I've had the fortune or misfortune to use many Macs from many eras, it is perfectly clear that Apple has always stressed features over (even ridiculously poor) performance. Macs have always been unbearably slow. It's kind of a cultural thing, Mac users are simply willing to wait. What sticks in my mind the most is the Quadras of the 90's that just dog slow, even the top of the line ones we had (6-9k each). That being said it wouldn't surprise me if OSX is slow, although I personally haven't used it enough to render an opinion.
(flamers and other retards, please note this is not an endorsement of MS by counter-example)
The storage capacity we have now is adaquate for at least another few years.
God I hate people with attitudes like yours. Doing an ok job is not enough. We went to the moon because it was there, and we make our hard drives bigger because we can Being *able* to increase the storage capacity of a HD is all the reason enough to do it. This is how *progress* is made.
The 30 meg hard drive I had in the late 80's was *huge*. It was big enuf for dos, word perfect, and a videogame. Then a couple years later Wing Commander II came out and I couldn't play it. Why? it required ~30 megs of free HD space. Why was that possible? Because even though 30 megs *seemed* like alot of space whoever made the HD's back then knew we'd want more. What I'm trying to get at is as storage reachs ceartin milestones, different applications become possible. MP3 was invented in 1991 but HD's didnt become a practical storage medium till the mid 90's because HD space was far more valuable than music. HD's have become large enough that you can now comfortably edit audio, and soon they'll be large enough to comfortabaly edit video... And that my friend is the point of making them larger now.
My thoughts exactly. Companies need a large and healthy middle class *TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS*. They're busy killing the kinds of jobs that allow people to buy their products. When the middle class has shrunk enough no one will be able to afford a college education (who can afford 30k tuition and to be unemployed for 4 years), and we will have made ourselves into a 3rd world country.
Around here (los angeles) it seems like control of the vehicles is securely in the hands of the idiots. And that idiocy doubles when considering bus drivers. Personally, I would welcome a train system
Thats what everyone says, but it doesn't fit the facts. In games like operation wolf there were multiple targest on the screen, sometimes 5 or 10. How would the gun know which white box coresponded to which enemy? It's got to be a *bit* more complicated then that.
No one wants to write docs, no one wants to integrate all these pieces and make them work, and so forth.
You got that right... I was "working" (insomuch that I was a voulenteer) for a fairly well known (semi-commerical) linux distro on a compiler tool that would dynamically insert optimization strings into a compiler command line on anything you compiled, transparently, and it could have different settings for each user / instance of the compiler running.
As you can imagine, that was pretty tricky piece of software. Everything worked except for some reason my program caused a single autoconf test to fail. I could disable the test and everything would work fine, but that wasn't a long term solution. So I spent about a week disecting the test script, and couldn't make heads or tails of why it was failing. Finally I e-mailed the maintainer, who was unwilling to even *discuss* the problem with me.
I spent another couple weeks dicking with the script, but I coudln't get anything out of it.
This is the story of why linux can't automatically optimize compiles transparently, and even people who *want* to do the grunt work can't get it done sometimes:)
What encourages telemarketers is that *other* people are buying stuff, not me. I've never bought anything from a telemarketer but that dosen't stop me getting 3 or 4 calls a week from them. Your suggestion that I should have to change the social factors in my community (convince people not to buy stuff from telemarketers) is absurd.
All these anit-telemarketing laws do is take more freedoms away from the public.
Once again, you are an idiot. Nowhere are you guaranteed the right to bother people. And you aren't taking rights away "from the public" you are restricting ways in which business can carry out business, which is precisely the mandate of congress as set out by the constitution.
I think you're refering to "Symphony of the planets" ? I have one of the discs as well and granted its not much to listen to as far as music goes. But its GREAT for relaxtion. It's my all time favorite chill out album.
actually if you read your own damn link you linked to you would have seen:
...In 1761 de Morveau proposed the name "alumine" for the base in alum. In 1807, Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted by IUPAC to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and therefore the international standard. Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S.A. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society decided to revert back to aluminum, and to this day Americans still refer to aluminium as "aluminum".
Music has mathmatical patters, that does not mean math makes good music. People have been trying to discover algorithims which can generate music for years, and this guy has not advanced the science any.
This is truely one of the worst things i've ever heard. And I own a gravel album so thats saying quite a lot.
services have consistantly fallen into a downward spiral.
Exactly!! My Verizon DSL goes out briefly (60 seconds or less) 3 or 4 times a day, and atleast once a week goes out for anywhere between 1 - 24 hours...
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(flamers and other retards, please note this is not an endorsement of MS by counter-example)
Slashdot reader can't get story, ditches article.
The storage capacity we have now is adaquate for at least another few years.
God I hate people with attitudes like yours. Doing an ok job is not enough. We went to the moon because it was there, and we make our hard drives bigger because we can Being *able* to increase the storage capacity of a HD is all the reason enough to do it. This is how *progress* is made.
The 30 meg hard drive I had in the late 80's was *huge*. It was big enuf for dos, word perfect, and a videogame. Then a couple years later Wing Commander II came out and I couldn't play it. Why? it required ~30 megs of free HD space. Why was that possible? Because even though 30 megs *seemed* like alot of space whoever made the HD's back then knew we'd want more. What I'm trying to get at is as storage reachs ceartin milestones, different applications become possible. MP3 was invented in 1991 but HD's didnt become a practical storage medium till the mid 90's because HD space was far more valuable than music. HD's have become large enough that you can now comfortably edit audio, and soon they'll be large enough to comfortabaly edit video ... And that my friend is the point of making them larger now.
I know some application developers who make 9$ an hour (sellers markert!)
My thoughts exactly. Companies need a large and healthy middle class *TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS*. They're busy killing the kinds of jobs that allow people to buy their products. When the middle class has shrunk enough no one will be able to afford a college education (who can afford 30k tuition and to be unemployed for 4 years), and we will have made ourselves into a 3rd world country.
I'd like to think this couldn't happen here (in the USA)... but, I really think it could with p2p.
With that attitude, I think we're all glad that you left :)
Your prayers have been answered ...
Great word man, Im gonna add that to my lexicon :D
Thats what everyone says, but it doesn't fit the facts. In games like operation wolf there were multiple targest on the screen, sometimes 5 or 10. How would the gun know which white box coresponded to which enemy? It's got to be a *bit* more complicated then that.
and just when you get all the anti-protons you want they'll switch formats and try to sell them to you again.
How the fuck did that thing work? No one has been able to tell me to this day :)
You got that right ... I was "working" (insomuch that I was a voulenteer) for a fairly well known (semi-commerical) linux distro on a compiler tool that would dynamically insert optimization strings into a compiler command line on anything you compiled, transparently, and it could have different settings for each user / instance of the compiler running.
As you can imagine, that was pretty tricky piece of software. Everything worked except for some reason my program caused a single autoconf test to fail. I could disable the test and everything would work fine, but that wasn't a long term solution. So I spent about a week disecting the test script, and couldn't make heads or tails of why it was failing. Finally I e-mailed the maintainer, who was unwilling to even *discuss* the problem with me.
I spent another couple weeks dicking with the script, but I coudln't get anything out of it.
This is the story of why linux can't automatically optimize compiles transparently, and even people who *want* to do the grunt work can't get it done sometimes :)
Doubled? is that all? My last power bill was 961$ in southern california. IN a 3 bedroom house, no jacuzii, just a few computers and 4 people.
Im not saying *YOU* cant call anyone you dont want to -- I'm saying a business can't.
What encourages telemarketers is that *other* people are buying stuff, not me. I've never bought anything from a telemarketer but that dosen't stop me getting 3 or 4 calls a week from them. Your suggestion that I should have to change the social factors in my community (convince people not to buy stuff from telemarketers) is absurd.
All these anit-telemarketing laws do is take more freedoms away from the public.
Once again, you are an idiot. Nowhere are you guaranteed the right to bother people. And you aren't taking rights away "from the public" you are restricting ways in which business can carry out business, which is precisely the mandate of congress as set out by the constitution.
Little known fact, the X-303 brother to the TB-303 which spawned a generation of terrible "baselines" :D
My god man this is the *funniest* thing I've ever read on slashdot. I'm gonna start the lamp77 fanclub.
and you didnt mention shes a fucking babe!! have you seen the insert on "Gate" (to the minds eye)?. A gorgeous geek diva, dosen't get any better.
I think you're refering to "Symphony of the planets" ? I have one of the discs as well and granted its not much to listen to as far as music goes. But its GREAT for relaxtion. It's my all time favorite chill out album.
This is truely one of the worst things i've ever heard. And I own a gravel album so thats saying quite a lot.
It was a joke
Nope, I'm an independant artist. My silence has soul, heart, and is in touch in a way that can't be captured by corporate sellout silence :D
Exactly!! My Verizon DSL goes out briefly (60 seconds or less) 3 or 4 times a day, and atleast once a week goes out for anywhere between 1 - 24 hours ...
I think I should be paying less for that :)