Check out IBM's new ThinkPad notebooks, "now with better 'security'"!
I saw an ad on TV for one of those. Kinda made me cringe. I'm curious as to what kind of TCPA stuff it's got.
"first transatlantic handshake over the Internet."
For a second there, it looked like it said "handjob". That would skyrocket pr0n stocks. I need caffeine...
Most open source software is indeed completely lacking in innovation.
Yea, but "innovation" in Windows is simply switching around a few menu items here and there, integrating freeware, and selling it for a premium. How is that innovative? I think Ballmer throws that word around way too much. Microsoft hasn't done anything truely "innovative" in a long time. Ballmer has some nerve calling OSS "cloned" software when Windows has cloned features from many other OS's.
Yeah, the economy is in the pits and it will be hard to find another job, but with that much effort put into a format that the consumer needs, that was the real disappointment.
Guess if the consumer "needed" Data Play, you wouldn't be closing your doors...
"An added bonus for record companies and retailers, who are engaged in a battle against piracy, is that the relative complexity of DVD-Audios and SACDs makes them much harder to copy. At the same time, that might turn some consumers off the format."
...but little do Rosen, Valenti, and the rest of the Consumer Control Cartel know that most college students trade amoungst themselves. Such was the case at my school and my friend's school.
Peer to Peer (P2P) is given a lowert priority, and is limited to 5mbs, and can use up to 10mbs if the bandwidth is available. Therefore, of the 60 mbs total bandwidth, 5 - 10 mbs is set aside for P2P.
Uhm, 5-10 megabits per second seems pretty fair to me... it's faster than both DSL and cable modem. The part where they say it'll save the school and students literally thousands of dollars seems fair as well. Do you really need those fake nude Britney Spears mpegs that bad? =)
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"Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place, and the Itanium is exactly that," said Gordon Bell, a veteran computer designer and a Microsoft researcher."
Would you have bought any of the software if you had the money to pay for it? The rising costs of software have led me to look elsewhere. You'd think that with the high price of software, you'd at least get a frickin' warrenty like any other high dollar purchase such as a car or home audio components. Games for example generally cost $50 new. I rememeber buying Half-Life in '98 for $34.99 at EB.
"Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site?" asked the RIAA representative, who asked not to be identified. "Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music."
Don't they have something better to do during the summer than harass our schools? Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from sueing everybody silly.
Fourth, despite the Athlon's creaming the P4s, it takes more than the average "benchmark" to compare Athlons/P4s to G4s. Note: the Megahertz-myth page on apple's site.
AMD pushes the same "megahertz-myth" stuff too. It is true that megahertz is not the only measure of performance, but that unfortunatly isn't common knowledge yet. Things like bus speed, cache sizes, DRAM latency/timing, and disk I/O speeds just don't cross people's minds. When the average Joe goes into CompUSA, do you think he's going to buy a dual 1Ghz Mac or a 2.5 Ghz PC? I thought so, and that's why the Macs are unfortunatly relegated to the back corner of the store. Little does Joe know that if he were to buy that Mac, he'd probably have a lot less headaches. (Dude, you shouldn't be getting a Dell!)
However, I really don't feel that Photoshop is a tell all benchmark. About the only thing it makes use of is the FPU. As The Register points out, the Quicksilver G4 is only able to hold it's own against an old P3 running at 1 Ghz. Any thoughts?
Here's a nice benchmark page of PSBench (a cross-platform Photoshop benchmark tool). Notice the ~20 point lead that the Xeon holds over the Dual G4 1 Ghz? If I even used Photoshop, I'd be interested in what my PC would do.
I totally agree with you on the iApps. It's also nice to be able to delete them if you never use them (unlike Windows).
You're also right about running OS X on a G3, but you didn't mention speed. I installed Jaguar on my friend's B&W G3 Powermac and it was mostly a waiting game. It also runs slowly on the G3 iBook (I'm referring to the older 12" display models. The new ones seem to have adequate performance. I blame the 66 Mhz bus. Come on Apple, my last PC with a 66 Mhz bus was a 233 and that was back in 1998.)
As far as benchmarks go, I'd be interested in knowing what you use to benchmark your Mac. My PC is a dual AMD Athlon MP 2000+, 512 Megs of PC 2100 memory. I took a 430 meg wav file and compressed it to a 48 meg MP3 (128 kbps) in about 2 minutes. CPU usage stayed in the low teens. Pretty impressive I'd say. Can your Mac do that? My Mac is pretty much unusable when I rip music. It's a 400 Mhz "Sawtooth" with 640 Megs memory and 2x 18 Gig SCSI drives.
I think it's safe to say that in the speed department, x86 is the way to go (till Opteron and Itanium come full swing). But in the useability/simplicity department, Apple still reigns supreme. I just hope Apple will fix scrolling/resizing windows in OS X soon.
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Multiple switchable desktops... Now where have I seen that before?
Check out IBM's new ThinkPad notebooks, "now with better 'security'"!
I saw an ad on TV for one of those. Kinda made me cringe. I'm curious as to what kind of TCPA stuff it's got.
My favorite one is "Microsoft Works".
She was probably playing Xbox...
"first transatlantic handshake over the Internet."
For a second there, it looked like it said "handjob". That would skyrocket pr0n stocks. I need caffeine...
But still nobody representing the artists themselves...
I wonder if any of them used to work for a certain company in the northwest U.S.
Now I'll be able to download MP3's and movies to my phone in no time!!
Most open source software is indeed completely lacking in innovation.
Yea, but "innovation" in Windows is simply switching around a few menu items here and there, integrating freeware, and selling it for a premium. How is that innovative? I think Ballmer throws that word around way too much. Microsoft hasn't done anything truely "innovative" in a long time. Ballmer has some nerve calling OSS "cloned" software when Windows has cloned features from many other OS's.
from the dataplay article:
Yeah, the economy is in the pits and it will be hard to find another job, but with that much effort put into a format that the consumer needs, that was the real disappointment.
Guess if the consumer "needed" Data Play, you wouldn't be closing your doors...
"An added bonus for record companies and retailers, who are engaged in a battle against piracy, is that the relative complexity of DVD-Audios and SACDs makes them much harder to copy. At the same time, that might turn some consumers off the format."
This from "the no-shit-Sherlock dept."
...but little do Rosen, Valenti, and the rest of the Consumer Control Cartel know that most college students trade amoungst themselves. Such was the case at my school and my friend's school.
Security through obscurity:-2
Determined hackers:+2
He then went to the toilet where he later was found dead,
Maybe it was the stink in the bathroom that killed him...
still no affordable > 21 inch "plain" LCD's that can display high resolutions with no ghosting or color washout... ugh.
Hi Bill!
Peer to Peer (P2P) is given a lowert priority, and is limited to 5mbs, and can use up to 10mbs if the bandwidth is available. Therefore, of the 60 mbs total bandwidth, 5 - 10 mbs is set aside for P2P.
Uhm, 5-10 megabits per second seems pretty fair to me... it's faster than both DSL and cable modem. The part where they say it'll save the school and students literally thousands of dollars seems fair as well. Do you really need those fake nude Britney Spears mpegs that bad? =)
"Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place, and the Itanium is exactly that," said Gordon Bell, a veteran computer designer and a Microsoft researcher."
Pot calls kettle black. And the world goes on...
I can see it now:
Slashdot
News for Nymphos, Stiffies that matter.
Would you have bought any of the software if you had the money to pay for it? The rising costs of software have led me to look elsewhere. You'd think that with the high price of software, you'd at least get a frickin' warrenty like any other high dollar purchase such as a car or home audio components. Games for example generally cost $50 new. I rememeber buying Half-Life in '98 for $34.99 at EB.
From an earlier post:
"Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site?" asked the RIAA representative, who asked not to be identified. "Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music."
Don't they have something better to do during the summer than harass our schools? Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from sueing everybody silly.
Fourth, despite the Athlon's creaming the P4s, it takes more than the average "benchmark" to compare Athlons/P4s to G4s. Note: the Megahertz-myth page on apple's site.
AMD pushes the same "megahertz-myth" stuff too. It is true that megahertz is not the only measure of performance, but that unfortunatly isn't common knowledge yet. Things like bus speed, cache sizes, DRAM latency/timing, and disk I/O speeds just don't cross people's minds. When the average Joe goes into CompUSA, do you think he's going to buy a dual 1Ghz Mac or a 2.5 Ghz PC? I thought so, and that's why the Macs are unfortunatly relegated to the back corner of the store. Little does Joe know that if he were to buy that Mac, he'd probably have a lot less headaches. (Dude, you shouldn't be getting a Dell!)
However, I really don't feel that Photoshop is a tell all benchmark. About the only thing it makes use of is the FPU. As The Register points out, the Quicksilver G4 is only able to hold it's own against an old P3 running at 1 Ghz. Any thoughts?
Here's a nice benchmark page of PSBench (a cross-platform Photoshop benchmark tool). Notice the ~20 point lead that the Xeon holds over the Dual G4 1 Ghz? If I even used Photoshop, I'd be interested in what my PC would do.
I totally agree with you on the iApps. It's also nice to be able to delete them if you never use them (unlike Windows).
You're also right about running OS X on a G3, but you didn't mention speed. I installed Jaguar on my friend's B&W G3 Powermac and it was mostly a waiting game. It also runs slowly on the G3 iBook (I'm referring to the older 12" display models. The new ones seem to have adequate performance. I blame the 66 Mhz bus. Come on Apple, my last PC with a 66 Mhz bus was a 233 and that was back in 1998.)
As far as benchmarks go, I'd be interested in knowing what you use to benchmark your Mac. My PC is a dual AMD Athlon MP 2000+, 512 Megs of PC 2100 memory. I took a 430 meg wav file and compressed it to a 48 meg MP3 (128 kbps) in about 2 minutes. CPU usage stayed in the low teens. Pretty impressive I'd say. Can your Mac do that? My Mac is pretty much unusable when I rip music. It's a 400 Mhz "Sawtooth" with 640 Megs memory and 2x 18 Gig SCSI drives.
I think it's safe to say that in the speed department, x86 is the way to go (till Opteron and Itanium come full swing). But in the useability/simplicity department, Apple still reigns supreme. I just hope Apple will fix scrolling/resizing windows in OS X soon.
If this goes thru, it'll stand for Porn 2 the People, or something to that effect... =)
In the words of Cartman:
"Ahh, son of a bitch!"
Seriously though, Comedy Central has a lot of cool shows and this was one of them. Ah well, such is life and stupid TV execs...