I just had some pain trying to register quicktime pro here in New Zealand. Apple don't want to know me. I think i'm going to go back to using an Amiga.
actually, I instinctively thought that too, but I visited the root page of the hosting server (www.start.com) and the whole thing works with Firefox -- including the dragging and dropping.
I'm sure once somebody tells Microsoft this is happening that they'll change it tho:)
aspx pages never work in my browser, so I can't rtfa. so forgive me if this is covered in tfa.
what happens when you start watching a self-destructing movie, and watch it partially? Say, half way through you have to stop and go take a shit. Or you have to go visit your mother in hospital because she just fell over.
Does the disc destruct after a partial watching?
If not, what constitutes a full viewing? Do you have to watch it all the way to the end of the credits before it self-destructs?
What happens to the disc when it self-destructs? Does the process have the potential to harm older DVD players? or can it cause harm to DVD players if you try a second viewing?
There is one problem I see. Regardless of what may come in the future, Symantec are currently using deceptive tactics to lure people into buying their software. They are lying to Mac users. Shouldn't they be trying to earn our trust? On Windows computers, I won't use Symantec products because I don't trust the company.
Netapp:I won't sell you on them. I'll leave Netapp's salesmen to do that for you.
Funny. We would have bought a NetApp if it wasn't for their head salesman in New Zealand. He has completely turned me off their entire company. I've never met a more brash and abusive person who was trying to sell me something.
He abused me when I wanted to shop around to see other vendors' offerings, because NetApp is the best, goddamnit. Any idiot can see that. Why even look at anything else?
Fucktard.
I'm sure he would have had me at gunpoint if we were face to face.
I honestly think that once MMOGs are so common that they're effectively standard games (just as network playability was once a new thing, then became standard), people will start releasing some source code here and there, or the garage game coders will start coding their own games.
iD have released plenty of their older games' source code into the world, and eventually they, or a company like them, will release code for a MMOG.
Then we'll see people releasing servers/clients free of content.
I like the fact that there are more games for the PC than for a Mac
Actually, I think you'll find that there are more games for Windows than for OS-X. The hardware is irrelevant. It's an important distinction, and once OS-X is running on x86 hardware as standard, there will still be more games available for Windows PCs than Macs.
If you can run OS-X on bog standard white boxes, there will still be more games for Windows than OS-X.
But if Apple were to sell me a copy of OSX for the x86, I'd buy it without hesitation. Whether I continued to use it or not would depend on their hardware support.
Why would they support your hardware if they only sold you software? Do Microsoft support your PC after you buy Windows or Office? Hell, Microsoft don't even support their software, that's up to the shop you bought it from.
have you ever read a license agreement from one of those boxed products? You don't own them. Sorry to shatter your dreams. You are licensing a copy of their software.
surely if this was going to happen, wouldn't the person in the telecom company that 'leaked' this info have signed an NDA? They have managed to give out very specific information, which I imagine would be announced by Google themselves, or released as a 'quiet' beta like GMail, Groups, and we would have found out from people actually using it.
You're trying to tell me that they purposely put Linux code into UnixWare and they still couldn't prove that there was similar code in each source tree?
Now that's the sort of thing that investors need to know about:
Dear SCO investors,
You are investing large amounts of money in a company which;
a) Fraudulently attack large communities of developers/end users/commercial vendors
b) Fraudulently claim that aforementioned communities stole your source code and injected it into their software
c) Couldn't prove any instances of said instances of stolen code
d) Ironically stole the code from those they attacked
e) STILL couldn't prove that there was any stolen code even though they knew where it was because they put it there
You're investing in idiots who have proven they can't even find their own arses (asses for Americans).
I would have loved to have been able to switch to a better design like the Alpha or PowerPC, but the boards are so rare that the prices are outrageous (for a personal system). If more companies produced them, the cost would be driven down by the competition as well as brought down by the increase in production of the CPUs (which is one of the reasons I've seen listed for the switch - x86 is cheaper).
I think this poses an interesting conundrum.
It could be argued that this is just what has held Intel back. If Company X license their architecture out to third parties, there will be more pressure to maintain backwards compatibility going forward.
This could also lead to shortcuts to get the prices down.
Then we're all back to square one.
I certainly don't envy the decision makers here, there's a lot for them to consider.
How the hell can processor architecture influence hardware reliability?
Cost. pure and simple. when the chips are cheap, the rest of the architecture must also be cheap as chips, if you'll excuse the pun. When everything is so cheap, hardware fails at a stupidly high rate.
The only people who know what it even looks like is Intel, compiler writers, and OS programmers. Nobody else needs to deal with the instruction set. The only real downside is that compilers are harder to write, but who cares about that?
You mean to tell me that the writers of your operating system and compilers don't matter?
if that were the case, then you would definitely care about the architecture, because you'd be punching everything into your computer in hexidecimal.
Historically, the x86 line has always been inferior to everything else on the market -- in many ways, such as power consumption, heat emission, and their ISA (instruction set architecture, not the ISA slots).
However -- since they bought some wonderful chips called the StrongARMs off Digital, and have since produced the Xscale line of chips, it's entirely possible that they've learned a thing or two about chip design.
Intel have only ever done one thing right -- marketing. They have pushed the mind share of the common Joe to think that more megahertz means a better processor. And people have fallen for it.
I'm only a very recent Mac convert - about 3 years now, and overall I've been very impressed with their quiet, cool CPUs.
Changing back to the Intel world is something I'm going to do carefully, but I'm open to it. If the next gen of Intel chips made for Apple are up to it, then yes I'll jump onto the bandwagon.
Why are CPUs so important to me?
Because of overall machine architecture. Crappy architecture breeds crappy hardware design. Crappy hardware design means hardware craps out more often. Crapped out hardware leads to a frustrating user experience.
I'd rather just be using my computers. Yeh, 10 years ago, I was right into my hardware strewn in 5 pieces all over the desk, and having to work hard at hacking shit up to figure out what made it tick. But I'm old and cynical now and just want a computer that works.
And you are wrong about 'traces' of an app - the only thing left behind is the.plist file, which is all of 4k.
Depends on the app. Some leave cached files, some leave preferences (which in most cases is the.plist file you mention), some leave license info in case you reinstall (again, most will go in the.plist files, but coders like doing their own things) . There is a lot of junk lying around, and it can be annoying, but I've never seen this extraneous data actually cause a problem anywhere.
Nobody buys a Mac because it's got a cool processor - they but it because it's got a great interface that makes life easier for them.
Just for the record, I do.
I like the fact that both of my macs running together at full noise are quieter than my PC with one fan. This is because of the CPU. PowerPCs are cooler in both senses of the word.
My MacMini stays dead cold regardless of what it's doing. My PC heats up like a little oven when I play games or watch movies.
Who cares if it's x86 or PowerPC - it's the OS and the Apps that make Macs great.
To me, the OS, the UNIX core, and the CPU form what I like to call the Triangle of Love.
Apple saw the writing on the wall and moved to a CPU supplier that can fulfill their needs. That they get a higher speeds, dual cores, and lower prices also is just icing on the cake to them.
just so you know, higher frequencies do not mean higher speeds. There are a lot of things that can be factored into the speed equation such as front-side bus bandwidth, the amount of on-chip cache, instruction pipelines, how efficient branch prediction is, and so much more.
when it comes to overall chip design, Intel are the bottom of the barrel.
I partly agree with you that this won't affect most users, but I am in a position where this is deeply disturbing. The current generation of Intel CPUs (Pentium class chips, not other lines like StrongARM/Xscale) run too hot, suck up too much juice and play havoc with TV reception in my house. Apparently it's a frequency thing, but the first time I noticed it was with a 486 DX4/100.
I have a micro atx PC which make more noise when it's on than every other device in the room. My Mac Mini is dead silent and stays cold regardless of what demands I put on the CPU. My Powerbook's fan occassionally fires up for a short time, and is pretty quiet when it does, but mostly it sits silent.
Even if whitebox PC hardware can be modded to run OS X, and no doubt many thousands will try, the majority of people still won't bother to convert unless Apple can convince game developers to port their games to OS X.
Like porn drives the world of technology, games drive the world of computers. People go for two things: 1) cheap hardware; 2) games.
If Apple can't deliver these, then they're still destined to be a minority player.
I love writing, but I'm also a gadget geek. Both actually conflict when trying to actually do some writing.
I used to own a compaq ipaq with targus keyboard, and although I felt cool, I was always knocking the thing about.
In the end I settled for a $250 pen and a $3 notebook. I take them everywhere. Having a nice fountain pen not only makes me want to write, it's a great experience when I do.
Of course, I then have to transcribe pages of scribbles onto the computer eventually, but I find it easier to think on paper where I can write and draw pictures, cross out stuff, and generally sort out the mayhem.
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I just had some pain trying to register quicktime pro here in New Zealand. Apple don't want to know me. I think i'm going to go back to using an Amiga.
actually, I instinctively thought that too, but I visited the root page of the hosting server (www.start.com) and the whole thing works with Firefox -- including the dragging and dropping.
:)
I'm sure once somebody tells Microsoft this is happening that they'll change it tho
Isn't this what the mafia did? Beat people up, have their businesses burned down, and then offer protection for a 'moderate' fee..
1. Beat people up
2. Offer them protection from bullies
3. Profit!
aspx pages never work in my browser, so I can't rtfa. so forgive me if this is covered in tfa.
what happens when you start watching a self-destructing movie, and watch it partially? Say, half way through you have to stop and go take a shit. Or you have to go visit your mother in hospital because she just fell over.
Does the disc destruct after a partial watching?
If not, what constitutes a full viewing? Do you have to watch it all the way to the end of the credits before it self-destructs?
What happens to the disc when it self-destructs? Does the process have the potential to harm older DVD players? or can it cause harm to DVD players if you try a second viewing?
There is one problem I see. Regardless of what may come in the future, Symantec are currently using deceptive tactics to lure people into buying their software. They are lying to Mac users. Shouldn't they be trying to earn our trust? On Windows computers, I won't use Symantec products because I don't trust the company.
It's that simple.
I still can't get over the fact that computers need more than 640kb of RAM... who could ever have predicted that?
"you're into porn too much."
What the hell are you saying man? Porn is like oxygen: without enough of it, you die.
Netapp:I won't sell you on them. I'll leave Netapp's salesmen to do that for you.
Funny. We would have bought a NetApp if it wasn't for their head salesman in New Zealand. He has completely turned me off their entire company. I've never met a more brash and abusive person who was trying to sell me something.
He abused me when I wanted to shop around to see other vendors' offerings, because NetApp is the best, goddamnit. Any idiot can see that. Why even look at anything else?
Fucktard.
I'm sure he would have had me at gunpoint if we were face to face.
I honestly think that once MMOGs are so common that they're effectively standard games (just as network playability was once a new thing, then became standard), people will start releasing some source code here and there, or the garage game coders will start coding their own games.
iD have released plenty of their older games' source code into the world, and eventually they, or a company like them, will release code for a MMOG.
Then we'll see people releasing servers/clients free of content.
It'll just take a few years.
:) that's ok, I type from the hip sometimes too...
I like the fact that there are more games for the PC than for a Mac
Actually, I think you'll find that there are more games for Windows than for OS-X. The hardware is irrelevant. It's an important distinction, and once OS-X is running on x86 hardware as standard, there will still be more games available for Windows PCs than Macs.
If you can run OS-X on bog standard white boxes, there will still be more games for Windows than OS-X.
But if Apple were to sell me a copy of OSX for the x86, I'd buy it without hesitation. Whether I continued to use it or not would depend on their hardware support.
Why would they support your hardware if they only sold you software? Do Microsoft support your PC after you buy Windows or Office? Hell, Microsoft don't even support their software, that's up to the shop you bought it from.
Or do you mean driver support?
have you ever read a license agreement from one of those boxed products? You don't own them. Sorry to shatter your dreams. You are licensing a copy of their software.
Read one.
surely if this was going to happen, wouldn't the person in the telecom company that 'leaked' this info have signed an NDA? They have managed to give out very specific information, which I imagine would be announced by Google themselves, or released as a 'quiet' beta like GMail, Groups, and we would have found out from people actually using it.
You're trying to tell me that they purposely put Linux code into UnixWare and they still couldn't prove that there was similar code in each source tree?
Now that's the sort of thing that investors need to know about:
Dear SCO investors,
You are investing large amounts of money in a company which;
a) Fraudulently attack large communities of developers/end users/commercial vendors
b) Fraudulently claim that aforementioned communities stole your source code and injected it into their software
c) Couldn't prove any instances of said instances of stolen code
d) Ironically stole the code from those they attacked
e) STILL couldn't prove that there was any stolen code even though they knew where it was because they put it there
You're investing in idiots who have proven they can't even find their own arses (asses for Americans).
How do you feel?
I want to play a fat, balding, ugly old git; not some slim, sexy, buff guy who I will never ever be in real life.
Hey, the perfect game for me is one where you get to play Ron Jeremy!
I think this woman needs to get a dictionary and understand the meaning of 'fantasy.'
then, right after doing that, she needs someone to teach her what the phrase 'sex sells' means.
How many people would buy games where you play a fat lesbo?
I would have loved to have been able to switch to a better design like the Alpha or PowerPC, but the boards are so rare that the prices are outrageous (for a personal system). If more companies produced them, the cost would be driven down by the competition as well as brought down by the increase in production of the CPUs (which is one of the reasons I've seen listed for the switch - x86 is cheaper).
I think this poses an interesting conundrum.
It could be argued that this is just what has held Intel back. If Company X license their architecture out to third parties, there will be more pressure to maintain backwards compatibility going forward.
This could also lead to shortcuts to get the prices down.
Then we're all back to square one.
I certainly don't envy the decision makers here, there's a lot for them to consider.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
as opposed to what? you?
How the hell can processor architecture influence hardware reliability?
Cost. pure and simple. when the chips are cheap, the rest of the architecture must also be cheap as chips, if you'll excuse the pun. When everything is so cheap, hardware fails at a stupidly high rate.
The only people who know what it even looks like is Intel, compiler writers, and OS programmers. Nobody else needs to deal with the instruction set. The only real downside is that compilers are harder to write, but who cares about that?
You mean to tell me that the writers of your operating system and compilers don't matter?
if that were the case, then you would definitely care about the architecture, because you'd be punching everything into your computer in hexidecimal.
don't even joke about Dell. They're so cheap for a reason.
Historically, the x86 line has always been inferior to everything else on the market -- in many ways, such as power consumption, heat emission, and their ISA (instruction set architecture, not the ISA slots).
However -- since they bought some wonderful chips called the StrongARMs off Digital, and have since produced the Xscale line of chips, it's entirely possible that they've learned a thing or two about chip design.
Intel have only ever done one thing right -- marketing. They have pushed the mind share of the common Joe to think that more megahertz means a better processor. And people have fallen for it.
I'm only a very recent Mac convert - about 3 years now, and overall I've been very impressed with their quiet, cool CPUs.
Changing back to the Intel world is something I'm going to do carefully, but I'm open to it. If the next gen of Intel chips made for Apple are up to it, then yes I'll jump onto the bandwagon.
Why are CPUs so important to me?
Because of overall machine architecture. Crappy architecture breeds crappy hardware design. Crappy hardware design means hardware craps out more often. Crapped out hardware leads to a frustrating user experience.
I'd rather just be using my computers. Yeh, 10 years ago, I was right into my hardware strewn in 5 pieces all over the desk, and having to work hard at hacking shit up to figure out what made it tick. But I'm old and cynical now and just want a computer that works.
tetris is about blocks being created and it is the player's job to destroy them all. if you let them procreate, you lose.
death is everywhere.
if you let it.
And you are wrong about 'traces' of an app - the only thing left behind is the .plist file, which is all of 4k.
.plist file you mention), some leave license info in case you reinstall (again, most will go in the .plist files, but coders like doing their own things) . There is a lot of junk lying around, and it can be annoying, but I've never seen this extraneous data actually cause a problem anywhere.
Depends on the app. Some leave cached files, some leave preferences (which in most cases is the
Nobody buys a Mac because it's got a cool processor - they but it because it's got a great interface that makes life easier for them.
Just for the record, I do.
I like the fact that both of my macs running together at full noise are quieter than my PC with one fan. This is because of the CPU. PowerPCs are cooler in both senses of the word.
My MacMini stays dead cold regardless of what it's doing. My PC heats up like a little oven when I play games or watch movies.
Who cares if it's x86 or PowerPC - it's the OS and the Apps that make Macs great.
To me, the OS, the UNIX core, and the CPU form what I like to call the Triangle of Love.
Apple saw the writing on the wall and moved to a CPU supplier that can fulfill their needs. That they get a higher speeds, dual cores, and lower prices also is just icing on the cake to them.
just so you know, higher frequencies do not mean higher speeds. There are a lot of things that can be factored into the speed equation such as front-side bus bandwidth, the amount of on-chip cache, instruction pipelines, how efficient branch prediction is, and so much more.
when it comes to overall chip design, Intel are the bottom of the barrel.
I partly agree with you that this won't affect most users, but I am in a position where this is deeply disturbing. The current generation of Intel CPUs (Pentium class chips, not other lines like StrongARM/Xscale) run too hot, suck up too much juice and play havoc with TV reception in my house. Apparently it's a frequency thing, but the first time I noticed it was with a 486 DX4/100.
I have a micro atx PC which make more noise when it's on than every other device in the room. My Mac Mini is dead silent and stays cold regardless of what demands I put on the CPU. My Powerbook's fan occassionally fires up for a short time, and is pretty quiet when it does, but mostly it sits silent.
Even if whitebox PC hardware can be modded to run OS X, and no doubt many thousands will try, the majority of people still won't bother to convert unless Apple can convince game developers to port their games to OS X.
Like porn drives the world of technology, games drive the world of computers. People go for two things: 1) cheap hardware; 2) games.
If Apple can't deliver these, then they're still destined to be a minority player.
I love writing, but I'm also a gadget geek. Both actually conflict when trying to actually do some writing.
I used to own a compaq ipaq with targus keyboard, and although I felt cool, I was always knocking the thing about.
In the end I settled for a $250 pen and a $3 notebook. I take them everywhere. Having a nice fountain pen not only makes me want to write, it's a great experience when I do.
Of course, I then have to transcribe pages of scribbles onto the computer eventually, but I find it easier to think on paper where I can write and draw pictures, cross out stuff, and generally sort out the mayhem.
YMMV.