Sorry I didn't measure up to your standards of politeness, but my information is completely correct and the links are valid. Mod me down all you want. I've got Karma to burn.
I just wanted you to know what a lame ass sorry excuse for a human being you are, Mr. or Mrs. Moderator. If you knew your head from your ass, you'd have modded it as flamebait. This post you can mod as a troll.
There's been at least one occasion when I had to eat crow after asking for a link. It was so traumatic that I've repressed the memory, but at the time I'm pretty sure I took it like a man (while secretly crying like a little girl).
On the other hand, it's all too common to provide direct evidence from a reputable source here on slashdot, and the person you're arguing with tries to change the argument, insists you're twisting their words, etc. It's amazing, especially when you can just scroll up and quote their statements back to them. It's times like that when I am glad posts aren't editable.
Oh, the security through obscurity argument! If your medicine cabinet had more marketshare, you can bet that there'd be hordes of cracker bastards incessantly trying to steal your identity through your medicine cabinet.
And when was the last time you ran a port scan of your bathroom?
So HP now has the option to get a true marketing genius to sell these commodities, or return to product innovations like Apple has done. But perhaps it's too late for the latter.
Well, Apple has both, in Steve Jobs. And it's hard to separate the marketing from the innovation completely.
Because all the playstation games would need to be rewritten.
Does the Mac have the ~EXACT SAME~ DVD drive at the PS2 does? Nope? Guess you'll have to rewrite the code.
Part of why consoles work so flawlessly is that they're designed to work with a very, ~VERY~ specific set of hardware.
Which can be emulated with software. Did you ever hear of the Virtual Game Station? It ran PS1 games on the Mac back in January of 1999? Ring any bells?
Sony didn't like it, and there was a bitter dispute eventually resolved when Sony just bought all rights to the software from the developer Connectix.
It's obvious that you know jack squat about emulators, so maybe you should chill with your CAPS, and stick the tildes back in your ass. Freakin' arcade games are emulated. Mame came out in 1997?
(Seriously, the tildes are fucking gay. This isn't #reacharound or #cocksmokers, it's slashdot. Use a tag or at the very least an --em-- quad. And I sincerely apologize to any homosexuals reading this for the hateful stereotypes in this parenthetical comment.)
Dude, you're a riot. This is the third one I've noticed. How many more as I scroll down? =) Oh, and I made you a friend, since nebbishes like you need as many friends as they can get. I kid! I kid! You're not really a nebbish.
I know that the current info is that the cell will clock at 4+ Ghz, but very early in it's development, weren't there articles about it being asynchronous?
The target market is not home users but rather scientists, animators, engineers, and others who need raw power and aren't concerned with the fact that Word won't work on it
I have a suspicion that the first group of customers will be PS 3 game developers.
You forgot to start your post off with "I don't want to start a holy war, but what is it with you Mac addicts? I'm sitting here at my freelance gig trying to copy . .." Sorry, I'm just obsessed with the famous Kottke troll.
While I wouldn't expect the performance of a 400 Mhz G3 to be that great with OS X, I am still curious about your system. How much RAM do you have? The combination of the older, weaker processor and a small amount of RAM might be the problem.
Uh, that's incorrect. You can run Linux on 680x0 machines, you can run OS X on linux (via pear PC). Sure, it's going to seem like a glacier it'll be so slow. But it's possible.
He's just guessing that the VMX/Altivec unit in the PPC core will be "simple", but I think he's right about short term. Apple's got something in the G5 that will last a few more years and might still wring some life out of the new freescale G4s. Four or five years down the road the Cell might be a better choice, and you can bet Apple is watching Cell developments with interest now.
Also, note that while a Mac desktop computer might not be using the Cell, another Apple device might.
You might have been joking/trolling, but this is brought up often enough by people who are completely serious.
I've got one more reason why not. Why should they go to the trouble of porting to a cpu that is archaic and on it's last legs? Apple is probably working on a port to Cell as we speak. Er, as we type. x86 has shot it's wad. When we see new cpu technology from Intel, it might have x86 extensions for compatibility at best, a la AMD. And if AMD is smart, they'll be trying to license Cell technology or trying to join the Cell Consortium.
I think that if any of these licensing partnerships ever come to pass, it will be on Cell hardware, not Intel. Especially if the partners are IBM or Sony.
That said, I don't see any motivation to actually do this. The downsides are plenty (commoditization, random hardware support, variable hardware quality, loss of computer revenue, incompatibility between PPC and x86), and could seriously dent Apple's reputation.
The only possible motivation would be to exploit untapped markets, and the biggest untapped market segment for Apple is what is called "The Enterprise". Apple could partner with IBM, HP, or even Dell to open up this market for OS X Server.
Another way to look at untapped markets is by geography. Apple's presence outside of the US, Europe, and Japan (I'm including Canada as part of the US, but not Mexico, heh heh) is virtually nil. With the right licensing partner (Sony? Samsung? Lenovo?) Apple could gain a foothold in the fast growing Asian markets.
I'm not sure who they could partner with in Latin America. I do know that there are mac users in Latin America, but during a fact finding trip to Mexico (to check out the titty bars) I found very few Macs, most of them in Video Production businesses, a few graphic designers, and one really cool all Mac cyber cafe. Mexico's middle class is growing, and more people can afford Macs, especially boxes like the mini.
Your other points about why this won't happen are excellent.
I think that's the GP's point: To those who can't afford anything better than a Yugo, everyone else is paying a premium. To someone who can't afford a car at all and must take public transportation, all car buyers are paying a premium.
However, for those who can come up with $500 bones, which I don't think anyone can argue is a very high premium, you can get the equivalent of what Fortune magazine calls a cross between a Porsche and an M1 Abrams Tank.
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So do a dual channel raid. Just make sure you have two FW buses. FW cards are cheap.
Also note that people use RAID for different reasons. Some want to mirror for data redundancy, others want to stripe for speed, still others want both. And a few, mistakenly, want to kill bugs dead.
When my dad was wanting to buy a computer, and I was suggesting a Mac, my sister butted in with the "Macs are too expensive, just get a PC" argument. I told her that unless she was going to be his tech support to butt out. =) Then I went ahead and bought him an eMac, so she couldn't offer him further buying advice.
You know you're doing the opposite of what many auto mechanics do? They base their estimate for a repair on the time it took them the first time they ever did that repair. Then they charge you based on that, not on the actual time.
Personally, to me, certification means doodley squat when it comes to computer repair. Get it if it will help your career in other directions, but I don't think of it as useful for computer repair.
If something takes longer to fix than you think it should have, then you can offer to knock down the price afterwards. If it takes way too long, maybe you're in the wrong business.
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Sorry I didn't measure up to your standards of politeness, but my information is completely correct and the links are valid. Mod me down all you want. I've got Karma to burn.
I just wanted you to know what a lame ass sorry excuse for a human being you are, Mr. or Mrs. Moderator. If you knew your head from your ass, you'd have modded it as flamebait. This post you can mod as a troll.
Idiot.
There's been at least one occasion when I had to eat crow after asking for a link. It was so traumatic that I've repressed the memory, but at the time I'm pretty sure I took it like a man (while secretly crying like a little girl).
On the other hand, it's all too common to provide direct evidence from a reputable source here on slashdot, and the person you're arguing with tries to change the argument, insists you're twisting their words, etc. It's amazing, especially when you can just scroll up and quote their statements back to them. It's times like that when I am glad posts aren't editable.
Oh, the security through obscurity argument! If your medicine cabinet had more marketshare, you can bet that there'd be hordes of cracker bastards incessantly trying to steal your identity through your medicine cabinet.
And when was the last time you ran a port scan of your bathroom?
So HP now has the option to get a true marketing genius to sell these commodities, or return to product innovations like Apple has done. But perhaps it's too late for the latter.
Well, Apple has both, in Steve Jobs. And it's hard to separate the marketing from the innovation completely.
They should have fired her more frequently. The stock could have been up to $100 by now.
Because all the playstation games would need to be rewritten.
Does the Mac have the ~EXACT SAME~ DVD drive at the PS2 does? Nope? Guess you'll have to rewrite the code.
Part of why consoles work so flawlessly is that they're designed to work with a very, ~VERY~ specific set of hardware.
Which can be emulated with software. Did you ever hear of the Virtual Game Station? It ran PS1 games on the Mac back in January of 1999? Ring any bells?
Sony didn't like it, and there was a bitter dispute eventually resolved when Sony just bought all rights to the software from the developer Connectix.
It's obvious that you know jack squat about emulators, so maybe you should chill with your CAPS, and stick the tildes back in your ass. Freakin' arcade games are emulated. Mame came out in 1997?
(Seriously, the tildes are fucking gay. This isn't #reacharound or #cocksmokers, it's slashdot. Use a tag or at the very least an --em-- quad. And I sincerely apologize to any homosexuals reading this for the hateful stereotypes in this parenthetical comment.)
Dude, you're a riot. This is the third one I've noticed. How many more as I scroll down? =) Oh, and I made you a friend, since nebbishes like you need as many friends as they can get. I kid! I kid! You're not really a nebbish.
I know that the current info is that the cell will clock at 4+ Ghz, but very early in it's development, weren't there articles about it being asynchronous?
That the Altivec unit will be somehow weaker is just an educated guess. He says himself that he hasn't gotten much info on the CPU core.
The target market is not home users but rather scientists, animators, engineers, and others who need raw power and aren't concerned with the fact that Word won't work on it
I have a suspicion that the first group of customers will be PS 3 game developers.
You forgot to start your post off with "I don't want to start a holy war, but what is it with you Mac addicts? I'm sitting here at my freelance gig trying to copy . . ." Sorry, I'm just obsessed with the famous Kottke troll.
While I wouldn't expect the performance of a 400 Mhz G3 to be that great with OS X, I am still curious about your system. How much RAM do you have? The combination of the older, weaker processor and a small amount of RAM might be the problem.
Uh, that's incorrect. You can run Linux on 680x0 machines, you can run OS X on linux (via pear PC). Sure, it's going to seem like a glacier it'll be so slow. But it's possible.
He's just guessing that the VMX/Altivec unit in the PPC core will be "simple", but I think he's right about short term. Apple's got something in the G5 that will last a few more years and might still wring some life out of the new freescale G4s. Four or five years down the road the Cell might be a better choice, and you can bet Apple is watching Cell developments with interest now.
Also, note that while a Mac desktop computer might not be using the Cell, another Apple device might.
Dude, Mac users are totally gay, except not all of them are into having sex with people of the same gender. =)
Normally getting modded down doesn't bother me, but how is this flamebait? Redundant, yes, but not flamebait.
You might have been joking/trolling, but this is brought up often enough by people who are completely serious.
I've got one more reason why not. Why should they go to the trouble of porting to a cpu that is archaic and on it's last legs? Apple is probably working on a port to Cell as we speak. Er, as we type. x86 has shot it's wad. When we see new cpu technology from Intel, it might have x86 extensions for compatibility at best, a la AMD. And if AMD is smart, they'll be trying to license Cell technology or trying to join the Cell Consortium.
And one more thing . . .
I think that if any of these licensing partnerships ever come to pass, it will be on Cell hardware, not Intel. Especially if the partners are IBM or Sony.
That said, I don't see any motivation to actually do this. The downsides are plenty (commoditization, random hardware support, variable hardware quality, loss of computer revenue, incompatibility between PPC and x86), and could seriously dent Apple's reputation.
The only possible motivation would be to exploit untapped markets, and the biggest untapped market segment for Apple is what is called "The Enterprise". Apple could partner with IBM, HP, or even Dell to open up this market for OS X Server.
Another way to look at untapped markets is by geography. Apple's presence outside of the US, Europe, and Japan (I'm including Canada as part of the US, but not Mexico, heh heh) is virtually nil. With the right licensing partner (Sony? Samsung? Lenovo?) Apple could gain a foothold in the fast growing Asian markets.
I'm not sure who they could partner with in Latin America. I do know that there are mac users in Latin America, but during a fact finding trip to Mexico (to check out the titty bars) I found very few Macs, most of them in Video Production businesses, a few graphic designers, and one really cool all Mac cyber cafe. Mexico's middle class is growing, and more people can afford Macs, especially boxes like the mini.
Your other points about why this won't happen are excellent.
I think that's the GP's point: To those who can't afford anything better than a Yugo, everyone else is paying a premium. To someone who can't afford a car at all and must take public transportation, all car buyers are paying a premium.
However, for those who can come up with $500 bones, which I don't think anyone can argue is a very high premium, you can get the equivalent of what Fortune magazine calls a cross between a Porsche and an M1 Abrams Tank.
So do a dual channel raid. Just make sure you have two FW buses. FW cards are cheap.
Also note that people use RAID for different reasons. Some want to mirror for data redundancy, others want to stripe for speed, still others want both. And a few, mistakenly, want to kill bugs dead.
Don't forget to hide each of the USB keys in a replica statuette of Da Vinci's Gran Cavallo.
When my dad was wanting to buy a computer, and I was suggesting a Mac, my sister butted in with the "Macs are too expensive, just get a PC" argument. I told her that unless she was going to be his tech support to butt out. =) Then I went ahead and bought him an eMac, so she couldn't offer him further buying advice.
You know you're doing the opposite of what many auto mechanics do? They base their estimate for a repair on the time it took them the first time they ever did that repair. Then they charge you based on that, not on the actual time.
People suddenly think when they hand you $75 they own you.
The secret is to charge an hourly rate, not a flat rate. Then they know they're only renting you. It works for hookers, why not computer repairmen?
"Me fix you computer long time! Fifty dollah!"
If they want to pay $75 (or $50 in my "example") to change their batteries, let them.
Personally, to me, certification means doodley squat when it comes to computer repair. Get it if it will help your career in other directions, but I don't think of it as useful for computer repair.
If something takes longer to fix than you think it should have, then you can offer to knock down the price afterwards. If it takes way too long, maybe you're in the wrong business.