Why doesn't NASA simply point the Hubble at one of the landing spots and settle this for good? I think that'd cost a tad less than $15,000...
What's the best argument people can think of as proof that we actually went there in '69?
The Australian satellite dish T.V. broadacst fiasco comes to mind..
Re:Big Bang is just one possible explanation
on
One of Many
·
· Score: 1
- The earliest incarnation of the Big Bang theory was posited by a Belgian priest, Georges-Henri Lemaitre, in his "primeval atom" theory, based on Einstein's equations and supported only in observation by the Hubble redshift (expansion). This theory very conveniently supported the Christian dogma of creation "ex nihilo" (out of nothing).
Causes me to daydream about a far-future era within this 'Universe' when sentient beings will have observed a 'Universal' phenomenon that we H. sapiens refer to as a blueshift...
The astrophysicists will grapple with an explanation for "the big crunch" as the origin and course of the 'Universe'... perhaps that matter/energy formed as quantum strings coagulated from a great gaslike singularity? That is, of course, assuming gravity will overpower entropy on the grand 'Universal' scale...
People taking offence, purely for the sake of taking offence are as bad as flamebaiters IMHO.
Ay... 'Tis a strange symbiotic relationship between the 'flame baiters' and the 'fire eaters' Without each other, the meaning in their lives would unravel... Yet they loathe each other's vital essences. I prefer Lichen;)
...which again points to the fact that they were paid handsomly to switch.
There is no evidence backing up that statement, only wild speculation. I've heard that the people featured in the ads recieved modest compensation, not gobbs of m00lah like you're suggesting...
...but the Apple commercials stink to high heaven.
Why do you think they "stink to high heaven"? Are the presented statements suspect in any way? Is it implausible that someone might find a MacOS system less obtrusive/error prone than their previous Wintel system? Sure, any marketing campaign warrants healthy skepticism in assesment, but I frankly don't see a clear-cut 'path to presumability' between an NDA and "Blatant Deception" on Apple's behalf. There are just too many other plausible scenarios and motivations to explain these contracts that the 'Switchers' entered in to...
I realize that their intended audience was Mac zealots, but that seems silly if they actually want to convince people to buy their product.
I'm confused here, did you mess up on the grammar in that last paragraph? Should it read:
I would understand these actions if their intended audience was Mac zealots, but that seems silly if they actually want to convince people to buy their product.
...or are you really so obtuse that you think Apple is targeting Macintosh users with these ads?
It was actually pointed out by my roommate's Muslim ex-roommate (after the 9/11 attacks) that Cloud and gang were pretty much terrorists.
Rather like a rogue group of individuals that would destroy a large spherical spacestation (terminating thousands of 'innocent' lives) because the Empire that built it was hell-bent on assimilating all cultures under its anti-spiritual, homogenous rule?
I agree to a point - the mysteries surrounding the "Switchers" are intriguing enough to warrant skepticism...
One thing that differentiates this Microsoft snafu from Apple's initiative is that the Switchers are actually who they say they are...
I'll lean back on old steadfast Ockham's Razor and speculate that it's far more likely that NDA's were signed by the switchers to prevent a potential PR nightmare rather than to encapsulate coniving secrets about the honesty of the statements as depicted in the ads. For instance:
SwitcherX speaks to ReporterX quite candidly about how "I switched back to Windows since that Ad was made due to Minute Quibble/Job Requirement/Sheer Ignorance" and before you know it, a huge headline reads: APPLE IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE ACCORDING TO 'SWITCHER'
I'm not trying to play the part of Apple Apologist here, I'm just always under the assumption that automatically bridging the gap between a couple pieces of evidence and reality with a conspiracy theory is almost never the most logical move...
Both machines have 512MB of RAM. While OS X is definately "prettier" (though not as pretty IHO as Keramik, but I digress) the Mac was definately slower. A lot slower. "Feels like a 500 MHz Celeron" slower.
iMac G4 800 "17":
256k L2 cache (runs at processor speed, no L3 cache)
8ns PC133 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX video card with 32 MB of DDR RAM
PowerMac G4 Dual 1.25 Ghz:
256k L2 (runs at processor speed), 2 MB DDR SDRAM L3 cache (runs at 1/2 processor speed)
PC2700 DDR SDRAM
64 MB ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Graphics card
The two emboldened features make a world of difference in system "snappiness" (especially with Quartz Extreme under Jaguar)... Go demo a Dual 1.25 if you've got a nearby Apple dealer and see for yourself.
But then again, the Apple switch ads don't offer a single reason to use a Mac that WinXP doesn't have.
Many of the ads aren't touting
"all the things you can do on a
Mac"
so much as they state:
"Damn! What a
royal pain in the ass it is to do X, Y and Z under Windows! I got a Mac and got it running with hardly any effort... Now I can concentrate on doing stuff instead of preparing to do stuff..."
Sure, Alot of that is also platform-redundant, but I surely consider the Macintosh to be the "less tweaking required" platform overall...
Chances are, that PowerMac 7200/75 was operating with Virtual Memory enabled (which back in the MacOS 7.x/8.x days meant the user would experience a drastic reduction in performance)...
On top of this, Windows 3.1 was a far more slender OS for the 486 generation of hardware than was OS 7.5 - 8.0 for the 601 generation of Apple kit... Apple needed to support legacy 68k code along side the PowerPC code.
Nowadays, you'll find that a Dual 1.25 Ghz PowerMac running Jaguar (Hardware-rendered GUI) will suffer absolutely no penalty from drawing DisplayPDF when compared to the 'straight-up Rasters' method over on the x86 bouquet of OS choices... On top of this, when comparing the machine side-by-side with a 2.8 Ghz Pentium running XP, I highly doubt you'd notice any perceived speed deficiencies at all on the PowerMac...
More likely, you'd notice how much less obtrusive the MacOS is than Windows on an interfacing basis (assuming you were to enter the experiment with no bias based on familliarity and comfortability with either GUI)
The same can be said for Boston, with a large seasonal university population, oodles of biotech firms, and a modest design industry. It's no coincidence that Apple chose to open 3 "GAPples" within 45 miles of Boston in the first year of deployment of its retail chains.
The move to Boston will spell "more exhibitors" *cough*adobe*cough* in 2004, which in turn will draw more people from other states/countries...
Nope, There are a few sites devoted to PPC/OC projects. There were a few boards manufactured with hard-wired clock multipliers (such as my G4-500 server) however, most G3/G4 *daughtercard-mounted* CPU's are fully OC-able with consonant performance increases to x86 projects.
Re:The problem with 'suit' version
on
Open Source TV
·
· Score: 1
Hmm... Maybe they could require some form of "identification" for the nerd version:
I was foolish enough to attempt it without Quartz Extreme running "Flurry"... Let's just say I got to know the SPoD (Spinning Pizza of Death) more intimately than I had ever anticipated...
I scored a Pine GeForce2MX specifically for Quartz Extreme (for my Sawtooth 500 AGP)... Flashing the ROM is apparently a breeze (though I've yet to attack mine)
Absolutely. Having been predominantly a MacOS user for 16 years, I've never been freaked by new UI "innovations" in any new itteration of Windows.
More often than not, I find myself saying: "Oh, they finally brought functionality x up to speed" and even more often: "Why bury x settings all the way down there?"
I suspect most of the apprehension a Mac user experiences is due to the fragility and obscurity of the Windows UI - much like a stern schoolmaster - whereas the MacOS (and OS X especially) treats the user like a forgiving parent...
Apple uses 64bit FPU operations on the 64bit FPU...
While the PowerPC features 64-bit FPU registers, Apples address FPU data formats with a 32-bit bias; a 32-bit FPU thread referred to as a "single", a 64-bit thread being a "double"...
According to the ADC: The PowerPC hardware is double-based. This means that when you load a single-format number into a register, it is automatically converted to double format. In addition, all arithmetic operations are performed on double-format numbers unless they are specifically forced to be performed on single-format numbers.
Either way, the entire chip surrounding the Altivec engine is 32-bit, so this would be an improvement on that.
Actually, the G4 has a 64-bit FPU which is hardwired in 32-bit mode within the spectrum of Apple's utility. Other companies that employ Motorola 74xx CPU's utilize the true 64-bit nature of the FPU Like these guys
given the economy, not a surprise. Keep in mind that the Boston area features a higher MacUser-to-PeeSeaUser ratio than any other region on the East Coast (hence the 3 GAPples within 30 miles of each other)
Well, in defense of Apple (yeesh, why do I keep doing this?) I think this is figuratively a X.5 update, they just don't want to push the point release numbers up at as rapid a rate as they previously had, most likely in a move to not move to the less minimalistic "OS XI" brand name. Marketing people, blahblah.
It's also far more than a "bug fix," Quartz Extreme is worth $129 alone in my book.
=Il=Qote> I'll get back into Macs the day I can slap one together with commodity hardware. I'll slap together a machine from commodity hardware (for everyday productivity) the day I can be sure it won't suffer from all the glitches and hiccups mine and my buddies' machines suffer from... (I presently have a G4-500 {worth $800} and a home-grown Athlon 1Ghz {worth $700})
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting... I'll have to try and find that. Thanks for the tip :)
Why doesn't NASA simply point the Hubble at one of the landing spots and settle this for good? I think that'd cost a tad less than $15,000...
What's the best argument people can think of as proof that we actually went there in '69?
The Australian satellite dish T.V. broadacst fiasco comes to mind..
The astrophysicists will grapple with an explanation for "the big crunch" as the origin and course of the 'Universe'... perhaps that matter/energy formed as quantum strings coagulated from a great gaslike singularity? That is, of course, assuming gravity will overpower entropy on the grand 'Universal' scale...
Without each other, the meaning in their lives would unravel...
Yet they loathe each other's vital essences.
I prefer Lichen
Oh dear... My childhood heroes were terrorists
One thing that differentiates this Microsoft snafu from Apple's initiative is that the Switchers are actually who they say they are...
I'll lean back on old steadfast Ockham's Razor and speculate that it's far more likely that NDA's were signed by the switchers to prevent a potential PR nightmare rather than to encapsulate coniving secrets about the honesty of the statements as depicted in the ads. For instance: I'm not trying to play the part of Apple Apologist here, I'm just always under the assumption that automatically bridging the gap between a couple pieces of evidence and reality with a conspiracy theory is almost never the most logical move...
256k L2 cache (runs at processor speed, no L3 cache)
8ns PC133 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX video card with 32 MB of DDR RAM
PowerMac G4 Dual 1.25 Ghz:
256k L2 (runs at processor speed), 2 MB DDR SDRAM L3 cache (runs at 1/2 processor speed)
PC2700 DDR SDRAM
64 MB ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Graphics card
The two emboldened features make a world of difference in system "snappiness" (especially with Quartz Extreme under Jaguar)... Go demo a Dual 1.25 if you've got a nearby Apple dealer and see for yourself.
Chances are, that PowerMac 7200/75 was operating with Virtual Memory enabled (which back in the MacOS 7.x/8.x days meant the user would experience a drastic reduction in performance)...
On top of this, Windows 3.1 was a far more slender OS for the 486 generation of hardware than was OS 7.5 - 8.0 for the 601 generation of Apple kit... Apple needed to support legacy 68k code along side the PowerPC code.
Nowadays, you'll find that a Dual 1.25 Ghz PowerMac running Jaguar (Hardware-rendered GUI) will suffer absolutely no penalty from drawing DisplayPDF when compared to the 'straight-up Rasters' method over on the x86 bouquet of OS choices... On top of this, when comparing the machine side-by-side with a 2.8 Ghz Pentium running XP, I highly doubt you'd notice any perceived speed deficiencies at all on the PowerMac...
More likely, you'd notice how much less obtrusive the MacOS is than Windows on an interfacing basis (assuming you were to enter the experiment with no bias based on familliarity and comfortability with either GUI)
The move to Boston will spell "more exhibitors" *cough*adobe*cough* in 2004, which in turn will draw more people from other states/countries...
No, but Bruce Paltrow (Gwynneth's dad) DID die...
D34r /\/\is74 b1Z07ch!
\/\/3 h4v3 4l\/\/4y5 pr0m073d 7h3 u5493 0f "L337 5p34k" 1n 0ur h0m3XXor5 4nd f1nd yu0r pr4c71c35 4n 1nfr1n93m3n7 0n b0bb135 f1r57 4m3ndm3n7 r1g75!!
w3rd up b1o7ch! u h34rin9 fr0m 0ur l4\/\/y3r!!! 900d luXXor5 w17h 7h47 734ch3r5-un10n r3pr353n74710n 1n cu0r7!! ---l8r n00b!
Nope, There are a few sites devoted to PPC/OC projects.
There were a few boards manufactured with hard-wired clock multipliers (such as my G4-500 server) however, most G3/G4 *daughtercard-mounted* CPU's are fully OC-able with consonant performance increases to x86 projects.
I was foolish enough to attempt it without Quartz Extreme running "Flurry"... Let's just say I got to know the SPoD (Spinning Pizza of Death) more intimately than I had ever anticipated...
I scored a Pine GeForce2MX specifically for Quartz Extreme (for my Sawtooth 500 AGP)... Flashing the ROM is apparently a breeze (though I've yet to attack mine)
Instructions can be found here
Though I love this comment off the site: "If you have any problems, it sux 2 B U." hehe
Absolutely. Having been predominantly a MacOS user for 16 years, I've never been freaked by new UI "innovations" in any new itteration of Windows.
More often than not, I find myself saying: "Oh, they finally brought functionality x up to speed" and even more often: "Why bury x settings all the way down there?"
I suspect most of the apprehension a Mac user experiences is due to the fragility and obscurity of the Windows UI - much like a stern schoolmaster - whereas the MacOS (and OS X especially) treats the user like a forgiving parent...
Yeah, I am fully aware of the argument. I vascillate between the two logical trains of thought on the matter continuously...
Mac OS "Ten" "Eleven-point-oh" seems dissarrayed while Mac OS "Eleven" "Eleven-point-oh" seems more logical...
Damn you Apple marketing!
My previous point can be stated two ways (I lazily only presented one example):
1) Apple has dubbed Jag-wire "10.2" to slow the progression towards "Mac OS XI"
2) Apple has dubbed Jag-wire "10.2" to slow the progression towards "Mac OS TEN, Eleven-point-oh"
Both should be avoided IMHO... Perhaps Apple is going to adopt Oracle's versioning scheme: Mac OS Xi
Who knows? Do we really care?
given the economy, not a surprise. Keep in mind that the Boston area features a higher MacUser-to-PeeSeaUser ratio than any other region on the East Coast (hence the 3 GAPples within 30 miles of each other)
Well, in defense of Apple (yeesh, why do I keep doing this?) I think this is figuratively a X.5 update, they just don't want to push the point release numbers up at as rapid a rate as they previously had, most likely in a move to not move to the less minimalistic "OS XI" brand name. Marketing people, blahblah.
It's also far more than a "bug fix," Quartz Extreme is worth $129 alone in my book.
=Il=Qote> I'll get back into Macs the day I can slap one together with commodity hardware. I'll slap together a machine from commodity hardware (for everyday productivity) the day I can be sure it won't suffer from all the glitches and hiccups mine and my buddies' machines suffer from... (I presently have a G4-500 {worth $800} and a home-grown Athlon 1Ghz {worth $700})
no, what Apple needs to do PRONTO is supply AGP slots on its MoBo's . ;P