Why was this moderated as informative? The guy doesn't even tell how he got the amount of 8k.
Note: if you really want to compare the price between Mac and PC don't take the prices of the Apple Store, that's the MOST EXPENSIVE prices around. Example: for 500 Mb of RAM, AppleStore charges $1050, shop around the web and you can get that for half the price. Same goes for HD and all the accessories.
Also he claims "Parts are expensive to replace". Those days Macs parts are the same as PCs except for the CPUs and the cases. You can even use Microsoft keyboards on your Mac (MS just released the drivers). RAM is PC100 SDRAM, HDs are IDE, graphics are AGP, ports are USB, Firewire and VGA. Now tell me, how could the parts be more expensive?
Finally let's do a real comparison:
From AppleStore, a "bare" (64 Mb of RAM, 20 Gb of HD, DVD-ROM & gigabit ethernet, no monitor) PowerMac G4 with two 500 MHz G4 processor comes to 2450 US$. That's quite far away from 8000.
From Dell, a "bare" (128 Mb RAM, 30 Gb HD, 100bT ethernet, no monitor) DIMENSION XPS B SERIES with a 1Ghz Pentium III comes to $2120
So the Mac is more expensive by 330 bucks for roughly the same hardware configuration (sure you have slightly more RAM and HD in the dell, but the Mac has gigabit ethernet). That's 15% of the value of the Dell. In my book 15% difference is not "fucking more expensive".
Besides I like the case of the Mac much better:-)
I really would like the myth that Macs are insanely expensive to die. Sure they are a bit more expensive but nothing to lose sleep over.
People keep saying that Apple and MacOS are doomed since Windows took off, if not even before.
Apple managed to survive despite Windows who has a 90+% market share, why would it die in front of Linux?
Linux has a long way to go to have all the features that appeal to the Mac market (plug & play, very consistent GUI, ease of installing new apps, color management, etc.) Not to mention that with MacOS X around the corner the MacOS will gain the features it was missing from the unix world.
Also... I don't understand why people want Linux to overtake all markets. It seems to me the Mac and Linux market are opposite. Personally I don't think you can have a one-size fit-all OS that will make everyone happy.
I guess people will argue that they are talking of the linux kernel and there will be various distros for various people needs... I wonder how widely different distro will be compatible at that point.
Another reason why the TA will want you to stick to a given environement is: automated tests.
To correct an assignement it's fairly common to have some scripts to do the compiles and testing of the binaries in one shot. You run that on a batch of assignements, it sorts for you the assignements in two kinds: those that pass the tests without raising a flag, and the assignements that need more attention.
Also TA for programming classes is quite some work (often unpaid), there is a lot to correct to do the job right. The last thing the TA wants to have to deal with is some "non-standard" (for the course that is) compiler environement.
And being exposed to several compilers is a good thing anyway:)
Note that one of the benefits is:
*CodeWarrior project files are freely interchangeable between platforms, making it easier for multi-platform development teams to share files and work together
If submitting a document generate URLs to access it and if to access the document you have to use URLs, how does the system prevent knowing what people upload/download just with traffic analysis (even if the data itself is not in "clear text")?
Note the traffic analysis would be based on the URLs, not on the random servers the data parts are stored on.
The legal basis is that those images were copyrighted and the people having access to them under an NDA or some other legally binding document. Someone broke his/her agreement to provide the pictures to the rumor sites.
Since it was pointed out several time, going after the news/rumors sites is silly (stupid) and they didn't break any law anyway.
Hoever going after the person(s) who broke the NDA makes perfect sense, leggaly wise.
Now whenever humanly it make sense or not, YMMV. Personally I don't think they should make a big deal of it. It's probably just Steve Jobs being his usual control freak self. However I much prefer them to go after people who break NDAs than after people who make rumor/news sites.
So a few weeks ago Apple sue a rumor site or two over the Cube and every scream bloody murder and tell Apple "the rumor sites are innocent, they didn't break any NDA. They just got info from people who broke NDAs, but getting the info itself is not illegal. You should sue the people who broke the NDA."
So far it makes sense. It was stupid of Apple to sue the rumor sites.
Now Apple does the right thing, i.e. suing the people who broke the NDA contracts and people are screaming bloody murder again.
Guess what? if the NDAs are not enforced, they become useless. If they become useless, companies will stop using them and bye-bye to early software & hardware seeding. Yep, Apple has hardware seeding too.
I don't think they have been suggested, because they wouldn't work.
1) would be useless, since most likely the FBI/police/etc would do the tapping at the ISP (either yours or the recipient's, depending who is beng tapped.) BTW, if you really want secure transmission between two sites , use IPsec... then all your traffic would be safe on the way to their destination. However that still doesn't solve the problem if either endpoint ISP is tapped.
2) Well, 2) is basiaclly the same as using PGP or GPG, etc. Having the email client do the encryption/decryption rather than the SMTP server give you the additional security that it doesn't matter if the ISPs are being tapped, as long as your machine or the recipients is not.
MacOS X should ship for $100, and will run on at least all Macs with a G3 or G4 chip. There was 3.7 millions iMacs sold in the past two years. Probably quite a bit of Powerbook and PowerMac G3/G4. The dual G4/450 box for $2500 is pretty sweet too.
Now if you refer to the two or three discussions about Mac developpement in the past on/. you will see that Mac developpers make plenty of cash. It has a large userbase that is loyal and pay for its softwares.
So, why wouldn't unix developpers tap into that market?
The UI part wouldn't even be that bad, for X-windows apps, you have a couple of X-windows clients/servers for MacOS (8/8 or X).
Last but not least, I wouldn't be surprised if some unix fox switched to MacOS X. After all, it's unix, the core (Mach kernel, BSD libs) is open source, the hardware is robust (if somewhat proprietary... but then the components are probably more standards than the ones on a SUN box), the GUI niiiice, and it should be plug & play. And access to all the Mac software (including games), if I'm not mistaken there might be more non-server/dev apps for the MacOS than most flavors of unix.
There is also a 4th wireless technology, wireless Firewire. Even tho the name sounds funny, Firewire is already widespread in DV hardware. Next logical step should be VCR and TVs. And going from the wire to the wireless version should be the next step.
Glad they are going to publish those data, it will be most interesting.
Also YES, those cell phones shouldn't be used in some cases like: * by drivers of vehicles in motion * by anyone in movie theater or other public place of performance * by anyone in restaurants (ever noticed that guy that is talking louder than the whole room? yup, he is trying to use his cell phone.)
As for not using them because of cancer and stuff... well if you really use them tons, just het a headset and you are safe.
Apple actually tested something similar with some of the Powerbooks Trackpad. You move the pointer by moving your finger on the area and you "click" by tapping on the Trackpad.
Apple has a long history of using non-mainstream pointer device.
Also, worse case, people will buy a mouse they like (they probably already have to do that with the round mouse and the tiny keyboard anyway.)
Well, now that computers are "inexpensive", why do we want to move away from personal computers back to terminals? (sure, fancy ones, but terminals nevetheless.)
Even assuming we had an infinite bandwidth, who does really benefit from that ASP model?
The users? most users use their computer at work or at home and that's about it. I doubt people need to write letters in the bus or in their car (and personally I would rather that drivers focus on driving rather than some other tasks.) And some plain enjoy not having a computer handy.
It seems the ASP model is more some Big Brother wet dream... they charge you per use, plus they store all you information, can it get any better than that? I think a few years ago, when Bill Gates started his MSN he said he wanted to make a few cents on every computer/network transactions... The ASP model seems to fit that vision perfectly.
Also given the state of reliability of softwares offered by Microsoft, AOL, and other software giants, I would be more than reluctant to have to rely on their ASP service to get any work done, even if I trusted them with the integrity and privacy of my data (which I don't.)
Record of Lodoss War - one of the best deal around, around $40 for the 13 OVA episodes, that's the series that got me hooked to animes years ago. It's traditional mediaval heroic fantasy
Ghost in the Shell - cyberpunk anime. A classic. From the manga by Shirow. Awesome.
Armitage III - Polymatrix - cyberpunkish anime. The drawing is not as cool as the most recent productions, but I like the story a lot.
Grave of the Fireflies - very beautiful and very sad. Story of two kids in 1945 japan.
On VHS:
Vision of Escaflowne - 26 episodes on 8 tapes, soon on DVD. One of the best anime series ever if you like the heroic fantasy kind. No downtime, it keeps moving forward all the way and the end is not a let down.
Dragon-Half - 2 episodes on 1 tape, rumored to come to DVD. The FUNNIEST anime I have ever seen, I thought I would die.
Miyuki-chan in Wonderland - 2 episodes on 1 tape. Adult version of Alice in Wonderland. Pretty funny. And great artwork, as one would expect from CLAMP.
One thing that would be interesting is a site with records of what corporations are found guilty of. One might want to know who they are buying from/investing in.
chess is not that hard, Go is
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Chess is not a hard problem computation wise, it's long. But for example, checking the victory condition is easy (can the king move).
Now, take the game of Go... it's much harder to figure out the victory condition. There are currently no computer Go program that play very very well (I think the best if first dan?)
Now, that would be an interesting problem to tackled down:)
There is a popular Mac game named Escape Velocity that does all that (missions with timeframe, depending on factions, trading, thrust needed to change trajectories, etc.), except it's in 2D and not 3D.
It is a lot of fun!
The url for that Mac game is: http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/ev/
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They are working with NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD to unify the package management of all *BSD. There was a story on /. a few days ago.
Why was this moderated as informative? The guy doesn't even tell how he got the amount of 8k.
:-)
Note: if you really want to compare the price between Mac and PC don't take the prices of the Apple Store, that's the MOST EXPENSIVE prices around. Example: for 500 Mb of RAM, AppleStore charges $1050, shop around the web and you can get that for half the price. Same goes for HD and all the accessories.
Also he claims "Parts are expensive to replace". Those days Macs parts are the same as PCs except for the CPUs and the cases. You can even use Microsoft keyboards on your Mac (MS just released the drivers). RAM is PC100 SDRAM, HDs are IDE, graphics are AGP, ports are USB, Firewire and VGA. Now tell me, how could the parts be more expensive?
Finally let's do a real comparison:
From AppleStore, a "bare" (64 Mb of RAM, 20 Gb of HD, DVD-ROM & gigabit ethernet, no monitor) PowerMac G4 with two 500 MHz G4 processor comes to 2450 US$. That's quite far away from 8000.
From Dell, a "bare" (128 Mb RAM, 30 Gb HD, 100bT ethernet, no monitor) DIMENSION XPS B SERIES with a 1Ghz Pentium III comes to $2120
So the Mac is more expensive by 330 bucks for roughly the same hardware configuration (sure you have slightly more RAM and HD in the dell, but the Mac has gigabit ethernet). That's 15% of the value of the Dell. In my book 15% difference is not "fucking more expensive".
Besides I like the case of the Mac much better
I really would like the myth that Macs are insanely expensive to die. Sure they are a bit more expensive but nothing to lose sleep over.
Janus
People keep saying that Apple and MacOS are doomed since Windows took off, if not even before.
Apple managed to survive despite Windows who has a 90+% market share, why would it die in front of Linux?
Linux has a long way to go to have all the features that appeal to the Mac market (plug & play, very consistent GUI, ease of installing new apps, color management, etc.) Not to mention that with MacOS X around the corner the MacOS will gain the features it was missing from the unix world.
Also... I don't understand why people want Linux to overtake all markets. It seems to me the Mac and Linux market are opposite. Personally I don't think you can have a one-size fit-all OS that will make everyone happy.
I guess people will argue that they are talking of the linux kernel and there will be various distros for various people needs... I wonder how widely different distro will be compatible at that point.
Anyway... time will tell.
Janus
Another reason why the TA will want you to stick to a given environement is: automated tests.
:)
To correct an assignement it's fairly common to have some scripts to do the compiles and testing of the binaries in one shot. You run that on a batch of assignements, it sorts for you the assignements in two kinds: those that pass the tests without raising a flag, and the assignements that need more attention.
Also TA for programming classes is quite some work (often unpaid), there is a lot to correct to do the job right. The last thing the TA wants to have to deal with is some "non-standard" (for the course that is) compiler environement.
And being exposed to several compilers is a good thing anyway
http://www.metrowerks.com/desktop/linux/
Note that one of the benefits is:
*CodeWarrior project files are freely interchangeable between platforms, making it easier for multi-platform development teams to share files and work together
If submitting a document generate URLs to access it and if to access the document you have to use URLs, how does the system prevent knowing what people upload/download just with traffic analysis (even if the data itself is not in "clear text")?
Note the traffic analysis would be based on the URLs, not on the random servers the data parts are stored on.
The legal basis is that those images were copyrighted and the people having access to them under an NDA or some other legally binding document. Someone broke his/her agreement to provide the pictures to the rumor sites.
Since it was pointed out several time, going after the news/rumors sites is silly (stupid) and they didn't break any law anyway.
Hoever going after the person(s) who broke the NDA makes perfect sense, leggaly wise.
Now whenever humanly it make sense or not, YMMV. Personally I don't think they should make a big deal of it. It's probably just Steve Jobs being his usual control freak self. However I much prefer them to go after people who break NDAs than after people who make rumor/news sites.
>Internet Explorer 5.5 is the most standard-compliant browser
>in the universe.
I think that distinction would go to iCab . Also if a page is not compliant iCab tells you and you can view a list of errors.
Oh yeah, and iCab only uses 2 Mb of HD space and 4 Mb of RAM, and let you do a good deal of things junkbuster does.
Granted, it's only of Mac (but then IE 5.5 is only for Windows.)
So a few weeks ago Apple sue a rumor site or two over the Cube and every scream bloody murder and tell Apple "the rumor sites are innocent, they didn't break any NDA. They just got info from people who broke NDAs, but getting the info itself is not illegal. You should sue the people who broke the NDA."
So far it makes sense. It was stupid of Apple to sue the rumor sites.
Now Apple does the right thing, i.e. suing the people who broke the NDA contracts and people are screaming bloody murder again.
Guess what? if the NDAs are not enforced, they become useless. If they become useless, companies will stop using them and bye-bye to early software & hardware seeding. Yep, Apple has hardware seeding too.
It's been running for a while:
http://www.epost.ca/main/english/index.shtml
Also note it's not only for Canadians, US residents can register too. (And I think they have always been able to.)
Check the registration form.
I don't think they have been suggested, because they wouldn't work.
1) would be useless, since most likely the FBI/police/etc would do the tapping at the ISP (either yours or the recipient's, depending who is beng tapped.)
BTW, if you really want secure transmission between two sites , use IPsec... then all your traffic would be safe on the way to their destination. However that still doesn't solve the problem if either endpoint ISP is tapped.
2) Well, 2) is basiaclly the same as using PGP or GPG, etc. Having the email client do the encryption/decryption rather than the SMTP server give you the additional security that it doesn't matter if the ISPs are being tapped, as long as your machine or the recipients is not.
MacOS X should ship for $100, and will run on at least all Macs with a G3 or G4 chip. There was 3.7 millions iMacs sold in the past two years. Probably quite a bit of Powerbook and PowerMac G3/G4.
/. you will see that Mac developpers make plenty of cash. It has a large userbase that is loyal and pay for its softwares.
:)
The dual G4/450 box for $2500 is pretty sweet too.
Now if you refer to the two or three discussions about Mac developpement in the past on
So, why wouldn't unix developpers tap into that market?
The UI part wouldn't even be that bad, for X-windows apps, you have a couple of X-windows clients/servers for MacOS (8/8 or X).
Last but not least, I wouldn't be surprised if some unix fox switched to MacOS X. After all, it's unix, the core (Mach kernel, BSD libs) is open source, the hardware is robust (if somewhat proprietary... but then the components are probably more standards than the ones on a SUN box), the GUI niiiice, and it should be plug & play. And access to all the Mac software (including games), if I'm not mistaken there might be more non-server/dev apps for the MacOS than most flavors of unix.
Oh yeah, and no need to dual boot to play games
Just some thoughts.
Janus
There is also a 4th wireless technology, wireless Firewire. Even tho the name sounds funny, Firewire is already widespread in DV hardware. Next logical step should be VCR and TVs. And going from the wire to the wireless version should be the next step.
Glad they are going to publish those data, it will be most interesting.
Also YES, those cell phones shouldn't be used in some cases like:
* by drivers of vehicles in motion
* by anyone in movie theater or other public place of performance
* by anyone in restaurants (ever noticed that guy that is talking louder than the whole room? yup, he is trying to use his cell phone.)
As for not using them because of cancer and stuff... well if you really use them tons, just het a headset and you are safe.
Surprise surprise, BSD books coming to O'Reilly... and MacOS X coming out soon (public beta this summer, 1.0 for Macworld SF in January 2001).
MacOS X will mean a lot of Mac developpers/IT people needing to get BSD books. That's quite a market.
Isn't it what the open root server confederation is about?
Apple actually tested something similar with some of the Powerbooks Trackpad. You move the pointer by moving your finger on the area and you "click" by tapping on the Trackpad.
Apple has a long history of using non-mainstream pointer device.
Also, worse case, people will buy a mouse they like (they probably already have to do that with the round mouse and the tiny keyboard anyway.)
I guess it geopardize Amazon's One-Click patent!
:-)
I wonder if Apple patented the One-Squeeze shopping cart
>In the past, computers were expensive.
Well, now that computers are "inexpensive", why do we want to move away from personal computers back to terminals? (sure, fancy ones, but terminals nevetheless.)
Even assuming we had an infinite bandwidth, who does really benefit from that ASP model?
The users? most users use their computer at work or at home and that's about it. I doubt people need to write letters in the bus or in their car (and personally I would rather that drivers focus on driving rather than some other tasks.) And some plain enjoy not having a computer handy.
It seems the ASP model is more some Big Brother wet dream... they charge you per use, plus they store all you information, can it get any better than that?
I think a few years ago, when Bill Gates started his MSN he said he wanted to make a few cents on every computer/network transactions... The ASP model seems to fit that vision perfectly.
Also given the state of reliability of softwares offered by Microsoft, AOL, and other software giants, I would be more than reluctant to have to rely on their ASP service to get any work done, even if I trusted them with the integrity and privacy of my data (which I don't.)
Janus
On DVD:
Record of Lodoss War - one of the best deal around, around $40 for the 13 OVA episodes, that's the series that got me hooked to animes years ago. It's traditional mediaval heroic fantasy
Ghost in the Shell - cyberpunk anime. A classic. From the manga by Shirow. Awesome.
Armitage III - Polymatrix - cyberpunkish anime. The drawing is not as cool as the most recent productions, but I like the story a lot.
Grave of the Fireflies - very beautiful and very sad. Story of two kids in 1945 japan.
On VHS:
Vision of Escaflowne - 26 episodes on 8 tapes, soon on DVD. One of the best anime series ever if you like the heroic fantasy kind. No downtime, it keeps moving forward all the way and the end is not a let down.
Dragon-Half - 2 episodes on 1 tape, rumored to come to DVD. The FUNNIEST anime I have ever seen, I thought I would die.
Miyuki-chan in Wonderland - 2 episodes on 1 tape. Adult version of Alice in Wonderland. Pretty funny. And great artwork, as one would expect from CLAMP.
Enjoy!
Janus
One thing that would be interesting is a site with records of what corporations are found guilty of. One might want to know who they are buying from/investing in.
Chess is not a hard problem computation wise, it's long.
:)
But for example, checking the victory condition is easy (can the king move).
Now, take the game of Go... it's much harder to figure out the victory condition. There are currently no computer Go program that play very very well (I think the best if first dan?)
Now, that would be an interesting problem to tackled down
There is a popular Mac game named Escape Velocity that does all that (missions with timeframe, depending on factions, trading, thrust needed to change trajectories, etc.), except it's in 2D and not 3D.
It is a lot of fun!
The url for that Mac game is:
http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/ev/
Still, it would have been better with built-in ethernet.
Or even better, support for an optional wireless ethernet card (like Apple's Airport)
It seems that having to carry around adapters (USB->ethernet), wires, etc around defeat the purpose of it being so small in the first place.
(wave hand) These are not the backdoors you are looking for.