As a few people have pointed out, that's drive performance. I don't think alot of people will suffer from this.
I am kind of paranoid however with my older TiBook because of the slower drive. As is, my external firewire drive rapes the internal one speed wise.
Be interesting to see though.
As long as Apple keeps releasing things like Quartz Extreme and system updates to increase performance, I'm not too worried about sacrificing a little for JFS.
I made the switch over last December. Love it.
I was really more of a FreeBSD user, but you get the idea. It's wonderful to be able to have an attractive GUI with all too many bells and whistles to work with, but still be able to throw up a terminal window with bash and work with the real heart of things if you feel the need.
Plus the ability to run XFree86 rootless on top of the GUI is nice.
Seems like lately Apple has been hellbent on increasing performance and reintegrating features from 9. Not that I'm complaining, 10.2.1 runs like a dream on my TiBook. Glad to see things moving forward.
Yeah, and retrospect, I think you're right, especially about this post. While I guessed right by 3D, it could have been a fooking 3D crossword puzzle, heh.
I'm sorry that my inability to spell a couple of words and a couple of typos ruined your life. I'll try and do better, I promise! OH PLEASE DON'T DO THIS I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU!
Jesus people are anal.
I have to agree that in an opensource situation, it's kind of a waste of manpower to have people working on two identical projects.. but the more projects there are, the more competition there is. They've got somebody to be better than, steal ideas for features from, etc.
I think the existence of other projects is a good thing.. as long as it actually exists, and isn't just vaporware.
I hate to be a dick here but uh..
Don't you see where it says 3D in the post? Moonlight|3D. People talking about modelers?
I think the point of searching was just so they could laugh at CmdrTaco and be like 'oh, we're dead eh? eat new release silly man!'
I think the problem is that the music industry is charging too much money for a CD. Artists benefit more from live performances than from CD sales to my knowledge anyway, so who are we really supporting?
Read an interesting article in PC World this month I believe where Dvorak ranted about how CDs should cost $1.40. I don't know if I agree with his logic in that article totally, but the real point he tried to make was this: at that rate, they'd still be making money, and when something is less than $2 the monteary lines between burning a CD and buying one are blurred.
Sorry if my original post was more like a ramble, but I don't know who else is supposed to solve the piracy problem. I don't believe there is physically a way to stop piracy, only ways to make it less attractive.
I don't know. To some degree, I think they've got a point there.
For example, look at some serious technology flops. Even if bandwidth and computing power hadn't restricted things, I really doubt people would have been pirating laser discs. It's just a PITA. Same with MD when you could actually buy minidisc albums at Best Buy and Circus City.
If nobody adopts the technology, they're definately less likely to have to worry about piracy. Of course, they're also less likely to have to worry about making money,.
I'm relieved to hear that someone has finally come up with technology that will prevent audio piracy. I will sleep so much better at night knowing that I can no longer comit these horrible crimes against society. Thank God these new inventions are so often complicated enough that nothing short of a black magic marker can break the glorious encryption!
[/sarcasm]
Now, I understand these people are trying to market their goods, and stressing the fact that it's difficult to copy is probably a good strategy for them to use to sell to record companies, but jesus.. is anyone still stupid enough to believe that if a technology can be invented to "prevent" compying, that it cannot be surcomvented just as easily?
I wish they'd spend this much time coming up with a real solution to the problem rather than trying to throw money at it.
Have to agree with you. I got shit. My employer even had the balls to say "Well I don't even know if you need this job" because I'm 20. Apparently he was under the impression that my bills pay themself, or some magical intity pays them for me.
I'd like to know where I sign up to get other people to pay my bills.
I withdrew the first time from lack of interest and literally just left to persue my career as a PHP monkey for a company several friends of mine were starting.
Now, I understand your company is doing well, but let me tell you--if it doesn't do well, you're really going to regret not having your degree. I'm 20 and I just moved back to the college town I originally started Uni in and I'm hoping they're going to let me in without a struggle because of my poor GPA. The company I went for was doing fine for a good while, but then steadily became taking turns for the worse, and eventually I was laid off and because of how my sneaky boss worked things was unellegable for unemployement or anything.
In the market right now, it's a real bitch to find a job (at least where I am, I'm still unemployed and about out of savings, feh) especially without a degree.
Juggling full time work and night school is a pain--I left--but I promise you if you keep with it I'm sure it'll make for a great backup plan.
Besides, you're the evil boss.. aren't you supposed to have slave workers like me to do work for you while you go to school? heh:D
One thing has been bothering me about our "search for Osama" or whatever.. assuming we did find him, wouldn't we have to produce hard evidence that he was behind 9/11? Now, don't get me wrong, I understand what we *know*, but what we *know* and what flies in some kind of court ruled by international law is totally different. I can't seem to recall anything where he claims responsibility, but rather that he's always just praising whoever did it.
Assuming we found him, do you guys believe that we would have any idea? I personally think that we wouldn't be informed until after he was tried and executed by the military.
It seems we're after Osama more for vengance than for our own safety at this point, so that just makes sense to me.
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Anyway.. I understand why today is very serious and all of that, but did America just forgot about 9/11 until a year later? It sure as hell seems like everybody decided to pretend it didn't happen and then just remembered today. I was not personally affected by these events of course, but I had coped with them fairly quickly.
It was the first real attack on America from an outside force since Pearl Harbor as best as my memory serves me.. thousands died, and I do feel sorry for those who lost loved ones, but relative to the number of people who die every single day, or just when compared to the total number of people in this country, let alone the world, the number is small.
If we continue to freak out about this and allow it to change us, then they've really suceeded. I mean, the point of "terrorists" is to terrorize, right? I mean, they scare the hell out of it, it's what they do. Well, apparently they did a damn good job since we're all freaked out as hell about all of this.
I don't know.. just my thoughts for the day.
I think it'd be more likely to be those movie execs that are the ones doing the fake posting. This is great publicity for them. It gets all the warez monkeys out looking for it and wanting to see the movie.. and then when they can't find it, they'll have to go see it in theaters.
Of course, that's a pretty foolish plan because I think we all agree that it'll be online before the national debut..
While I agree that frequency is not the only important factor when talking about speed, the bottom line is that you can only use that excuse for so long.
The 1ghz G4s may whip the pants off of a 1ghz AMD or Intel chip, but I don't think anyone is going to claim that a single 1ghz G4 will overtake a 2.5ghz P4 in anything--even rigged Photoshop filters.
I love Apple, and I don't necessarily support the jump to x86 chips, but somebody needs to force Motorolla and IBM to get on the damn ball and throw stuff out.
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Especially in a single post that was supposed to be funny, heh :D
Just let me know when you find a 5,000$ laptop and we'll find out, heh :D
As a few people have pointed out, that's drive performance. I don't think alot of people will suffer from this. I am kind of paranoid however with my older TiBook because of the slower drive. As is, my external firewire drive rapes the internal one speed wise. Be interesting to see though.
Disk Read Failure: The King is dead.
As long as Apple keeps releasing things like Quartz Extreme and system updates to increase performance, I'm not too worried about sacrificing a little for JFS.
I made the switch over last December. Love it. I was really more of a FreeBSD user, but you get the idea. It's wonderful to be able to have an attractive GUI with all too many bells and whistles to work with, but still be able to throw up a terminal window with bash and work with the real heart of things if you feel the need. Plus the ability to run XFree86 rootless on top of the GUI is nice.
Seems like lately Apple has been hellbent on increasing performance and reintegrating features from 9. Not that I'm complaining, 10.2.1 runs like a dream on my TiBook. Glad to see things moving forward.
Yeah, and retrospect, I think you're right, especially about this post. While I guessed right by 3D, it could have been a fooking 3D crossword puzzle, heh.
I'm sorry that my inability to spell a couple of words and a couple of typos ruined your life. I'll try and do better, I promise! OH PLEASE DON'T DO THIS I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU! Jesus people are anal.
Sounds like it's destined to be an invaluable tool for the makers of Duke Nukem Forever.
I have to agree that in an opensource situation, it's kind of a waste of manpower to have people working on two identical projects.. but the more projects there are, the more competition there is. They've got somebody to be better than, steal ideas for features from, etc. I think the existence of other projects is a good thing.. as long as it actually exists, and isn't just vaporware.
I hate to be a dick here but uh.. Don't you see where it says 3D in the post? Moonlight|3D. People talking about modelers? I think the point of searching was just so they could laugh at CmdrTaco and be like 'oh, we're dead eh? eat new release silly man!'
And here in two seconds, the slashdot effect will make sure nobody on the internet can tell the difference.
Ow, I bruised my bandwidth!
My karma would look alot better if I was :D
I think the problem is that the music industry is charging too much money for a CD. Artists benefit more from live performances than from CD sales to my knowledge anyway, so who are we really supporting?
Read an interesting article in PC World this month I believe where Dvorak ranted about how CDs should cost $1.40. I don't know if I agree with his logic in that article totally, but the real point he tried to make was this: at that rate, they'd still be making money, and when something is less than $2 the monteary lines between burning a CD and buying one are blurred.
Sorry if my original post was more like a ramble, but I don't know who else is supposed to solve the piracy problem. I don't believe there is physically a way to stop piracy, only ways to make it less attractive.
I don't know. To some degree, I think they've got a point there. For example, look at some serious technology flops. Even if bandwidth and computing power hadn't restricted things, I really doubt people would have been pirating laser discs. It's just a PITA. Same with MD when you could actually buy minidisc albums at Best Buy and Circus City.
If nobody adopts the technology, they're definately less likely to have to worry about piracy. Of course, they're also less likely to have to worry about making money,.
I'm relieved to hear that someone has finally come up with technology that will prevent audio piracy. I will sleep so much better at night knowing that I can no longer comit these horrible crimes against society. Thank God these new inventions are so often complicated enough that nothing short of a black magic marker can break the glorious encryption! [/sarcasm] Now, I understand these people are trying to market their goods, and stressing the fact that it's difficult to copy is probably a good strategy for them to use to sell to record companies, but jesus.. is anyone still stupid enough to believe that if a technology can be invented to "prevent" compying, that it cannot be surcomvented just as easily? I wish they'd spend this much time coming up with a real solution to the problem rather than trying to throw money at it.
Have to agree with you. I got shit. My employer even had the balls to say "Well I don't even know if you need this job" because I'm 20. Apparently he was under the impression that my bills pay themself, or some magical intity pays them for me. I'd like to know where I sign up to get other people to pay my bills.
Well, according to the fellows over at kuro5hin, this might be my fault. I smell a class action lawsuit in my future, heh :D
I withdrew the first time from lack of interest and literally just left to persue my career as a PHP monkey for a company several friends of mine were starting. Now, I understand your company is doing well, but let me tell you--if it doesn't do well, you're really going to regret not having your degree. I'm 20 and I just moved back to the college town I originally started Uni in and I'm hoping they're going to let me in without a struggle because of my poor GPA. The company I went for was doing fine for a good while, but then steadily became taking turns for the worse, and eventually I was laid off and because of how my sneaky boss worked things was unellegable for unemployement or anything. In the market right now, it's a real bitch to find a job (at least where I am, I'm still unemployed and about out of savings, feh) especially without a degree. Juggling full time work and night school is a pain--I left--but I promise you if you keep with it I'm sure it'll make for a great backup plan. Besides, you're the evil boss.. aren't you supposed to have slave workers like me to do work for you while you go to school? heh :D
One thing has been bothering me about our "search for Osama" or whatever.. assuming we did find him, wouldn't we have to produce hard evidence that he was behind 9/11? Now, don't get me wrong, I understand what we *know*, but what we *know* and what flies in some kind of court ruled by international law is totally different. I can't seem to recall anything where he claims responsibility, but rather that he's always just praising whoever did it. Assuming we found him, do you guys believe that we would have any idea? I personally think that we wouldn't be informed until after he was tried and executed by the military. It seems we're after Osama more for vengance than for our own safety at this point, so that just makes sense to me. --- Anyway.. I understand why today is very serious and all of that, but did America just forgot about 9/11 until a year later? It sure as hell seems like everybody decided to pretend it didn't happen and then just remembered today. I was not personally affected by these events of course, but I had coped with them fairly quickly. It was the first real attack on America from an outside force since Pearl Harbor as best as my memory serves me.. thousands died, and I do feel sorry for those who lost loved ones, but relative to the number of people who die every single day, or just when compared to the total number of people in this country, let alone the world, the number is small. If we continue to freak out about this and allow it to change us, then they've really suceeded. I mean, the point of "terrorists" is to terrorize, right? I mean, they scare the hell out of it, it's what they do. Well, apparently they did a damn good job since we're all freaked out as hell about all of this. I don't know.. just my thoughts for the day.
I think it'd be more likely to be those movie execs that are the ones doing the fake posting. This is great publicity for them. It gets all the warez monkeys out looking for it and wanting to see the movie.. and then when they can't find it, they'll have to go see it in theaters. Of course, that's a pretty foolish plan because I think we all agree that it'll be online before the national debut..
I'm not convinced testicles are very aerodynamic, heh :D
I thought it was *Redbull* that gave you wings!
While I agree that frequency is not the only important factor when talking about speed, the bottom line is that you can only use that excuse for so long. The 1ghz G4s may whip the pants off of a 1ghz AMD or Intel chip, but I don't think anyone is going to claim that a single 1ghz G4 will overtake a 2.5ghz P4 in anything--even rigged Photoshop filters. I love Apple, and I don't necessarily support the jump to x86 chips, but somebody needs to force Motorolla and IBM to get on the damn ball and throw stuff out.