Hey man, its not your money once you hand it over to the computer guy.
Oooo, wrong direction to take (smart move posting that rubbish as AC). Microsoft's monopoly was found to be illegal, meaning Bill's donations from ill gotten gains are no better than a mugger taking your wallet and saying he'll give a buck to his church. It's much worse in many ways because MS is a reverse Robin Hood, stealing from the poor masses to line the already full pockets of the corporate officers. Anything they're dropping along the way to the bank is not from the good of their hearts.
99% of people wouldn't do it any different way if they were in Bills shoes.
We'll ignore the fact that on the same day, Gates donated $168 million to fund malaria research, but funnily enough, I doubt we'll see that reported here.
If someone swindles (or pick your favorite analogy for running a corporation that's a convicted monopolist) millions of people out of billions of dollars, we should be be happy to hear they're giving maybe 1% of my money to some charity? Here's a bold suggestion, Bill should stop his unfair business practices so that everyone has the opportunity to donate 100% of that money to a good cause.
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Umm, 64-bits on the desktop is a ways off.
Umm, no, since I can get a G5 Mac today.
You hear nerds claiming they want it, but they don't really know why.
Sounds more like you don't understand their reasons rather than them not understanding. That just means you don't (think you) need 64 bits.
Let me give you a hint: You'll need 64-bit processors on the desktop exactly when you see average machines with 3-4 gigs of memory. Not before.
Let me give you a fact: You needed 64 bits the day you began to address more than 4GB of HD or otherwise needed big/precision numbers.
Now you can prattle on about how much easier it is to write software with 64-bit processors, but it's silly. The software's written. It's too late. In fact, it takes _effort_ to port to 64-bits. So that's a non-argument.
So cleaning up code that is pure hackery to get around 32 bit limitations is a non-argument? Unless you're offering to maintain that messy code, I think your whole reply is a "non-argument".
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Don't run out and buy an Athlon 64 just yet...
To anyone that 64 bits might make a difference for, they're steering clear of Intel, who has stated they're not going to focus on that desktop market for another 5 years. So all this article amounts to is Prescott FUD to support Intel's (misguided) roadmap.
Disclaimer: I own some AMD stock and I do my Unix development on Mac OS X.
This is killing a person for *money* we're talking about.
Gee, kind of like how the country got started (taxation without representation ring a bell?), isn't it? The money is incidental, though; surely you can see that. They start by abusing the youngest and poorest for $2000. It's not the last part of that sentence that you should focus on, it's everything that comes before it. And this is just the beginning of their long slide down. Who knows where they'll sink their claws along the way.
The RIAA is now tainted goods.
The problem is that their little cartel has tainted music in the process. They fuck over the artists they sign and they fuck over the independents who don't sign, and through it all the fans are screwed left and right. I'm sick of big business thinking it can run roughshod over people and then have executives think they can escape the aftermath in a golden parachute.
I actually a fairly non-violent person, but if I was around when the RIAA lawyer was bragging about taking $2000 from a poor little girl, I would have smacked the fucker right there. They bolder their actions forward are, the bigger the backlash is going to be when everything finally comes to a head. I like to not have to get violent, but when the things they're pulling get too close to my back yard, I'm not sure I'll have a better choice . . .
There is absolutley no need for violence here and even less need to write about it.
You're wrong. In fact, there is a great need to write about it now because it may end up being the only way to enact change in the future. America's history is a violent one, and the RIAA seems to have forgotten that. They bullied a 12 year old girl for money (quite a lot, in fact); in my neighborhood that kind of thing will get any number of people on your ass and they will make you stop.
If you're against the killing, could I get your support in something more of a "van Gogh" retribution? That is, take their ear off as a symbol of who these people are. Nothing quite like a reminder in the mirror every morning that pushing poor children around over music isn't the right thing to do.
Besides, the RIAA just shot thselves in the head 261 times yesterday, they beat you to it !
On the contrary. If they can get the majority to settle for thousands, then they'll have regular folk set up to cave in left and right in the future. How long they'll last taking continually more extreme actions against the fans is anybody's guess, but I don't see any artists rushing out to help the little girl the RIAA fucked over. As long as the RIAA lives, music is completely screwed.
Leaving the analyses to others, I would like to say concisely that in retribution for this behavior, I from this day forward will never again purchase another compact disc. Ever.
Yawn. The RIAA doesn't give a fuck about you, and neither do most consumers they target. If you really wanted to enact some change, you'd walk up to an RIAA executive or an attorney involved in this action and put a bullet in their head. Now that will get some attention, especially if it starts to happen a lot.
My mother didn't "consent" to shit when she installed Bonzi Buddy.
Aw, dude, you got your Mom a Windows box? Don't you love your Mom?
You know, something I could tell people like my mother to use to check out a piece of software to see if it's legitimate before they install it and cause a mess that somebody else has to fix?
Just have her check to see if it ends in "exe". If it does, she's hosed.
One of the huge applications of autonomous vehicles is the removal of landmines.
As has already been pointed out, that's unnecessarily complex compared to telepresence used to do the same. In fact, I'm suspicious that this can be used by the military for much (general) good at all. Think about the environment that makes this necessary. If it was NASA, it might make sense, but where on the surface of this planet do you need a machine to operate itself rather than a human operating it remotely?
Judging from the picture, the design borrows heavily from that of watercraft. The bottom of the aircraft has been modified to the point that it resembles the hull of a boat of personal watercraft.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what speeds aircraft could see supercavitation at? I mean, given fluid dynamic apply to both air and water, shouldn't it be possible for planes as well as submarines? Anyone know what that would do to the shape/strength of a sonic boom?
The keychain itself is locked with one's login password. Basically, when one logs in, the keychain is unlocked, and various applications can retrieve the credentials that were previous written into the keychain.
Before (hopefully) any hardline security types raise issues with this, let me not that you don't necessarily have to unlock the keychain at login, and you can even have it timeout so you have to re-authenticate when you want to use it later. Further, you can create additional keychains that are independent of your login information. It's a really nice little addition to the system.
If they were actually that close to tapping the laptop market, they'd have more products for the desktop market. In particular, I'd like to see a UPS system that uses fuel cells and doesn't suffer from a "battery wear" problem. The battery in my first UPS went bad before it was even used once. Until I see results in other markets, there is no way I'm going to expect it to perform as advertised in a portable.
This is shocking, and makes me wonder how should I backup my data, photo and music collection.
How about more than once every two years for a full backup? And given that hard drives are already commonly storing two magnitudes more data than a CD can, in two years we'll all have said goodbye to our CD-R anyway. But I have a feeling people around here will still bitch when Apple removes them from their line, while the PC shops will still be shipping that damn floppy.
At 6 for a pack of 4 or 5 blades you can see why they are trying to introduce tracking.
No, I don't. I see a need for access control, but the tracking is just a hassle for all parties involved. I mean, they probably keep the fags (ObJay: look at me getting all British talking an' shit!:-) behind the counter. There's no reason they couldn't do the same with blades instead of this Rube Goldberg procedure. Or how about in-aisle vending machines? Blades are small and uniform and not a restricted substance like cigarettes are, so why not have people pay for them right away? That could be extended to any number of small, expensive items that a store might want to better manage. Hell, don't they have entire vending machine "markets" in Japan? It isn't to hard to think of ways to scale/translate such a thing to work in other cultures.
Well maybe you should, because you're coming off as a real idiot.
1.- Has no effect whatsoever on the location of the prize. The prize will not switch places.
The fact that you can state this and not make the connection to why you are wrong is strong evidence of your stupidity. Think about it. You had a 1 in 3 chance of picking the right location. You state the prize does not switch places. Clearly there is a 2 in 3 chance that it is somewhere other than your initial selection.
No matter what has been done, when you ask the player if she wants to change her selection, you are presenting a new problem, independent of previous incidents (blasting of doors). At that instant in time (you could argue that such things cant be measured) you have two doors with a 1/2 probability each.
Here's one last chance to see the error of your way; I'll restate the problem to the point where it should be absurdly obvious. I have a deck of cards and I'll give you a prize if you happen to select the ace of spaces (AS). What are the odds of you getting it on your random pull from the deck? Having made your selection, I show you one of the other 51 cards that is not the AS. Then I show you another. And another. And so on until I have two cards and show you the one that is also not the AS. I then give you the opportunity to switch from the card you had selected initially to the one remaining card I am holding. What will you do?
If you say it doesn't matter, that it is a new problem, and that you still have a 50/50 chance of having the AS, I will not only keep you in my foes list for gross stupidity, I will also seek you out so that I might have a chance to gamble large sums of money with you.
I don't see what's so hard about that figure for you to grasp.
Of course you don't; you're an AC. The point being made is that the figures have no real importance. Computing for 1 day at 1GHz is meaningless. It says nothing about what is actually happening in the code. I could spin on a NOP for 23.99999999 hours and kick out an actual work unit at the end and use the same figure as someone who was actually doing something in that time. It also doesn't give any indication on what processor is being run at that clock rate, so it is a laughable measure of computation power.
The solution came after 61.40 CPU-days, corresponding to 138.25 days of computation at 1 GHz
Yeah, and I came to work in 12.34 horsepower-hours, corresponding to 666.13 hours of driving at 5K RPM. I mean, damn, I understand when my mom utters movie-level technobabble, but this?
In the environment that we are talking about that 2x capable argument is pure delusion.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. All I was doing was pointing out that the technology behind the G4 makes it capable of being put into SMP machines, but in order to get a PC with a Xeon processor that can do the same you have to go far above the Dimension line to get a Precision model. I thought that, this being Slashdot and all, the technical merits of finding a parity match would be valued. Clearly all you are interested in is pushing the same ol' "Macs is pricey!" BS that is tiresomely untrue.
Think about 1,000 computers. That runs your $10 a month to $10,000 a month and $240,000 over 2 years. Now tell me again how much more usable a Mac is at Office and Internet apps?
Very much more usable, but even that wasn't my point. You have that painfully clueless way with numbers that really does not reflect well on PC users. That is, I point to a $10/month/employee difference and you explode it into a quarter million dollar fiasco, completely glossing over the fact that even if those employees all made only $10/hour it would amount to a mere half percent of their salary. What kind of shit boss are you that you can't see productivity gains alone of that much?
There is nothing contradictory about what I'm saying, you just don't appear to be as familiar with every aspect of this real world as you would like to think. For example, I work at a pretty large University . . .
Bwhahahahaha! You work in academia and claim I'm not familiar with the real world? Boy, that's rich! I'm well aware that you can't experience the full corporate (or even academic) purchasing model via the web site (e.g., there is no place for an IT director to specify the kick backs they'd like to receive for the purchase), but that (again!) is not the point. You were making the tired arguments that Macs are oh-so-much more pricey than PCs when that, as evidenced by the respective web sites, is not the case.
Put simply, anything you need done on a sub-$1000 machine can probably be done equally well with either system for the same money. The same holds true for higher end systems over $2500 and, yes, even for the middle ground in between. I don't understand why most PC-only users are threatened by this. They always architect the most outlandish scenarios to get a piece of shit box on their desk just to beat a Mac price by a couple hundred bucks. What, only got the combo drive instead of the super drive? Had to piece the thing together yourself? Takes the place of the space heater you never needed in California? Way to go; you saved yourself a tenth of one month's rent for something you'll have to use (and often struggle with) for 4+ hours a day for 2-4 years. Talk about being fiscally irresponsible . . .
Equally irrelevant, though I'll say it anyway, is that the Dell differentation is pretty simple: Dimension for home users, Optiplex for corporate desktops and Precision for higher end workstations.
Those are differences that make no difference, and get back to my initial point that computers are to be purchased towards a task. What is it that makes a Dimension more suitable for a home than a corporation if the same types of things are done at both locations? Why wouldn't a Precision make more sense for a corporate environment; a workstation at work? That's all just pointless differentiation because it just does not matter to anyone who is buying a system. They have things that need to be done and likely a budget to do them in. There is absolutely zero way to know where you can go with an bunch of cash unless you wade all through the Dell site.
It's also funny how I see prices on the front page of the Dell store as well . . .
What is funny is how you so boldly lie when it is so easy to demonstrate you are lying. I go to the Dell site and I get no prices, just two ways to start looking for stuff: b
You must have been looking at a top of the line Dell. You'll easily beat that price with a low to mid range Dimension system.
Well, I was looking for a system that matched what Apple offers. Apple has different price targets, but it doesn't have "low end" systems. That is, they include a 2x capable processor in all their systems so it really doesn't seem fair to compare what Apple offers to just any old crap Intel box. Still, pricing out a cut-rate Dimension box took me to $1528. That's only about $250 less than the iMac. Even if both can be expected to last 2 years, that's a rough difference of $10/month. I don't know how little you pay your employees or how little you value your time, but that's an extremely small price to pay for an extremely usable Unix system. Go anywhere above the bargain basement and you can't even make an argument for the PC.
Also, it is not so screwed up to define baseline specs when you have to support hundreds of systems that are purchased by disparate departments.
That is contradictory. Either you have a number of different departments with different needs that demand different systems, or you run a pretty uniform shop and can drop a common configuration anywhere. If your argument is that a common system is enough for most uses, then Apple is the kind of vendor you want because it already specs out things that way; Dell made me wade through screen after screen of dozens of options.
PC vendors in general don't really do a good job of targeting different markets. Even if you did need machines of different abilities, Dell only offers vague suggestion about how a Dimension, OptiPlex, and Precision differ. You have to get into the nitty-gritty of their horrible customization pages to get any idea of how they really differ. Apple on the other hand starts showing differences right in the case design (listing prices, in a shocking display of insight, right on the store's front page), and then it goes on to clearly state the specs of each base configuration in each class.
So, try as I might, I find no support for your argument in the real world. You seem to be quoting the same outdated rhetoric that has been tiresome for years. Either that or you fall squarely into the category of IT "professionals" that Cringley is talking about.
The corporate standard is 1.7GHz machine with 256M of ram and a 17" CRT (not even flat screen).
Price out that computer and let me know which Apple I can get for that.
Well, pricing out a Dell system with roughly the same specs as a $1799 iMac was a $2673 PC. I don't think that supports your argument. Perhaps if you gave some exact requirements I could find you a PC that doesn't cost about $1000 more than a Mac.
Of course, I'd also like to point out just how screwed up a corporate environment is when they spec machines on vague hardware stats instead of on how useful they are in getting work done. That is, things like RAM requirements should be based on what software the user runs, not some useless hardware baseline.
Not only could I find nothing about it on the GnuCash site, a search of the same turned up nothing. Face it, this is an app that is poorly designed (Linux users should be insulted they're the target of this mess) and will not work on any reasonable desktop system it is intended for. That is, this is something made for Linux users who must suffer with no alternatives, not for Mac or Windows users who can spend a couple hundred on an existing app that actually works with their system and gets things done. The target market is the (financial) desktop, but the project completely neglects that Linux has no real inroads into that market. Hell, one look at their listed Software Requirements and it's pretty clear they don't have this thing targeted for any common desktop system, Linux or otherwise, let alone Mac OS X. This seems like a project that is best off left to die so that someone who knows what they're doing can sweep up the fractured remains and make something useful out of it.
Hey, that looks pretty nifty. Unfortunately, their custom installer is demanding administrative access for even the user install option, and manually installing the files it says it will install does not result in a functional preference pane. I'll keep an eye on it, though, for when 10.3 and/or Bluetooth headset support is available. Thanks.
I'm not sure, but it sounds a lot like the action used to propel skates. That is, you don't go forward by pushing backward, but rather by pushing sideways and using a lever (the blade in my case, the oar in your mother's case) to redirect and gain mechanical advantage of the forces. It can be done on one skate, too, if you've got the balance for it.
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Hey man, its not your money once you hand it over to the computer guy.
Oooo, wrong direction to take (smart move posting that rubbish as AC). Microsoft's monopoly was found to be illegal, meaning Bill's donations from ill gotten gains are no better than a mugger taking your wallet and saying he'll give a buck to his church. It's much worse in many ways because MS is a reverse Robin Hood, stealing from the poor masses to line the already full pockets of the corporate officers. Anything they're dropping along the way to the bank is not from the good of their hearts.
99% of people wouldn't do it any different way if they were in Bills shoes.
That doesn't make it the right thing to do.
We'll ignore the fact that on the same day, Gates donated $168 million to fund malaria research, but funnily enough, I doubt we'll see that reported here.
If someone swindles (or pick your favorite analogy for running a corporation that's a convicted monopolist) millions of people out of billions of dollars, we should be be happy to hear they're giving maybe 1% of my money to some charity? Here's a bold suggestion, Bill should stop his unfair business practices so that everyone has the opportunity to donate 100% of that money to a good cause.
Umm, 64-bits on the desktop is a ways off.
Umm, no, since I can get a G5 Mac today.
You hear nerds claiming they want it, but they don't really know why.
Sounds more like you don't understand their reasons rather than them not understanding. That just means you don't (think you) need 64 bits.
Let me give you a hint: You'll need 64-bit processors on the desktop exactly when you see average machines with 3-4 gigs of memory. Not before.
Let me give you a fact: You needed 64 bits the day you began to address more than 4GB of HD or otherwise needed big/precision numbers.
Now you can prattle on about how much easier it is to write software with 64-bit processors, but it's silly. The software's written. It's too late. In fact, it takes _effort_ to port to 64-bits. So that's a non-argument.
So cleaning up code that is pure hackery to get around 32 bit limitations is a non-argument? Unless you're offering to maintain that messy code, I think your whole reply is a "non-argument".
Don't run out and buy an Athlon 64 just yet...
To anyone that 64 bits might make a difference for, they're steering clear of Intel, who has stated they're not going to focus on that desktop market for another 5 years. So all this article amounts to is Prescott FUD to support Intel's (misguided) roadmap.
Disclaimer: I own some AMD stock and I do my Unix development on Mac OS X.
This is killing a person for *money* we're talking about.
Gee, kind of like how the country got started (taxation without representation ring a bell?), isn't it? The money is incidental, though; surely you can see that. They start by abusing the youngest and poorest for $2000. It's not the last part of that sentence that you should focus on, it's everything that comes before it. And this is just the beginning of their long slide down. Who knows where they'll sink their claws along the way.
The RIAA is now tainted goods.
The problem is that their little cartel has tainted music in the process. They fuck over the artists they sign and they fuck over the independents who don't sign, and through it all the fans are screwed left and right. I'm sick of big business thinking it can run roughshod over people and then have executives think they can escape the aftermath in a golden parachute.
I actually a fairly non-violent person, but if I was around when the RIAA lawyer was bragging about taking $2000 from a poor little girl, I would have smacked the fucker right there. They bolder their actions forward are, the bigger the backlash is going to be when everything finally comes to a head. I like to not have to get violent, but when the things they're pulling get too close to my back yard, I'm not sure I'll have a better choice . . .
There is absolutley no need for violence here and even less need to write about it.
You're wrong. In fact, there is a great need to write about it now because it may end up being the only way to enact change in the future. America's history is a violent one, and the RIAA seems to have forgotten that. They bullied a 12 year old girl for money (quite a lot, in fact); in my neighborhood that kind of thing will get any number of people on your ass and they will make you stop.
If you're against the killing, could I get your support in something more of a "van Gogh" retribution? That is, take their ear off as a symbol of who these people are. Nothing quite like a reminder in the mirror every morning that pushing poor children around over music isn't the right thing to do.
Besides, the RIAA just shot thselves in the head 261 times yesterday, they beat you to it !
On the contrary. If they can get the majority to settle for thousands, then they'll have regular folk set up to cave in left and right in the future. How long they'll last taking continually more extreme actions against the fans is anybody's guess, but I don't see any artists rushing out to help the little girl the RIAA fucked over. As long as the RIAA lives, music is completely screwed.
Leaving the analyses to others, I would like to say concisely that in retribution for this behavior, I from this day forward will never again purchase another compact disc. Ever.
Yawn. The RIAA doesn't give a fuck about you, and neither do most consumers they target. If you really wanted to enact some change, you'd walk up to an RIAA executive or an attorney involved in this action and put a bullet in their head. Now that will get some attention, especially if it starts to happen a lot.
My mother didn't "consent" to shit when she installed Bonzi Buddy.
Aw, dude, you got your Mom a Windows box? Don't you love your Mom?
You know, something I could tell people like my mother to use to check out a piece of software to see if it's legitimate before they install it and cause a mess that somebody else has to fix?
Just have her check to see if it ends in "exe". If it does, she's hosed.
Ah, the satisfaction of putting the Commander in Chief on hold.
Then you had better buy a TiVo, because Nokia isn't shipping these in the US.
One of the huge applications of autonomous vehicles is the removal of landmines.
As has already been pointed out, that's unnecessarily complex compared to telepresence used to do the same. In fact, I'm suspicious that this can be used by the military for much (general) good at all. Think about the environment that makes this necessary. If it was NASA, it might make sense, but where on the surface of this planet do you need a machine to operate itself rather than a human operating it remotely?
Judging from the picture, the design borrows heavily from that of watercraft. The bottom of the aircraft has been modified to the point that it resembles the hull of a boat of personal watercraft.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what speeds aircraft could see supercavitation at? I mean, given fluid dynamic apply to both air and water, shouldn't it be possible for planes as well as submarines? Anyone know what that would do to the shape/strength of a sonic boom?
The keychain itself is locked with one's login password. Basically, when one logs in, the keychain is unlocked, and various applications can retrieve the credentials that were previous written into the keychain.
Before (hopefully) any hardline security types raise issues with this, let me not that you don't necessarily have to unlock the keychain at login, and you can even have it timeout so you have to re-authenticate when you want to use it later. Further, you can create additional keychains that are independent of your login information. It's a really nice little addition to the system.
If they were actually that close to tapping the laptop market, they'd have more products for the desktop market. In particular, I'd like to see a UPS system that uses fuel cells and doesn't suffer from a "battery wear" problem. The battery in my first UPS went bad before it was even used once. Until I see results in other markets, there is no way I'm going to expect it to perform as advertised in a portable.
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Note that it may be in a data superposition until you actually observe a page to decode into be the DeCSS source!
This is shocking, and makes me wonder how should I backup my data, photo and music collection.
How about more than once every two years for a full backup? And given that hard drives are already commonly storing two magnitudes more data than a CD can, in two years we'll all have said goodbye to our CD-R anyway. But I have a feeling people around here will still bitch when Apple removes them from their line, while the PC shops will still be shipping that damn floppy.
At 6 for a pack of 4 or 5 blades you can see why they are trying to introduce tracking.
No, I don't. I see a need for access control, but the tracking is just a hassle for all parties involved. I mean, they probably keep the fags (ObJay: look at me getting all British talking an' shit! :-) behind the counter. There's no reason they couldn't do the same with blades instead of this Rube Goldberg procedure. Or how about in-aisle vending machines? Blades are small and uniform and not a restricted substance like cigarettes are, so why not have people pay for them right away? That could be extended to any number of small, expensive items that a store might want to better manage. Hell, don't they have entire vending machine "markets" in Japan? It isn't to hard to think of ways to scale/translate such a thing to work in other cultures.
Not the same thing as you are, buddy.
Well maybe you should, because you're coming off as a real idiot.
1.- Has no effect whatsoever on the location of the prize. The prize will not switch places.
The fact that you can state this and not make the connection to why you are wrong is strong evidence of your stupidity. Think about it. You had a 1 in 3 chance of picking the right location. You state the prize does not switch places. Clearly there is a 2 in 3 chance that it is somewhere other than your initial selection.
No matter what has been done, when you ask the player if she wants to change her selection, you are presenting a new problem, independent of previous incidents (blasting of doors). At that instant in time (you could argue that such things cant be measured) you have two doors with a 1/2 probability each.
Here's one last chance to see the error of your way; I'll restate the problem to the point where it should be absurdly obvious. I have a deck of cards and I'll give you a prize if you happen to select the ace of spaces (AS). What are the odds of you getting it on your random pull from the deck? Having made your selection, I show you one of the other 51 cards that is not the AS. Then I show you another. And another. And so on until I have two cards and show you the one that is also not the AS. I then give you the opportunity to switch from the card you had selected initially to the one remaining card I am holding. What will you do?
If you say it doesn't matter, that it is a new problem, and that you still have a 50/50 chance of having the AS, I will not only keep you in my foes list for gross stupidity, I will also seek you out so that I might have a chance to gamble large sums of money with you.
I don't see what's so hard about that figure for you to grasp.
Of course you don't; you're an AC. The point being made is that the figures have no real importance. Computing for 1 day at 1GHz is meaningless. It says nothing about what is actually happening in the code. I could spin on a NOP for 23.99999999 hours and kick out an actual work unit at the end and use the same figure as someone who was actually doing something in that time. It also doesn't give any indication on what processor is being run at that clock rate, so it is a laughable measure of computation power.
The solution came after 61.40 CPU-days, corresponding to 138.25 days of computation at 1 GHz
Yeah, and I came to work in 12.34 horsepower-hours, corresponding to 666.13 hours of driving at 5K RPM. I mean, damn, I understand when my mom utters movie-level technobabble, but this?
In the environment that we are talking about that 2x capable argument is pure delusion.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. All I was doing was pointing out that the technology behind the G4 makes it capable of being put into SMP machines, but in order to get a PC with a Xeon processor that can do the same you have to go far above the Dimension line to get a Precision model. I thought that, this being Slashdot and all, the technical merits of finding a parity match would be valued. Clearly all you are interested in is pushing the same ol' "Macs is pricey!" BS that is tiresomely untrue.
Think about 1,000 computers. That runs your $10 a month to $10,000 a month and $240,000 over 2 years. Now tell me again how much more usable a Mac is at Office and Internet apps?
Very much more usable, but even that wasn't my point. You have that painfully clueless way with numbers that really does not reflect well on PC users. That is, I point to a $10/month/employee difference and you explode it into a quarter million dollar fiasco, completely glossing over the fact that even if those employees all made only $10/hour it would amount to a mere half percent of their salary. What kind of shit boss are you that you can't see productivity gains alone of that much?
There is nothing contradictory about what I'm saying, you just don't appear to be as familiar with every aspect of this real world as you would like to think. For example, I work at a pretty large University . . .
Bwhahahahaha! You work in academia and claim I'm not familiar with the real world? Boy, that's rich! I'm well aware that you can't experience the full corporate (or even academic) purchasing model via the web site (e.g., there is no place for an IT director to specify the kick backs they'd like to receive for the purchase), but that (again!) is not the point. You were making the tired arguments that Macs are oh-so-much more pricey than PCs when that, as evidenced by the respective web sites, is not the case.
Put simply, anything you need done on a sub-$1000 machine can probably be done equally well with either system for the same money. The same holds true for higher end systems over $2500 and, yes, even for the middle ground in between. I don't understand why most PC-only users are threatened by this. They always architect the most outlandish scenarios to get a piece of shit box on their desk just to beat a Mac price by a couple hundred bucks. What, only got the combo drive instead of the super drive? Had to piece the thing together yourself? Takes the place of the space heater you never needed in California? Way to go; you saved yourself a tenth of one month's rent for something you'll have to use (and often struggle with) for 4+ hours a day for 2-4 years. Talk about being fiscally irresponsible . . .
Equally irrelevant, though I'll say it anyway, is that the Dell differentation is pretty simple: Dimension for home users, Optiplex for corporate desktops and Precision for higher end workstations.
Those are differences that make no difference, and get back to my initial point that computers are to be purchased towards a task. What is it that makes a Dimension more suitable for a home than a corporation if the same types of things are done at both locations? Why wouldn't a Precision make more sense for a corporate environment; a workstation at work? That's all just pointless differentiation because it just does not matter to anyone who is buying a system. They have things that need to be done and likely a budget to do them in. There is absolutely zero way to know where you can go with an bunch of cash unless you wade all through the Dell site.
It's also funny how I see prices on the front page of the Dell store as well . . .
What is funny is how you so boldly lie when it is so easy to demonstrate you are lying. I go to the Dell site and I get no prices, just two ways to start looking for stuff: b
You must have been looking at a top of the line Dell. You'll easily beat that price with a low to mid range Dimension system.
Well, I was looking for a system that matched what Apple offers. Apple has different price targets, but it doesn't have "low end" systems. That is, they include a 2x capable processor in all their systems so it really doesn't seem fair to compare what Apple offers to just any old crap Intel box. Still, pricing out a cut-rate Dimension box took me to $1528. That's only about $250 less than the iMac. Even if both can be expected to last 2 years, that's a rough difference of $10/month. I don't know how little you pay your employees or how little you value your time, but that's an extremely small price to pay for an extremely usable Unix system. Go anywhere above the bargain basement and you can't even make an argument for the PC.
Also, it is not so screwed up to define baseline specs when you have to support hundreds of systems that are purchased by disparate departments.
That is contradictory. Either you have a number of different departments with different needs that demand different systems, or you run a pretty uniform shop and can drop a common configuration anywhere. If your argument is that a common system is enough for most uses, then Apple is the kind of vendor you want because it already specs out things that way; Dell made me wade through screen after screen of dozens of options.
PC vendors in general don't really do a good job of targeting different markets. Even if you did need machines of different abilities, Dell only offers vague suggestion about how a Dimension, OptiPlex, and Precision differ. You have to get into the nitty-gritty of their horrible customization pages to get any idea of how they really differ. Apple on the other hand starts showing differences right in the case design (listing prices, in a shocking display of insight, right on the store's front page), and then it goes on to clearly state the specs of each base configuration in each class.
So, try as I might, I find no support for your argument in the real world. You seem to be quoting the same outdated rhetoric that has been tiresome for years. Either that or you fall squarely into the category of IT "professionals" that Cringley is talking about.
The corporate standard is 1.7GHz machine with 256M of ram and a 17" CRT (not even flat screen).
Price out that computer and let me know which Apple I can get for that.
Well, pricing out a Dell system with roughly the same specs as a $1799 iMac was a $2673 PC. I don't think that supports your argument. Perhaps if you gave some exact requirements I could find you a PC that doesn't cost about $1000 more than a Mac.
Of course, I'd also like to point out just how screwed up a corporate environment is when they spec machines on vague hardware stats instead of on how useful they are in getting work done. That is, things like RAM requirements should be based on what software the user runs, not some useless hardware baseline.
Not only could I find nothing about it on the GnuCash site, a search of the same turned up nothing. Face it, this is an app that is poorly designed (Linux users should be insulted they're the target of this mess) and will not work on any reasonable desktop system it is intended for. That is, this is something made for Linux users who must suffer with no alternatives, not for Mac or Windows users who can spend a couple hundred on an existing app that actually works with their system and gets things done. The target market is the (financial) desktop, but the project completely neglects that Linux has no real inroads into that market. Hell, one look at their listed Software Requirements and it's pretty clear they don't have this thing targeted for any common desktop system, Linux or otherwise, let alone Mac OS X. This seems like a project that is best off left to die so that someone who knows what they're doing can sweep up the fractured remains and make something useful out of it.
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/detour/
Hey, that looks pretty nifty. Unfortunately, their custom installer is demanding administrative access for even the user install option, and manually installing the files it says it will install does not result in a functional preference pane. I'll keep an eye on it, though, for when 10.3 and/or Bluetooth headset support is available. Thanks.
Anyone here who can?
I'm not sure, but it sounds a lot like the action used to propel skates. That is, you don't go forward by pushing backward, but rather by pushing sideways and using a lever (the blade in my case, the oar in your mother's case) to redirect and gain mechanical advantage of the forces. It can be done on one skate, too, if you've got the balance for it.