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THE ONE MORE THING!
Premature specification - The specs released on Apple's site are true! "World's fastest personal computer"
Uses a "G5" - AKA 970 processor runs 32 bit apps Runs at up to 2 GHz - fastest 64 bit processor 1 GHz FSB built for Full SMP up to 215 in-flight instructions 2 velocity engine 2 FPU's 2 int units 2 load and store units lots and lots of branch prediction logic
searching by filters in Xcode target settings changeable - search box!
Target explanations availiable in inspector
Demonstration of compiler and turnaround by employee #8
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Xcode - new developer tools Fast compiles gcc 3.3 compiler Build of finder takes 377 seconds code warrior takes 233 seconds distributed builds - automatically uses distributed computing 1 more host - 208 seconds 4 more hosts - 96 seconds
No linking needed for recompile predictive compile - compiles while you type half compiling time
fix and continue - make changes to applications while they are running turnaround times: Jaguar tools - 29 seconds code warrior - 9 seconds Xcode - 3 seconds
iSight - 640x480 video at 30 FPS F/2.8 arpeture Autoexposire microphone Firewire connection - video, audio, power over 1 cable
three mounts rotate and tilt shutter carrying case - looks like some sort of round, single cigar type case. All for $149
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iChat - fullscreen videoconferencing! Hurray! Speakerphonelike - nifty services availiable change instantly! (SO COOL.) Some france bashing ensues Al Gore comes on and stuff.
Panther shipped by the end of the year (OMG. OS X released again!?) Some Windows bashing ensues with Longhorn setbacks
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iChat - iChat AV. Audio and video chat. Hot damn. "Videoconferencing for the rest of us" buddy list videoconferencing zero configuration no reconfiguration with network switching or other network stuff Rendezvous videoconferencing! audio works on 56k Audio + video on DSL and up
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Preview continued: Search - finds and highlights text in PDF's (very fast)
On-the-fly postscript to PDF Inkjet looks like postscript on network - all postscript support
Fast user switching in Panther Menu in corner - multiple users changed quickly "cube transition" type switch - looks like multiple sides of a cube (WOW)
Fontbook - pro font management when font is clicked, preview, and install font button search box for fonts - "condensed" - only condensed fonts come up
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Pixlet - new Quicktime codec "Professional grade quality on a personal computer" Uses wavelet technology 48 bits per pixel source no noticeable visual artifacts no interframe compression
(comment: a new codec? AWWW, crap.)
1 GHz G4 can decode and encode HDTV quality stuff (Jobs is playing trailers and scrubbing back and forth on half-HDTV source)
Preview - fastest PDF reader in the world PDF - core of OS X Rendering - 978 pages, one page at a time Windows 71 seconds Preview takes 28 secondds
Something about searching PDFs, I missed it
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Mail.app: Much faster Safari HTML rendering thread view - first email starts a thread, all replys are under that heading (much like the finder's list view) addresses are objects Composition - draggable address objects
IPsec VPN stuff
Fax button built into all print panels Fax numbers from address book
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I'm at an Apple store in Hartford, CT watching the keynote. I don't know whether this is something to brag about or it means I'm such a nerdy person I'm making the journey to the Apple store.
You do realize that's where we get all our freedom of speech rights? As in, freedom of association, wiretap laws, and "free as in speech"? These are all rights from legal precedents, and to eliminate them would be as if to take a huge eraser to a vast quantity of law accumulated from decades of sane rulings.
However, this would eliminate that pesky Roe vs Wade, so the conservatives could legally legislate against abortion. Additionally, it would eliminate some of the right to privacy precedents, and they would have to be established or abolished all over again. (Think Ashcroft)
Can you point me to something that says a bigger river results in less silting, or something to that effect? I look at all the big rivers in the world, and, quite frankly, they've all got positively MASSIVE deltas. I seriously doubt the delta created by the damming of the Yangtze would be manageable at all unless silt crews were out there 24/7.
If they were, though, it could make the farmland around the lake a LOT more arable by using the silt on that land.
Then again, they might get more farmland if the lake silts up, but this is kind of moot considering the stepped design of the rice paddies around there.
Sure, they got the bigger stick, but at what price?
Personally, I'd invest in a nuclear facility and some of the european-style fuel reclaiming plant/system things, instead of destroying a rather good-looking piece of real estate.
After relocating people from their kinda-nice homes to concrete grottos (it was on the Discovery special a few years ago) and losing their livelyhood, don't you think a million Chinese would get a little pissed off? Aside from the historical, economic, and environmental damage this will cause, what prevents this new lake from silting up (you do recall the Yangtze has about as much silt as the Mississippi) as soon as the dam is "turned on", so to speak? Will they have to dredge it every few weeks? How do other dam engineers prevent silting?
The Chinese government really should put a bit of importance onto Chinese history. After all, how can they point to their "glorious history" if they've destroyed all the evidence?
I think he's referring to the fact that Halliburton, Cheney's old oil company, got something around 5 assloads (That's 5.5 metric fuckloads, or 2.9 cubic football fields) of money for a contract to clean up oil wells in Iraq. Granted, it may have just had the best contract availiable, but I don't think this was simply a case of best bidder.
I don't want to sound paranoid, but there's something amiss when Halliburton gets a huge contract.
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THE ONE MORE THING!
Premature specification -
The specs released on Apple's site are true!
"World's fastest personal computer"
Uses a "G5" - AKA 970 processor
runs 32 bit apps
Runs at up to 2 GHz - fastest 64 bit processor
1 GHz FSB
built for Full SMP
up to 215 in-flight instructions
2 velocity engine
2 FPU's
2 int units
2 load and store units
lots and lots of branch prediction logic
Apple employee #8 introduced - Chris Espinoza
searching by filters in Xcode
target settings changeable - search box!
Target explanations availiable in inspector
Demonstration of compiler and turnaround by employee #8
Xcode - new developer tools
Fast compiles
gcc 3.3 compiler
Build of finder takes 377 seconds
code warrior takes 233 seconds
distributed builds - automatically uses distributed computing
1 more host - 208 seconds
4 more hosts - 96 seconds
No linking needed for recompile
predictive compile - compiles while you type
half compiling time
fix and continue - make changes to applications while they are running
turnaround times:
Jaguar tools - 29 seconds
code warrior - 9 seconds
Xcode - 3 seconds
iSight -
640x480 video at 30 FPS
F/2.8 arpeture
Autoexposire
microphone
Firewire connection - video, audio, power over 1 cable
three mounts
rotate and tilt
shutter
carrying case - looks like some sort of round, single cigar type case.
All for $149
iChat - fullscreen videoconferencing! Hurray!
Speakerphonelike - nifty
services availiable change instantly! (SO COOL.)
Some france bashing ensues
Al Gore comes on and stuff.
Panther shipped by the end of the year (OMG. OS X released again!?)
Some Windows bashing ensues with Longhorn setbacks
iChat - iChat AV.
Audio and video chat. Hot damn.
"Videoconferencing for the rest of us"
buddy list videoconferencing
zero configuration
no reconfiguration with network switching or other network stuff
Rendezvous videoconferencing!
audio works on 56k
Audio + video on DSL and up
Preview continued:
Search - finds and highlights text in PDF's (very fast)
On-the-fly postscript to PDF
Inkjet looks like postscript on network - all postscript support
Fast user switching in Panther
Menu in corner - multiple users changed quickly
"cube transition" type switch - looks like multiple sides of a cube (WOW)
Fontbook - pro font management
when font is clicked, preview, and install font button
search box for fonts - "condensed" - only condensed fonts come up
Pixlet - new Quicktime codec
"Professional grade quality on a personal computer"
Uses wavelet technology
48 bits per pixel source
no noticeable visual artifacts
no interframe compression
(comment: a new codec? AWWW, crap.)
1 GHz G4 can decode and encode HDTV quality stuff
(Jobs is playing trailers and scrubbing back and forth on half-HDTV source)
Preview - fastest PDF reader in the world
PDF - core of OS X
Rendering - 978 pages, one page at a time
Windows 71 seconds
Preview takes 28 secondds
Something about searching PDFs, I missed it
Mail.app:
Much faster
Safari HTML rendering
thread view - first email starts a thread, all replys are under that heading (much like the finder's list view)
addresses are objects
Composition - draggable address objects
IPsec VPN stuff
Fax button built into all print panels
Fax numbers from address book
Exposé continued - another hotkey to get to the desktop by "clearing" windows
uses quartz extreme - no exposé for me, i've only got 8 MB of vram =\
Lost notebook service - Filevault encrypts and decrypts the home folder on-the-fly (CPU intensive =\)
Exposé - he's opening windows
expose "tiles" and shrinks windows to find a specific window
It looks like a hotkey combination - configurable!
two modes - one application's windows or all windows
Let's see...
1 millionth iPod
panther stuff - faster searching, another "right dock" type widget in column view style
automatic iDisk synchronization
s/person I'm/person because I'm
I'm at an Apple store in Hartford, CT watching the keynote. I don't know whether this is something to brag about or it means I'm such a nerdy person I'm making the journey to the Apple store.
Only time will tell.
Did you read the February 2003 Wired?
I don't think that this is true. Wired, while somewhat of a "niche" magazine, is also becoming more prevalent.
I take it you've never owned an IBM deathstar.
Nothing wrong with using one pipe if it's a wireless one.
;)
So,,,you're advocating massive Tesla coils...every 20 feet, for power? Sounds rather costly to me.
ELIMINATE common law?
You do realize that's where we get all our freedom of speech rights? As in, freedom of association, wiretap laws, and "free as in speech"? These are all rights from legal precedents, and to eliminate them would be as if to take a huge eraser to a vast quantity of law accumulated from decades of sane rulings.
However, this would eliminate that pesky Roe vs Wade, so the conservatives could legally legislate against abortion. Additionally, it would eliminate some of the right to privacy precedents, and they would have to be established or abolished all over again. (Think Ashcroft)
Hay, it's just like they released Halo for the PC, EXCEPT IT HASN'T BEEN ON XBOX FOR LIKE A JILLION YEARS.
Jesus Christ, if they EVER expect to ship Halo for the PC, then sales will be abysmal. Everyone that wanted it has already played it on Xbox.
Can you point me to something that says a bigger river results in less silting, or something to that effect? I look at all the big rivers in the world, and, quite frankly, they've all got positively MASSIVE deltas. I seriously doubt the delta created by the damming of the Yangtze would be manageable at all unless silt crews were out there 24/7.
If they were, though, it could make the farmland around the lake a LOT more arable by using the silt on that land.
Well. That's just fantastic.
Then again, they might get more farmland if the lake silts up, but this is kind of moot considering the stepped design of the rice paddies around there.
Sure, they got the bigger stick, but at what price?
Personally, I'd invest in a nuclear facility and some of the european-style fuel reclaiming plant/system things, instead of destroying a rather good-looking piece of real estate.
After relocating people from their kinda-nice homes to concrete grottos (it was on the Discovery special a few years ago) and losing their livelyhood, don't you think a million Chinese would get a little pissed off? Aside from the historical, economic, and environmental damage this will cause, what prevents this new lake from silting up (you do recall the Yangtze has about as much silt as the Mississippi) as soon as the dam is "turned on", so to speak? Will they have to dredge it every few weeks? How do other dam engineers prevent silting?
The Chinese government really should put a bit of importance onto Chinese history. After all, how can they point to their "glorious history" if they've destroyed all the evidence?
No, you get either one breast or your penis enlarged.
Remeber that spinning wheel on Wheel of Fortune?
Yeah.
I think he's referring to the fact that Halliburton, Cheney's old oil company, got something around 5 assloads (That's 5.5 metric fuckloads, or 2.9 cubic football fields) of money for a contract to clean up oil wells in Iraq. Granted, it may have just had the best contract availiable, but I don't think this was simply a case of best bidder.
I don't want to sound paranoid, but there's something amiss when Halliburton gets a huge contract.