Not really that amazing, this works in pretty much any other OS other than Windows. ie, a Snow Leopard install on my old 32 bit MacBook has no problem running in 64 bit if I boot it up on say, the latest iMac.
>As long as games can't go through a post-process hand tuned by a team of artists for weeks
Well I don't know anything about movie production, but I highly doubt they do this. Are you really saying they take their pristine movie output and begin to photoshop it and make adjustments at the frame level? Do you know how laborious that is when you could just, oh, i don't know, adjust the model you already have and rerender those frames? D
Um, they have all this covered. PXE boot is the same thing as NetBoot, altiris is well covered and probably even surpassed by Deploy Studio. And remote management? C'mon.
It runs on that older hardware just fine, it's just the installer won't have anything to do with it. There are a few ways around it; I've had it running on a 400mhz titanium powerbook.
The article clearly says that this requires a jailbroken iPhone...which requires restoring the phone anyway, therefore erasing everything in the process. It's worse than useless and just a bunch of FUD.
Who the fuck keeps modding this shit up? I'm sick of this phone minimalism circle jerking I'm seeing so often on here (you know, this nerd & technology oriented site). Yes we all know you're in love with your Nokia 1100/3210/whatever - now how about you go and choke on it.
Actually I think you're a troll; it seems to me you're angry with Firefox and flash, not Apple? OS X Jaguar still works as well as it did the day it was released, and I can assure you there's no hidden code in there preventing FF3 and Flash from running just to spite you.
You act as if it's Apple's fault they've had almost 4 major OS releases in the time MS has had one, and your argument is akin to complaining that Netscape works fine on your System 7 machine but how dare it not run on your Mac Plus with 1MB and System 4.2 (which had only just recently introduced such innovations as hierarchical menus). This is how ridiculous you sound. Windows (or it's API's) have been stagnant for the better part of a decade and win32 has pretty much been shelved and depreciated. Would you expect Firefox and Flash binaries to run on a 7 year old linux distro? You're an idiot - please, give that mac to somebody who appreciates it.
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I'm pretty sure Windows does this too now, but isn't there a warning when running an unsigned executable downloaded from the internet? I'm sure this was implemented in OS X to negate this exact thing. It even tells you when/where it was downloaded and gives you an option to open it's source web page. It even warns you about downloading a disk image with an executable inside it, though I've disabled that option obviously.
With memory becoming so plentiful these days (I haven't seen many home PC's with 6 or 8GB granted, but we're getting there) it seems that a single error on a large capacity chip is getting more and more trivial. Isn't it a waste to throw away a whole DIMM? Why isn't it possible to "remap" this known-bad address, or allocate some amount of RAM for parity the way software like PAR2 works? Hard drive manufacturers already remap bad blocks on new drives. Also it seems to me that, being a solid state device, small failures in RAM aren't necessarily indicative of a failing component like bad sectors on a hard drive are. Am I missing something really obvious here or is it really just easier/cheaper to throw it away?
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Not really that amazing, this works in pretty much any other OS other than Windows. ie, a Snow Leopard install on my old 32 bit MacBook has no problem running in 64 bit if I boot it up on say, the latest iMac.
>As long as games can't go through a post-process hand tuned by a team of artists for weeks
Well I don't know anything about movie production, but I highly doubt they do this. Are you really saying they take their pristine movie output and begin to photoshop it and make adjustments at the frame level? Do you know how laborious that is when you could just, oh, i don't know, adjust the model you already have and rerender those frames? D
Watch a recent PIxar movie in HD and come back and say that.
Um, they have all this covered. PXE boot is the same thing as NetBoot, altiris is well covered and probably even surpassed by Deploy Studio. And remote management? C'mon.
It runs on that older hardware just fine, it's just the installer won't have anything to do with it. There are a few ways around it; I've had it running on a 400mhz titanium powerbook.
There are plenty of 3rd party web browsers for the iPhone, I don't know why people keep repeating this lie.
There are plenty of other browsers on the iPhone.
Really? People did 20+ layers on 1Ghz G4 chips all day, you really think a multicore (possibly quad-core?) Cortex A9 can't handle it?
>you have essentially a little Linux computer with all that implies
Haha, be careful with that one ;)
While you're nitpicking, it was a plain MacBook.
I shudder to think how much uglier they could make Enlightenment after their recent work on Android: http://gizmodo.com/5406912/samsung-behold-ii-non+review-oh-god-the-ugly
>Thus eliminating any goodwill that would have been gained...
And ironically, knowing most sidekick users destroying all the data on their (not backed up) Windows partition in the process!
This is more to do with the speed of the flash though, my old HD based USB iPod transferred heaps faster.
Actually you only had to pay a licensing fee to use the name FireWire, anyone can make a IEEE1394 device without paying anything to Apple.
The article clearly says that this requires a jailbroken iPhone...which requires restoring the phone anyway, therefore erasing everything in the process. It's worse than useless and just a bunch of FUD.
Who the fuck keeps modding this shit up? I'm sick of this phone minimalism circle jerking I'm seeing so often on here (you know, this nerd & technology oriented site). Yes we all know you're in love with your Nokia 1100/3210/whatever - now how about you go and choke on it.
Yes but chances are nobody would bother stealing a G1. Mod me flamebait you know it's true.
Interesting to see that Opera is not the memory sipping, lightweight browser that it's proponents make it out to be.
Remember we're talking about an art class here. Do I hear 70%? 50%?... less?
Actually I think you're a troll; it seems to me you're angry with Firefox and flash, not Apple? OS X Jaguar still works as well as it did the day it was released, and I can assure you there's no hidden code in there preventing FF3 and Flash from running just to spite you.
You act as if it's Apple's fault they've had almost 4 major OS releases in the time MS has had one, and your argument is akin to complaining that Netscape works fine on your System 7 machine but how dare it not run on your Mac Plus with 1MB and System 4.2 (which had only just recently introduced such innovations as hierarchical menus). This is how ridiculous you sound. Windows (or it's API's) have been stagnant for the better part of a decade and win32 has pretty much been shelved and depreciated. Would you expect Firefox and Flash binaries to run on a 7 year old linux distro? You're an idiot - please, give that mac to somebody who appreciates it.
Seems like it's only slightly faster than Safari 3.2.2...so much for TraceMonkey.
I'm pretty sure Windows does this too now, but isn't there a warning when running an unsigned executable downloaded from the internet? I'm sure this was implemented in OS X to negate this exact thing. It even tells you when/where it was downloaded and gives you an option to open it's source web page. It even warns you about downloading a disk image with an executable inside it, though I've disabled that option obviously.
With memory becoming so plentiful these days (I haven't seen many home PC's with 6 or 8GB granted, but we're getting there) it seems that a single error on a large capacity chip is getting more and more trivial. Isn't it a waste to throw away a whole DIMM? Why isn't it possible to "remap" this known-bad address, or allocate some amount of RAM for parity the way software like PAR2 works? Hard drive manufacturers already remap bad blocks on new drives. Also it seems to me that, being a solid state device, small failures in RAM aren't necessarily indicative of a failing component like bad sectors on a hard drive are. Am I missing something really obvious here or is it really just easier/cheaper to throw it away?
You might like Witch. http://many-tricks.com/witch/