... They had this up their sleeves the whole time!
BTW, after making this switch, I think Apple could (and should) look to making retail OS X boxes for switchers that satisfy a limited, high-quality set of component requirements. They definitely could eat MS' lunch since Longhorn is soo llaatteee, and OS X is better now than Longhorn will be in 2 years. Apple's hardware, like the iPod, could just be the superior design/build quality/brand option. What MP3 is to iPod, x86 hardware could now be to OS X, especially since the market for $129 switchers is far larger than even $500 'cohabitators'...
... buy their IP and use Crusoes to reduce their HVAC and power costs? Don't need a fab, just have them design chips and boards that fit Google's requirements then have someone else fab 'em. There might be savings if you go with multi 100k runs...
Sure, running stripped mobos is cheap, but if those mobos are 80-160w each the price of power (especially in California and Europe) as well as neutralizing all that heat must be pretty steep..
At the same time, the UK and USA look a bit anarchic from a (continental) European perspective. What's wrong with things like ID cards, and registering details like there everyone lives in a central database?
This implies a level of trust and confidence in central government that is the antithesis of the existence of the US. We may get something similar because of terrorism and security fears, but not without a whole lot of kicking and screaming and watcher watching, thankfully.
If a mad dictator comes to power in the USA or UK, do you really think he won't be able to find you if he wants to? Disorganisation in society only helps the criminals, which is one reason you have so much more crime!
A mad dictator may find us, but not without a fight. We still have our guns, remember? There won't be any Darfurs here, since we can fight back.
Also, I would think twice about giving Americans grief about crime if I were you. Crime across Europe is on the rise, while crime in US cities has been plummeting for over a decade, particularly in New York, thanks to Giuliani Time...
Isn't that a case of the pot calling the kettle black? The US seems to have more than it's fair share of secrecy, censorship & oppresion acts & agencies domestically, not to mention internationally.
The First Amendment still acts as a pretty strong disinfectant for that sort of thing: presumption of secrecy is still on the classifier, not the public. Granted, people had to fight the gov't for the FOIA and other open-government laws and policies, but when do people ever _not_ have to fight the government? Americans have more firepower (legally and literally) when it comes to contesting their government.
Frankly, I was shocked that Canadian judges could force the press to not discuss cases outside the courtroom, but then again that was as big win for USENET back in the Homolka days as it was for blogging the Gomery scandal, wasn't it?
Curious, since I'm writing up something on how I migrated my Mac iTunes repository to Windows, and while I did it by mounting the Mac drive under Gentoo, I'd be interested in describing a method that didn't require a multi-boot or extra drive partition.
There is a law that you need to own a TV licence to have a TV, that's how the BBC is funded. It's a criminal offence not to have one, but that doesn't mean it's government controlled.
That's even scarier: the Government is reduced to a mere goon in the service of the BBC Mafia. Pay up or the Minister of Grievous Bodily Harm over there will break yer legs.
That level of government intrusion is, to an American, pretty goddamned objectionable. As are various Secrecy and Censorship acts that Britons and Canadians are way too comfortable with.
Jes' wondering if they use IRRd hooked into their DNS to provide resolution based on best service to incoming IP.. And if IRRd or something like it is part of an opensource DNS daemon..
I regret to inform you that communication and control in the average human being is so full of "uh uh"s and "ya kno"s in thought as well as in speech that trying to use one would be far more exhausting that just typing the [expletve deleted]words in. (Just eavesdrop in on to the average conversation. Phew!)
remove stylus
tap-and-drag over the filler words
scrub
repeat 2 & 3 as required
save
replace stylus
Seriously, that's not much of an argument against speech recog. Also, I think speech recog would fall under the same strictures of etiquette that prevail for cellphone use, for better or for worse.
No reason why a speech recog PDA couldn't also be a phone or uberdevice, and honestly I wouldn't be interested in a PDA that didn't do everything anyway.
Seriously, size is an issue, unless you wear cargo pants regularly. Also, these days, I want my organizer to also be a phone, modem, music player, camera, floor wax, and dessert topping. I'm not really fond of the Geek Bandolier/Utility Belt.
That would be an interesting hack to, say, konsole... hmm... But you'd need a database of CLI option signatures (or come up with a mechanism to document and introspect them from a CLI switch)...
If you can live with print and not cursive hwr, Symbian UIQ (SonyEricsson P-series fones) works pretty nicely imho. The only letter or number I have issue with is 'x'. Everything else is pretty solid English print hwr.
... and Team America only 1? The man has an agenda and his reviews are getting more and more political.
In his TA review, he essentially tells Matt & Trey to "grow up". HTF is that any of his business? To go out and satirize everyone, and to basically tell everyone to get over themselves and get real? Sounds pretty damn grown-up to me, compared to the shrill echo chambers (including the one in Ebert's head, it seems) out there.
To not garner at least 2 stars for technical merit is really scandalous, given what the man gives Sith. But, he agrees with Lucas' political views, so the porno-bad dialog and acting should be ignored for solidarity with his Fellowe Travelers.
The man put his email address and phone# in the article, and that takes balls.
ObResponseToTFA: Every piece of software has bugs, some serious. The key questions are:
how shallow are they? (that is, how many eyes are there?)
how responsive are the developers and how quick is the resolution?
what is the damage domain? can a bug merely affect the user or can it hijack the system?
is the bug a coding error, component design error, or a failing in the overall software design (or a victim of cruft compatibility)?
Mozilla, Firefox, etc. still come out on top, largely because they are _not_ integrated into the OS. Their developer communities are pretty responsive to bugs (security bugs particularly) and the scope of damage related to exploits is relatively small compared to MSIE.
I'll try, but they stuck a blocker in one of the holes that's supposed to be live (power), and if that was glued in and won't come out, it's dremel time:/
Can anyone think of a reason why you need more than one of these cards? Currently my machine runs the most complex game I can think of (HalfLife 2) at 1280x960 at more frames per second than my monitor even scans at.
Why would you need it to be 4 times faster than that?
1080p.
I want 1080p with every chrome setting turned to 11 and getting at least 30fps, preferably 60fps.
OK, I can see that a handful of people might want to play at 1600x1200 if they have a decent monitor, but usually, running at resolutions higher than that is fairly pointless unless you have a 21" or bigger monitor.
A GPU's performance at 1600x1200 should be roughly approximate to its 1080p performance. And 1080p "monitors" will probably run well over 45", with one in particular that I'm drooling over clocking in at 61" (I can't fit bigger in my apartment).
Kinda pissed at Gigabyte, actually...
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... They use some kind of retarded 1394 header pinout on their GV-3D1 kit mobo, instead of the ICH5 pinout that pretty much everyone else uses.. Including Antec... So now I'm stuck carving up the front panel firewire jumper block or snipping the block off and pinning out a whole new set of jumpers..
Because of this, and the fact that Gigabyte doesn't include at least an ICH5 adapter in the box, they are on my shit list.
Sounds like the tragedy of the commons rearing its ugly head.
The smarter thing to do would be to integrate your point-of-sale system (which you can get linux-based) with your AP so that when someone buys something their AP access code prints on the receipt. Keying in the code gives you a 'dose' of internet access for, say, 15 mins.
Yeah, but after 10-12 hours of World of Warcraft (both buttons down and mouselook running), then forgetting to put it in the cradle, I get blinking red while in the middle of the Van Cleef dungeon crawl the next day:/
No doubt it's a great set (and for the $$$ it had better be), and the charger is much better than the MX700s (which eventually stopped making clean contact with the charging pads, requiring constant tapping and slapping into the cradle), but there are definitely caveats. 8.9/10.
I mean, didn't both these kits come out like a year ago?
Teh new hotness from Logitech is the MX3100 bundle.. Short review: great but power-thirsty mouse, decent keyboard with weird insert/delete block and no propeller/apple keys like the cheaper keyboards. Mouse charging station far superior to the MX700's.
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... They had this up their sleeves the whole time!
BTW, after making this switch, I think Apple could (and should) look to making retail OS X boxes for switchers that satisfy a limited, high-quality set of component requirements. They definitely could eat MS' lunch since Longhorn is soo llaatteee, and OS X is better now than Longhorn will be in 2 years. Apple's hardware, like the iPod, could just be the superior design/build quality/brand option. What MP3 is to iPod, x86 hardware could now be to OS X, especially since the market for $129 switchers is far larger than even $500 'cohabitators'...
... buy their IP and use Crusoes to reduce their HVAC and power costs? Don't need a fab, just have them design chips and boards that fit Google's requirements then have someone else fab 'em. There might be savings if you go with multi 100k runs...
Sure, running stripped mobos is cheap, but if those mobos are 80-160w each the price of power (especially in California and Europe) as well as neutralizing all that heat must be pretty steep..
Ehh, just thinkin out loud..
At the same time, the UK and USA look a bit anarchic from a (continental) European perspective. What's wrong with things like ID cards, and registering details like there everyone lives in a central database?
This implies a level of trust and confidence in central government that is the antithesis of the existence of the US. We may get something similar because of terrorism and security fears, but not without a whole lot of kicking and screaming and watcher watching, thankfully.
If a mad dictator comes to power in the USA or UK, do you really think he won't be able to find you if he wants to? Disorganisation in society only helps the criminals, which is one reason you have so much more crime!
A mad dictator may find us, but not without a fight. We still have our guns, remember? There won't be any Darfurs here, since we can fight back.
Also, I would think twice about giving Americans grief about crime if I were you. Crime across Europe is on the rise, while crime in US cities has been plummeting for over a decade, particularly in New York, thanks to Giuliani Time...
Isn't that a case of the pot calling the kettle black? The US seems to have more than it's fair share of secrecy, censorship & oppresion acts & agencies domestically, not to mention internationally.
The First Amendment still acts as a pretty strong disinfectant for that sort of thing: presumption of secrecy is still on the classifier, not the public. Granted, people had to fight the gov't for the FOIA and other open-government laws and policies, but when do people ever _not_ have to fight the government? Americans have more firepower (legally and literally) when it comes to contesting their government.
Frankly, I was shocked that Canadian judges could force the press to not discuss cases outside the courtroom, but then again that was as big win for USENET back in the Homolka days as it was for blogging the Gomery scandal, wasn't it?
Curious, since I'm writing up something on how I migrated my Mac iTunes repository to Windows, and while I did it by mounting the Mac drive under Gentoo, I'd be interested in describing a method that didn't require a multi-boot or extra drive partition.
Sorry, guys, but being a sysadmin does not make you a "creative professional..."
Are you kidding?
I've seen perl scripts that outdo Jackson Pollock or De Kooning...
... Will we see PCIe @ WWDC? Will ATI even release an AGP card that accelerates H.264?
Steve, AGP is a dead end.
There is a law that you need to own a TV licence to have a TV, that's how the BBC is funded. It's a criminal offence not to have one, but that doesn't mean it's government controlled.
That's even scarier: the Government is reduced to a mere goon in the service of the BBC Mafia. Pay up or the Minister of Grievous Bodily Harm over there will break yer legs.
That level of government intrusion is, to an American, pretty goddamned objectionable. As are various Secrecy and Censorship acts that Britons and Canadians are way too comfortable with.
Jes' wondering if they use IRRd hooked into their DNS to provide resolution based on best service to incoming IP.. And if IRRd or something like it is part of an opensource DNS daemon..
Hard to tap out a JPEG in morse ;)
Seriously, that's not much of an argument against speech recog. Also, I think speech recog would fall under the same strictures of etiquette that prevail for cellphone use, for better or for worse.
No reason why a speech recog PDA couldn't also be a phone or uberdevice, and honestly I wouldn't be interested in a PDA that didn't do everything anyway.
Carny?
Seriously, size is an issue, unless you wear cargo pants regularly. Also, these days, I want my organizer to also be a phone, modem, music player, camera, floor wax, and dessert topping. I'm not really fond of the Geek Bandolier/Utility Belt.
That would be an interesting hack to, say, konsole... hmm... But you'd need a database of CLI option signatures (or come up with a mechanism to document and introspect them from a CLI switch)...
If you can live with print and not cursive hwr, Symbian UIQ (SonyEricsson P-series fones) works pretty nicely imho. The only letter or number I have issue with is 'x'. Everything else is pretty solid English print hwr.
Just imagine if the Nazis had gotten ahold of an atomic bomb. They might've used it to kill civilians, maybe even strike a couple of large cities!
And they'd have won the war.
Your point?
That may be true for LCD TV's, but for monitors, saving desk space, lack of flicker and lower weight are far more important for most users.
I can lift a 46" LCD set by myself. I could _not_ lift a 46" CRT by myself, even if they existed.
Still, if there were a 1080p 61" CRT, and the joists under my floor could support it, I'd be interested..
... and Team America only 1? The man has an agenda and his reviews are getting more and more political.
In his TA review, he essentially tells Matt & Trey to "grow up". HTF is that any of his business? To go out and satirize everyone, and to basically tell everyone to get over themselves and get real? Sounds pretty damn grown-up to me, compared to the shrill echo chambers (including the one in Ebert's head, it seems) out there.
To not garner at least 2 stars for technical merit is really scandalous, given what the man gives Sith. But, he agrees with Lucas' political views, so the porno-bad dialog and acting should be ignored for solidarity with his Fellowe Travelers.
ObResponseToTFA: Every piece of software has bugs, some serious. The key questions are:
Mozilla, Firefox, etc. still come out on top, largely because they are _not_ integrated into the OS. Their developer communities are pretty responsive to bugs (security bugs particularly) and the scope of damage related to exploits is relatively small compared to MSIE.
I'll try, but they stuck a blocker in one of the holes that's supposed to be live (power), and if that was glued in and won't come out, it's dremel time :/
Can anyone think of a reason why you need more than one of these cards? Currently my machine runs the most complex game I can think of (HalfLife 2) at 1280x960 at more frames per second than my monitor even scans at.
Why would you need it to be 4 times faster than that?
1080p.
I want 1080p with every chrome setting turned to 11 and getting at least 30fps, preferably 60fps.
OK, I can see that a handful of people might want to play at 1600x1200 if they have a decent monitor, but usually, running at resolutions higher than that is fairly pointless unless you have a 21" or bigger monitor.
A GPU's performance at 1600x1200 should be roughly approximate to its 1080p performance. And 1080p "monitors" will probably run well over 45", with one in particular that I'm drooling over clocking in at 61" (I can't fit bigger in my apartment).
... They use some kind of retarded 1394 header pinout on their GV-3D1 kit mobo, instead of the ICH5 pinout that pretty much everyone else uses.. Including Antec... So now I'm stuck carving up the front panel firewire jumper block or snipping the block off and pinning out a whole new set of jumpers..
Because of this, and the fact that Gigabyte doesn't include at least an ICH5 adapter in the box, they are on my shit list.
Sounds like the tragedy of the commons rearing its ugly head.
The smarter thing to do would be to integrate your point-of-sale system (which you can get linux-based) with your AP so that when someone buys something their AP access code prints on the receipt. Keying in the code gives you a 'dose' of internet access for, say, 15 mins.
http://www.chillispot.org/ (I wonder if this would fit in a WRT54G distro?)
I guess for my lifestyle, it works.
:/
Yeah, but after 10-12 hours of World of Warcraft (both buttons down and mouselook running), then forgetting to put it in the cradle, I get blinking red while in the middle of the Van Cleef dungeon crawl the next day
No doubt it's a great set (and for the $$$ it had better be), and the charger is much better than the MX700s (which eventually stopped making clean contact with the charging pads, requiring constant tapping and slapping into the cradle), but there are definitely caveats. 8.9/10.
I mean, didn't both these kits come out like a year ago?
Teh new hotness from Logitech is the MX3100 bundle.. Short review: great but power-thirsty mouse, decent keyboard with weird insert/delete block and no propeller/apple keys like the cheaper keyboards. Mouse charging station far superior to the MX700's.
I R'd TFA, but not the blogpost. What exactly does Netscape do that breaks IE?