Being the owner of a dual 1.8 G5, I can safely say that it never came with airport nor bluetooth. The same is true of at least a few G4 models - my dad bought one, and I have a friend with another.
Looking at the page to buy from, there were three models in the past, low, med, high, and sutom-built. the custom built had both wireless as stardard, but was head and shoulders above the rest price-wise.
Thats the closest I have seen any towers to having built-in wireless capabilities. Also, as a previous poster mentioned, there are security reasons for not including those products as standard - and extra RF I/O could be your research leaking out...
While that is true, it is a two against one fight, the Xeon and the P4 both have nearly twice the clock-speed as the bottom end G5. Now, while I use a dual processor machine and like it, I do understand that having 2 processors != twice the speed. The bus needs to deal with both processors at the same time, and IIRC, macs tend to not do that as well as they could. (I know that to be true for the G4's, not so sure on the G5's).
What I'm trying to say is that, all other things being equal, the single processor machine with twice the clock speed of the dual should be able to beat it senseless. This machine is evidence to the contrary.
I'm not sure what you are refering to about the 'time delay'. I my experiences on windows, I have not seen much of a delay (unless the machine is in general slow), and there is certainly no delay on the mac. The only delay I notice is self-inflicted - If I want to go to the last open app, I just tap cmd-tab once, but if I hold down cmd, then the choices stay open, which I can then tab or shift-tab through the list, or use the mouse to select the app I want.
No, this is very definitly an Aqua thing, and it has the same sort of feel as the rest of Expose, making me think it is actually part of that.
There is indeed a mac equivelent - and in the spirit of stealing back from Microsoft, it is command tab. Shift-command-tab moves backward through the list (shirft-alt-tab in windows i think).
In Panther, it appears in the middle of the screen as windows does (slightly transparent though, and the rest of the screen dims), while in Jaguar I think it just moved along the dock (a better use in my mind - you can then open non-running apps, or know automatically where an app is in the list).
I suspect the grandparent is complaining about the pre-parser that is run the first time a basic program is executed on the ti-86 to make sure all the commands are complete and well-formed.
I was more refering to the actual execution of the programs. While it does take some time to parse them the first time they are run (and not at all for the -83's), i never noticed any appreciable difference in the 85's and 86's in first run time. I was refering to long processes that involved loops, and the longer time that it took for 86's to run the same code.
Amen - I got the TI-85 about 6 years ago, and have seen about 3 since then. 86's are everywhere, and have the advantage of being able to run assembly programs easier and have more memory, but the 85 runs programs written in ti-basic faster. (can anyone tell me why that is?)
But this seems to be yet another revamped 83, which I have never cared for - less pixels, menus that cover the screen, and the inability to type out certain keywords, especially when programming something quick at the regular prompt.
Anyone know where I can get a new 85, or one that works? they don't even include them in the comparison list...
I have found myself very suprised that there exist no programs for linux that will author. I have a mac (yes, i know, hes looking for linux/win stuff) and I use Sizzle as iDVD cannot burn to DVD+R's, many of which I got for free. It doesn't work perfectly, but it can author and build menus.
As I understand it (you chould check out the site and email the author), this is built off of OSS such as somthing called dvdauthor - I have to believe that this has a front end for it in linux, or that it would not be hard to make...
>Also, re your sig, you can't post and mod the same discussion.
not to be obvious, but first, read what first.last wrote about a similiar comment above, and second, realize that he is making a joke. By following his suggestion, you can't mod him down...
Unfortunatly, I once dropped my iPod from about 5 feet - no case or anything to protect it. It put a nasty gash in the plastic, but it kept ticking. I really couldn't judge beyond that, as I tend to be VERY protective of it. I heard that MacAddict once tested an iPod to destruction, ending with a 40 mph drop from a car, but have not seen it for myself.
I agree - never put it to quite the extreem as you refer, but yeah, the hard disk should be able to take it - the issue is that there is a slight possibility of a hard drive getting bumped at an inopourtune time: as it is beeing read or written, and that something bad can happen. I had a Creative Nomad Jukebox, and something happened to the hard disk while I was running with it - stuff can happen, but it doesn't seem to be happening to the iPods.
Just curious, how often was your harddrive reading/writing? Did you have something in place to have it sleep when not in use?
>>I have never heard of anyone breaking an iPod by jogging with it.
Nor have I, and I have owned two, and know probably 20 to 30 people with them, and have never heard of any hard drive failures. Battery problems, perhaps, but these are regular computer users with very little idea about what they should expect from a product, so they keep buying. Short of near-catastrophic failure, they aren't going to quit using them, or quit suggesting them any time soon I think.
IANATP (theoretical physicist), but I think I may be able to shed a bit of light on the last question.
As I understand it, the idea is that the particle and the anti-particle come into being at the same place, moving in different dirrectsion, and the anti-particle is more prone to being pulled in somehow due it its being the opposite of the other mass in the black hole. The particle escapes, generating the black-body radiation, and the anti-particle enters the black whole and collides with a corresponding particle, leaving existance as the original particles came into existance - messed up I know.
If anyone is curious, (stolen from The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, the temp of a black hole is
Temp = (h * c^3)/(8 * pi * k * G * M)
where h is planck's constant, c is the speed of light, G is Newton's gravitational constant, k is Boltzman's costant,T is temp, and M is the mass of the black hole.
The reasoning is that for most of the time machine scenarios to work, they need to be sort of anchored in time, and by their being there, they allow objects near them to move in terms of time. An example of this could be a vergy large mass, but in a small space, warping space and time around it.
There was a Star trek movie (i forget which one) that involved flying a klingon bird of prey around the sun so fast that time travel was achieved - I have been told that the sun is not of proper mass or size for this to work, but that this was the right general idea. Going by that theory, it may be possibiy to use some kind of singularity that already exists (and has for some time) to travel to the past, and to the object's past, but never before the existence of the object - as you get back that far, there was nothing to help push you back in time...
Does anyone know if Slashdot is blocked or at all censored in China? A huge variety of news goes through here, as well as new technology (some of which could even prove helpful in evading the various filters...)
hey wait, that sig looks like one of those links they stink in emails to download something. Ooh! Click it! Click it! We pay our Help Desk too much anyway, Click it!
My apologies - but keep in mind the manner in which the crusades were conducted - defending the land, after it was taken over, which runs along the lines of attacking in my book. (I could be horribly wrong here, it has been some time since I read history on the manner - and then only for the information on trebuchets...)
I am sure you meant nothing by it, but lets see about another word for lunatic-attacking-something-which-you-don't agree-with other than jihad. Had you used the Christian word for this, 'crusade,' people might think you were be calling it a good thing. ..
What a world we are in when two words, meaning roughly the same, but for two different, closely linked languages, can imply two very different things.
Indeed, Safari is not used by OS X to get updates. If anyone was wondering, it is done (usually) through the Software Update option in System Preferences. To launch the program, you get to do some hunting (/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update).
My suspicion is that Nuclear technology will get nowhere in the United States until people stop calling it that, due to the huge political movement to make sure no one uses anything with "nuclear" in the name, regardless of the safety, degree of research, or degree of oversight.
We are already well on the way to labeling any kind of nuclear technology with another name - and our esteemed president seems to be leading the charge:
"Nucular. ..nucular. ..nucular. ..nucular" etc.
Not quite the Happytronic you were looking for, but maybe we can get him to keep going in that direction. . .
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>because.... apple don`t make the processors?
>That would be motorola.
Or in this case (G5), IBM. Motorola still makes processors for other models, but IBM runs the G5's.
Being the owner of a dual 1.8 G5, I can safely say that it never came with airport nor bluetooth. The same is true of at least a few G4 models - my dad bought one, and I have a friend with another.
Looking at the page to buy from, there were three models in the past, low, med, high, and sutom-built. the custom built had both wireless as stardard, but was head and shoulders above the rest price-wise.
Thats the closest I have seen any towers to having built-in wireless capabilities. Also, as a previous poster mentioned, there are security reasons for not including those products as standard - and extra RF I/O could be your research leaking out...
While that is true, it is a two against one fight, the Xeon and the P4 both have nearly twice the clock-speed as the bottom end G5. Now, while I use a dual processor machine and like it, I do understand that having 2 processors != twice the speed. The bus needs to deal with both processors at the same time, and IIRC, macs tend to not do that as well as they could. (I know that to be true for the G4's, not so sure on the G5's).
What I'm trying to say is that, all other things being equal, the single processor machine with twice the clock speed of the dual should be able to beat it senseless. This machine is evidence to the contrary.
I'm not sure what you are refering to about the 'time delay'. I my experiences on windows, I have not seen much of a delay (unless the machine is in general slow), and there is certainly no delay on the mac. The only delay I notice is self-inflicted - If I want to go to the last open app, I just tap cmd-tab once, but if I hold down cmd, then the choices stay open, which I can then tab or shift-tab through the list, or use the mouse to select the app I want.
No, this is very definitly an Aqua thing, and it has the same sort of feel as the rest of Expose, making me think it is actually part of that.
Picture of alt-tab style behvior on my mac.
There is indeed a mac equivelent - and in the spirit of stealing back from Microsoft, it is command tab. Shift-command-tab moves backward through the list (shirft-alt-tab in windows i think).
In Panther, it appears in the middle of the screen as windows does (slightly transparent though, and the rest of the screen dims), while in Jaguar I think it just moved along the dock (a better use in my mind - you can then open non-running apps, or know automatically where an app is in the list).
I suspect the grandparent is complaining about the pre-parser that is run the first time a basic program is executed on the ti-86 to make sure all the commands are complete and well-formed.
I was more refering to the actual execution of the programs. While it does take some time to parse them the first time they are run (and not at all for the -83's), i never noticed any appreciable difference in the 85's and 86's in first run time. I was refering to long processes that involved loops, and the longer time that it took for 86's to run the same code.
Amen - I got the TI-85 about 6 years ago, and have seen about 3 since then. 86's are everywhere, and have the advantage of being able to run assembly programs easier and have more memory, but the 85 runs programs written in ti-basic faster. (can anyone tell me why that is?)
But this seems to be yet another revamped 83, which I have never cared for - less pixels, menus that cover the screen, and the inability to type out certain keywords, especially when programming something quick at the regular prompt.
Anyone know where I can get a new 85, or one that works? they don't even include them in the comparison list...
I have found myself very suprised that there exist no programs for linux that will author. I have a mac (yes, i know, hes looking for linux/win stuff) and I use Sizzle as iDVD cannot burn to DVD+R's, many of which I got for free. It doesn't work perfectly, but it can author and build menus.
As I understand it (you chould check out the site and email the author), this is built off of OSS such as somthing called dvdauthor - I have to believe that this has a front end for it in linux, or that it would not be hard to make...
>Also, re your sig, you can't post and mod the same discussion. not to be obvious, but first, read what first.last wrote about a similiar comment above, and second, realize that he is making a joke. By following his suggestion, you can't mod him down...
Unfortunatly, I once dropped my iPod from about 5 feet - no case or anything to protect it. It put a nasty gash in the plastic, but it kept ticking. I really couldn't judge beyond that, as I tend to be VERY protective of it. I heard that MacAddict once tested an iPod to destruction, ending with a 40 mph drop from a car, but have not seen it for myself.
I agree - never put it to quite the extreem as you refer, but yeah, the hard disk should be able to take it - the issue is that there is a slight possibility of a hard drive getting bumped at an inopourtune time: as it is beeing read or written, and that something bad can happen. I had a Creative Nomad Jukebox, and something happened to the hard disk while I was running with it - stuff can happen, but it doesn't seem to be happening to the iPods.
Just curious, how often was your harddrive reading/writing? Did you have something in place to have it sleep when not in use?
>>I have never heard of anyone breaking an iPod by jogging with it.
Nor have I, and I have owned two, and know probably 20 to 30 people with them, and have never heard of any hard drive failures. Battery problems, perhaps, but these are regular computer users with very little idea about what they should expect from a product, so they keep buying. Short of near-catastrophic failure, they aren't going to quit using them, or quit suggesting them any time soon I think.
IANATP (theoretical physicist), but I think I may be able to shed a bit of light on the last question.
As I understand it, the idea is that the particle and the anti-particle come into being at the same place, moving in different dirrectsion, and the anti-particle is more prone to being pulled in somehow due it its being the opposite of the other mass in the black hole. The particle escapes, generating the black-body radiation, and the anti-particle enters the black whole and collides with a corresponding particle, leaving existance as the original particles came into existance - messed up I know.
If anyone is curious, (stolen from The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, the temp of a black hole is
Temp = (h * c^3)/(8 * pi * k * G * M)
where h is planck's constant, c is the speed of light, G is Newton's gravitational constant, k is Boltzman's costant,T is temp, and M is the mass of the black hole.
The reasoning is that for most of the time machine scenarios to work, they need to be sort of anchored in time, and by their being there, they allow objects near them to move in terms of time. An example of this could be a vergy large mass, but in a small space, warping space and time around it.
There was a Star trek movie (i forget which one) that involved flying a klingon bird of prey around the sun so fast that time travel was achieved - I have been told that the sun is not of proper mass or size for this to work, but that this was the right general idea. Going by that theory, it may be possibiy to use some kind of singularity that already exists (and has for some time) to travel to the past, and to the object's past, but never before the existence of the object - as you get back that far, there was nothing to help push you back in time...
Disclaimer: I'm a military man, and I'm half joking.
Which half - that you are a military man, or that all they do is make videogames?
Or that they make half video-games and that you are half a military man....
Sorry, please blame my lack of sleep for the above...
ah yes, but you lovely prez made a comment about how we are "going to conduct a crusade"...
sorry, too lazy to find the quote at this time...
Does anyone know if Slashdot is blocked or at all censored in China? A huge variety of news goes through here, as well as new technology (some of which could even prove helpful in evading the various filters...)
hey wait, that sig looks like one of those links they stink in emails to download something. Ooh! Click it! Click it! We pay our Help Desk too much anyway, Click it!
My apologies - but keep in mind the manner in which the crusades were conducted - defending the land, after it was taken over, which runs along the lines of attacking in my book. (I could be horribly wrong here, it has been some time since I read history on the manner - and then only for the information on trebuchets...)
I am sure you meant nothing by it, but lets see about another word for lunatic-attacking-something-which-you-don't agree-with other than jihad. Had you used the Christian word for this, 'crusade,' people might think you were be calling it a good thing. . .
What a world we are in when two words, meaning roughly the same, but for two different, closely linked languages, can imply two very different things.
...And those who can't teach, coach!
Err, wait a minute...
Why would anyone ever list a mac as a requirement for running software? Doesn't everyone use them? aren't they the world-wide standard?
.Sorry about that. . .
Oops. It appears I am channeling the though patterns of the me in the universe next door. .
On the plus side, I use a mac. . .
True, thank you - faster especially in Panther. Does it bother anyone else that System Preferences quits when you close the window?
Indeed, Safari is not used by OS X to get updates. If anyone was wondering, it is done (usually) through the Software Update option in System Preferences. To launch the program, you get to do some hunting (/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update).
My suspicion is that Nuclear technology will get nowhere in the United States until people stop calling it that, due to the huge political movement to make sure no one uses anything with "nuclear" in the name, regardless of the safety, degree of research, or degree of oversight.
.nucular. . .nucular. . .nucular" etc.
We are already well on the way to labeling any kind of nuclear technology with another name - and our esteemed president seems to be leading the charge:
"Nucular. .
Not quite the Happytronic you were looking for, but maybe we can get him to keep going in that direction. . .