Being a mac user this situation has long since been a dream of mine. Though things are a lot different once this is actually coming to trial. Years ago I was thinking, break up microsoft and let other OSes rule, primarily MacOS, but that was years ago. The marketplace has changed, the days of the Mac are gone, people are starting to buy $400 dollar computers and Simple web browser only computers.
I will still see it a Microsoft, they will still own the consumer OS market for years to come, they won't be as powerful, but they will still be kings for a while.
It's primarily because of how certain people will chose to use computers and their OSes for various computing purposes. While the consumers that know they don't need a 700 MHz machine to browse the web and send e-mail, scan pictures will pick up that $500 box at Best Buy and have fun.
The market we were fighting to keep Microsoft restricted in no longer exists.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
One of my main concerns is power source with these... Somehow I don't see people willing to run the LCD version for about 3-5 hours maximun, "Average Laptop battery in my experiance" especially with games like FF7 taking 70+
Other alternatives would include those laptop base batteries, but that would be too heavy and destroy the purpose of portability
and the other option is through and AC adapter, though who would really want to haul around an adapter, wouldn't that be much like carrying around a regular playstation.
My thoughts is that you should just get Playstation emulation software for your laptop for several reasons: Longer battery life (iBook 5-6 hours), larger screen (15.1"), and all the other benefits of a laptop. The only drawback to that option is cost though and you would need to buy a controller.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
It seems like a nice OS that was designed primarily for communication and multiple processors. I previoulsy hadn't heard of it. Some of the papers refer to it as a sort of clean unix, being built from the ground up in one nice piece instead of adding features as the years go by as in the current model.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
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Basically, I agree Rob. If you care enough about the forums this site creates, than you would create a login and create meaningful post. And that would also make it possible since everyone who posted had a login you could remove thos that did spam.
You should just run a slashdot poll on what to do with the AC and let the users decide.
I believe that anonymity should be encourage. People should be allowed to show as much of themselves as they desire. My interest in the internet is that is grows out of anarchy. I do not want to it to be too regulated. I think, we should let it take it's own course, even if that includes crimes being commited by a bunch of anonymous warez punks. It's an interesting setting for a culture/society to develope.
I KNOW this a troll, but I'll bite >>It's time to face it people. The Mac is dying, and it won't be around for much longer. Uhm, No. 14 straight profitable quarters. 14 straight quarters of unit sales and gross margins growing qtr over qtr. The iMac continues to sell well. iBook is a smash hit, as is the G4. >>Up until recently it survived barely through the virtue of a single program - Quark Xpress - and Photoshop and Illustrator and Dreamweaver and Flash and Final Cut and Avid and lots of other stuff. btw, where is your postscript support again? >>but those days are over and the Mac, and Apple with them, are destined to become a thing of the past along with all other closed source architectures. Pretty smart of them to open it up then, isn't it. They now use standard RAM, got rid of the ROM, use PCI bus, standard through and through. On the sw side, they are opening up as much as they can. Guess you have not used any Macs recently. >>Why else would Apple of all companies be turning to open source? It can only mean that they are desparate enough to forego their usual money-grabbing licensing tactics, and that they want the whole "cool" image that has made Linux so popular with the corporate types. Either bitch at them for being closed OR bitch at them for going open. You can not have it both ways. >>They reckon that if they can become popular with the zealots, then they can push the lifespan of their product another five or more years beyond what it otherwise would have been. Actually, they want to be popular with non-zealots. Tehy want the newbies and the casual windows users. We in the Mac camp have our own zealots, and some us are trying to shut them up too. BTW, you sound just liks a linux zealot. Pity. People should ave more of a life than to get attached to a hunk of plastic and silicon. >>After all just look at the Amiga - an outdated computer that would have died completely 10 years ago under normal circumstances, but there is still a hardcore of zealots still trying to convince people (and themselves) that it is still a viable platform. And what is the basis for this comparison. Amigas kicked ass, got mismanaged and thrown around from corp to corp, pillaged for the tech and left for dead. Tho, I guess it is a good thing others like "dead" projects. Remember, Unix was declared dead years ago. Wrongly no doubt. As Twain said, "the rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated." >>This story shows that the core development team of their new OS realises that the Mac will die - they want to have an x86 version ready so that they will still be able to find work after the Mac inevitably dies. Not with iMacs selling this well. They will release Darwin, because they HAVE TOO. They will release Aqua and Quartz when you pry it out of their cold dead hands. Not that this will happen in your lifetime. Go back under the bridge. Tom Dutton (username = B-B) Too lazy to log in right now.
I wonder if all the madness during the ending of E-Bay auctions is similar to this. You know, people paying several dollars over the street value for various items...
I must admit I have almost been caught up in this at times. Then I slow down and realize that I don't need to pay $180 dollars for this 8 port switch when I can go and get a new one at the store for less.
I am a regular geek since child hood. I am a high school senior currently taking classes at a local college until I graduate. I was around 225 lbs last summer while I worked on most of my computer projects and didn't get out much.
Than as school started and I had to drive to college I hadn't had the time nor the money to eat. I would leave my house around 6:30am and sometimes depending on evening classes not get back until 9:30pm. I did work, but I never carried much money on me.
I went from 225 lbs in August to around 185 in September. Just get a busy, geeky, college, working lifestyle with no money on you and you be suprised how quickly you slim down.
I read this book last year and found it to be really good. I loved almost the entire thing. Recently I've been learning about AI, and this book has been very interesting. I recommended it to all my geek friends.
IBM showed off a 64 bit PowerPC 1 Ghz chip back in feburary of 1998. I think that IBM and their server/mac chips are way ahead of Intels' chip designers.
IBM has created Sillicon on Insulator(+33% performance), changed the wiring to copper(+33% performance), and have been keeping the chips small, less power comsuming than previous models, cooler, and still standard with the ZIF socket.
AMD chips run cooler, and sometimes depending on configs faster than Intels. AMD's K7 specs look a hell of a lot better in technology than anything Intel claims to be making in the next few years.
All Intel has done is extend their old chip set in a poor manner, their chips are proietary with the slot 1, excessively large, way to hot in laptops even with cooling features.
I think that IBM and AMD look like the leader in chip technology for the presonal computer. Intel is no longer doing anything worthwhile.
I ran Apple's new QT4 under windows(shudder) on my PII 300 and it worked nicely and effiently. They quality looked better than any real player stream I've ever seen.
I would really like to see that server ported soon so all the Linux machines running sites on Apache could stream video from QT4. It would be a nice add on to my browser. I like the in browser streaming and MP3 playing capabilities.
It not like I love anything Apple does or anything it's just QT4 looks a lot better than QT3 which brought my CPU to a halt.
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Has anyone thought of how they are going to handle to root password and setup?
Are they going to leave it as a default password and let people like me tinker with other people thinkpads left unattended without changed passwords.
Is there a way they are going to have it prompt them for a root password when they first start it up?
I am just wondering, in all the Linux distro's I've used you had to set the root passwd on install...
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Being a mac user this situation has long since been a dream of mine. Though things are a lot different once this is actually coming to trial. Years ago I was thinking, break up microsoft and let other OSes rule, primarily MacOS, but that was years ago. The marketplace has changed, the days of the Mac are gone, people are starting to buy $400 dollar computers and Simple web browser only computers.
I will still see it a Microsoft, they will still own the consumer OS market for years to come, they won't be as powerful, but they will still be kings for a while.
It's primarily because of how certain people will chose to use computers and their OSes for various computing purposes. While the consumers that know they don't need a 700 MHz machine to browse the web and send e-mail, scan pictures will pick up that $500 box at Best Buy and have fun.
The market we were fighting to keep Microsoft restricted in no longer exists.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
One of my main concerns is power source with these... Somehow I don't see people willing to run the LCD version for about 3-5 hours maximun, "Average Laptop battery in my experiance" especially with games like FF7 taking 70+
Other alternatives would include those laptop base batteries, but that would be too heavy and destroy the purpose of portability
and the other option is through and AC adapter, though who would really want to haul around an adapter, wouldn't that be much like carrying around a regular playstation.
My thoughts is that you should just get Playstation emulation software for your laptop for several reasons: Longer battery life (iBook 5-6 hours), larger screen (15.1"), and all the other benefits of a laptop. The only drawback to that option is cost though and you would need to buy a controller.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
It seems like a nice OS that was designed primarily for communication and multiple processors. I previoulsy hadn't heard of it. Some of the papers refer to it as a sort of clean unix, being built from the ground up in one nice piece instead of adding features as the years go by as in the current model.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
A 50 megabyte file sent across Cisco's network in 4 hours works out to about 3.5 MegaBytes (Not MegaBits) per second. FYI
I would love to live there...
Basically, I agree Rob. If you care enough about the forums this site creates, than you would create a login and create meaningful post. And that would also make it possible since everyone who posted had a login you could remove thos that did spam.
You should just run a slashdot poll on what to do with the AC and let the users decide.
I believe that anonymity should be encourage. People should be allowed to show as much of themselves as they desire.
My interest in the internet is that is grows out of anarchy. I do not want to it to be too regulated. I think, we should let it take it's own course, even if that includes crimes being commited by a bunch of anonymous warez punks. It's an interesting setting for a culture/society to develope.
I KNOW this a troll, but I'll bite >>It's time to face it people. The Mac is dying, and it won't be around for much longer. Uhm, No. 14 straight profitable quarters. 14 straight quarters of unit sales and gross margins growing qtr over qtr. The iMac continues to sell well. iBook is a smash hit, as is the G4. >>Up until recently it survived barely through the virtue of a single program - Quark Xpress - and Photoshop and Illustrator and Dreamweaver and Flash and Final Cut and Avid and lots of other stuff. btw, where is your postscript support again? >>but those days are over and the Mac, and Apple with them, are destined to become a thing of the past along with all other closed source architectures. Pretty smart of them to open it up then, isn't it. They now use standard RAM, got rid of the ROM, use PCI bus, standard through and through. On the sw side, they are opening up as much as they can. Guess you have not used any Macs recently. >>Why else would Apple of all companies be turning to open source? It can only mean that they are desparate enough to forego their usual money-grabbing licensing tactics, and that they want the whole "cool" image that has made Linux so popular with the corporate types. Either bitch at them for being closed OR bitch at them for going open. You can not have it both ways. >>They reckon that if they can become popular with the zealots, then they can push the lifespan of their product another five or more years beyond what it otherwise would have been. Actually, they want to be popular with non-zealots. Tehy want the newbies and the casual windows users. We in the Mac camp have our own zealots, and some us are trying to shut them up too. BTW, you sound just liks a linux zealot. Pity. People should ave more of a life than to get attached to a hunk of plastic and silicon. >>After all just look at the Amiga - an outdated computer that would have died completely 10 years ago under normal circumstances, but there is still a hardcore of zealots still trying to convince people (and themselves) that it is still a viable platform. And what is the basis for this comparison. Amigas kicked ass, got mismanaged and thrown around from corp to corp, pillaged for the tech and left for dead. Tho, I guess it is a good thing others like "dead" projects. Remember, Unix was declared dead years ago. Wrongly no doubt. As Twain said, "the rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated." >>This story shows that the core development team of their new OS realises that the Mac will die - they want to have an x86 version ready so that they will still be able to find work after the Mac inevitably dies. Not with iMacs selling this well. They will release Darwin, because they HAVE TOO. They will release Aqua and Quartz when you pry it out of their cold dead hands. Not that this will happen in your lifetime. Go back under the bridge. Tom Dutton (username = B-B) Too lazy to log in right now.
I wonder if all the madness during the ending of E-Bay auctions is similar to this. You know, people paying several dollars over the street value for various items...
I must admit I have almost been caught up in this at times. Then I slow down and realize that I don't need to pay $180 dollars for this 8 port switch when I can go and get a new one at the store for less.
This has been floating around the mac community news sites for the last two weeks. (Since the 28th of April according to Apple.) Just to let you know.
I am a regular geek since child hood. I am a high school senior currently taking classes at a local college until I graduate. I was around 225 lbs last summer while I worked on most of my computer projects and didn't get out much.
Than as school started and I had to drive to college I hadn't had the time nor the money to eat. I would leave my house around 6:30am and sometimes depending on evening classes not get back until 9:30pm. I did work, but I never carried much money on me.
I went from 225 lbs in August to around 185 in September. Just get a busy, geeky, college, working lifestyle with no money on you and you be suprised how quickly you slim down.
i heard the only difference from 2.2.8 - 2.3 was a change in the version number
I saw something on MTV around 4:00 CST but it was not the music video it was a music video promo thing but I'll be watching.
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I read this book last year and found it to be really good. I loved almost the entire thing. Recently I've been learning about AI, and this book has been very interesting. I recommended it to all my geek friends.
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IBM showed off a 64 bit PowerPC 1 Ghz chip back in feburary of 1998. I think that IBM and their server/mac chips are way ahead of Intels' chip designers.
IBM has created Sillicon on Insulator(+33% performance), changed the wiring to copper(+33% performance), and have been keeping the chips small, less power comsuming than previous models, cooler, and still standard with the ZIF socket.
AMD chips run cooler, and sometimes depending on configs faster than Intels. AMD's K7 specs look a hell of a lot better in technology than anything Intel claims to be making in the next few years.
All Intel has done is extend their old chip set in a poor manner, their chips are proietary with the slot 1, excessively large, way to hot in laptops even with cooling features.
I think that IBM and AMD look like the leader in chip technology for the presonal computer. Intel is no longer doing anything worthwhile.
I ran Apple's new QT4 under windows(shudder) on my PII 300 and it worked nicely and effiently. They quality looked better than any real player stream I've ever seen.
I would really like to see that server ported soon so all the Linux machines running sites on Apache could stream video from QT4. It would be a nice add on to my browser. I like the in browser streaming and MP3 playing capabilities.
It not like I love anything Apple does or anything it's just QT4 looks a lot better than QT3 which brought my CPU to a halt.