or, the special chip Intel made has optimizations for stuff similar to Altevec. This is done by binary conversion on the fly by hardware. This isn't a stock, off the shelf pentium 4 from my understanding... and they said the processor they used in the show was a 3.2. They have a custom chip that runs both x86 and PPC code, does binary conversion on the fly and without significant speed decrease. I'd say that sounds about right....
Trackballs clog up with crap... they are also yet another mechanical peice that leads to more likely chances of failure.
And I don't know what your beef with trackpads are. I've yet to experience a problem with any of them. With a few tweaks to how mouselook behaved in Quake 3, I was 0wning my mouse using coworkers with my Powerbook in no time. It's certainly better than the "eraser" pointer that IBM insists on putting on their laptops. I can understand Dell putting BOTH an eraser and a trackpad on their setups (or they did at least the last time I paid them any attention) but that eraser nub is the only thing that's keeping me from picking up a Thinkpad... The only comparable laptop to a ThinkPad that I can find with a trackpad is the HP dv series... and I have to say... that's a tempting little machine.
Anyways, sorry for that rant but I've yet to see a major downfall with trackpads... Yes, there's a learning curve... the same as when I went from a mouse to a trackball (MS Trackball Optical to be exact). Apple's new trackpads with the two fingers for scroll feature are great (except for that initial hangup on a production issue), and I think that for laptops the trackpad makes the most sense... Plus there's USB ports for a reason. Plug in a mouse if you have to... I have an Apple Bluetooth mouse with mine for when I fire up Final Cut Pro. Video editing and photoshop with a trackpad is a bit cumbersome, but I can imagine a trackball and those apps would be a nightmare.
hilts are made of metal. lightsabers cut metal. if you lose your hilt you'll be losing at least your thumb as well, regardless. you were saying? unless you're talking about some sort of lightsaber prism... but wouldn't the lightsaber just cut through the prism as well? hmmm.
I would say Bluetooth DOES have its uses... HP just released some very nice bluetooth headphones for their iPaqs... wireless headphones could be very nice.
I fail to see what's stopping you from hooking up a regular ol' computer up to your TV and using that? Why must everything run Firefox, Apache or X? Your computer was made for it, Linux was made for it. Go to it. MythTV or some such... plus who says this thing has the processor and RAM to RUN Firefox? You'd probably have to port the software to run on this special platform, and it'll perform poorly as it wasn't up to the task.
Why use a bloody DVR for a web browser on your TV when you can get a computer and hook it up... 95% of graphics cards out there have S-Video out, whats the hold up? Hell, a Mac Mini, a TV tuner, and SAN, and you could have a nicely set up distributed media setup for your house and it'll save you time and energy.
And for the record, telling the GP to "get over himself" is more ironic than you know, and if you need to nitpick his spelling, then you've already lost points in credibility.
I will give you the point of hacking devices and making them do odd things. Yeah, thats fun. But it's just the people that act like its the last amendment on the Bill of Rights that no one knows about that says "You're allowed to act like a whinny asshole if something doesn't meet your unreasonable expectations".
And I'm not too sure about that whole Windows people wanting to run Photoshop and etc etc... MAJORITY of the posts on this article that I glanced through were of the tone that "Well, that code runs on linux! WE MUST SEE IT OR GOD WILL COME DOWN AND SMITE YOU!!!!111" It reminds me of the movie "Little Nemo" and the seagulls. "MINE! MINE MINE! MINE!"
Because my 721 ought to be able to run Firefox and Thunderbird, damnit, and it can't because of some paranoia. And play MP3s. And have a decent screensaver
Why the F___ do you need to run FireFox, Thunderbird, play MP3s and install screen savers on your god damned DVR!?!?
I swear, this is why companies are hesitant to use Linux in stuff, because there's people who demand to know any trade secret stuff for FREE because they feel they NEED it to do shit the device was never designed for. I love Linux as much as the next guy (most of my servers are Gentoo, Red Hat, and FreeBSD) but this is seriously going to drive people to the FreeBSD end of things because their licence isn't full of whiny people who feel they deserve everything for free. I can't STAND the people on here who think the world should come barreling to their doorstep for FREE because they have a notion of "Free Software." Ya know what? Free software is great. I use quite a bit and give back when I can. As a programmer and IT guy, I'm also very fond of a notion called "Compensation for my effort and time" and if all the world is free software, well, there goes half the industry because no one's getting paid for writing software. But thats a completely different arguement entirely.
Companies like Dish Network LOOSE MONEY because people crack the cards and get free services. They cut down on this by making their units "Black Boxes" or part of them, in this case... If you can run ANY old code on one of these things, the card cracking will SURGE as you can put all your nifty hacking tools STRAIGHT on the box... companies like to make MONEY and can't do that if shit happens. Don't like it? Don't buy their stuff. Go out and make your own Dish Network compatible DVR out of a bunch of PCBs and solder, code your own Linux for it, release it for free with no compensation, and Dish will go use other, more propritery shit and you'll complain some more.
Sorry for this flame/tangent, but the attitudes on here for crap like this and Apple's work with KHTML just makes me sick.
I think I just got a boner from reading your post. A 17 inch powerbook that never has to be recharged for 10 years... Hell, just think of one of these baby's could do for an iPod or a PDA? or a bluetooth headset...
I work for Residential Networking for Rutgers University, which is an off-shoot of Telecommunications and the NOC here at RU. We are an all Cisco shop. Every router and switch in our setup is Cisco, with various models out there. In the ResNet portion of the network alone, I can estimate about 300 (48 or 80 port) switches alone. We are also a testing ground for Cisco's new stuff as well. Test networks are fun! But yeah, someone at the NOC apparently asked them about it and thats what they got. Plus AsSeenOnTV (poster here on/.) who is somehow affiliated with the organizational ranks of Apple also mentioned this in an earlier post about this very same issue.
Maybe he's not PAID to be on Slashdot. Maybe the guy just likes posting on here. I sat on slashdot when I worked at Rutgers's ResNet, doesn't mean Rutgers gives a flying crap about what Slashdot thinks of their IT credibility.
the point of a sub $500 mac is that it's not a speed demon. And Mac OS X runs just fine with 256 (it's similar to XP, 256 is good for your average stuff, 512 and up is optimal).
My original powerbook was 128MB with OS X 10.1 and it was perfectly fine. Sure I went up to 768 because I found a good deal on RAM but thats because I was developing and wanted certain things to pick up. If you're insulted because a value box doesn't come with the benefits of the higher end models, well, c'est la vie (or however you spell it). The point of a mac mini is for people like my parents who only run Safai, Mail, and iTunes. You want to run the OS with the full benefits? Go up to an iMac or something.
XP can take advantage of 3d cards and advanced graphics units... do you complain that eMachines have crappy graphics adaptors so you can't run XP at full blast with all the bells and whistles? Didn't think so.
I know the tower he's talking about. While it's not that bad looking, and it does just look like a very awkward tree... it's twice as tall as the trees around it... defeats the purpose, no?
you can assign any key you want, or, much like expose, you can set it to a certain corner. Right now if I flick the trackpad on my powerbook to the upper right it expose's all the windows, lower right is show desktop, and lower left is dashboard, flick of the finger its there, same flick and its gone. That so hard?
1) I'm fairly sure there's an option under account settings to have it delete immediately
2) I simply make a new folder in Mail, drag all the messages to that folder, wait the few minutes while it goes thru it, delete, carry on. Just did it last week actually. Yeah, it's not automatic, but I've got 4 years worth of mail and I'd like to keep it, so I wouldn't have faith that the program will "know I want to keep it."
Hope this was helpful.
You'll be glad to know that Mail ditched the drawer. It's closer to Outlook 2003 with glossy buttons on the side (it's quite a bit different than the rest of the Mac UI, it sticks out, but I like it.)
I use Thunderbird on my PC and I have to say, more mail clients need to have the "Bounce Mail" feature. Mail keeps me spam free with that little button alone.
I bluetooth my phone and powerbook together occasionally and the GPRS never dies when I get a phone call. In fact, someone can call me, I pick up the phone and talk to people while I surf around still.
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or, the special chip Intel made has optimizations for stuff similar to Altevec. This is done by binary conversion on the fly by hardware. This isn't a stock, off the shelf pentium 4 from my understanding... and they said the processor they used in the show was a 3.2. They have a custom chip that runs both x86 and PPC code, does binary conversion on the fly and without significant speed decrease. I'd say that sounds about right....
Or there's always the OTHER x86 (and x86_64) chip maker.... AMD. Haven't heard any DRM plots from them. Plus they like Linux.
With the scalable size and magnification on? As many as I damn well please. Nevermind the fun you can have with "drawer" applications.
Trackballs clog up with crap... they are also yet another mechanical peice that leads to more likely chances of failure.
And I don't know what your beef with trackpads are. I've yet to experience a problem with any of them. With a few tweaks to how mouselook behaved in Quake 3, I was 0wning my mouse using coworkers with my Powerbook in no time. It's certainly better than the "eraser" pointer that IBM insists on putting on their laptops. I can understand Dell putting BOTH an eraser and a trackpad on their setups (or they did at least the last time I paid them any attention) but that eraser nub is the only thing that's keeping me from picking up a Thinkpad... The only comparable laptop to a ThinkPad that I can find with a trackpad is the HP dv series... and I have to say... that's a tempting little machine.
Anyways, sorry for that rant but I've yet to see a major downfall with trackpads... Yes, there's a learning curve... the same as when I went from a mouse to a trackball (MS Trackball Optical to be exact). Apple's new trackpads with the two fingers for scroll feature are great (except for that initial hangup on a production issue), and I think that for laptops the trackpad makes the most sense... Plus there's USB ports for a reason. Plug in a mouse if you have to... I have an Apple Bluetooth mouse with mine for when I fire up Final Cut Pro. Video editing and photoshop with a trackpad is a bit cumbersome, but I can imagine a trackball and those apps would be a nightmare.
I would recomment that your kids change the homepage of your browser to: this.
hilts are made of metal. lightsabers cut metal. if you lose your hilt you'll be losing at least your thumb as well, regardless. you were saying? unless you're talking about some sort of lightsaber prism... but wouldn't the lightsaber just cut through the prism as well? hmmm.
what movie was this walkie talkie incident from? I've heard it referenced a few times... just never knew what movie.
I would say Bluetooth DOES have its uses... HP just released some very nice bluetooth headphones for their iPaqs... wireless headphones could be very nice.
I fail to see what's stopping you from hooking up a regular ol' computer up to your TV and using that? Why must everything run Firefox, Apache or X? Your computer was made for it, Linux was made for it. Go to it. MythTV or some such... plus who says this thing has the processor and RAM to RUN Firefox? You'd probably have to port the software to run on this special platform, and it'll perform poorly as it wasn't up to the task.
Why use a bloody DVR for a web browser on your TV when you can get a computer and hook it up... 95% of graphics cards out there have S-Video out, whats the hold up? Hell, a Mac Mini, a TV tuner, and SAN, and you could have a nicely set up distributed media setup for your house and it'll save you time and energy.
And for the record, telling the GP to "get over himself" is more ironic than you know, and if you need to nitpick his spelling, then you've already lost points in credibility.
I will give you the point of hacking devices and making them do odd things. Yeah, thats fun. But it's just the people that act like its the last amendment on the Bill of Rights that no one knows about that says "You're allowed to act like a whinny asshole if something doesn't meet your unreasonable expectations".
And I'm not too sure about that whole Windows people wanting to run Photoshop and etc etc... MAJORITY of the posts on this article that I glanced through were of the tone that "Well, that code runs on linux! WE MUST SEE IT OR GOD WILL COME DOWN AND SMITE YOU!!!!111" It reminds me of the movie "Little Nemo" and the seagulls. "MINE! MINE MINE! MINE!"
Because my 721 ought to be able to run Firefox and Thunderbird, damnit, and it can't because of some paranoia. And play MP3s. And have a decent screensaver
Why the F___ do you need to run FireFox, Thunderbird, play MP3s and install screen savers on your god damned DVR!?!?
I swear, this is why companies are hesitant to use Linux in stuff, because there's people who demand to know any trade secret stuff for FREE because they feel they NEED it to do shit the device was never designed for. I love Linux as much as the next guy (most of my servers are Gentoo, Red Hat, and FreeBSD) but this is seriously going to drive people to the FreeBSD end of things because their licence isn't full of whiny people who feel they deserve everything for free. I can't STAND the people on here who think the world should come barreling to their doorstep for FREE because they have a notion of "Free Software." Ya know what? Free software is great. I use quite a bit and give back when I can. As a programmer and IT guy, I'm also very fond of a notion called "Compensation for my effort and time" and if all the world is free software, well, there goes half the industry because no one's getting paid for writing software. But thats a completely different arguement entirely.
Companies like Dish Network LOOSE MONEY because people crack the cards and get free services. They cut down on this by making their units "Black Boxes" or part of them, in this case... If you can run ANY old code on one of these things, the card cracking will SURGE as you can put all your nifty hacking tools STRAIGHT on the box... companies like to make MONEY and can't do that if shit happens. Don't like it? Don't buy their stuff. Go out and make your own Dish Network compatible DVR out of a bunch of PCBs and solder, code your own Linux for it, release it for free with no compensation, and Dish will go use other, more propritery shit and you'll complain some more.
Sorry for this flame/tangent, but the attitudes on here for crap like this and Apple's work with KHTML just makes me sick.
I think I just got a boner from reading your post. A 17 inch powerbook that never has to be recharged for 10 years... Hell, just think of one of these baby's could do for an iPod or a PDA? or a bluetooth headset...
I work for Residential Networking for Rutgers University, which is an off-shoot of Telecommunications and the NOC here at RU. We are an all Cisco shop. Every router and switch in our setup is Cisco, with various models out there. In the ResNet portion of the network alone, I can estimate about 300 (48 or 80 port) switches alone. We are also a testing ground for Cisco's new stuff as well. Test networks are fun! But yeah, someone at the NOC apparently asked them about it and thats what they got. Plus AsSeenOnTV (poster here on /.) who is somehow affiliated with the organizational ranks of Apple also mentioned this in an earlier post about this very same issue.
Maybe he's not PAID to be on Slashdot. Maybe the guy just likes posting on here. I sat on slashdot when I worked at Rutgers's ResNet, doesn't mean Rutgers gives a flying crap about what Slashdot thinks of their IT credibility.
I salute you sir! *claps*
That was probably one of the best posts I've seen in a while.
And here I am without mod points...
you forgot to tell him that the bullets have to be silver nitrate. Or was that intentional?... sly...
I pretty much read that Cisco had a Tiger dev kit for about 6-8 months before Tiger shipped and they haven't touched it. Hardly Apple's fault.
the point of a sub $500 mac is that it's not a speed demon. And Mac OS X runs just fine with 256 (it's similar to XP, 256 is good for your average stuff, 512 and up is optimal).
My original powerbook was 128MB with OS X 10.1 and it was perfectly fine. Sure I went up to 768 because I found a good deal on RAM but thats because I was developing and wanted certain things to pick up. If you're insulted because a value box doesn't come with the benefits of the higher end models, well, c'est la vie (or however you spell it). The point of a mac mini is for people like my parents who only run Safai, Mail, and iTunes. You want to run the OS with the full benefits? Go up to an iMac or something.
XP can take advantage of 3d cards and advanced graphics units... do you complain that eMachines have crappy graphics adaptors so you can't run XP at full blast with all the bells and whistles? Didn't think so.
I know the tower he's talking about. While it's not that bad looking, and it does just look like a very awkward tree... it's twice as tall as the trees around it... defeats the purpose, no?
I haven't seen this much rejection since I was looking for a prom date back in high school.
you can assign any key you want, or, much like expose, you can set it to a certain corner. Right now if I flick the trackpad on my powerbook to the upper right it expose's all the windows, lower right is show desktop, and lower left is dashboard, flick of the finger its there, same flick and its gone. That so hard?
sound blaster live! usb. surround sound, optical, $50. hardly pricey.
1) I'm fairly sure there's an option under account settings to have it delete immediately 2) I simply make a new folder in Mail, drag all the messages to that folder, wait the few minutes while it goes thru it, delete, carry on. Just did it last week actually. Yeah, it's not automatic, but I've got 4 years worth of mail and I'd like to keep it, so I wouldn't have faith that the program will "know I want to keep it." Hope this was helpful.
You'll be glad to know that Mail ditched the drawer. It's closer to Outlook 2003 with glossy buttons on the side (it's quite a bit different than the rest of the Mac UI, it sticks out, but I like it.) I use Thunderbird on my PC and I have to say, more mail clients need to have the "Bounce Mail" feature. Mail keeps me spam free with that little button alone.
I bluetooth my phone and powerbook together occasionally and the GPRS never dies when I get a phone call. In fact, someone can call me, I pick up the phone and talk to people while I surf around still.