Compared to what? FCP is great, but Media Composer totally dominates the NLE world (usually running on a Powermac G4). We have 12 Avid MC, 2 Symphony, 2 Editbox, 2 linear, 2 DPS Reality, 1 Flame (Floctane), 1 DS and one FCP suite here... Still, I've got FCP running on my TiBook, and you can't do that with Avid!
err... I work in TV/film and around HALF the machines in our facility are Powermacs. We only have 2 SGI and 2 Quantel machines left. Thus far the industry has been replacing SGI with NT/2000 rather than Mac, but with the demise of Intergraph and the coming of OSX that looks set to change. If Apple get their 64bit act together with the G5 and get a decent graphics board integrated, then we might see a lot a facilities moving (almost) exclusively over to the Mac.
Does Pro Engineer run under IRIX? I thought it was normally used under Solaris or HP/UX. As far as rendering goes, these SGI won't hold a candle to a fast Mac or x86 box, but SGI workstations are all about real time visualisation with their fantastically well integrated graphics. SGI workstation users let a bunch of Origins or a linux farm do the grunt work while they get on with being creative. Now, if Apple got in bed with 3D Labs to integrated a pro spec GFX card into their workstations, they might have a shot at some decent Maya business.
2 G4s = 128bit? what the hell does that mean? the 74XX is a 32bit chip and that's that. It's true that the Altivec units have 128bit registers and a 64bit memory path but it doesn't matter - a 32bit chip is STILL a 32bit chip. If you think that the SETI client is Altivec optimised, you've never run the dnet client. It's really not fair to compare TWO $500 CPUs to ONE $100 CPU is it? Those G4s only have 4 stage pipeline and 1MB of L2 cache EACH, that's not a fair comparison with a 10 stage pipeline and 256KB of L2 is it?
the Radeon difference was due mainly to the non-inclusion of "fast-writes" in the Macs of the time. Apple fixed this with their nVidia cards, but in all other respects the nVidia card was MASSIVELY inferior to the Radeon. Most Mac users are doing 2D graphics, and the Radeon was a lot faster for Photoshop work. That Mac Radeon BTO card was DAMN good, shame people judge GFX cards based on Quake - it's just not that relevent most of the time. How else would you explain the continued success of Matrox's Millenium cards - CRAP 3D, excellent everywhere else.
err... not Power3 and Power4 then? Power and PowerPC are NOT the same thing. I think that some of IBM's AIX boxes DO run on PowerPC, however (although IBM have recently promised to move their AIX line-up to Power4 exclusively).
I'm back in business then! seriously though, I've never seen a 1GB DIMM, so I was mistaken before. I also have no idea if Apple's mobos can handle a 1GB per slot experience - anyone know the answer to this?
sorry, you're right. Yikes! Sawtooth and Mystic machines have four slots; Tangent, Clockwork, Titan and Nichrome DO only have the three. Any chance someone might develop a 1GB DIMM and save me some face?
"A FUCKING OUTDATED GAME" ?? WTF does that mean? a good game lasts forever - you clearly judge games by completely the wrong criteria. Only A PC gamer would write such a thing, a real gamer knows that the quality of the game does not depend on GB/sec GFX bandwidth. Maybe you should go find a Commodore 64 and start over.
you're BOTH missing it. The reason that Apple residuals are good is that there AREN'T ANY LOW COST NEW MACS AVAILABLE. if you want an expandable Mac for less than a thousand - you've got to go with the second user market. Of course, in your favour is the fact that many Powermac owners would rather gnaw their own leg off than play around inside their computer and that means that S/H Macs are often in really good shape. Mine's for sale, BTW if you're in the UK and you fancy a G4 dual 450 with 2 IBM Deskstars a BTO Radeon 32MB and a Gig of RAM:-]
FYI retard, the BBC operates FIVE national TV channels and one international, FIVE national, TWENTY THREE local and one international radio channels and one hell of a good website. In addition to these, the BBC's commercial arm has a co-venture called UK TV which runs another FIVE TV channels. Again, FYI the UK limit on commercial time is less than 15mins per hour, 3 breaks per hour max, and most Brits with digital terrestrial (around 2 million), digital satellite (around 6 million) or cable (around 4 million) TV can receive around 35 channels plus on-demand. The American system is an unregulated shambles by comparison.
hmmm - the G3 really didn't change much about the PowerPC except stick a massive, high-speed L2 cache on the back of the chip package. This is very similar to what IBM and other RISC designers had been doing anyway - tinker with the layout, add more functional units, enlarge and speed up cache memory. AFAIK, the disadvantage with this approach is that chip costs inevitably rise as the enlarged caches incorporate zillions of extra transistors that mitigate against high yields.
there is a solution to the moral outrage of people getting paid millions per year, it's called PROGRESSIVE taxation, and is a system that exists today in many European countries, and one that we used to have here in the UK. The general idea is that the proportion of a person's income taken in tax should remain approximately the same regardless of income level. You should read up about it, as you seem to be interested. Look at Sweden as a good example.
that sounds suspiciously like the bootloader situation with MS, but now Be has gone (and I can't see Palm taking on the responsibility) we actually HAVE TO rely on AOL to fight the good fight on our behalf. The US govt. has abdicated it's legal and moral responsibilites. Blame the crook in the White House, his father, his brother and all their Texan pals. P L U T O C R A C Y - Americans should look this word up if they can't define it.
AppleScript is UNBELEIVABLY easy to write. If you have any kind of logic in your soul and speak English, you can automate your plastic pal to death. We actually run our business on.as, it's just great to have a script that runs when you drop a video capure file on a folder, runs Cleaner to compress it, BBEdit to knock up some HTML, DeBabelizer to cobble together some GIF thumbnails, Fetch to upload it and IE to spring open to look at the site. All while preparing coffee or beating the crap out of some guards in Oni.
maybe, but then you'd have to get a load of Mac install disks and a bootable disk to ake the computer useful again - no-one's gona want an iMac with no software on it, and no theif is gonna want to steal something worth a few hundred only to have to spend money on it to get it going again. This isn't Lex Luthor we're talking about here, this is probably some kid theiving to buy crack.
but surely it's ONLY the ISPs who ever really have a hope of dealing with abusive users, as it's only them that can break the problem down into manageable chunks. Even a spoofed packet can be sourced if it's coming via an authenticated modem/cable modem/ADSL connection.
well they are, aren't they? In the UK, you HAVE TO have a BT 'phone line to get anyone's ADSL, so all ADSL services are just BT's being resold by someone else. The same thing is predominantly true of unmetered dial-up access (surftime) in the UK. It's a total stitch-up, really. And BT's general policy towards their customers makes MS look caring and responsive.
it's kind of ironic that it's really the ISPs that are to blame for the proliferation of DDOS attacks anyway, they are the ones allowing their users machines to send out ping floods and nasty UDP crap in the first place. ISPs seem eager enough to bump users off for exceeding their (usually unpublished) bandwidth limits, but they couldn't care less about virus and DDOS traffic.
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Compared to what? FCP is great, but Media Composer totally dominates the NLE world (usually running on a Powermac G4). We have 12 Avid MC, 2 Symphony, 2 Editbox, 2 linear, 2 DPS Reality, 1 Flame (Floctane), 1 DS and one FCP suite here... Still, I've got FCP running on my TiBook, and you can't do that with Avid!
err... I work in TV/film and around HALF the machines in our facility are Powermacs. We only have 2 SGI and 2 Quantel machines left. Thus far the industry has been replacing SGI with NT/2000 rather than Mac, but with the demise of Intergraph and the coming of OSX that looks set to change. If Apple get their 64bit act together with the G5 and get a decent graphics board integrated, then we might see a lot a facilities moving (almost) exclusively over to the Mac.
Does Pro Engineer run under IRIX? I thought it was normally used under Solaris or HP/UX. As far as rendering goes, these SGI won't hold a candle to a fast Mac or x86 box, but SGI workstations are all about real time visualisation with their fantastically well integrated graphics. SGI workstation users let a bunch of Origins or a linux farm do the grunt work while they get on with being creative. Now, if Apple got in bed with 3D Labs to integrated a pro spec GFX card into their workstations, they might have a shot at some decent Maya business.
2 G4s = 128bit? what the hell does that mean? the 74XX is a 32bit chip and that's that. It's true that the Altivec units have 128bit registers and a 64bit memory path but it doesn't matter - a 32bit chip is STILL a 32bit chip. If you think that the SETI client is Altivec optimised, you've never run the dnet client. It's really not fair to compare TWO $500 CPUs to ONE $100 CPU is it? Those G4s only have 4 stage pipeline and 1MB of L2 cache EACH, that's not a fair comparison with a 10 stage pipeline and 256KB of L2 is it?
the Radeon difference was due mainly to the non-inclusion of "fast-writes" in the Macs of the time. Apple fixed this with their nVidia cards, but in all other respects the nVidia card was MASSIVELY inferior to the Radeon. Most Mac users are doing 2D graphics, and the Radeon was a lot faster for Photoshop work. That Mac Radeon BTO card was DAMN good, shame people judge GFX cards based on Quake - it's just not that relevent most of the time. How else would you explain the continued success of Matrox's Millenium cards - CRAP 3D, excellent everywhere else.
err... not Power3 and Power4 then? Power and PowerPC are NOT the same thing. I think that some of IBM's AIX boxes DO run on PowerPC, however (although IBM have recently promised to move their AIX line-up to Power4 exclusively).
I'm back in business then! seriously though, I've never seen a 1GB DIMM, so I was mistaken before. I also have no idea if Apple's mobos can handle a 1GB per slot experience - anyone know the answer to this?
sorry, you're right. Yikes! Sawtooth and Mystic machines have four slots; Tangent, Clockwork, Titan and Nichrome DO only have the three. Any chance someone might develop a 1GB DIMM and save me some face?
"A FUCKING OUTDATED GAME" ?? WTF does that mean? a good game lasts forever - you clearly judge games by completely the wrong criteria. Only A PC gamer would write such a thing, a real gamer knows that the quality of the game does not depend on GB/sec GFX bandwidth. Maybe you should go find a Commodore 64 and start over.
no, smart guy 1.5GB is the max UNDER OS9. under OSX you can populate with and use 2GB. read the specs next time Mr FUD
you're BOTH missing it. The reason that Apple residuals are good is that there AREN'T ANY LOW COST NEW MACS AVAILABLE. if you want an expandable Mac for less than a thousand - you've got to go with the second user market. Of course, in your favour is the fact that many Powermac owners would rather gnaw their own leg off than play around inside their computer and that means that S/H Macs are often in really good shape. Mine's for sale, BTW if you're in the UK and you fancy a G4 dual 450 with 2 IBM Deskstars a BTO Radeon 32MB and a Gig of RAM :-]
FYI retard, the BBC operates FIVE national TV channels and one international, FIVE national, TWENTY THREE local and one international radio channels and one hell of a good website. In addition to these, the BBC's commercial arm has a co-venture called UK TV which runs another FIVE TV channels. Again, FYI the UK limit on commercial time is less than 15mins per hour, 3 breaks per hour max, and most Brits with digital terrestrial (around 2 million), digital satellite (around 6 million) or cable (around 4 million) TV can receive around 35 channels plus on-demand. The American system is an unregulated shambles by comparison.
hmmm - the G3 really didn't change much about the PowerPC except stick a massive, high-speed L2 cache on the back of the chip package. This is very similar to what IBM and other RISC designers had been doing anyway - tinker with the layout, add more functional units, enlarge and speed up cache memory. AFAIK, the disadvantage with this approach is that chip costs inevitably rise as the enlarged caches incorporate zillions of extra transistors that mitigate against high yields.
there is a solution to the moral outrage of people getting paid millions per year, it's called PROGRESSIVE taxation, and is a system that exists today in many European countries, and one that we used to have here in the UK. The general idea is that the proportion of a person's income taken in tax should remain approximately the same regardless of income level. You should read up about it, as you seem to be interested. Look at Sweden as a good example.
that sounds suspiciously like the bootloader situation with MS, but now Be has gone (and I can't see Palm taking on the responsibility) we actually HAVE TO rely on AOL to fight the good fight on our behalf. The US govt. has abdicated it's legal and moral responsibilites. Blame the crook in the White House, his father, his brother and all their Texan pals. P L U T O C R A C Y - Americans should look this word up if they can't define it.
you obviously don't travel much - I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% of the computer owners in the world also had a functional grasp of English
AppleScript is UNBELEIVABLY easy to write. If you have any kind of logic in your soul and speak English, you can automate your plastic pal to death. We actually run our business on .as, it's just great to have a script that runs when you drop a video capure file on a folder, runs Cleaner to compress it, BBEdit to knock up some HTML, DeBabelizer to cobble together some GIF thumbnails, Fetch to upload it and IE to spring open to look at the site. All while preparing coffee or beating the crap out of some guards in Oni.
maybe, but then you'd have to get a load of Mac install disks and a bootable disk to ake the computer useful again - no-one's gona want an iMac with no software on it, and no theif is gonna want to steal something worth a few hundred only to have to spend money on it to get it going again. This isn't Lex Luthor we're talking about here, this is probably some kid theiving to buy crack.
simplistic and arcane? do you prefer to speak to your friends in quadratic equations rather than English then? maybe you just speak Klingon
err... maybe because there are ZERO socket A RDRAM motherboards?
overclockers, don't forget that the Athlon MP is "unlocked"...
but surely it's ONLY the ISPs who ever really have a hope of dealing with abusive users, as it's only them that can break the problem down into manageable chunks. Even a spoofed packet can be sourced if it's coming via an authenticated modem/cable modem/ADSL connection.
well they are, aren't they? In the UK, you HAVE TO have a BT 'phone line to get anyone's ADSL, so all ADSL services are just BT's being resold by someone else. The same thing is predominantly true of unmetered dial-up access (surftime) in the UK. It's a total stitch-up, really. And BT's general policy towards their customers makes MS look caring and responsive.
it's kind of ironic that it's really the ISPs that are to blame for the proliferation of DDOS attacks anyway, they are the ones allowing their users machines to send out ping floods and nasty UDP crap in the first place. ISPs seem eager enough to bump users off for exceeding their (usually unpublished) bandwidth limits, but they couldn't care less about virus and DDOS traffic.
LOL Oooh! 40 bucks a minute eh? I can't see the TV companies gong for that one. Have you ever seen how big Tv budgets are? It'll make your eyes water.