as long as they don't adopt the aqua interface, I doubt that they'll grab any serious marketshare. Mac is all about look & feel. About interface (you know, the lickable one...)
Currently openoffice runs only under X, which is butt-ugly and completely windows oriented. Not exactly what 'switchers' have in mind IMHO.
here is a screenshot that shows the diff between X and aqua (MS Ofifce in background). The price difference not withstanding, MSOffice is hands down the winner here.
it's not chimera itself that is slow... it is an unfortunate example of several slow technologies coming together : quartz (display pdf) is not exactly blazingly fast. OSX itself isn't superduper speedy when it comes to user response times. The Apple hardware, although fast at numbercrunching video, is outperformed in GUI tasks by x86.
When platform freaks start going bananas about MHz myth not applying to apple due to it having a better OS, I only have to compare browsing speed between my Powerbook G4@667 and the P4@900MHz next to it. According to the myths, the G4 should at least be capable of keeping up with, perhaps even outperform the PC. In practice, in reallife experience, it crawls.
with MacWorld Frisco coming up next week, I find this an odd date to release the soft. Usually, Steve likes to have the premiere of new releases. Granted, for ical it's a small upgrade, but for iSync, it is the first real release after the beta.
Those of us addicted to the rumor sites can now wildly speculate on whether the 11 announcements fluff still stands...
is hands down the best OSX browser I've ever seen. Fast, light, at least as reliable as IE,moz,icab&omni, and most of all : extremely userfriendly. I don't give a rats ass about 90% of the features in IE or mozilla. I don't need no fsking integrated email client and security bollocks.
Chimera provides exactly the features I need, and none more, none less. big kudoos to the chimdevs. If you read this : u guys rock !
Itanium has lots of cool new features that compilers could be using
yeah, if it weren't for intel pricing their compilers out of range of the avarage developer. As long as MSVC doesn't properly support it, that argument doesn't take you very far.
Then again,.NET could change all that if the CLI is optimized for itanium...
More and more people are doing the home-movie dance. Trust me, 4GB of memory will be the deafult on any home PC within 5 years. By then we'd be stuck if not for 64bit computing.
I have 3 compuyers at home : 1 PowerMac with 1GB of memory, one PC with 2GB of memory (parsing 3 or more crosslinked SGML files > 512MB is a pain with less than 2GB) and my tiny game machine with 'only' 512MB. Just by examining the curve of purchased machines, I'll hit the need for 4GB within 2 years. And I'm not even doing video !
What if something breaks in your precious Mac? Can you fix it yourself, or do you have to ship it for repairs and cough up some hard currency again?
Kewl ! Finally I meet a dude who can open up my broken Maxtor, replace the scratched platter while transferring the old data without loss and close the lid again. Aaah... The joys of a cleanroom.
All those jerks who pretend to know how their machine works are simply capable of soldering onto or plugging new parts into their motherbord. Congrats. You're a very smart snort. 99% of the situations where 'something gets broken' will require you do-it-yourself-bozos to ship the broken part back to manufacturer. I do exactly the same stuff with my mac, except they don't break so often. Did you ever consider the fact that you can solder an indication that you're using inferior hardware ?
I sincerely hope Apple picks up where it left off with the superdrive : they were the first to incorporate it, but they're still stuck at 2x speed...
I'm planning to buy a high end dual G4, but I'm waiting for Apple to up the specs on components (but NOT the CPU for a change) FSB, RAM, GPU... If I pay $5000 on a computer, I want the biggest, baddest machine available, and 8x or at least 4x DVD writing, 533MHZ FSB with Radeon 9700Pro should be default. Except for the BTO radeon, I'm have no other options but wait...
Well, honestly (and this is no troll) I hope you're right : because if you are,/. editors will perhaps finally be forced to READ the stories that are submitted, which is perhaps the best thing to happen here.
Lately I have the impression that the editors don't even read the submission itself, only the title ! I understand that there must perhaps be a zillion submissions every day, but comeon...
Taco : as much as an innovative moderation system was needed for comments as the userbase grew exponentionally, you also need to have a brilliant concept to moderate the editors (except you and Hemos offcourse:-) so that the readers can give some feedback except thru trolling !
Can anyone comment on Roomba's performance when kids roam the house ? My critters (2 and 4) usually leave toys all over the place... Can the robot swarm around it to clean up where possible, or will it get stuck ?
(I'm dutch, not english, so forgive spalling errors. CmdrTaco is now verifying syntax & vocaulary:-)
The free Linux-software developed itself the past few years as a solid comptetitor against Windows. The Fin Linus Torvalds is the hero of the 'open source'- movement.
The Finse student Linus Torvalds wrote in 1991 a first version of Linux. Torvalds asked a few friend-programmers to have a look at and comment on his creation. Thuswas born a cooperation that still today leads tp continuous improvement of the operating system.
Meanwhile, there is a core of at least 1000 internetusers continuously polishing linux.
besides this core, there are many one-time contributions. Thru nightly chat-sessions the discussion about possible additions and improvements of this common good are worked out.
initially, linux turned out to be an OS for fanatic hobbyists, usualy working in academic situations. At the end of the 90s, linux started rising in computer centers of lartge companies. System administrators download linux for free from the Net and use it 'en masse' as webserver, often without IT managers knowledge.
If problems come to light, they get notified in newsgroups all over the net, whereafter tenthousands of programmers are volunteering to help finding a solution.
The advantages of linux are numerous according to open-source fans. Mostly because it is free : in contrast with other software, no licences have to be paid, but rather it is freely downloadable.
Then they go on an nag about linus being gay, having a goatse affair with CmdrTaco in russia in a base that belongs to someone who has bad grammar (like me). Or something.
I do understand that guns are a critical issue in every society, and that everyone is involved when it comes to discussions about guns, but apart from thinkgeek toys, I see little nerd-related issues in such a discussion on this website. Most of all since the majority of nerds have a big problem with serious, open and honest discussions. We can't even make our minds up when it comes to text editors. How in heavens name do you expect any interesting results from the comments of this article ? You could as well ask for a poll and base your conclusions on that.
I find the submitter of the article to be a lazy bum who is not willing to form his own opinion based upon serious research on the topic. Walk into a library, read a newspaper, talk to real people with which you can actually exchange information (as in : two-directional).../. comments are an avalanche of badly formulated, biased, vaguely interesting and incoherent brainfarts. It's called 'comments', not 'discussions' for some reason.
To the moderators : if you mod me offtopic here, you sould seriously considering reading all the comments at -1. You'll probably find a lot of people with my opinion being filtered away.
you're buying a computer which contains data that you cannot legally access
So ? If I recall correctly, mainframes in the old days used to ship with HARDWARE that you couldn't access legally. The machine came preshipped with X amount of RAM, which was enabled by simply flipping a switch after you payed for it. Noone ever complained, even though RAM prices those days were somewhere in the region of what we pay now for an average house.
at the price of fuel in europe, those cars are not only friendly to the environment, but also to your budget. In belgium, prices for unleaded fuel float around 1 euro PER LITER.
When I went on a trip to the US 2 years ago, I remember everyone freaking out at prices that were less than half of what we pay here...
My current car (an opel Tigra) uses approx 10litres/100km (I do a lot of city traffic plus the car had heart surgery 5 months ago and never fully recovered in terms of fuel usage) making me refill for 40euro every week or so. I could save 36Euro per week, or 420 per year.
Assuming fuel prices will go up in the future (anyone remember anything else ?) I think I can safely say that such a car can save me 5000Euro in 10 years. That's Half a VW Lupo.
God must be a friggin boring dude. The 2 non-characters in his Eden story have a name, whereas the only interesting one (with a personality) is the snake... I would have called him George.
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as long as they don't adopt the aqua interface, I doubt that they'll grab any serious marketshare. Mac is all about look & feel. About interface (you know, the lickable one...)
Currently openoffice runs only under X, which is butt-ugly and completely windows oriented. Not exactly what 'switchers' have in mind IMHO.
here is a screenshot that shows the diff between X and aqua (MS Ofifce in background). The price difference not withstanding, MSOffice is hands down the winner here.
it's not chimera itself that is slow... it is an unfortunate example of several slow technologies coming together : quartz (display pdf) is not exactly blazingly fast. OSX itself isn't superduper speedy when it comes to user response times. The Apple hardware, although fast at numbercrunching video, is outperformed in GUI tasks by x86.
When platform freaks start going bananas about MHz myth not applying to apple due to it having a better OS, I only have to compare browsing speed between my Powerbook G4@667 and the P4@900MHz next to it. According to the myths, the G4 should at least be capable of keeping up with, perhaps even outperform the PC. In practice, in reallife experience, it crawls.
sad but true
with MacWorld Frisco coming up next week, I find this an odd date to release the soft. Usually, Steve likes to have the premiere of new releases. Granted, for ical it's a small upgrade, but for iSync, it is the first real release after the beta.
Those of us addicted to the rumor sites can now wildly speculate on whether the 11 announcements fluff still stands...
is hands down the best OSX browser I've ever seen. Fast, light, at least as reliable as IE,moz,icab&omni, and most of all : extremely userfriendly. I don't give a rats ass about 90% of the features in IE or mozilla. I don't need no fsking integrated email client and security bollocks.
Chimera provides exactly the features I need, and none more, none less. big kudoos to the chimdevs. If you read this : u guys rock !
Itanium has lots of cool new features that compilers could be using
.NET could change all that if the CLI is optimized for itanium...
yeah, if it weren't for intel pricing their compilers out of range of the avarage developer. As long as MSVC doesn't properly support it, that argument doesn't take you very far.
Then again,
errrr wrong.
More and more people are doing the home-movie dance. Trust me, 4GB of memory will be the deafult on any home PC within 5 years. By then we'd be stuck if not for 64bit computing.
I have 3 compuyers at home : 1 PowerMac with 1GB of memory, one PC with 2GB of memory (parsing 3 or more crosslinked SGML files > 512MB is a pain with less than 2GB) and my tiny game machine with 'only' 512MB. Just by examining the curve of purchased machines, I'll hit the need for 4GB within 2 years. And I'm not even doing video !
What if something breaks in your precious Mac? Can you fix it yourself, or do you have to ship it for repairs and cough up some hard currency again?
Kewl ! Finally I meet a dude who can open up my broken Maxtor, replace the scratched platter while transferring the old data without loss and close the lid again. Aaah... The joys of a cleanroom.
All those jerks who pretend to know how their machine works are simply capable of soldering onto or plugging new parts into their motherbord. Congrats. You're a very smart snort. 99% of the situations where 'something gets broken' will require you do-it-yourself-bozos to ship the broken part back to manufacturer. I do exactly the same stuff with my mac, except they don't break so often. Did you ever consider the fact that you can solder an indication that you're using inferior hardware ?
I'l take the bait... apparently you don't use the iMovie/iDVD combo ? I have a DVD writer, but haven't pirated movies ever, and don't plan to.
:-)
I do burn a dvd ocne a month with home movies of the kids, cats, and neighbour lady when she's showering
one word : density. A DVD stores more information per square milimeter and thus has to rotate slower to pass the same amount of data under the laser.
kewl, no ?
I sincerely hope Apple picks up where it left off with the superdrive : they were the first to incorporate it, but they're still stuck at 2x speed...
I'm planning to buy a high end dual G4, but I'm waiting for Apple to up the specs on components (but NOT the CPU for a change) FSB, RAM, GPU... If I pay $5000 on a computer, I want the biggest, baddest machine available, and 8x or at least 4x DVD writing, 533MHZ FSB with Radeon 9700Pro should be default. Except for the BTO radeon, I'm have no other options but wait...
Well, honestly (and this is no troll) I hope you're right : because if you are, /. editors will perhaps finally be forced to READ the stories that are submitted, which is perhaps the best thing to happen here.
:-) so that the readers can give some feedback except thru trolling !
Lately I have the impression that the editors don't even read the submission itself, only the title ! I understand that there must perhaps be a zillion submissions every day, but comeon...
Taco : as much as an innovative moderation system was needed for comments as the userbase grew exponentionally, you also need to have a brilliant concept to moderate the editors (except you and Hemos offcourse
Can anyone comment on Roomba's performance when kids roam the house ? My critters (2 and 4) usually leave toys all over the place... Can the robot swarm around it to clean up where possible, or will it get stuck ?
(I'm dutch, not english, so forgive spalling errors. CmdrTaco is now verifying syntax & vocaulary :-)
The free Linux-software developed itself the past few years as a solid comptetitor against Windows. The Fin Linus Torvalds is the hero of the 'open source'- movement.
The Finse student Linus Torvalds wrote in 1991 a first version of Linux. Torvalds asked a few friend-programmers to have a look at and comment on his creation. Thuswas born a cooperation that still today leads tp continuous improvement of the operating system.
Meanwhile, there is a core of at least 1000 internetusers continuously polishing linux.
besides this core, there are many one-time contributions. Thru nightly chat-sessions the discussion about possible additions and improvements of this common good are worked out.
initially, linux turned out to be an OS for fanatic hobbyists, usualy working in academic situations. At the end of the 90s, linux started rising in computer centers of lartge companies. System administrators download linux for free from the Net and use it 'en masse' as webserver, often without IT managers knowledge.
If problems come to light, they get notified in newsgroups all over the net, whereafter tenthousands of programmers are volunteering to help finding a solution.
The advantages of linux are numerous according to open-source fans. Mostly because it is free : in contrast with other software, no licences have to be paid, but rather it is freely downloadable.
Then they go on an nag about linus being gay, having a goatse affair with CmdrTaco in russia in a base that belongs to someone who has bad grammar (like me). Or something.
I'm pulong the 300MB file in via my DSL (capped at 300KB/sec) at a lousy 4KB/sec :-(
Is anyone else experiencing this, or is my conn balooney ?
Why, it will run WindowsCE offcourse.
MS is working hard on the C_CHIP ActiveX control. Once that's done, for NASA it's just a matter of a simple drag&drop and 3 lines of VB code.
Who said space exploration was difficult ?
oooh... anonymous trolling...
how brave.
At least log on if you're complaining about my spelling. Then I can verify some of your posts. Not everyone inhere is native english speaker you know.
it's called viagra
:-)
no, that's a placebo
get kids. In no time, your hearing capabilities get reduced fenomenaly, and once they weigh over 15kg, arthritis is instantaneous.
Aditionally, they give you migraine and insomnia, and once they get into puberty, a stroke seems more familiar than a quiet day.
I guess that this will louden the cry for billionaire space tourism. IMHO the russians should make that stuff their top priority !
:-)
Let the russians handle the tourist part, let the yanks handle the military sillyness and we europeans will do the real stuff
How long till first kid ?
1 day
1 month
9 months
5 years
never
allready done
kid from who ? KidBoyNeal ?
One word : google
/. comments are an avalanche of badly formulated, biased, vaguely interesting and incoherent brainfarts. It's called 'comments', not 'discussions' for some reason.
I do understand that guns are a critical issue in every society, and that everyone is involved when it comes to discussions about guns, but apart from thinkgeek toys, I see little nerd-related issues in such a discussion on this website. Most of all since the majority of nerds have a big problem with serious, open and honest discussions. We can't even make our minds up when it comes to text editors. How in heavens name do you expect any interesting results from the comments of this article ? You could as well ask for a poll and base your conclusions on that.
I find the submitter of the article to be a lazy bum who is not willing to form his own opinion based upon serious research on the topic. Walk into a library, read a newspaper, talk to real people with which you can actually exchange information (as in : two-directional)...
To the moderators : if you mod me offtopic here, you sould seriously considering reading all the comments at -1. You'll probably find a lot of people with my opinion being filtered away.
you're buying a computer which contains data that you cannot legally access
So ? If I recall correctly, mainframes in the old days used to ship with HARDWARE that you couldn't access legally. The machine came preshipped with X amount of RAM, which was enabled by simply flipping a switch after you payed for it. Noone ever complained, even though RAM prices those days were somewhere in the region of what we pay now for an average house.
Wow, that would answer the chicken-egg problem.
:
No, it reduces the Q to "what was first : the fish or the egg ?"
It does offcourse open endless possibilities
Why did the fish cross the road ??????
at the price of fuel in europe, those cars are not only friendly to the environment, but also to your budget. In belgium, prices for unleaded fuel float around 1 euro PER LITER.
When I went on a trip to the US 2 years ago, I remember everyone freaking out at prices that were less than half of what we pay here...
My current car (an opel Tigra) uses approx 10litres/100km (I do a lot of city traffic plus the car had heart surgery 5 months ago and never fully recovered in terms of fuel usage) making me refill for 40euro every week or so. I could save 36Euro per week, or 420 per year.
Assuming fuel prices will go up in the future (anyone remember anything else ?) I think I can safely say that such a car can save me 5000Euro in 10 years. That's Half a VW Lupo.
so boooooooring ...
God must be a friggin boring dude. The 2 non-characters in his Eden story have a name, whereas the only interesting one (with a personality) is the snake... I would have called him George.
Adam, Eve & George.
Way cooler! Good for the sales.