He starts off decently, although he presents his "vast amazing incredible" experience to a fault. Having experience, also, doesn't directly translate to objectivity, as we see with this note on Ubuntu: "It fits mid-level desktop users and works for about 80 to 90% of enterprise users."
I wonder what he thinks a "mid-level desktop user" is, or how many enterprise users he spoke with to determine that 80-90% of them (a massive percentage!) would agree that it "works" for them. An explanation of assumptions and evidence for claims would be part of any decent analysis.
There isn't a single mention of his methodology, the factors considered by his analysis, nor any regularity of presentation.
Either he honestly doesn't know what an objective analysis is or he's just trying to get published (on Slashdot, no less)...
I'm here in China and can't stand Chinese censorship, almost as much as I loathe their Orwellian "history-writing". The blockage, for example, has been going on for closer to 15 weeks.
One of the posters said that the fact that the students are using Wikipedia is revealing of the quality of Chinese degrees. As a college professor, I could not agree more.
Simplicity and elegance are what's missing from the Palm/PDA world. Apple, as usual, came through with these qualities on a device for a very specific task. Somebody said it's a "jack of all trades, master of none problem"...exactly.
The Apple products don't do something unless it's an example of mastery. The iPod line is mastery of portable music.
To further the damage, Palm has been driving itself into the ground, at least since my first Palm in 1999 (yes, not that long ago...but I was 15). Even then, plugging into serial every time was a pain. Then, in 2001, I gave it up because it was ridiculous to try to get it to work with USB *and* MacOS X. I bought another one last year and ended up giving that up...because it still was finicky to sync (like another poster said, syncing is really easy for the iPod line, but (can be) hell with PDAs), changed from the excellent Graffiti to Graffiti 2, and tried to do way more than it was supposed to. Now, it wasn't a device made to give me my appointments and contacts instantly, it was a device that tried to do too much. Apple will release a PDA one day, and it will be masterful.
I don't agree at all with this misguided 20-year-old. He's making it easier for others like himself to wreak havoc on society.
However, one must consider the heart of this issue: the freedom of information. He posted links to information that could be used for "wrong." But if a person were determined enough, he or she could get to this information anyway.
Information is best when it's free because this way, at least both the "good" and the "bad" have access to it. This move can only pave the way for further restrictions on what information you can distribute, whether it be what you say, what you write, or, in this case, what you provide a URL to.
Frightening indeed.
This is just like the original 68K to PPC transition, in which the system software wasn't fully optimized until Mac OS 8 (and even then, that was only the Finder).
The Mail app in Mac OS X includes a built-in Bayesian filter. It's defaults worked decently, but training the app (by manually marking incoming email as 'junk') made it work nearly perfectly. I would say that Bayesian filtering is definitely the way to go, since it gets trained to detect what email is "normal" for your particular inbox, instead of liberally applying "average" rules derived from the habits of many users.
Apple will NOT be hard-pressed to sell their systems. People will be clamoring more for these systems than they did for the G4. You can't put a price on OS X's unprecedented stability, unprecedented integration with UNIX, and unprecedented UI. In addition, compare the oldest Intel-based computer you've seen working with the oldest PPC-based computer you've seen working.
By far, Power Macs give you your money's worth, if only because maintenance costs and other long-term costs are so low. Macs have been well-known to last users more than 5 years...can you say that about Intel boxes?
Actually, I think that Panther might work fine on your graphite. I'm running the Panther dev preview on my 400mHz Indigo iMac with 1GB of RAM. It works beautifully, in some cases faster (at least that's how it feels) than Jaguar.
I am sad, though, that the user transition Cube Effect doesn't happen...methinks it needs Quartz Extreme.
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You guessed right about memory interleaving...memory interleaving is a requirement in these systems.
I'm glad that you drew attention to the memory subsystem, because it really is a large part of Apple's G5 equation.
Apple's been in the server biz for a while, it's just that they went on somewhat of a "sabbatical" because they had other priorities (i.e. staying afloat, in the late 1990's).
It was the Apple Network Server series, featuring IBM's AIX. Apple made some pretty good-looking servers for the day.
Indeed, it's great to see that Apple's made a comeback in this vital arena - all hail Mac OS X Server!
Ahh, what would one do if he happened to run the Software Update installer before putting things back where they're expected to be? It seems that http://www.info.apple.com/downloads/ does not show the most recent 10.2.2 update, only the updates for OSX Server...
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He starts off decently, although he presents his "vast amazing incredible" experience to a fault. Having experience, also, doesn't directly translate to objectivity, as we see with this note on Ubuntu: "It fits mid-level desktop users and works for about 80 to 90% of enterprise users." I wonder what he thinks a "mid-level desktop user" is, or how many enterprise users he spoke with to determine that 80-90% of them (a massive percentage!) would agree that it "works" for them. An explanation of assumptions and evidence for claims would be part of any decent analysis. There isn't a single mention of his methodology, the factors considered by his analysis, nor any regularity of presentation. Either he honestly doesn't know what an objective analysis is or he's just trying to get published (on Slashdot, no less)...
I'm here in China and can't stand Chinese censorship, almost as much as I loathe their Orwellian "history-writing". The blockage, for example, has been going on for closer to 15 weeks. One of the posters said that the fact that the students are using Wikipedia is revealing of the quality of Chinese degrees. As a college professor, I could not agree more.
Simplicity and elegance are what's missing from the Palm/PDA world. Apple, as usual, came through with these qualities on a device for a very specific task. Somebody said it's a "jack of all trades, master of none problem"...exactly. The Apple products don't do something unless it's an example of mastery. The iPod line is mastery of portable music. To further the damage, Palm has been driving itself into the ground, at least since my first Palm in 1999 (yes, not that long ago...but I was 15). Even then, plugging into serial every time was a pain. Then, in 2001, I gave it up because it was ridiculous to try to get it to work with USB *and* MacOS X. I bought another one last year and ended up giving that up...because it still was finicky to sync (like another poster said, syncing is really easy for the iPod line, but (can be) hell with PDAs), changed from the excellent Graffiti to Graffiti 2, and tried to do way more than it was supposed to. Now, it wasn't a device made to give me my appointments and contacts instantly, it was a device that tried to do too much. Apple will release a PDA one day, and it will be masterful.
Since when did Slashdot become "h4x0r for beginners"? This is such common knowledge that I'm not sure you can call "using WHOIS" a technique...
Can somebody please send me the contents of http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/05/16 20225&tid=153&tid=95&tid=219
I'm in China and don't know how to access it, since they've fscking censored it!
Infinite thanks for your effort!
Mike
I agree...this article is not even close to being Slashdot worthy.
I want an elegant and reliable solution! :-)
Coed porn sites are REALLY in trouble!
I don't agree at all with this misguided 20-year-old. He's making it easier for others like himself to wreak havoc on society. However, one must consider the heart of this issue: the freedom of information. He posted links to information that could be used for "wrong." But if a person were determined enough, he or she could get to this information anyway. Information is best when it's free because this way, at least both the "good" and the "bad" have access to it. This move can only pave the way for further restrictions on what information you can distribute, whether it be what you say, what you write, or, in this case, what you provide a URL to. Frightening indeed.
This is just like the original 68K to PPC transition, in which the system software wasn't fully optimized until Mac OS 8 (and even then, that was only the Finder).
Let's hope that Microsoft isn't programming these bacteria...
The Mail app in Mac OS X includes a built-in Bayesian filter. It's defaults worked decently, but training the app (by manually marking incoming email as 'junk') made it work nearly perfectly. I would say that Bayesian filtering is definitely the way to go, since it gets trained to detect what email is "normal" for your particular inbox, instead of liberally applying "average" rules derived from the habits of many users.
Apple will NOT be hard-pressed to sell their systems. People will be clamoring more for these systems than they did for the G4. You can't put a price on OS X's unprecedented stability, unprecedented integration with UNIX, and unprecedented UI. In addition, compare the oldest Intel-based computer you've seen working with the oldest PPC-based computer you've seen working. By far, Power Macs give you your money's worth, if only because maintenance costs and other long-term costs are so low. Macs have been well-known to last users more than 5 years...can you say that about Intel boxes?
Actually, I think that Panther might work fine on your graphite. I'm running the Panther dev preview on my 400mHz Indigo iMac with 1GB of RAM. It works beautifully, in some cases faster (at least that's how it feels) than Jaguar. I am sad, though, that the user transition Cube Effect doesn't happen...methinks it needs Quartz Extreme.
You guessed right about memory interleaving...memory interleaving is a requirement in these systems. I'm glad that you drew attention to the memory subsystem, because it really is a large part of Apple's G5 equation.
Apple's been in the server biz for a while, it's just that they went on somewhat of a "sabbatical" because they had other priorities (i.e. staying afloat, in the late 1990's). It was the Apple Network Server series, featuring IBM's AIX. Apple made some pretty good-looking servers for the day. Indeed, it's great to see that Apple's made a comeback in this vital arena - all hail Mac OS X Server!
ok, this guy is definitely not a /. regular!
clickable link, for those of us who are lazy ;)
as long as I get 33MB/s read times...oh, wait...
well Kris you have to give BareBones some credit, they even made an 'official' press release!
It's another one of those things that you wish you had thought of first...
Ahh, what would one do if he happened to run the Software Update installer before putting things back where they're expected to be? It seems that http://www.info.apple.com/downloads/ does not show the most recent 10.2.2 update, only the updates for OSX Server...