OS9 was a sluggish beast in itself. I highly doubt that a Pentium with the same clockspeed as a G4 can compare, and I'd even give the Pentium 100-400 Mhz leeway. The OS's and apps are so different that you'd have to develop some sort of special software package to really compare the two. OSX is all that matters now though, truly.
You are right on with that one. It's really pretty freaky. Maybe they should sell desks with a yellow-flower-print-wallpaper type look to match the computer case...
I'd just like to say this: You're an idiot. First of all, if you think that ugly red looks better than shiny silver/transparent covers, then you're just damn crazy. Secondly, Macintosh sells high end graphics workstations, and they're pretty good according to most, but you don't hear about them. This SGI would blow any G4 Mac away probably, or maybe not, I don't know, my point is that the home computer G4 isn't designed to compete with SGI machines, but Apple sells computers that are.
Single MIPS® 64-bit R14000A processor, 500 MHz with 2MB L2 cache or 600 MHz with 4MB L2 cache; 200 MHz front-side bus
OMG! Like, for real? Only 600 Mhz max? What kind of slack ass company makes a computer that slow these days? These people are totally lame! {/SARCASM}
Sorry for the trolling guys, hopefully some of you find it funny. I just thought I'd do my impersonation of 75% of the readers when they evaluate Macintosh specs. Anyway, happy modding!
He was driving that in ALTANTA traffic? There's a death wish if I've ever seen one. Maybe people should test these out in a more tame environment first, like Gainseville, GA or how about Greenville, SC, where people still can't drive but at least there aren't that many and they're not going that fast. If that guy keeps driving that thing on I-85, he's going to end up getting picked out of the grill of a semi.
Oh and one more thing... does he get to use the HOV lane?
Use a RAID array so that you have failure protection. I know compaq sells a good product that goes with their servers, maybe they sell it stand alone too.
Before we could react, the beast managed to mirror itself on a multitude of public FTP servers, which makes any attempts to capture it futile. All we can do at the moment is to keep an up-to-date list of public FTP servers on which the first beta has been sighted so far on the "downloads" page of the Mandrake Linux site.
I don't know if they just made the whole "accidental release" story up or not, but either way their attitude is pretty funny about this. Apparently they didn't mean for people to get their hands on it, but now that it's out there they are helping everyone download it, giving out the specs, and encouraging bug reports. Sounds like a good development team.
In addition, the PowerPC G4 can perform four (in some cases eight) 32-bit floating-point calculations in a single cycle -- two to four times faster than processors found in PCs.
That's fast. I just love the details behind the facts: Pentiums suck, I'll take 1 G4 over a P4 at ANY speed. Anyway, enough trolling, if you click on the processors link in the article, apple gives a pretty nice overview of why their dual processor G4's are really, really nice.
Here is an interesting new digital music player. Actually it's a player/recorder targeted to professionals or anyone else who wants to record voice and music on the fly digitally.
I can see this being a cool little device for the every day person, but as an MP3 format recorder at a max of 128 kps, with only 256MB memory (will increase soon), I just don't see professionals switching from traditional media to this recorder any time soon, not even for their live performances. I think until a higher end format is used, such as Ogg Vorbis, these people will continue using analog recording media and if they need to transmit it digitally, they'll just use an encoder of some type back at the studio. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a cool little gadget for the average user, I'd like to play with one.
but the preliminary comments are still way too ambiguous: "We view spam as sending a commercial e-mail to someone with whom a marketer has not had any prior business relationship and as being sent to someone who has not asked for the e-mail," Cerasale said.
Alright, so if you sign up for a shopping site so that you can browse the contents, does that qualify as having a business relationship with a marketer? I'm pretty sure the businesses think it does. How about email being sent to someone who has not asked for the email? I don't think I've ever asked for an advertisement email, but I know that lots of times you have to scour every inch of the screen to find that little checkbox that says "click here if you don't want to receive promotional emails." The way the article reads, I'm not seeing much improvement here. These companies aren't really the huge spam problem in the first place, it's mostly the diet fad and porno sites, but still I don't think this will reduce their spamming, they'll just come up with new ways to trick you into "having a prior business relationship with a marketer" and "asking for the email."
"I just didn't have a million dollars to run a commercial," he said.
OK, so go online and submit your resume via the many various accepted methods. Just about every corporation has an ability to accept resumes, there's Monster.com, thingamajob.com, all sorts of others. There are job recruitment agencies all over the place that take online resume submissions... basically, get off your ass and work for it, don't just send your resume out to everyone and their brother and expect a kind response!
PS - most resumes have confidential information in them, it would be great irony if these resume spammers suddenly suffered from "stolen identity."
You're not using the correct frame of reference here. This is a completely new technology, an amazing acheivement. It will take another equally impressive breakthrough before it will be possible to produce these chips with zero defects. The thing is, with this process they produce the chips, they're all unique, then another process automatically customizes the chips. Therefore, it is in fact possible to mass produce these things.
It's not like they had a functional product and then repaired it, the idea is they pop out this chip and then have to go in and clean it up before it's ready for use. Sort of like at different parts of a car production line where the automated machines pop out the car and humans have to go touch it up and get it ready for the next phase. You could call that a repair but it really is just a "tweak."
The fact that they are going to be able to fix the chips is a big breakthrough, but the biggest thing here is the process for making the chips. They are breaking the chips into different functional areas, and this is what enables (indirectly) the capability to do "chip fixing."
I don't have a spellchecker on my post comment screen, and I really don't feel like taking the time to double check all of my spelling, so excuse me if I mess up on a word here and there, arsehole.
I hope this woman uses a wireless mouse: "This overexposure to pulsed microwaves has been a personal tragedy for me," Wagner said in an e-mail interview. "I'm left hypersensitive -- even my mouse burns my hand when I use my computer now."
That's just too funny.
One more thing, if these people are electrically sensitive, how are they calling this guy on their phones? Shouldn't they be using a can and string or maybe a letter or something?
Millions of people use Yahoo! every day for every possible thing you can imagine. If there was some way to poll browser configurations and see what the default start page was, I'm sure the majority would be Yahoo, followed closely by MSN (the default for IE) and then Netscape. I'm not talking about slashdot readers or other technical types, I mean every day people. An average person can seemingly do anything they'd ever need to do online without ever leaving Yahoo!, and it's almost all free. Free games, auctions, email, yellow pages, city guides, etc. Now, power users or even just slightly better than average users may not ever go to Yahoo, or if they do they branch off of it and go other places, but they realize that there's a LOT more to the internet than just Yahoo!. These people will never use the premium search feature. In my opinion, it's the millions of dedicated "internet=yahoo" people out there who logon to my.yahoo.com and check their email along with their local headlines and weather... they will be the ones who see the banner for "premium yahoo searches" and say to themselves "hey, it's yahoo, it's premium, it's got to be worth it." I think Yahoo stands to make a great deal of money off of this. I just hope they don't do anything underhanded like reduce the quality of their normal searches or leave off certain results like, say, google.com from a search of "indexing web sites."
Yes, I know, but I wanted to use "You've Got..." and putting "served" after that just didn't sound right. There has to be a noun for that process, I just haven't watched Law and Order enough times to remember it.
Although this post was intended as humor, it could sarcastically be used as a defense by Microshaft that AOL is stifling competition by blanketing the country with AOL CD's, while MSN only offers service through conventional advertising. I don't think it'd hold up in court though, especially since every single computer with Microshaft software asks you about three times a day if you want to have MSN service.
I hope AOL wins a lot of money so they can send out USEFUL cd's, not just read-only ones. I sure would like them a lot more and just might install AO.... ok maybe not.
Hopefully much smarter people than me are out there working on a remedy, but I just don't see how they could help anything without a severely drastic course of action. By severely drastic I mean something like forcing all OEM's to sell dual boot machines with an OpenSource solution installed as the alternative.
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OS9 was a sluggish beast in itself. I highly doubt that a Pentium with the same clockspeed as a G4 can compare, and I'd even give the Pentium 100-400 Mhz leeway. The OS's and apps are so different that you'd have to develop some sort of special software package to really compare the two. OSX is all that matters now though, truly.
You are right on with that one. It's really pretty freaky. Maybe they should sell desks with a yellow-flower-print-wallpaper type look to match the computer case...
I'd just like to say this: You're an idiot. First of all, if you think that ugly red looks better than shiny silver/transparent covers, then you're just damn crazy. Secondly, Macintosh sells high end graphics workstations, and they're pretty good according to most, but you don't hear about them. This SGI would blow any G4 Mac away probably, or maybe not, I don't know, my point is that the home computer G4 isn't designed to compete with SGI machines, but Apple sells computers that are.
Single MIPS® 64-bit R14000A processor, 500 MHz with 2MB L2 cache or 600 MHz with 4MB L2 cache; 200 MHz front-side bus
OMG! Like, for real? Only 600 Mhz max? What kind of slack ass company makes a computer that slow these days? These people are totally lame! {/SARCASM}
Sorry for the trolling guys, hopefully some of you find it funny. I just thought I'd do my impersonation of 75% of the readers when they evaluate Macintosh specs. Anyway, happy modding!
He was driving that in ALTANTA traffic? There's a death wish if I've ever seen one. Maybe people should test these out in a more tame environment first, like Gainseville, GA or how about Greenville, SC, where people still can't drive but at least there aren't that many and they're not going that fast. If that guy keeps driving that thing on I-85, he's going to end up getting picked out of the grill of a semi.
Oh and one more thing... does he get to use the HOV lane?
Use a RAID array so that you have failure protection. I know compaq sells a good product that goes with their servers, maybe they sell it stand alone too.
Before we could react, the beast managed to mirror itself on a multitude of public FTP servers, which makes any attempts to capture it futile. All we can do at the moment is to keep an up-to-date list of public FTP servers on which the first beta has been sighted so far on the "downloads" page of the Mandrake Linux site.
I don't know if they just made the whole "accidental release" story up or not, but either way their attitude is pretty funny about this. Apparently they didn't mean for people to get their hands on it, but now that it's out there they are helping everyone download it, giving out the specs, and encouraging bug reports. Sounds like a good development team.
In addition, the PowerPC G4 can perform four (in some cases eight) 32-bit floating-point calculations in a single cycle -- two to four times faster than processors found in PCs.
That's fast. I just love the details behind the facts: Pentiums suck, I'll take 1 G4 over a P4 at ANY speed. Anyway, enough trolling, if you click on the processors link in the article, apple gives a pretty nice overview of why their dual processor G4's are really, really nice.
Here is an interesting new digital music player. Actually it's a player/recorder targeted to professionals or anyone else who wants to record voice and music on the fly digitally.
I can see this being a cool little device for the every day person, but as an MP3 format recorder at a max of 128 kps, with only 256MB memory (will increase soon), I just don't see professionals switching from traditional media to this recorder any time soon, not even for their live performances. I think until a higher end format is used, such as Ogg Vorbis, these people will continue using analog recording media and if they need to transmit it digitally, they'll just use an encoder of some type back at the studio. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a cool little gadget for the average user, I'd like to play with one.
but the preliminary comments are still way too ambiguous:
"We view spam as sending a commercial e-mail to someone with whom a marketer has not had any prior business relationship and as being sent to someone who has not asked for the e-mail," Cerasale said.
Alright, so if you sign up for a shopping site so that you can browse the contents, does that qualify as having a business relationship with a marketer? I'm pretty sure the businesses think it does. How about email being sent to someone who has not asked for the email? I don't think I've ever asked for an advertisement email, but I know that lots of times you have to scour every inch of the screen to find that little checkbox that says "click here if you don't want to receive promotional emails." The way the article reads, I'm not seeing much improvement here. These companies aren't really the huge spam problem in the first place, it's mostly the diet fad and porno sites, but still I don't think this will reduce their spamming, they'll just come up with new ways to trick you into "having a prior business relationship with a marketer" and "asking for the email."
"I just didn't have a million dollars to run a commercial," he said.
OK, so go online and submit your resume via the many various accepted methods. Just about every corporation has an ability to accept resumes, there's Monster.com, thingamajob.com, all sorts of others. There are job recruitment agencies all over the place that take online resume submissions... basically, get off your ass and work for it, don't just send your resume out to everyone and their brother and expect a kind response!
PS - most resumes have confidential information in them, it would be great irony if these resume spammers suddenly suffered from "stolen identity."
You're not using the correct frame of reference here. This is a completely new technology, an amazing acheivement. It will take another equally impressive breakthrough before it will be possible to produce these chips with zero defects. The thing is, with this process they produce the chips, they're all unique, then another process automatically customizes the chips. Therefore, it is in fact possible to mass produce these things.
Or certain people get pissed off when I post responses like "JonKatz is an idiot" and "CmndrTaco, please stop posting this crap"
It's not like they had a functional product and then repaired it, the idea is they pop out this chip and then have to go in and clean it up before it's ready for use. Sort of like at different parts of a car production line where the automated machines pop out the car and humans have to go touch it up and get it ready for the next phase. You could call that a repair but it really is just a "tweak."
Just a little record keeping...
2002-01-24 14:44:32 HP Says Atom-Sized Computer Chips a Lot Closer (articles,news) (rejected)
Oh well
So much so that I posted it this morning, only from the Yahoo! site: HP Says Atom-Sized Computer Chips a Lot Closer
The fact that they are going to be able to fix the chips is a big breakthrough, but the biggest thing here is the process for making the chips. They are breaking the chips into different functional areas, and this is what enables (indirectly) the capability to do "chip fixing."
I don't have a spellchecker on my post comment screen, and I really don't feel like taking the time to double check all of my spelling, so excuse me if I mess up on a word here and there, arsehole.
I hope this woman uses a wireless mouse:
"This overexposure to pulsed microwaves has been a personal tragedy for me," Wagner said in an e-mail interview. "I'm left hypersensitive -- even my mouse burns my hand when I use my computer now."
That's just too funny.
One more thing, if these people are electrically sensitive, how are they calling this guy on their phones? Shouldn't they be using a can and string or maybe a letter or something?
Millions of people use Yahoo! every day for every possible thing you can imagine. If there was some way to poll browser configurations and see what the default start page was, I'm sure the majority would be Yahoo, followed closely by MSN (the default for IE) and then Netscape. I'm not talking about slashdot readers or other technical types, I mean every day people. An average person can seemingly do anything they'd ever need to do online without ever leaving Yahoo!, and it's almost all free. Free games, auctions, email, yellow pages, city guides, etc. Now, power users or even just slightly better than average users may not ever go to Yahoo, or if they do they branch off of it and go other places, but they realize that there's a LOT more to the internet than just Yahoo!. These people will never use the premium search feature. In my opinion, it's the millions of dedicated "internet=yahoo" people out there who logon to my.yahoo.com and check their email along with their local headlines and weather... they will be the ones who see the banner for "premium yahoo searches" and say to themselves "hey, it's yahoo, it's premium, it's got to be worth it." I think Yahoo stands to make a great deal of money off of this. I just hope they don't do anything underhanded like reduce the quality of their normal searches or leave off certain results like, say, google.com from a search of "indexing web sites."
Yes, I know, but I wanted to use "You've Got..." and putting "served" after that just didn't sound right. There has to be a noun for that process, I just haven't watched Law and Order enough times to remember it.
They sure have plenty of reason!
Although this post was intended as humor, it could sarcastically be used as a defense by Microshaft that AOL is stifling competition by blanketing the country with AOL CD's, while MSN only offers service through conventional advertising. I don't think it'd hold up in court though, especially since every single computer with Microshaft software asks you about three times a day if you want to have MSN service.
I hope AOL wins a lot of money so they can send out USEFUL cd's, not just read-only ones. I sure would like them a lot more and just might install AO.... ok maybe not.
I think that design was implemented before AOL bought Netscape, but still why haven't they switched over to using Netscape as the AOL browser?
Hopefully much smarter people than me are out there working on a remedy, but I just don't see how they could help anything without a severely drastic course of action. By severely drastic I mean something like forcing all OEM's to sell dual boot machines with an OpenSource solution installed as the alternative.
Or whatever the legal mumbo jumbo for notice that you're ass is getting sued!
(intended as humor)