Even better, they could build in a docking port into the dash somehow. On apple's dock, the firewire line supplies power which could come from the car's system, and it also has a line-out jack which could run to the amplifier. There is a connector on the top of the iPod for remote control which could also be wired to the car's audio controls.
I don't know why someone doesn't make a docking station for cars, it wouldn't be that difficult.
Recently I saw an article on MS's web site that most system problems were caused by people installing WindowsXP by themselves, and that users should hire a tech professional instead. I suspect they do this just to try to close off the white-box market.
Excellent point. I wish I had a mod point for you. The entire sales push from MS/Unisys is that you don't need expensive, knowledgeable Unix admins, all you need are cheap, MCSE chimpanzees to run Windows. Finding someone who really knows Windows enough to make it as easy to administer as Unix is a rare event. (Installing cygwin doesn't count.)
All the various BSDs share code when one solution seems to fit more than just the distribution that developed it. If DragonFly is going to focus on something that the other four aren't, then more power to them. I'm sure the others will adopt any good ideas that come out.
Obviously, the amount of time one spends in an online "life" is time spent away from real life. Turn the game off, go outside and enjoy the real life -- problems and all.
I wonder who among us would have written on his tombstone: I should have spent more time online.
Final Cut Pro goes for about $1000. DVD Studio Pro goes for about $1000. Where do you get free? Man! I wish those products were free -- that would be sweet!
Not true. Apple has always been quite supportive of its developers. There was a dark time when Spindler was at the helm and tried to turn Developer Support into a profit center. But, both before and after that time, working with Apple has been great.
Witness the last WWDC. Apple hosts many training sessions on how to do things right on OS X. They explain a lot of how things work inside.
If Apple were as hostile toward developers as you say, there would be no DTS, no WWDC, no free development tools, no free documentation, no free sample code, etc.
No. There is nothing in common with OS X and Linux other than POSIX. For any GUI on OS X you would write to either the Cocoa or Carbon APIs (which don't exist on Linux), or you would write to the X11 API (which does exist on OS X, but is ugly as hell).
No one writes OS X apps using X11 since it is still a "beta". Panther is supposed to have a final version. Who knows, maybe after then you'll see more OS X/Linux apps sharing the X11 API. I doubt it though since X11 makes it very difficult to do a consistent UI on any platform.
Oracle has already "validated" the platform, as has Sybase, etc. MS will move to Linux kicking and screaming the same way they were brought to the Internet. Heh, I wonder if when that happens MS will claim to have invented Linux the same way they did the Internet.
Absolutely. I think the very existence of the Itanic is proof-positive exposing Intel's bogus claims that high clock cycles == high performance.
There was an article a few months back about some research at Sandia Labs regarding heat dissipation. (I wish I could find that article.) At any rate, one of their claims was that the "sweet spot" for microprocessor efficiency was around 1GHz; any higher than that, the heat/work ratio gets a bit top-heavy. A comment in the article stated that by the year 2007, Intel's design would need to dissipate the same about of heat per square inch as a nuclear reactor.
IIRC, the article was drawing attention to IBM's focus on lowering power consumption and that that course of action was the best, long-term.
So, given that, I think work per cycle is a valid criterion for processor selection (among others).
You've obviously never worked in a data center where cooling and power are a premium. In a room full of hundreds of Intel crap, you start to consider things like power consumption and heat dissipation. This is a fact: The higher the clock the more power and heat.
We started holding our data center manager accountable for his own electric bill. After that, efficiency (lower clocks to do the same work) started to take on a whole new meaning.
This particular criterion also got us to get the MS-weenies to shut up and we started to implement more Linux systems.
Except that someone who makes the whole widget is not an illegal monopoly. An illegal monopoly is someone who makes the part of the widget that the other parts rely on and and controls the other part vendors' access to consumers. MS controls Dell's and Gateway's access to consumers by making the componet that completes the system. If MS made the whole widget, they would not have been found guilty of being an abusive monopoly. But, since they stand at the crossroads between OEMs and consumers, and charge a toll in both directions, they are illegal.
But herein lies the problem - Apple still tries to be a Hardware&Software company and own their whole show. They need to port and license their OS. If they would have done this in the 80's, all of my Gateways and Dells would be running some variant of an Apple OS
As long as OSX doesn't run on commodity hardware (and Apple has done a good job ensuring that other vendors' PPC systems don't/won't challenge their hardware monopoly), it will remain a niche OS.
Kind of like Sun's monopoly of Solaris/Sparc systems, and HP's monopoly of PA-RISC/HP/UX systems, and IBM's monopoly of POWER/AIX system? Or Sony's Playstation monopoly? etc. Do you even know what a monopoly is?
The name of the company is Apple Computer, Inc. Not AppleSoft. They make computers. That is their business.
They tried the OS license game. Those hardware vendors did nothing to expand the market but instead just canabilized Apple's hardware sales. It was a financial/business failure. Get over it.
It depends on the hardware. Memory, Video cards, hard drives, optical drives, PCI cards. All are "standard". In fact, the Mac probably will work will any kind of hardware you throw at it better than a BIOS-based PC.
If you mean case and/or motherboard then forget it. At the current speeds you need to engineer the whole widget or it won't work as well.
Not just on the radio, but also in the 30-second sample. Sometimes it's not always easy to hear what sounds good in a 30-second sample, but most times it's enough.
Importing a vector graphic for conversion to various resolutions of GIF or JPEG is very useful. I do this in photoshop all the time. The vector graphic is typically done by someone else; I just need to rasterize it at a given size.
Is this a firmware update or an OS update? The iPod has a hard drive after all. Firmware is stored in EPROMs and other such chips. Or maybe slashdot readers these days are too distant from real technology these days to know the difference?
Actually it is. Large parts are derived from FreeBSD, some from OpenBSD, and some from NetBSD. It is also an Open Source operating system. You can download the Darwin source code and do as you please including making up your own OS. It uses the Mach microkernel as does Tru64 Unix. Mac hardware uses OpenFirmware the same as does Sun. The BSDs (Darwin included) are just as much Unix as anything derived from System V.
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Even better, they could build in a docking port into the dash somehow. On apple's dock, the firewire line supplies power which could come from the car's system, and it also has a line-out jack which could run to the amplifier. There is a connector on the top of the iPod for remote control which could also be wired to the car's audio controls.
I don't know why someone doesn't make a docking station for cars, it wouldn't be that difficult.
XP Runs in VirtualPC just fine.
At least, it does now (version 6, pre-MS buy-out). I suspect future versions of VPC will not be as pleasant.
Recently I saw an article on MS's web site that most system problems were caused by people installing WindowsXP by themselves, and that users should hire a tech professional instead. I suspect they do this just to try to close off the white-box market.
Excellent point. I wish I had a mod point for you. The entire sales push from MS/Unisys is that you don't need expensive, knowledgeable Unix admins, all you need are cheap, MCSE chimpanzees to run Windows. Finding someone who really knows Windows enough to make it as easy to administer as Unix is a rare event. (Installing cygwin doesn't count.)
I think in the case of Windows, BSD = Blue Screen of Death. Your parent poster was probably just confused.
POW!
All the various BSDs share code when one solution seems to fit more than just the distribution that developed it. If DragonFly is going to focus on something that the other four aren't, then more power to them. I'm sure the others will adopt any good ideas that come out.
Obviously, the amount of time one spends in an online "life" is time spent away from real life. Turn the game off, go outside and enjoy the real life -- problems and all.
I wonder who among us would have written on his tombstone: I should have spent more time online.
If used well, early returns make for much more readable code than the Pascal-ish code you supplied.
With your sample, the important part of the function (setting the first character of the buffer) has been partially obscured by the conditional.
Early returns are best when used for safety net and error handling as in the original sample.
Keep in mind also that the 9th Circuit is THE most over-turned court in the country. They even overturned themselves once within minutes of a ruling.
Final Cut Pro goes for about $1000. DVD Studio Pro goes for about $1000. Where do you get free? Man! I wish those products were free -- that would be sweet!
Not true. Apple has always been quite supportive of its developers. There was a dark time when Spindler was at the helm and tried to turn Developer Support into a profit center. But, both before and after that time, working with Apple has been great.
Witness the last WWDC. Apple hosts many training sessions on how to do things right on OS X. They explain a lot of how things work inside.
If Apple were as hostile toward developers as you say, there would be no DTS, no WWDC, no free development tools, no free documentation, no free sample code, etc.
No. There is nothing in common with OS X and Linux other than POSIX. For any GUI on OS X you would write to either the Cocoa or Carbon APIs (which don't exist on Linux), or you would write to the X11 API (which does exist on OS X, but is ugly as hell).
No one writes OS X apps using X11 since it is still a "beta". Panther is supposed to have a final version. Who knows, maybe after then you'll see more OS X/Linux apps sharing the X11 API. I doubt it though since X11 makes it very difficult to do a consistent UI on any platform.
There is already an IM client that does this: Fire.app
Oracle has already "validated" the platform, as has Sybase, etc. MS will move to Linux kicking and screaming the same way they were brought to the Internet. Heh, I wonder if when that happens MS will claim to have invented Linux the same way they did the Internet.
Heh. Just market it as a white-noise generator.
Absolutely. I think the very existence of the Itanic is proof-positive exposing Intel's bogus claims that high clock cycles == high performance.
There was an article a few months back about some research at Sandia Labs regarding heat dissipation. (I wish I could find that article.) At any rate, one of their claims was that the "sweet spot" for microprocessor efficiency was around 1GHz; any higher than that, the heat/work ratio gets a bit top-heavy. A comment in the article stated that by the year 2007, Intel's design would need to dissipate the same about of heat per square inch as a nuclear reactor.
IIRC, the article was drawing attention to IBM's focus on lowering power consumption and that that course of action was the best, long-term.
So, given that, I think work per cycle is a valid criterion for processor selection (among others).
You've obviously never worked in a data center where cooling and power are a premium. In a room full of hundreds of Intel crap, you start to consider things like power consumption and heat dissipation. This is a fact: The higher the clock the more power and heat.
We started holding our data center manager accountable for his own electric bill. After that, efficiency (lower clocks to do the same work) started to take on a whole new meaning.
This particular criterion also got us to get the MS-weenies to shut up and we started to implement more Linux systems.
Except that someone who makes the whole widget is not an illegal monopoly. An illegal monopoly is someone who makes the part of the widget that the other parts rely on and and controls the other part vendors' access to consumers. MS controls Dell's and Gateway's access to consumers by making the componet that completes the system. If MS made the whole widget, they would not have been found guilty of being an abusive monopoly. But, since they stand at the crossroads between OEMs and consumers, and charge a toll in both directions, they are illegal.
Kind of like Sun's monopoly of Solaris/Sparc systems, and HP's monopoly of PA-RISC/HP/UX systems, and IBM's monopoly of POWER/AIX system? Or Sony's Playstation monopoly? etc. Do you even know what a monopoly is?
The name of the company is Apple Computer, Inc. Not AppleSoft. They make computers. That is their business.
They tried the OS license game. Those hardware vendors did nothing to expand the market but instead just canabilized Apple's hardware sales. It was a financial/business failure. Get over it.
Heh. Yeah. That would about as dumb as saying, "I want a Dell made by someone other than Dell." Or, a Playstation made by someone other than Sony.
It depends on the hardware. Memory, Video cards, hard drives, optical drives, PCI cards. All are "standard". In fact, the Mac probably will work will any kind of hardware you throw at it better than a BIOS-based PC.
If you mean case and/or motherboard then forget it. At the current speeds you need to engineer the whole widget or it won't work as well.
Not just on the radio, but also in the 30-second sample. Sometimes it's not always easy to hear what sounds good in a 30-second sample, but most times it's enough.
Importing a vector graphic for conversion to various resolutions of GIF or JPEG is very useful. I do this in photoshop all the time. The vector graphic is typically done by someone else; I just need to rasterize it at a given size.
Is this a firmware update or an OS update? The iPod has a hard drive after all. Firmware is stored in EPROMs and other such chips. Or maybe slashdot readers these days are too distant from real technology these days to know the difference?
Actually it is. Large parts are derived from FreeBSD, some from OpenBSD, and some from NetBSD. It is also an Open Source operating system. You can download the Darwin source code and do as you please including making up your own OS. It uses the Mach microkernel as does Tru64 Unix. Mac hardware uses OpenFirmware the same as does Sun. The BSDs (Darwin included) are just as much Unix as anything derived from System V.