Damn good point! At this point, I'm the Solaris guru because: 1) everyone else left (I'm still the newb) and 2) Solaris (and networking in general) scares the piss out of them.
Never thought about that, since I'm asked to work on Win95-2000, Mandrake, Solaris, and recently, DOS(!). Shit, I thought I was losing my touch 'cause I didn't remember all the DOS commands, but I guess your point hits it smack on the head!
Bummer though, I thought everyone liked a good challenge once in a while...
Sorta OT question (maybe redundant by now)
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After reading through a bunch of comments, some people are really trashing the new iMac and Apple. I can understand trashing the iMac due to its new form. But a lot of comments border on outright hatred of the hardware, the OS, and Apple itself. No, the iMac is not positioned as top teir hardware, the OS issue I'll leave alone, and yes Apple does market its stuff differently.
With the above said, can some of you (likers, moderates, and dislikers) elaborate on why Apple gets this severe negative reaction from some?
According to some geeks here, they would be plenty happy to install a rack system in their living room. I think they are either sick, full of shit, or have zero chance of getting laid**.
Personally, I'd love to surprise my guests with "no, that's not the lamp, that my Mac!"
[**for you style-inhibited, don't bother flaming me about the getting laid part, I'm already married:) ]
Just a little point- all of the iApps are free to Mac users. You just need to download them. Obviously, you have never used these apps, 'cause I've never heard anyone who _has_ used them complain that they are "cumbersome" or "limited" in functionality.
Ok, you don't like Macs, but try not to make stuff up.
I REALLY do not know (ie serious question)- so the wires in tubes do not absorb any energy from an EMP blast? I figured that an EMP would be multi-freq and therefore crush most electronics due to voltage spikes. Hell, I thought even lightbulbs would fry due to this, but I guess I'm wrong. Maybe I misunderstood the effects of an EMP blast.
Interesting response to Apple shows...
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Almost every Apple event gets mucho hype by the rumor community now. People speculate like mad, heck, I know 2 guys who actually made bets on what was going to be announced.
Then, after each show, a large number of people are disappointed and a few are wildly happy. A couple of in between the 2. But mostly people are just disappointed in Apple for not living up to their expectations! Granted, this time Apple _did_ beat their own drum way too loudly, but I can't think of any other computer hardware company that gets this kind of press, rumor mongering, and vast discussion after the event.
Just wondering if anyone has a good idea why Apple inspires all this? Is it Steve-o and his RDF? Because Apple is the underdog? Apple's penchant for always pushing the boundry on HW design (like, love, or hate it)? Personally I think it's because Apple keeps innovating, whether it's a success like the original iMac or a failure like the Cube, keeps people wondering "Just what the hell are they gonna pull next?!"
A smaller vacuum tube has less material containing the vacuum, therefore less mass. Think of this- your TV has a vacuum inside it; now think of your entire bedroom holding a vacuum- which unit do you think would weigh less? This scale just magnifies the differences. The vacuum contained within does not scale with the material needed to contain the larger vacuum area.
Fuck that! Try Apple's Cinema Display (22", 1600x1024, yeah not 1600x1200 or 2500x2000) at apple.com, it's only $2500 US.
With the extra $16,500 you can still buy a car!
Also widely regarded as having a superior picture. Only downside (if you actually consider this a downside) is that you need a Mac with an ADC output. Personally, I do since my Mac is 5 years old (4 years too old to have ADC), but oh well.
Cisco you can get 24/7/365. They have 4 customer support centers around the world, and they forward the number to the current working-day station. Problem is that Cisco requires documentation to get that top level support.
Apple is also pretty good, but I think they only have 1 support center, so that is the reason why they have limited hours.
Can't comment on the others as I have not used them, but IBM's support website is pretty fucking awesome. I've solved at least 3x as many problems at that site than I have through all support phones calls combined for my work machines.
As for cheap vs. expensive hardware, it depends on the HW. For a NIC card, cheap ok, for a graphics card, expensive USUALLY means good. Any company with cheap hardware will be able to get away with it (commodity HW), but any company that makes expensive hardware will not (Cisco always pops into the head).
What about the IBM/Motorolla PowerPC chips? American made, and more efficient per cycle than Intel's chips (except for maybe the Itanium).
And you tout Intel for get thermal protection working?! Howabout some chips that don't need thermal protection (like the recent iMacs which can cool themselves with ONLY air convection [meaning no fans for you lesser literates])?
Next thing you know, you'll be crowing about MS's innovation of the GUI over Xerox's... ah.... GUI?!
Or maybe it's just becuase it fixes some basic problem? Just becuase they "urge" an upgrade and don't say why (though that would be nice), and don't specifically reply that it's a security problem, doesn't mean it is a security problem.
Just because they don't say anything about security means they are going the MS route of security through obscurity. Remember, the holes found in MS's software is found by 3rd parties, documented, and THEN MS denies it, doesn't patch it for days/weeks, or calls it a feature.
Do you have any evidence what-so-ever that this upgrade has anything to do with security issues? No? Then shut the fuck up, troll.
"Bumped to bumpless"?!? Whoopee f'n doo! They say that the wire widths will get smaller (no shit!), and lithography will get better (again, no shit!). Besides that, they don't really address how they will package a billion transistors (meaning chip interconnects). A fifty fold increase will mean at least a 10 fold increase in interconnects. But at least there are no bumps!;-)
Oh, and a new "unidentified" gate oxide- yeah, and I have a new superconductor that is also unidentified.
Next, they talk about silicon-on-insulator (SOI) tech. Ah, IBM already is using this!
This "article" says zilch, and in some parts mentions year old tech as new stuff. By the way, Apple is looking to a trillion transistor processor with a warp drive and heisenburg compensators (this is a joke, for you clueless ones).
All in all, Michael needs to actually learn about technology before he starts posting garbage about supposed "new" tech.
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Just so you know, I wasn't trying to be clever or anything, I just don't get this "betrayed" feeling that many people seem to have. Am I disappointed? Sure! Am I less than happy with Ep1? Definently! Do I still have a shitload of original SW toys from my childhood sitting (or most likely melting) in my parents attic? Yup. But I refuse to feel like a "tool", because that would mean that somehow I was used and abused by something I enjoyed as a kid.
I also fail to see the comparison of watching SW and voting for Nixon. People vote for a politician on specific promises and stances that they take, whereas Lucas made a piece of entertainment with no implied promises what-so-ever.
Also, I don't believe that any other director could automatically finish the serious better than Lucas. Maybe they could, maybe it would be Rocky 5. As for the greedy bastard part- it's a business, just like any other, and everyone likes to make money. I would assume that if I called you a greedy bastard for wanting to get paid for work that you did for me that you would be a bit upset?
" will use the technology for all Hallmark.com online offerings that "provide for or facilitate document delivery over the Internet, and those that include the provision for sending an e-mail delivery notification to the recipient." "
Provide document delivery over the 'net- like email?
provision for sending e-mail delivery notification to the recipient- like "return recipts"?
Once again, it looks like patents are getting way, way too broad. Soon the patenet office is going to accidentally give a patent to someone for urls (oh wait, isn't a British company working on this one?), pausing TV (oh wait, isn't Tivo {or someone else} claiming this one?), or even a single click technology (the famous Amazon debacle). Maybe someone can try and patent the "right click" or contextual menus.
Seriously, the whole thing is really getting way out of whack! I wonder if Chesebrough-Ponds has patented the "single stick ear cleaning device"? (Q-tips)
"Oh my God! That CAN'T be real!! The horror, the horror...."
(see above link for context)
As for Mr. Nunb, that dude rocked when he did his laugh thing! "Yub, yub, yub" or whatever; I fell out of my chair laughing, thinking "I gotta hire this dude for a party sometime!"
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From what I've read, GigaWire is a wireless protocol (802.11a maybe?, I forget exactly which.11 it is) that runs at fast (or near fast) Ethernet speeds. Now THAT would be some cool shit!
F Airport, here's wireless as fast as your office LAN!
(Notice- all of the above could be wrong due to post-holiday mis-memories)
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Damn good point! At this point, I'm the Solaris guru because: 1) everyone else left (I'm still the newb) and 2) Solaris (and networking in general) scares the piss out of them.
Never thought about that, since I'm asked to work on Win95-2000, Mandrake, Solaris, and recently, DOS(!). Shit, I thought I was losing my touch 'cause I didn't remember all the DOS commands, but I guess your point hits it smack on the head!
Bummer though, I thought everyone liked a good challenge once in a while...
These are good points which I don't think I've heard before.
Thanks for the info.
how about Shampu?
ch-ching!
After reading through a bunch of comments, some people are really trashing the new iMac and Apple. I can understand trashing the iMac due to its new form. But a lot of comments border on outright hatred of the hardware, the OS, and Apple itself. No, the iMac is not positioned as top teir hardware, the OS issue I'll leave alone, and yes Apple does market its stuff differently.
With the above said, can some of you (likers, moderates, and dislikers) elaborate on why Apple gets this severe negative reaction from some?
According to some geeks here, they would be plenty happy to install a rack system in their living room. I think they are either sick, full of shit, or have zero chance of getting laid**.
:) ]
Personally, I'd love to surprise my guests with "no, that's not the lamp, that my Mac!"
[**for you style-inhibited, don't bother flaming me about the getting laid part, I'm already married
Just a little point- all of the iApps are free to Mac users. You just need to download them. Obviously, you have never used these apps, 'cause I've never heard anyone who _has_ used them complain that they are "cumbersome" or "limited" in functionality.
Ok, you don't like Macs, but try not to make stuff up.
This is a good point- only thing I have ever done to my 5 year old Mac was upgrade the HD, RAM, and processor (603 to G3).
The damn thing is still faster than anything I use at work (well, except for the Sun workstations, but that just isn't a fair comparison).
Interesting....
I REALLY do not know (ie serious question)- so the wires in tubes do not absorb any energy from an EMP blast? I figured that an EMP would be multi-freq and therefore crush most electronics due to voltage spikes. Hell, I thought even lightbulbs would fry due to this, but I guess I'm wrong. Maybe I misunderstood the effects of an EMP blast.
Almost every Apple event gets mucho hype by the rumor community now. People speculate like mad, heck, I know 2 guys who actually made bets on what was going to be announced.
Then, after each show, a large number of people are disappointed and a few are wildly happy. A couple of in between the 2. But mostly people are just disappointed in Apple for not living up to their expectations! Granted, this time Apple _did_ beat their own drum way too loudly, but I can't think of any other computer hardware company that gets this kind of press, rumor mongering, and vast discussion after the event.
Just wondering if anyone has a good idea why Apple inspires all this? Is it Steve-o and his RDF? Because Apple is the underdog? Apple's penchant for always pushing the boundry on HW design (like, love, or hate it)? Personally I think it's because Apple keeps innovating, whether it's a success like the original iMac or a failure like the Cube, keeps people wondering "Just what the hell are they gonna pull next?!"
"withstand EMP"
I guess you are assuming that every bit of electronics in the display (not to mention all the affiliated computers) are ALSO all based on tube tech?
Yes, the cold guns may survive, but howabout the driving electronics? I kinda doubt that this would be a purely mechanical device.
Refraining from calling you something mean....
A smaller vacuum tube has less material containing the vacuum, therefore less mass. Think of this- your TV has a vacuum inside it; now think of your entire bedroom holding a vacuum- which unit do you think would weigh less? This scale just magnifies the differences. The vacuum contained within does not scale with the material needed to contain the larger vacuum area.
Cool, do you use a telepathic intereface into your box instead of a keyboard and/or a mouse?
:-)
Fuck that! Try Apple's Cinema Display (22", 1600x1024, yeah not 1600x1200 or 2500x2000) at apple.com, it's only $2500 US.
With the extra $16,500 you can still buy a car!
Also widely regarded as having a superior picture. Only downside (if you actually consider this a downside) is that you need a Mac with an ADC output. Personally, I do since my Mac is 5 years old (4 years too old to have ADC), but oh well.
Cisco you can get 24/7/365. They have 4 customer support centers around the world, and they forward the number to the current working-day station. Problem is that Cisco requires documentation to get that top level support.
Apple is also pretty good, but I think they only have 1 support center, so that is the reason why they have limited hours.
Can't comment on the others as I have not used them, but IBM's support website is pretty fucking awesome. I've solved at least 3x as many problems at that site than I have through all support phones calls combined for my work machines.
As for cheap vs. expensive hardware, it depends on the HW. For a NIC card, cheap ok, for a graphics card, expensive USUALLY means good. Any company with cheap hardware will be able to get away with it (commodity HW), but any company that makes expensive hardware will not (Cisco always pops into the head).
That is what I kinda (badly, maybe?) said. That this was a PR piece through and through, with only a glimmer of technobably to give it credence.
Yet somehow, I managed to get OVER_RATED in a previous post for saying the same thing?
What about the IBM/Motorolla PowerPC chips? American made, and more efficient per cycle than Intel's chips (except for maybe the Itanium).
And you tout Intel for get thermal protection working?! Howabout some chips that don't need thermal protection (like the recent iMacs which can cool themselves with ONLY air convection [meaning no fans for you lesser literates])?
Next thing you know, you'll be crowing about MS's innovation of the GUI over Xerox's... ah.... GUI?!
Or maybe it's just becuase it fixes some basic problem? Just becuase they "urge" an upgrade and don't say why (though that would be nice), and don't specifically reply that it's a security problem, doesn't mean it is a security problem.
Just because they don't say anything about security means they are going the MS route of security through obscurity. Remember, the holes found in MS's software is found by 3rd parties, documented, and THEN MS denies it, doesn't patch it for days/weeks, or calls it a feature.
Do you have any evidence what-so-ever that this upgrade has anything to do with security issues? No? Then shut the fuck up, troll.
"Bumped to bumpless"?!? Whoopee f'n doo! They say that the wire widths will get smaller (no shit!), and lithography will get better (again, no shit!). Besides that, they don't really address how they will package a billion transistors (meaning chip interconnects). A fifty fold increase will mean at least a 10 fold increase in interconnects. But at least there are no bumps! ;-)
Oh, and a new "unidentified" gate oxide- yeah, and I have a new superconductor that is also unidentified.
Next, they talk about silicon-on-insulator (SOI) tech. Ah, IBM already is using this!
This "article" says zilch, and in some parts mentions year old tech as new stuff. By the way, Apple is looking to a trillion transistor processor with a warp drive and heisenburg compensators (this is a joke, for you clueless ones).
All in all, Michael needs to actually learn about technology before he starts posting garbage about supposed "new" tech.
Just so you know, I wasn't trying to be clever or anything, I just don't get this "betrayed" feeling that many people seem to have. Am I disappointed? Sure! Am I less than happy with Ep1? Definently! Do I still have a shitload of original SW toys from my childhood sitting (or most likely melting) in my parents attic? Yup. But I refuse to feel like a "tool", because that would mean that somehow I was used and abused by something I enjoyed as a kid.
I also fail to see the comparison of watching SW and voting for Nixon. People vote for a politician on specific promises and stances that they take, whereas Lucas made a piece of entertainment with no implied promises what-so-ever.
Also, I don't believe that any other director could automatically finish the serious better than Lucas. Maybe they could, maybe it would be Rocky 5. As for the greedy bastard part- it's a business, just like any other, and everyone likes to make money. I would assume that if I called you a greedy bastard for wanting to get paid for work that you did for me that you would be a bit upset?
Who stole it from Evil Dead 2, look for an email from... well, probably nobody!
Campbell has been quoted as not giving a crap, except blasting them for not having any imagination in coming up with original phrases.
Bastard, you got me! :-(
Scary part is- someone may actually seriously try this at some point.
:)
Except you violated copyright by using the word "batman". Universal Studios would now like their check for $4,000,000.
Oh shit, that would be another 4 mil from me, now... bastard!
" will use the technology for all Hallmark.com online offerings that "provide for or facilitate document delivery over the Internet, and those that include the provision for sending an e-mail delivery notification to the recipient." "
Provide document delivery over the 'net- like email?
provision for sending e-mail delivery notification to the recipient- like "return recipts"?
Once again, it looks like patents are getting way, way too broad. Soon the patenet office is going to accidentally give a patent to someone for urls (oh wait, isn't a British company working on this one?), pausing TV (oh wait, isn't Tivo {or someone else} claiming this one?), or even a single click technology (the famous Amazon debacle). Maybe someone can try and patent the "right click" or contextual menus.
Seriously, the whole thing is really getting way out of whack! I wonder if Chesebrough-Ponds has patented the "single stick ear cleaning device"? (Q-tips)
Time to go get a drink, me thinks....
"Oh my God! That CAN'T be real!! The horror, the horror...."
(see above link for context)
As for Mr. Nunb, that dude rocked when he did his laugh thing! "Yub, yub, yub" or whatever; I fell out of my chair laughing, thinking "I gotta hire this dude for a party sometime!"
From what I've read, GigaWire is a wireless protocol (802.11a maybe?, I forget exactly which .11 it is) that runs at fast (or near fast) Ethernet speeds. Now THAT would be some cool shit!
F Airport, here's wireless as fast as your office LAN!
(Notice- all of the above could be wrong due to post-holiday mis-memories)