This information has been available on apple servers for almost a year. It was more popular when the game was still an easter egg.
There seems to be a very-unslashdot-like amount of trivial apple news recently, rumour site level almost. MWSF is basically here, so there will be something useful to report soon.
Until then everyone can still buy 15inch or 17inch iMac/s, discover that there is no easter egg in iPhoto, realise that quicktime plugins work in any application that uses quicktime to play media such as iTunes, while they are at it they can discover that iSync already has.mac Address Book sync, or pay attention to one of many numerous unusual patents & websites that apple own (thinking mammals.org/iphone.org/etc here) with this beaut which is basically a patent for an lcd wrapped around a computer case. Has everyone already forgotten the dalmation and flowerpower imacs? It's a bit of a logical extension to now make a pc where you can customise the colour/pattern.
Sydney, Australian(and the rest of that timezone) users have been greeted with a rather annoying fault in iCal 1.0.1, which seemingly scrambles their appointments, and changes the start dates to unusual times (6:12PM for example, always xx:12 it seems). Unfortunately at the moment the only work around is to change the time zone to something that was more tested.. such as the USA.
Additionally this bug makes the calendar view and the appointment times out of sync. (drawing an appointment on 8pm for example will make an appointment for 2:12am for example)
It's ironic that iSync requires iCal, when iCal is putting all your appointments out of sync.
I was going to add this one too. Everyone wants to work at your work place when you give ipods for christmas. Nerdy places give out Geforce4's for christmas.
Sorry if I left any doubt in my clarity. There has been recent argument as to how much control MS has over their network, as it sharply contrasts to the control sony has over the PS2 network.
Again I reiterate that it's probably a smart move for MS to block modded boxes as they can then run software which could take advantage of a MS security lapse in the network, as well as make future customers think twice about mod chips.
Exactly right, MS is facing stiff competition from the online PS2 network, which already has what people are arging a better set up, due to it not being so controlled by MS and more by the users.
Although disabiling boxes is a good thing for MS security, as it will prevent users from finding destined MS bugs in the system; with the excellent sales of mod chips it's certainly going to be a constant annoyance to the Redmond based company.
despite your obvious snide, I think you are forgetting the massive cost that goes into reversing MS dependance.
It's also well proven that should they not be able to afford a full fledged OSD effort, they should be taking the opportunity to work with OSD-efforts early so they can shape it to what they will need it to be in the long term.
It's clear that MS has obviously presented an ultimatum in regards to this much more economic approach.
P.S. You're unnecessary attitude(flamebait) towards other people's posts is a genuine harm to the slashdot community.
In your mind you feel as if you are getting more when something that costs you a million dollars is provided for free, over something that is ordinarily free.
India may think they have a good deal now.. until that is Microsoft stops making it free, which is perfectly their legal right to do so, and as seen with other examples, is the timed plan.
So now they can pick up Microsoft Windows/Office/Whatever, build their whole IT infrastructure around it, and when MS twists the knob, they'll understand why more developed countries and other 'poor countries' decided to take the other route.
It's not difficult: free forever, means free forever. Free now, means free now.
I happened to notice the journalist struggling with a bit of the concepts, thinking that they were just consumerising their article I continued to read on and found:
" Lal said that he chose only isotopes that emit beta particles because their energy is small enough not to penetrate skin. Radioactive material can emit beta particles, alpha particles or gamma rays--the last two of which are carry enough energy to be hazardous, said Lal."
It's been a while since I've studied nuclear physics but I was certain that I recalled the further into the greek alphabet, the worse the radiation is, hence I believe the journalist has just confused beta and alpha. Alpha being the cumbersome/bulky (basically helium) atom that is easily stopped, and beta being the negatively charged electron burst, which can penetrate further than alpha.
I got 128,717.. I made him fall on his head alot, and it actually separated from his body and flew back on. I wish I could save the reply it was F**CKEN hilarious.
In addition to this software apple has the following guide on how to move common settings over to a mac should it not be intuitive already. Guide to Switching to a Mac.
Well I can see you must be a lawyer for how well you can stretch anything out of context.
Use MSN Explorer one day, the MS preferred replacement to Internet Explorer. What you'll discover is that side bars which begin with features whose function are linked to the internet, turn into portals in which to display ads with the service.
Additionally you haven't used the first addition of IE 4 where the entire users desktop was turned into a giant Microsoft billboard.
So before you go ultra bitter and assume that everyone on here is a giant linux patriot, and not just an average windows user who is forced to upgrade every few years just to keep their business in tune with society, stop and recollect before you assume the worst from everybody.
These sites are being slashdotted as if you can't get images of longhorn anywhere else. just search Google, I found tonnes of (very similar in appearance) images of Longhorn about 2 weeks ago.
Some even featured that side bar to have translucency. I agree it does look a bit like KDE 3.
I don't see anything special, it just appears to be MS stealing yet more of your precious desktop space for things that can easily have popup banners added to them.
If this was say a non-american company, or a company that didn't top the list in political contributions. I wonder how differently the result would have been. As this really does make a joke of the American legal system: Get Proven Guilty for a crime, which has been proven (not supposed, but proven) to have sent many thousands without their jobs, and many large companies into tiny small ones. All that the American government will give you is a slap on the wrist. It figures that MS in NYC illegally plastered MSN8 butterflies everywhere. As should the government take any action it is apparent that it comes out far more cost effective to just break the law and deal with the platry legal consequences.
All that this shows is that you must fully optimise your software to the P4 extensions for it to match Athlon ratings in MHz to MHz. I wonder what would happen if it were optimised the the extensions found in the Athlon processor.
In any regard the argument still stands that present software can not reprogram itself to take advantage of the P4's extensions. It was smart of AMD to have a stronger floating point unit, when Intel decided it wanted to go technically superior in chip design.
Also it's a given that Intel changed the architecture, they had plenty of marketing to show that fact, it's trivial that this was the case, hence the whole discussion on the 'long and narrow' P4 design, and how this related to what a user (see top most thread) could expect the P4 to be maxing out at. I suggested 8GHz, however I would not be surprised in the least to find 15GHz Pentium chips eventually. (Remember once apon a time 1.036MHz were valid chip speeds.)
The current AMD chip was not designed to be anything faster than around 2.5GHz, it's design has yielded it's maximum gains already(1.3 to 1.6 GHz ranges), all MHz increases now will not result in the large performance increases that we have seen in the past with the chip. On the Intel side of things upping the clock speed in Pentiums isn't showing much performance increase either. What you've neglected to bring to light is that AMD are keeping competitive with comparitively 'slower' chip speeds. At fractions of the cost. AMD have a new chip in the works which will take over competition with the P4, from the now failing Athlon XP line. You also mentioned the Athlon 2800+ which I need not remind anyone is not clocked any where near the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 despite being almost identical performance.
Additionally there seems to be commentary about the P4 being a great performer, this is true, they all are. However when software is optimised for a certain chip (it's certain extra instructions) you will always find that it's apparent performance is considerably better than to those which are not optimised.(Apple users appreciate the G4 and well designed software for this exact same rule of design with Altivec.) However software can't reprogram itself to take advantage of the P4 multimedia extensions.
To use simple terms, the Athlon has a faster area to process ordinary unoptimised data. The P4 has a slower area to process ordinary unoptimised data, however this is compensated for with many chip-extensions that can make the chip process data in a more parallel fashion, and thus when software is optimised to take advantage of these extensions the net result is a faster chip. Don't optimise this data and you find yourself relying too heavily on this generic area and the chip will appear slower. This specifically accounted for why P4's appeared to be so slow when they were first introduced, when the reality was that there was no software optimised for them yet.
the entire P4 design is what you call "long and narrow" with built ins to cope with things like the time it takes for a signal to cross the chip. Namely the P4 is soley designed to be able to be clocked to some very large numbers... I'd say expect P4's at 8GHz, they demo's 4GHz chips just before they were releasing 2GHz.
The true fact in the matter is that intel are going to rely almost entirely on the marketability of a big number with the P4, as it's handling is rather unimpressive when compared to such ordinary designs as those from AMD, which clock poorly, yet crunch happily.
I need not mention about G4's and other well designed chips as some GHz bunny is certain to point out that they are only at 1.25GHz at the moment.
word wrapping wouldn't be the issue.
the high speeds will probably make all your games unplayable anyway. Like the theme park or leisure suit larry (1 original)games on a pentium. Even the slowest modes will be just waaay too fast to be useable.
actually for some facts, OSX has built in DVD playback. Windows XP requires you to install a 3rd party DVD playback program before windows media player will play DVD's(hijacking).
MS Office v.X sound familiar? It's office for OS X.
Virtual PC to run any seldom run windows application.
I like how they call it an Apple PowerBook competitor... it only runs Windows though. That and the 1" thick PowerBook has been out for almost 2 years, this thing is 1.2" and is underdesigned, with silly buttons everywhere.
I'll let Janie save my christmas with her powerbook anytime.
what I meant by this comment is that a P2 200MHz performed like what a P2 600MHz would perform. Not a situation where the performance of the 200 was 3 fold.(Prays to god that people don't message him with, "but the 600MHz IS 3 times faster than the 200MHz")
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There seems to be a very-unslashdot-like amount of trivial apple news recently, rumour site level almost. MWSF is basically here, so there will be something useful to report soon.
Until then everyone can still buy 15inch or 17inch iMac/s, discover that there is no easter egg in iPhoto, realise that quicktime plugins work in any application that uses quicktime to play media such as iTunes, while they are at it they can discover that iSync already has .mac Address Book sync, or pay attention to one of many numerous unusual patents & websites that apple own (thinking mammals.org/iphone.org/etc here) with this beaut which is basically a patent for an lcd wrapped around a computer case. Has everyone already forgotten the dalmation and flowerpower imacs? It's a bit of a logical extension to now make a pc where you can customise the colour/pattern.
Additionally this bug makes the calendar view and the appointment times out of sync. (drawing an appointment on 8pm for example will make an appointment for 2:12am for example)
It's ironic that iSync requires iCal, when iCal is putting all your appointments out of sync.
Hopefully apple will post a fix for this soon.
I was going to add this one too. Everyone wants to work at your work place when you give ipods for christmas. Nerdy places give out Geforce4's for christmas.
Again I reiterate that it's probably a smart move for MS to block modded boxes as they can then run software which could take advantage of a MS security lapse in the network, as well as make future customers think twice about mod chips.
Although disabiling boxes is a good thing for MS security, as it will prevent users from finding destined MS bugs in the system; with the excellent sales of mod chips it's certainly going to be a constant annoyance to the Redmond based company.
It's also well proven that should they not be able to afford a full fledged OSD effort, they should be taking the opportunity to work with OSD-efforts early so they can shape it to what they will need it to be in the long term.
It's clear that MS has obviously presented an ultimatum in regards to this much more economic approach.
P.S. You're unnecessary attitude(flamebait) towards other people's posts is a genuine harm to the slashdot community.
India may think they have a good deal now.. until that is Microsoft stops making it free, which is perfectly their legal right to do so, and as seen with other examples, is the timed plan.
So now they can pick up Microsoft Windows/Office/Whatever, build their whole IT infrastructure around it, and when MS twists the knob, they'll understand why more developed countries and other 'poor countries' decided to take the other route.
It's not difficult: free forever, means free forever. Free now, means free now.
" Lal said that he chose only isotopes that emit beta particles because their energy is small enough not to penetrate skin. Radioactive material can emit beta particles, alpha particles or gamma rays--the last two of which are carry enough energy to be hazardous, said Lal."
It's been a while since I've studied nuclear physics but I was certain that I recalled the further into the greek alphabet, the worse the radiation is, hence I believe the journalist has just confused beta and alpha. Alpha being the cumbersome/bulky (basically helium) atom that is easily stopped, and beta being the negatively charged electron burst, which can penetrate further than alpha.
It's a great idea that apple have been doing for a while.
But there is one flaw.. the kids always out smart the teachers in the end.
I got 128,717.. I made him fall on his head alot, and it actually separated from his body and flew back on. I wish I could save the reply it was F**CKEN hilarious.
All laptops are now $200(USD) cheaper than before.
Yes you're right. You should be able to get your hands on it in mid November.
In addition to this software apple has the following guide on how to move common settings over to a mac should it not be intuitive already. Guide to Switching to a Mac.
Use MSN Explorer one day, the MS preferred replacement to Internet Explorer. What you'll discover is that side bars which begin with features whose function are linked to the internet, turn into portals in which to display ads with the service.
Additionally you haven't used the first addition of IE 4 where the entire users desktop was turned into a giant Microsoft billboard.
So before you go ultra bitter and assume that everyone on here is a giant linux patriot, and not just an average windows user who is forced to upgrade every few years just to keep their business in tune with society, stop and recollect before you assume the worst from everybody.
Some even featured that side bar to have translucency. I agree it does look a bit like KDE 3.
I don't see anything special, it just appears to be MS stealing yet more of your precious desktop space for things that can easily have popup banners added to them.
I'm such a nerd.
If this was say a non-american company, or a company that didn't top the list in political contributions. I wonder how differently the result would have been. As this really does make a joke of the American legal system: Get Proven Guilty for a crime, which has been proven (not supposed, but proven) to have sent many thousands without their jobs, and many large companies into tiny small ones. All that the American government will give you is a slap on the wrist. It figures that MS in NYC illegally plastered MSN8 butterflies everywhere. As should the government take any action it is apparent that it comes out far more cost effective to just break the law and deal with the platry legal consequences.
In any regard the argument still stands that present software can not reprogram itself to take advantage of the P4's extensions. It was smart of AMD to have a stronger floating point unit, when Intel decided it wanted to go technically superior in chip design.
Also it's a given that Intel changed the architecture, they had plenty of marketing to show that fact, it's trivial that this was the case, hence the whole discussion on the 'long and narrow' P4 design, and how this related to what a user (see top most thread) could expect the P4 to be maxing out at. I suggested 8GHz, however I would not be surprised in the least to find 15GHz Pentium chips eventually. (Remember once apon a time 1.036MHz were valid chip speeds.)
On the Intel side of things upping the clock speed in Pentiums isn't showing much performance increase either. What you've neglected to bring to light is that AMD are keeping competitive with comparitively 'slower' chip speeds. At fractions of the cost. AMD have a new chip in the works which will take over competition with the P4, from the now failing Athlon XP line. You also mentioned the Athlon 2800+ which I need not remind anyone is not clocked any where near the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 despite being almost identical performance.
Additionally there seems to be commentary about the P4 being a great performer, this is true, they all are. However when software is optimised for a certain chip (it's certain extra instructions) you will always find that it's apparent performance is considerably better than to those which are not optimised.(Apple users appreciate the G4 and well designed software for this exact same rule of design with Altivec.) However software can't reprogram itself to take advantage of the P4 multimedia extensions.
To use simple terms, the Athlon has a faster area to process ordinary unoptimised data. The P4 has a slower area to process ordinary unoptimised data, however this is compensated for with many chip-extensions that can make the chip process data in a more parallel fashion, and thus when software is optimised to take advantage of these extensions the net result is a faster chip. Don't optimise this data and you find yourself relying too heavily on this generic area and the chip will appear slower. This specifically accounted for why P4's appeared to be so slow when they were first introduced, when the reality was that there was no software optimised for them yet.
I hope this clears things up.
The true fact in the matter is that intel are going to rely almost entirely on the marketability of a big number with the P4, as it's handling is rather unimpressive when compared to such ordinary designs as those from AMD, which clock poorly, yet crunch happily.
I need not mention about G4's and other well designed chips as some GHz bunny is certain to point out that they are only at 1.25GHz at the moment.
word wrapping wouldn't be the issue. the high speeds will probably make all your games unplayable anyway. Like the theme park or leisure suit larry (1 original)games on a pentium. Even the slowest modes will be just waaay too fast to be useable.
MS Office v.X sound familiar? It's office for OS X.
Virtual PC to run any seldom run windows application.
I'll let Janie save my christmas with her powerbook anytime.
If you consider Venus the older sister, then we can substain that earth suffers from middle-child syndrome.
what I meant by this comment is that a P2 200MHz performed like what a P2 600MHz would perform. Not a situation where the performance of the 200 was 3 fold.(Prays to god that people don't message him with, "but the 600MHz IS 3 times faster than the 200MHz")