Go look at an NT4 CD. It has MIPS, Alpha and PPC installers on it. In fact, NT4 was first written on MIPS and then ported to x86. There was a big marketing blitz from NEC for their MIPS workstations where they urged people to buy the computer NT4 was developed on.
However, at the end of the day these platforms couldn't run the software people wanted without jumping through hoops like Digitals binary translator. No apps, no interest.
Windows WAS on PPC and MIPS (NT 4.0 ws devloped on MIPS in fact). No apps, no one cared. I dont see this having changed. I wouldn't switch for the same reason I've not sitched Windows in favor of MacOS, Solaris, IRIX etc if it wont run my Apps of choice its not usable.
Civil disobedience is when you commit the crime and then except the punishment in the hopes that it will seem unjust to those watching. It is not committing the crime and then hiding. If you want to perform civil disobedience, download a bunch of illegal MP3s and then turn yourself in. Don't plea-bargain, get your day in court and use it to explain your position of how you think that people should work for free (or what ever twisted logic you use to justify taking the works of others without their permission).
"Personally, I'd rather have something that worked straight away."
When I dream, I want a pony. No software as complex as these players gets released bug free and feature complete. I would rather have a company release updates that fix issues and add features then have them ignore me after they get my money.
Got mine for 210$. It supports gapless playback and has support for OGG and FLAC somthing that no hard disk MP3 player should be without. The sound quality is MUCH better then the iPod as well (I've used both side by side prior to picking the Rio). The only real bitch I have is the 90 day warranty and the lack of cases for the thing. But even with the 75$ Vaja leather case it cost less then the retail cost of an iPod.
I also got a Rio Karma within the last month. I had been looking at these things for about a year but was waiting for someone to make a case for the sang things prior to buying one. Now Vaja leather has a 75$ case (nice looking) so I took the plunge. Right when I got the thing I updated the firmware, say what you will about Rio at least they keep the updates comming. The sound quality is great and the software is very nice. It supports MP3, OGG, WMA and FLAC formats (the Windows software includes rippers for all formats) somthing that no digital audio player sporting more then a gig should be without (FLAC format with 20GB storage is great). Battery life for me is around 12hours, but I've not yet fully conditioned the battery (you need to fully charge and discharge it five times says the manual). The dock is interesting, but without a way to controll playback via the net I dont see the point since USB 2.0 is faster then 100base-t for transfering songs. Have I said that the audio quality is stunning? Well it is, the five bad EQ qorks great and with +-95db range music sounds very good for a portable system (the packed ear buds suck). This feels like the audiophiles MP3 player.
Curse you Nintendo! Now I need new pants to hold all the electronic gizmos I own or will soon own. This DS unit is the proverbial straw that breaks the camels back (or in this case his pants). To date I have a Rio Karma to get my Ogg on, a Toshiba e805 PDA to play Sam and Max Hit the Road (love PocketSCUMM), my Nokia 3650 cell phone and leatherman multi tool. Where oh great purveyor of Mario am I expected to put this new porta game system?
"Fine. Don't switch. Stick with Windows and suffer the nightmares of spyware, viruses, trojans, and security holes big enough to fly a 747 through"
Dont run Outlook, dont use IE. Tell you what, you start holding your breath and I'll tell you to stop as soon as I get a virus or trojan. Kay?
"Apple isn't losing any sleep over the incredibly tiny minority of users who are in your shoes and who can't afford to switch. Not that I believe your $100,000 figure in the first place. How many one-man freelance operations out there need Maya/[insert other über-expensive software here]? (Then again, why should I believe a guy who thinks assembling an iMac from Apple-branded parts constitutes "building" a Macintosh?)"
So only an "incredibly tiny minority of users" buy software? As for building a Macintosh, your right if you buy parts off eBay (or even retail) lighting comes down from the sky and strikes you dead. So its impossible, and all the auctions and web sites selling parts and upgrades are just trying to kill you.
"For the rest of us, our employers will provide the software necessary to get Real Work(tm) done, and the software besides that *isn't* that expensive. Even if you had to re-purchase every single game you own for the Mac platform (and you typically don't, since a lot of games can be had in cross-platform CD versions now, with both Mac and PC versions in the same box), that would still be well under $10K, and if you're *that* into PC gaming, why the hell are you buying a Mac in the first place?"
What? Photoshop, 3D-Studio, Autocad etc are expensive. Buying Macintosh equivilents or versions costs money and thats just the tip of the ice berg for the software I own and use. As for games, I thought we where talking about "real work"? Non the less, most games dont have a Macintosh version, on the CD or any other place.
Unless Apple works out a deal with most major software vendors to allow free cross platform upgrades (would also have to be cross app in many cases) the cost of switching to a Mac would run me close to 100k. So in other words, its not gona happen. That having been said I have owned Macs off and on, last was a 500mhz iMac G3 I built. The end result has allways been that while I like the OS, I end up not using the things because all my software I own and most of the software I want wont run on it without emulation.
"There are so many embedded applications that do just fine with 8-bit controllers that there is no reason they should dissapear just because something more powerful comes along."
Sure there is. If the demand is low enough for the 8bit CPUs to make them cost more then the 32bit ones there is no reason for them to exist.
OWC is ActiveX. Firefox has no direct support for ActiveX. However there are some plugins that claim to add it. I've not found one that works with OWC, if you have I'd love to hear about it.
Anyone know if there is a non IE browser that supports ActiveX well enough to run Microsofts OWC objects? At work our product makes heavy use of OWC and thus I've been unable to get people to stop using IE.
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I checked, my community colledge didn't have a course in getting jobs from my daddies rich friends. Seems only the schools in Texas have that.
However, at the end of the day these platforms couldn't run the software people wanted without jumping through hoops like Digitals binary translator. No apps, no interest.
Windows WAS on PPC and MIPS (NT 4.0 ws devloped on MIPS in fact). No apps, no one cared. I dont see this having changed. I wouldn't switch for the same reason I've not sitched Windows in favor of MacOS, Solaris, IRIX etc if it wont run my Apps of choice its not usable.
I have yet to see book titled "how to have sex for the firt time in 100 easy steps" which is what these Linux books tend to be.
Digs at GWB aside, the responses dont match his normal speech patterns. It does indeed seem unlike something he would write.
Try using Lotus Domino for a week. You'll be begging to go back to SQL.
You've never tried to encode two hours of Mpeg-4 video have ya?
According to the license you cant run the OS on an emulator because its not "Apple hardware".
Civil disobedience is when you commit the crime and then except the punishment in the hopes that it will seem unjust to those watching. It is not committing the crime and then hiding. If you want to perform civil disobedience, download a bunch of illegal MP3s and then turn yourself in. Don't plea-bargain, get your day in court and use it to explain your position of how you think that people should work for free (or what ever twisted logic you use to justify taking the works of others without their permission).
When I dream, I want a pony. No software as complex as these players gets released bug free and feature complete. I would rather have a company release updates that fix issues and add features then have them ignore me after they get my money.
Got mine for 210$. It supports gapless playback and has support for OGG and FLAC somthing that no hard disk MP3 player should be without. The sound quality is MUCH better then the iPod as well (I've used both side by side prior to picking the Rio). The only real bitch I have is the 90 day warranty and the lack of cases for the thing. But even with the 75$ Vaja leather case it cost less then the retail cost of an iPod.
I also got a Rio Karma within the last month. I had been looking at these things for about a year but was waiting for someone to make a case for the sang things prior to buying one. Now Vaja leather has a 75$ case (nice looking) so I took the plunge. Right when I got the thing I updated the firmware, say what you will about Rio at least they keep the updates comming. The sound quality is great and the software is very nice. It supports MP3, OGG, WMA and FLAC formats (the Windows software includes rippers for all formats) somthing that no digital audio player sporting more then a gig should be without (FLAC format with 20GB storage is great). Battery life for me is around 12hours, but I've not yet fully conditioned the battery (you need to fully charge and discharge it five times says the manual). The dock is interesting, but without a way to controll playback via the net I dont see the point since USB 2.0 is faster then 100base-t for transfering songs. Have I said that the audio quality is stunning? Well it is, the five bad EQ qorks great and with +-95db range music sounds very good for a portable system (the packed ear buds suck). This feels like the audiophiles MP3 player.
What does, Microsoft's childish actions or the whining that Microsoft's not sharing?
PayPal is slow right now, almost as if a gaggle of geeks where checking to see if it realy was down. However, everything seems to be working.
Try reading his book Zodiac. Its an ecological thriller set in Boston about genetic manipulation and industrial pollution. Very good book.
The warning is when your employee handbook says not to do something.
They aren't taking order for the survival kilt. Bummer. Just remember what a real scotsman wears under his kilt, his boots.
Got one. However the sound quality isn't as good (the EQ and AMP in the Karma are very good). Also I like having gigs of music.
I hear that GLOCK has a good hand held unit for this.
Curse you Nintendo! Now I need new pants to hold all the electronic gizmos I own or will soon own. This DS unit is the proverbial straw that breaks the camels back (or in this case his pants). To date I have a Rio Karma to get my Ogg on, a Toshiba e805 PDA to play Sam and Max Hit the Road (love PocketSCUMM), my Nokia 3650 cell phone and leatherman multi tool. Where oh great purveyor of Mario am I expected to put this new porta game system?
Dont run Outlook, dont use IE. Tell you what, you start holding your breath and I'll tell you to stop as soon as I get a virus or trojan. Kay?
"Apple isn't losing any sleep over the incredibly tiny minority of users who are in your shoes and who can't afford to switch. Not that I believe your $100,000 figure in the first place. How many one-man freelance operations out there need Maya/[insert other über-expensive software here]? (Then again, why should I believe a guy who thinks assembling an iMac from Apple-branded parts constitutes "building" a Macintosh?)"
So only an "incredibly tiny minority of users" buy software? As for building a Macintosh, your right if you buy parts off eBay (or even retail) lighting comes down from the sky and strikes you dead. So its impossible, and all the auctions and web sites selling parts and upgrades are just trying to kill you.
"For the rest of us, our employers will provide the software necessary to get Real Work(tm) done, and the software besides that *isn't* that expensive. Even if you had to re-purchase every single game you own for the Mac platform (and you typically don't, since a lot of games can be had in cross-platform CD versions now, with both Mac and PC versions in the same box), that would still be well under $10K, and if you're *that* into PC gaming, why the hell are you buying a Mac in the first place?"
What? Photoshop, 3D-Studio, Autocad etc are expensive. Buying Macintosh equivilents or versions costs money and thats just the tip of the ice berg for the software I own and use. As for games, I thought we where talking about "real work"? Non the less, most games dont have a Macintosh version, on the CD or any other place.
Unless Apple works out a deal with most major software vendors to allow free cross platform upgrades (would also have to be cross app in many cases) the cost of switching to a Mac would run me close to 100k. So in other words, its not gona happen. That having been said I have owned Macs off and on, last was a 500mhz iMac G3 I built. The end result has allways been that while I like the OS, I end up not using the things because all my software I own and most of the software I want wont run on it without emulation.
Sure there is. If the demand is low enough for the 8bit CPUs to make them cost more then the 32bit ones there is no reason for them to exist.
OWC is ActiveX. Firefox has no direct support for ActiveX. However there are some plugins that claim to add it. I've not found one that works with OWC, if you have I'd love to hear about it.
Anyone know if there is a non IE browser that supports ActiveX well enough to run Microsofts OWC objects? At work our product makes heavy use of OWC and thus I've been unable to get people to stop using IE.