Actually, I work part-time in a lab that does DNA sequencing, and the machines they have doing the sequencing are all Macs, even though there's plenty of Suns and Dells around.
Er, right. I think I was thinking what the original poster was thinking, but still not applying the right name. If only I'd had enough coffee yesterday...
poster said "diameter" not radius. diameter = pi * 2r.
6,370 * 2 = 12,740 12,740 * 3.14159 = 40,023.8566
Add to that the fact that Europeans use . to separate thousands from hundreds, and , as a decimal point, and the original poster was fairly correct. Just misguided.
Actually, your PM 7100 is technically a G2. G1s were 68k-based macs. G2s were PPC 60x-based, G3 is PPC 750-series processors, and of course PPC 74xx = G4, and PPC 970 series (so far) is the G5.
I know exactly what I said. It was supposed to be a funny. Ha ha. While it may not have been accurate, that wasn't exactly the point. The comment was more along the lines of if they drop their prices in order to sell more units, they may not make any more money, or may even end up losing money over it. However, like gradparent said, it's a saying, which I was using to express that the parent of my original comment was poorly thought-out.
I know for sure that GTK has been ported to Darwin. It would probably be better to port it to use CoreAudio, because then you could use all of your sound devices that you have Mac OS X drivers for, (does JACK even handle FireWire audio devices?), as well as being able to use AudioUnits plugins. Currently, KDE can take advantage of CoreAudio. Perhaps re-writing this for QT/Mac Free would be a good thing:)
That's precisely what I was thinking, except it would be 03 + H2 = 2H2O + 2O2, so one hydrogen molecule knocks out two ozone molecules, producing two water, and two oxygen.
Well, I guess that depends on your morals. All of my computers are properly licensed, and I'm the only user. I belive in paying for software (wether it be me paying for a personal copy, or my work paying for a copy on my work machine), and when I can't afford it, I just don't get it. Of course, if my work purchases an extra license for me to use at home, I certainly won't turn that down. And if I don't have a license to install something on another computer, then I just don't do so. I mean, really, what's the harm of only running it on one computer, if that's all you pay for? If you really need to use it on more than one computer, then you can probably justify paying for it.
That's why things like the Mac OS X v10.2 Family Pack exist. It's licensed for up to 5 computers, and costs less than two individual copies of Mac OS X. There are also other higher-volume licenses with lower cost per license.
This idea is rather like something that's already available on LiveJournal. Users have the option to list anywhere up to 100 interests. You can then search for people who have a specific interest listed (it brings up both people and communities), but even better is if you're a paid member - you can search for people who share the highest number of common interests. The only down-side is that sometimes when you find a really cool person, their journal will have been inactive for a year or two.
Officially, the PowerPC G5 is the Motorola PowerPC 8500 chip. So this would not be it. Apple may or may not call a computer that features IBM's PowerPC 970 the PowerMac G5 or PowerBook G5, but it wouldn't be the actual G5 chip. Although I don't think this chip officially has a G* name, I'd be more inclined to designate it the G6, since the G5 was actually a 32-bit chip.
Don't forget the Fibre Channel option for the Xserves. If you need high-bandwidth between nodes on your cluster, regardless of money, that's the way to go.
I'm not sure what it is for 400 but fir 1394b (FW800), you can use optical cables at up to 100m. There are plug-in optical transcievers that run inline between the 1394b port and the optical cable.
Gigabit isn't standard on most macs. It's standard on most pro model macs - the towers, and the 15" and 17" PowerBooks. Not available on the iMacs, eMacs, iBooks, or 12" PowerBook. Those are only available in the 10/100 variety of ethernet. Besides which, the first models of 15" PowerBook G4 came in 10/100 only, as well as the first two generations of G4 towers. So yeah, lots of computers currently in use that don't have Gigabit.
The other advantage is that FireWire hubs are much cheaper than Gigabit Ethernet switches.
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I could see that as falling under "-1 Offtopic".
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Actually, I work part-time in a lab that does DNA sequencing, and the machines they have doing the sequencing are all Macs, even though there's plenty of Suns and Dells around.
There never was a 766.
First gen. QuickSilvers were 733, 933, dual-800. Second gen. were 800, 933, dual-1 Ghz.
Er, right. I think I was thinking what the original poster was thinking, but still not applying the right name. If only I'd had enough coffee yesterday...
poster said "diameter" not radius. diameter = pi * 2r.
6,370 * 2 = 12,740
12,740 * 3.14159 = 40,023.8566
Add to that the fact that Europeans use . to separate thousands from hundreds, and , as a decimal point, and the original poster was fairly correct. Just misguided.
Actually, your PM 7100 is technically a G2. G1s were 68k-based macs. G2s were PPC 60x-based, G3 is PPC 750-series processors, and of course PPC 74xx = G4, and PPC 970 series (so far) is the G5.
I know exactly what I said. It was supposed to be a funny. Ha ha. While it may not have been accurate, that wasn't exactly the point. The comment was more along the lines of if they drop their prices in order to sell more units, they may not make any more money, or may even end up losing money over it. However, like gradparent said, it's a saying, which I was using to express that the parent of my original comment was poorly thought-out.
This is a classic example of:
"Well, we may be losing money on every sale, but we'll make up for it in volume!"
I know for sure that GTK has been ported to Darwin. It would probably be better to port it to use CoreAudio, because then you could use all of your sound devices that you have Mac OS X drivers for, (does JACK even handle FireWire audio devices?), as well as being able to use AudioUnits plugins. Currently, KDE can take advantage of CoreAudio. Perhaps re-writing this for QT/Mac Free would be a good thing :)
Excuse me, make that 2O3 + H2 = 2H2O + 2O2.
That's precisely what I was thinking, except it would be 03 + H2 = 2H2O + 2O2, so one hydrogen molecule knocks out two ozone molecules, producing two water, and two oxygen.
Not correct. The 12" iB has 5hr battery life. The 14" has 6hr battery life. Bigger package, bigger battery. 12" = 4.9 lbs, 14" = 5.9 lbs.
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Well, I guess that depends on your morals. All of my computers are properly licensed, and I'm the only user. I belive in paying for software (wether it be me paying for a personal copy, or my work paying for a copy on my work machine), and when I can't afford it, I just don't get it. Of course, if my work purchases an extra license for me to use at home, I certainly won't turn that down. And if I don't have a license to install something on another computer, then I just don't do so. I mean, really, what's the harm of only running it on one computer, if that's all you pay for? If you really need to use it on more than one computer, then you can probably justify paying for it.
That's why things like the Mac OS X v10.2 Family Pack exist. It's licensed for up to 5 computers, and costs less than two individual copies of Mac OS X. There are also other higher-volume licenses with lower cost per license.
Er, correction - up to 150 interests. Sorry, I haven't had any caffeine yet today.
This idea is rather like something that's already available on LiveJournal. Users have the option to list anywhere up to 100 interests. You can then search for people who have a specific interest listed (it brings up both people and communities), but even better is if you're a paid member - you can search for people who share the highest number of common interests. The only down-side is that sometimes when you find a really cool person, their journal will have been inactive for a year or two.
And would you like to tell me what percent of computer users use Linux?
Except that I've seen a Motorola roadmap that designates the MPC85xx series of processors as the "G5" family.
Officially, the PowerPC G5 is the Motorola PowerPC 8500 chip. So this would not be it. Apple may or may not call a computer that features IBM's PowerPC 970 the PowerMac G5 or PowerBook G5, but it wouldn't be the actual G5 chip. Although I don't think this chip officially has a G* name, I'd be more inclined to designate it the G6, since the G5 was actually a 32-bit chip.
Don't forget the Fibre Channel option for the Xserves. If you need high-bandwidth between nodes on your cluster, regardless of money, that's the way to go.
I'm not sure what it is for 400 but fir 1394b (FW800), you can use optical cables at up to 100m. There are plug-in optical transcievers that run inline between the 1394b port and the optical cable.
FYI: It's already standard in Mac OS X Server, at least from version 10.2.5 on - it may have been introduced earlier, but I didn't notice at the time.
Gigabit isn't standard on most macs. It's standard on most pro model macs - the towers, and the 15" and 17" PowerBooks. Not available on the iMacs, eMacs, iBooks, or 12" PowerBook. Those are only available in the 10/100 variety of ethernet. Besides which, the first models of 15" PowerBook G4 came in 10/100 only, as well as the first two generations of G4 towers. So yeah, lots of computers currently in use that don't have Gigabit.
The other advantage is that FireWire hubs are much cheaper than Gigabit Ethernet switches.