NTSC SD pictures are 720x480 from DVD, PAL SD is 720x576. Expanding the 16:9 PAL image to square pixels gives you 1024x576 - so the 1024x768 4:3 screen is perfect for most PAL movie DVDs.
Office lock-in is not luck. Just remember, Microsoft make NO money on ANYTHING except Office - everything else is there to reinforce and sustain the Office monopoly.
SoundJam was wicked fast - that's why everyone was using it - it was the only mp3 encoder available that was accelerated for both Altivec and the recently introduced multi-CPU machines (like my then-new dual 450 G4).
I was a SoundJam MP user and I can confidently assure you that it was genuinely inferior in terms of interface, and pretty much identical to iTunes in every other respect.
And I paid $25 for the fucker! I bloody bought Audion too!
Do you remember the ridiculous neo-con romours ciculated at the time of the PS2's introduction about Saddam buyting 250 of them so he could design WMDs?
True, but the G5 has the bandwidth to actually FEED its VMX units with data. It's a real shame that the 2.5Ghz PPC 970 doesn't have the same Altivec units as the MPC 744X CPUs.
How about combining a big PPC970 with a bunch of Cells? Apple have tried this approach in the past with the Philips Trimedia. What might a PowerMac workstation do if it had 8 x Cells roaring away on the mainboard in addition to a nice, fat pair of 970s?
Don't forget, a lot (most?) of Apple's workstation customers are doing video and other media processing on their machines - that's why Altivec has been expoited thus far.
Not true at all. I have a Yosemite G3 (I use it as a file/ftp/web server) at 600Mhz and it runs productivity and internet apps just fine. 600Mhz PPC750, 1MB backside cache, 100Mhz memory bus, 1GB RAM, ATA-33 HDs, PCI video. It can play.mp4 files up to 640x480 without choking in VLC, iTunes encodes and decodes just fine, Safari just fine, Office X is just fine.
Don't dis the G3 just because you've got a crippled machine, there's nothing wrong with it as a general purpose CPU, and it was MORE than competitive with PIIIs at the same clock rate.
These are the finest images I've ever seen displayed on a computer screen, absolutely breathtaking. Thank you NASA - let's send high quality panoramic cameras to every body in the solar system!
We're not talking about plumbers and chippies though, are we? Are there actually scientists and non-automotive engineers in the USA that don't use metric measures?
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What the fuck is an inch?
Wrong.
NTSC SD pictures are 720x480 from DVD, PAL SD is 720x576. Expanding the 16:9 PAL image to square pixels gives you 1024x576 - so the 1024x768 4:3 screen is perfect for most PAL movie DVDs.
Office lock-in is not luck. Just remember, Microsoft make NO money on ANYTHING except Office - everything else is there to reinforce and sustain the Office monopoly.
SoundJam was wicked fast - that's why everyone was using it - it was the only mp3 encoder available that was accelerated for both Altivec and the recently introduced multi-CPU machines (like my then-new dual 450 G4).
I was a SoundJam MP user and I can confidently assure you that it was genuinely inferior in terms of interface, and pretty much identical to iTunes in every other respect.
And I paid $25 for the fucker! I bloody bought Audion too!
And there's nothing wrong with that.
Trolls are people too.
It's been 15 seconds since you hit 'reply'.
It may have escaped your attention, but government standards are almost always years out of date.
Do you remember the ridiculous neo-con romours ciculated at the time of the PS2's introduction about Saddam buyting 250 of them so he could design WMDs?
Ah... but this time they won't have to, because IBM will have already done it.
True, but the G5 has the bandwidth to actually FEED its VMX units with data. It's a real shame that the 2.5Ghz PPC 970 doesn't have the same Altivec units as the MPC 744X CPUs.
I thought that was little odd when I read it, too. Altivec is FAMOUSLY single precision.
How about combining a big PPC970 with a bunch of Cells? Apple have tried this approach in the past with the Philips Trimedia. What might a PowerMac workstation do if it had 8 x Cells roaring away on the mainboard in addition to a nice, fat pair of 970s?
Don't forget, a lot (most?) of Apple's workstation customers are doing video and other media processing on their machines - that's why Altivec has been expoited thus far.
Power4 did, and Power5 is now - Itanium is fucking toast.
I thought that IBM had also comitted to producing multi-cellular servers and workstations running Linux?
Apple make a bunch - check out their website:-
http://www.apple.com/
Not true at all. I have a Yosemite G3 (I use it as a file/ftp/web server) at 600Mhz and it runs productivity and internet apps just fine. 600Mhz PPC750, 1MB backside cache, 100Mhz memory bus, 1GB RAM, ATA-33 HDs, PCI video. It can play .mp4 files up to 640x480 without choking in VLC, iTunes encodes and decodes just fine, Safari just fine, Office X is just fine.
Don't dis the G3 just because you've got a crippled machine, there's nothing wrong with it as a general purpose CPU, and it was MORE than competitive with PIIIs at the same clock rate.
Fuck you.
These are the finest images I've ever seen displayed on a computer screen, absolutely breathtaking. Thank you NASA - let's send high quality panoramic cameras to every body in the solar system!
Next stop, Europa.
Shhh... the captalist running-dog Americanskis are rewriting history again. Don't spoil it for them.
We're not talking about plumbers and chippies though, are we? Are there actually scientists and non-automotive engineers in the USA that don't use metric measures?
So you've read that hunk of shit, then?
Don't worry, they can't see into your mother's basement.
Houston, we have a problem.
To and from metric to WHAT exactly? These are scientists, aren't they?