is it worth replacing? That depends on your need. When the battery in my old ibook got to the point it wouldn't last 1/2 hour, it was also high time to upgrade, so I just gave it to my son and bought my PB.:D
I write code for Macs and Linux for a living so I need Tiger to ensure compatibility.
They *did* do a lot of nice stuff at the system level - launchd is interesting if a pain (because it adds a new barrier to making Linux system enhancements work with Mac) but they threw so much new syntactic sugar on top of everything as to force a migration to Intel just to get faster chips.;-P
Tiger's new Sync model also broke the Exchange/iCal sync program I was using (groupcal), and caused a mysterious new bug in an open source program I wrote (pdf2psp) - I had to write my own ImageView subclass because NSImageView is apparently so "optimized" I couldn't get it dump it's old cache when loading a new image - code that worked fine in 10.3.x.
Frankly, 512 megs was more than usable with Panther; my wife's ibook with 256 was fine, if a little sluggish. Tiger has effectively forced me to cut back on how much I do with my Powerbook.
I wouldn't mind the memory requirements if they were worthwhile but - as I said and you seem to confirm - 150 megs of virtual memory so you can view your netflix queue seems a bit extreme.
I've got half a gig, but I'm swapping constantly and apps like Safari regularly swell to consume all available RAM.
Widgets that access the internet regularly consume a hundred megs of swap and mdimport will start eating processor at random moments. Mail.app regularly tries to index the hundreds of thousands of files on my company's Exchange server and comes to a screeching halt.
1. Comparing Gitmo to a concentration camp is like comparing Legos to a sky scraper. Here's a hint: no one has been killed in Cuba.
2. Please list the countries that *aren't* "close friends" with Saudi Arabia.
3. Please list all the ways we have shown our friendship with Pakistan since we learned they were the ones spreading bomb tech. Here's another hint: the US is now more closely aligned with India than we have been for 30 years.
As for who paid for the revolver (Colt), the rifle (Remington), invented mass production (Ford) the answer is WE did.
Actually the answer to all three is "the military" which was the point of the original discussion.
Also, you might want to check out a book yourself. Ford invented the assembly line, not mass production. Mass production and interchangeable parts were invented so that guns could be produced in large quantities and be repaired by swapping in spare parts. IIRC, it was Eli Whitney who developed the technique.
about history and the history of technology. If Japan and China had been able to start producing guns the day the western ships showed up in their ports, history would be very different.
You might also make a literary side trip and explore who it was that paid for and developed things like the revolver, the rifle, who invented mass production and why did they do it, etc...
Do you think samurai had the industrial skills to create Gatling guns?
It was, in fact, the refusal of the Chinese and Japanese to develop that technological and industrial base that left them vulnerable to the colonial powers and ensured that the West would dominate them in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Japan survived by becoming a satellite of the West while China is only now realizing the geopolitical power it really has.
Because we all know how well banning weapons has worked before.
The first attempt I can remember was when the Pope tried to prohibit crossbows. The most recent is the Japanese ban on firearms - which worked quite well until Admiral Perry showed up.
I'd also add - why would I want to help a newspaper violate the law and the Constitution?
Despite lofty claims made by the press, the U.S. Constitution says nothing about anonymous sources. On the other hand, it does mention being permitted to face your accuser;
They *thought* they could find a 9th planet based on the orbital perturbations of Neptune's orbit, but they actually found pluto by accident - Pluto is too small and too far from Neptune to perturb its orbit.
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is it worth replacing? That depends on your need. When the battery in my old ibook got to the point it wouldn't last 1/2 hour, it was also high time to upgrade, so I just gave it to my son and bought my PB. :D
It gives you the current capacity but not the max.
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/ioreg ] && \ /usr/sbin/ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n "battery" -w 0 | \ /^[{}]/!p
[ -x
sed -ne '/| *{/,/| *}/ {
s/^[ |]*//g
}' | \
awk '/IOBatteryInfo/ {
A=$3 $4
gsub("[{}()\"]","", A)
gsub(","," ",A)
print($1, $2, A)
}'
# EOF
Save that as a shell script, when you run it from terminal it will produce info like this:
"IOBatteryInfo" = Capacity=4046 Amperage=1157 CycleCount=483 Current=2837 Voltage=12187 Flags=838860807 AbsoluteMaxCapacity=4400
The difference between AbsoluteMaxCapacity and Capacity gives you an idea of how much my battery has faded since it was new...
I write code for Macs and Linux for a living so I need Tiger to ensure compatibility.
;-P
They *did* do a lot of nice stuff at the system level - launchd is interesting if a pain (because it adds a new barrier to making Linux system enhancements work with Mac) but they threw so much new syntactic sugar on top of everything as to force a migration to Intel just to get faster chips.
Tiger's new Sync model also broke the Exchange/iCal sync program I was using (groupcal), and caused a mysterious new bug in an open source program I wrote (pdf2psp) - I had to write my own ImageView subclass because NSImageView is apparently so "optimized" I couldn't get it dump it's old cache when loading a new image - code that worked fine in 10.3.x.
Frankly, 512 megs was more than usable with Panther; my wife's ibook with 256 was fine, if a little sluggish. Tiger has effectively forced me to cut back on how much I do with my Powerbook.
I wouldn't mind the memory requirements if they were worthwhile but - as I said and you seem to confirm - 150 megs of virtual memory so you can view your netflix queue seems a bit extreme.
I've got half a gig, but I'm swapping constantly and apps like Safari regularly swell to consume all available RAM.
Widgets that access the internet regularly consume a hundred megs of swap and mdimport will start eating processor at random moments. Mail.app regularly tries to index the hundreds of thousands of files on my company's Exchange server and comes to a screeching halt.
Frankly, Tiger's been a major disappointment.
Cloning the Windows APIs has nothing to do with processor emulation.
Rosetta translates PPC instructions into X86 instructions. Why would it provide Windows compatibility?
the horrific conditions at Gitmo:
Harry Potter popular with Guantanamo detainees: report
Yup. The torture never ends.
the USAF had ASAT launch systems that could be fired from an F-15. I assume that capability has improved since then.
You don't need Cape Canaveral to put a small load into space.
that a cannon is a large caliber rifle, right?
Japanese cannon, IIRC, were extremely few, made of wood(!) or cast iron and were not rifled, which basically means "low range and no impact".
1. Comparing Gitmo to a concentration camp is like comparing Legos to a sky scraper. Here's a hint: no one has been killed in Cuba.
2. Please list the countries that *aren't* "close friends" with Saudi Arabia.
3. Please list all the ways we have shown our friendship with Pakistan since we learned they were the ones spreading bomb tech. Here's another hint: the US is now more closely aligned with India than we have been for 30 years.
to knock something down, or to drop weights at sub-orbital velocities.
As for who paid for the revolver (Colt), the rifle (Remington), invented mass production (Ford) the answer is WE did.
Actually the answer to all three is "the military" which was the point of the original discussion.
Also, you might want to check out a book yourself. Ford invented the assembly line, not mass production. Mass production and interchangeable parts were invented so that guns could be produced in large quantities and be repaired by swapping in spare parts. IIRC, it was Eli Whitney who developed the technique.
All we need is for the oil market to keep tightening for the U.S. and China to start getting quite.... snippy... with each other.
Does that mean the Germans born in 1980 are all mass murderers?
about history and the history of technology. If Japan and China had been able to start producing guns the day the western ships showed up in their ports, history would be very different.
You might also make a literary side trip and explore who it was that paid for and developed things like the revolver, the rifle, who invented mass production and why did they do it, etc...
Do you think samurai had the industrial skills to create Gatling guns?
It was, in fact, the refusal of the Chinese and Japanese to develop that technological and industrial base that left them vulnerable to the colonial powers and ensured that the West would dominate them in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Japan survived by becoming a satellite of the West while China is only now realizing the geopolitical power it really has.
someone should abandon their ethical and moral principles in order to be "liked".
Please explain how ASATs violate the ABM treaty.
Also, please explain how a treaty with a country that does not exist can remain in force.
Because we all know how well banning weapons has worked before.
The first attempt I can remember was when the Pope tried to prohibit crossbows. The most recent is the Japanese ban on firearms - which worked quite well until Admiral Perry showed up.
I'd also add - why would I want to help a newspaper violate the law and the Constitution?
Despite lofty claims made by the press, the U.S. Constitution says nothing about anonymous sources. On the other hand, it does mention being permitted to face your accuser;
They *thought* they could find a 9th planet based on the orbital perturbations of Neptune's orbit, but they actually found pluto by accident - Pluto is too small and too far from Neptune to perturb its orbit.
An IBM spokesman was unable to comment on the availability of the new chips
what a "systems engineer" does.