So you are insinuating that all system admins also have to be programmers? There are plenty of people with the skills to set up, maintain, and secure (properly) systems of all kinds (*nix, Windows, Macs, Cisco equip) who are NOT programmers. Some people are not cut out to be programmers, but are quite capable outside of that realm...
Built into Mac OS X is a Summarize Service (click on the application's menu and point to "Services" and choose Summarize) that is pretty cool. Unfortunately, Firefox was never coded to work with that OS X native service, so I had to copy and paste the text of that Ars Technica article into Text Edit and then use that service. But here is the resulting summary (I had to do as short a summary as possible):
While summarizing other types of non-review content isn't on the company's roadmap for now, Chakrabarti said the company is listening to user feedback. He also admitted that, "in many ways, summarizing facts is actually a lot easier than summarizing opinions." Pluribo's current focus on user-generated reviews and opinions is certainly a useful one, but I can see all kinds of other consumer applications for things like long Wikipedia entries and even articles like the one you're reading.
Honestly, I can't stand to even wait for a page to load on dial-up. And if someone sends me an attachment in email on dial-up... Not to mention it's easlier to update your computer (multiple computers in my case) etc.
I justify the cost of broadband mostly in time-savings.
They tend to be very picky about what they will sell you, because they want to make absolutely sure it will work fine so they don't have to provide support later.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Don't make me laugh... Dell sends me the wrong parts on a regular basis. I'm a Dell certified tech because the company I work for uses Dell systems internally, as well as we provide solutions on Dell hardware to clients. So I work on Dells routinely.
For example. Recently, I found that the OptiPlex 755 business machines have undergone some revisions that even Dell's warranty department isn't aware of, because I can't get the right parts out of them most of the time. There's two different slimline DVD-ROM drives, and two different power supplies. One DVD unit has a daughter card on the back (wtf?) that has a non-standard power connector. Only *one* of the two power supplies has that connector... I submit a warranty claim, and they send me the wrong DVD-ROM, the one with the non-standard power connector. The OptiPlex 755 I happened to be working on had a power supply without that connector. I send that one back stating wrong part and with and explanation of WHY it was wrong, and they send me the same one again! WTF?! So I called them back and this time they ship me a power supply... OK whatever, it had the right connector at least!/rant
I bought a Mac Pro last year, and I was noticing the high cost of upgrades then. I only bought some bare-essential upgrades (like upgrade the RAM just a tad since 512MB was not enough, and added the wifi/bluetooth module so I could have wireless keyboard/mouse). Later I stuffed my own hard drives in it and upgraded to 4GB of RAM.
Parent was referring to the fact that *NT* started at 3.1 not Windows in general. Even though NT had different underpinnings, MS decided to start the numbering at 3.1.
At the bottom of the Gizmodo article is a link to Seattle PI. If you read that you'll discover they got this email from the emails made public during the antitrust trials.
For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have. As part of that, I went back through the internal e-mails turned over in the antitrust suits against the company, looking for new insights into his personality.
Vista has sold 140,000,000 copies. Not what I would call a failure.
I wouldn't call it a success, either. I'd wager that figure is 90%+ copies that came with new PCs. The large majority of which probably end up in a corporate setting where it was re-imaged with XP Pro (happens all the time where I work and for our clients).
Not being able to downgrade to IE6 is a bad thing?
Believe it or not, there are still some very proprietary business oriented websites out there that still don't support IE7 officially. If you worked in the automotive industry you'd be familiar with that of which I speak. One website I am thinking of in particular, is so heavily MS-extended javascript that you can't even log in using Firefox. You absolutely have to use IE on that site. AND they don't officially support the use of IE7 with it.:(
How about Apple fixes it's graphics cards lineup before shooting for the moon.
I have a Quad-Core 3.0 and I can tell you, with the GPUs that came with it, I can barely play WoW, nevermind any other new games.
I had to buy a new PC in order to play any of the new games out because my mac (as great as it is), cannot handle the games.
Strange, I have a quad-core 2.66 with the (optional at the time) ATI X1900 XT 512MB card and it plays Call of Duty 4 when I bootcamp into Windows XP Pro just fine. Mind you, I don't have all the settings cranked (I turn off FSAA, everything else is cranked). It gets acceptable enough frames per second for me.
There's a couple PHBs at work that send me excel sheets that are 9 miles wide and only a couple rows deep. In that respect, my widescreen laptop comes in handy. But otherwise, the only benefit I can see to the widescreen at work is tiling two applications side by side a little easier (since they don't give me a second monitor).
Unless you're speaking of AMD SMP systems, the Intel systems up until recently share the FSB among all the CPUs. So from the Intel side of things, SMP vs multi-core is nearly the same (save for L2 cache sharing and whatnot). The only notable exception, on the Intel side, that I have noticed is that the recent Xeon systems (within like the last two years) seem to be using two "northbridges". For example, my "quad-core" Mac Pro tower that I bought in April of 2007. It has two dual-core Xeons and the motherboard has two northbridges (though Intel doesn't refer to their chipsets that way last I checked. They like to talk about "hubs".).
Sorry, I haven't seen a FireWire port on a PC (lappy or desktop) in about five years.
It could be due to the environment you work in, but there's at least 6 laptops in this office that I can think of that have firewire on them. One is a Toshiba, and the others are a mix of Dell and Lenovos. If I think harder about it, I'm pretty sure the laptops that were sent out to our regional managers (all over the U.S.) had firewire as well. It is worth mentioning that all of these laptops are less than 2 years old, as we went through a refresh not that long ago.
Can't speak for everyone, but back in April when I was looking to upgrade my PC, I took a look at Apple's offerings and decided to switch. Now mind you, I had been tinkering with an old Mac G3 for the last couple years, so I was already enticed to switch. It's been a wonderful transition so far.
And the only reason Vista nags so much, is because people (presumably Mac users) slagged off XP so much for not asking you, and said how OS X was better because you had to enter your password to do such things. So that's who we have to thank for that!
At least MS could have copied the feature well. Mac OS X does not nag you to death.
I'm going to give you a great big "THANK YOU" for that link to Pixelmator. I did not know about this program. I'm really impressed with the low price, too. With so many programs well over $100, at $59 I'm going to have to give it a try, and buy it if I do like it.
So far all of my applications work just fine. I backed up my home folder, applications that don't come with OS X, and a couple other things, then popped in the Leopard disk and did an upgrade. No boot problems, no app problems. Nothing but goodness so far.:D I guess I am the exception. I use mostly free or opensource apps. I don't have a lot of expensive commercial software on it other than Carrara 3D (and the free Daz Studio). Neo Office works just fine. Etc....
Maybe the *only* thing holding millions of people back from buying MacOS is that it's tied to Mac hardware, which is typically 50% to 100% more expensive than PC hardware?
50%? Say what? This myth needs to die. Some of their machines do have a slight premium, but people quoting high price differentials usually aren't comparing equivalent hardware.
When I comparison shopped my MacPro quad core system back in April, the equivalently equipped Dell Precision workstations were about the same price. So it came down to whether or not I was comfortable switching OSes. Well, Parallels Desktop, being the wonderful software that it is, made the choice extremely simple for me. I run 90% Mac applications at the moment. There's only a couple windows apps installed in my XP VM under Parallels.
On a more serious note, I just haven't found a need for more than the base drive that came with the system. I've got plenty of music in iTunes, and I've got a decent amount of apps installed, and I still have 100GB free. I did have a 160GB drive added for a short while to use for BootCamp, but I run Windows inside Parallels these days.
Oh, bullshit. I have Vista on a 3+ year old Dell _Laptop_ with a 2Ghz Pentium-M and 2G RAM and it's quite fast enough.
I'll *mostly* agree with you on the bullshit call for his system, but I have a 2 year old Dell laptop with 1GB of RAM that does not run Vista snappy (though its usable). And I'm not entirely sure upgrading it to 2GB would fix the problem.
While I have not tried Vista using BootCamp on my MacPro, I do have Vista installed on a Q6600 (Kentsfield) Core 2 Quad @ 2.4GHz w/ 2GB RAM and it's not as snappy as I'd prefer. It's certainly usable, but not as snappy as my MacPro running OS X for day to day operations. (And actually, I tried Ubuntu on it when I first built it - Ubuntu ran more snappy than Vista and XP on it.
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So you are insinuating that all system admins also have to be programmers? There are plenty of people with the skills to set up, maintain, and secure (properly) systems of all kinds (*nix, Windows, Macs, Cisco equip) who are NOT programmers. Some people are not cut out to be programmers, but are quite capable outside of that realm...
Built into Mac OS X is a Summarize Service (click on the application's menu and point to "Services" and choose Summarize) that is pretty cool. Unfortunately, Firefox was never coded to work with that OS X native service, so I had to copy and paste the text of that Ars Technica article into Text Edit and then use that service. But here is the resulting summary (I had to do as short a summary as possible):
Honestly, I can't stand to even wait for a page to load on dial-up. And if someone sends me an attachment in email on dial-up... Not to mention it's easlier to update your computer (multiple computers in my case) etc.
I justify the cost of broadband mostly in time-savings.
They tend to be very picky about what they will sell you, because they want to make absolutely sure it will work fine so they don't have to provide support later.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Don't make me laugh... Dell sends me the wrong parts on a regular basis. I'm a Dell certified tech because the company I work for uses Dell systems internally, as well as we provide solutions on Dell hardware to clients. So I work on Dells routinely.
For example. Recently, I found that the OptiPlex 755 business machines have undergone some revisions that even Dell's warranty department isn't aware of, because I can't get the right parts out of them most of the time. There's two different slimline DVD-ROM drives, and two different power supplies. One DVD unit has a daughter card on the back (wtf?) that has a non-standard power connector. Only *one* of the two power supplies has that connector... I submit a warranty claim, and they send me the wrong DVD-ROM, the one with the non-standard power connector. The OptiPlex 755 I happened to be working on had a power supply without that connector. I send that one back stating wrong part and with and explanation of WHY it was wrong, and they send me the same one again! WTF?! So I called them back and this time they ship me a power supply... OK whatever, it had the right connector at least! /rant
I bought a Mac Pro last year, and I was noticing the high cost of upgrades then. I only bought some bare-essential upgrades (like upgrade the RAM just a tad since 512MB was not enough, and added the wifi/bluetooth module so I could have wireless keyboard/mouse). Later I stuffed my own hard drives in it and upgraded to 4GB of RAM.
Parent was referring to the fact that *NT* started at 3.1 not Windows in general. Even though NT had different underpinnings, MS decided to start the numbering at 3.1.
I wouldn't call it a success, either. I'd wager that figure is 90%+ copies that came with new PCs. The large majority of which probably end up in a corporate setting where it was re-imaged with XP Pro (happens all the time where I work and for our clients).
Believe it or not, there are still some very proprietary business oriented websites out there that still don't support IE7 officially. If you worked in the automotive industry you'd be familiar with that of which I speak. One website I am thinking of in particular, is so heavily MS-extended javascript that you can't even log in using Firefox. You absolutely have to use IE on that site. AND they don't officially support the use of IE7 with it. :(
Strange, I have a quad-core 2.66 with the (optional at the time) ATI X1900 XT 512MB card and it plays Call of Duty 4 when I bootcamp into Windows XP Pro just fine. Mind you, I don't have all the settings cranked (I turn off FSAA, everything else is cranked). It gets acceptable enough frames per second for me.
Aqua interface for Macs.... not that NeoOffice is bad or anything.
There's a couple PHBs at work that send me excel sheets that are 9 miles wide and only a couple rows deep. In that respect, my widescreen laptop comes in handy. But otherwise, the only benefit I can see to the widescreen at work is tiling two applications side by side a little easier (since they don't give me a second monitor).
Unless you're speaking of AMD SMP systems, the Intel systems up until recently share the FSB among all the CPUs. So from the Intel side of things, SMP vs multi-core is nearly the same (save for L2 cache sharing and whatnot). The only notable exception, on the Intel side, that I have noticed is that the recent Xeon systems (within like the last two years) seem to be using two "northbridges". For example, my "quad-core" Mac Pro tower that I bought in April of 2007. It has two dual-core Xeons and the motherboard has two northbridges (though Intel doesn't refer to their chipsets that way last I checked. They like to talk about "hubs".).
My Toshiba was purchased with XP Pro thankfully.
It could be due to the environment you work in, but there's at least 6 laptops in this office that I can think of that have firewire on them. One is a Toshiba, and the others are a mix of Dell and Lenovos. If I think harder about it, I'm pretty sure the laptops that were sent out to our regional managers (all over the U.S.) had firewire as well. It is worth mentioning that all of these laptops are less than 2 years old, as we went through a refresh not that long ago.
A large chunk of that work is done on Mac OS X and Linux these days.
AFAIK, DFS is for consolidating shares on servers, not clients. Which is what this article is asking.
I just want to know when I can use this to water proof my PC for water cooling! :D
Can't speak for everyone, but back in April when I was looking to upgrade my PC, I took a look at Apple's offerings and decided to switch. Now mind you, I had been tinkering with an old Mac G3 for the last couple years, so I was already enticed to switch. It's been a wonderful transition so far.
At least MS could have copied the feature well. Mac OS X does not nag you to death.
I'm going to give you a great big "THANK YOU" for that link to Pixelmator. I did not know about this program. I'm really impressed with the low price, too. With so many programs well over $100, at $59 I'm going to have to give it a try, and buy it if I do like it.
So far all of my applications work just fine. I backed up my home folder, applications that don't come with OS X, and a couple other things, then popped in the Leopard disk and did an upgrade. No boot problems, no app problems. Nothing but goodness so far. :D I guess I am the exception. I use mostly free or opensource apps. I don't have a lot of expensive commercial software on it other than Carrara 3D (and the free Daz Studio). Neo Office works just fine. Etc....
50%? Say what? This myth needs to die. Some of their machines do have a slight premium, but people quoting high price differentials usually aren't comparing equivalent hardware.
When I comparison shopped my MacPro quad core system back in April, the equivalently equipped Dell Precision workstations were about the same price. So it came down to whether or not I was comfortable switching OSes. Well, Parallels Desktop, being the wonderful software that it is, made the choice extremely simple for me. I run 90% Mac applications at the moment. There's only a couple windows apps installed in my XP VM under Parallels.
Damn that's a lot of pr0n you got there!
On a more serious note, I just haven't found a need for more than the base drive that came with the system. I've got plenty of music in iTunes, and I've got a decent amount of apps installed, and I still have 100GB free. I did have a 160GB drive added for a short while to use for BootCamp, but I run Windows inside Parallels these days.
I'll *mostly* agree with you on the bullshit call for his system, but I have a 2 year old Dell laptop with 1GB of RAM that does not run Vista snappy (though its usable). And I'm not entirely sure upgrading it to 2GB would fix the problem.
While I have not tried Vista using BootCamp on my MacPro, I do have Vista installed on a Q6600 (Kentsfield) Core 2 Quad @ 2.4GHz w/ 2GB RAM and it's not as snappy as I'd prefer. It's certainly usable, but not as snappy as my MacPro running OS X for day to day operations. (And actually, I tried Ubuntu on it when I first built it - Ubuntu ran more snappy than Vista and XP on it.
What's wrong with *your* 10.4? Mine is quite snappy. (MacPro Quad 2.66GHz 2GB RAM 250GB HDD)