How about if we compare a Mac Mini to a mini-ITX system?
Why would you do that? Might as well compare a Mac Mini to a PDA.
mini-itx is not designed for desktops. It's designed for extremely low-power devices. You can run an entire mini-itx *including* harddrive on 20w total. Mini-itx can be completely silent. There's no fan on either the cpu or the powersupply.
As quiet as the mini is, it still does have a fan, and for some reason Apple machine start out quiet and then get really loud after about a year. My Dual 1.24ghz G4 used to be quiet, now it sounds like a jet engine. My powerbook has its fan going all the time now.
(To be fair, this powerbook is on its last legs.. the battery lasts about 5 minutes, the screen has that tell-tale corner-crease that all Pismo powerbooks get because of poor lid design, and the powerplug is showing signs of green oxidation inside the cord... again, something that those clear powercords are famous for).
Is it something that would be useful to a normal user?
A normal user wouldn't use it directly, but a normal user would benefit from its use.
It's a very powerful debugging tool. It'll help programmers debug programs.
Then again, considering how many programmers don't even bother fixing compiler warnings ("eh, it compiles and runs, good enough for me"), it remains to be seen whether or not developers would actually use it.
If you say so. Development on OSX is frustrating because of one thing. There is virtually zero documentation.
APIs are half-published. Example code is poorly written. And Apple prevents google from indexing their developer site so finding the little information that *is* published is a pain in the ass.
Developers coming from MS (with their tons and tons of documentation on MSDN) are going to be pounding their heads against the wall and finally giving up.
Years later I recalled that I put the wrapper for a straw in the trunk. I found the car, opened it and there it was.
Memory is very strange. It seems to me that the very act of remembering something becomes a new memory (as it has in your case). You end up with memories of memories of memories. Some of them real, some of them were just dreams that you've remembered so often you can't tell the difference unless at one point you made a point of remembering that it was a dream.
Server Admin: Remote Server Admin tools let you configure and monitor all key services of Mac OS X Server from near or far.
Not so. It only monitors the services provided by Apple. If you want to roll your own Apache and PHP (because Apple-provided PHP is currently vulnerable), the server admin won't show it, and as far as I can see, there isn't any way to add it manually.
It doesn't even work on all Apple provided services. Apple Remote Desktop doesn't show up.
The xserve is a nice piece of hardware, but the OS is poorly suited for servers.
They figure if you use their "standard", there is a chance for lockin and you will buy or licence their other products as well.
Sony has been doing this for a very long time. When they first came out with the discman, it had an unusual-sized yellow AC plug, which meant you had to spend $60 on their car-kit.
Does XSL suffer the same cross-browser incompatibilities?
Yes and No. Certain browsers are missing support for Exslt's extensions for example, however, you can apply the XSL on the server side and serve the result, something you can't do in CSS. You can even use XSLT to create a PDF! Something you can't do in CSS.
libxslt is very fast. Every page we serve is transformed before it is served, and we've survived multiple slashdottings just fine.
If your mp3 player has 3000 songs, and you're looking for one... you're gonna be doing quite a few clicks on that radio to get to it.
Not if you organize your music. Maybe people have a lot of one-hit wonder songs or something, but I know the artist, and the album of a song, which makes finding a song easy, regardless of how many I have (and I have over 3000).
But *most* people like to scan through music. They like flipping through their CD collection, looking for something they hadn't heard in a while. Rarely does anyone go "I need to hear Strawberry Fields right now!"
The most basic information like how many cars there are, how many courses there are is left out. I'm not going to spend $50 on something that will give me 6 or 7 hours of entertainment.
There's a 170 races. About 30 or so different courses.
Ask yourself: how many people in the world still have milk delivered to their front doors? If the service were availabe in my area at a reasonable price, I would.
Same here, my wife drinks a lot of milk.. and I'd love it if someone would drop off a gallon of milk every couple of days.
How many people still have their gas pumped by an attendant? Everyone getting gas in the state of New Jersey, and me, whenever I am getting gas while dressed well, when it's cold out, etc., etc.
At least 2 states require full-service now.. I think new hampshire is one of them, but I have no idea.
But the real question is my understanding of the playstation controllers is that they speak a serial-uart communications to the ps2. Wouldn't it more elegant to rig up serial-out from a computer to the ps2?
The nice thing about the parallel port is that it is pin programmable. You can individually control any of the pins directly. Where as with serial you need to talk UART
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Now I agree with the argument that maybe Apple should offer a better mouse out of the box, but, well, mice are pretty cheap.
That still doesn't fix the problem of the trackpads on ibooks and powerbooks.
Oh how I wish I could get a powerbook with a larger trackpad that has a scroll-area on it, like the PCs do.
How about if we compare a Mac Mini to a mini-ITX system?
Why would you do that? Might as well compare a Mac Mini to a PDA.
mini-itx is not designed for desktops. It's designed for extremely low-power devices. You can run an entire mini-itx *including* harddrive on 20w total. Mini-itx can be completely silent. There's no fan on either the cpu or the powersupply.
As quiet as the mini is, it still does have a fan, and for some reason Apple machine start out quiet and then get really loud after about a year. My Dual 1.24ghz G4 used to be quiet, now it sounds like a jet engine. My powerbook has its fan going all the time now.
(To be fair, this powerbook is on its last legs.. the battery lasts about 5 minutes, the screen has that tell-tale corner-crease that all Pismo powerbooks get because of poor lid design, and the powerplug is showing signs of green oxidation inside the cord... again, something that those clear powercords are famous for).
They should end the show by having Sam leap out of Archer and into Picard. That'd be brilliant.
netcraft is often wrong.
nmap -O reports:
OS details: Sun Solaris 9 with TCP_STRONG_ISS set to 2
Is it something that would be useful to a normal user?
A normal user wouldn't use it directly, but a normal user would benefit from its use.
It's a very powerful debugging tool. It'll help programmers debug programs.
Then again, considering how many programmers don't even bother fixing compiler warnings ("eh, it compiles and runs, good enough for me"), it remains to be seen whether or not developers would actually use it.
Development on OS X is great.
If you say so. Development on OSX is frustrating because of one thing. There is virtually zero documentation.
APIs are half-published. Example code is poorly written. And Apple prevents google from indexing their developer site so finding the little information that *is* published is a pain in the ass.
Developers coming from MS (with their tons and tons of documentation on MSDN) are going to be pounding their heads against the wall and finally giving up.
Years later I recalled that I put the wrapper for a straw in the trunk. I found the car, opened it and there it was.
Memory is very strange. It seems to me that the very act of remembering something becomes a new memory (as it has in your case). You end up with memories of memories of memories. Some of them real, some of them were just dreams that you've remembered so often you can't tell the difference unless at one point you made a point of remembering that it was a dream.
Server Admin: Remote Server Admin tools let you configure and monitor all key services of Mac OS X Server from near or far.
Not so. It only monitors the services provided by Apple. If you want to roll your own Apache and PHP (because Apple-provided PHP is currently vulnerable), the server admin won't show it, and as far as I can see, there isn't any way to add it manually.
It doesn't even work on all Apple provided services. Apple Remote Desktop doesn't show up.
The xserve is a nice piece of hardware, but the OS is poorly suited for servers.
They figure if you use their "standard", there is a chance for lockin and you will buy or licence their other products as well.
Sony has been doing this for a very long time. When they first came out with the discman, it had an unusual-sized yellow AC plug, which meant you had to spend $60 on their car-kit.
Hey, one good dated reference deserves another..
It won't be dated in about 6 months. They're making a Get Smart movie.
This once was useful information, in the days of rotary phone locks, but now is just more useless trivia cluttering up my brain
When I lived in a dorm, I had made a phone without a keypad for an art project. This was the only way to dial it. It was great.
Anyone else find it strange that the author didn't use 3 of the products in "LAMP"?
Didn't use Linux, used Windows,
Didn't use Apache, used WEBrick,
Didn't use PHP/Perl, used Ruby.
Shouldn't this article be on ONWwmr.com?
I really wish that the poster/editor had made an effort to designate that it was a *music* keyboard.
Yeah, because Korg is well known for making all those *other* keyboards.
For instance the content:target-counter was in a working draft of the css3 paged module, but have been withdrawn from the latest version.
Exactly.. he's not really comparing CSS with XSL, but more "My own home-grown C program" with XSL.
Does XSL suffer the same cross-browser incompatibilities?
Yes and No. Certain browsers are missing support for Exslt's extensions for example, however, you can apply the XSL on the server side and serve the result, something you can't do in CSS. You can even use XSLT to create a PDF! Something you can't do in CSS.
libxslt is very fast. Every page we serve is transformed before it is served, and we've survived multiple slashdottings just fine.
Is XML with CSS better than TeX, or Postscript for that matter?
:before and :after tags, which are required to do this.
One of the first XSLs that I built converted NITF (the Newspaper Industry's XML Format) into TeX.
Here's one thing that CSS can't do. Make something clickable. Few browsers support the
So CSS can format a static document, but XSL is required to make it interactive.
If your mp3 player has 3000 songs, and you're looking for one... you're gonna be doing quite a few clicks on that radio to get to it.
Not if you organize your music. Maybe people have a lot of one-hit wonder songs or something, but I know the artist, and the album of a song, which makes finding a song easy, regardless of how many I have (and I have over 3000).
But *most* people like to scan through music. They like flipping through their CD collection, looking for something they hadn't heard in a while. Rarely does anyone go "I need to hear Strawberry Fields right now!"
It would be a marvellous feat that your wife does not want a PC with Windows installed. I would definately trust her judgement in asking for one.
Until she wonders why all of her software doesn't work. And then blames you for not telling her.
How would you feel if you asked for a nice BMW and she came home with a similar Toyota?
A similar Toyota would be a Lexus.. I wouldn't feel too bad about that.
Then again, why are you sending your wife out to buy cars for you? How lazy are you?
What does the PC have that the Mac doesn't?
You mean *besides* 3rd party software?
The most basic information like how many cars there are, how many courses there are is left out. I'm not going to spend $50 on something that will give me 6 or 7 hours of entertainment.
There's a 170 races. About 30 or so different courses.
All those people who decry the inhuman working conditions at EA, it's time to put your money where your mouth is.
But EA didn't develop this game, Critereon did. EA just published it, which doesn't involve any inhuman working conditions.
Ask yourself: how many people in the world still have milk delivered to their front doors?
If the service were availabe in my area at a reasonable price, I would.
Same here, my wife drinks a lot of milk.. and I'd love it if someone would drop off a gallon of milk every couple of days.
How many people still have their gas pumped by an attendant?
Everyone getting gas in the state of New Jersey, and me, whenever I am getting gas while dressed well, when it's cold out, etc., etc.
At least 2 states require full-service now.. I think new hampshire is one of them, but I have no idea.
Oh well, this doesn't change my stance on EA. They haven't produced a decent game in over 5 years.
If you mean published a decent game, you're wrong. In fact, I'm playing Burnout 3 right now, and loving it.
If you mean developed a decent game.. well that's another story.
But the real question is my understanding of the playstation controllers is that they speak a serial-uart communications to the ps2. Wouldn't it more elegant to rig up serial-out from a computer to the ps2?
The nice thing about the parallel port is that it is pin programmable. You can individually control any of the pins directly. Where as with serial you need to talk UART