I think the democrats since clinton are actually 'the economist' style conservative which is fiscally conservative and socially liberal.. clinton spent a lot of time paying down the debt, reducing welfare (to workfare) and doing a lot of things that should have given the fiscal conservatives a source of hope.. Not all democrats are like this to be sure, but there are more out there than you might think ..For what its worth i vote democratic now on national/state level and vote republican on the city level (because of the entrenched corruption of the democratic party in my city (philadelphia) )
1/2 is the distribution cost and 1/2 is the generation cost..(this is only matters if you choose a different energy provider as all you can save is the generation cost.. the distribution cost is fixed).. if you are making energy on site you save on both since they aren't distributing that power to you...
And thats what companies like cdbaby have realized... The more the labels push for 5 cents a download the more lucrative places like cdbaby become.. for any indie artist even w/out the promotional vehicle that is a label the amount of money one makes via a virtual label like cdbaby makes going that route look more and like the right way to go... no more will getting "signed" have the mythos that it has in the past...
I'm pretty excited about this release and the xeons they are releasing.. what I think mac does well is keep what is good and improve on what needs to be improved on. The best example of this is the G5 case. For those of you in the PC world and may have "modder" friends who buy over-expensive lian-li cases and the like, take a look at your typical G5 (and now mac pro case). There are no cables anywhere, they wrap around the outside and the ends pop up exactly where you need them (i.e. for drives) the machine opens by simply pulling a lever, you access the memory/pci slots by removing the giant fan (which just slides off the case)... the only thing that was not good about the G5 case is the two drive slots which they finally fixed..
The time machine is also remarkably well done. Yes it is has been there since VMS but the fact is 99% of us do not use versioning.. its the ease of use that is the key... As an example of this, one of the lesser known features of the mac server is the mobile user login for laptops... it basically is simply a set of login/logout and anacron style scripts that "rsync (equivalent)" your desktop to your laptop and resync it when you are back on the network... (This is part of the same package that does nfs (equivalent) mounting for roving home directories).. The important practicality of this is *seemlessly* everyones laptops are now completely backed up onto a server (i.e. simply a desktop) w/out any complicated manual intervention on their part. Now couple that to time-machine you have backups and versioning of laptops everywhere..
the mail program stationary and the ichat program is fluff.. fun fluff (well w/ the mail its annoyinf fluff) but whatever... the "to do" list is brilliant... god knows we all do it... we send ourselves emails as our todo list... bad habit we should be using a calendering program but this will fix that by making it seemless and possibly by having other peoples todos merge into ours (groupware like)
25 GB/s memory per processor for the woodcrest chips is mad, whats the bus speed on the conroe chips? They are seriously going for the high end here.. I have a feeling the conroe chips are going to go in the imac equivalent and the mini equivalents later this week or in spring... but the specs on that machine are brilliant... for the specs it may compete w/ dell but in the pc world buy boxes w/ conroe chips for $1k w/ a reasonable graphics system... i.e a low end G5 w/ upgradability.. i wish apple had something for that audience (i am not sure the imac/mac mini really qualifies)
Yea its specialized hardware, the mdgrape basically calculates Newton's law in the hardware so it does the inverse ^2 calculation really super fast. There used to be a md-grape equivalent which did the same thing for coulombs law (as you would think there is more money in doing biosims than astrosims), but i think that died as the market was too small.
I think this was an ibm/fujitsu collaboration and ibm had md-grape and dropped it because of the market and fujitsu is still making the grape..
FYI the reason even though it is specialized, this is cool is that any simulation you want to do classically (i.e gravity, coulomb), basically goes as N^2 where N is the number of things (i.e. you have to calculation the interaction btwn each thing and every other thing, so there are lots of tricks to make approximations (clever versions of stuff far away doesn't matter so much). This goes up fast as simulations get bigger, hence the GRAPE tricks, which let people do monster simulations as if they had terahertz machines!
(On the other hand some people will object the "approximations" make real simulations go as N log N, so its not like we were all twiddling our thumbs waiting around for GRAPE)
If your code is GPL'd I highly recommend giving QT 4.0 try. The native qt hooks are remarkably native looking for mac os x. It obviously depends on what your application is, but coding in qt 4.0 gives you unix / mac portable code w/ no effort, particularly if you do not have any mac os dependent code (i.e. hardware/device calls etc). (We have not tried the windows QT so do not have a point of reference )
Of course you should/can talk about race and most people will applaud for doing so.. but there is a big difference between having a white person grabbing a black person and saying "white" is coming (or vice versa) than talking about the suntanning...
let me put it another way... suppose we had a photo of a german grabbing a jew or a gypsy and saying Deutschland is coming as a world cup ad don't you think it would come off badly? Is it really PC to point that out?
no one is saying you should ignore race 24/7 (though ironically again thats the european attitude which has lead to things like the french riots).. the US is much better about race relations than europe no matter what people say and a lot of it has to do w/ the fact that people are sensitive enough to realize certain things don't come off well.. (in the *same way* when black people talk about the white devil it also does not come off well to most people in the US)
So you are saying blacks have discriminated against whites *objectively* on the same (or even more) level that whites have discriminated against blacks?.... Right....
C'mon man i'm not justifying either.. i am saying most people in most countries saw the other side of it and still see the other side of it... in south africa there would be justifiable outrage for the other half of the ad. The point here is the ad is using "race" to connotate that "black" is "coming" to "overpower" "white" and/or vice versa... given certain contexts aka post apartheid south africa and/or the US where we had jim crow laws until very recently that is justifiably going to come off very badly because it reminds them of all those people who think that way. That is what is wrong w/ saying "black" people will overpower "white" people (or vice versa) and pretend it is a sony psp..
the irony is the US is much better about race relations than europe... which is why it ruffles US feathers but the europeans dont see what the issue is.
C'mon man i'm not justifying either.. i am saying most people in most countries saw the other side of it and still see the other side of it... in south africa there would be justifiable outrage for the other half of the ad. The point here is the ad is using "race" to connotate that "black" is "coming" to "overpower" "white" and/or vice versa... given certain contexts aka post apartheid south africa and/or the US where we had jim crow laws until very recently that is justifiably going to come off very badly because it reminds them of all those people who think that way. That is what is wrong w/ saying "black" people will overpower "white" people (or vice versa) and pretend it is a sony psp..
the irony is the US is much better about race relations than europe... which is why it ruffles US feathers but the europeans dont see what the issue is.
(1) yes it is racist (2) The reasons people are not as "up in arms" about it is that there is no history of black on white slavery/discrimination on the level that white on black discrimination exists even today. If white people were enslaved by black people and we had jim crow laws discriminating against white people in the 60's then people would be more up in arms about that. But the fact of the matter is there was not and the idea that "black" person are overpowering a "white" person, is absurd on the face of it. On the other hand a white woman saying "white is coming" in that pose brings back all sorts of bad connotations like white supremacy and lynchings and discrimination.
I think this depends on when the power grid was put down. In philadelphia (at least the city proper ) has its power underground. Interestingly my phone and cable are above ground and strung through the back between the buildings while power and gas is under the street somewhere and comes through the front of the house.
I think the Acela trains were supposed to do this but for whatever reason (no track updates, cracks etc) the Acela never migrated to the normal NE corridor lines. The irony of the NE corridor / Amtrak service, is even as slow as it goes (6 hours between philly and boston, so it must be 7:30 between DC and boston), is its like 1/2 price if you take airtran. I used to take amtrak just because i got work done on the train but its not really worth it either monetarily or timewise (including the typical time to get to the airport and going through security). Even NYC which has its airports in the middle of nowhere w/out any ready public transportation access, its easier and cheaper to regional rail from philly to nyc and its not that much slower.
That said I think "amtrak must be self-sufficient" even though we are all subsidizing highways must play a huge part in the pricing discrepancies.
I think it depends on the top implementation : This is a dual processor linux box (which I am used to) Both processes are pegged at 100% which is what I was expecting i.e. each processor is pegged at 100 i was expecting the video jobs on the mac to do the same.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5193 thoppe 25 0 21312 1512 1188 R 99.8 0.1 341755:45 sendrec
5281 thoppe 25 0 19604 1536 1212 R 99.8 0.1 340497:51 sendrec
And this is our 4 processor sun box which labels the cpus
PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
12989 root 1 20 0 2896K 2048K cpu/3 0:19 15.35% stupid.pl
12991 root 1 30 0 2896K 2048K run 0:13 11.85% stupid.pl
12992 root 1 20 0 2896K 2048K cpu/1 0:12 11.51% stupid.pl
12993 root 1 30 0 2896K 2048K cpu/2 0:10 9.80% stupid.pl
12994 root 1 20 0 1848K 1456K cpu/0 0:01 1.83% top
I was expecting top to look like either of these two implementations, the laptop pegs both processes at 50%
oh you know that is weird actually, when i was running two video jobs it was showing up as two jobs running at 50% (like I had posted) if run two commandline jobs they both peg at 90% or so which is what you expect so the top at least matches the linux version, i wonder if quicktime does something weird to the dual core.
My understanding is the powerpc design was a IBM/Motorola (and i think fujitsu) collaboration. IBM built the PWR series chips and Motorola actually designed/built the G3, G4 chips (using the PPC instruction set). IBM actually designed/built the G5 chip which they also use on their blades. Thats why the G5 had such a brilliant architecture. But yea motorola also built the 68000 chips as well.
No i didn't mean port in that sense obviously, Frontrow does not natively run on the power machines because it officially wants a built in IR module on the machine , so there is a bit of trickery involved w/ getting the the power G5 machine to think its got the IR built in.
Ha I just got a macbook pro two days ago (for free via work). My previous laptop was a powerbook g4 running at 1.333 (which wasn't that old to be honest). The heat issue people are talking about really does seem to be a problem. It feels much warmer than it should be. The keyboard is medium warm (it'd be brilliant in winter i guess!) and the underside is plain hot.
The machine is definitely nice and speedy though. The fact that the "emulation" mode works so well however I honestly a reflection of how bad the old motorola g4 chips were. I benchmarked code on the g4 and it was about as fast as my old p3 800 that it replaced. Native apps work remarkably well (as they should) and emulated apps aka word seem at least as fast as on the motorola chip. I have a feeling these machines will likely really shine once everything goes universal binary.
Where the machine really shines is some of their attention to detail. The camera built into the screen is seriously genius in this day and age of ichat/aim and everyone being permantly logged in. The new frontrow app is so awesome I actually ported that over to my desktop g5 machine at home. (where it is a bit more useful). The weird glowing keyboard thing is a bit pointless if you know how to type but is eye candy, and a fun way.
Battery life: If I unplug it it says I get 3 hours off of it which is about what my old g4 got when I first bought it. (I am surprised the # is that high considering how much heat this thing generates).
Other random things, the machine is dual core but the version of top that it comes w/ only shows one cpu (this is my first dual core machine). I have not benchmarked the machine but i have a feeling it'll be decent. I did try running two video/quicktime apps simultaneously and it seems like each app gets 50% of "the cpu" via top and it doesn't seem like they are both running as if alone (some of that may be drive issues of course, but i have 2 gigs of ram so it should be able to cache it). At least in theory having a dual core unix laptop is totally sex:)
I'll benchmark our mpich/g++ code soon just for fun. Hopefully there is an intel port of their compiler as that is going to make a huge difference. (I had heard somewhere apple had compiled the OS/apps using intels compilers, i hope thats true, i do know however they never used xlc/xlf aka ibm's compiler for the ppc machines).
Incidentally, I think the screen isn't as bright as I was expecting it would be (but same as the g4) and my keyboard "squeeks" in a weird way when i type!
That is interesting that you find the original rebel better than film then. I have the (original) elan 7/film and an old canon g3 which I gave to my gf actually (under the excuse of upgrading). I'm not a big fan of the "multiplier effect" but the xt is basically the same price as the old canon g3 was and the cheap lens that comes w/ it seems like it is wide enough for use..
Well I have the canon g3 which wasn't really usable past iso 200 so I am sure its better than that:) Its remarkable that the rebel xt is about what I paid for the canon g3 actually back in the day! Of course I really want the canon 5d, oh to dream:)
Out of curiosity what DSLR do you have? I have a film slr and a digital point and shoot and am thinking of buying one of the cheap rebel 350 xts as they are now cheap enough to intrigue me (and really as cheap as a high end digi point and shoot) I was going to wait until the full frame dropped but I have a feeling it will be 3 years before they drop $1000.
But you dont pay the city tax... the kids who live in the city use far less resources than you commutors i.e. public transportation and are not only hit w/ a higher cost of living but also hit w/ the city tax.. its like bloomberg wants people to leave the city..
I dont understand how that is a valid argument. People in england could easily live 35 miles away from work in the country side as well. The size of the US in comparison to the size of the UK plays no role in the commuting distance. You *chose* to live 35 miles away from your work. Americans have bought into the 50's car culture/suburban paradise myth as well as "escaped" from the urban interior/poor of the cities. Up here in the NE, our homes are much more densely packed and we even do vertical/condo-style housing to keep the commuting distance low. There is no reason the midwest/west/south can't do the same thing, people *choose* not to, because they want some scrubby plot of garden to call their own which is apparantly much better than a common, large sized park that is walking distance from your house.
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I think the democrats since clinton are actually 'the economist' style conservative which is fiscally conservative and socially liberal.. clinton spent a lot of time paying down the debt, reducing welfare (to workfare) and doing a lot of things that should have given the fiscal conservatives a source of hope.. Not all democrats are like this to be sure, but there are more out there than you might think . .For what its worth i vote democratic now on national/state level and vote republican on the city level (because of the entrenched corruption of the democratic party in my city (philadelphia) )
Wow thank you *very* much!! I missed that thread..
Are you sure you are reading your bill correctly? Are you in canada or something? I think i pay about 13 c / kwh
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.. the distribution cost is fixed) .. if you are making energy on site you save on both since they aren't distributing that power to you...
here is a list of average prices around the US
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/tabl
1/2 is the distribution cost and 1/2 is the generation cost..(this is only matters if you choose a different energy provider as all you can save is the generation cost
And thats what companies like cdbaby have realized... The more the labels push for 5 cents a download the more lucrative places like cdbaby become.. for any indie artist even w/out the promotional vehicle that is a label the amount of money one makes via a virtual label like cdbaby makes going that route look more and like the right way to go... no more will getting "signed" have the mythos that it has in the past...
I'm pretty excited about this release and the xeons they are releasing.. what I think mac does well is keep what is good and improve on what needs to be improved on. The best example of this is the G5 case. For those of you in the PC world and may have "modder" friends who buy over-expensive lian-li cases and the like, take a look at your typical G5 (and now mac pro case). There are no cables anywhere, they wrap around the outside and the ends pop up exactly where you need them (i.e. for drives) the machine opens by simply pulling a lever, you access the memory/pci slots by removing the giant fan (which just slides off the case) ... the only thing that was not good about the G5 case is the two drive slots which they finally fixed..
.. The important practicality of this is *seemlessly* everyones laptops are now completely backed up onto a server (i.e. simply a desktop) w/out any complicated manual intervention on their part. Now couple that to time-machine you have backups and versioning of laptops everywhere..
The time machine is also remarkably well done. Yes it is has been there since VMS but the fact is 99% of us do not use versioning.. its the ease of use that is the key... As an example of this, one of the lesser known features of the mac server is the mobile user login for laptops... it basically is simply a set of login/logout and anacron style scripts that "rsync (equivalent)" your desktop to your laptop and resync it when you are back on the network... (This is part of the same package that does nfs (equivalent) mounting for roving home directories)
the mail program stationary and the ichat program is fluff.. fun fluff (well w/ the mail its annoyinf fluff) but whatever... the "to do" list is brilliant... god knows we all do it... we send ourselves emails as our todo list... bad habit we should be using a calendering program but this will fix that by making it seemless and possibly by having other peoples todos merge into ours (groupware like)
25 GB/s memory per processor for the woodcrest chips is mad, whats the bus speed on the conroe chips? They are seriously going for the high end here.. I have a feeling the conroe chips are going to go in the imac equivalent and the mini equivalents later this week or in spring... but the specs on that machine are brilliant... for the specs it may compete w/ dell but in the pc world buy boxes w/ conroe chips for $1k w/ a reasonable graphics system... i.e a low end G5 w/ upgradability.. i wish apple had something for that audience (i am not sure the imac/mac mini really qualifies)
Yea its specialized hardware, the mdgrape basically calculates Newton's law in the hardware so it does the inverse ^2 calculation really super fast. There used to be a md-grape equivalent which did the same thing for coulombs law (as you would think there is more money in doing biosims than astrosims), but i think that died as the market was too small.
I think this was an ibm/fujitsu collaboration and ibm had md-grape and dropped it because of the market and fujitsu is still making the grape..
FYI the reason even though it is specialized, this is cool is that any simulation you want to do classically (i.e gravity, coulomb), basically goes as N^2 where N is the number of things (i.e. you have to calculation the interaction btwn each thing and every other thing, so there are lots of tricks to make approximations (clever versions of stuff far away doesn't matter so much). This goes up fast as simulations get bigger, hence the GRAPE tricks, which let people do monster simulations as if they had terahertz machines!
(On the other hand some people will object the "approximations" make real simulations go as N log N, so its not like we were all twiddling our thumbs waiting around for GRAPE)
If your code is GPL'd I highly recommend giving QT 4.0 try. The native qt hooks are remarkably native looking for mac os x. It obviously depends on what your application is, but coding in qt 4.0 gives you unix / mac portable code w/ no effort, particularly if you do not have any mac os dependent code (i.e. hardware/device calls etc). (We have not tried the windows QT so do not have a point of reference )
Of course you should/can talk about race and most people will applaud for doing so.. but there is a big difference between having a white person grabbing a black person and saying "white" is coming (or vice versa) than talking about the suntanning...
.. the US is much better about race relations than europe no matter what people say and a lot of it has to do w/ the fact that people are sensitive enough to realize certain things don't come off well .. (in the *same way* when black people talk about the white devil it also does not come off well to most people in the US)
let me put it another way... suppose we had a photo of a german grabbing a jew or a gypsy and saying Deutschland is coming as a world cup ad don't you think it would come off badly? Is it really PC to point that out?
no one is saying you should ignore race 24/7 (though ironically again thats the european attitude which has lead to things like the french riots)
So you are saying blacks have discriminated against whites *objectively* on the same (or even more) level that whites have discriminated against blacks? .... Right....
reposted (as i replied to myself on accident)
C'mon man i'm not justifying either.. i am saying most people in most countries saw the other side of it and still see the other side of it... in south africa there would be justifiable outrage for the other half of the ad. The point here is the ad is using "race" to connotate that "black" is "coming" to "overpower" "white" and/or vice versa... given certain contexts aka post apartheid south africa and/or the US where we had jim crow laws until very recently that is justifiably going to come off very badly because it reminds them of all those people who think that way. That is what is wrong w/ saying "black" people will overpower "white" people (or vice versa) and pretend it is a sony psp..
the irony is the US is much better about race relations than europe... which is why it ruffles US feathers but the europeans dont see what the issue is.
C'mon man i'm not justifying either.. i am saying most people in most countries saw the other side of it and still see the other side of it... in south africa there would be justifiable outrage for the other half of the ad. The point here is the ad is using "race" to connotate that "black" is "coming" to "overpower" "white" and/or vice versa... given certain contexts aka post apartheid south africa and/or the US where we had jim crow laws until very recently that is justifiably going to come off very badly because it reminds them of all those people who think that way. That is what is wrong w/ saying "black" people will overpower "white" people (or vice versa) and pretend it is a sony psp..
the irony is the US is much better about race relations than europe... which is why it ruffles US feathers but the europeans dont see what the issue is.
(1) yes it is racist (2) The reasons people are not as "up in arms" about it is that there is no history of black on white slavery/discrimination on the level that white on black discrimination exists even today. If white people were enslaved by black people and we had jim crow laws discriminating against white people in the 60's then people would be more up in arms about that. But the fact of the matter is there was not and the idea that "black" person are overpowering a "white" person, is absurd on the face of it. On the other hand a white woman saying "white is coming" in that pose brings back all sorts of bad connotations like white supremacy and lynchings and discrimination.
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You know like these people
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07re
who are practicing for the upcoming race war
-bloo
Ha not that strong matrilineal tendancies isn't a wellknown bong stereotype :)
(i'm actually at the bengali conference in houston as we speak!)
-bloo
I think this depends on when the power grid was put down. In philadelphia (at least the city proper ) has its power underground. Interestingly my phone and cable are above ground and strung through the back between the buildings while power and gas is under the street somewhere and comes through the front of the house.
I think the Acela trains were supposed to do this but for whatever reason (no track updates, cracks etc) the Acela never migrated to the normal NE corridor lines. The irony of the NE corridor / Amtrak service, is even as slow as it goes (6 hours between philly and boston, so it must be 7:30 between DC and boston), is its like 1/2 price if you take airtran. I used to take amtrak just because i got work done on the train but its not really worth it either monetarily or timewise (including the typical time to get to the airport and going through security). Even NYC which has its airports in the middle of nowhere w/out any ready public transportation access, its easier and cheaper to regional rail from philly to nyc and its not that much slower.
That said I think "amtrak must be self-sufficient" even though we are all subsidizing highways must play a huge part in the pricing discrepancies.
I think it depends on the top implementation : This is a dual processor linux box (which I am used to)
Both processes are pegged at 100% which is what I was expecting i.e. each processor is pegged at 100 i was expecting the video jobs on the mac to do the same.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5193 thoppe 25 0 21312 1512 1188 R 99.8 0.1 341755:45 sendrec
5281 thoppe 25 0 19604 1536 1212 R 99.8 0.1 340497:51 sendrec
And this is our 4 processor sun box which labels the cpus
PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
12989 root 1 20 0 2896K 2048K cpu/3 0:19 15.35% stupid.pl
12991 root 1 30 0 2896K 2048K run 0:13 11.85% stupid.pl
12992 root 1 20 0 2896K 2048K cpu/1 0:12 11.51% stupid.pl
12993 root 1 30 0 2896K 2048K cpu/2 0:10 9.80% stupid.pl
12994 root 1 20 0 1848K 1456K cpu/0 0:01 1.83% top
I was expecting top to look like either of these two implementations, the laptop pegs both processes at 50%
oh you know that is weird actually, when i was running two video jobs it was showing up as two jobs running at 50% (like I had posted) if run two commandline jobs they both peg at 90% or so which is what you expect so the top at least matches the linux version, i wonder if quicktime does something weird to the dual core.
-bloo
Yea you are right I think i was thinking of sparc..
My understanding is the powerpc design was a IBM/Motorola (and i think fujitsu) collaboration. IBM built the PWR series chips and Motorola actually designed/built the G3, G4 chips (using the PPC instruction set). IBM actually designed/built the G5 chip which they also use on their blades. Thats why the G5 had such a brilliant architecture. But yea motorola also built the 68000 chips as well.
-best,
-bloo
No i didn't mean port in that sense obviously, Frontrow does not natively run on the power machines because it officially wants a built in IR module on the machine , so there is a bit of trickery involved w/ getting the the power G5 machine to think its got the IR built in.
Ha I just got a macbook pro two days ago (for free via work). My previous laptop was a powerbook g4 running at 1.333 (which wasn't that old to be honest). The heat issue people are talking about really does seem to be a problem. It feels much warmer than it should be. The keyboard is medium warm (it'd be brilliant in winter i guess!) and the underside is plain hot.
:)
The machine is definitely nice and speedy though. The fact that the "emulation" mode works so well however I honestly a reflection of how bad the old motorola g4 chips were. I benchmarked code on the g4 and it was about as fast as my old p3 800 that it replaced. Native apps work remarkably well (as they should) and emulated apps aka word seem at least as fast as on the motorola chip. I have a feeling these machines will likely really shine once everything goes universal binary.
Where the machine really shines is some of their attention to detail. The camera built into the screen is seriously genius in this day and age of ichat/aim and everyone being permantly logged in. The new frontrow app is so awesome I actually ported that over to my desktop g5 machine at home. (where it is a bit more useful). The weird glowing keyboard thing is a bit pointless if you know how to type but is eye candy, and a fun way.
Battery life: If I unplug it it says I get 3 hours off of it which is about what my old g4 got when I first bought it. (I am surprised the # is that high considering how much heat this thing generates).
Other random things, the machine is dual core but the version of top that it comes w/ only shows one cpu (this is my first dual core machine). I have not benchmarked the machine but i have a feeling it'll be decent. I did try running two video/quicktime apps simultaneously and it seems like each app gets 50% of "the cpu" via top and it doesn't seem like they are both running as if alone (some of that may be drive issues of course, but i have 2 gigs of ram so it should be able to cache it). At least in theory having a dual core unix laptop is totally sex
I'll benchmark our mpich/g++ code soon just for fun. Hopefully there is an intel port of their compiler as that is going to make a huge difference. (I had heard somewhere apple had compiled the OS/apps using intels compilers, i hope thats true, i do know however they never used xlc/xlf aka ibm's compiler for the ppc machines).
Incidentally, I think the screen isn't as bright as I was expecting it would be (but same as the g4) and my keyboard "squeeks" in a weird way when i type!
-bloosqr
That is interesting that you find the original rebel better than film then. I have the (original) elan 7/film and an old canon g3 which I gave to my gf actually (under the excuse of upgrading). I'm not a big fan of the "multiplier effect" but the xt is basically the same price as the old canon g3 was and the cheap lens that comes w/ it seems like it is wide enough for use..
Well I have the canon g3 which wasn't really usable past iso 200 so I am sure its better than that :) Its remarkable that the rebel xt is about what I paid for the canon g3 actually back in the day! Of course I really want the canon 5d, oh to dream :)
Out of curiosity what DSLR do you have? I have a film slr and a digital point and shoot and am thinking of buying one of the cheap rebel 350 xts as they are now cheap enough to intrigue me (and really as cheap as a high end digi point and shoot) I was going to wait until the full frame dropped but I have a feeling it will be 3 years before they drop $1000.
-best,
-avi
But you dont pay the city tax... the kids who live in the city use far less resources than you commutors i.e. public transportation and are not only hit w/ a higher cost of living but also hit w/ the city tax.. its like bloomberg wants people to leave the city..
I dont understand how that is a valid argument. People in england could easily live 35 miles away from work in the country side as well. The size of the US in comparison to the size of the UK plays no role in the commuting distance. You *chose* to live 35 miles away from your work. Americans have bought into the 50's car culture/suburban paradise myth as well as "escaped" from the urban interior/poor of the cities. Up here in the NE, our homes are much more densely packed and we even do vertical/condo-style housing to keep the commuting distance low. There is no reason the midwest/west/south can't do the same thing, people *choose* not to, because they want some scrubby plot of garden to call their own which is apparantly much better than a common, large sized park that is walking distance from your house.