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what the hell are you all talking about? X-Plane has included a Mars environment for about a year. You needn't hack anything, Mr Meyer will help you out.
Are copy protected CDs actually CDs at all? Do they comply with red book? Are they legally entitled to carry the "Compact Disc - Digital Audio" trademark? Does anyone here know?
Oh fuck off. Apple's own apps are enough ON THEIR OWN to make a Powermac an extremely productive machine. If an office used rtf/pdf rather than doc format as their standard letter format, and Filemaker instead of Access (which they should anyway) then an Apple only solution beats MS hands down. Get a grip
Bollocks. The reason is simple, there are enough MacOS users to make the product a paying proposition - particularly as MacOS users who want MS Office actually have to BUY the bastard as they don't get a freebie with their computer. And have you seen the price of MS Office for the Mac? That's why I use Appleworks, miles cheaper and better designed too, and it has limited.doc and.xls support into the bargain.
we were taught in Colour Theory that the human eye has inferior spatial resolution in blue, but superior ability to discern brightness levels. We conducted several density grading experiments which seemed to prove this theory empirically. I think the confusion here is that the eye is most sensitive to green at the lower limits of perception - presumably because this ability might aid sight in poor light out in the bush. But that's just a guess.
What was wrong were your assertions that a) 256 levels are inadequate for high image quality (I have seen studies that conclude that 6bits are more than enough) and b) that all digital cameras only offer 8bit quantisation. Your price/performance assertion is bogus too, as digital cameras offer significantly more value, particularly if many (or any) of your chemical photographs are destined for digital use. And, quite frankly, it is YOU who is the smug one, you claim to be answering this guys question but are just spouting a load of your prejudices while presenting them as facts. Your post is just opinion, and ill-informed opinion at that.
as there's no such (Apple) computer as a G4 433 then either a) you've OC'd it b) you're lying or c) you've an upgrade card in there. Either way, you could nearly double your performance just by buying the latest bottom-of -the -range Powermac.
"In England, they don't care how the peasants and servants talk, but I believe Eton and the other high-priced schools have been teaching the entire upper-class a particular and highly distinctive accent for a couple of centuries." YOU ABSOLUTE TWAT - THAT IS TOTAL BOLLOCKS
this is riddled with factual errors. why not try doing some research? 20 million pixels? you're implying a spatial resolution of 150lpmm on 35mm still frame. Have you ever tried to get 150lpmm? Shit, 100lpmm is damn near impossible with a real camera (and that works out at around 9 million pixels). If you knew anything about assessing image quality, you'd know that spatial resolution is a small part of the whole story and MTF (particularly system MTF) is a much better measure and tends to favour digital systems in most applications. All of your guff about bit-depth is wrong - just keep it to yourself next time, eh?
I AM a Mac zealot, but you're wrong here. The desktop Powermacs use the MPC 7450 CPU (or MPC 7451) whereas the mobile machines are fitted with the MPC 7440 (or MPC 7441). Thus far, the G4 series has seen the MPC 7400, 7410, 7450, 7440, 7451 and 7451 chips.
...which is my point, of course. Not only that, it doesn't make anyone anything because it means nothing in itself or even at all. A better guide to someone's intelligence would probably be the MPG of their car (assuming they had one) - or maybe Charles Dickens' measure of worth. Simply count his friends.
IQ of 169? When I was 14 i was informed my IQ was 174. That sounded really great until I found out that IQ means ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL. You might as well tell us how high you can piss up a wall. YOU FUCKING TWAT. Actually, YOU'RE BOTH TWATS, and way OT twats at that.
"PDF and Flash are garbage, proprietary.. they will never be able to take a foothold." what colour is the sky in your world? you really should try and get out a little from time to time. proprietary!=bad. WTF is wrong with making something and then selling it? Has/. gone fucking crazy?
the performance gap is largely illusory. Really, my company does video compression work, and we choose our workstations based on speed and reliabilty. Powermac G4s comprise HALF of our machines. people who don't use Apple hardware will bore you to death with SPEC numbers and benchmarks, and I'll admit that our Athlon XP 1900+ 'station IS the fastest uniprocessor machine we have, but it only smokes the (older) 867Mhz G4 by around 20% and the Powermac's many unique features often render (sorry) that margin irrelevant.
then you clearly don't understand the market sectors Apple operates in. In education and publishing at least, Apple's server solutions are well represented and have always been exceptionally easy to administer and fairly secure by virtue of not having any CLI or true multi-user basis. OSX changes that equation somewhat, but may better be able to attract admins who are used to working with Solaris, IRIX, Linux etc.
does your 1GHz laptop use Speedstep by any chance? If so, how much faster is it (really) than the 600Mhz iBook. I believe it IS faster, but not much, and not much cheaper either all things considered. Playstations are for games, although there is a small selection of games like Quake 3, Oni, Wolfenstein etc available for OSX. I play those plus X-Plane on my machines (plus all my PS1 , C64 and MAME favourites under emulation...) but my PS2 is always best for gaming on my 28" widescreen TV.
Windows ISN'T whats packed with every PC though. Apple's PCs come packed with MacOS9 and OSX, and Apple represent 5-10% of sales. Apple are trying to build market share to maybe 10-15%, figuring that nothing succeeds like success, and that's what the Apple Stores are all about. As to MS having shares in OSX (??) well, they do have a stake in Apple Computer (not a very big one though), but I'd be stunned if Apple Computer didn't hold SOME equity in MS stock - it's only professional portfolio management after all. Apple are one of the VERY few companies that compete head-on with MS in several markets, and they deserve respect for being able to maintain a strong business doing that.
"Shakespeare quite frankly, sucks. Why? It out of date, the prose is old and not used anymore, but why should that diminish its worth?" WHAAT?? How can prose be old? There has been nothing like Shakespeare, before or since. Just read ONE play, The Merchant of Venice maybe. Just ONE, and think again.
made perfect sense, just wasn't the same plot EVERY US produced movie uses. That may have confused you a little. Over a hundred million in Japan you know...
a little bit of light brain work would make it clear that the MAJORITY of PowerPC chips Apple buy are from IBM. All iMacs and iBooks use PPC 750cxe CPUs, and these are made by big blue.
"with dual 400 MHZ G4s lagging not so far behind dual 1.7 GHz Xeons?" As a responsible Mac zealot, I feel duty bound to point out that Apple have never sold a G4 400dp, and should also point out that for the majority of tasks a 1.7Ghz Xeon will outperform a 500Mhz G4 quite handily. For AltiVec optimised code, the tables can turn quite dramatically - if you have a project that's suited to coding for SIMD, AltiVec is the most powerful desktop architecture by far.
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what the hell are you all talking about? X-Plane has included a Mars environment for about a year. You needn't hack anything, Mr Meyer will help you out.
Are copy protected CDs actually CDs at all? Do they comply with red book? Are they legally entitled to carry the "Compact Disc - Digital Audio" trademark? Does anyone here know?
Oh fuck off. Apple's own apps are enough ON THEIR OWN to make a Powermac an extremely productive machine. If an office used rtf/pdf rather than doc format as their standard letter format, and Filemaker instead of Access (which they should anyway) then an Apple only solution beats MS hands down. Get a grip
Bollocks. The reason is simple, there are enough MacOS users to make the product a paying proposition - particularly as MacOS users who want MS Office actually have to BUY the bastard as they don't get a freebie with their computer. And have you seen the price of MS Office for the Mac? That's why I use Appleworks, miles cheaper and better designed too, and it has limited .doc and .xls support into the bargain.
we were taught in Colour Theory that the human eye has inferior spatial resolution in blue, but superior ability to discern brightness levels. We conducted several density grading experiments which seemed to prove this theory empirically. I think the confusion here is that the eye is most sensitive to green at the lower limits of perception - presumably because this ability might aid sight in poor light out in the bush. But that's just a guess.
What was wrong were your assertions that a) 256 levels are inadequate for high image quality (I have seen studies that conclude that 6bits are more than enough) and b) that all digital cameras only offer 8bit quantisation. Your price/performance assertion is bogus too, as digital cameras offer significantly more value, particularly if many (or any) of your chemical photographs are destined for digital use. And, quite frankly, it is YOU who is the smug one, you claim to be answering this guys question but are just spouting a load of your prejudices while presenting them as facts. Your post is just opinion, and ill-informed opinion at that.
as there's no such (Apple) computer as a G4 433 then either a) you've OC'd it b) you're lying or c) you've an upgrade card in there. Either way, you could nearly double your performance just by buying the latest bottom-of -the -range Powermac.
"In England, they don't care how the peasants and servants talk, but I believe Eton and the other high-priced schools have been teaching the entire upper-class a particular and highly distinctive accent for a couple of centuries." YOU ABSOLUTE TWAT - THAT IS TOTAL BOLLOCKS
this is riddled with factual errors. why not try doing some research? 20 million pixels? you're implying a spatial resolution of 150lpmm on 35mm still frame. Have you ever tried to get 150lpmm? Shit, 100lpmm is damn near impossible with a real camera (and that works out at around 9 million pixels). If you knew anything about assessing image quality, you'd know that spatial resolution is a small part of the whole story and MTF (particularly system MTF) is a much better measure and tends to favour digital systems in most applications. All of your guff about bit-depth is wrong - just keep it to yourself next time, eh?
I AM a Mac zealot, but you're wrong here. The desktop Powermacs use the MPC 7450 CPU (or MPC 7451) whereas the mobile machines are fitted with the MPC 7440 (or MPC 7441). Thus far, the G4 series has seen the MPC 7400, 7410, 7450, 7440, 7451 and 7451 chips.
...which is my point, of course. Not only that, it doesn't make anyone anything because it means nothing in itself or even at all. A better guide to someone's intelligence would probably be the MPG of their car (assuming they had one) - or maybe Charles Dickens' measure of worth. Simply count his friends.
IQ of 169? When I was 14 i was informed my IQ was 174. That sounded really great until I found out that IQ means ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL. You might as well tell us how high you can piss up a wall. YOU FUCKING TWAT. Actually, YOU'RE BOTH TWATS, and way OT twats at that.
"PDF and Flash are garbage, proprietary.. they will never be able to take a foothold." what colour is the sky in your world? you really should try and get out a little from time to time. proprietary!=bad. WTF is wrong with making something and then selling it? Has /. gone fucking crazy?
the performance gap is largely illusory. Really, my company does video compression work, and we choose our workstations based on speed and reliabilty. Powermac G4s comprise HALF of our machines. people who don't use Apple hardware will bore you to death with SPEC numbers and benchmarks, and I'll admit that our Athlon XP 1900+ 'station IS the fastest uniprocessor machine we have, but it only smokes the (older) 867Mhz G4 by around 20% and the Powermac's many unique features often render (sorry) that margin irrelevant.
then you clearly don't understand the market sectors Apple operates in. In education and publishing at least, Apple's server solutions are well represented and have always been exceptionally easy to administer and fairly secure by virtue of not having any CLI or true multi-user basis. OSX changes that equation somewhat, but may better be able to attract admins who are used to working with Solaris, IRIX, Linux etc.
does your 1GHz laptop use Speedstep by any chance? If so, how much faster is it (really) than the 600Mhz iBook. I believe it IS faster, but not much, and not much cheaper either all things considered. Playstations are for games, although there is a small selection of games like Quake 3, Oni, Wolfenstein etc available for OSX. I play those plus X-Plane on my machines (plus all my PS1 , C64 and MAME favourites under emulation...) but my PS2 is always best for gaming on my 28" widescreen TV.
Windows ISN'T whats packed with every PC though. Apple's PCs come packed with MacOS9 and OSX, and Apple represent 5-10% of sales. Apple are trying to build market share to maybe 10-15%, figuring that nothing succeeds like success, and that's what the Apple Stores are all about. As to MS having shares in OSX (??) well, they do have a stake in Apple Computer (not a very big one though), but I'd be stunned if Apple Computer didn't hold SOME equity in MS stock - it's only professional portfolio management after all. Apple are one of the VERY few companies that compete head-on with MS in several markets, and they deserve respect for being able to maintain a strong business doing that.
NOT like Dell, more like Sony, IBM, Toshiba or - at a push - Compaq. Apple hardware is designed and constructed with outstanding attention to detail.
"Shakespeare quite frankly, sucks. Why? It out of date, the prose is old and not used anymore, but why should that diminish its worth?" WHAAT?? How can prose be old? There has been nothing like Shakespeare, before or since. Just read ONE play, The Merchant of Venice maybe. Just ONE, and think again.
made perfect sense, just wasn't the same plot EVERY US produced movie uses. That may have confused you a little. Over a hundred million in Japan you know...
"I done read about 4 linear feet of books" IS THIS ENGLISH? WTF is a linear foot?
Sounds like you need an iBook to me.
a little bit of light brain work would make it clear that the MAJORITY of PowerPC chips Apple buy are from IBM. All iMacs and iBooks use PPC 750cxe CPUs, and these are made by big blue.
"with dual 400 MHZ G4s lagging not so far behind dual 1.7 GHz Xeons?" As a responsible Mac zealot, I feel duty bound to point out that Apple have never sold a G4 400dp, and should also point out that for the majority of tasks a 1.7Ghz Xeon will outperform a 500Mhz G4 quite handily. For AltiVec optimised code, the tables can turn quite dramatically - if you have a project that's suited to coding for SIMD, AltiVec is the most powerful desktop architecture by far.
car theft is very popular in the UK, it's great fun and educational too. And the kids just love joy-riding the M25!