, G5) have 4 FPops/cycle, Itanic dito, x86 has 2 FPops/cycle and Alpha (!) aswell! Yes, Alpha, the FPU-Monster!;-)
This 4 FPops/cycle "FMAC-feature" (besides the price and Altivec!) probably explains why they went with G5s in the first place!
Well, unfortunately linpack is 64bit!;-) But if we take 32bit-FPops as a measure, the G5 could do a theoretical peak of 8 FPops/cycle (FMAC) using Altivec *plus* 4 FPops/cycle (FMAC) using the FPUs, so that's 12 FPops/cycle, which would give us a theoretical peak of 52.8 TFLOPS!;-) Altivec only: 35.2! Hell, the Earth Simulator has "only" 40.9 TFLOPS Rpeak! Ofcourse it's near impossible to feed BOTH the FPUs and Altivec every single cycle, but pure Vectorcode works very well! Virginia Tech is also planning to do streaming simulations and gene-sequencing tasks for this thing from what i read, and these are 2 areas where Genentech and NASA's Craig Hunter proved that Altivec works our really really well! Craigs Vectorcode for Jet3D using Altivec is 10-12 times (!) faster than the scalar code!
Now, just imagine what would happen if the managed to "abuse" the 1100 Radeon9600s for numbercrunching puroses!;-) Yes, there is already research underway in this direction.. How many GFLOPS does such a Radeon have again?;-) I remember the GeForce4 had 51 GFLOPS one year ago just using the pixel shaders...
No *real* Rmax linpack scores are known yet, and from what i figured the submissions on Oct 1st are just for *inclusion* in the list, real Linpack scores can be submitted till shortly before (or even on!) the conference mid-November..
This article is BS and should be removed...
P.S.: 4 FPops/cycle per clock with 2 FPUs i hear you scream - Impossible! - That's due the Multiply/Add FMAC thing that counts as 2 FPops!
Actually, that's not fully true! IE on OS X sucked predominantly because it was POORLY carbonized and because it still relied on the slow Open Transport because of OS9-Compatibility!
Please don't forget that Camino's Gecko-Renderer, which is generally regarded as a close second best to Safari in Speed is actually Carbon! They didn't rewrite this huge Rendering-Engine from C++ to Cocoa's ObjC just for Camino! It was called Chimera once, and as we all know a chimera is a beast with the body of one animal and the head of another! Chimera had a Carbon-"Body" (the Gecko-rendering engine!) and a Cocoa-"Head" (The Interface!)..
Carbon-Apps can be just as fast as Cocoa-Apps (or even faster - compare OmniWeb's speed to Camino!), it's really all just down to how much you optimize your application... The 2 languages are closely intertwined anyway by now, Carbon got DisplayPDF and services support by now, and the 2 rely on the same Libraries in quite a few occasions, so it's not as big a difference as many people constantly proclaim it to be!..
Besides the already mentioned features (by Bwanazuila), i personally consider these pretty handy:
-FULL drag & drop support. And when i say full i mean full! Drag Text or Links into formfields, drag images onto Photoshop or any other App (Dock or elsewhere) or somewhere on your Harddrive if you prefer. Just great, i don't understand why there is NO other Browser that's able to do that, not even Apples own Safari!
-Shortcuts were already mentioned, and they're really a boon, i have shortcuts for everything! To search on eBay i enter "e [string]", to search on slashdot "s [string]", i have various search-shortcuts for sites i regularly visit (and search!) like The Register, a German/English translation service (no, not Babelfish, that unfortunately won't work with shortcuts due to its nature!), an encyclopedia, Google images, the Apple Knowledgebase and (very important) Versiontracker. You can put whatis.com in there or Google groups or Google Dictionary or whatever you want! Really great, i would never use a browser anymore that didn't have shortcuts, sorry no Safari here! Luckily Camino also implemented shortcuts and i actually prefer their implementation via the bookmarks to OmniWebs!
-A network monitor where you can see which parts of your page take the longest to load
-A log of HTTP-Requests and errors
-An Information-Window that shows you the structure of a site in a tree with Information on every element: creation dates, byte-sizes, dimensions and thumbnails of images etc.
-FULL contextual menues. The other browsers just don't measure up! Only OW has the complete set (Camino is getting close though!)! If i have a href'd image, i can copy the image's link to the buffer, the image's URL or the image itself! I frequently need all 3, so OW is the only choice!
-Perfect Font-Rendering for ALL fonts! Camino only does Arial properly and already balks on small Times new Roman
-REAL Aqua-Widgets! Camino fakes them, although they look okay mostly...
-A pretty useful HTML-Editor with highlighting and editing-capabilities
-URL-bar filtering of spaces, linebreaks and tabs. Camino also has this now. Very useful for non-href'd long links like you frequently get them in emails or find them in some forums. I don't get it why all other browsers still also copy linebreaks - There IS no linebreak in an URL!
-Services-Support: -I can highlight a link, press Apple-Shift-U and it opens a new window with the link. -I can let it read text of a webpage for me -I can use any other Service, like e.g. Devon's WordService to reformat Text in a Formfield, change to CAPS or remove them, remove linebreaks, capitalize the first letters of words or give me a statistic on how many words, lines and letters are in a highlighted text.
-New in 4.2: Linky-thing to Textedit in Formfields, so you can do your editing in Textedit and it gets automatically passed on into the formfield. Neato!
Summing up, OW is the single most feature-rich browser ever, and the features are very nice and mostly very handy! You can see all the time that its makers really did try to think of useful improvements for the user, and it's as OSX-like and -embracing as can be (even beats Safari!). I tried it when OS X came out and i fell in love with it. Only due to its amazingly slow table-rendering and poor CSS/Javascript support i was basically forced to switch to Camino by now, which is also nice, but not THAT nice!;-) Most of its cool new features are taken from Omniweb anyway! Hence i can't wait for OW 4.5 with proper speed and compliance, i'll definately switch back as soon as it's released!
What _reason_ is there to ask for "an open mind" towards M$? Think about it for a second: Linux always tried to be tolerant towards M$. There's SAMBA, which is only made to be compatible to M$ proprietary Network protocols. And it's not just a one-way migration solution like M$' own Netware Kit for NT, no, it's fully compatible! There's versions of every cool Linux-Software and every Framework or environment available: GIMP, GNUstep, cygwin, VLC, cdrecord, OpenOffice and what not. And what's there from the other side? Nothing! N O T H I N G ! To the contrary: They don't just even not port their own products and APIs to Linux, no, they *also* make it extra hard for their developers to do so by focussing on proprietary BS like DirectX and a load of other APIs *and* they call Linux "cancer" "antiamerican" etc. and have special task forces to fight it (hello Brian Valentine How's your Tattoo?)
Just give me _one_ f*cking reason why they earned the Linux-community's toerance and should be listened to! Just one!
Yeah right, be tolerant towards these guys! Gee, i wonder why the Allies weren't tolerant towards Hitler back then? Afterall he did deserve to be listened to and tolerated just as much as M$!
"It's a very tempting deal, especially if you can load any ole IDE drive into it."
Unfortunately, you can't. It needs to support certain SMART-Features that Apple needs for monitoring it, and i think a certain size is also required for the whole RAID thing to work properly (someone correct me, but from what i know Hardware-RAID-Controllers still need all drives to be the same to work, don't they?). What an Apple sales rep told me only a few drives work, but if you can get these i think it should be possible to get an empty drivebay-enclosure from Apple and put it in.. However, the Drives at Apple aren't THAT expensive!;-) Afterall they're not your el cheapo junk IDE-drives that you can get for 2 bucks 50!..
It's not just the cookies!.. Omniweb sucks in eaxctly 4 aspects: Javascript, DHTML, CSS and rendering speed (especially with tables!) EVERYTHING else simply rocks! It rocks so much i'm still using it as my primary browser in spite of all the flaws mentioned! Omniweb was the first browser i've seen in a loooong time that brought a *very* large number of really useful features that often make you think "why didn't anyone think of this earlier?" Here's a short list:
1) Filtering of Linebreaks, Tabs and Spaces in the URL bar. Have an URL from an email or Webpage that spans several lines? No problem! Copy it, paste it into a new OW-Windows and press return! You might even opt for the even easier feature of services and just highlight it and press "shift-apple-u"!
2) FULL Drag & Drop support. Yes, not even Apples own Safari can do the full thing! Try dragging an image onto Photoshop! ONLY OW can do that it seems! Most browsers don't even allow dragging of text into from-fields, which really pisses me off!
3) Shortcuts. Once you got the hang of this, you wouldn't wanna miss it for anything! I've defined shortcuts for TheReg, Google, Google image, a german/english translator, versiontracker and i could prolly fix one for/. in a few seconds! Open new Window, enter "i eagle" and boom i get eagles from google image search!;-) No scanning through bookmarks, no waiting till some frontpage loaded, no navigating till you found the "search" button! Simply great! Ah yes, Chimera now has this aswell in later builds!
4) Contextual menues. Only OW (and now Chimera!) offer me *all* the options! If i have a linked image, i can choose to copy the image itself into the buffer, the image URL *or* the link on the image! I need all 3 often enough, so hooray for OW!
5) Banner-filter. Yes, some other browsers have this, too, but OW just has it all
6) Nice extra tools like a traffic monitor that shows you the process of the page being loaded in detail or an Error log that shows errors the webserver sends! Also very nice: the Page-info-window that shows you all the info on the linked file and even gives you thumbnails for every image
7) a great source editor with highlighting and marking of open tags
8) Great options that let you basically adjust every small behaviour!
It's funny to see how all these features filter down onto other browsers like Chimera bit by bit! I'd say that means OW owns all the others! >:-)
Hearing that Omni might base OW5 on Apples Webcore makes me jump in joy since that means all the letdowns mentioned above will be fixed and the good stuff is retained.
I could never use Safari, it just doesn't offer what i need, and speed is only one thing among many for me that makes a browser interesting for me, as is compatibility!
's funny, you know, how people always keep touting the "less performance for more money" horn and gladly pay more for a sucking PC-Subnotebook like a Vaio, Evo, Omnibook etc with crappy AGP shared-memory graphics and often without an optical drive than for an iBook!
Been waiting for that for aaaages! I still think that Apple should release the official APIs for the iPod though!
Here are a few suggestions what would be great for the iPod:
- BPM-analyzer for DJs
- maybe realtime-soundeffects like Echo, Timestretching, Pitchshifting if enough CPU-Power is still available?
- (very very nice!) a Filebrowser that allows you to move files from and to the iPod or between 2 attached Firewire-devices (or other iPods)
- A tool to move your Keychain over to the iPod and have all your Passwords and PINs always with you!
- A link to Sherlock 3 to recieve, store and display its search-results (price-lists, starting times and venues for movies, flight arrivals, maybe even roadmaps to get somewhere etc)
-Text-Clipboard for taking important Texts (or emails) with you and also read them on the road using the jog-dial!
Concerning Games the following would probably be best suited (because of the jogwheel!):
- Space Invaders, Galaga etc.
- Race-Games like Pitstop or Outrun (jogwheel should make an excellent steering-wheel replacement!;-)
- (further) Breakout-games, with more features than the easteregg one (think: Arkanoid!)
- the game with the clowns and the teeter-totter, where you have to juggle 2 clowns (also kinda like the intermission-game in Creatures 2!) and you have to prevent that something smacks onto the floor
-Pong (Link via Firewire!;-)
-Klax
-Tetris (works! Center button: turn piece, throw down: bottom button!)
-Tapper (the game with the bartender, that has to serve beer on several bars at once and catch the empty glasses that come back!)
-Artillery Duel (you know, the classic adjust angle and thrust of your tank and try to shoot the enemy taking turns!) possibly via FW-Link, too
-Joystick-mashers like Decathlon, only that you have to turn the wheel faster to run faster! Only recommended for iPods with the new non-mechanical jogwheel though, hehe!
The possibilities are endless, it took me just 20 minutes to come up with the above, that says it all!
That thing has 32MB RAM and 2 ARM-cores and is flashable! Why the heck shouldn't people code for this thing?;-)
I understand Apple is afraid of people messing up their iPods with self-hacked software and then clogging the Apple-hotlines, but they could avoid that by having developers display a disclaimer everywhere possible, that you take this at your own risk and that Apple is not liable in any way for anything that you f*ck up by using selfhacked software!
Maybe Apple would warm up to the idea if they have you sign an agreement to deliver the source if someone wants the APIs so they could take it and include it in the "official" iPod-Software if they think it's cool?! Compensation for the hacker would be nice, but wouldn't be a must for people to program the thing (which this uLinux-Hack shows) i guess!;-)
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Remember those kids from England (or was it Ireland?) that tried to sue Facebook because professors of them found pictures THEY uploaded on there and they got into trouble because of that?
Well - That's why those Terms of Service are there! Google has a LOT of money, and as it is custom, this generates a certain urge to sue for a nice few millions within the general populace for the most braindead things...
Granted, they don't mind datamining at Google, but these passages are mainly in there to indemnify their own butts! They're not gonna sell your holiday snaps to some photostock agency, so calm down...
Gee, i wonder what this Kernel Extension that the Rosetta Launch daemon calls is good for: 'AppleTPMACPI.kext' ..and what's with that Class contained in its .plist called 'com_apple_driver_AppleTPMClient'?
;-)
No TPM, riiight.... That Infineon-Chip is just a dummy!
We must surely all be hallucinating!
Here's Apples Transitionkit Motherboard (well - minus the COM and LPT-Ports!), and looky looky, what's that about TPM in the column on the right?
If i want BS, I'll throw a laxative party at the local farm!
This has been in the PDF that AMD published on the day it made its lawsuit public exactly verbatim ever since DAY ONE!
Why does this become such a big revelation all of a sudden? Oh, right, i forgot: People don't read PDFs!....
What's more sad is that even ElReg didn't read it apparently...
The Video Codec is WMV3, the whole shebang together with the new audio Codec and lots of DRM is just called Windows Media 9!
;-) I've been waiting for that for a long time, and the WMV3-videos that wouldn't run with Mplayer and VLC REALLY started to piss me off...
Thank you, Jon!
MSoids spilling Astroturf all over this thread... Just wait for MS actual response and then use that in your next BSA-audit! ;-)
To all the people saying MS is not responsible for this: Does that mean Ford can blame "their subcontractor" when their cars go up in flames due to a bad gas nozzle made by said subcontractor?
Last time i checked it said "(c) Microsoft" on the box and everywhere in the program!...
"Itanium" and "Windows Cluster Edition"!
It's like saying "Bum Rashes announce they won't support haemmorhoids"...
Hmm, maybe it will not come in Longhorn afterall... WinFS was thrown out, Avalon was thrown out, just in order to make the "2006 deadline" that still was 2005 just a few months ago - But Windows users rejoice: Of the former "four pillars" that the "complete rewrite" Longhorn was supposed to be based on, the only one left that will be Longhorn exclusive is TCPA/DRM Support! Now isn't that something worth waiting for another 2 years?...
Basically from what i gathered it is down to Vectors STAYING Vectors after rendering. Which means you can modify them, and this means you can do nice animation things with it like scaling and warping. With 2nd Gen GUIs the Vector is just part of the Bitmap after it was drawn..
But John Siracusa has it all covered most excellently here. Good read!
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
1936 Itanic2s 1.5Ghz, 8633 Rmax -> 4.45 GFLOPS per CPU
Less than the G5. Where's the big Floating point monster Itanic now i wonder?
G5 and Itanic can both do 4 DP-FPops per Cycle. However, the G5 has 25% more clock, so bad luck for Intel!
Sorry, but the SPEC-Scores (Itanic2 SpecFP = 2x G5-SpecFP) simply fail to show... SPEC has become as much of a fake as almost any Benchmark!
Not yet! ;-)
It won't be long though... Just put the pieces (1, 2) together, hehe....
It won't. 6-7 TFLOPS is a realistic guesstimate, Top10 would be really good.
a) it isn't even known if Mellanox has the OSX-drivers ready, so they might have to use GBit-EN, which would have a huge impact on performance.
b) This is the first Supercomputer cluster using Infiniband, OS X and G5s. Apple has no Knowhow in the area whereas Linux and Myrinet/Quadrics have been optimized and tested for years! Do you really think they can match that all on their own in a 3-months timeframe?
c) Apple isn't the only one submitting new clusters to the Top500 in November. The US is bent to beat the "humiliation" of the Japanese Earth Simulator, did you already forget?
To all the ones who like to scream "cheating" and "lying" trying to blame Apple:
;-) Intersting: IBM-PPCs (Power4, Power3, G5) have 4 FPops/cycle, Itanic dito, x86 has 2 FPops/cycle and Alpha (!) aswell! Yes, Alpha, the FPU-Monster! ;-)
;-)
The formula FPops/cycle * MHz * number of CPUs is the formula for all Rpeak-Values in the Top500! It's the way Rpeak is calculated! Try it yourself by dividing the listed Rpeak-numbers down and you'll end up with the FPops/cycle for each CPU-Type!
This 4 FPops/cycle "FMAC-feature" (besides the price and Altivec!) probably explains why they went with G5s in the first place!
P.S.: Did you know that test by the german Magazine C't using IBMs XLC/XLC and P4s/Xeons with Intels ICC basically proved what apple claimed with their GCC comparison? That the G4 is faster than a 3Ghz P4/Xeon Dual 3GHz in FPU but slower in Integer? And the IBM-Compiler is still in beta, mind you!
So much for cheating lying Apple, hehe! Ofcourse, Slashdot, The Register, the Inquirer, Wired and all the rest would NEVER write an article about that, a supposed "Mac-User" who's accusing Apple of cheating without having the glance of a clue is just so much better, and who are they to admit they made a mistake?
2 CPUs in each Mac!
FYI: The formula FPops/cycle * MHz * number of CPUs is the formula for all Rpeak-Values in the Top500! Try it yourself by dividing the listed Rpeak-numbers down and you'll end up with the FPops/cycle for each CPU-Type!
This 4 FPops/cycle "FMAC-feature" (besides the price and Altivec!) probably explains why they went with G5s in the first place!
Well, unfortunately linpack is 64bit! ;-) ;-) Altivec only: 35.2!
;-) Yes, there is already research underway in this direction.. ;-)
But if we take 32bit-FPops as a measure, the G5 could do a theoretical peak of 8 FPops/cycle (FMAC) using Altivec *plus* 4 FPops/cycle (FMAC) using the FPUs, so that's 12 FPops/cycle, which would give us a theoretical peak of 52.8 TFLOPS!
Hell, the Earth Simulator has "only" 40.9 TFLOPS Rpeak!
Ofcourse it's near impossible to feed BOTH the FPUs and Altivec every single cycle, but pure Vectorcode works very well! Virginia Tech is also planning to do streaming simulations and gene-sequencing tasks for this thing from what i read, and these are 2 areas where Genentech and NASA's Craig Hunter proved that Altivec works our really really well! Craigs Vectorcode for Jet3D using Altivec is 10-12 times (!) faster than the scalar code!
Now, just imagine what would happen if the managed to "abuse" the 1100 Radeon9600s for numbercrunching puroses!
How many GFLOPS does such a Radeon have again?
I remember the GeForce4 had 51 GFLOPS one year ago just using the pixel shaders...
Simple equation: 4 FPops/cycle (IBM-PPCs) * 2GHz * 1100 G5s * 2 CPUs/G5 = 17.6 TFLOPS!
No *real* Rmax linpack scores are known yet, and from what i figured the submissions on Oct 1st are just for *inclusion* in the list, real Linpack scores can be submitted till shortly before (or even on!) the conference mid-November..
This article is BS and should be removed...
P.S.: 4 FPops/cycle per clock with 2 FPUs i hear you scream - Impossible! - That's due the Multiply/Add FMAC thing that counts as 2 FPops!
Well, how "responsible" was it by Microsoft in the first place to actually make an OS as "holey" as this?
Have they patched the latest IE "Let's-run-any-program" vuln yet? How about those 2 rootexploits from last week?
When exactly does it get "responsible" to put a Windows-Box onto the net? i'm most anxious to learn!
Actually, that's not fully true!
IE on OS X sucked predominantly because it was POORLY carbonized and because it still relied on the slow Open Transport because of OS9-Compatibility!
Please don't forget that Camino's Gecko-Renderer, which is generally regarded as a close second best to Safari in Speed is actually Carbon! They didn't rewrite this huge Rendering-Engine from C++ to Cocoa's ObjC just for Camino!
It was called Chimera once, and as we all know a chimera is a beast with the body of one animal and the head of another! Chimera had a Carbon-"Body" (the Gecko-rendering engine!) and a Cocoa-"Head" (The Interface!)..
Carbon-Apps can be just as fast as Cocoa-Apps (or even faster - compare OmniWeb's speed to Camino!), it's really all just down to how much you optimize your application... The 2 languages are closely intertwined anyway by now, Carbon got DisplayPDF and services support by now, and the 2 rely on the same Libraries in quite a few occasions, so it's not as big a difference as many people constantly proclaim it to be!..
Besides the already mentioned features (by Bwanazuila), i personally consider these pretty handy:
;-) Most of its cool new features are taken from Omniweb anyway!
-FULL drag & drop support. And when i say full i mean full! Drag Text or Links into formfields, drag images onto Photoshop or any other App (Dock or elsewhere) or somewhere on your Harddrive if you prefer. Just great, i don't understand why there is NO other Browser that's able to do that, not even Apples own Safari!
-Shortcuts were already mentioned, and they're really a boon, i have shortcuts for everything! To search on eBay i enter "e [string]", to search on slashdot "s [string]", i have various search-shortcuts for sites i regularly visit (and search!) like The Register, a German/English translation service (no, not Babelfish, that unfortunately won't work with shortcuts due to its nature!), an encyclopedia, Google images, the Apple Knowledgebase and (very important) Versiontracker. You can put whatis.com in there or Google groups or Google Dictionary or whatever you want! Really great, i would never use a browser anymore that didn't have shortcuts, sorry no Safari here! Luckily Camino also implemented shortcuts and i actually prefer their implementation via the bookmarks to OmniWebs!
-A network monitor where you can see which parts of your page take the longest to load
-A log of HTTP-Requests and errors
-An Information-Window that shows you the structure of a site in a tree with Information on every element: creation dates, byte-sizes, dimensions and thumbnails of images etc.
-FULL contextual menues. The other browsers just don't measure up! Only OW has the complete set (Camino is getting close though!)! If i have a href'd image, i can copy the image's link to the buffer, the image's URL or the image itself! I frequently need all 3, so OW is the only choice!
-Perfect Font-Rendering for ALL fonts! Camino only does Arial properly and already balks on small Times new Roman
-REAL Aqua-Widgets! Camino fakes them, although they look okay mostly...
-A pretty useful HTML-Editor with highlighting and editing-capabilities
-URL-bar filtering of spaces, linebreaks and tabs. Camino also has this now. Very useful for non-href'd long links like you frequently get them in emails or find them in some forums. I don't get it why all other browsers still also copy linebreaks - There IS no linebreak in an URL!
-Services-Support:
-I can highlight a link, press Apple-Shift-U and it opens a new window with the link.
-I can let it read text of a webpage for me
-I can use any other Service, like e.g. Devon's WordService to reformat Text in a Formfield, change to CAPS or remove them, remove linebreaks, capitalize the first letters of words or give me a statistic on how many words, lines and letters are in a highlighted text.
-New in 4.2: Linky-thing to Textedit in Formfields, so you can do your editing in Textedit and it gets automatically passed on into the formfield. Neato!
Summing up, OW is the single most feature-rich browser ever, and the features are very nice and mostly very handy! You can see all the time that its makers really did try to think of useful improvements for the user, and it's as OSX-like and -embracing as can be (even beats Safari!). I tried it when OS X came out and i fell in love with it. Only due to its amazingly slow table-rendering and poor CSS/Javascript support i was basically forced to switch to Camino by now, which is also nice, but not THAT nice!
Hence i can't wait for OW 4.5 with proper speed and compliance, i'll definately switch back as soon as it's released!
"At present, Cell is "being still in a development stage" (the public-relations person in charge of a S C E rice corporation, Mr. MORI Smith)."
A translator-program did this?? Ah come on, you've got to be joking!
Wrong.
Now if that only meant something to be proud of...
What _reason_ is there to ask for "an open mind" towards M$?
Think about it for a second:
Linux always tried to be tolerant towards M$. There's SAMBA, which is only made to be compatible to M$ proprietary Network protocols. And it's not just a one-way migration solution like M$' own Netware Kit for NT, no, it's fully compatible! There's versions of every cool Linux-Software and every Framework or environment available: GIMP, GNUstep, cygwin, VLC, cdrecord, OpenOffice and what not.
And what's there from the other side? Nothing! N O T H I N G ! To the contrary: They don't just even not port their own products and APIs to Linux, no, they *also* make it extra hard for their developers to do so by focussing on proprietary BS like DirectX and a load of other APIs *and* they call Linux "cancer" "antiamerican" etc. and have special task forces to fight it (hello Brian Valentine How's your Tattoo?)
Just give me _one_ f*cking reason why they earned the Linux-community's toerance and should be listened to! Just one!
Yeah right, be tolerant towards these guys! Gee, i wonder why the Allies weren't tolerant towards Hitler back then? Afterall he did deserve to be listened to and tolerated just as much as M$!
"It's a very tempting deal, especially if you can load any ole IDE drive into it."
;-) Afterall they're not your el cheapo junk IDE-drives that you can get for 2 bucks 50!..
Unfortunately, you can't. It needs to support certain SMART-Features that Apple needs for monitoring it, and i think a certain size is also required for the whole RAID thing to work properly (someone correct me, but from what i know Hardware-RAID-Controllers still need all drives to be the same to work, don't they?). What an Apple sales rep told me only a few drives work, but if you can get these i think it should be possible to get an empty drivebay-enclosure from Apple and put it in..
However, the Drives at Apple aren't THAT expensive!
It's not just the cookies!..
/. in a few seconds! ;-) No scanning through bookmarks, no waiting till some frontpage loaded, no navigating till you found the "search" button! Simply great! Ah yes, Chimera now has this aswell in later builds!
Omniweb sucks in eaxctly 4 aspects: Javascript, DHTML, CSS and rendering speed (especially with tables!)
EVERYTHING else simply rocks! It rocks so much i'm still using it as my primary browser in spite of all the flaws mentioned!
Omniweb was the first browser i've seen in a loooong time that brought a *very* large number of really useful features that often make you think "why didn't anyone think of this earlier?"
Here's a short list:
1) Filtering of Linebreaks, Tabs and Spaces in the URL bar. Have an URL from an email or Webpage that spans several lines? No problem! Copy it, paste it into a new OW-Windows and press return! You might even opt for the even easier feature of services and just highlight it and press "shift-apple-u"!
2) FULL Drag & Drop support. Yes, not even Apples own Safari can do the full thing! Try dragging an image onto Photoshop! ONLY OW can do that it seems! Most browsers don't even allow dragging of text into from-fields, which really pisses me off!
3) Shortcuts. Once you got the hang of this, you wouldn't wanna miss it for anything! I've defined shortcuts for TheReg, Google, Google image, a german/english translator, versiontracker and i could prolly fix one for
Open new Window, enter "i eagle" and boom i get eagles from google image search!
4) Contextual menues. Only OW (and now Chimera!) offer me *all* the options! If i have a linked image, i can choose to copy the image itself into the buffer, the image URL *or* the link on the image! I need all 3 often enough, so hooray for OW!
5) Banner-filter. Yes, some other browsers have this, too, but OW just has it all
6) Nice extra tools like a traffic monitor that shows you the process of the page being loaded in detail or an Error log that shows errors the webserver sends! Also very nice: the Page-info-window that shows you all the info on the linked file and even gives you thumbnails for every image
7) a great source editor with highlighting and marking of open tags
8) Great options that let you basically adjust every small behaviour!
It's funny to see how all these features filter down onto other browsers like Chimera bit by bit! I'd say that means OW owns all the others! >:-)
Hearing that Omni might base OW5 on Apples Webcore makes me jump in joy since that means all the letdowns mentioned above will be fixed and the good stuff is retained.
I could never use Safari, it just doesn't offer what i need, and speed is only one thing among many for me that makes a browser interesting for me, as is compatibility!
's funny, you know, how people always keep touting the "less performance for more money" horn and gladly pay more for a sucking PC-Subnotebook like a Vaio, Evo, Omnibook etc with crappy AGP shared-memory graphics and often without an optical drive than for an iBook!
Look here if you don't believe me:
Okay, so it's in german, but i guess the numbers speak for themselves...
Been waiting for that for aaaages!
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I still think that Apple should release the official APIs for the iPod though!
Here are a few suggestions what would be great for the iPod:
- BPM-analyzer for DJs
- maybe realtime-soundeffects like Echo, Timestretching, Pitchshifting if enough CPU-Power is still available?
- (very very nice!) a Filebrowser that allows you to move files from and to the iPod or between 2 attached Firewire-devices (or other iPods)
- A tool to move your Keychain over to the iPod and have all your Passwords and PINs always with you!
- A link to Sherlock 3 to recieve, store and display its search-results (price-lists, starting times and venues for movies, flight arrivals, maybe even roadmaps to get somewhere etc)
-Text-Clipboard for taking important Texts (or emails) with you and also read them on the road using the jog-dial!
Concerning Games the following would probably be best suited (because of the jogwheel!):
- Space Invaders, Galaga etc.
- Race-Games like Pitstop or Outrun (jogwheel should make an excellent steering-wheel replacement!
- (further) Breakout-games, with more features than the easteregg one (think: Arkanoid!)
- the game with the clowns and the teeter-totter, where you have to juggle 2 clowns (also kinda like the intermission-game in Creatures 2!) and you have to prevent that something smacks onto the floor
-Pong (Link via Firewire!
-Klax
-Tetris (works! Center button: turn piece, throw down: bottom button!)
-Tapper (the game with the bartender, that has to serve beer on several bars at once and catch the empty glasses that come back!)
-Artillery Duel (you know, the classic adjust angle and thrust of your tank and try to shoot the enemy taking turns!) possibly via FW-Link, too
-Joystick-mashers like Decathlon, only that you have to turn the wheel faster to run faster! Only recommended for iPods with the new non-mechanical jogwheel though, hehe!
The possibilities are endless, it took me just 20 minutes to come up with the above, that says it all!
That thing has 32MB RAM and 2 ARM-cores and is flashable! Why the heck shouldn't people code for this thing?
I understand Apple is afraid of people messing up their iPods with self-hacked software and then clogging the Apple-hotlines, but they could avoid that by having developers display a disclaimer everywhere possible, that you take this at your own risk and that Apple is not liable in any way for anything that you f*ck up by using selfhacked software!
Maybe Apple would warm up to the idea if they have you sign an agreement to deliver the source if someone wants the APIs so they could take it and include it in the "official" iPod-Software if they think it's cool?! Compensation for the hacker would be nice, but wouldn't be a must for people to program the thing (which this uLinux-Hack shows) i guess!