Best year ever? Even better than the year they had $12BN in revenue (1994)? Based on what?
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for years and years. The folks that man our nuclear subs live on an 18-hour cycle. For example, they get up a 7AM, stand watch from 8AM until 2PM, eat, shower (sometimes!), conduct maintenance, get some sleep, and then get up at 1AM. Then they stand watch from 2AM until 8AM, and so on. They do this for 2-3 months at a time.
Let me tell you, you get really, really tired at the end of this!
Dude, you are correct that there are no laws regarding English being our national language. However, the news was just released earlier this week that 80% of the people in this country speak English as their primary language. The other 20% is spread across all of the (great) languages you mentioned. I do believe that 80%=English speaking country. The only people that want to disagree with this are the ones that don't speak English all that well.
I think you are correct about Dell... they focus on cost-cutting and logistics. However, at Apple, they design everything from the case down to the custom VLSI chips on the motherboard. That's what makes them different, and that's what makes their stuff just a bit more expensive.
iTunes did not die out. It is exceeding all expectations. They recently announced 10 million downloads in 4 months http://pub143.ezboard.com/fthemagazinenfafrm11.sho wMessage?topicID=809.topic. That's extraordinary, any way you measure it. Sure, it's less than the *really* incredible rates they started with, but it is still far in excess of all the other sites combined.
This is exactly the kind of shit that keeps us from doing anything. No matter what we try to do, or who proposes it, someone somewhere is going to benefit and someone else is going to be pissed about it. KNOCK IT OFF!
What's wrong with the notion of releasing an OS that is secure in the first place? Creating a system that forces updates on users is a patch on the real problem -- that the OS is just so darn hackable. Typical MS response, though.
Are you talking about slot-load or tray-load xServers? I have some of each, and the slot-load is much quieter than the tray-load. Very comparable to my IBM eServers.
This kind of white noise is absorbed by the cork lining on the inside of the sub's hull. Really, though, the slot-loading xServe is very quiet under normal operations. Now, if the sub goes into quiet mode and they turn off all unnecessary fans and such, it does get warm -- the xServe might get louder under those circumstances.
Most people would be surprised at just how noisy it is on the inside of a nuclear sub. Remember there's lots and lots of fans and blowers, and a whole steam turbine plant in the back. Believe me, the xServes won't be noticed. Also, the new xServes are pretty quiet. They now have temp-controlled fans. The original ones were just on max all the time.
So, you don't think that "innovative, inventive,..engineering aesthetically-pleasing, user-friendly and functional" should cost a bit more than "repacking the same crap with new window dressing and new subscrioption schemes"?
Right, that's all they are *now*, but they were close to 400 people, and they actually invented, implemented, and patented the stuff themselves. It's not like they just went out and patented an idea, or bought and patented someone else's idea.
To make it even worse (in my eyes), this is actually one of those good 'ol Microsoft things where a much smaller company shows the goods to Microsoft as part of a licensing partnership, and then Microsoft goes off and does it themselves. InterTrust and Microsoft *used* to be "partners".
1) There is no relationship of the "bitness" of an OS to the MHz of the processor. Clearly, you are an informed dickhead who thinks that MHz is a speedometer, not a tachometer.
2) Jaguar *can* be installed on a G2. I have a machine right here under my desk...in fact, it's an old Mac clone built by PowerComputing. The thing that prevents Jaguar from installing on G2's is the boot rom -- and there are ways around it.
3) There is no real difference between the 60x instruction set and the G3/G4 instruction set. They did not "delete" that stuff. They added new code that takes advantage of the Altivec in the G4.
4) There is no "nigh-universal ranting" about "skewed" benchmarks -- there's a lot of support for them, and a lot of concern over them, but it's not universal.
You seem to be confused about what "GHz" really are. By definition, if a chip is doing more Flops, it is more powerful. You're right that you care about how fast the job got done. Your third sentence is bizarre. The clock speed doesn't matter -- it's how fast the job gets done.
Well, yes, ok, but I'm not getting the same conclusions as you are, and I assume I just don't see the data the same way that you do. I'm hoping you could be a little more specific as to how you arrived at your conclusions.
This is true, three million sold in the first month. It must be noted, however, that Apple had their "wildest dreams" pegged at one million in the first month. Demand may have dropped off from that first two weeks, but it is still far in excess of what they hoped for.
In a nutshell, no other environment has the native data handling capabilities combined with a syntactically simple (which I think can still run dbIII+ era code!) base language that at the same time is still evolving (mutating?) to allow for some real OO design if you want it combined with a decently friendly dev environ and GUI builder tools combined with a single point of sale and support that makes the PHBs feel comfy.
Poop. Check out http://www.4d.com. It's been around almost as long as FoxPro, runs on Windows and Macs, is at least as easy to use at FP, and is definitely evolving. There's an incredible developer community, plugins, built-in web server, you name, you got it.
Here's the PR for the upcoming release:
http://4dtoday.com/summit?c=detail&id=23
It seems to have everything (I think they're hinting towards Linux). The last release added automatic support for Web Services via SOAP/XML.
I'm in the CD replication business. It's really hard to get a CD done for less than 19 cents in any quantity. There are people out there doing it for less, but they're losing money on that kind of work (makes sense, sometimes), and they're probably not paying the appropriate royalties. There's a fixed minimum determined by the cost of the materials, let alone paying for the machinery and the folks to run the things.
1) Apple *did* get much of the Mac concept from Xerox. However, they did not steal it -- Xerox had invested heavily in Apple at the time, and invited Steve J. in to take a look at the stuff at PARC, since they had already decided not to commercialize the stuff (unbeknownst to the developers), and they wanted to increase the value of their investment in Apple. Apple signed a license with Xerox and obtained the rights to use the GUI legally. Xerox was actually part of the lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft, but they did not support Apple, because they had pinned a lot of future revenue on the success of their PC's, which never actually materialized.
2) Other companies won "look and feel" lawsuits in the same timeframe -- most notably, Lotus won against Borland. Apple lost this case primarily because the judge had no understanding of technology, and knew it, so he decided to break the "look and feel" issue down to the individual elements of the GUI, as opposed to looking at it as a whole. He concluded, for example, that the Windows trashcan looked different enough from the Apple trashcan, so there was no infraction.
3) Microsoft actually licensed the "look and feel" from Apple! But what they licensed, according to Apple, was the Windows 2.0 look and feel, which explicitly did not include overlapping windows. When 3.0 came out, that was when Apple filed the suit. The whole overlapping thing was the basis of the suit -- that Microsoft was doing something outside of the agreement they had signed with Apple. IIRC, the "look and feel" thing came up as part of the counter-suit and counter-counter-suit arms race that followed the original filing.
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Best year ever? Even better than the year they had $12BN in revenue (1994)? Based on what?
for years and years. The folks that man our nuclear subs live on an 18-hour cycle. For example, they get up a 7AM, stand watch from 8AM until 2PM, eat, shower (sometimes!), conduct maintenance, get some sleep, and then get up at 1AM. Then they stand watch from 2AM until 8AM, and so on. They do this for 2-3 months at a time.
Let me tell you, you get really, really tired at the end of this!
It'll have to be damn fast if she's using Windows XP 2023.
Dude, you are correct that there are no laws regarding English being our national language. However, the news was just released earlier this week that 80% of the people in this country speak English as their primary language. The other 20% is spread across all of the (great) languages you mentioned. I do believe that 80%=English speaking country. The only people that want to disagree with this are the ones that don't speak English all that well.
Panther does provide the option of a case-sensitive FS. You have to reformat to get it. Journaling continues to be supported.
I think you are correct about Dell... they focus on cost-cutting and logistics. However, at Apple, they design everything from the case down to the custom VLSI chips on the motherboard. That's what makes them different, and that's what makes their stuff just a bit more expensive.
iTunes did not die out. It is exceeding all expectations. They recently announced 10 million downloads in 4 months http://pub143.ezboard.com/fthemagazinenfafrm11.sho wMessage?topicID=809.topic. That's extraordinary, any way you measure it. Sure, it's less than the *really* incredible rates they started with, but it is still far in excess of all the other sites combined.
This is exactly the kind of shit that keeps us from doing anything. No matter what we try to do, or who proposes it, someone somewhere is going to benefit and someone else is going to be pissed about it. KNOCK IT OFF!
What's wrong with the notion of releasing an OS that is secure in the first place? Creating a system that forces updates on users is a patch on the real problem -- that the OS is just so darn hackable. Typical MS response, though.
Are you talking about slot-load or tray-load xServers? I have some of each, and the slot-load is much quieter than the tray-load. Very comparable to my IBM eServers.
This kind of white noise is absorbed by the cork lining on the inside of the sub's hull. Really, though, the slot-loading xServe is very quiet under normal operations. Now, if the sub goes into quiet mode and they turn off all unnecessary fans and such, it does get warm -- the xServe might get louder under those circumstances.
Most people would be surprised at just how noisy it is on the inside of a nuclear sub. Remember there's lots and lots of fans and blowers, and a whole steam turbine plant in the back. Believe me, the xServes won't be noticed. Also, the new xServes are pretty quiet. They now have temp-controlled fans. The original ones were just on max all the time.
So, you don't think that "innovative, inventive,..engineering aesthetically-pleasing, user-friendly and functional" should cost a bit more than "repacking the same crap with new window dressing and new subscrioption schemes"?
Right, that's all they are *now*, but they were close to 400 people, and they actually invented, implemented, and patented the stuff themselves. It's not like they just went out and patented an idea, or bought and patented someone else's idea.
To make it even worse (in my eyes), this is actually one of those good 'ol Microsoft things where a much smaller company shows the goods to Microsoft as part of a licensing partnership, and then Microsoft goes off and does it themselves. InterTrust and Microsoft *used* to be "partners".
You are *so* wrong.
1) There is no relationship of the "bitness" of an OS to the MHz of the processor. Clearly, you are an informed dickhead who thinks that MHz is a speedometer, not a tachometer.
2) Jaguar *can* be installed on a G2. I have a machine right here under my desk...in fact, it's an old Mac clone built by PowerComputing. The thing that prevents Jaguar from installing on G2's is the boot rom -- and there are ways around it.
3) There is no real difference between the 60x instruction set and the G3/G4 instruction set. They did not "delete" that stuff. They added new code that takes advantage of the Altivec in the G4.
4) There is no "nigh-universal ranting" about "skewed" benchmarks -- there's a lot of support for them, and a lot of concern over them, but it's not universal.
In other words, STFU until you get a clue.
You seem to be confused about what "GHz" really are. By definition, if a chip is doing more Flops, it is more powerful. You're right that you care about how fast the job got done. Your third sentence is bizarre. The clock speed doesn't matter -- it's how fast the job gets done.
Well, yes, ok, but I'm not getting the same conclusions as you are, and I assume I just don't see the data the same way that you do. I'm hoping you could be a little more specific as to how you arrived at your conclusions.
Here's a link to a Dell site that shows spec's go down when hyperthreading is turned on! http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/power_ps3q02- khalid.htm
OK, if he is, supply us with some facts to back up your conclusion. Your arguments will have much, much more weight.
This is true, three million sold in the first month. It must be noted, however, that Apple had their "wildest dreams" pegged at one million in the first month. Demand may have dropped off from that first two weeks, but it is still far in excess of what they hoped for.
Actually, iTunes has it built in alread. I just ripped a CD to AAC, and then used iTunes to convert the AAC to MP3.
The reports I've been able to find say that 128K AAC generally compares well to 256K MP3. Also, there's a free download to update your iPod.
Poop. Check out http://www.4d.com. It's been around almost as long as FoxPro, runs on Windows and Macs, is at least as easy to use at FP, and is definitely evolving. There's an incredible developer community, plugins, built-in web server, you name, you got it.
Here's the PR for the upcoming release: http://4dtoday.com/summit?c=detail&id=23
It seems to have everything (I think they're hinting towards Linux). The last release added automatic support for Web Services via SOAP/XML.
I'm in the CD replication business. It's really hard to get a CD done for less than 19 cents in any quantity. There are people out there doing it for less, but they're losing money on that kind of work (makes sense, sometimes), and they're probably not paying the appropriate royalties. There's a fixed minimum determined by the cost of the materials, let alone paying for the machinery and the folks to run the things.
Everyone gets this so amazingly wrong.
1) Apple *did* get much of the Mac concept from Xerox. However, they did not steal it -- Xerox had invested heavily in Apple at the time, and invited Steve J. in to take a look at the stuff at PARC, since they had already decided not to commercialize the stuff (unbeknownst to the developers), and they wanted to increase the value of their investment in Apple. Apple signed a license with Xerox and obtained the rights to use the GUI legally. Xerox was actually part of the lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft, but they did not support Apple, because they had pinned a lot of future revenue on the success of their PC's, which never actually materialized.
2) Other companies won "look and feel" lawsuits in the same timeframe -- most notably, Lotus won against Borland. Apple lost this case primarily because the judge had no understanding of technology, and knew it, so he decided to break the "look and feel" issue down to the individual elements of the GUI, as opposed to looking at it as a whole. He concluded, for example, that the Windows trashcan looked different enough from the Apple trashcan, so there was no infraction.
3) Microsoft actually licensed the "look and feel" from Apple! But what they licensed, according to Apple, was the Windows 2.0 look and feel, which explicitly did not include overlapping windows. When 3.0 came out, that was when Apple filed the suit. The whole overlapping thing was the basis of the suit -- that Microsoft was doing something outside of the agreement they had signed with Apple. IIRC, the "look and feel" thing came up as part of the counter-suit and counter-counter-suit arms race that followed the original filing.
"Stealing" is what Microsoft did.