You noticed that too, huh? The Mac rumor sites have been saying that Apple already has multiprocessor G4 boxes ready, but they're not shipping them because the OS isn't ready yet. Apparently rather than going with a standard full-tower case, they're going with a double-wide cube-shaped case that's supposed to look as different from the current G4 cases as the current G4s do from the old beige cases. Apple has already done a technology demonstration (at WWDC) showing off multiprocessor technology, but no product announcements.
We should find out more at MWNY in three weeks. They probably won't announce multiprocessor boxes yet, though.
I can see it now, Microsoft goes snooping around at RedHat, and after a bit of social engineering around the water cooler, finally gets ahold of the ultra-secret source code to... the latest version of Samba.
hat reactions to MS doing this would be different, but heck they just buy the company instead of snooping on them. This is the business world, and business is war.
Oh, yeah, I'd like to see Microsoft try to buy a company like Oracle. That's gonna work.
The reaction shouldn't be different, but it would have been. A few people may find this incident mildly perturbing, but if Microsoft had instigated a similar investigation against, say, Apple's friends (Adobe, Disney, ATi, IBM, Motorola, possibly Sun and AOL) we'd have thousands of people yelling and screaming.
You need to set you time zone in your preferences.
I had no idea that anybody outside the United States used daylight savings time, but apparently much of Europe does, and I have a feeling Slashdot doesn't know about that, so if you're outside the US try setting your time zone for some country to the east of you - e.g in the UK pick France or something. Apparently the UK is currently at GMT+0100, Spain is GMT+0200, etc. and everything will make more sense in the fall.
I'm in Arizona, which (like Hawaii) doesn't go on daylight savings time, so I'm on Mountain Standard (GMT-0700). Slashdot does know about Arizona (stupid backwards state that it is).
Supposedly quad g3/400's are $4500, quad g4/400's are ~$6500. Yeah, it's kind of pricey, but if you stick 8 of these things in a box, you have some serious computational power.....
Yes, but how will this compare to Apple's prices for a quad-G4 Mac, hopefully to begin shipping within the next six months? (According to rumor, the machines are ready to go, but they're not shipping until Mac OS X is ready for prime time because Mac OS 9 doesn't take full advantage of SMP, although apps like Photoshop should).
Out of everything the company does, only their flagship service (America Online) seems designed to suck on purpose. I'm sure they won't be the ones designing the interface that the rest of us will be using, although I'm sure they'll hack together a new bastardized interface for AOL 7.0 or whatever they call it when they finally switch from IE to Mozilla.
The Mac version of Mozilla will look exactly identical to the Windows and Linux versions, except for using the standard Mac OS menubar at the top of the screen instead of putting one in each window.
I wouldn't expect Mac OS 9 to use it, but I'm sure somebody will hack Darwin to get it to work (and Mac OS X should run on top of the hacked-up Darwin core).
I like this one a LOT better that that new blue/aqua crap. I like minimalist approaches SOMETIMES, but the new 6.x design was/is just ugly (IMO).
The 6.x skin is called Chrome, and is undoubtedly the result of letting geeky programmers with no sense of aesthetics design a GUI. Everyone agrees that it's ugly, but hey, it does work. No way AOL would release the final version looking like that; don't worry.
Surprisingly enough it even trounced the win IE in more than one way, on a platform they don't control
That's why it's so good - Microsoft knows that if they want to compete on the Mac, they have to make a good product, because nobody will use their browser unless it's actually good. With Windows, they don't have to try so hard, because they know everyone will use it anyway.
What's even more surprising were the reports i heard later on that the mac IE development team was dissolved - who knows what the reasoning behind that was.
I'd heard that too, but a more recent rumor would seem to suggest otherwise. Who knows.
This, of course, works out wonderfully when hald the band is playing brass instruments trying to play with Pythagorean tuning, and the other half is woodwinds and mallet percussion playing in the tempered scale.;-)
I will admit, though, brass choirs kick ass, and this is one of the reasons why. Although Canadian Brass's rendition of "Flight of the Tuba Bee" is impressive for entirely different reasons....
My how we've strayed off-topic. Good thing the moderators don't usually get this deep into a thread.
Main Entry: enharmonic Pronunciation: "en-(")här-'mä-nik Function: adjective Etymology: French enharmonique, from Middle French, of a scale employing quarter tones, from Greek enarmonios, from en in + harmonia harmony, scale Date: 1794 : of, relating to, or being notes that are written differently (as A flat and G sharp) but sound the same in the tempered scale - enharmonically/-ni-k(&-)lE/ adverb
There are only seven sharps in the key signature; either you miscounted or you're including the octave (and in either case, you're wrong). Plus, since it's Microsoft, it would probably be c#-minor anyway, which only has four sharps, which isn't bad at all, unless.... Wait, I bet you're a wind player, aren't you? Bah!
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Yes, that would be AOL Time Warner.
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We should find out more at MWNY in three weeks. They probably won't announce multiprocessor boxes yet, though.
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I can see it now, Microsoft goes snooping around at RedHat, and after a bit of social engineering around the water cooler, finally gets ahold of the ultra-secret source code to... the latest version of Samba.
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Even Linus Torvalds has said that if Linux had 90% of the market and Torvalds and his friends ran everything, the world would suck.
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No, their major source of revenue is OEMs, businesses and government agencies buying Microsoft trash. Individual consumers don't ammount to much.
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Oh, yeah, I'd like to see Microsoft try to buy a company like Oracle. That's gonna work.
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A RedHat CD isn't commercial either; its contents are free software. Remember, they're charging for the media and the packaging, not for the software.
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I had no idea that anybody outside the United States used daylight savings time, but apparently much of Europe does, and I have a feeling Slashdot doesn't know about that, so if you're outside the US try setting your time zone for some country to the east of you - e.g in the UK pick France or something. Apparently the UK is currently at GMT+0100, Spain is GMT+0200, etc. and everything will make more sense in the fall.
I'm in Arizona, which (like Hawaii) doesn't go on daylight savings time, so I'm on Mountain Standard (GMT-0700). Slashdot does know about Arizona (stupid backwards state that it is).
blah, sorry for ranting off-topic...
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Where do these extra sharps and flats keep coming from? Db-major has five flats, not six.
Just like Microsoft, though, to embrace and extend the four-tire standard and ship a car with six tires, none of which work properly.
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Yes, but how will this compare to Apple's prices for a quad-G4 Mac, hopefully to begin shipping within the next six months? (According to rumor, the machines are ready to go, but they're not shipping until Mac OS X is ready for prime time because Mac OS 9 doesn't take full advantage of SMP, although apps like Photoshop should).
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The Mac version of Mozilla will look exactly identical to the Windows and Linux versions, except for using the standard Mac OS menubar at the top of the screen instead of putting one in each window.
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Didn't you read the article about that?
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And of course "a while" isn't very long at all, which is why these things are so darn neat.
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Gotta love open-source.
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The 6.x skin is called Chrome, and is undoubtedly the result of letting geeky programmers with no sense of aesthetics design a GUI. Everyone agrees that it's ugly, but hey, it does work. No way AOL would release the final version looking like that; don't worry.
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That's why it's so good - Microsoft knows that if they want to compete on the Mac, they have to make a good product, because nobody will use their browser unless it's actually good. With Windows, they don't have to try so hard, because they know everyone will use it anyway.
What's even more surprising were the reports i heard later on that the mac IE development team was dissolved - who knows what the reasoning behind that was.
I'd heard that too, but a more recent rumor would seem to suggest otherwise. Who knows.
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I was afraid it was just me. Tarball seems fine, though.
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I will admit, though, brass choirs kick ass, and this is one of the reasons why. Although Canadian Brass's rendition of "Flight of the Tuba Bee" is impressive for entirely different reasons....
My how we've strayed off-topic. Good thing the moderators don't usually get this deep into a thread.
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Main Entry: enharmonic
: of, relating to, or being notes that are written differently (as A flat and G sharp) but sound the same in the tempered scale /-ni-k(&-)lE/ adverb
Pronunciation: "en-(")här-'mä-nik
Function: adjective
Etymology: French enharmonique, from Middle French, of a scale employing quarter tones, from Greek enarmonios, from en in + harmonia harmony, scale
Date: 1794
- enharmonically
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Can't AppleWorks or WordPerfect read it? Of course there's always Office '98...
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StuffIt Expander is your friend.
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