Yes, but my point is intended to be a general one... Every area has a "disaster" of some type... and "we" tend not to be good a judging and evaluating longer term risks. Timescales and "true" evaluations of costs are important.
Define "rare event"... I suspect that you (and most people think about your life time), but cities should be built with longer timescales in mind.
At somepoint many developed areas will either be abandonded as urban areas (due to lack of water as much as too much water), or we shall spend vast sums of money to inhabit areas that are "suboptimal"... people are very bad at actually evaluating "rare events"...
in my experience the Magellan v. Garmin is a low key religious war... Not unlike the choice between certain operating systems. They do things differently, but they both will get the job done. Personally I find that the Garmin interface is a bit more natural to me, but it is religion not science. Play with the particular model you want... interface is everything.
In all fairness to some of these dates [specifically 10.3 for example]. I would imagine that many of these updates go GM well before the actual date of release.
In addition it would strike me that it is more important to Apple that the fix work well, than have it break lots of things... especially given the difficulty of actually doing anything with the exploit
I have used my 15" 667MHz Ti book in un-airconditioned E. Texas with temperatures in the mid 90's with some success.
I can play a DVD for almost 2 hours before I must let my powerbook cool down. Granted the fan is on during this, and it makes a big difference if it is on a hard surface. Generally I get through the movie, but I have to let my powerbook cool for about a half hour before I can watch any of the special features. In general I have found that the optical drives on these computers tend to generate a bunch of heat. I only fail to burn a CD when I am burning 3+ in sequence... so now I let it cool down after 2 discs.
At these temperatures it is very important to run on a hard surface. With normal use (php/apache/mysql to a local web browser for data entry) and processor cycling on, the fan will stay at a happy medium speed.
I have used my powerbook in all kinds of conditions, and several of my friends take them camping from cars. You have to be careful with the Ti powerbook because they are a bit fragile, but they seem to be able to deal with camping / generators in death valley, etc.
One is limited only by imagination as to what series of intermediate stages enabled wings to become as cool as they are. (Okay, there are some biomechanical and developmental constraints).
Thus is the beauty of doing science without data. Hypotheses are uncontrained.
At the far extreme: Aliens planted diosaurs... disprove it?
I understand that mozilla might have some hurt feelings, but lets focus. Apple had specific needs and they chose what they thought was the best solution. Mozilla is doing something a bit different (multiplatform).
In the end this is a bit of a win for Mozilla and all open source software. 1. It is a high profile (if low distribution) browser based on an open source core. This is a good thing for open source projects in general. 2. Competition in the open source browser arena is not a bad thing. I predict that both browsers will get better as a result or some good natured competition. 3. Apple is not anti-Mozilla, they just decided to use a different rending engine for Safari. 4. Chimera (Mozilla based) is still a better browser than Safari on MacOS X.
does anyone know about network latency with Firewire IP? I have been told that 1000 & 100 MB ethernet have similar latency and that it much to high (slow) for some clustered tasks... leading people to use other networking hardware for clusters. Could firewire be a good low latency alternative?
matrix and all that.
on
Equilibrium
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Sure another movie like the matrix, and yes the matrix popularized a bunch of types of special effects...
But really people...
The matrix was not the first time these things had been done. Check a little film history and get out and look at some less Hollywood movies once and a while. It does not make any of these movies better or worse, almost all movies build on previous work and copy some of the effects from previous movies. Get over it.
Re:All are missing the one thing I need (Mac OS X)
on
Thursday Release Party
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Check the new version of BBedit. they claim CVS support.
This is great news, but consider what this really means. What we really want & need, a fully native version, is still someway off. The subtext is the more people who can help the faster and better off we will be. MAK
I wonder how this will mesh with the earlier interview where he expressed a desire to open source PGP... It would be really cool if Zimmerman could be convinced to open the code and sell it.
I used GPSy under OS 9 and was really happy. I know that there has been some talk about porting that app to OS X. I would email them and see if you could help port that app. It was very nice.
I would make one additional requirement. A supported graphics card. Don't get me wrong I have been running OSX on my Wallstreet powerbook since the public beta. But it has never been able to play movies, and the GUI is sluggish. Anything without a GUI is very snappy indeed, but as a user GUI speed is very important, and as far as I can tell that is all about video card support. I do X because I use the unix, but 9 is much more responsive on that hardware.
Security updates can never be too frequent. I for one am very impressed that apple is on the ball. As far as bandwidth goes it cannot be worse than all the quicktime movie trailers that get streamed from apple.
Slashdot Mirror
So when does Apple start renegotiating the agreements with the major record labels?
Always good to look like you are not making heaps of money when you sit down to share the proceeds, no?
Conspiracy theories...
Check out smartmontools (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/) it is a very good way to keep track of drive health... but backups are always good ;-)
While comparing these things is difficult at best, try (for example) Secunia's relevant product pages:
Advisories (2003-2005) OSX 57 & XP Pro 102
As for vendor patches Apple is at 100%... not bad.
(XP Professional) http://secunia.com/product/22/
and...
(Mac OS X) http://secunia.com/product/96/
Is any system perfect... no (even OpenBSD admits to 1 hole in 8 years), but Apple does make it as painless as possible.
Yes, but my point is intended to be a general one... Every area has a "disaster" of some type... and "we" tend not to be good a judging and evaluating longer term risks. Timescales and "true" evaluations of costs are important.
Define "rare event"... I suspect that you (and most people think about your life time), but cities should be built with longer timescales in mind.
At somepoint many developed areas will either be abandonded as urban areas (due to lack of water as much as too much water), or we shall spend vast sums of money to inhabit areas that are "suboptimal"... people are very bad at actually evaluating "rare events"...
Playfair still works for me...
check the forums, but just FYI...
in my experience the Magellan v. Garmin is a low key religious war... Not unlike the choice between certain operating systems. They do things differently, but they both will get the job done. Personally I find that the Garmin interface is a bit more natural to me, but it is religion not science. Play with the particular model you want... interface is everything.
In all fairness to some of these dates [specifically 10.3 for example]. I would imagine that many of these updates go GM well before the actual date of release.
In addition it would strike me that it is more important to Apple that the fix work well, than have it break lots of things... especially given the difficulty of actually doing anything with the exploit
I have used my 15" 667MHz Ti book in un-airconditioned E. Texas with temperatures in the mid 90's with some success.
I can play a DVD for almost 2 hours before I must let my powerbook cool down. Granted the fan is on during this, and it makes a big difference if it is on a hard surface. Generally I get through the movie, but I have to let my powerbook cool for about a half hour before I can watch any of the special features. In general I have found that the optical drives on these computers tend to generate a bunch of heat. I only fail to burn a CD when I am burning 3+ in sequence... so now I let it cool down after 2 discs.
At these temperatures it is very important to run on a hard surface. With normal use (php/apache/mysql to a local web browser for data entry) and processor cycling on, the fan will stay at a happy medium speed.
I have used my powerbook in all kinds of conditions, and several of my friends take them camping from cars. You have to be careful with the Ti powerbook because they are a bit fragile, but they seem to be able to deal with camping / generators in death valley, etc.
MAK
Some of us prefer adio formats that:
1. don't suck.
2. are more portable than real audio.
From someone who has been recording and mp3 encoding TAL for the past several years. It was not hard to do this with AppleScript and Mpegger...
Great idea, but look at the manuals companies give these days. Even when I buy a box the manuals are basically useless.
One is limited only by imagination as to what series of intermediate stages enabled wings to become as cool as they are. (Okay, there are some biomechanical and developmental constraints).
Thus is the beauty of doing science without data. Hypotheses are uncontrained.
At the far extreme:
Aliens planted diosaurs... disprove it?
Even if safari takes 100% of the MacOS X market (which it will not). It will be a minority browser because macs a are minority of computers.
How many people have downloaded Mozilla?
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6565
I understand that mozilla might have some hurt feelings, but lets focus. Apple had specific needs and they chose what they thought was the best solution. Mozilla is doing something a bit different (multiplatform).
In the end this is a bit of a win for Mozilla and all open source software.
1. It is a high profile (if low distribution) browser based on an open source core. This is a good thing for open source projects in general.
2. Competition in the open source browser arena is not a bad thing. I predict that both browsers will get better as a result or some good natured competition.
3. Apple is not anti-Mozilla, they just decided to use a different rending engine for Safari.
4. Chimera (Mozilla based) is still a better browser than Safari on MacOS X.
does anyone know about network latency with Firewire IP? I have been told that 1000 & 100 MB ethernet have similar latency and that it much to high (slow) for some clustered tasks... leading people to use other networking hardware for clusters. Could firewire be a good low latency alternative?
Sure another movie like the matrix, and yes the matrix popularized a bunch of types of special effects...
But really people...
The matrix was not the first time these things had been done. Check a little film history and get out and look at some less Hollywood movies once and a while. It does not make any of these movies better or worse, almost all movies build on previous work and copy some of the effects from previous movies. Get over it.
Check the new version of BBedit. they claim CVS support.
This is great news, but consider what this really means. What we really want & need, a fully native version, is still someway off. The subtext is the more people who can help the faster and better off we will be.
MAK
Actually apple does one better (at least my new installation did).
Software Update ran automatically right after I installed 10.2.
So I got the update within about 2 minutes of installing 10.2.
I wonder how this will mesh with the earlier interview where he expressed a desire to open source PGP... It would be really cool if Zimmerman could be convinced to open the code and sell it.
I used GPSy under OS 9 and was really happy. I know that there has been some talk about porting that app to OS X. I would email them and see if you could help port that app. It was very nice.
I would make one additional requirement. A supported graphics card. Don't get me wrong I have been running OSX on my Wallstreet powerbook since the public beta. But it has never been able to play movies, and the GUI is sluggish. Anything without a GUI is very snappy indeed, but as a user GUI speed is very important, and as far as I can tell that is all about video card support. I do X because I use the unix, but 9 is much more responsive on that hardware.
Security updates can never be too frequent. I for one am very impressed that apple is on the ball. As far as bandwidth goes it cannot be worse than all the quicktime movie trailers that get streamed from apple.
It makes changes to "System Libraries".