I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Carbon apps end up more optimized for either the PowerPC or the G4 specifically, while Cocoa apps have to resort to some sort of emulation. Can't remember where I saw this, though. Perhaps an old Slashdot story.
Gah! I still don't get full screen visuals in iTunes with my ATI Radeon 9000! And there are still two things in tranquility that don't look right: the compass and the spinner! These broke with my new card, not an update. I'm wondering if the stock 16MB Rage card in my dual 450 was a better idea...
1. If you previously had VirtualHost directives in your http.conf file, you will have to redo those.
2. For whatever reason, OS X loves to mess with sound output every now and then. If you notice your sound just died, visit Sys Prefs and make sure your correct sound output is still selected. (For example, mine switched from my SoundSticks to my MacAlly USB mic. Why?)
As previously mentioned, the update will break PHP. Between this and the VirtualHost issue, you may be tempted to copy your old conf file back. If you do, don't forget to copy the new Rendezvous stuff into it (assuming you want that stuff).
One: it may be your battery dying. It may be time for a new one.
Two: OS X isn't nearly as power-conservative as OS 9 was. And it won't ever be. OS 9 let you run programs entirely out of memory with virtual memory off. Once the hard disk spun down, you were all set. In OS X, you have to have virtual memory "on", because that's just how it works.
Three: I don't buy either of my explanations either. You'd think OS X wouldn't use extra battery for playing a DVD (with the hard drive spun down).
I'm not surprised by that. In the short time Safari's been out, I've noticed it does the best job of rendering CSS and CSS2. I recently made a page consisting of four absolutely position tags. Safari rendered it correctly, and the colors matched as expected. Mac IE rendered it correctly, but the colors didn't match between images and text like they should have. I couldn't get either Opera or PC IE to make it look right, though, so I'll just go with using tables to format (ack!) until browsers can behave.
No, no. Send them to Burger King. I sometimes work at a McDonald's on weekends.
Seriously, though. There really is nowhere to put people who simply can't learn. And believe it or not, I'd say there's more learning involved at a McDonald's position as there is at, say, a call center or telemarketing place. Of course, McDonald's does have a reputation for hiring idiots, so it's somewhat surprising when people come in and expect to be treated like they're at a five-star hotel (which is something they make sure they get anyway).
The unfortunate truth is, the vast majority of jobs today, if not all of them, requires some base level of intelligence and interpersonal skills. If someone is lacking in either, it doesn't really matter where you put them. Even McDonald's fires people.
I do agree with you on the point you make regarding teaching. However, tracking has a history of working well in theory but poorly in practice.
What college do you go to? Most of my work has either been turned in on paper, e-mailed to the professor, or put up on the web for the professor to look at.
You're arguing over $10? That's cheaper than a pizza and lasts all semster.
Well, according to Apple, the latest PowerMacs have a "2.7 GBps throughput between main memory and the system controller". It's beyond me to postulate how this affects the stats, though.
Not likely. Tabbed browsing smacks of MDI, which goes against the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.
I frankly don't see why tabbed browsing is such a big deal. Since Safari supports pop-up blocking (as a menu command, no less!), as well as a shortcut key for switching windows and a list of windows in the Window menu, the only advantage I see to using tabbed browsing would be to see a list of all open windows without having to click on a menu. Or maybe to watch pop-ups spawn behind the window you're in.
You know, the really sick part of taxation is that it's essentially the government charing people money for the priviledge of using money. Think about it: you get a paycheck. Take out income tax. Want to save it? Fine, your interest is taxable. Okay, let's spend it. Well, there's sales tax. Whoever ends up with your money has to pay tax on it too, because to them, it's income. Between one consumer and the next, after paying sales tax, corporate income tax, and personal income tax, it's probably possible that one dollar spent by one person becomes fifty cents for someone else.
Of course, one very impractical way to eliminate sales tax would be a return to bartering for your purchases.
In the end, though, the consumer really won't care about a tax for sales on the internet. If the online cost including tax and shipping is cheaper than the cost from a brick and mortar store, you'll buy it online. Which, of course, is why the issue is an issue. If not, well, you might as well take a trip to the tax-free state nearest you to make your purchase and deprive your state of residence from the tax money anyway. For me, that's New Hampshire.
(And once states figure out they're losing sales tax income to neighboring states, I'm sure they'll come up with an interesting plan to take care of that. State border patrols, maybe?)
Seventh grade, sitting in the back of a pre-algebra course. Early in the year. The teacher puts a problem on the board and expects everyone to come up with the answer. The goal is to teach order of operations, I think, which is old news to me. The problem is something like (5 * 7 + 3 * 4 - 9 / 3 + 8 - 2 ^ 4) / 2 = ?
So I sit there. As the teacher is walking around, she stops at my desk and asks, "Aren't you going to do this?" I said, "Yeah, it's 18." "You didn't write anything down." And I reply, "No, I did it in my head."
So they move me up to algebra proper. The only thing I remember missing was the idea of the difference of two squares, which took about 3 minutes to explain. They were still using FOIL enough that they didn't need to stop to tell me about that. After taking algebra in 7th grade, I had to visit the high school first thing in the morning to take geometry in 8th grade.
This was in Cary, IL, sometime around 1991. Over ten years later, I'm living outside of Boston, MA. I sure hope they're still as astute as ever.
I have to wonder why the RIAA is hell-bent on eliminating copyrighted music on only the internet. Hasn't it occurred to them that songs can be copied off the radio? Granted, there's a loss of quality, but with a strong signal, it's not much. And isn't XM digital? Wouldn't copying a song off XM be making a (more or less) identical copy of it? True, you have to pay for XM (I think), but you have to pay your ISP as well.
I can just picture the RIAA suing every radio station in America for letting people listen to music without buying the CDs. Geez, the RIAA is probably the best reason I've ever heard of to not buy CDs.
Actually, I have a Dual 450 that runs SETI constantly. (Couldn't get Folding@home to work.) I found myself opening the windows at school last winter. In Massachusetts.
Anyone remember the page on Apple's site a while ago saying your dog could use it for something or other? I forget what exactly it was, but they had a footnote saying they were just kidding about the dog.
Actually, when I visited Australia I learned that a dark (black?-- I forget) opal with a fair amount of red in it can out-value a diamond of the same size. Although, someone else has already mentioned on here that opals aren't as hard as diamonds, but oh well.
Agreed. I seem to remember calling either Apple tech support or sales at one point and after he was done helping, I just chatted with him for a while about some upcoming product (OS X, I think.)
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Yeah, maybe that was it. Cocoa involves more function calls or something. Ah well, at the moment I don't use either. I just run the apps. :)
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Carbon apps end up more optimized for either the PowerPC or the G4 specifically, while Cocoa apps have to resort to some sort of emulation. Can't remember where I saw this, though. Perhaps an old Slashdot story.
Right. Next you'll be telling me that you can't make a high-end notebook only one inch thick.
Gah! I still don't get full screen visuals in iTunes with my ATI Radeon 9000! And there are still two things in tranquility that don't look right: the compass and the spinner! These broke with my new card, not an update. I'm wondering if the stock 16MB Rage card in my dual 450 was a better idea...
1. If you previously had VirtualHost directives in your http.conf file, you will have to redo those.
2. For whatever reason, OS X loves to mess with sound output every now and then. If you notice your sound just died, visit Sys Prefs and make sure your correct sound output is still selected. (For example, mine switched from my SoundSticks to my MacAlly USB mic. Why?)
As previously mentioned, the update will break PHP. Between this and the VirtualHost issue, you may be tempted to copy your old conf file back. If you do, don't forget to copy the new Rendezvous stuff into it (assuming you want that stuff).
One: it may be your battery dying. It may be time for a new one.
Two: OS X isn't nearly as power-conservative as OS 9 was. And it won't ever be. OS 9 let you run programs entirely out of memory with virtual memory off. Once the hard disk spun down, you were all set. In OS X, you have to have virtual memory "on", because that's just how it works.
Three: I don't buy either of my explanations either. You'd think OS X wouldn't use extra battery for playing a DVD (with the hard drive spun down).
I'm not surprised by that. In the short time Safari's been out, I've noticed it does the best job of rendering CSS and CSS2. I recently made a page consisting of four absolutely position tags. Safari rendered it correctly, and the colors matched as expected. Mac IE rendered it correctly, but the colors didn't match between images and text like they should have. I couldn't get either Opera or PC IE to make it look right, though, so I'll just go with using tables to format (ack!) until browsers can behave.
No, no. Send them to Burger King. I sometimes work at a McDonald's on weekends.
Seriously, though. There really is nowhere to put people who simply can't learn. And believe it or not, I'd say there's more learning involved at a McDonald's position as there is at, say, a call center or telemarketing place. Of course, McDonald's does have a reputation for hiring idiots, so it's somewhat surprising when people come in and expect to be treated like they're at a five-star hotel (which is something they make sure they get anyway).
The unfortunate truth is, the vast majority of jobs today, if not all of them, requires some base level of intelligence and interpersonal skills. If someone is lacking in either, it doesn't really matter where you put them. Even McDonald's fires people.
I do agree with you on the point you make regarding teaching. However, tracking has a history of working well in theory but poorly in practice.
You sound like you want Mac hardware.
What college do you go to? Most of my work has either been turned in on paper, e-mailed to the professor, or put up on the web for the professor to look at.
You're arguing over $10? That's cheaper than a pizza and lasts all semster.
??? Surely something has to be redrawn when switching tabs. As far as fast and efficient goes, though, my favorite has always been Cmd-~.
Now click on one of the other links in the story and find out.
Well, according to Apple, the latest PowerMacs have a "2.7 GBps throughput between main memory and the system controller". It's beyond me to postulate how this affects the stats, though.
Not likely. Tabbed browsing smacks of MDI, which goes against the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.
I frankly don't see why tabbed browsing is such a big deal. Since Safari supports pop-up blocking (as a menu command, no less!), as well as a shortcut key for switching windows and a list of windows in the Window menu, the only advantage I see to using tabbed browsing would be to see a list of all open windows without having to click on a menu. Or maybe to watch pop-ups spawn behind the window you're in.
Oh, and speaking of pop-ups...
You know, the really sick part of taxation is that it's essentially the government charing people money for the priviledge of using money. Think about it: you get a paycheck. Take out income tax. Want to save it? Fine, your interest is taxable. Okay, let's spend it. Well, there's sales tax. Whoever ends up with your money has to pay tax on it too, because to them, it's income. Between one consumer and the next, after paying sales tax, corporate income tax, and personal income tax, it's probably possible that one dollar spent by one person becomes fifty cents for someone else.
Of course, one very impractical way to eliminate sales tax would be a return to bartering for your purchases.
In the end, though, the consumer really won't care about a tax for sales on the internet. If the online cost including tax and shipping is cheaper than the cost from a brick and mortar store, you'll buy it online. Which, of course, is why the issue is an issue. If not, well, you might as well take a trip to the tax-free state nearest you to make your purchase and deprive your state of residence from the tax money anyway. For me, that's New Hampshire.
(And once states figure out they're losing sales tax income to neighboring states, I'm sure they'll come up with an interesting plan to take care of that. State border patrols, maybe?)
I'm guessing you didn't see the story a month or two back about how Apple has the highest-rated tech support line?
Well, here's my story.
Seventh grade, sitting in the back of a pre-algebra course. Early in the year. The teacher puts a problem on the board and expects everyone to come up with the answer. The goal is to teach order of operations, I think, which is old news to me. The problem is something like (5 * 7 + 3 * 4 - 9 / 3 + 8 - 2 ^ 4) / 2 = ?
So I sit there. As the teacher is walking around, she stops at my desk and asks, "Aren't you going to do this?" I said, "Yeah, it's 18." "You didn't write anything down." And I reply, "No, I did it in my head."
So they move me up to algebra proper. The only thing I remember missing was the idea of the difference of two squares, which took about 3 minutes to explain. They were still using FOIL enough that they didn't need to stop to tell me about that. After taking algebra in 7th grade, I had to visit the high school first thing in the morning to take geometry in 8th grade.
This was in Cary, IL, sometime around 1991. Over ten years later, I'm living outside of Boston, MA. I sure hope they're still as astute as ever.
I have to wonder why the RIAA is hell-bent on eliminating copyrighted music on only the internet. Hasn't it occurred to them that songs can be copied off the radio? Granted, there's a loss of quality, but with a strong signal, it's not much. And isn't XM digital? Wouldn't copying a song off XM be making a (more or less) identical copy of it? True, you have to pay for XM (I think), but you have to pay your ISP as well.
I can just picture the RIAA suing every radio station in America for letting people listen to music without buying the CDs. Geez, the RIAA is probably the best reason I've ever heard of to not buy CDs.
Have you any proof?
Note that the low end is using PC2100 DDR RAM, unless that's a typo. I don't know enough about DDR to know what the advantage to 2700 is, though.
Actually, I have a Dual 450 that runs SETI constantly. (Couldn't get Folding@home to work.) I found myself opening the windows at school last winter. In Massachusetts.
I'm not your buddy.
Why do I have to wait 20 seconds before hitting submit? It's just 4 words!
Anyone remember the page on Apple's site a while ago saying your dog could use it for something or other? I forget what exactly it was, but they had a footnote saying they were just kidding about the dog.
Actually, when I visited Australia I learned that a dark (black?-- I forget) opal with a fair amount of red in it can out-value a diamond of the same size. Although, someone else has already mentioned on here that opals aren't as hard as diamonds, but oh well.
Agreed. I seem to remember calling either Apple tech support or sales at one point and after he was done helping, I just chatted with him for a while about some upcoming product (OS X, I think.)