Well, okay. Not ALL of them. Win2k Pro at work. 98 at home for games. But only for games. Otherwise I boot to RedHat 7.3. Unless I'm on my laptop. That's an iBook with OS X on it.
I think 'special effects' was meant like all those fun items listed in the books that list expenses which end up spelling 'no profits'...
In all fairness, Marvel had a hand in making the movie, but I don't think they were the company behind the wheel. Marvel only gets a percentage based on some (probably complex) formula and it souns like Stan Lee gets paid ten percent of what profit Marvel makes off of it. So it IS possible, however unlikely, that Marvel's expenditures to get the movie made are roughly equal to what they get out of it. But... IANAA (I am not an accountant... thank god.;)
I've found Finder to be quicker in some cases, but not in others. I've moved a large number of files similar to how you describe and my milage really has varried. I've moved files across a network to an SMB share (Windows filesharing, that is) faster with MacOS X than with 98 or 2K, but operations on the local machine sometimes take longer on OS X than on 98 or 2K. It's so variable.
For the most part, I've found Apple's time estimate to finish some file operation to be pretty good while Microsoft is notorious for having 'about five seconds left' for several minutes.
Gee, yes. Because we're all dishonest cretins...
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Okay, I've got an indigo iBook (G3 366) running 10.2. I've run OS9 on it, as well as the public beta of X, 10 and 10.1. I've got a 900 MHz Athlon that has run 98, 2k and RedHat 7.3. So I've a bit of experience here with various systems at less than top-end speeds.
10 was unbearably slow. 10.1 was better. 10.2 is useable. I actually think for most native apps, it's faster than similar tasks in MacOS 9 were. It's certainly more versatile - I can get into SMB shares and the like. But that's not what the question was really asking.
So, how does it compare with the other OSes? Well, I certainly haven't done any real tests, but for just average use I find it pretty similar to my Athlon 900 except where things like MP3 player visualizations ore 3D performace go (and what can you expect when you're comparing a Rage 128 Mobile 8MB with a GeForce 3 TI 200?)
The big slowdown on MacOS X was always windowing, but this has been vastly improved with Quartz Extreme. I don't have enough graphics card to get the full benefits from it, but even on this old machine, resizing and moving have been much faster. In fact, it seems to perform better in that respect than XWindow on the Athlon, not that I find that terribly surprising.
I don't notice a big difference. In some cases, it seems a little faster. In some, a little slower.
Apple's laptops make a heck of a lot of sense. Sure, they're a little more expensive, but they're good, quality hardware, look great, work pretty much flawlessly. People complain about Macs being closed as far as upgrade paths go, but most laptops are closed in the PC world too, so it's really not all that much different when comparing portable apples and oranges.
I, for one, am absoultely drooling over those new iBooks... My old Indigo G3/366 is really starting to show its age when it's compared to things like this...
Last year I wore my hauberk (that's maille armor for those who don't know. A 'chainmail shirt' for those who believe Gary Gygax is the penultimate resource for historical accuracy on armor names) with surcoat and sword belted at my side.
Um... I didn't make the sword.
This year, I think I'll dress as an IT grunt... 37 pounds of metal hanging from my shoulders wasn't enough weight on my back.;)
This has been noted in other fields as well. Medical Doctors are more and more often becoming specialized rather than being General Practitioners. And I'm sure it's happening in other (less-obvious) fields as well.
The problem is that there's just SO much information out there now. Ten years ago, computing was more simple. Fewer languages. Less options. Less knowledge. How CAN universities teach everything when the number of development tools and languages has grown like kudzu the last few years? Likewise medicine. Or any of the science fields, really.
Knowledge grows exponentially, yet time moves (to our perception) at a mostly constant rate and we (Humans) only have so much capacity to learn, remember and apply.
I used to work at a company which used (at that time) a particular dynamic-content-management system (the name escapes me just now). At one point, one of the emails we received from a site visitor informed us that one of the big search engines had somehow (though no link existed to it ANYWHERE) managed to spider the admin page for that system... which was completely unprotected and included such information as our license key for this very expensive software.
To this day, I have no idea how that URL ended up on the search engine, but it just goes to show - if you want something protected, put a PASSWORD on it. Sheesh.
Or should we have sued the search engine for finding that link? Or the user who kindly reported it to us? Sorry, Europe. It looks like 'our' enjoyment of frivolous technology-lawsuits is starting to rub off...
Actually, I expect that states like Nebraska COULD. I mean, sure. There's lots of agriculture in Nebraska, but Omaha didn't get put on MSN's "Top Ten Little-Known Tech Havens" list last year for cow-raising.
Corn Fields and I.T. are not mutually exclusive. I should know - I live two blocks away from a corn field and I write code for a living.
I haven't bought an XBox and I'm not going to mod one if I get one because it's just too much of a pain. But here's the thing I can think of.
If the XBox is basically a computer, it can run an MP3 player. It has Ethernet. I've got an SMB share with all the music I own on it. I'd like to have that playable in the family room as well as at my desk. It already has video-out, display to a TV. No need of monitor.
Compare this to one of those (admittedly sweet) Shuttle boxes. $150 plus the price of a processor, plus the price of a 5.6" LCD panel, some kind of IR/remote, HD, Memory... Cost of time to mod the case to include the display panel or whatever...
IF I could buy an XBox, plug it in and drop a 'networked MP3 player' CD in the drive and be playing my music collection in a few minutes, that's a BIG advantage.
And a 13-year-old cracker will break into that international DB and find out that you're vacationing in Puerto Viarta for two weeks and get your address, where he'll go to rob you blind since he KNOWS you're out of town.
The real problem with a national or international ID system is that it CAN be exploited. Honestly, who would run this system? Who would govern what agencies can get at the information? How secure will it be? It's a given - if information exists, it is insecure. There will always be a way to get at it even if it's locked down as tight as anyone can lock it.
Such a system could be used for good, sure. Combat fraud, ensure purchases in your name are made only by you, track known criminals/terrorists... But it can also be used for ill. That's why this is such a big discussion.
Whoever can come up with the answer - all the good features with none of the bad problems... That person is going to be very, very wealthy - provided his ID doesn't get tracked breaking any laws.
The thing I love about people who discuss Socalism and Communism is how they ignore that Norway is a Constitutional Monarchy (you know, like the UK?) with a Market Socialist (actually, Wellfare Capitalist) econmy and the USSR was an OLIGARCHY with a Communist economy.
So, basically what they're saying is... their definition of when a product becomes obsolete coincides with when they finally... FINALLY get that same product stable?
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Well, okay. Not ALL of them. Win2k Pro at work. 98 at home for games. But only for games. Otherwise I boot to RedHat 7.3. Unless I'm on my laptop. That's an iBook with OS X on it.
I think 'special effects' was meant like all those fun items listed in the books that list expenses which end up spelling 'no profits'...
;)
In all fairness, Marvel had a hand in making the movie, but I don't think they were the company behind the wheel. Marvel only gets a percentage based on some (probably complex) formula and it souns like Stan Lee gets paid ten percent of what profit Marvel makes off of it. So it IS possible, however unlikely, that Marvel's expenditures to get the movie made are roughly equal to what they get out of it. But... IANAA (I am not an accountant... thank god.
I've found Finder to be quicker in some cases, but not in others. I've moved a large number of files similar to how you describe and my milage really has varried. I've moved files across a network to an SMB share (Windows filesharing, that is) faster with MacOS X than with 98 or 2K, but operations on the local machine sometimes take longer on OS X than on 98 or 2K. It's so variable.
For the most part, I've found Apple's time estimate to finish some file operation to be pretty good while Microsoft is notorious for having 'about five seconds left' for several minutes.
Okay, I've got an indigo iBook (G3 366) running 10.2. I've run OS9 on it, as well as the public beta of X, 10 and 10.1. I've got a 900 MHz Athlon that has run 98, 2k and RedHat 7.3. So I've a bit of experience here with various systems at less than top-end speeds.
10 was unbearably slow. 10.1 was better. 10.2 is useable. I actually think for most native apps, it's faster than similar tasks in MacOS 9 were. It's certainly more versatile - I can get into SMB shares and the like. But that's not what the question was really asking.
So, how does it compare with the other OSes? Well, I certainly haven't done any real tests, but for just average use I find it pretty similar to my Athlon 900 except where things like MP3 player visualizations ore 3D performace go (and what can you expect when you're comparing a Rage 128 Mobile 8MB with a GeForce 3 TI 200?)
The big slowdown on MacOS X was always windowing, but this has been vastly improved with Quartz Extreme. I don't have enough graphics card to get the full benefits from it, but even on this old machine, resizing and moving have been much faster. In fact, it seems to perform better in that respect than XWindow on the Athlon, not that I find that terribly surprising.
I don't notice a big difference. In some cases, it seems a little faster. In some, a little slower.
Apple's laptops make a heck of a lot of sense. Sure, they're a little more expensive, but they're good, quality hardware, look great, work pretty much flawlessly. People complain about Macs being closed as far as upgrade paths go, but most laptops are closed in the PC world too, so it's really not all that much different when comparing portable apples and oranges.
I, for one, am absoultely drooling over those new iBooks... My old Indigo G3/366 is really starting to show its age when it's compared to things like this...
Last year I wore my hauberk (that's maille armor for those who don't know. A 'chainmail shirt' for those who believe Gary Gygax is the penultimate resource for historical accuracy on armor names) with surcoat and sword belted at my side.
;)
Um... I didn't make the sword.
This year, I think I'll dress as an IT grunt... 37 pounds of metal hanging from my shoulders wasn't enough weight on my back.
This has been noted in other fields as well. Medical Doctors are more and more often becoming specialized rather than being General Practitioners. And I'm sure it's happening in other (less-obvious) fields as well.
The problem is that there's just SO much information out there now. Ten years ago, computing was more simple. Fewer languages. Less options. Less knowledge. How CAN universities teach everything when the number of development tools and languages has grown like kudzu the last few years? Likewise medicine. Or any of the science fields, really.
Knowledge grows exponentially, yet time moves (to our perception) at a mostly constant rate and we (Humans) only have so much capacity to learn, remember and apply.
I used to work at a company which used (at that time) a particular dynamic-content-management system (the name escapes me just now). At one point, one of the emails we received from a site visitor informed us that one of the big search engines had somehow (though no link existed to it ANYWHERE) managed to spider the admin page for that system... which was completely unprotected and included such information as our license key for this very expensive software.
To this day, I have no idea how that URL ended up on the search engine, but it just goes to show - if you want something protected, put a PASSWORD on it. Sheesh.
Or should we have sued the search engine for finding that link? Or the user who kindly reported it to us? Sorry, Europe. It looks like 'our' enjoyment of frivolous technology-lawsuits is starting to rub off...
Actually, I expect that states like Nebraska COULD. I mean, sure. There's lots of agriculture in Nebraska, but Omaha didn't get put on MSN's "Top Ten Little-Known Tech Havens" list last year for cow-raising.
Corn Fields and I.T. are not mutually exclusive. I should know - I live two blocks away from a corn field and I write code for a living.
-V
I haven't bought an XBox and I'm not going to mod one if I get one because it's just too much of a pain. But here's the thing I can think of.
If the XBox is basically a computer, it can run an MP3 player. It has Ethernet. I've got an SMB share with all the music I own on it. I'd like to have that playable in the family room as well as at my desk. It already has video-out, display to a TV. No need of monitor.
Compare this to one of those (admittedly sweet) Shuttle boxes. $150 plus the price of a processor, plus the price of a 5.6" LCD panel, some kind of IR/remote, HD, Memory... Cost of time to mod the case to include the display panel or whatever...
IF I could buy an XBox, plug it in and drop a 'networked MP3 player' CD in the drive and be playing my music collection in a few minutes, that's a BIG advantage.
Of course, I can't.
And a 13-year-old cracker will break into that international DB and find out that you're vacationing in Puerto Viarta for two weeks and get your address, where he'll go to rob you blind since he KNOWS you're out of town.
The real problem with a national or international ID system is that it CAN be exploited. Honestly, who would run this system? Who would govern what agencies can get at the information? How secure will it be? It's a given - if information exists, it is insecure. There will always be a way to get at it even if it's locked down as tight as anyone can lock it.
Such a system could be used for good, sure. Combat fraud, ensure purchases in your name are made only by you, track known criminals/terrorists... But it can also be used for ill. That's why this is such a big discussion.
Whoever can come up with the answer - all the good features with none of the bad problems... That person is going to be very, very wealthy - provided his ID doesn't get tracked breaking any laws.
Actually, they eat little boiled potato balls and rotten-smelling fish... not oil. Oh, and pork-n-potato sausages with no spices in them at all.
The thing I love about people who discuss Socalism and Communism is how they ignore that Norway is a Constitutional Monarchy (you know, like the UK?) with a Market Socialist (actually, Wellfare Capitalist) econmy and the USSR was an OLIGARCHY with a Communist economy.
So, basically what they're saying is... their definition of when a product becomes obsolete coincides with when they finally... FINALLY get that same product stable? -T