Ya... because teachers and administrators in public schools are so overpaid...
The problem isn't that the money goes to people who WORK at the schools, it goes to useless government employees that DON'T WORK at the schools and over price supplies that seam to evaporate into thin air.
It is sad that my first job out of college after undergrad paid more then then public school teachers in some states with 25+ years of experience. It would probably be a lot easier to draw a large number of good teachers (and administrators) if they could provide some reasonable salaries...
Oh shit, I've got two Macs, and few Linux boxes, and *gasp* I even run Windows on one of my PCs.
I think I should make an appointment with a shrink, I obviously have multiple personality disorder. Perhaps I should even be committed, I might be a danger to others.
So in other words you think that just because something has more bits it is better? That is total none sense. Believe it or not, many things have no performance benefit running in 64 bit mode.
64 bit processors also need larger instruction caches because the instructions are way bigger in size. As a result, some small subset of things perform slower in 64 bit mode.
You essentially use a similar argument to the "ours is faster then yours because of Ghz." argument. Both are equally as wrong.
AMD's chips that are faster are faster because of better overall design, not because of the number of bits they have. The Alpha and MIPS chips were 64 bit for years and still performed much worse in many benchmarks then a lot of 32bit chips.
It isn't just the dual cores. The G4 while a well designed processor, has far too slow a memory bus to compete. The Core Duo's memory architecture is about 5x faster. That, coupled with the 2nd core and the more modern design make the Duo well faster. I would be willing to be on memory intensive tests even a single core version of the new Intel chip would trounce the G4.
That being said.. it would be interesting to see good benchmarks between the dual core G5 and the Core Duo. I realize that currently there is no verison of the G5 suitable for laptops, but I'm still curious as to which chip is the all out performance leadering...
Oh well.. I bought a MacBook Pro anyway. Now I just have to wait.
Cheaper LCD production costs. Orientation/Movement sensors for parking hard drives before damage occurs. Higher density disk platters.
That took about 3 seconds for me to come up with (and no research). IBM patents more new technology each year then your average 10 tech companies combined.
Apple includes the BSD userland utilities, and while it does include some GPL'd software it does not require any to run properly. However, I believe we should petition them to starting calling it the "Mach based Darwin/BSD/Mac OS X featuring OSS Software by GNU, Apache, Postfix, Samba, ect."
If you read Linus' book he basically says he started writing Linux because he thought Minix was terrible. That is why Linux original used ext2 (same fs as minix). So in reality, Minix and they have similar sounding names because they are both trying to be like unix.
Not only does it leave out R&D and marketing costs but it also leaves out yield issues of faster parts.
R&D costs for a processor are extremely expensive and not at all insignificant. Sure, the Pentium 4 has probably grossed enough money to pay off it's own R&D but the fact of the matter is the current set of chips has to pay for the R&D of the next generation chips.
Since both AMD and Intel are always trying to build the latest and greatest chips the R&D cost is pretty consistant and pretty high at all times. It probably almost always eclipses the actual manufacturing costs of a mature product.
Not to mention the millions of dollars these companies spend on advertising.
My last point is simple economics... if you are charging too much people won't buy it so if people are buying it them must not be charging to much.
52 MPG HWY (46 city) 0-60 in about 8 seconds. Room for 4 adults (not super comfortable, but doable) and a pretty decent trunk.
The newer ones don't do quite as well on the gas mileage since they upped the power, but they are still in the high 40's on the highway.
VW's European lineup has a version of the same car with an even smaller 1.4L TDI engine (US version is 1.9L) that gets 60+ MPG.. but its 0-60 is about 11-13s depending on who you ask.
Of course, states like MA and CA make it hard to get diesel's these days... seams to be administration people think it easy to measure emissions particles per gallon of fuel burned rather then per mile driven. Sure the diesel engine is a little dirtier per gallon... but if it goes 1.5-2x farther it is still a net positive.
I use the logitech MX900 with my powerbook when I'm at home, which is a perfectly good solution. Also, since the mouse is so close to the keyboard when I am using the touchpad I find it pretty much second nature to ctrl-click for the 2nd mouse button.
A lot of companies ask you to sign a non-compete clause when you take a job. They basically say "If you leave hear you won't take a job for xyz amount of time with a competitor". Problem is, non-compete clauses very rarely hold up in court because most of them are so vague they are considered useless.
I've used lots of software in my time that used hardware dongles and the only word I can think of to describe it was EXTREMELY annoying.
This USB key idea is pretty much exactly the same as the old parallel port dongle idea people once used.
I'm sure he would realize what I meant the day he had to start looking for that USB key about the size of a quarter he left on his desk somewhere... or the day he had to juggle what devices he had plugged into his computer.. after all, not everyone has 10 USB ports available to them.
Having one company in charge of the whole thing sounds like a disaster too... lets add a whole new layer of licensing fees to the mix...
All this seams to say is that any new wizzbang features of Cocoa won't be directly accessable with Java... There are already features of the Windows and Linux UI's that Java doesn't use...
Fact is, Java apps will still work. Still look like MacOSX apps (at least as much as they do today). I don't see how this is much news really.
If they did have an interface to use these features, it would break cross platform compatibility anyway as they are bound to be Mac specific UI elements.
If you freeze the billions and billions of dollars in assets Microsoft has you would screw millions and millions of people. Think about all the people who own stock in that company, and the effect on the stock market in general. The financial effects of such a move could be devesting to a lot of people that have nothing to do with Microsoft's Anti-trust issues.
You don't seam to understand that Microsoft, and other public companies, are actually owned by there stock holders. It isn't just the top tier folks like Gates and Ballmer that would be effected here, it is everyone involved.
That article isn't saying only 12% of the people don't have a digital capable TV. It is saying 12% of the TV's sold use OVER THE AIR analog signals. Basically, it means 78% of people with TV's either a) only watch movies or play video games on there TV or b) pay for at least the cheapest cable option and use a wire to get there TV signal (or use sat). That probably isn't all that far from the truth. I am the only one I know that still uses an antenna to pick up TV on occasion... but I don't even fit in the 12% because the channels I pick up that way are HDTV channels sent in a digital signal over air.
It is "based" on BSD... at least the user space environment is. The kernel, however, is vastly different from the BSD's (it is actually a Mach kernel at heart) and thus the BSD drivers require heavy modification... it is almost easier just to rewrite them honestly. At least that was my experience with the one driver I've written for OSX.
Have you even so much as glanced at Apples earning statements or profit margins per product? Obviously not.
The iPod (a piece of hardware) and there physical computers make up well over 50% of there revenue. The majority of the rest is iTunes Music, followed way behind by software.
The thing I find interesting... I've seen developer and engineer job posts for both Microsoft and Apple that list degrees as a requirement for employment.
I realize that "requirements" aren't always strickly followed, but it is interesting to note that two company's that are both run by college dropouts both seam to perfer graduates for employment.
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Ya... because teachers and administrators in public schools are so overpaid...
The problem isn't that the money goes to people who WORK at the schools, it goes to useless government employees that DON'T WORK at the schools and over price supplies that seam to evaporate into thin air.
It is sad that my first job out of college after undergrad paid more then then public school teachers in some states with 25+ years of experience. It would probably be a lot easier to draw a large number of good teachers (and administrators) if they could provide some reasonable salaries...
Oh shit, I've got two Macs, and few Linux boxes, and *gasp* I even run Windows on one of my PCs.
I think I should make an appointment with a shrink, I obviously have multiple personality disorder. Perhaps I should even be committed, I might be a danger to others.
Oh come on.. he still uses Dos 2.0! Cause who would ever need more then....
In all seriousness.. he probably uses a Mac.
So in other words you think that just because something has more bits it is better? That is total none sense. Believe it or not, many things have no performance benefit running in 64 bit mode.
64 bit processors also need larger instruction caches because the instructions are way bigger in size. As a result, some small subset of things perform slower in 64 bit mode.
You essentially use a similar argument to the "ours is faster then yours because of Ghz." argument. Both are equally as wrong.
AMD's chips that are faster are faster because of better overall design, not because of the number of bits they have. The Alpha and MIPS chips were 64 bit for years and still performed much worse in many benchmarks then a lot of 32bit chips.
It isn't just the dual cores. The G4 while a well designed processor, has far too slow a memory bus to compete. The Core Duo's memory architecture is about 5x faster. That, coupled with the 2nd core and the more modern design make the Duo well faster. I would be willing to be on memory intensive tests even a single core version of the new Intel chip would trounce the G4.
That being said.. it would be interesting to see good benchmarks between the dual core G5 and the Core Duo. I realize that currently there is no verison of the G5 suitable for laptops, but I'm still curious as to which chip is the all out performance leadering...
Oh well.. I bought a MacBook Pro anyway. Now I just have to wait.
I am the first to admit that I had no idea I could even get WMP for my PowerBook.
However, I'm not sure there is a void that needs filling.
MplayerOSX has always worked great for playing anything on my Mac that Quicktime couldn't handle.
Cheaper LCD production costs.
Orientation/Movement sensors for parking hard drives before damage occurs.
Higher density disk platters.
That took about 3 seconds for me to come up with (and no research). IBM patents more new technology each year then your average 10 tech companies combined.
No Best Buy? Circuit City? Fry's? Microcenter? CompUSA? Yikes... sounds like a tough place to live.
Apple includes the BSD userland utilities, and while it does include some GPL'd software it does not require any to run properly. However, I believe we should petition them to starting calling it the "Mach based Darwin/BSD/Mac OS X featuring OSS Software by GNU, Apache, Postfix, Samba, ect."
If you read Linus' book he basically says he started writing Linux because he thought Minix was terrible. That is why Linux original used ext2 (same fs as minix). So in reality, Minix and they have similar sounding names because they are both trying to be like unix.
Not only does it leave out R&D and marketing costs but it also leaves out yield issues of faster parts.
R&D costs for a processor are extremely expensive and not at all insignificant. Sure, the Pentium 4 has probably grossed enough money to pay off it's own R&D but the fact of the matter is the current set of chips has to pay for the R&D of the next generation chips.
Since both AMD and Intel are always trying to build the latest and greatest chips the R&D cost is pretty consistant and pretty high at all times. It probably almost always eclipses the actual manufacturing costs of a mature product.
Not to mention the millions of dollars these companies spend on advertising.
My last point is simple economics... if you are charging too much people won't buy it so if people are buying it them must not be charging to much.
Hmmmm... 2001 VW Jetta TDI. 90HP Diesel motor (165 lbft. torque).
52 MPG HWY (46 city)
0-60 in about 8 seconds.
Room for 4 adults (not super comfortable, but doable) and a pretty decent trunk.
The newer ones don't do quite as well on the gas mileage since they upped the power, but they are still in the high 40's on the highway.
VW's European lineup has a version of the same car with an even smaller 1.4L TDI engine (US version is 1.9L) that gets 60+ MPG.. but its 0-60 is about 11-13s depending on who you ask.
Of course, states like MA and CA make it hard to get diesel's these days... seams to be administration people think it easy to measure emissions particles per gallon of fuel burned rather then per mile driven. Sure the diesel engine is a little dirtier per gallon... but if it goes 1.5-2x farther it is still a net positive.
Not only was the picture taken in MSN before the Apple Campus was built there... but Google's picture doesn't even show the Google campus:)
Google Inc,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Looks like a dirt hill on Google Maps.
I use the logitech MX900 with my powerbook when I'm at home, which is a perfectly good solution. Also, since the mouse is so close to the keyboard when I am using the touchpad I find it pretty much second nature to ctrl-click for the 2nd mouse button.
Thinkgeek also sells USB powered coffee mug sized heat plates to make sure you Hot Coffee stays good and hot for as long as you want it to.
A lot of companies ask you to sign a non-compete clause when you take a job. They basically say "If you leave hear you won't take a job for xyz amount of time with a competitor". Problem is, non-compete clauses very rarely hold up in court because most of them are so vague they are considered useless.
I've used lots of software in my time that used hardware dongles and the only word I can think of to describe it was EXTREMELY annoying.
This USB key idea is pretty much exactly the same as the old parallel port dongle idea people once used.
I'm sure he would realize what I meant the day he had to start looking for that USB key about the size of a quarter he left on his desk somewhere... or the day he had to juggle what devices he had plugged into his computer.. after all, not everyone has 10 USB ports available to them.
Having one company in charge of the whole thing sounds like a disaster too... lets add a whole new layer of licensing fees to the mix...
Just stop talking about this crap and it will go away... nobody cares, there is nothing to see here, move on with your lives.
All this seams to say is that any new wizzbang features of Cocoa won't be directly accessable with Java... There are already features of the Windows and Linux UI's that Java doesn't use...
Fact is, Java apps will still work. Still look like MacOSX apps (at least as much as they do today). I don't see how this is much news really.
If they did have an interface to use these features, it would break cross platform compatibility anyway as they are bound to be Mac specific UI elements.
If you freeze the billions and billions of dollars in assets Microsoft has you would screw millions and millions of people. Think about all the people who own stock in that company, and the effect on the stock market in general. The financial effects of such a move could be devesting to a lot of people that have nothing to do with Microsoft's Anti-trust issues.
You don't seam to understand that Microsoft, and other public companies, are actually owned by there stock holders. It isn't just the top tier folks like Gates and Ballmer that would be effected here, it is everyone involved.
That article isn't saying only 12% of the people don't have a digital capable TV. It is saying 12% of the TV's sold use OVER THE AIR analog signals. Basically, it means 78% of people with TV's either a) only watch movies or play video games on there TV or b) pay for at least the cheapest cable option and use a wire to get there TV signal (or use sat). That probably isn't all that far from the truth. I am the only one I know that still uses an antenna to pick up TV on occasion... but I don't even fit in the 12% because the channels I pick up that way are HDTV channels sent in a digital signal over air.
It is "based" on BSD... at least the user space environment is. The kernel, however, is vastly different from the BSD's (it is actually a Mach kernel at heart) and thus the BSD drivers require heavy modification... it is almost easier just to rewrite them honestly. At least that was my experience with the one driver I've written for OSX.
Have you even so much as glanced at Apples earning statements or profit margins per product? Obviously not.
The iPod (a piece of hardware) and there physical computers make up well over 50% of there revenue. The majority of the rest is iTunes Music, followed way behind by software.
The thing I find interesting... I've seen developer and engineer job posts for both Microsoft and Apple that list degrees as a requirement for employment.
I realize that "requirements" aren't always strickly followed, but it is interesting to note that two company's that are both run by college dropouts both seam to perfer graduates for employment.
"And, for another, it's going to narrow the gap between the release of a game on Windows and the release on Mac -- maybe to zero."
What about those games tooled towards DirectX... it isn't the architecture screwing us here...it is the lack of DirectX for OSX that is screwing us.