You can hypothesize that something happens, test your hypothesis, and confirm it to be correct. What you can't test is whether something did happen in the past.
Parts of the OT are historical accounts of "this stuff happened." Other parts of the OT are more anecdotal accounts of "God told us to do this" or "this prophet, speaking on God's behalf, said that this is what God wants us to do."
You can "take it literally" while not necessarily believing that God's instructions to Israelites 4,000 years ago were intended to also apply to us today. Some of this is addressed in the NT; Acts 15 gives one example (Jews must be circumcised because of Abraham's covenant with God in Genesis 17, but you don't have to be Jewish to be Christian). Believing that Genesis 17 doesn't apply to those of us who aren't Jewish doesn't mean I don't believe Genesis 17 is an accurate historical account of what happened.
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ThinkSecret says Apple seeded a new version of Safari to developers a week ago, so presumably that will be available soon.
Firefox has been downloaded 75 million times. Many of these were upgrades from previous versions, which had already been counted.
Over 500 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. Many of these were purchased by the same person who had previously downloaded other iTMS songs (and often, the songs were part of an album and not purchased separately).
These really have nothing to do with each other, but it's sort of startling to consider the popularity of Firefox, which many of us depend on all the time and is free, compared to the popularity of something like the iTunes Music Store, which many of us never intend to give a dime to (draconian DRM and all that).
I have done DSL support in the past; this is true. Basically, as the quality of your phone line goes down, the speed you can reasonably expect to get also goes down. If your speed is capped at 1Mbps and you have a good phone line, maintaining sync won't take much bandwidth. If you have a crappy phone line, maintaining sync will take much more - unless your line is capped at a slower speed; then maintaining sync will use a reasonable percentage again.
I've seen a DSL line that was accidentally capped at 20Mbps; almost the entire connection was used to maintain sync and it could only get a few packets of data through. I was amazed that it worked at all; they must have had a great quality phone line - but of course from the customer's perspective, it was completely unusable. We had the LEC cap the line back down to where it was supposed to be, and it ran great.
As you say, the ISP doesn't give a damn if it's 50% or 80%... this is because there's absolutely nothing the ISP can do about it, because their contract with the LEC says that's acceptable, so if the ISP opens a trouble ticket with the LEC, the LEC will look at it, see that it's working adequately according to their contract with the ISP, and close the ticket. Of course if it's REALLY bad, the LEC can send a technician out to your house to replace your phone line, but that's very expensive (relative to how much you pay per month for the service), so they really don't want to do that unless they have to.
Knowing this, what do I use at home? DSL. To hell with the speed, I want reliability and the choice between dozens of competing ISPs. Screw cable modem providers and their dynamic IPs, firewalled ports, asinine AUPs, clueless techs, and general lack of interest in providing the services I want for a reasonable price. I pay slightly more than I would with cable, but my DSL service is extremely reliable, my ISP set up custom reverse DNS for me on my static IP address (after checking to make sure I had sendmail properly configured to use that hostname, which I did), they don't run away screaming "we don't support that!" when I mention I run Linux or Mac OS X, and basically they stay out of my hair.
Every Apple product I have seen with a problem had some kind of actual physical flaw (that was covered under Apple Care warranty) or had been abused or mistreated.
Of course I was talking about flaws that are covered under AppleCare. Usually they manifest themselves within the first year, but it's better to not have to worry about it.
Plus, since your Apple laptop is only 1 1/2 years old, it should be Quartz 2D Extreme compatible. AFAIK, the only requirements are an AGP video card/chipset and 32MB VRAM. Any Apple laptop with a Radeon and 32MB VRAM should work.
Hmmmm, I was thinking the requirements were higher than that. I guess we'll see! Awesome technology; I hope I can take advantage of it.
I wouldn't trade OSX for anything, but yes, it's very slow, and yes, 10.4 is significantly slower than 10.3. Also, since my laptop is a year and a half old now (not 5-10 years like you suggest), it won't get any speed boost from Quartz 2D Extreme.
So, until I can afford to drop about $2300 on a computer (15" PB with video card upgrade, extended warranty because my experience with Apple has shown that something will probably break at some point, and third-party RAM upgrade because it's cheaper to buy 2GB of RAM outright from somewhere else than to pay Apple to upgrade from 512MB to 1GB), I just have to be patient.
It's quite plausible that at some point the OS will be developed exclusively for the Intel architecture.
You're aware that Apple has building cross-platform versions of Mac OS X for the past five years, right? They certainly won't stop within the next five.
Yes, new versions of the Mac OS will gradually drop support for obsolete hardware (8.5 dropped support for m68k, 10.0 required a G3, 10.3 required on-board USB, 10.4 requires on-board FireWire). This won't change - five years from now, Apple will release a new version of the operating system that no longer works on the machine you bought today, and new apps will require that OS. Six years from now, Apple will release a new OS that won't run on the shiny new x86-based Mac you're gonna buy next year.
Remember that PowerPC compiled binaries will run quite well under Rosetta on the Intel Macs.
Considering how many little things for Mac OS 9 I've seen that don't work under Classic (especially drivers), I'd be very surprised if Rosetta isn't similarly problematic.
With the sole exception of games, which won't run at all under the Intel Macs because of AltiVec optimizations
Actually I was thinking that games are the sole reason TO buy an x86-based Mac, because game developers are the only ones who will make x86-only binaries.
Further, Apple will continue selling PowerPC Macs until well into 2007 by their own statements.
yes, and unless you're a gamer, these are definitely the machines to buy.
It's exactly the same kind of logic used by people who say they'll buy a new Intel Mac next year, but won't buy a PowerPC Mac now, even though the Intel Macs will have compatibility problems with existing applications. Somehow the fact that Apple has announced they're working on switching architectures over the next year and a half has made some people think current Macs aren't worth buying.
(Of course, significantly more people don't care, which is why Apple is doing so well financially at the moment...)
He said his "primary machine", i.e. the one he actually uses for day-to-day work. Who wants to keep rebooting to another operating system on their primary machine, and try to keep track of which files are where? Pick one and stick with it long enough to either make it work for you, or determine that it won't work for you.
On Mac OS X, that's not really a problem because administration tasks like software updates are done in the GUI.
FYI, for those so inclined:
Last login: Fri Jul 22 16:27:19 on ttyp6 Welcome to Darwin! phroggy@curry:~$ softwareupdate usage: softwareupdate <mode> [...]
-l | --list List all appropriate updates
-d | --download Download Only
-i | --install Install
<label>... specific updates
-a | --all all appropriate updates
-r | --recommended only recommended updates
-u | --url <url>... from signed package URLs
Per-user preferences:
--ignore <label>... Ignore specific updates
--reset-ignored Clear all ignored updates
--schedule (on | off) Set automatic checking
-h | --help Print this help phroggy@curry:~$ softwareupdate -l Software Update Tool Copyright 2002-2005 Apple
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Thank you for clarifying this.
You can hypothesize that something happens, test your hypothesis, and confirm it to be correct. What you can't test is whether something did happen in the past.
Parts of the OT are historical accounts of "this stuff happened." Other parts of the OT are more anecdotal accounts of "God told us to do this" or "this prophet, speaking on God's behalf, said that this is what God wants us to do."
You can "take it literally" while not necessarily believing that God's instructions to Israelites 4,000 years ago were intended to also apply to us today. Some of this is addressed in the NT; Acts 15 gives one example (Jews must be circumcised because of Abraham's covenant with God in Genesis 17, but you don't have to be Jewish to be Christian). Believing that Genesis 17 doesn't apply to those of us who aren't Jewish doesn't mean I don't believe Genesis 17 is an accurate historical account of what happened.
ThinkSecret says Apple seeded a new version of Safari to developers a week ago, so presumably that will be available soon.
Thanks for the clarification.
Ah, yep, it says it's not supported. That's what I thought. ATi Mobility Radeon 9200, 32MB.
Firefox has been downloaded 75 million times. Many of these were upgrades from previous versions, which had already been counted.
Over 500 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. Many of these were purchased by the same person who had previously downloaded other iTMS songs (and often, the songs were part of an album and not purchased separately).
These really have nothing to do with each other, but it's sort of startling to consider the popularity of Firefox, which many of us depend on all the time and is free, compared to the popularity of something like the iTunes Music Store, which many of us never intend to give a dime to (draconian DRM and all that).
I have done DSL support in the past; this is true. Basically, as the quality of your phone line goes down, the speed you can reasonably expect to get also goes down. If your speed is capped at 1Mbps and you have a good phone line, maintaining sync won't take much bandwidth. If you have a crappy phone line, maintaining sync will take much more - unless your line is capped at a slower speed; then maintaining sync will use a reasonable percentage again.
I've seen a DSL line that was accidentally capped at 20Mbps; almost the entire connection was used to maintain sync and it could only get a few packets of data through. I was amazed that it worked at all; they must have had a great quality phone line - but of course from the customer's perspective, it was completely unusable. We had the LEC cap the line back down to where it was supposed to be, and it ran great.
As you say, the ISP doesn't give a damn if it's 50% or 80%... this is because there's absolutely nothing the ISP can do about it, because their contract with the LEC says that's acceptable, so if the ISP opens a trouble ticket with the LEC, the LEC will look at it, see that it's working adequately according to their contract with the ISP, and close the ticket. Of course if it's REALLY bad, the LEC can send a technician out to your house to replace your phone line, but that's very expensive (relative to how much you pay per month for the service), so they really don't want to do that unless they have to.
Knowing this, what do I use at home? DSL. To hell with the speed, I want reliability and the choice between dozens of competing ISPs. Screw cable modem providers and their dynamic IPs, firewalled ports, asinine AUPs, clueless techs, and general lack of interest in providing the services I want for a reasonable price. I pay slightly more than I would with cable, but my DSL service is extremely reliable, my ISP set up custom reverse DNS for me on my static IP address (after checking to make sure I had sendmail properly configured to use that hostname, which I did), they don't run away screaming "we don't support that!" when I mention I run Linux or Mac OS X, and basically they stay out of my hair.
But for some inexplicable reason, Microsoft is unable to authenticate my info. Which leaves me with no alternative...
Uhh.. can you not simply call them, explain the situation, and have them fix it?
Or, if Microsoft says your version of Windows is pirated, turn in Toshiba as a distributor of pirated copies of Windows.
See another poster's comment about changing your registration key, though.
Every Apple product I have seen with a problem had some kind of actual physical flaw (that was covered under Apple Care warranty) or had been abused or mistreated.
Of course I was talking about flaws that are covered under AppleCare. Usually they manifest themselves within the first year, but it's better to not have to worry about it.
Plus, since your Apple laptop is only 1 1/2 years old, it should be Quartz 2D Extreme compatible. AFAIK, the only requirements are an AGP video card/chipset and 32MB VRAM. Any Apple laptop with a Radeon and 32MB VRAM should work.
Hmmmm, I was thinking the requirements were higher than that. I guess we'll see! Awesome technology; I hope I can take advantage of it.
I wouldn't trade OSX for anything, but yes, it's very slow, and yes, 10.4 is significantly slower than 10.3. Also, since my laptop is a year and a half old now (not 5-10 years like you suggest), it won't get any speed boost from Quartz 2D Extreme.
So, until I can afford to drop about $2300 on a computer (15" PB with video card upgrade, extended warranty because my experience with Apple has shown that something will probably break at some point, and third-party RAM upgrade because it's cheaper to buy 2GB of RAM outright from somewhere else than to pay Apple to upgrade from 512MB to 1GB), I just have to be patient.
Really?
:-)
No, probably not really, but it felt good to say at the time.
I dunno about funniest ever, but it certainly made me laugh. :-)
Or um.. just paraphrase it the old fashioned way?
Seriously, you're an idiot.
Standards-compliant code works on all modern browsers,
Bwahahaha!
You obviously don't do professional web design. Getting the code to validate at W3C is the easy part!
Banner over the free sandwiches provided by Microsoft at OSCon 2003
Where Apple does falter in my opinion is in the video cards.
Hear hear - especially considering how awesome Quartz 2D Extreme is.
Stereos should be optional extras. Why should I pay for the dealer's crappy stereo, if I'm just gonna rip it out and replace it with an MP3 CD player?
It's quite plausible that at some point the OS will be developed exclusively for the Intel architecture.
You're aware that Apple has building cross-platform versions of Mac OS X for the past five years, right? They certainly won't stop within the next five.
Yes, new versions of the Mac OS will gradually drop support for obsolete hardware (8.5 dropped support for m68k, 10.0 required a G3, 10.3 required on-board USB, 10.4 requires on-board FireWire). This won't change - five years from now, Apple will release a new version of the operating system that no longer works on the machine you bought today, and new apps will require that OS. Six years from now, Apple will release a new OS that won't run on the shiny new x86-based Mac you're gonna buy next year.
Remember that PowerPC compiled binaries will run quite well under Rosetta on the Intel Macs.
Considering how many little things for Mac OS 9 I've seen that don't work under Classic (especially drivers), I'd be very surprised if Rosetta isn't similarly problematic.
With the sole exception of games, which won't run at all under the Intel Macs because of AltiVec optimizations
Actually I was thinking that games are the sole reason TO buy an x86-based Mac, because game developers are the only ones who will make x86-only binaries.
Further, Apple will continue selling PowerPC Macs until well into 2007 by their own statements.
yes, and unless you're a gamer, these are definitely the machines to buy.
Another one of these threads?
It's exactly the same kind of logic used by people who say they'll buy a new Intel Mac next year, but won't buy a PowerPC Mac now, even though the Intel Macs will have compatibility problems with existing applications. Somehow the fact that Apple has announced they're working on switching architectures over the next year and a half has made some people think current Macs aren't worth buying.
(Of course, significantly more people don't care, which is why Apple is doing so well financially at the moment...)
He said his "primary machine", i.e. the one he actually uses for day-to-day work. Who wants to keep rebooting to another operating system on their primary machine, and try to keep track of which files are where? Pick one and stick with it long enough to either make it work for you, or determine that it won't work for you.
On Mac OS X, that's not really a problem because administration tasks like software updates are done in the GUI.
...]
... specific updates ... from signed package URLs
... Ignore specific updates
FYI, for those so inclined:
Last login: Fri Jul 22 16:27:19 on ttyp6
Welcome to Darwin!
phroggy@curry:~$ softwareupdate
usage: softwareupdate <mode> [
-l | --list List all appropriate updates
-d | --download Download Only
-i | --install Install
<label>
-a | --all all appropriate updates
-r | --recommended only recommended updates
-u | --url <url>
Per-user preferences:
--ignore <label>
--reset-ignored Clear all ignored updates
--schedule (on | off) Set automatic checking
-h | --help Print this help
phroggy@curry:~$ softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2005 Apple
No new software available.
phroggy@curry:~$
You need DeCSS.
Watch the documentary "Outfoxed" if you think Fox News is actually "fair and balanced."