Strictly speaking the 4.77Mhz 8086 CPU's in the Original IBM PC (I have used those) have nothing to do with modern x86 platforms. And PC actually meant "Personal Computer". Find such a "PC" and look at the logo: it says "IBM Personal Computer" and not "IBM PC".
I disagree... You are entitled to your opinion. *ANYTHING* given back to the community is *A GOOD THING".
Yes, that is true....And many can be flashed to be used in Macs. Don't you think that the fact that peripheral boards *rely* on BIOS and PC-style hardware is a bad design from the peripheral board designers. The PC BIOS should have died a decade ago. Besides, people running Suns don't complain either that peripheral boards are focussed on the x86 market.
Dunno... I know people running Macs of diverse ages as primary desktop. Yes, some of them run OS 7, but they don't see a need to upgrading.
I run 5 to 7 year old machines (my pride is a Pentium Pro 200, 256Meg RAM, full SCSI, 8+18Gig HD's), myself but I know how to admin, I know how to upgrade and I love my machines. But this is *not* for the casual user, anything below a P-II has become unbearable for the casual user.
Excused.... I'm nitpickin on it anyway. I just don't like it that people say that Macs are no personal computers
It doesn't make it a good think, but they have been nice and contributed back. This is a major difference in comparision to what Microsoft does.
Yes, they sucked. They play nice now. Look at IBM, they sucked in the late eighties, now they rock. Companies change. Perhaps in 10 years we'll all love Mircosoft around here.
I don't know where you live... But I just went to the website of Dell, and configured a x86 that is (except for the CPU) equivalent to a Mac with Mac OS X:
Dimension 2300 Value
Intel® Celeron® processor 1.7Ghz
1024MB 133MHz SDRAM (2x512MB)
40GB ATA-100 Ultra DMA
Dell E772 17'' (15,9'' VIS)
48x CD-Burner (CD-RW)
Dell stereo speakers 206
10/100MB netwerkkaart
56K V.90 PCI Data/Fax Modem
Dell Movie Studio I (IEEE 1394)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home
Microsoft® Works 6.0
Total Price including VAT: 1706,10 EUR /
Everything I selected Extra, was fair because the Mac comes standard with it. People just find Macs expensive because Macs come with everything and a kitchen sink. This machine is equivalent to the G4 I described. Yes, except the CPU, yes, I know.
Perhaps model development is slower, but I don't think it is that much an issue.
Ehm.... I actually ment that he should use x86 to refer to WinTel/WinAMD/LinTel/LinAMD machines. So that the old "A Mac is not a PC", dies a horrible death. As is common knowlegde around here, x86 is already RISC in the core but has a "translation unit".
I just paraphrase what I have heard in so many discussions around here, I don't know if it's true.
Mac's are PC's... PC is just an abbreviation for "Personal Computer". Use x86 instead.
They give back to the BSD community. Not everything of course (look, giving Aqua under the BSD license is suicide), but I'm pretty sure that PPC machines (and thus macs) are better supported now by OpenBSD and NetBSD. That is contributing back! Don't forget that they don't even have to because it's the BSD license which damn well allows you to take the code and keep it for yourself.
Apple's are now pretty generic computers with standard PCI, standard RAM, only the CPU is different. Back in the day they did tricks with ROM's etc...but those are gone by now.
High pricing? eMac: G4 700Mhz, 40Gig HD, 1Gig RAM, NVidia GeForce2 MX, CD-R/RW for 1600Euro. Ehm... I think that's pretty good bang for the buck! And waaaaay prettier than any beige box you can get.
I personally own an iBook, and a comparable Dell was really about the same price. I agree that the dual G4's are a bit pricy but look at the prices of a nice Dual Proc Dell workstation fully equipped and then we'll talk again. Oh, and then don't forget that Macs last longer.
Always compare prices of Apple computers to Dells, Compaq's, etc. Don't start with the idea: "I can build something better cheaper", I know that, you know that, but it's a different market.
I use Chimera and Mozilla both on my iBook. Internet Explorer gets started only when a page really does not want to display correctly.
Chimera is registred as default browser because it loads way faster than Mozilla. Chimera definately is good, it surely doesn't crash as much as in the 0.3 days (or was that 0.2? I don't recall).
On heavy load Mozilla surely feels sluggish, and something that I don't like is that Mozilla will not pop up the window if I minimized it and click on the "M" in the dock. All Mac applications do this, except Mozilla. Why?
Yes, I suspected you didn't read the other comment. You didn't come over as a dick, since I really was wrong. Glad someone corrected it, and at least you gave some extra information for those that were too lazy to google themselves.
Yes, another poster pointed that out already, you don't need to turn the knife around in the wound. I was wrong you are right. Sorry, my historical knowlegde isn't perfect.
Seems some suckers really think you will introduce them to your sister because you got a +1 Informative. If anything, your post is Redundant (I hate that moderation, it shouldn't exist, nor should Underrated and Overrated).
Hope your sister is at least a bit cute for these screwed-up-moderators.
I know that as a kid I found my dads porn magazines. Strangely enough in the beginning it was just playboys and it went more hardcore and hardcore over the years.
Now this either means my dad got more perverse, or he damn well knew that I was "using" them.
Now it's much more relaxed: we just share links of good porn sites.
In the original version, I don't recall levels of nudity. (Larry III had them for sure)
I don't know exactly how old I was when I played the EGA version of Larry, but I'm pretty sure it was around 12, and I wrote just all questions down with the anwers and marked the correct answer down as soon as I knew it.
Of course, much later, I heard of "Alt-X". I still enjoyed the questions, it was half of the fun!
And Larry Laffer probably retired to some tropical island and has that gorgeous babe called Patti on his lap. Lucky bastard!
You shouldn't take your parent poster is so seriously (he was damned funny!)... Actually, I think I shouldn't take you seriously either because I'm convinced that this is the kind of humour that the common slashdotter will not get.
Just a small recification:
Datastructures like you descibred get thrown at you in the first year of University (well, if you do computer science of course). They are often documented in different "hands-on" programming books. It's the basics of CS, and I am convinced you should know them better than your firstborn, but it really is pretty basic stuff.
Now I feel stupid. Thanks for the rectification. It was meant as a joke however, but that's no excuse for historical inaccuracy. (And next time I Google, before I write something down that I don't know for sure)
Someone already did this before you. I think his name was something like "Pasteur", but I might be wrong.
Of course, he neglected to wash his petri-dishes, but it brought him a Nobel anyway.
Of course you can include GPL code in your closed source projects. The only problem is that you will have to be the one and only user/developer ever because you would have to keep the program for yourself.
It doesn't really restrict you. Well, some EULA's restrict you much more.
One thing that isn't clear to me is how GPL code can be used in in-house projects. I mean, many software is developped inhouse and sometimes including GPL code would be very useful. Since it is not distributed (only within the company), can I use GPL code? I'm not sure...
No I can't but I have a 1.8liter car that kick almost any other regular car on the street. And no, it doesn't get more than 7000RPM. I only get beat by Porsches, Ferrari's and high end BMW's. All those have 3.0liter engines and above. Numbers say nothing, it is the actual performance that counts.
Apologies accepted...
Guess I should move to Sweden then, because here, I dunno what it is, geeky types are not really "popular". Oh, well, I still have my computers to keep me company...and Lara Croft of course *grin*. (Note: I never played Tomb Raider in my whole life).
What exactly is wrong with you? Don't you have a sarcasm detector or something like that?
If you read my post more carefully, you will notice that I prefer "normal looking women" (cup A or cup B is normal, I think Lara has aboutr triple-F) over models/monsters/computer game characters.
I know about normal women, unfortunately those don't want geeks.... Those want the muscular jock and oh, wait, that is exactly how men are displayed in computer games. How astonishing! (For your information: your sarcasm detector should have exploded by now!)
So all female game characters should look like "Helga" (is that her name), one of the Bosses of Wolfenstein 3D? (The MCGA version, kiddies!)
If you picture women who actually would be able to do all these things like Lara, don't you automatically thing of a bodybuilding lady, or a high-level competition girl? Now, honestly, I find neither pretty. (Hey, show me one bodybuilt girl that is pretty *or* one athlete that is *really* pretty and I take this back!)
I'd rather have a Lara lookalike with smaller breast (really, A or B is more than enough, I tell ya!), than any of these girls.
I think that there is another aspect on game characters: You know, I like Halflife. I played it through many nights. However the character (a Scientist...not a Marine), Gordon Freeman, was not important to me. I never identified me as this character, for me I was *not* Gordon Freeman, I was myself trying to survive in these alien situation. It's not identification, it's immersion.
One of the games that did characters right was The Sims. You can actually create old-looking people, fatty people, very pretty people. I don't know how many people use a fat-bellied-gray-haired Sim, but I do! Just to make a point that diversity is good. Not everyone should look like "Bella" (One of the tutorial sims).
Male characters tend to be more gruff and muscular, implying physical capability, intimidation, and power.
So you think it is flattering to be compared to a Moronic Marine, or a Neanderthal man? Heck, if you see some of those characters in games, you wonder if they are *high* enough in the evolutional ladder to walk upright!
I'm sorry, but one of the most sexist displays (according to "big-breasts-or-very-pretty") are found in fashion magazines, and guess who buys that kind of stuff?
And honestly, Lara might be a hottie (I prefer the Lara impersonators..they are real at least), but a chick that handles guns like she does is clearly very intimidating! No way, I approach (even a ugly girl) with guns!
I remember however one (funny) sexist commercial with Lara croft. You see her fighting some monsters, runs along a corridor and suddenly stops, watching something and then sighing. The the camera pans behind her and you see she is watching a bridal dress. Extremely funny. Anybody seen that? Anybody got a link where I can download it?
Right on! I don't exactly know how many girls already asked "are my breasts too small?". Well do I care? They're breasts, no? Big, small..any breast is good to me (on a female, that is)
Many girls are concerned with their breast size, just few admit it in public. Otherwhise you couldn't explain all the breast surgery done.
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And why did you read the Secret Diary of your big (little) sister? Right, that's what I thought!
Well, this is about the same thing. A lot of people write for themselves, not for an audience. That other people can read what they wrote and eventually comment is just a bonus, not a necessity. Here is an example of these kind of people who write for themselves. I admit it's not always entertaining, but hey, *your* life isn't that great either you know.
I remember getting my first cellphone for over 7 years ago. I read about this nifty thing called SMS in the manual (back then cellphones came with 200 page manuals) and I wanted to try it. Problem was: I knew noone with a cellphone!
Now seven years later, I have a cellphone and about everyone I know has a cellphone. Now I can SMS them, but then I really have nothing to tell! *sigh* Things never seem to change;-)
There is a simple solution to this: declare calls TO cellphones as "Long distance" calls. Problem solved. Cellphone users don't need to pay up when called.
In some cases, here in Europe, calling to a cellphone costs actually as much as a long distance call. Sounds really normal to me. So you can even keep your "free local calls", because cellphones just ain't "local".
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Strictly speaking the 4.77Mhz 8086 CPU's in the Original IBM PC (I have used those) have nothing to do with modern x86 platforms. And PC actually meant "Personal Computer". Find such a "PC" and look at the logo: it says "IBM Personal Computer" and not "IBM PC".
I disagree... You are entitled to your opinion. *ANYTHING* given back to the community is *A GOOD THING".
Yes, that is true....And many can be flashed to be used in Macs. Don't you think that the fact that peripheral boards *rely* on BIOS and PC-style hardware is a bad design from the peripheral board designers. The PC BIOS should have died a decade ago. Besides, people running Suns don't complain either that peripheral boards are focussed on the x86 market.
Dunno... I know people running Macs of diverse ages as primary desktop. Yes, some of them run OS 7, but they don't see a need to upgrading.
I run 5 to 7 year old machines (my pride is a Pentium Pro 200, 256Meg RAM, full SCSI, 8+18Gig HD's), myself but I know how to admin, I know how to upgrade and I love my machines. But this is *not* for the casual user, anything below a P-II has become unbearable for the casual user.
- Dimension 2300 Value
- Intel® Celeron® processor 1.7Ghz
- 1024MB 133MHz SDRAM (2x512MB)
- 40GB ATA-100 Ultra DMA
- Dell E772 17'' (15,9'' VIS)
- 48x CD-Burner (CD-RW)
- Dell stereo speakers 206
- 10/100MB netwerkkaart
- 56K V.90 PCI Data/Fax Modem
- Dell Movie Studio I (IEEE 1394)
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Home
- Microsoft® Works 6.0
- Total Price including VAT: 1706,10 EUR
/
Everything I selected Extra, was fair because the Mac comes standard with it. People just find Macs expensive because Macs come with everything and a kitchen sink. This machine is equivalent to the G4 I described. Yes, except the CPU, yes, I know.Perhaps model development is slower, but I don't think it is that much an issue.
Ehm.... I actually ment that he should use x86 to refer to WinTel/WinAMD/LinTel/LinAMD machines. So that the old "A Mac is not a PC", dies a horrible death. As is common knowlegde around here, x86 is already RISC in the core but has a "translation unit".
I just paraphrase what I have heard in so many discussions around here, I don't know if it's true.
I personally own an iBook, and a comparable Dell was really about the same price. I agree that the dual G4's are a bit pricy but look at the prices of a nice Dual Proc Dell workstation fully equipped and then we'll talk again. Oh, and then don't forget that Macs last longer.
Always compare prices of Apple computers to Dells, Compaq's, etc. Don't start with the idea: "I can build something better cheaper", I know that, you know that, but it's a different market.
I use Chimera and Mozilla both on my iBook. Internet Explorer gets started only when a page really does not want to display correctly.
Chimera is registred as default browser because it loads way faster than Mozilla. Chimera definately is good, it surely doesn't crash as much as in the 0.3 days (or was that 0.2? I don't recall).
On heavy load Mozilla surely feels sluggish, and something that I don't like is that Mozilla will not pop up the window if I minimized it and click on the "M" in the dock. All Mac applications do this, except Mozilla. Why?
Yes, I suspected you didn't read the other comment. You didn't come over as a dick, since I really was wrong. Glad someone corrected it, and at least you gave some extra information for those that were too lazy to google themselves.
Yes, another poster pointed that out already, you don't need to turn the knife around in the wound. I was wrong you are right. Sorry, my historical knowlegde isn't perfect.
Seems some suckers really think you will introduce them to your sister because you got a +1 Informative. If anything, your post is Redundant (I hate that moderation, it shouldn't exist, nor should Underrated and Overrated).
Hope your sister is at least a bit cute for these screwed-up-moderators.
Now this either means my dad got more perverse, or he damn well knew that I was "using" them.
Now it's much more relaxed: we just share links of good porn sites.
...and that is the reason why I watch german TV all the time.
I don't know exactly how old I was when I played the EGA version of Larry, but I'm pretty sure it was around 12, and I wrote just all questions down with the anwers and marked the correct answer down as soon as I knew it.
Of course, much later, I heard of "Alt-X". I still enjoyed the questions, it was half of the fun!
And Larry Laffer probably retired to some tropical island and has that gorgeous babe called Patti on his lap. Lucky bastard!
Just a small recification:
Datastructures like you descibred get thrown at you in the first year of University (well, if you do computer science of course). They are often documented in different "hands-on" programming books. It's the basics of CS, and I am convinced you should know them better than your firstborn, but it really is pretty basic stuff.
Now I feel stupid. Thanks for the rectification. It was meant as a joke however, but that's no excuse for historical inaccuracy. (And next time I Google, before I write something down that I don't know for sure)
Someone already did this before you. I think his name was something like "Pasteur", but I might be wrong.
Of course, he neglected to wash his petri-dishes, but it brought him a Nobel anyway.
It doesn't really restrict you. Well, some EULA's restrict you much more.
One thing that isn't clear to me is how GPL code can be used in in-house projects. I mean, many software is developped inhouse and sometimes including GPL code would be very useful. Since it is not distributed (only within the company), can I use GPL code? I'm not sure...
So what if you drive a Mercedes when you work at Daimler-Chrysler?
No I can't but I have a 1.8liter car that kick almost any other regular car on the street. And no, it doesn't get more than 7000RPM. I only get beat by Porsches, Ferrari's and high end BMW's. All those have 3.0liter engines and above. Numbers say nothing, it is the actual performance that counts.
Apologies accepted...
Guess I should move to Sweden then, because here, I dunno what it is, geeky types are not really "popular". Oh, well, I still have my computers to keep me company...and Lara Croft of course *grin*. (Note: I never played Tomb Raider in my whole life).
If you read my post more carefully, you will notice that I prefer "normal looking women" (cup A or cup B is normal, I think Lara has aboutr triple-F) over models/monsters/computer game characters.
I know about normal women, unfortunately those don't want geeks.... Those want the muscular jock and oh, wait, that is exactly how men are displayed in computer games. How astonishing! (For your information: your sarcasm detector should have exploded by now!)
If you picture women who actually would be able to do all these things like Lara, don't you automatically thing of a bodybuilding lady, or a high-level competition girl? Now, honestly, I find neither pretty. (Hey, show me one bodybuilt girl that is pretty *or* one athlete that is *really* pretty and I take this back!)
I'd rather have a Lara lookalike with smaller breast (really, A or B is more than enough, I tell ya!), than any of these girls.
I think that there is another aspect on game characters: You know, I like Halflife. I played it through many nights. However the character (a Scientist...not a Marine), Gordon Freeman, was not important to me. I never identified me as this character, for me I was *not* Gordon Freeman, I was myself trying to survive in these alien situation. It's not identification, it's immersion.
One of the games that did characters right was The Sims. You can actually create old-looking people, fatty people, very pretty people. I don't know how many people use a fat-bellied-gray-haired Sim, but I do! Just to make a point that diversity is good. Not everyone should look like "Bella" (One of the tutorial sims).
So you think it is flattering to be compared to a Moronic Marine, or a Neanderthal man? Heck, if you see some of those characters in games, you wonder if they are *high* enough in the evolutional ladder to walk upright!
I'm sorry, but one of the most sexist displays (according to "big-breasts-or-very-pretty") are found in fashion magazines, and guess who buys that kind of stuff?
And honestly, Lara might be a hottie (I prefer the Lara impersonators..they are real at least), but a chick that handles guns like she does is clearly very intimidating! No way, I approach (even a ugly girl) with guns!
I remember however one (funny) sexist commercial with Lara croft. You see her fighting some monsters, runs along a corridor and suddenly stops, watching something and then sighing. The the camera pans behind her and you see she is watching a bridal dress. Extremely funny. Anybody seen that? Anybody got a link where I can download it?
Right on! I don't exactly know how many girls already asked "are my breasts too small?". Well do I care? They're breasts, no? Big, small..any breast is good to me (on a female, that is)
Many girls are concerned with their breast size, just few admit it in public. Otherwhise you couldn't explain all the breast surgery done.
Well, this is about the same thing. A lot of people write for themselves, not for an audience. That other people can read what they wrote and eventually comment is just a bonus, not a necessity. Here is an example of these kind of people who write for themselves. I admit it's not always entertaining, but hey, *your* life isn't that great either you know.
I remember getting my first cellphone for over 7 years ago. I read about this nifty thing called SMS in the manual (back then cellphones came with 200 page manuals) and I wanted to try it. Problem was: I knew noone with a cellphone! ;-)
Now seven years later, I have a cellphone and about everyone I know has a cellphone. Now I can SMS them, but then I really have nothing to tell! *sigh* Things never seem to change
There is a simple solution to this: declare calls TO cellphones as "Long distance" calls. Problem solved. Cellphone users don't need to pay up when called.
In some cases, here in Europe, calling to a cellphone costs actually as much as a long distance call. Sounds really normal to me. So you can even keep your "free local calls", because cellphones just ain't "local".