1. The cost of switching over (and doing away with IPv4) is enormous, and it will be a long time before that cost is less than losses due to overextension of IPv4. Look how long it took us to get away from things that have ZERO cost of switching over, like waiting for people to upgrade from Netscape 4.
3. HDTV is the textbook case of the chicken-and-egg problem. Not only that, there's really no reason to switch over to it. What can you do with HDTV that you can't do with NTSC? I don't mean just increase the quality or watch widescreen movies without pan where is the "killer app" for HDTV? People talk about it as if it was the biggest thing since cable or color, but it's not *that* much better.
In 2010 people will be wondering where the hell IPv6 and HDTV are, just like they have been doing for the past 10 years.
An alpha channel could be done by using a slanted cell with an opaque front slope (except for a transparent "window" where you want the pixel to be) and a transparent back slope, and using a mixture of transparent and opaque particles. When the pixel is on, the opaque particles move to the front surface at the top of the slant and block the transparent area. When the pixel is off, the opaque particles move down the slant to an "alcove" off to the side and light can pass through the transparent particles and out of the transparent back of the tube. It wouldn't be perfect (distortion would make each pixel look like it was made of frosted glass), but whatever is behind the pixels would look no worse than a color image of itself displayed on the screen.
It's not about age, it's about experience. An older person who just completed a coding course is in the exact same situation as me (23, BS CS): Waiting for the economy to expand to the point where all the people with years of experience who got laid off are reabsorbed and real entry-level positions are open again.
SB doesn't really apply to this example anyway, as it's not available without the custom controller at all, and it doesn't "virtually" require it, it does not work at all without it.
Sure there is. An insanely complicated equations that transforms the computer's RAM and state of the keyboard, mouse, and network input buffers into the new state of the RAM and the state of the framebuffer.
IDE drives and RAM aren't cheap crap, true. Second-rate IDE drives and RAM used to cut the overall price of the system are, and that's what Apple doesn't use.
Apple doesn't think you are stupid. If they did, the case would be screwed shut and completely non-expandable, and Macs haven't shipped like that for nearly 20 years. There are lots of other good reasons for Apple to limit their officially supported hardware base, most of which have been mentioned before in this thread (and most other Apple stories here).
Yes, PCI cards can be put in the powermac line. I'm not sure if the Audigy 2 has OSX drivers.
It doesn't. OS X's consumer audio stuff is nearly as far behind as the processors.
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No, the correct course of action is to place large speakers outside his house playing audio that cannot be turned off 24 hours a day until he shoots himself.
For that to work, it requires that the spammer include a reachable (valid and static) email in the spam. And he'll have to use the same address for each spam he wants to get through. So filter based on that, and report him as a spammer so the ISP can filter him before the CR stage.
No, then the spammer would have to provide a valid and static reply-to in the email, and we'd filter based on that. Even if they had a large number of domains/addresses, distributed spam-cataloging tools would make that ineffective.
"3D accelerated desktop" is too easy to misinterpret. What's really going is that a lot of graphics tasks (compositing, mostly) are offloaded to the GPU. The real advantage to having the entire screen as a GL context means that tricks that used to be very processor-intensive are now ready for everyday use. OS X's use of transparency was a bit much for a 400Mhz G3, but a modern graphics card barely notices the load. The Terminal could use transparent windows since day 1, but with a significant performance hit; with QE that hit is gone and some people leave their windows transparent all the time. The genie effect used to take up 100% of pretty much every Mac's CPU, with the GPU handling the grunt work of the bitmap distortion there's enough power left over that DVDs actually keep playing while they are being genied. The full-screen zoom tool (for the visually impaired) uses bilinear filtering, and again with virtually zero performance hit - I use it to watch postage-stamp streaming movies embedded in web pages at full screen.
A 3D-accelerated desktop is just the logical next step after blitting acceleration from a 2D card.
For showing that a game can have a more complex plot than "There are 5 billion demons trying to kill you". There's more going on in those games than a lot of novels.
Also, most of those features do not actually solve the problem they address: An airbag won't stop you from wrapping the car around a tree, it just lets you walk away afterwards; the car is still totaled. It's the same with this patch.
They'll just send off the existing bill to the credit card company and eat the lost profit from the failed amortization. They'd still get *something* off you, just less.
Anyone who has not used iTunes does not understand just how convenient the store is. It's an entry right in your playlist collection (with a different icon). One click on it, and you're at the intro/overview page (or the last page you visited without quitting iTunes). iTunes' built-in search box works on the online catalog in this mode, type something in and it pops right up. Or you can switch to the categorized column-view browse mode (same button to switch any other playlist to browse mode), which is indistinguishable from browsing your local library except for network lag and the Buy button. Find a song you like, and one more click makes it download directly into your library and start playing. It's seamlessly integrated and completely oriented around impulse buying. I'm sure (I *hope*) for most people, one dollar per song is worth the removal of the time and aggravation cost of using P2P (aside from the time spent downloading on my modem, I can find music in the store faster than it would take to find Limewire on my HD and wait for it to gather a server list).
I believe I saw a study somewhere on the effect of language on perception (it was described as disproving Orwell's ideas about newspeak, but it applies here as well). It turns out that the primitive languages used by various aboriginal tribes contain far fewer color names than most other languages (just "light" and "dark" as opposed to "red", "blue", "burnt sienna", "a sort of orange-blue", etc). However, their eyes and vision centers are just as capable of distinguishing betwee any two colors as speakers of any other language; they could recognize that two colors were not identical even though they could not quantify the difference.
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1. The cost of switching over (and doing away with IPv4) is enormous, and it will be a long time before that cost is less than losses due to overextension of IPv4. Look how long it took us to get away from things that have ZERO cost of switching over, like waiting for people to upgrade from Netscape 4.
3. HDTV is the textbook case of the chicken-and-egg problem. Not only that, there's really no reason to switch over to it. What can you do with HDTV that you can't do with NTSC? I don't mean just increase the quality or watch widescreen movies without pan where is the "killer app" for HDTV? People talk about it as if it was the biggest thing since cable or color, but it's not *that* much better.
In 2010 people will be wondering where the hell IPv6 and HDTV are, just like they have been doing for the past 10 years.
Very small pellets of potential fuels for fusion reactors.
An alpha channel could be done by using a slanted cell with an opaque front slope (except for a transparent "window" where you want the pixel to be) and a transparent back slope, and using a mixture of transparent and opaque particles. When the pixel is on, the opaque particles move to the front surface at the top of the slant and block the transparent area. When the pixel is off, the opaque particles move down the slant to an "alcove" off to the side and light can pass through the transparent particles and out of the transparent back of the tube. It wouldn't be perfect (distortion would make each pixel look like it was made of frosted glass), but whatever is behind the pixels would look no worse than a color image of itself displayed on the screen.
It's not about age, it's about experience. An older person who just completed a coding course is in the exact same situation as me (23, BS CS): Waiting for the economy to expand to the point where all the people with years of experience who got laid off are reabsorbed and real entry-level positions are open again.
True, but BJM probably cost a tenth of what X2 did, and I don't think amusement park ride costs vary that much.
SB doesn't really apply to this example anyway, as it's not available without the custom controller at all, and it doesn't "virtually" require it, it does not work at all without it.
IDE drives and RAM aren't cheap crap, true. Second-rate IDE drives and RAM used to cut the overall price of the system are, and that's what Apple doesn't use.
Apple doesn't think you are stupid. If they did, the case would be screwed shut and completely non-expandable, and Macs haven't shipped like that for nearly 20 years. There are lots of other good reasons for Apple to limit their officially supported hardware base, most of which have been mentioned before in this thread (and most other Apple stories here).
Sometimes it's just a problem of companies being too lazy to take advantage of Mac-specific optimizations. You can double After Effects' Mac performance with a few minutes of tweaking.
No, the correct course of action is to place large speakers outside his house playing audio that cannot be turned off 24 hours a day until he shoots himself.
For that to work, it requires that the spammer include a reachable (valid and static) email in the spam. And he'll have to use the same address for each spam he wants to get through. So filter based on that, and report him as a spammer so the ISP can filter him before the CR stage.
No, then the spammer would have to provide a valid and static reply-to in the email, and we'd filter based on that. Even if they had a large number of domains/addresses, distributed spam-cataloging tools would make that ineffective.
The first novel, The Fall of Reach, is WAY better than this one.
Evil was a walk in the park compared to RED :)
True, but Quartz was doing that on the CPU since OS X DP3.
Welcome to Quartz 2D... It's always worked that way, QE only added hardware acceleration.
"3D accelerated desktop" is too easy to misinterpret. What's really going is that a lot of graphics tasks (compositing, mostly) are offloaded to the GPU. The real advantage to having the entire screen as a GL context means that tricks that used to be very processor-intensive are now ready for everyday use. OS X's use of transparency was a bit much for a 400Mhz G3, but a modern graphics card barely notices the load. The Terminal could use transparent windows since day 1, but with a significant performance hit; with QE that hit is gone and some people leave their windows transparent all the time. The genie effect used to take up 100% of pretty much every Mac's CPU, with the GPU handling the grunt work of the bitmap distortion there's enough power left over that DVDs actually keep playing while they are being genied. The full-screen zoom tool (for the visually impaired) uses bilinear filtering, and again with virtually zero performance hit - I use it to watch postage-stamp streaming movies embedded in web pages at full screen.
A 3D-accelerated desktop is just the logical next step after blitting acceleration from a 2D card.
For showing that a game can have a more complex plot than "There are 5 billion demons trying to kill you". There's more going on in those games than a lot of novels.
Also, most of those features do not actually solve the problem they address: An airbag won't stop you from wrapping the car around a tree, it just lets you walk away afterwards; the car is still totaled. It's the same with this patch.
They'll just send off the existing bill to the credit card company and eat the lost profit from the failed amortization. They'd still get *something* off you, just less.
Anyone who has not used iTunes does not understand just how convenient the store is. It's an entry right in your playlist collection (with a different icon). One click on it, and you're at the intro/overview page (or the last page you visited without quitting iTunes). iTunes' built-in search box works on the online catalog in this mode, type something in and it pops right up. Or you can switch to the categorized column-view browse mode (same button to switch any other playlist to browse mode), which is indistinguishable from browsing your local library except for network lag and the Buy button. Find a song you like, and one more click makes it download directly into your library and start playing. It's seamlessly integrated and completely oriented around impulse buying. I'm sure (I *hope*) for most people, one dollar per song is worth the removal of the time and aggravation cost of using P2P (aside from the time spent downloading on my modem, I can find music in the store faster than it would take to find Limewire on my HD and wait for it to gather a server list).
I believe I saw a study somewhere on the effect of language on perception (it was described as disproving Orwell's ideas about newspeak, but it applies here as well). It turns out that the primitive languages used by various aboriginal tribes contain far fewer color names than most other languages (just "light" and "dark" as opposed to "red", "blue", "burnt sienna", "a sort of orange-blue", etc). However, their eyes and vision centers are just as capable of distinguishing betwee any two colors as speakers of any other language; they could recognize that two colors were not identical even though they could not quantify the difference.