Waiting to see who would scream (and how loud) when states embed RFID tags in license plates. Drive under a couple of sensors along the highway too fast, get a ticket (and someone somewhere would justify a law that states the owner is responsible for the vehicle).
I haven't read that far into the EFI specification, but I wonder if it provides the same full device tree that Open Firmware provides? The fact that Open Firmware builds a complete device tree fairly early in the boot process allows any loading operating system to more easily identify active devices (which is one of the secrets to the Mac OS's plug&play capability).
The EFI spec talks about more independent device drivers than what you can do with the current BIOS setup. I'm just wondering how this compares to how it's done in Open Firmware.
...then why in the hell has Apple been pushing 64-bit architectures for a year now, and then turn around and demonstrate this running on a 32-bit architecture? Unless you're trying to convince people that they don't have to buy new hardware to run OSX 10.4/10.5 instead of Windows (which is pretty counterproductive for a hardware company), I don't see a use for showing it running on a 32-bit architecture. The rest of the X86 world is pushing 64-bit architectures as well, so it would make sense for Apple to demonstrate it on an Intel x86-64 bit chip.
I know good and well that the processor world will be different in 2 years, but the customer buying today won't see that (especially the institutional/corporate buyers). Plus, it still won't make a bit of difference if the app that some customer wants is only built for MS Windows That part of the computing experience won't change with this regardless of what brand/kind of chips that Apple will be using.
Apple has committed suicide. Now they're back to 32-bit microprocessors.
Microsoft will simply FUD and out market them to death on the software side, Dell will outspend and underprice them to kill the hardware side. MS also will kill off (read losing cheap OS prices) any manufacturer that allows potential dual-booting between OSX 10.5 and Longhorn.
People who expect to double-click on a Windows app while running OSX will be disappointed. That's good and bad (good as in still harder to do a windows virus on OSX, bad in the customer sense.) I know damn good and well that's why people have wanted to have OSX on the X86 chipset for. People would still have to buy OSX versions of the software they have now on their Windows boxes. Not gonna happen. Companies would still have to develop on 2 separate platforms, only the hardware will be similar. Too many companies are already entrenched in the MS Visual Studio world to start over again, as has been said far too many times in the past with companies not providing MacOS versions of their products.
More "fat binaries", which means that the executables will be twice as large (just like in the 680x0/60x days). Having to support that will kill them in the speed comparison department vs MS apps which don't have to give a damn about other processor architectures. More marketing to beat the dead horse with.
If they had thought about it a bit more, it would have made more sense to go with the AMD64 architecture. They already have a 64-bit laptop chip, as well as a demonstratable dual-core processor, and the other processor innovations that Intel still hasn't figured out how to do (copper interconnects, Silicon on Insulator, etc.)
A hell of a lot of carbon apps (notably MS Office) are going to be more trouble to translate than they are worth. Of course, the transition to 10.4 should have taken care of a lot of those, but there's still a huge base of stuff that will die.
It will move Apple forward in some ways, but there won't be a chance in hell that you'll be able to buy most of the existing X86 peripherals and just plug them in as there won't be driver support. Besides, Intel hasn't gotten that much further in the straight speed department in the last 2 years. The big innovation for them is cooler-running laptop chipsets.
On the good side, maybe John Dvorak's head will explode from his ego overswelling.
Another bad sign is that they claimed that it would be finished in mid-2006 and now it's "holiday" 2006. So in theory they might release December 24th now.
I guess that they'll just have to cancel Christmas if they're not done...
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Me, why do you ask? (Although it's been mostly building add-on modules to OSSIM and OpenNMS).
...and remember: C# is just C++++ Two more pluses, so it's GOT to be GOOD!
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Yeah, it's really funny the posters spend 1/3 of the posts saying MACS SUX (or is it SUX0RS...I can never get that right), and the other 2/3 of the posts trying to get people to give them a free Mac mini.
I stand corrected. I am wondering if games like America's Army will still be playable if you have to connect to updated servers...
That was always a problem with games like Quake 3. The Mac patch would be behind the PC patch by a week or so, and you would be out in the cold until the patch came out.
No, I did in fact mean "TO" the test. As most of the school districts in San Antonio TX are in trouble due to their low test scores, they have decided to raise their chances for funding by scrapping the normal curriculum. It certainly isn't like this in other parts of the state (witness the teacher from Houston that replied to my original statement), but we have it here now.
Oh yes, we also have that giant administrative overhead burden that most of the country has. About 5 years ago, my old school district (before I moved a bit further out of town) had a $10 million bond initiative to improve the schools in the district (8 high schools, 20+ middle schools and I forget how many elementary schools, total of about 50K students). It passed and the district proceeded to spend $9.2 million on new headquarters for the district offices. Not new buses, not new classrooms, not for teacher salaries, but new offices for the district administrative staff. The superintendent also got a salary increase to $100,000/year. All this, and lower test scores!
Maybe I was a bit quick on my criticism of the "No Child Left Behind" act. Thinking about this, I think that the "No Child Left Behind" act should have some bigger sticks that could actually remedy this type of situation (such as mandating that a certain percentage of funding be used for the actual education process, or that the superintendent use some of that self-granted salary increase to fund the education of students in the district...) but that would make sense!
Actually, that's exactly what will happen on the Mac side when Gamespy pulls their support.
It's kind of like how MacOS users used to get onto Kazaa and Audiogalaxy. Someone would write a piece of software (your "another tool") that would talk to their servers, then the servers would be modified and you'd lose your connection.
If Gamespy decides it doesn't want Mac users to connect to their servers anymore, then they'll cut the cord just like my example above. They are, in fact, doing just that with their new (many times larger) licensing fee.
I have nothing personally against athletics. But when it replaces academics as the highest pursuit in our nation's schools, when parents spend their Saturdays watching their kids' football games, but won't bother to take them to the library or planetarium or the science museum, then there's something wrong with our priorities.
That's one of the best statements on our education system that I have ever heard. Coming from Texas (where high school football is the next best thing to God, and you'll still get in a barfight arguing about that), it's really telling.
Sorry, that's been banned due to the fact that books like 1984 were tipping the hand of the current administration, and we can't let that happen or the terrorists will win.
Then again, they probably aren't running the entire curriculum towards the tests (in other words "teach to the test"). That's all to common these days. The local school districts here in Texas have mandated curriculums that are taught district-wide, and are solely geared to passing the standardized tests. Individual teachers don't have any input to the curriculum, nor are they allowed to change it (lest they risk termination).
Thanks "No Child Left Behind"!
Teach the answers to the test and you'll do well on the test and have absolutely no idea about anything else (or how to apply any of that knowledge).
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Waiting to see who would scream (and how loud) when states embed RFID tags in license plates. Drive under a couple of sensors along the highway too fast, get a ticket (and someone somewhere would justify a law that states the owner is responsible for the vehicle).
yes, it's a really old map. I put my home address in there and it shows farmland. My area hasn't been farmland for over 10 years.
I haven't read that far into the EFI specification, but I wonder if it provides the same full device tree that Open Firmware provides? The fact that Open Firmware builds a complete device tree fairly early in the boot process allows any loading operating system to more easily identify active devices (which is one of the secrets to the Mac OS's plug&play capability).
The EFI spec talks about more independent device drivers than what you can do with the current BIOS setup. I'm just wondering how this compares to how it's done in Open Firmware.
Probably Westinghouse
I guess Lucas was watching "All My Circuits" when he was writing that scene... Calculon would be so proud!
(or is it will be proud, I'm kind of confused on the timeline issue here)
...then why in the hell has Apple been pushing 64-bit architectures for a year now, and then turn around and demonstrate this running on a 32-bit architecture? Unless you're trying to convince people that they don't have to buy new hardware to run OSX 10.4/10.5 instead of Windows (which is pretty counterproductive for a hardware company), I don't see a use for showing it running on a 32-bit architecture. The rest of the X86 world is pushing 64-bit architectures as well, so it would make sense for Apple to demonstrate it on an Intel x86-64 bit chip.
I know good and well that the processor world will be different in 2 years, but the customer buying today won't see that (especially the institutional/corporate buyers). Plus, it still won't make a bit of difference if the app that some customer wants is only built for MS Windows That part of the computing experience won't change with this regardless of what brand/kind of chips that Apple will be using.
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Apple has committed suicide. Now they're back to 32-bit microprocessors.
Microsoft will simply FUD and out market them to death on the software side, Dell will outspend and underprice them to kill the hardware side. MS also will kill off (read losing cheap OS prices) any manufacturer that allows potential dual-booting between OSX 10.5 and Longhorn.
People who expect to double-click on a Windows app while running OSX will be disappointed. That's good and bad (good as in still harder to do a windows virus on OSX, bad in the customer sense.) I know damn good and well that's why people have wanted to have OSX on the X86 chipset for. People would still have to buy OSX versions of the software they have now on their Windows boxes. Not gonna happen. Companies would still have to develop on 2 separate platforms, only the hardware will be similar. Too many companies are already entrenched in the MS Visual Studio world to start over again, as has been said far too many times in the past with companies not providing MacOS versions of their products.
More "fat binaries", which means that the executables will be twice as large (just like in the 680x0/60x days). Having to support that will kill them in the speed comparison department vs MS apps which don't have to give a damn about other processor architectures. More marketing to beat the dead horse with.
If they had thought about it a bit more, it would have made more sense to go with the AMD64 architecture. They already have a 64-bit laptop chip, as well as a demonstratable dual-core processor, and the other processor innovations that Intel still hasn't figured out how to do (copper interconnects, Silicon on Insulator, etc.)
A hell of a lot of carbon apps (notably MS Office) are going to be more trouble to translate than they are worth. Of course, the transition to 10.4 should have taken care of a lot of those, but there's still a huge base of stuff that will die.
It will move Apple forward in some ways, but there won't be a chance in hell that you'll be able to buy most of the existing X86 peripherals and just plug them in as there won't be driver support. Besides, Intel hasn't gotten that much further in the straight speed department in the last 2 years. The big innovation for them is cooler-running laptop chipsets.
On the good side, maybe John Dvorak's head will explode from his ego overswelling.
Another bad sign is that they claimed that it would be finished in mid-2006 and now it's "holiday" 2006. So in theory they might release December 24th now.
I guess that they'll just have to cancel Christmas if they're not done...
Me, why do you ask? (Although it's been mostly building add-on modules to OSSIM and OpenNMS).
...and remember: C# is just C++++
Two more pluses, so it's GOT to be GOOD!
Yeah, it's really funny the posters spend 1/3 of the posts saying MACS SUX (or is it SUX0RS...I can never get that right), and the other 2/3 of the posts trying to get people to give them a free Mac mini.
You can, Mac OSX supports IP over IEEE1394 (aka Firewire).2 307
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=15
Yes, a Beowulf cluster, without taking up a Grendel worth of space...
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Transit-main .html
Pages looks more like an MS Publisher competitor than an MS Word competitor.
On the bottom of the design page:
Keyboard, iPod mini, dock, hands, AirPort, Bluetooth and PC sold separately.
On the Graphics page:
Display, The Incredibles game, Finding Nemo DVD and HDTV sold separately.
On the Software page:
Digital life software included. HDTV sold separately.
I stand corrected. I am wondering if games like America's Army will still be playable if you have to connect to updated servers...
That was always a problem with games like Quake 3. The Mac patch would be behind the PC patch by a week or so, and you would be out in the cold until the patch came out.
No, I did in fact mean "TO" the test. As most of the school districts in San Antonio TX are in trouble due to their low test scores, they have decided to raise their chances for funding by scrapping the normal curriculum. It certainly isn't like this in other parts of the state (witness the teacher from Houston that replied to my original statement), but we have it here now.
Oh yes, we also have that giant administrative overhead burden that most of the country has. About 5 years ago, my old school district (before I moved a bit further out of town) had a $10 million bond initiative to improve the schools in the district (8 high schools, 20+ middle schools and I forget how many elementary schools, total of about 50K students). It passed and the district proceeded to spend $9.2 million on new headquarters for the district offices. Not new buses, not new classrooms, not for teacher salaries, but new offices for the district administrative staff. The superintendent also got a salary increase to $100,000/year. All this, and lower test scores!
Maybe I was a bit quick on my criticism of the "No Child Left Behind" act. Thinking about this, I think that the "No Child Left Behind" act should have some bigger sticks that could actually remedy this type of situation (such as mandating that a certain percentage of funding be used for the actual education process, or that the superintendent use some of that self-granted salary increase to fund the education of students in the district...) but that would make sense!
Ask any teacher in Northside or Northeast ISD in San Antonio.
Actually, that's exactly what will happen on the Mac side when Gamespy pulls their support.
It's kind of like how MacOS users used to get onto Kazaa and Audiogalaxy. Someone would write a piece of software (your "another tool") that would talk to their servers, then the servers would be modified and you'd lose your connection.
If Gamespy decides it doesn't want Mac users to connect to their servers anymore, then they'll cut the cord just like my example above. They are, in fact, doing just that with their new (many times larger) licensing fee.
That's one of the best statements on our education system that I have ever heard. Coming from Texas (where high school football is the next best thing to God, and you'll still get in a barfight arguing about that), it's really telling.
Sorry, that's been banned due to the fact that books like 1984 were tipping the hand of the current administration, and we can't let that happen or the terrorists will win.
Then again, they probably aren't running the entire curriculum towards the tests (in other words "teach to the test"). That's all to common these days. The local school districts here in Texas have mandated curriculums that are taught district-wide, and are solely geared to passing the standardized tests. Individual teachers don't have any input to the curriculum, nor are they allowed to change it (lest they risk termination).
Thanks "No Child Left Behind"!
Teach the answers to the test and you'll do well on the test and have absolutely no idea about anything else (or how to apply any of that knowledge).
Visual bananas?