Yup, I was reading the spec of it and thinking that it was more than a Sunblade which comes in at over $10,000. CPU benchmarks are all well and good, but high-end Unix kit has tended to outperform x86 stuff at tasks like databases even where the x86 SPEC scores were higher.
I'll wait until we see properly run benchmarks on tasks like Photoshop (in 64-bit mode) before passing final judgement, but it's looking pretty good.
Re:alternatives and cultural rant ahead...
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Working with ADHD?
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It seems to be part of American culture these days that there has to be a pill for everything; depressed? Take Prozac. Can't get it up? Take Viagra. Have any minor problem? Take drug XXX.
Drugs are not the way to get over all problems. I could probably get myself diagnosed with depression and get pills for it, but I don't. I can cope with the problems life has put in front of me, partly out of my background (I can't ever see my parents taking anything no matter how bad life got!). "Self-reliant-farmboy" probably covers most of my family as well, even though I'm not a farmer. Hell, I don't even bother with painkillers that much unless it's really bad; I have a stock of some painkillers I got after an operation, but I never had enough pain to warrant using them.
On the other hand, there are apparently a large number of people for whom pills are a way for them to lead a normal life and get on in society, but the path seems to be prescribe pills at every opportunity (for another example, see the Ally MacBeal episode where the psychiatrist keeps trying to get her on anti-depressants).
Re:I don't think Fossil did their homework...
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Palm OS Wristwatch
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I remember forgetting my calculator in an accountancy exam. I had to do net present value calculations by hand; for those that don't know, it's something like adding the totals of:
0.917431 x 15000
0.841680 x 25750
0.772183 x 35000
0.708425 x 32500
0.649931 x 10000
I still got a good mark in the exam because I did remember how to do long multiplication. I could probably still do long division at a push.
These days, I despair at what people resort to a calculator for...
The UK Post Office pride themselves on getting stuff delivered, no matter how obscure the address is; they come in for a lot of stick, but they still deliver most letters within a day or two across the UK (even to the small islands in the Hebrides) for a standard price.
Yup, did that when I got my Leatherman a few years back. In the UK, it was about £90 but it cost me about £55 from the US, including the added postage! And it went straight through customs without being checked:)
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Mac OS X Hints
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Any time I've had a laptop (on loan from previous work), I've tried to make sure I have an external mouse to attach because I don't like touchpads. I assume that Apple laptops support this?
Re:Ill get it out of the way
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Mac OS X Hints
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I use the middle mouse button in Mozilla to open a link in another window, just as Netscape has done for years in *nix. Aside from that, you can "drag-n-scroll" using the middle mouse button, which can be useful.
Re:Just wondering
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Mac OS X Hints
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And, as the review states, work was then done to make that content better. If you're happy working with "raw" hints in a myriad of formats, stick with macosxhints. If you want a consistently laid out resource, get the book.
Re:"Amazingly enough"?
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Mac OS X Hints
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*sigh* the comment is there because a book called "MacOS X Hints" gives hints about, surprise, surprise, MacOS X!
It's nothing to do with the fact that ORA printed it.
What colour depth are you saving PNGs as? If you're saving them as anything more than 8-bit, it's very likely that they'll be larger than GIFs.
As for IE not working, that's IE's fault and if we pussyfoot around a sucky implementation, we'll be stuck with substandard images. If we use enough PNGs on web sites and tell people that any rendering problem is IE's fault we'll hopefully either (a) encourage the use of non-IE browsers (e.g. Opera or Mozilla) or (b) force MS to fix IE.
Not to mention the fact it kills off Glorfindel a few hundred years before he saves Frodo in Lord of the Rings (a role taken over by Arwen in the film).
There is almost certainly common code between BSD, linux and SysV. AFAIK, most used the BSD TCP code leading to the problem where the "ping of death" affected most operating systems (including Windows which had also used the code).
Oops, replying to my own post: For those that don't know, WIMP="Windows Icon Mouse Pointer", an acronym for windowing environments such as Macs and AmigaOS etc of the time.
First of all, the history is that they made several attempts to trademark the word "Windows" but were rebuffed repeatedly until their bribes, sorry, campaign contributions finally paid off.
Given that trademark, they have to protect it; similar sounding names trying to cash in on that name have to be pursued, just as Pepsi would undoubtably chase a company makeing "Bepsi cola" or whatever.
The Lindows defence is trying to use the leverage that "Windows" should never have been trademarked, which I don't believe it should have, since WIMP was a term dating back to, IIRC, the late 80's (or possibly earlier) and the trademark wasn't approved until the 90's.
My mother, now over 60, still sews/knits etc and uses a computer for the farm accounts and playing solitaire etc. She also goes online to register cattle (UK cattle have to have a "passport" on birth to track them; this was brought in after the BSE crisis). She doesn't use email, though.
I have two friends who both sew; one is 20 and the other is about 25. The younger of those also does cross-stitch (she even has a program to create patterns). Both of these use the internet and one even does webmaster duty on a couple of sites.
Now, it is probably fair to say that the numbers of people who sew are declining, based on the general downturn in people doing such hobbies and a "throwaway" society which will discard a ripped item of clothing rather than replace it.
Er, AIX is probably one of the top 4 versions of Unix being run today; the others being SCO, Solaris and Linux (if you include it as a "Unix").
IBM Unix servers are probably leading the performance race at the moment, although Sun are due to release UltraSPARC IV this year which might see them leapfrog IBM again.
IIRC, the code in some of the network drivers in the linux kernel have been written and/or modified by NASA in the past. Also, they also started the Beowulf stuff giving rise to all those wonderful "imagine..." posts we get round here.
The more imaginative may notice a link here; essentially, NASA needed good networking in their Beowulf nodes, so they tweaked the drivers.
Re:The quarter is hard enough
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First off, s/way/weigh/
Now I've got the spelling pedantry out of the way... I prefer using the pound/2 pound coins over pound notes. I dunno why, but I didn't like the pound coins when they came in, now I hate pound notes. Luckily they've pretty much been phased out now, so there's no problem there.
Oh, yeah, I've seen similar to "return the 12c and give another 13c" here. Given the poor quality of maths skills these days, I'm not surprised.
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D'oh, yes, the Sunblade 1000, 2000 etc which use the US-III chips.
I'll wait until we see properly run benchmarks on tasks like Photoshop (in 64-bit mode) before passing final judgement, but it's looking pretty good.
Drugs are not the way to get over all problems. I could probably get myself diagnosed with depression and get pills for it, but I don't. I can cope with the problems life has put in front of me, partly out of my background (I can't ever see my parents taking anything no matter how bad life got!). "Self-reliant-farmboy" probably covers most of my family as well, even though I'm not a farmer. Hell, I don't even bother with painkillers that much unless it's really bad; I have a stock of some painkillers I got after an operation, but I never had enough pain to warrant using them.
On the other hand, there are apparently a large number of people for whom pills are a way for them to lead a normal life and get on in society, but the path seems to be prescribe pills at every opportunity (for another example, see the Ally MacBeal episode where the psychiatrist keeps trying to get her on anti-depressants).
0.917431 x 15000
0.841680 x 25750
0.772183 x 35000
0.708425 x 32500
0.649931 x 10000
I still got a good mark in the exam because I did remember how to do long multiplication. I could probably still do long division at a push.
These days, I despair at what people resort to a calculator for...
"We can't compete with Apple because we don't have exclusive access to hidden APIs".
As an alternative for dictionary.com, try www.m-w.com
The UK Post Office pride themselves on getting stuff delivered, no matter how obscure the address is; they come in for a lot of stick, but they still deliver most letters within a day or two across the UK (even to the small islands in the Hebrides) for a standard price.
Yup, did that when I got my Leatherman a few years back. In the UK, it was about £90 but it cost me about £55 from the US, including the added postage! And it went straight through customs without being checked :)
Any time I've had a laptop (on loan from previous work), I've tried to make sure I have an external mouse to attach because I don't like touchpads. I assume that Apple laptops support this?
I use the middle mouse button in Mozilla to open a link in another window, just as Netscape has done for years in *nix. Aside from that, you can "drag-n-scroll" using the middle mouse button, which can be useful.
And, as the review states, work was then done to make that content better. If you're happy working with "raw" hints in a myriad of formats, stick with macosxhints. If you want a consistently laid out resource, get the book.
It's nothing to do with the fact that ORA printed it.
Obligatory question: why isn't "phonetics" spelt the way it's said?
As for IE not working, that's IE's fault and if we pussyfoot around a sucky implementation, we'll be stuck with substandard images. If we use enough PNGs on web sites and tell people that any rendering problem is IE's fault we'll hopefully either (a) encourage the use of non-IE browsers (e.g. Opera or Mozilla) or (b) force MS to fix IE.
Not to mention the fact it kills off Glorfindel a few hundred years before he saves Frodo in Lord of the Rings (a role taken over by Arwen in the film).
There is almost certainly common code between BSD, linux and SysV. AFAIK, most used the BSD TCP code leading to the problem where the "ping of death" affected most operating systems (including Windows which had also used the code).
Oops, replying to my own post: For those that don't know, WIMP="Windows Icon Mouse Pointer", an acronym for windowing environments such as Macs and AmigaOS etc of the time.
Given that trademark, they have to protect it; similar sounding names trying to cash in on that name have to be pursued, just as Pepsi would undoubtably chase a company makeing "Bepsi cola" or whatever.
The Lindows defence is trying to use the leverage that "Windows" should never have been trademarked, which I don't believe it should have, since WIMP was a term dating back to, IIRC, the late 80's (or possibly earlier) and the trademark wasn't approved until the 90's.
- My mother, now over 60, still sews/knits etc and uses a computer for the farm accounts and playing solitaire etc. She also goes online to register cattle (UK cattle have to have a "passport" on birth to track them; this was brought in after the BSE crisis). She doesn't use email, though.
- I have two friends who both sew; one is 20 and the other is about 25. The younger of those also does cross-stitch (she even has a program to create patterns). Both of these use the internet and one even does webmaster duty on a couple of sites.
Now, it is probably fair to say that the numbers of people who sew are declining, based on the general downturn in people doing such hobbies and a "throwaway" society which will discard a ripped item of clothing rather than replace it.Also, as others have said, some GPL software has images (KDE/Gnome) which you could use freely by virtue of the license.
HTH, HAND.
IBM Unix servers are probably leading the performance race at the moment, although Sun are due to release UltraSPARC IV this year which might see them leapfrog IBM again.
The more imaginative may notice a link here; essentially, NASA needed good networking in their Beowulf nodes, so they tweaked the drivers.
Now I've got the spelling pedantry out of the way... I prefer using the pound/2 pound coins over pound notes. I dunno why, but I didn't like the pound coins when they came in, now I hate pound notes. Luckily they've pretty much been phased out now, so there's no problem there.
Oh, yeah, I've seen similar to "return the 12c and give another 13c" here. Given the poor quality of maths skills these days, I'm not surprised.
Time before that it was noticing the barriers and thinking how good they would be as railslides for SSX (snowboarding game).