they need to ask themselves if they're talking about something that hundreds of millions of people still use daily. Some douchebag realizes that mail sucks in an unfiltered state if you get a lot of it daily, and all of a sudden it's dead? You know whats dead to me? Spending five minutes yping inanely abbreviated messages into inscrutable screens using my thumbs like some kind of proud monkey just to get a simple fucking sentence across. Email forever, fuck text messaging.
"trespass is not a justification for killing someone. self-defence only applies if you honestly believe that you are in immediate danger of being killed or harmed. shooting blindly (and it must have been blind, otherwise he would have noticed that they were cops) just because your door has been kicked in does not qualify."
Depends. You have no idea if the guy could see or not, and really, does it matter? The cops were (at the time) supposed to announce themselves. If your door is suddenly kicked in with no warning, especially at night or dawn when these guys usually work, protecting your family is your instant concern. You kill the threat and ask questions later.
Thanks to the supreme court we may be seeing more of this kind of thing soon.
It's just a variant of how Gillette polymer-coats its Mach3 blades so they have a shorter useful life.
How does that work, I thought razors were one time use only anyway?
As for the nano, I haven't handled one, but it sounds like even experienced iPod owners are seeing more of a scratching problem with it. It'll be interesting to see what Apple's response will be. ( my bet is they'll largely tell people to stuff it, offer a few coupons to the seriously pissed, and quietly improve the product in Rev B)
People say never buy Rev. A from Apple, and a truer statement has never been made. Every Rev A product I can think of, and I've worked on them all, has had various problems. Plus Rev B is usually so much more kickass that you end up with buyers remorse.
I did/do want a nano to replace my largePod, but I was gonna wait for the 16 or 32GB version (Rev D?)anyway.
At my last job when I got a couple freebie 20" CRT's, it completely changed my experience of fixing Macs.
Probably matters slightly less for PCs, due to safe mode being low res anyway, but for me it was like brushing my teeth with toothpaste instead of the dogshit I had been using.
I had some 15's and even an old 14" Applevision, it really sucked.
Do yourself a favor and go 19"+ on your CRT's/LCDs!
"My attempt to run the Sieve of Eratosthenes benchmark on the Mac provides one indication of its RAM limitations"
For some reason this cracks me up. Although I heard the original Mac also sucked at the Garlicpress of Rhadamanthus test suite. Oh well, I guess benchmarks aren't everything.
Funny how Peter Jackson is acting "piggish"according to the defense attorney quoted in TFA, considering he actually did justice to the story, satisfied the world that it could be done right, and made LOTR the success it is.
Without the 'pig', the studio could very well have had half the profit to fight about. IMHO, here's another likely scenario: Studio picks wrong director, films don't live up to expectations, no Oscars, less hype, less $$$$.
They're just trying to screw him over like they do everyone else according to the article, apparently it's SOP and they like to settle out of court so their sleazy accounting practices aren't revealed. Oink.
A couple years ago I remember talking to a mac-geek friend of mine and he said "Someday, Apple will be an eyewear company"
This obviously only makes sense in a future where the network is CPU and Storage, wireless is very fast and advanced, and the glasses are basically just display technology.
How likely is this future, maybe as a precursor to direct neural jacks ala Matrix?
Do slashdotters believe the "Network is the Computer" idea will eventually come to be ?
The Best Buy guy actually wouldn't sell me my PS2 until I listened to him rant about "a design flaw in the fans" that made the extended warranty a must have.
I loudly asked to be helped by someone else as soon as he wouldn't take no for an answer. I actually had to turn my back on him and go to another register. He was so red I thought he might attack me, so I turned and stared his "would you like fries with that" ass down a little.
He had just sucessfully sold a $39 dollar plan on a $139 13" TV/VCR to the people before us.?!?!
Reminds me of the time, during a family holiday a few years ago, BS'ing at Circuit City with my uncles and brother I made an offhand comment "Packard Bell is a piece of shit" as we checked out the computer section.
Instantly this sweaty redneck salesman (looked like the asshole from the EPA in Ghostbusters, remember that guy?) jumps three inches from my face and fairly screams at me "Son, ah'ma sellin' more Packards outta here ever' day than anythin' else, you know sumthin' ah don't !!!!!?"
Having this festering excuse for a human face suddenly thrust inches from mine was a shock to say the least. I couldn't believe it and launched into a basically spluttering cursing tirade. The guy started to try and put his hands on me and my other uncle, the kung-fu instructor had to back him away from me.
Eventually, I was able to compose sentences enough to (truthfully) tell the guy that I fix computers for a living, that Packard Bell makes the worst pieces of shit going, and that they would probably go out of business soon. I also told him a lot of other things about himself, his parentage, the store, and his future. I'm basically screaming at this guy and everyone around was stopped dead watching us.
Sooo, that was interesting. Another story of Circuit City fun is the one about the "$100 derisive DIVX multiple upsell attempt gone awry";-) But that's for another time...
No I'm saying that someone who rapes and kills another should never be allowed to "repent", or be forgiven, for what they have done. Punishment, sin, atonement, it's all a BS construct. Just live by the golden rule. Accept responsibility for your acts. Realize that some acts are off limits, are unforgivable, and repentance never enters the picture.
Right, if I had complete faith in Jesus, I wouldn't be ABLE to rape and kill. I'm sure this is a "good point" to some of you out there, but let's observe history for a moment.
Faith AND Works of 'holy' men have sponsored killing and raping in the name of Christ on a massive scale. Without getting too verbose, I'm sure we are all aware of the Crusades, the Inquisition, etc. In 1099 when the Crusaders retook Jerusalem, it is documented that...".. in the temple and the porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins". Forty thousand Muslims and Jews slaughtered in 2 days. So let's get fucking real, to truly BE a "Christian" would not one have to be divine themselves? Wouldn't they be UNABLE to perform these acts? Would that perfect entity still be a human?
About the closest to a pure Christian man I can think of in our era is Martin Luther King Jr. If you study the man's life you understand two things: He was almost inhuman in his ability to withstand a life of persecution (numerous arrests, beatings, bomb attacks, threats, etc.) and still preach love for his enemies. And that he was just a man, a 'sinner' like everyone else. He cheated on his wife, he was depressed, frustrated. He knew he would die for his beliefs, and he was scared, but he didn't shy away. MLK transcended Christianity, he was bigger than it because he was a worker for betterment in a world of 'Christian" hypocrites. The point is, we're all human, no more or less. There is no such thing as perfect faith, only our Works matter, any other interpretation is laughable.
P.S. Especially laughable is the idea of repentance (progman3k)
No, according to the Bible, works ("living a good life" in your words) don't count, no matter how great and wonderful you think you're being. Faith, and only faith gets the job done.
You dumbass, it' s the exact opposite in the Bible. Do you really believe that no matter what you do, as long as you have faith, you will go to heaven? Scary to think you are just one among many who misinterpret the bible regularly, blindly believing thing which are obviously bullshit.
Say I had complete faith in Jesus, If I raped and killed your mother, could I still go to heaven?
It may be sooner than we all imagine. There could be a turning point if MS doesn't get control of this virus and sucurity problem. I work for small business and home computer users, bottom of the barrel stuff maybe, but even on this level people are fed up with Windows and strongly considering OS X, if not Linux quite yet.
On a corporate level, if Linux is up to the task, and the myriad costs associated with Windows are more than the costs of switching and retraining on Linux, well... maybe I'm just dreaming.
Does anyone else think MS's future position seems less certain than ever?
NOT. It's always amusing to see how everyone wants Apple to somehow suddenly be like COBY or White Castle or Family Dollar when it comes to price and also be, well.... Apple in innovation at the same time. Point is, you can't have both.
A business card size MP3 player with 1000 song capacity and kickass industrial design does have a market, trust me. Maybe at $250 they've lost many sales, but when you're selling more iPods than Macs in their first year at $300-500 a pop, why go low? Until Apple can make it's customary ~30% profit on a $100 player that won't denigrate the brand by being sucky in some way, then we won't be seeing one.
With the 2GB Cornice HD mentioned here yesterday at $70 per 100,000, we can begin to see how much profit Apple can really make on these miniPods, and iPods in general. Say the 4GB version is $100 or so, you can imagine that each of these miniPods may have nearly $100 in profit for Apple. I'm not putting them down in any way, I think they deserve to have a mega sucessful product after having contributed so much innovation all these years. Besides, I got a 40GB for Christmas and consider it someone else's money well spent;-)
P.s. COBY, the SONY knockoff, have you seen this crap?
I wonder why it's so exciting (that we have to post it on slashdot) that Apples are going superleetfast, when Apple owners don't need speed...
2 reasons: One, we really do need all the speed we can get. OS X is getting really fast and nice on the new G5's (with Panther only helping the matter). And Two, because for a long time Apple wasn't competing at the high end of performance, and now they are.
Packard Bell today announced it would re-enter the US market with the introduction of a new online music service and branded media player. Company spokesman Mr. Fuzuoku said "we will avoid repeating past failure by competing only in markets with no competition from DELL and H........D'Oh!!"
I hereby boldly predict a dismal failure for the dellPOD and their michael-dell-washes-jobs'-nutsack-yet-again-music -service.
But on a slightly different note, it should be said that Dell adds absolutely nothing to the industry except being largely responsible for the price wars. ( which many can be said to have profited from, admittedly ). But they really are a bunch of insipid co-opters, they've done nothing first or better except commoditize the PC into a largely disposable, barely desirable $399-599 piece of shared-memory crap.
All they have that is unique to them are the extremely low end, cheap as hell clown-boxes that everyone in mass media and Wall St. love them for. Within the industry every company struggles to compete with their McDonald's philosophy and has neither time or will to even try and innovate like Apple does. And in every city there are many smaller shops trying to stay alive while also building real configs that are balanced and high-quality. I pity them because the consumer x86 market isn't worth persuing anymore, the type of people who buy at small stores are the type where you lose money answering all their retarded questions on the phone shortly following the sale. MS plays a big part, but DELL is instrumental in making the PC platform suck as much as it does. I for one wish them ill on all their Apple-inspired adventures especially, because it is in these acts that they appear the most repugnant.
Try explaining to a client why they should someone hire a good Avid editor for (say) $150/hr (or audio- or lighting- or camera-person) when they can have their son do their company's commercial on the family's Final Cut Pro machine with their $700 digital camera?
Heh, yeah, damn those a-holes at Apple for giving cheap semi-pro quality video editing capability to the masses. Here's a clue, we're ALL getting paid less and getting less work these days, it's not assface 17 yr olds with GL2's you should worry about, it's the f'd up US economy which makes those clients go the cheaper route.
The new slim and trim iPod with smaller battery must have some very active power management to get the play times even close to the original iPod. It probably can very rapidly power cycle the sound amplification circuitry in response to input/lack of. The electrical pop may be a blip from a momentary power cycle due to some defect in software or hardware. From what others have said you can only hear it intermittently and only when the music is quiet enough or pauses enough. I hope Apple can fix it via a software update, or things may get messy with this one. They've already sold 100,000+ new iPods and a recall would be extremely... painful for them.
PhysicsGenius I hope you stick with physics because you've managed to demonstrate your complete ignorance of modern CPU's.
"Apple's chips... are also more expensive per clock-cycle and embedded in a desktop". WTF does that even mean?
"...if Apple made a server worthy of the name" It's called Xserve, and you want one.
And to top it all off: "there's no MMX in a PowerPC" has seriously got to be one of the most dimwitted things ever said on Slashdot. Congratulations on that, by the way.
I guess I shouldn't be so harsh, you're the physics genius, not the computer genius, right?
All of you need to stop boring the crowd with your pedestrian configs and trivial os x achievements.
I have installed Mac OS X 10.2.3 on no less than a mac color classic stuffed with a PowerMac 8500 MBD that I hacksawed the pci slots off of and upgraded with a 550mhz copper G3 OC'd to 667mhz.
The 8 ram slots are all populated with 8MB DIMMS. I have upgraded the onboard video to full 4MB of VRAM. The 10" screen is 512x384 so I can't actually see the dock or the right half of the desktop but I am using this machine in a beowolf cluster of DuoDocks II's and Centris 610's to encode MPEG-2 streams of the Screen Savers (TechTV) that are dumped onto my 2TB fibre channel SAN comprised completely of 1GB Iomega Jaz drives, for later editing and archiving onto Fujitsu DynaMO Optical media in RealMedia format.
Now who wants some???
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OS X is very very slow at some things on my 400Mhz G3 iMac w/ 512MB RAM. But it's only slow with things like loading webpages, opening programs, and scrolling windows. You know, the kind of things people hardly ever do anyway. Other stuff, like moving the cursor side to side and dragging icons around is just as fast as OS 9, I swear.
Seriously though, OS X is very good at doing more than one thing at once and I/O throughput for network, firewire, USB, etc. is very much improved over OS 9. The feeling when switching back to OS 9 is that it is much snappier, but I find myself less productive in 9 because I tend to use many programs simultaneously and OS X excels here, even on a slow iMac. Hell, I even use OS X on my old 9500/333Mhz G3 and it is DOG slow but I still like it better than 9. The key to remember is that OS 9 is fast because it is highly geared toward doing one thing at a time as fast as possible, and other key fact about OS 9 is that it completely sucks balls. (I am totally qualified to say this because it is true)
Another vote here for the 'Cuda, they are soo much quieter than the previous generation disks, and very cheap and fast too. At my work we install them exclusively and we've never had one fail yet, easily 350 pieces without one DOA or return. They are especially well suited to iMacs and other Apple machines with no or few fans.
We have noticed TONs of old Quantum drives failing this year and I just have a strange feeling about those new Maxtors that look like the old style Quantum design. No comment on WD , as I have only replaced, never sold them. People seem to have very mixed luck with IBM lately, so it's hard to recommend anything other than the Seagate. Thank you to Seagate for sucking less.
I think I'll pass on a high-speed flywheel in my car. That thing gets even the slightest bit off balance, and it'll tear through your car and anything around.
Actually flywheels made from carbon-fiber composite can be used @ 60.000+ RPM and don't shred apart in an accident. In catastrophe tests the wheel always remained whole and just skidded to a stop inside the container. NASA is even considering them for use in space instead of heavy and dangerous batteries. Check out this Wired article for more info:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/flywheel.h tml
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That's a lot of mosques. There's only ~1200 mosques in the US. Verizon is already helping to spy on them, now it's Indonesia's turn.
they need to ask themselves if they're talking about something that hundreds of millions of people still use daily. Some douchebag realizes that mail sucks in an unfiltered state if you get a lot of it daily, and all of a sudden it's dead? You know whats dead to me? Spending five minutes yping inanely abbreviated messages into inscrutable screens using my thumbs like some kind of proud monkey just to get a simple fucking sentence across. Email forever, fuck text messaging.
"trespass is not a justification for killing someone. self-defence only applies if you honestly believe that you are in immediate danger of being killed or harmed. shooting blindly (and it must have been blind, otherwise he would have noticed that they were cops) just because your door has been kicked in does not qualify."
Depends. You have no idea if the guy could see or not, and really, does it matter? The cops were (at the time) supposed to announce themselves. If your door is suddenly kicked in with no warning, especially at night or dawn when these guys usually work, protecting your family is your instant concern. You kill the threat and ask questions later.
Thanks to the supreme court we may be seeing more of this kind of thing soon.
It's just a variant of how Gillette polymer-coats its Mach3 blades so they have a shorter useful life.
How does that work, I thought razors were one time use only anyway?
As for the nano, I haven't handled one, but it sounds like even experienced iPod owners are seeing more of a scratching problem with it. It'll be interesting to see what Apple's response will be. ( my bet is they'll largely tell people to stuff it, offer a few coupons to the seriously pissed, and quietly improve the product in Rev B)
People say never buy Rev. A from Apple, and a truer statement has never been made. Every Rev A product I can think of, and I've worked on them all, has had various problems. Plus Rev B is usually so much more kickass that you end up with buyers remorse.
I did/do want a nano to replace my largePod, but I was gonna wait for the 16 or 32GB version (Rev D?)anyway.
At my last job when I got a couple freebie 20" CRT's, it completely changed my experience of fixing Macs.
Probably matters slightly less for PCs, due to safe mode being low res anyway, but for me it was like brushing my teeth with toothpaste instead of the dogshit I had been using.
I had some 15's and even an old 14" Applevision, it really sucked.
Do yourself a favor and go 19"+ on your CRT's/LCDs!
"My attempt to run the Sieve of Eratosthenes benchmark on the Mac provides one indication of its RAM limitations"
For some reason this cracks me up. Although I heard the original Mac also sucked at the Garlicpress of Rhadamanthus test suite. Oh well, I guess benchmarks aren't everything.
Funny how Peter Jackson is acting "piggish"according to the defense attorney quoted in TFA, considering he actually did justice to the story, satisfied the world that it could be done right, and made LOTR the success it is.
Without the 'pig', the studio could very well have had half the profit to fight about. IMHO, here's another likely scenario: Studio picks wrong director, films don't live up to expectations, no Oscars, less hype, less $$$$.
They're just trying to screw him over like they do everyone else according to the article, apparently it's SOP and they like to settle out of court so their sleazy accounting practices aren't revealed. Oink.
A couple years ago I remember talking to a mac-geek friend of mine and he said "Someday, Apple will be an eyewear company"
This obviously only makes sense in a future where the network is CPU and Storage, wireless is very fast and advanced, and the glasses are basically just display technology.
How likely is this future, maybe as a precursor to direct neural jacks ala Matrix?
Do slashdotters believe the "Network is the Computer" idea will eventually come to be ?
The Best Buy guy actually wouldn't sell me my PS2 until I listened to him rant about "a design flaw in the fans" that made the extended warranty a must have.
I loudly asked to be helped by someone else as soon as he wouldn't take no for an answer. I actually had to turn my back on him and go to another register. He was so red I thought he might attack me, so I turned and stared his "would you like fries with that" ass down a little.
He had just sucessfully sold a $39 dollar plan on a $139 13" TV/VCR to the people before us.?!?!
Reminds me of the time, during a family holiday a few years ago, BS'ing at Circuit City with my uncles and brother I made an offhand comment "Packard Bell is a piece of shit" as we checked out the computer section.
Instantly this sweaty redneck salesman (looked like the asshole from the EPA in Ghostbusters, remember that guy?) jumps three inches from my face and fairly screams at me "Son, ah'ma sellin' more Packards outta here ever' day than anythin' else, you know sumthin' ah don't !!!!!?"
Having this festering excuse for a human face suddenly thrust inches from mine was a shock to say the least. I couldn't believe it and launched into a basically spluttering cursing tirade. The guy started to try and put his hands on me and my other uncle, the kung-fu instructor had to back him away from me.
Eventually, I was able to compose sentences enough to (truthfully) tell the guy that I fix computers for a living, that Packard Bell makes the worst pieces of shit going, and that they would probably go out of business soon. I also told him a lot of other things about himself, his parentage, the store, and his future. I'm basically screaming at this guy and everyone around was stopped dead watching us.
Sooo, that was interesting. Another story of Circuit City fun is the one about the "$100 derisive DIVX multiple upsell attempt gone awry"
No I'm saying that someone who rapes and kills another should never be allowed to "repent", or be forgiven, for what they have done. Punishment, sin, atonement, it's all a BS construct. Just live by the golden rule. Accept responsibility for your acts. Realize that some acts are off limits, are unforgivable, and repentance never enters the picture.
Right, if I had complete faith in Jesus, I wouldn't be ABLE to rape and kill. I'm sure this is a "good point" to some of you out there, but let's observe history for a moment.
.. in the temple and the porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins". Forty thousand Muslims and Jews slaughtered in 2 days. So let's get fucking real, to truly BE a "Christian" would not one have to be divine themselves? Wouldn't they be UNABLE to perform these acts? Would that perfect entity still be a human?
Faith AND Works of 'holy' men have sponsored killing and raping in the name of Christ on a massive scale. Without getting too verbose, I'm sure we are all aware of the Crusades, the Inquisition, etc. In 1099 when the Crusaders retook Jerusalem, it is documented that..."
About the closest to a pure Christian man I can think of in our era is Martin Luther King Jr. If you study the man's life you understand two things: He was almost inhuman in his ability to withstand a life of persecution (numerous arrests, beatings, bomb attacks, threats, etc.) and still preach love for his enemies. And that he was just a man, a 'sinner' like everyone else. He cheated on his wife, he was depressed, frustrated. He knew he would die for his beliefs, and he was scared, but he didn't shy away. MLK transcended Christianity, he was bigger than it because he was a worker for betterment in a world of 'Christian" hypocrites. The point is, we're all human, no more or less. There is no such thing as perfect faith, only our Works matter, any other interpretation is laughable.
P.S. Especially laughable is the idea of repentance (progman3k)
No, according to the Bible, works ("living a good life" in your words) don't count, no matter how great and wonderful you think you're being. Faith, and only faith gets the job done.
You dumbass, it' s the exact opposite in the Bible. Do you really believe that no matter what you do, as long as you have faith, you will go to heaven? Scary to think you are just one among many who misinterpret the bible regularly, blindly believing thing which are obviously bullshit.
Say I had complete faith in Jesus, If I raped and killed your mother, could I still go to heaven?
It may be sooner than we all imagine. There could be a turning point if MS doesn't get control of this virus and sucurity problem. I work for small business and home computer users, bottom of the barrel stuff maybe, but even on this level people are fed up with Windows and strongly considering OS X, if not Linux quite yet.
On a corporate level, if Linux is up to the task, and the myriad costs associated with Windows are more than the costs of switching and retraining on Linux, well... maybe I'm just dreaming.
Does anyone else think MS's future position seems less certain than ever?
"My, what well developed forearms you have..."
"Yup, been pumping iron all day, baby"
NOT. It's always amusing to see how everyone wants Apple to somehow suddenly be like COBY or White Castle or Family Dollar when it comes to price and also be, well.... Apple in innovation at the same time. Point is, you can't have both.
A business card size MP3 player with 1000 song capacity and kickass industrial design does have a market, trust me. Maybe at $250 they've lost many sales, but when you're selling more iPods than Macs in their first year at $300-500 a pop, why go low? Until Apple can make it's customary ~30% profit on a $100 player that won't denigrate the brand by being sucky in some way, then we won't be seeing one.
With the 2GB Cornice HD mentioned here yesterday at $70 per 100,000, we can begin to see how much profit Apple can really make on these miniPods, and iPods in general. Say the 4GB version is $100 or so, you can imagine that each of these miniPods may have nearly $100 in profit for Apple. I'm not putting them down in any way, I think they deserve to have a mega sucessful product after having contributed so much innovation all these years. Besides, I got a 40GB for Christmas and consider it someone else's money well spent;-)
P.s. COBY, the SONY knockoff, have you seen this crap?
I wonder why it's so exciting (that we have to post it on slashdot) that Apples are going superleetfast, when Apple owners don't need speed...
2 reasons:
One, we really do need all the speed we can get. OS X is getting really fast and nice on the new G5's (with Panther only helping the matter).
And Two, because for a long time Apple wasn't competing at the high end of performance, and now they are.
Packard Bell today announced it would re-enter the US market with the introduction of a new online music service and branded media player. Company spokesman Mr. Fuzuoku said "we will avoid repeating past failure by competing only in markets with no competition from DELL and H........D'Oh!!"
I hereby boldly predict a dismal failure for the dellPOD and their michael-dell-washes-jobs'-nutsack-yet-again-music -service.
But on a slightly different note, it should be said that Dell adds absolutely nothing to the industry except being largely responsible for the price wars. ( which many can be said to have profited from, admittedly ). But they really are a bunch of insipid co-opters, they've done nothing first or better except commoditize the PC into a largely disposable, barely desirable $399-599 piece of shared-memory crap.
All they have that is unique to them are the extremely low end, cheap as hell clown-boxes that everyone in mass media and Wall St. love them for. Within the industry every company struggles to compete with their McDonald's philosophy and has neither time or will to even try and innovate like Apple does. And in every city there are many smaller shops trying to stay alive while also building real configs that are balanced and high-quality. I pity them because the consumer x86 market isn't worth persuing anymore, the type of people who buy at small stores are the type where you lose money answering all their retarded questions on the phone shortly following the sale. MS plays a big part, but DELL is instrumental in making the PC platform suck as much as it does. I for one wish them ill on all their Apple-inspired adventures especially, because it is in these acts that they appear the most repugnant.
Try explaining to a client why they should someone hire a good Avid editor for (say) $150/hr (or audio- or lighting- or camera-person) when they can have their son do their company's commercial on the family's Final Cut Pro machine with their $700 digital camera?
Heh, yeah, damn those a-holes at Apple for giving cheap semi-pro quality video editing capability to the masses. Here's a clue, we're ALL getting paid less and getting less work these days, it's not assface 17 yr olds with GL2's you should worry about, it's the f'd up US economy which makes those clients go the cheaper route.
The new slim and trim iPod with smaller battery must have some very active power management to get the play times even close to the original iPod.
It probably can very rapidly power cycle the sound amplification circuitry in response to input/lack of. The electrical pop may be a blip from a momentary power cycle due to some defect in software or hardware. From what others have said you can only hear it intermittently and only when the music is quiet enough or pauses enough.
I hope Apple can fix it via a software update, or things may get messy with this one. They've already sold 100,000+ new iPods and a recall would be extremely... painful for them.
PhysicsGenius I hope you stick with physics because you've managed to demonstrate your complete ignorance of modern CPU's.
... are also more expensive per clock-cycle and embedded in a desktop". WTF does that even mean?
"Apple's chips
"...if Apple made a server worthy of the name" It's called Xserve, and you want one.
And to top it all off: "there's no MMX in a PowerPC" has seriously got to be one of the most dimwitted things ever said on Slashdot. Congratulations on that, by the way.
I guess I shouldn't be so harsh, you're the physics genius, not the computer genius, right?
All of you need to stop boring the crowd with your pedestrian configs and trivial os x achievements.
I have installed Mac OS X 10.2.3 on no less than a mac color classic stuffed with a PowerMac 8500 MBD that I hacksawed the pci slots off of and upgraded with a 550mhz copper G3 OC'd to 667mhz.
The 8 ram slots are all populated with 8MB DIMMS. I have upgraded the onboard video to full 4MB of VRAM. The 10" screen is 512x384 so I can't actually see the dock or the right half of the desktop but I am using this machine in a beowolf cluster of DuoDocks II's and Centris 610's to encode MPEG-2 streams of the Screen Savers (TechTV) that are dumped onto my 2TB fibre channel SAN comprised completely of 1GB Iomega Jaz drives, for later editing and archiving onto Fujitsu DynaMO Optical media in RealMedia format.
Now who wants some???
OS X is very very slow at some things on my 400Mhz G3 iMac w/ 512MB RAM. But it's only slow with things like loading webpages, opening programs, and scrolling windows. You know, the kind of things people hardly ever do anyway. Other stuff, like moving the cursor side to side and dragging icons around is just as fast as OS 9, I swear.
Seriously though, OS X is very good at doing more than one thing at once and I/O throughput for network, firewire, USB, etc. is very much improved over OS 9. The feeling when switching back to OS 9 is that it is much snappier, but I find myself less productive in 9 because I tend to use many programs simultaneously and OS X excels here, even on a slow iMac. Hell, I even use OS X on my old 9500/333Mhz G3 and it is DOG slow but I still like it better than 9. The key to remember is that OS 9 is fast because it is highly geared toward doing one thing at a time as fast as possible, and other key fact about OS 9 is that it completely sucks balls. (I am totally qualified to say this because it is true)
Another vote here for the 'Cuda, they are soo much quieter than the previous generation disks, and very cheap and fast too. At my work we install them exclusively and we've never had one fail yet, easily 350 pieces without one DOA or return. They are especially well suited to iMacs and other Apple machines with no or few fans.
We have noticed TONs of old Quantum drives failing this year and I just have a strange feeling about those new Maxtors that look like the old style Quantum design. No comment on WD , as I have only replaced, never sold them. People seem to have very mixed luck with IBM lately, so it's hard to recommend anything other than the Seagate. Thank you to Seagate for sucking less.
I think I'll pass on a high-speed flywheel in my car. That thing gets even the slightest bit off balance, and it'll tear through your car and anything around.
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Actually flywheels made from carbon-fiber composite can be used @ 60.000+ RPM and don't shred apart in an accident. In catastrophe tests the wheel always remained whole and just skidded to a stop inside the container. NASA is even considering them for use in space instead of heavy and dangerous batteries. Check out this Wired article for more info:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/flywheel.