I'm not closely familiar with LEAP, but it works with major platforms already. LEAP works with Cisco cards which are supported under Windows and Linux, and with Apple's AirPort cards (not the AirPort Base Station, though) as long as you have revision 2.0 (free download) or later.
Of course, this doesn't mean LEAP covers Sun, SGI, Cray, and other hardware/OS combinations. But then, you probably won't be setting up your workstations and supercomputers so you can wander around with them; nor are you likely to have corporate visitors to plunk down an SGI on visits. The current options cover much of the personal computer market.
But it isn't the same. THe MS TCP/IP stack works with other OSes because TCP/IP was already a standard. They're talking not only about replacing other implementations, but replacing the standard with one that, well, isn't standard.
Just as Microsoft encouraged software modems because it was cheaper and OS-dependant, and they are now encouraging software DSL/cable modems, Microsoft seems to be making this move to ensure a place in the market for some time.
You're bent on Microsoft, and it shows badly. Apple doesn't prevent you from edit config files. They're all there, tucked quietly away from people that don't need to see them. But they are there, and you can edit them if you prefer.
On many levels, Apple has given us something that many others haven't - a choice. You can choose to use the interface, and most people will. For those who want more, use the console, install Xwindows, dig around in the config files.
And it's good that you keep different OSes. You should. If almost everyone used one OS, we'd have all sorts of headaches...
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If you just want to read email, browse the web and play mp3s then you never have to edit config files.
Some of us want to do more with our computers. In fact, I bet you want to do more with your computer. In that event, MacOS X is a worthwhile consideration.
A good FPS may entertain for some time, but a simulation game is great. It ends when you want it to, you control how things happen, You can save, come back, do something different and have the game go an entirely different way (try that with Duke Nukem).
Don't get me wrong, a good multiplayer FPS is great now and then. But I still turn to sim games more often than not.
Mach 7.6 is right around 2,260 m/s (7,414 ft/s) or about 5,055 mph. It would still take you 5 hours to circumnavigate the globe. Plus you have to consider acceleration time - the rocket doesn't have to worry about killing people.
Realistically, we probably won't hit Mach 7 in commercial flights for some time, and there will probably be "low-speed" versions for shorter distances. As the article notes (emphasis mine):
The engine kicked into action on the way back down at 35 kilometres above the earth, with data transmitted by radio until it began to burn up.
There is one solution to this (that could be used dozens od other ways, too) that many people won't like: Universal IDs. If everyone was issued a unique personal sequence (Long enough to be virtually impossible to remember) these issues would never occur.
The UID should include personal space as well - so I could have several different accounts (home, job1, job2, hobby, oss project1, etc) without losing the access to my media/data.
Log on at work with your work UID. Your work UID server authorizes your log on and file access. It also knows you have access to your HOME UID systems, and sets up a VPN connection, allowing you access to your home computer & MP3s.
Log on at another company's office with your work UID. The local UID server doesn't know you. The UID Root Servers are queried for your UID's ownership. It returns your work UID server and your home UID server. The company's server recognizes that you work for a "trusted" company and allows you acces to certain portions of their network, as well as setting up VPN to your work and your home.
The UID could be attached to a fingerprint identification database, to a magnetic stripe card, to a SD card for login identification. The UID would make easy permissions tracking. Use any cellphone on your account, as long as you insert your UID chip. It could be great.
Alternately, it could be used to track your movements, your whereabouts, everything that you do and have electronically. This is why the Root UID servers should be set up on floating installations with Satellite connectivity in International Waters...
Actually, that's same quality at lower bitrates, or better quality at same bitrates. This is a good thing. Lower sizes for the space impaired, and better sound for the audiophiles.
Yes, the iPod also buffers from the drive. The iPod uses a 32MB buffer, so it will load 20 minutes or so into RAM, leaving the drive off for long periods of time.
I've used mine while walking, rollerblading, driving (w/ cassette adapter) and never had a problem. And now, with the 10G & 20G versions.
I don't know if you can mount it properly to Linux (it's an HFS+ partition) but it would be worth it if you can. Zippy transfers, one port for transfer and charging, small form factor...
Buy current hardware while it's still available! Get the DVD-R drive, even if it is expensive, and the PVR Card, even if you don't think you need it now.
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Radeon 9000: The tragedy of a graphics card still too fast for anyone not looking for 150 fps out of Quake III (maybe you're anticipating EQ on Mac...)
ATA-66?! Oh No! You can barely burst that kind of transfer rate, let alone maintain it. Besides, when was the last time you were copying 40GB from your second 80G drive to your forth 80G drive?
FireWire 2 - it's nice in the same way having 80 gigs of RAM is nice - bragging rights. Nothing else. Do you see many FireWire 2 compliant products out? Do you see many Apps that say "40GB RAM required, 80GB recommended"? It can wait. Meanwhile, the lack of the North/South bridge allows a FireWire 2 PCI card to get better transfer rates when they come out. The flashiness of FW2 doesn't yet justify the price.
I'll agree about no up front ports - it would be nice. But the vent holes are an important part of the equation.
Eject probably won't eject both, just one. Which one? Maybe the selected one. Maybe the first one only. Maybe Apple will write a nifty add-on that lets you select. Maybe it isn't a huge concern for most people.
This was an upgrade for the box, not the screens. You don't like the $2500 price tag? Buy a CRT - the VGA convertor is included. Sure, they are pretty, but even Apple knows that not everyone is going to spend $1000 on a 17" LCD when they could spend $250 on a 19" CRT.
Bluetooth built-in would have been OK. Except that maybe 1% of the people will use it in the next year. Despite the attempts to make Bluetooth the short-range communications technology, cables are still pretty popular. It isn't dying, it just isn't pervasive enough to include. And I know how hard it is to have to reach around behind the case and plug something in once.
Shitty G4s? I was just disagreeing with you until now. Do you have a general dislike of 1-digit numbers, or do you have no appreciation of the way processors work? G4 may not be Power4, but at least it's not Pentium 4.
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The subducting seafloor idea sounds much better to me. Drop in into a hole in the ocean floor, and it is pushed into the mantle. No loss of mass for the earth, no huge expenditure of energy, and the waste is taken care of.
Maybe it's a modular design. You know, build the first 200 stories worth and hang it from a big steel girder framework, and then build the next part and snap it together later...
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And how do you propse to keep an elevator working if the top of it isn't above the bottom of it?
If you slow down the top, you'll create tremendous tension on the shaft, causing it to A) snap and cause horrible local destruction, not to mention the swath of chaos a broken dragging cable will cause; or B) slowly curve the elevator until it starts to fall to Earth.
If the system is geostationary (and I'd like to see one that isn't:) then a break in the cable will cause horrible local destruction as the bottom of the cable falls to earth. After some point (don't know enough about the physics of the situation to say where), it should stay where it is. If a break happens, there should be a destruct capability that would break away the cable below this point. If should break into sufficiently small pieces so it doesn't cause mass devastation.
The best place to put this cable would undoutedly be in the middle of the Pacific, on a huge floating installation, guarded by a fair portion of the Pacific Fleet. I imagine the UN would have control over it. That way any local damage caused by the failure of the cable would be greatly reduced (Oh no! We broke the ocean!) and the entire world could use it. Also, it would be hard to pretend to "accidentally" go near it without the military knowing.
In the US, turck drivers can be fined for speeding based on distance/time/speed limit calculations from two toll points.
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What we need is an "opt-out" code an all of these electronics.
Privacy laws should require that goverment surveillance (without court order) can be opted out of. Each toll transponder, GPS-enabled cell-phone, OnStar system, etc, should have a switch, code, or other mechanism for opting-out of aggregate data collection.
Another possibility for those too far from the office to not drive: Don't use the FRIGGIN toll transponders! Sure, it may take a minute longer to drive to work, but that's why there are people in the booths. If you're that worried about your high-speed drive to work, don't use 'em!
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But the control Apple has over functionality would cause headaches for Apple, HW vendors, and users alike.
Apple would spend time agonizing over the conflicts and driver issues that the PC world just accepts as the price of business because they would ruin everything Apple is. There's a reason everything they make is smooth white plastic. Because it looks good - like there won't be any hassle.
Vendors would have to do one of three things.
Develop drivers for Win/x86, Mac/PPC, Mac/x86 (and Linux/x86 + whatever else they feel like)
All get together and produce unified drivers for their products (yeah, right)
Give up on a low-income portion of the market (Mac/x86)
While it's possible, and in some ways mutually beneficial, to produce a single driver for all CD-RWs, it would be huge, and it would make innovation difficult. Vendors would probably go to war with Apple over disabling of buggy devices (Apple HW generally works or doesn't - have you noticed?) and they don't want to spend time appeasing Apple SW engineers. They're much more likely to say "Apple can build some friggin drivers for MacOS X86."
Apple also isn't in a position to piss off Microsoft. Part of the appeal of MacOS X is that Office now integrates seamlessly across Windows and Mac (accepting Access *grumble*). They need Microsoft's continued support if they wish to grow.
Anyhow, I'm not sure Microsoft isn't slowly pushing themselves away from Windows. Sure, it's easy to build everything to work all in-house, but with more emphasis being placed on server-based applications, Microsoft probably alreadly sees the day when it's not the OS that you're running on the desktop, but the applications you run on your server. They are making a big push to be a key player in server-side application development -.Net has the promise of a dozen languages all working seamlessly together, and there's already a section in Barnes & Noble for.Net programming.
Apple wants people to see simplicity when they use Macintosh, and yet feel the power of the function. You can import, edit, and export an entire movie without ever having a dialog box open in iMovie (accepting upon launch to create a new movie), but you can do so much. I don't see Apple going x86 (at least not beige box) for some time because they can't have that there yet.
If the "incentive" is detrimental to the company, the justification for these actions is ethically questionable. Instead of attempting to improve their wealth by improving their company, they may have put the jobs, lives and families of the employees at risk. Sure, the.5M$ may not break the bank, but for everyone but Microsoft and the government (it seems), it's money that could have been invested, put into R&D, planning, staff, production, etc.
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Companies aren't genetically pre-disposed toward a course of action. They weren't abused when they were young and are therefore more likely to settle into that same pattern.
Companies have not been subjected to rigorous Pavlovian testing (hear the bell ring and produce a low-end graphics chipset!). While they may occasionally be stricken with poor management, they can, and do, change.
-- Meanwhile, back at the site, ACs were posting for no reason.
1. Make card 80% as powerful as competition. 2. Make card cost 1/3 of the competition's. 3.Sell cards like crazy because few people want to spend >$200 on the video card alone. 4. Profit!
Most people are satisfied with the performance of a mid-range video card, and 80% of a high-end card for 30% of the price would be great for many of the "demanding" average users.
Some people are happy with their graphics, even if they can't get 150 fps out of Quake III.
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I'm not closely familiar with LEAP, but it works with major platforms already. LEAP works with Cisco cards which are supported under Windows and Linux, and with Apple's AirPort cards (not the AirPort Base Station, though) as long as you have revision 2.0 (free download) or later.
Of course, this doesn't mean LEAP covers Sun, SGI, Cray, and other hardware/OS combinations. But then, you probably won't be setting up your workstations and supercomputers so you can wander around with them; nor are you likely to have corporate visitors to plunk down an SGI on visits. The current options cover much of the personal computer market.
But it isn't the same. THe MS TCP/IP stack works with other OSes because TCP/IP was already a standard. They're talking not only about replacing other implementations, but replacing the standard with one that, well, isn't standard.
Just as Microsoft encouraged software modems because it was cheaper and OS-dependant, and they are now encouraging software DSL/cable modems, Microsoft seems to be making this move to ensure a place in the market for some time.
You're bent on Microsoft, and it shows badly. Apple doesn't prevent you from edit config files. They're all there, tucked quietly away from people that don't need to see them. But they are there, and you can edit them if you prefer.
On many levels, Apple has given us something that many others haven't - a choice. You can choose to use the interface, and most people will. For those who want more, use the console, install Xwindows, dig around in the config files.
And it's good that you keep different OSes. You should. If almost everyone used one OS, we'd have all sorts of headaches...
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Some of us want to do more with our computers. In fact, I bet you want to do more with your computer. In that event, MacOS X is a worthwhile consideration.
A good FPS may entertain for some time, but a simulation game is great. It ends when you want it to, you control how things happen, You can save, come back, do something different and have the game go an entirely different way (try that with Duke Nukem).
Don't get me wrong, a good multiplayer FPS is great now and then. But I still turn to sim games more often than not.
Maybe it's my God complex : )
They should have made a Llama disaster!
Mach 7.6 is right around 2,260 m/s (7,414 ft/s) or about 5,055 mph. It would still take you 5 hours to circumnavigate the globe. Plus you have to consider acceleration time - the rocket doesn't have to worry about killing people.
Realistically, we probably won't hit Mach 7 in commercial flights for some time, and there will probably be "low-speed" versions for shorter distances. As the article notes (emphasis mine):
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There is one solution to this (that could be used dozens od other ways, too) that many people won't like: Universal IDs. If everyone was issued a unique personal sequence (Long enough to be virtually impossible to remember) these issues would never occur.
The UID should include personal space as well - so I could have several different accounts (home, job1, job2, hobby, oss project1, etc) without losing the access to my media/data.
Log on at work with your work UID. Your work UID server authorizes your log on and file access. It also knows you have access to your HOME UID systems, and sets up a VPN connection, allowing you access to your home computer & MP3s.
Log on at another company's office with your work UID. The local UID server doesn't know you. The UID Root Servers are queried for your UID's ownership. It returns your work UID server and your home UID server. The company's server recognizes that you work for a "trusted" company and allows you acces to certain portions of their network, as well as setting up VPN to your work and your home.
The UID could be attached to a fingerprint identification database, to a magnetic stripe card, to a SD card for login identification. The UID would make easy permissions tracking. Use any cellphone on your account, as long as you insert your UID chip. It could be great.
Alternately, it could be used to track your movements, your whereabouts, everything that you do and have electronically. This is why the Root UID servers should be set up on floating installations with Satellite connectivity in International Waters...
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Actually, that's same quality at lower bitrates, or better quality at same bitrates. This is a good thing. Lower sizes for the space impaired, and better sound for the audiophiles.
Now, if something portable could play it...
The frame still has a constant rate, it just allows some of the data to be re-used, reducing IO, not bit rate.
Yes, the iPod also buffers from the drive. The iPod uses a 32MB buffer, so it will load 20 minutes or so into RAM, leaving the drive off for long periods of time.
I've used mine while walking, rollerblading, driving (w/ cassette adapter) and never had a problem. And now, with the 10G & 20G versions.
I don't know if you can mount it properly to Linux (it's an HFS+ partition) but it would be worth it if you can. Zippy transfers, one port for transfer and charging, small form factor...
Buy current hardware while it's still available! Get the DVD-R drive, even if it is expensive, and the PVR Card, even if you don't think you need it now.
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Let's see...
- Radeon 9000: The tragedy of a graphics card still too fast for anyone not looking for 150 fps out of Quake III (maybe you're anticipating EQ on Mac...)
- ATA-66?! Oh No! You can barely burst that kind of transfer rate, let alone maintain it. Besides, when was the last time you were copying 40GB from your second 80G drive to your forth 80G drive?
- FireWire 2 - it's nice in the same way having 80 gigs of RAM is nice - bragging rights. Nothing else. Do you see many FireWire 2 compliant products out? Do you see many Apps that say "40GB RAM required, 80GB recommended"? It can wait. Meanwhile, the lack of the North/South bridge allows a FireWire 2 PCI card to get better transfer rates when they come out. The flashiness of FW2 doesn't yet justify the price.
- I'll agree about no up front ports - it would be nice. But the vent holes are an important part of the equation.
- Eject probably won't eject both, just one. Which one? Maybe the selected one. Maybe the first one only. Maybe Apple will write a nifty add-on that lets you select. Maybe it isn't a huge concern for most people.
- This was an upgrade for the box, not the screens. You don't like the $2500 price tag? Buy a CRT - the VGA convertor is included. Sure, they are pretty, but even Apple knows that not everyone is going to spend $1000 on a 17" LCD when they could spend $250 on a 19" CRT.
- Bluetooth built-in would have been OK. Except that maybe 1% of the people will use it in the next year. Despite the attempts to make Bluetooth the short-range communications technology, cables are still pretty popular. It isn't dying, it just isn't pervasive enough to include. And I know how hard it is to have to reach around behind the case and plug something in once.
- Shitty G4s? I was just disagreeing with you until now. Do you have a general dislike of 1-digit numbers, or do you have no appreciation of the way processors work? G4 may not be Power4, but at least it's not Pentium 4.
*sigh*South Pole
Land's cheap; taxes are low; heating costs are high.
The subducting seafloor idea sounds much better to me. Drop in into a hole in the ocean floor, and it is pushed into the mantle. No loss of mass for the earth, no huge expenditure of energy, and the waste is taken care of.
Maybe it's a modular design. You know, build the first 200 stories worth and hang it from a big steel girder framework, and then build the next part and snap it together later...
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Good thing Prometheus wasn't in Texas!
And how do you propse to keep an elevator working if the top of it isn't above the bottom of it?
If you slow down the top, you'll create tremendous tension on the shaft, causing it to A) snap and cause horrible local destruction, not to mention the swath of chaos a broken dragging cable will cause; or B) slowly curve the elevator until it starts to fall to Earth.
If the system is geostationary (and I'd like to see one that isn't :) then a break in the cable will cause horrible local destruction as the bottom of the cable falls to earth. After some point (don't know enough about the physics of the situation to say where), it should stay where it is. If a break happens, there should be a destruct capability that would break away the cable below this point. If should break into sufficiently small pieces so it doesn't cause mass devastation.
The best place to put this cable would undoutedly be in the middle of the Pacific, on a huge floating installation, guarded by a fair portion of the Pacific Fleet. I imagine the UN would have control over it. That way any local damage caused by the failure of the cable would be greatly reduced (Oh no! We broke the ocean!) and the entire world could use it. Also, it would be hard to pretend to "accidentally" go near it without the military knowing.
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In the US, turck drivers can be fined for speeding based on distance/time/speed limit calculations from two toll points.
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It would make more sense to do so.
Make (would) [it,sense (more)] to -> (do [*,it] so).
What we need is an "opt-out" code an all of these electronics.
Privacy laws should require that goverment surveillance (without court order) can be opted out of. Each toll transponder, GPS-enabled cell-phone, OnStar system, etc, should have a switch, code, or other mechanism for opting-out of aggregate data collection.
Another possibility for those too far from the office to not drive: Don't use the FRIGGIN toll transponders! Sure, it may take a minute longer to drive to work, but that's why there are people in the booths. If you're that worried about your high-speed drive to work, don't use 'em!
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But the control Apple has over functionality would cause headaches for Apple, HW vendors, and users alike.
Apple would spend time agonizing over the conflicts and driver issues that the PC world just accepts as the price of business because they would ruin everything Apple is. There's a reason everything they make is smooth white plastic. Because it looks good - like there won't be any hassle.
Vendors would have to do one of three things.
- Develop drivers for Win/x86, Mac/PPC, Mac/x86 (and Linux/x86 + whatever else they feel like)
- All get together and produce unified drivers for their products (yeah, right)
- Give up on a low-income portion of the market (Mac/x86)
While it's possible, and in some ways mutually beneficial, to produce a single driver for all CD-RWs, it would be huge, and it would make innovation difficult. Vendors would probably go to war with Apple over disabling of buggy devices (Apple HW generally works or doesn't - have you noticed?) and they don't want to spend time appeasing Apple SW engineers. They're much more likely to say "Apple can build some friggin drivers for MacOS X86."Apple also isn't in a position to piss off Microsoft. Part of the appeal of MacOS X is that Office now integrates seamlessly across Windows and Mac (accepting Access *grumble*). They need Microsoft's continued support if they wish to grow.
Anyhow, I'm not sure Microsoft isn't slowly pushing themselves away from Windows. Sure, it's easy to build everything to work all in-house, but with more emphasis being placed on server-based applications, Microsoft probably alreadly sees the day when it's not the OS that you're running on the desktop, but the applications you run on your server. They are making a big push to be a key player in server-side application development - .Net has the promise of a dozen languages all working seamlessly together, and there's already a section in Barnes & Noble for .Net programming.
Apple wants people to see simplicity when they use Macintosh, and yet feel the power of the function. You can import, edit, and export an entire movie without ever having a dialog box open in iMovie (accepting upon launch to create a new movie), but you can do so much. I don't see Apple going x86 (at least not beige box) for some time because they can't have that there yet.
If the "incentive" is detrimental to the company, the justification for these actions is ethically questionable. Instead of attempting to improve their wealth by improving their company, they may have put the jobs, lives and families of the employees at risk. Sure, the .5M$ may not break the bank, but for everyone but Microsoft and the government (it seems), it's money that could have been invested, put into R&D, planning, staff, production, etc.
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Sad that they can excerciset that much control over their own questionable activities.
It's like Congress.
Seriously, you just proved his point.
Companies aren't genetically pre-disposed toward a course of action. They weren't abused when they were young and are therefore more likely to settle into that same pattern.
Companies have not been subjected to rigorous Pavlovian testing (hear the bell ring and produce a low-end graphics chipset!). While they may occasionally be stricken with poor management, they can, and do, change.
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Meanwhile, back at the site, ACs were posting for no reason.
1. Make card 80% as powerful as competition.
2. Make card cost 1/3 of the competition's.
3.Sell cards like crazy because few people want to spend >$200 on the video card alone.
4. Profit!
Most people are satisfied with the performance of a mid-range video card, and 80% of a high-end card for 30% of the price would be great for many of the "demanding" average users.
Some people are happy with their graphics, even if they can't get 150 fps out of Quake III.