Re:Bullshit all around from AMD fanboys
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I agree that they should have used motherboard from the same manufacturer, but I also can't see this making a measurable difference. Nothing on any motherboard I've ever used heats up aside from the chipset, so I can't imagine the power drain to be significant.
When's the last time you looked at a modern Intel motherboard? I've got an 865 board behind me and the heat sink on the northbridge is an inch tall. I saw some PCI-E boards this weekend and the heat sinks on the northbridge are even more massive. On the AMD system, the memory controller is not located in the northbridge.
He just sent his new Dell laptop back because Dell refused to admit they didn't know what they were talking about.
He specifically ordered the laptop with a P-M 725 chip (Dothan with 2MB L2 Cache). Dell sends him a P-M 1.6 with 1MB L2 cache. He figures, he's entitled to what he ordered so he calls Dell.
Dell L1 Tech support refused to believe that a) they make laptop chips with 2MB of cache nor do they believe b) that a P-M 1.6 is different from an Intel 725 chip. Dell L1 Supervisor refuses to believe that Intel makes portable chips with 2MB of L2 cache nor does he believe that there is a difference between a 1.6 GHz P-M and a 725. ** note this happened like a week ago, Dothans have been out for a while**
Dell L2 tech support (supposedly the geeks) initially refuse to believe that Intel makes portable chips with 2MB of L2 cache nor does he believe that there is a difference between a 1.6 GHz P-M and a 725. But wait, it gets better!! L2 Tech support eventually assures him that Dell gets custom runs of Dothan chips because they are a big customer. We almost wet ourselves.
now, during all this, we had the Intel product sheets up in front of us that indicated that a 725 Dothan has 2mb of L2 cache but none of the Dell reps would look a the URL, they pretty much refused to look at any evidence that they were wrong..... A few days later he gets a call from a Dell rep because he lodged a complaint. By this time, we found plenty of Dell sites (not US sites) that accurately list a 725 as a part with 2MB L2 cache. The rep refused to believe Intel or any other Dell site. His excuse was, Dell is a large customer, so Dell USA gets custom dothan chips from Intel.. but the overseas Dells don't get them. he sent the laptop back.
I think we should at least post the timestamp and IP of posters like this.. so some of our big, buff, gay brethren can track them down and beat the crap out of them. Just a thought.
The G4s had to downgrade because of eratta in the first chips that caused problems when they hit 500MHz.
Apple can't release iMacs because their G5 sales are strong and the yield on the PPC 970 isn't high enough yet. It's a supply issue.
The G5 iMacs won't be running at 2.5 GHz either.. they'll be lower clocked G5s so IBM shouldn't have trouble getting the chips.. they are most likely getting enough chips.
the parent to this parent did do some homework, but they didn't bother to actually look for.09micron thermal numbers. The low end chips now (1.8 and 2.0GHz) come in at about half the thermal output of the.13 micron chips. They could easily fit in an iMac, thought the fan may spin up more often.
Just to put the new chips into perspective.. The max wattage for a 2Ghz Pentium-M is higher than than typical for the 1.8 (and I think 2.0) G5 cpu. PM, the darling of big punch - low power only runs cool at 600MHz.. when it's cranking, it's in the same league as the new G5.
Don't you think Eisner's Agent or anyone associated with him wouldn't be associated long if they fucked up a quote like that?
I, personally, do believe Eisner said this because someone close to him.. someone whose lively hood is tied to being close to him.. said Eisner said it. That may not be as good as having Eisner say that in front of me.. but then if you don't want to believe Eisner said it.. what WOULD be good enough for you? Would a quote in the media be enough? There are certainly enough lies in the media. Sean Hannity has proven that you can lie over and over and shout down (or disconnect) people who attempt to correct you. At some point, you have to accept the evidence you recieve.. or you have to reject it. I choose to accept in this case.
Do I sound like you? Highschool: top 2% nationally in standardized tests, 3rd highest ACT in my class (i'd have done better if I paid attention in class). Nearly dead center in my class ranking. In fact, I nearly didn't graduate on time because I didn't pass Speech first time through (I was pretty introverted until I really knew people). I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. I'm technically proficient in anything that interestes me. I'm a good guitarist who never learned how to play. I enjoy a wide variety of music.. and not just because it's intellectually cool to listen to a little bit of classical.
I'm pretty smart. In fact, I'm smarter than most people I meet, but then there are a lot of stupid people out there. I knew smart people in highschool but I never met someone obviously brilliant until I went away to college. I'd love to see you post back after you spend a year or two in college. I'm sure it will be a pretty humbling experience if you go to a good.. or at least large University.
Right now, you're just a smug highschooler who hasn't been exposed to enough people to realize how much you don't know. In fact, when I started working in computer support it took me quite a while to really comprehend how little I knew. It was like a magic Jedi moment for me. I became twice as knowledgeable when I understood how little I knew. I also became 10 times as useful when I could appreciate when I really didn't know something (people starting in Tech support give out so much bad info the *think* they know).
fast forward a long time.. I know I'm smart.. but I sure 'aint no special snowflake. I could be really good (better than most) at just about anything I do if I'm interested in the task but I'll never be truely exceptional. Einstein's legacy has nothing to fear from me.
as always, don't believe me.. I'm just a stupid ffakr
After giving the tech my Dell service tag number, the tech looks up the shipping specs.. "Wait, this can't be right, how can that thing run with only one SIMM?!?" my answer, of course, was that it was a freaking 486.
me while talking to server tech support re: a $58,000 server order: "I'm not seeing the netware drivers posted..." Dell Server Level 2 Tech support: 'Oh yea, we've got Netware drivers for those PERC RAID cards, go ahead and order those' Reality: months later we are running production on beta drivers.. months after that we finally get the final drivers
last one that comes to mind... the Rack we order with the above servers comes in a damaged box, but it only appears to have scratched paint so we don't bother freighting it back. Can't find the rails for the above servers so we call Dell tech support and lay out the situation, Rack with torn box, 3 'spensive dell server which happen to weigh over 100lbs a piece... Took 6 months and the intervention of a Dell regional manager to get our rails.. We had to figure out that they were to ship with the servers and not with the Rack... Dell had no clue and the packing slips didn't indicate. 3 years later, the bottom two servers are still stacked on each other.
Having worked on a tech support line, and managed tech support people, I can tell you that you should be really damn happy when your tech admits they don't know something. It's a lot easier for a newb to give an answer they *think* is correct than to admit they don't know everything off the top of their heads. Honestly, what would you prefer?.. someone saying, I'm not sure, let me find out for sure.. or someone making shit up that can get you into more trouble?
When I did phone support as a student worker, I had to tell someone that their email was unavailable because the server sprung a leak and it was out of water. Unfortunately this was true as we were still running a water cooled IBM Mainframe.
The clients seemed to accept it without question but I'd have to image they though we were yanking them.
I do realize your comment is tongue in cheek.. but Bioinformatic tools (some of them like BLAST) run multiples faster on Apple hardware than on x86 hardware. Apparently apps like BLAST really run great on Altivec. I haven't seen anything recently, but at one time BLAST ran up to 16x faster on a G4 than a P4.
"All of the RPC-flaw worms would have had much smaller impacts if only the people who actually used Remote Proceedure Calls were running it."
That would be every single Windows user. All Windows versions.. at least all that are from the poisoned NT tree, actually make an RPC call back to themselves when they log in. If you disable RPC on a Windows box.. the box can't authenticate LOCAL users! How's that for clever design?
Sure, dual core 4-6GHz cpus and 2GB RAM for a recommended system.. BUT APPLE IS FORCING ME TO BUY A NEW OS EVERY YEAR!!! Jobs called me yesterday and said if I didn't buy Tiger, he'd kick my ass!
I think it's much more fair to say that the last time Apple's hardware was competative was with the launch of the G4. The G4 compared favorably with the P3 and Athlon on launch and it generally excelled both in vector processing. The systems were also comparable a the time.. the pc had sdr fsb, and both other systems were using PC100/133. The Mac even shipped with 64bit/33MHz PCI, something only found on PC servers at the time. Apple's dark hardware days began after that when Motorola pulled the first 500MHz (it never actually shipped in the original stepping).. and when they were subsequently unable to ratchet up the clock or provide a modern fsb. Prior to that, the PPC line was always competitave with Intel except in memory technology and bus speed, where they generally lagged before the G3s. In fact, the PPC 604e (which competed with the Pentium Pro and very early P2s) clocked all the way up to 350MHz.
As for having little reason to choose MacOS over Windows, I've spent the bulk of the last couple days repairing worm infections. Hmn. Between me, my staff, and the general staff, I'd guess my division lost thousands of $$ in time and productivity and this wasn't even a bad one. The real kicker was.. we had the machines autoupdating and the Win2K boxes were still getting infected until we manually applied the patch.
You really have no idea what you are talking about.
10.2 is not "largely a bug fix over 10.1". 10.1 was a fully functional OS, where 10.0 was functional but it did not ship with some components that Mac users typically expect (like a working DVD player). 10.2 was a MAJOR under the hood upgrade. Apple brought the core up from a FreeBSD 3.4 fork to the FreeBSD 4.x code base. Apple also release a new and revolutionary 3d accellerated desktop, Quartz Extreme (something that Windows may have in Longhorn if it isn't cut with the WinFS filesystem). There is a litany of improvements AND ADDITIONS in 10.2
What this entire argument really comes down to is: Windows users need something to bash OS X about. It's stable, it's open source (the core at least), it's based off FreeBSD, and it'd damn pretty. Oh I know, lets bash Apple for being TOO productive. Don't look behind that 'buy you don't actually need to upgrade' curtain.. just decry them for trying to charge for their hard work.
Here is the reality.. I've got a LOT of 10.2 (and quite a few 10.1) machine still in production with zero problems. Some may never get upgraded because they just work fine. Other people, like me, go for the upgrades. They are relatively inexpensive (10.3 is a bigger improvement over 10.2 than XP was over 2K imho). They are expecially inexpensive if you get edu pricing (around $50) or if you sign up for maintenance (3 years of free OS updates for $75 for edu). Hmn,.. Isn't MS catching flack because they sold a lot of maintenance contracts for their software, then they never got an update out in the contract cycle?
so, Apple lost a customer because he, a computer developer, couldn't troubleshoot a Type 11 (hardware exception) error? Geez, I'd have fixed it if he'd have just asked nice.
Re:Ann Coulter has got it right
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Because of the court's miraculous discovery of a right to sodomy last term, gay marriage is now on the agenda in America.
That's funny, I didn't know we had a 'god given' right to sodomy. I though Americans simply had the right to keep crazy right wing religious nuts out of our bedrooms and out of our lives if we so choose... But I suppose that's pretty much the same thing, isn't it?
If Ann Coulter has got "it" right, whatever your "it" was.. it's too bad she hasn't got anything else right. You should REALLY page through Franken's book. You don't have to agree with his politics or his agenda, but he does a brief but powerful deconstruction of some of Annie's contentions in her last book. The outright lies and blatent mis-representations are just plain sad. Maybe she should have AT LEAST employeed an editor or fact checker. Maybe then she wouldn't have published blatant falicies.. like claiming that someone was bad because their father was a socialist candiate decades ago (the 'father' in question was NOT actually the persons father, or any relative.. and the "Socialist" was pushing all kinds of crazy ideas like Social Security.. how evil!)
I'm sure there is a nice warm spot waiting for Annie in the after life, if you are disposed to such idologies (and I think you are). Think a whole lot warmer than a Florida beach if you are creatively thinking impared (and I think you are).:-)
Ah well, I'm bored.. the day is done.. I'm heading off to the gym.. then I'm going to make to time to hate people who aren't like me. After all, I hear that being a right wing nut job is where the money's at.
Why is everyone so fixated on the two slot requirement? This is a Gamer's video card. Anyone who buys a $499USD card is going to put it into a decent motherboard. How many decent motherboards don't have everything and the kitchen sink included on board.. LAN, USB2, SATA, audio, and often FW. If you are really hardcore, you'd want to put in an nice, modern (more efficient) audio card.. but I don't see too many gamers crying because they can only access 4 of their 5 pci slots.
"Someone plans a head because when you hire an artist to make icons you may as well make all the ones you might need instead of hiring an artist again latter."
Apple has more than enough artists IN HOUSE. They don't hire an artist to make icons for audio formats. I often joke that there are more graphic designers employeed at Apple than engineers.. and compared to other companies, that probably isn't too far from reality.
"Or the product that was going to burn to CD, but unless the owner finds more money soon the developers will find a new job and the company will be out of buisness."
So, the reason that Apple would put in.ogg icons but not include the codec is due to the fact that they are 'beleagured' and will soon be out of business?;-)
I'm a consumer. A mac fan but somone who seriously looked at Rios before my wife got me an iPod. I found them to be woefully overpriced for far too little space.
Now, as a consumer I would buy a mini ipod over a regular one. Here's why...
I use the iPod in the Gym primarily. I don't need it in the car, in the house, or at home. In the gym, I wear comefortable elastic band shorts. The iPod is hefty enough that it tugs precariously at my shorts if I'm too active. I don't need my shorts around my ankles. It's also a bit too massive to confidently attach to my waist band.
Since I don't use the external drive feature of the ipod too much.. I would find the significantly smaller ipod with only 4 Gigs (probably 700 songs realistically) much preferable as a strictly music player over a much bigger iPod that was twice as massive.
If I used the ipod as a hard drive more, I'd definately say the larger ipod is the better product, but 4GB is MORE than enough music for any trip I'd take it on and there is still enough room for important files.
"XGrid is based off of Apple's Rendezvous, which is OS X "
No, Xgrid is based off of the Zilla project that ran on NeXT. Zilla was acquired by Apple when NeXT was purchased. Zilla was rechristened Xilla during development in honor of OS X. It's now called XGrid.. and yes it is cool.
Now, XGrid includes support for Rendzvous. Rendzvous is Apple's release of ZeroConf, an OPEN SOURCE ad hoc IP based protocol.
Someone else asked about running on other BSD's. XGrid runs in user space. It isn't a kext (kernel extension). It probably could run on other BSDs without too much work, but it is a carbon app so you'd have to totally port the interface to some other GUI API.. and you'd have to port it from Obj C to something more common I'd guess. Apple hasn't provided source (yet) though so I don't see anyone porting it soon. Maybe reverse engineering it...
other stuff... it apparently makes use of XML too but I haven't gone through all the docs yet.
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I agree that they should have used motherboard from the same manufacturer, but I also can't see this making a measurable difference. Nothing on any motherboard I've ever used heats up aside from the chipset, so I can't imagine the power drain to be significant.
When's the last time you looked at a modern Intel motherboard? I've got an 865 board behind me and the heat sink on the northbridge is an inch tall. I saw some PCI-E boards this weekend and the heat sinks on the northbridge are even more massive.
On the AMD system, the memory controller is not located in the northbridge.
I'll pipe in since my worker isn't in town.
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He just sent his new Dell laptop back because Dell refused to admit they didn't know what they were talking about.
He specifically ordered the laptop with a P-M 725 chip (Dothan with 2MB L2 Cache).
Dell sends him a P-M 1.6 with 1MB L2 cache.
He figures, he's entitled to what he ordered so he calls Dell.
Dell L1 Tech support refused to believe that a) they make laptop chips with 2MB of cache nor do they believe b) that a P-M 1.6 is different from an Intel 725 chip.
Dell L1 Supervisor refuses to believe that Intel makes portable chips with 2MB of L2 cache nor does he believe that there is a difference between a 1.6 GHz P-M and a 725.
** note this happened like a week ago, Dothans have been out for a while**
Dell L2 tech support (supposedly the geeks) initially refuse to believe that Intel makes portable chips with 2MB of L2 cache nor does he believe that there is a difference between a 1.6 GHz P-M and a 725.
But wait, it gets better!!
L2 Tech support eventually assures him that Dell gets custom runs of Dothan chips because they are a big customer. We almost wet ourselves.
now, during all this, we had the Intel product sheets up in front of us that indicated that a 725 Dothan has 2mb of L2 cache but none of the Dell reps would look a the URL, they pretty much refused to look at any evidence that they were wrong.
A few days later he gets a call from a Dell rep because he lodged a complaint. By this time, we found plenty of Dell sites (not US sites) that accurately list a 725 as a part with 2MB L2 cache. The rep refused to believe Intel or any other Dell site. His excuse was, Dell is a large customer, so Dell USA gets custom dothan chips from Intel.. but the overseas Dells don't get them.
he sent the laptop back.
I think we should at least post the timestamp and IP of posters like this.. so some of our big, buff, gay brethren can track them down and beat the crap out of them.
Just a thought.
The G4s had to downgrade because of eratta in the first chips that caused problems when they hit 500MHz.
Apple can't release iMacs because their G5 sales are strong and the yield on the PPC 970 isn't high enough yet. It's a supply issue.
The G5 iMacs won't be running at 2.5 GHz either.. they'll be lower clocked G5s so IBM shouldn't have trouble getting the chips.. they are most likely getting enough chips.
No, it takes Billions to make a modern fab..
But more importantly it takes the expertise to come up with a cutting edge process.
It's not like Apple could have a fab built and just start running chips off.. like they were silk screening t-shirts or something.
You really should mod the parent up.. that guy IS a moron.. and who ever gave him a +5 should be beat up.
Of course they aren't counting duals as 2 "CPUs". The numbers quoted are for computers shipped... as in G5 + G4 + iMac + eMac.
duh
the parent to this parent did do some homework, but they didn't bother to actually look for .09micron thermal numbers. The low end chips now (1.8 and 2.0GHz) come in at about half the thermal output of the .13 micron chips. They could easily fit in an iMac, thought the fan may spin up more often.
Just to put the new chips into perspective.. The max wattage for a 2Ghz Pentium-M is higher than than typical for the 1.8 (and I think 2.0) G5 cpu. PM, the darling of big punch - low power only runs cool at 600MHz.. when it's cranking, it's in the same league as the new G5.
Don't you think Eisner's Agent or anyone associated with him wouldn't be associated long if they fucked up a quote like that?
I, personally, do believe Eisner said this because someone close to him.. someone whose lively hood is tied to being close to him.. said Eisner said it.
That may not be as good as having Eisner say that in front of me.. but then if you don't want to believe Eisner said it.. what WOULD be good enough for you? Would a quote in the media be enough? There are certainly enough lies in the media. Sean Hannity has proven that you can lie over and over and shout down (or disconnect) people who attempt to correct you.
At some point, you have to accept the evidence you recieve.. or you have to reject it. I choose to accept in this case.
Oh, come on.. that snippy reply is way funnier than the original post. ;-) How the hell to I mod it up?
Do I sound like you?
Highschool: top 2% nationally in standardized tests, 3rd highest ACT in my class (i'd have done better if I paid attention in class). Nearly dead center in my class ranking. In fact, I nearly didn't graduate on time because I didn't pass Speech first time through (I was pretty introverted until I really knew people).
I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. I'm technically proficient in anything that interestes me. I'm a good guitarist who never learned how to play. I enjoy a wide variety of music.. and not just because it's intellectually cool to listen to a little bit of classical.
I'm pretty smart. In fact, I'm smarter than most people I meet, but then there are a lot of stupid people out there.
I knew smart people in highschool but I never met someone obviously brilliant until I went away to college.
I'd love to see you post back after you spend a year or two in college. I'm sure it will be a pretty humbling experience if you go to a good.. or at least large University.
Right now, you're just a smug highschooler who hasn't been exposed to enough people to realize how much you don't know. In fact, when I started working in computer support it took me quite a while to really comprehend how little I knew. It was like a magic Jedi moment for me. I became twice as knowledgeable when I understood how little I knew. I also became 10 times as useful when I could appreciate when I really didn't know something (people starting in Tech support give out so much bad info the *think* they know).
fast forward a long time.. I know I'm smart.. but I sure 'aint no special snowflake. I could be really good (better than most) at just about anything I do if I'm interested in the task but I'll never be truely exceptional. Einstein's legacy has nothing to fear from me.
as always, don't believe me.. I'm just a stupid ffakr
Oops, almost forgot all my joy with dell...
After giving the tech my Dell service tag number, the tech looks up the shipping specs..
"Wait, this can't be right, how can that thing run with only one SIMM?!?"
my answer, of course, was that it was a freaking 486.
me while talking to server tech support re: a $58,000 server order:
"I'm not seeing the netware drivers posted..."
Dell Server Level 2 Tech support:
'Oh yea, we've got Netware drivers for those PERC RAID cards, go ahead and order those'
Reality:
months later we are running production on beta drivers.. months after that we finally get the final drivers
last one that comes to mind... the Rack we order with the above servers comes in a damaged box, but it only appears to have scratched paint so we don't bother freighting it back. Can't find the rails for the above servers so we call Dell tech support and lay out the situation, Rack with torn box, 3 'spensive dell server which happen to weigh over 100lbs a piece... Took 6 months and the intervention of a Dell regional manager to get our rails.. We had to figure out that they were to ship with the servers and not with the Rack... Dell had no clue and the packing slips didn't indicate. 3 years later, the bottom two servers are still stacked on each other.
Having worked on a tech support line, and managed tech support people, I can tell you that you should be really damn happy when your tech admits they don't know something. It's a lot easier for a newb to give an answer they *think* is correct than to admit they don't know everything off the top of their heads.
Honestly, what would you prefer?.. someone saying, I'm not sure, let me find out for sure.. or someone making shit up that can get you into more trouble?
When I did phone support as a student worker, I had to tell someone that their email was unavailable because the server sprung a leak and it was out of water.
Unfortunately this was true as we were still running a water cooled IBM Mainframe.
The clients seemed to accept it without question but I'd have to image they though we were yanking them.
I do realize your comment is tongue in cheek.. but Bioinformatic tools (some of them like BLAST) run multiples faster on Apple hardware than on x86 hardware. Apparently apps like BLAST really run great on Altivec.
I haven't seen anything recently, but at one time BLAST ran up to 16x faster on a G4 than a P4.
That would be every single Windows user. All Windows versions.. at least all that are from the poisoned NT tree, actually make an RPC call back to themselves when they log in. If you disable RPC on a Windows box.. the box can't authenticate LOCAL users! How's that for clever design?
Sure, dual core 4-6GHz cpus and 2GB RAM for a recommended system..
BUT APPLE IS FORCING ME TO BUY A NEW OS EVERY YEAR!!! Jobs called me yesterday and said if I didn't buy Tiger, he'd kick my ass!
I think it's much more fair to say that the last time Apple's hardware was competative was with the launch of the G4. The G4 compared favorably with the P3 and Athlon on launch and it generally excelled both in vector processing. The systems were also comparable a the time.. the pc had sdr fsb, and both other systems were using PC100/133. The Mac even shipped with 64bit/33MHz PCI, something only found on PC servers at the time. Apple's dark hardware days began after that when Motorola pulled the first 500MHz (it never actually shipped in the original stepping).. and when they were subsequently unable to ratchet up the clock or provide a modern fsb.
Prior to that, the PPC line was always competitave with Intel except in memory technology and bus speed, where they generally lagged before the G3s. In fact, the PPC 604e (which competed with the Pentium Pro and very early P2s) clocked all the way up to 350MHz.
As for having little reason to choose MacOS over Windows, I've spent the bulk of the last couple days repairing worm infections. Hmn. Between me, my staff, and the general staff, I'd guess my division lost thousands of $$ in time and productivity and this wasn't even a bad one. The real kicker was.. we had the machines autoupdating and the Win2K boxes were still getting infected until we manually applied the patch.
You really have no idea what you are talking about.
10.2 is not "largely a bug fix over 10.1". 10.1 was a fully functional OS, where 10.0 was functional but it did not ship with some components that Mac users typically expect (like a working DVD player).
10.2 was a MAJOR under the hood upgrade. Apple brought the core up from a FreeBSD 3.4 fork to the FreeBSD 4.x code base. Apple also release a new and revolutionary 3d accellerated desktop, Quartz Extreme (something that Windows may have in Longhorn if it isn't cut with the WinFS filesystem). There is a litany of improvements AND ADDITIONS in 10.2
What this entire argument really comes down to is: Windows users need something to bash OS X about. It's stable, it's open source (the core at least), it's based off FreeBSD, and it'd damn pretty. Oh I know, lets bash Apple for being TOO productive. Don't look behind that 'buy you don't actually need to upgrade' curtain.. just decry them for trying to charge for their hard work.
Here is the reality.. I've got a LOT of 10.2 (and quite a few 10.1) machine still in production with zero problems. Some may never get upgraded because they just work fine. Other people, like me, go for the upgrades. They are relatively inexpensive (10.3 is a bigger improvement over 10.2 than XP was over 2K imho). They are expecially inexpensive if you get edu pricing (around $50) or if you sign up for maintenance (3 years of free OS updates for $75 for edu).
Hmn,.. Isn't MS catching flack because they sold a lot of maintenance contracts for their software, then they never got an update out in the contract cycle?
so, Apple lost a customer because he, a computer developer, couldn't troubleshoot a Type 11 (hardware exception) error? Geez, I'd have fixed it if he'd have just asked nice.
Because of the court's miraculous discovery of a right to sodomy last term, gay marriage is now on the agenda in America.
.. But I suppose that's pretty much the same thing, isn't it?
:-)
That's funny, I didn't know we had a 'god given' right to sodomy. I though Americans simply had the right to keep crazy right wing religious nuts out of our bedrooms and out of our lives if we so choose.
If Ann Coulter has got "it" right, whatever your "it" was.. it's too bad she hasn't got anything else right. You should REALLY page through Franken's book. You don't have to agree with his politics or his agenda, but he does a brief but powerful deconstruction of some of Annie's contentions in her last book. The outright lies and blatent mis-representations are just plain sad. Maybe she should have AT LEAST employeed an editor or fact checker. Maybe then she wouldn't have published blatant falicies.. like claiming that someone was bad because their father was a socialist candiate decades ago (the 'father' in question was NOT actually the persons father, or any relative.. and the "Socialist" was pushing all kinds of crazy ideas like Social Security.. how evil!)
I'm sure there is a nice warm spot waiting for Annie in the after life, if you are disposed to such idologies (and I think you are). Think a whole lot warmer than a Florida beach if you are creatively thinking impared (and I think you are).
Ah well, I'm bored.. the day is done..
I'm heading off to the gym.. then I'm going to make to time to hate people who aren't like me. After all, I hear that being a right wing nut job is where the money's at.
Why is everyone so fixated on the two slot requirement? This is a Gamer's video card. Anyone who buys a $499USD card is going to put it into a decent motherboard. How many decent motherboards don't have everything and the kitchen sink included on board.. LAN, USB2, SATA, audio, and often FW. If you are really hardcore, you'd want to put in an nice, modern (more efficient) audio card.. but I don't see too many gamers crying because they can only access 4 of their 5 pci slots.
"Someone plans a head because when you hire an artist to make icons you may as well make all the ones you might need instead of hiring an artist again latter."
.ogg icons but not include the codec is due to the fact that they are 'beleagured' and will soon be out of business? ;-)
Apple has more than enough artists IN HOUSE. They don't hire an artist to make icons for audio formats.
I often joke that there are more graphic designers employeed at Apple than engineers.. and compared to other companies, that probably isn't too far from reality.
"Or the product that was going to burn to CD, but unless the owner finds more money soon the developers will find a new job and the company will be out of buisness."
So, the reason that Apple would put in
I'm a consumer. A mac fan but somone who seriously looked at Rios before my wife got me an iPod. I found them to be woefully overpriced for far too little space.
Now, as a consumer I would buy a mini ipod over a regular one. Here's why...
I use the iPod in the Gym primarily. I don't need it in the car, in the house, or at home. In the gym, I wear comefortable elastic band shorts. The iPod is hefty enough that it tugs precariously at my shorts if I'm too active. I don't need my shorts around my ankles. It's also a bit too massive to confidently attach to my waist band.
Since I don't use the external drive feature of the ipod too much.. I would find the significantly smaller ipod with only 4 Gigs (probably 700 songs realistically) much preferable as a strictly music player over a much bigger iPod that was twice as massive.
If I used the ipod as a hard drive more, I'd definately say the larger ipod is the better product, but 4GB is MORE than enough music for any trip I'd take it on and there is still enough room for important files.
crap, sorry.. I'm pretty sure it's Cocoa NOT carbon.. my mistake
"XGrid is based off of Apple's Rendezvous, which is OS X "
No, Xgrid is based off of the Zilla project that ran on NeXT.
Zilla was acquired by Apple when NeXT was purchased.
Zilla was rechristened Xilla during development in honor of OS X.
It's now called XGrid.. and yes it is cool.
Now, XGrid includes support for Rendzvous.
Rendzvous is Apple's release of ZeroConf, an OPEN SOURCE ad hoc IP based protocol.
Someone else asked about running on other BSD's.
XGrid runs in user space. It isn't a kext (kernel extension). It probably could run on other BSDs without too much work, but it is a carbon app so you'd have to totally port the interface to some other GUI API.. and you'd have to port it from Obj C to something more common I'd guess.
Apple hasn't provided source (yet) though so I don't see anyone porting it soon. Maybe reverse engineering it...
other stuff... it apparently makes use of XML too but I haven't gone through all the docs yet.