I wouldn't be surprised if the average number of Mac's a Mac user has purchased was something like five or six.
Depends how long they've been useing a Mac, but I think you've exaggerated. Since 1990, I've owned 3 I bought new. An SE (68000 chip), LC630 (68LC040) and a G4.
Also, The Lifespan of a Mac as it is usable as a general consumers all-purpose box is significantly longer than a Wintel box. The G4 is actually mine (with OS 8.6 and LinuxPPC), but the LC630 is STILL being used by the rest of my family as an everything computer: E-mail, school reports, web browsing, and even significant desktop publishing....Try doing that a 486 of the same vintage. It won't happen.
So while, YES when a machiene goes obsolete, you buyt a new one. But it won't be obsolete as fast as it's Wintel brothers. And much more often than with Wintel users, when a machiene is "replaced" the older Mac is still used for other purposes within the same household.
a shotgun against a mainframe? that's like fireing a shotgun at an aircraft carrier. you could probably put 20 rounds in some of the mid-sized ones and STILL not bring it down...
go through the past stories here on/. . A few weeks ago there was a link to a story written by a guy who actually DID what IBM is talking about on a server where he works. And the number of Linux systems he was running on ONE of 8 processors in the mainframe was just OVER 41,000. IBM's not lieing.
hold the phone! The GCC had all the changes made to it. Linux is made to be a PORTABLE OS, and with a bit of work, will operate on any hardware with a MMU and (usually) an FPU. With you're arguement, there's no point in haveing Linux work on a Pentium chip, since it's nothing more than extra cache and some instructions more than two 386 chips wired in parrallel. We want Linux to work as speedily and efficiently on the chip we're useing it on as we can. And since we can omit uneeded code at compile time, bloat is impossible. Yes, the kernel tree can get a bit bigger, but it's not out of control. We're not trying to DO everything, we're trying to have the CAPABILITY to do ANYthing.
Not only that, but the speed of the Earth's rotation is slowing down as well. So some point in the next 50,000 years we'll have to add a few seconds...
In Science news and Discover, They've had articles about the so-called "junk" DNA found in our Chromosomes. Some of the genes that have been mapped are very similar to ones related to cancer and other genetic deseise (the posting said that I think). One of the most interesting sections of "junk" and "leftover" genes are the ones that look almost identicle to Simian Imunno-deficiancy Virus...That would be the version of HIV that Chimps and Gorrillas get in the wild. This would suggest that , earlier in the evolutionary process, that there was an epidemic of SIV in our (humans) predicessors that the species developed an immunity to. SIV and HIV are actually very similar viruses, so if some genetesist could figure out how the SIV gene gave early man an immunity to SIV, an anti-HIV gene/vacceine could be developed from (most likely) a combination of the SIV gene and parts of HIV viruses... All the more reason to let EVERYONE have access to any genetic data of any creature.
My G4 is named Alice..with 2 sub drives being named Tea Party and Wonderland...The other systems that will be hooked up soon will be MarchHare, Hatter, Dormouse (those three are a set of SPARC stations), Knave, Queen, WhiteRabbit(the router), and so forth... -DW
If she's useing "You've Got Male", it is classed as a parody of AOL's "You've got Mail" trademark...and thus she is protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
The Supreme Court has made rulings about this sort of thing...
The discussion that follows this thread is nice....people stopped flaming (mostly)...
I'm lucky enough that I had to wait to get the loan for My new computer. I was going to get a 350MHz G3, but I managed to get everything I wanted AND a 400MHz G4.
There is another "real-world" bench toted on the site...or maybe an article. At the unveiling of the system, Jobs ran SETI-at-home on both the 600 PIII and the 500 G4...the G4 was makeing 3 to 4 graphs per every one of the PIII...Not bad I'd say.
Exactly...Unlike monkeys in nature, we intentionally kill animals for reasons other than our own survival.
There are other cloning plans about too...Panda's in China have been approved to be cloned, the Dodo Bird from Africa will be cloned soon so the Dodo Tree doesn't go extict. The European Lion, which was hunted to extinction in the Roman Conquest, is also on the list of animals "People have killed them, we should bring them back".
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Depends how long they've been useing a Mac, but I think you've exaggerated. Since 1990, I've owned 3 I bought new. An SE (68000 chip), LC630 (68LC040) and a G4.
Also, The Lifespan of a Mac as it is usable as a general consumers all-purpose box is significantly longer than a Wintel box. The G4 is actually mine (with OS 8.6 and LinuxPPC), but the LC630 is STILL being used by the rest of my family as an everything computer: E-mail, school reports, web browsing, and even significant desktop publishing....Try doing that a 486 of the same vintage. It won't happen.
So while, YES when a machiene goes obsolete, you buyt a new one. But it won't be obsolete as fast as it's Wintel brothers. And much more often than with Wintel users, when a machiene is "replaced" the older Mac is still used for other purposes within the same household.
a shotgun against a mainframe? that's like fireing a shotgun at an aircraft carrier. you could probably put 20 rounds in some of the mid-sized ones and STILL not bring it down...
You don't. You put ONE in the room...with a bunch of Mirrors!
ouch...
go through the past stories here on /. . A few weeks ago there was a link to a story written by a guy who actually DID what IBM is talking about on a server where he works. And the number of Linux systems he was running on ONE of 8 processors in the mainframe was just OVER 41,000. IBM's not lieing.
I do beleive you're looking for an IBM RS/6000 server.
hold the phone! The GCC had all the changes made to it. Linux is made to be a PORTABLE OS, and with a bit of work, will operate on any hardware with a MMU and (usually) an FPU. With you're arguement, there's no point in haveing Linux work on a Pentium chip, since it's nothing more than extra cache and some instructions more than two 386 chips wired in parrallel. We want Linux to work as speedily and efficiently on the chip we're useing it on as we can. And since we can omit uneeded code at compile time, bloat is impossible. Yes, the kernel tree can get a bit bigger, but it's not out of control. We're not trying to DO everything, we're trying to have the CAPABILITY to do ANYthing.
Not only that, but the speed of the Earth's rotation is slowing down as well. So some point in the next 50,000 years we'll have to add a few seconds...
In Science news and Discover, They've had articles about the so-called "junk" DNA found in our Chromosomes.
Some of the genes that have been mapped are very similar to ones related to cancer and other genetic deseise (the posting said that I think).
One of the most interesting sections of "junk" and "leftover" genes are the ones that look almost identicle to Simian Imunno-deficiancy Virus...That would be the version of HIV that Chimps and Gorrillas get in the wild. This would suggest that , earlier in the evolutionary process, that there was an epidemic of SIV in our (humans) predicessors that the species developed an immunity to. SIV and HIV are actually very similar viruses, so if some genetesist could figure out how the SIV gene gave early man an immunity to SIV, an anti-HIV gene/vacceine could be developed from (most likely) a combination of the SIV gene and parts of HIV viruses...
All the more reason to let EVERYONE have access to any genetic data of any creature.
My G4 is named Alice..with 2 sub drives being named Tea Party and Wonderland...The other systems that will be hooked up soon will be MarchHare, Hatter, Dormouse (those three are a set of SPARC stations), Knave, Queen, WhiteRabbit(the router), and so forth... -DW
Just went ot the site to download it for My Mac G4...the Window verion is up
That case will NEVER stand up in a US court.
If she's useing "You've Got Male", it is classed as a parody of AOL's "You've got Mail" trademark...and thus she is protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
The Supreme Court has made rulings about this sort of thing...
The discussion that follows this thread is nice....people stopped flaming (mostly)...
I'm lucky enough that I had to wait to get the loan for My new computer. I was going to get a 350MHz G3, but I managed to get everything I wanted AND a 400MHz G4.
There is another "real-world" bench toted on the site...or maybe an article. At the unveiling of the system, Jobs ran SETI-at-home on both the 600 PIII and the 500 G4...the G4 was makeing 3 to 4 graphs per every one of the PIII...Not bad I'd say.
Exactly...Unlike monkeys in nature, we intentionally kill animals for reasons other than our own survival.
There are other cloning plans about too...Panda's in China have been approved to be cloned, the Dodo Bird from Africa will be cloned soon so the Dodo Tree doesn't go extict. The European Lion, which was hunted to extinction in the Roman Conquest, is also on the list of animals "People have killed them, we should bring them back".