[...]Most of the 42 gun-related deaths last year took place in London, the West Midlands, Manchester or Merseyside, with swathes of the country recording no homicides, suicides or accidental deaths from firearms[...]
Factual C
It is not "very cold in space". In fact, depending on your point of view, the radiation can make it quite 'hot'. Temperature is the kinetic vibration of matter. Its just there's not a lot of matter to vibrate in the void. What we often perceive as the effects of the tempurature of space, is actually the near vacuum.
Once you install quicktime updates on OSX you can't un-install them without re-installing the OS? WTF is all this hoopla about Windows Containing DRM/WMP11 crap but quicktime being worse? I mean WMP11/Vista DRM doesn't stop you from using Pro tools EVER. WMP11 is about 20 megs of code sitting around that can be replaced with another player.
WMP11/Vista DRM has nothing to do with Pro Tools' audio rendering, not to mention that Pro Tools uses a hardware dongle for its own copy protection, which is about the most annoying form of DRM. Good luck if you ever lose or break your iLok key! Conversely, almost all forms of video playback or rendering in someway interface with Quicktime on a Mac. In this way, Quicktime on a Mac is more like DirectX than WMP. iTunes and Quicktime Player (among others) are the actual front end apps that utilize Quicktime. Note, that Quicktime on Windows is a bit different. Its more like an additional API/framework as opposed to the main subsystem that all media output goes through, like it is on a Mac. Oh, and you can't actually 'replace' WMP11 on Windows. You can install an alternate player like MPlayer or VLC... which can also be installed on a Mac.
Being a windows user another thing i can't stand is the stupid Apple Updater. No matter how you tell the program you don't want the f&**(@ installed it tries to update itself any chance it gets even if you just watch a quicktime.
Actually, it VERY easy to decline an update and not have it pop up again... in fact, its simpler that doing the same in Windows Update:
1. In Software Update click on the update you do not want to show again so it is highlight it
2. Press the 'delete' key or go to Update -> Ignore Update...
3. Click OK on the confirmation dialog.
I don't want iTunes, don't want Quicktime, don't want a broken browser and i certainly wouldn't support an OS that meant upgrades to a media player could potentially break your purchased apps functionality with the only recourse being a re-install. Thats so WIN NT 4 which is so TEN YEARS AGO.
Nobody is forcing you to use iTunes, or even Quicktime if you're on a PC. But like I said, not having Quicktime on a Mac would be the same as not having DirectX on Windows. Its a subsystem, not a player, and if it wasn't there something else would have to be in its place. You could always use Realplayer, or MPlayer, or VLC. Broken Browser? Safari 2.0.2 was released on Oct 31st 2005 and was the first offical build of a web browsers that could past the Acid2 test. Here we are in 2008 and it looks like IE8 (not out yet) will not be making the cut. Oh, and a DirectX update has NEVER broken Windows functionality? *insert sarcasm* Give me a break! Just take a look at all the things that DirectX 10 isn't compatible with... like Windows XP or DirectX 9 graphics cards!
[...]It's time to state something that we've felt for a long time but have been too polite to say out loud: Liberals, progressives, and Democrats do not live in a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. We live on a chain of islands. We are citizens of the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America. We live on islands of sanity, liberalism, and compassion--New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and on and on. And we live on islands in red states too--a fact obscured by that state-by-state map. Denver and Boulder are our islands in Colorado; Austin is our island in Texas; Las Vegas is our island in Nevada; Miami and Fort Lauderdale are our islands in Florida. Citizens of the Urban Archipelago reject heartland "values" like xenophobia, sexism, racism, and homophobia, as well as the more intolerant strains of Christianity that have taken root in this country. And we are the real Americans. They--rural, red-state voters, the denizens of the exurbs--are not real Americans. They are rubes, fools, and hate-mongers. Red Virginia prohibits any contract between same-sex couples. Compassionate? Texas allows the death penalty to be applied to teenaged criminals and has historically executed the mentally retarded. (When the Supreme Court ruled executions of the mentally retarded unconstitutional in 2002, Texas officials, including Governor Rick Perry, responded by claiming that the state had no mentally retarded inmates on death row--a claim the state was able to make because it does not test inmates for mental retardation.) Dumb? The Sierra Club has reported that Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Tennessee squander over half of their federal transportation money on building new roads rather than public transit...
Fundamentalist Christianity - fascinating. These people actually believe that the the world is 12,000 years old. Swear to God. Based on what? I asked them.
"Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years."
Well how fucking scientific, okay. I didn't know that you'd gone to so much trouble. That's good. You believe the world's 12,000 years old?
"That's right."
Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?
"Uh-huh."
Dinosaurs.
You know the world is 12,000 years old and dinosaurs existed, they existed in that time, you'd think it would have been mentioned in the fucking Bible at some point.
"And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big fucking lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend.
"And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch for O so many years inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat fucking families and their fat dollar bills.
"And oh Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord."
The past has shown this to be untrue. Apple held the CPU speed crown with the G3s when they first came out. Motorola has been screwing Apple for dropping the clones (and cost Moto big $$$), and because there is no incentive in their embedded market for fast FSB.
Mark my words! This is just the beginning. IBM has the most advance fabs in the world. And they just made a deal with AMD to share process techniques. The POWER 5 (and its PPC 980 derivitive) are a hell of a lot closer then you think.
Oh, you want benchmarks?
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date= 2003-05-05#5440
The G4 is a 32-bit CPU with a 128-bit vector processing unit (aka SIMD Unit) called Velocity Engine or Altivec. This kind of like (though much superior) to MMX, 3DNow!, etc. The new IBM chip is suppose to be a 64-bit chip with a 128-bit Altivec compatible unit. In the past, the Altivec unit has always suffered from Motorola's slow FSB on the G4. One bonus of the PPC 970 is that it sports a 900MHz DDR bus that can keep the SIMD unit fully fed.
The absolute worst is people who think Microsoft making their UI more 'soft' was a direct response to OS X. These UI changes don't get dreamed up at the last minute -- they're part of an evolution that takes years.
EEEEERRRRNNNNTTTT! But thank you for playing!
Sept 2000 - Mac OS X Public Beta is demo-ed. Oct 2000 - Whistler (XP) Beta 1 released w/ a Win2k look March 2001 - XP Beta 2 released with Luna added, Mac community laughs.
Funny that they didn't included (according to you) what MUST have been a multi-year spanning IU change with their first beta. Looks more like they got scared by all of the interest that Mac OS X PB generated, and copied the interface as usual. I was beta testing both and nearly p!ssed myself laughing when I first installed the second beta of Whistler. I'd dig up some screen shots but its not really worth the time.
What I really want to know is how much this chip is going to cost. If its cheap for Apple to put 2 or 4 of these in a machine, then how much will it matter that an expensive P4 (P5) out performs it?
Hmmm....
The current Wind-Tunnel G4s raised a few eyebrows when it first came out do to the new case design. These things were designed to disapate heat! A HUGE (7 lbs) heat sink w/ matching fan, a small case fan, 2 fans on the power supply, and a ton of ventalation in the back. WAY more cooling that those 2 little G4s require. I think Apple is trying to avoid the fiasco it had with the Sawtooth (1st gen) G4s where they just slapped a G4 onto a G3 mobo. This time around, I believe they're releasing a new mobo first and then put a new proc in it down the road. I've also read stuff in forums suggesting that the power supply for the Wind-Tunnel had way more juice than the system currently demands.
Can anyone out there do the math on this? We know how much power the PPC 970 eats. Can we figure out how much heat the Wind-Tunnel case is designed to disapate? What about how much power the power supply is putting? With these numbers, can we figure out how many PPC 970 the Wind-Tunnel case could power and cool?
I've been suffering with a 266MHz G3 iMac, and I refuse to upgrade until Apple comes out with a system that really is worth that premium they charge, and a G4 is not it.
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How to say this politely...
STFU!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/britain-records-18-fall-in-gun-deaths-1232069.html
[...]Most of the 42 gun-related deaths last year took place in London, the West Midlands, Manchester or Merseyside, with swathes of the country recording no homicides, suicides or accidental deaths from firearms[...]
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html
2005 CDC Statistics for firearm related deaths in the US (latest that are available):
Number of Deaths: 30,694
Now, tell me again how gun control does nothing to prevent crime?
That "Factual C" should be "Factual Correction" *facepalm*
Factual C It is not "very cold in space". In fact, depending on your point of view, the radiation can make it quite 'hot'. Temperature is the kinetic vibration of matter. Its just there's not a lot of matter to vibrate in the void. What we often perceive as the effects of the tempurature of space, is actually the near vacuum.
"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, its all dark. Its the sun that makes it light..."
WMP11/Vista DRM has nothing to do with Pro Tools' audio rendering, not to mention that Pro Tools uses a hardware dongle for its own copy protection, which is about the most annoying form of DRM. Good luck if you ever lose or break your iLok key! Conversely, almost all forms of video playback or rendering in someway interface with Quicktime on a Mac. In this way, Quicktime on a Mac is more like DirectX than WMP. iTunes and Quicktime Player (among others) are the actual front end apps that utilize Quicktime. Note, that Quicktime on Windows is a bit different. Its more like an additional API/framework as opposed to the main subsystem that all media output goes through, like it is on a Mac. Oh, and you can't actually 'replace' WMP11 on Windows. You can install an alternate player like MPlayer or VLC... which can also be installed on a Mac.
Being a windows user another thing i can't stand is the stupid Apple Updater. No matter how you tell the program you don't want the f&**(@ installed it tries to update itself any chance it gets even if you just watch a quicktime.
Actually, it VERY easy to decline an update and not have it pop up again... in fact, its simpler that doing the same in Windows Update:
1. In Software Update click on the update you do not want to show again so it is highlight it
2. Press the 'delete' key or go to Update -> Ignore Update...
3. Click OK on the confirmation dialog.
I don't want iTunes, don't want Quicktime, don't want a broken browser and i certainly wouldn't support an OS that meant upgrades to a media player could potentially break your purchased apps functionality with the only recourse being a re-install. Thats so WIN NT 4 which is so TEN YEARS AGO.
Nobody is forcing you to use iTunes, or even Quicktime if you're on a PC. But like I said, not having Quicktime on a Mac would be the same as not having DirectX on Windows. Its a subsystem, not a player, and if it wasn't there something else would have to be in its place. You could always use Realplayer, or MPlayer, or VLC. Broken Browser? Safari 2.0.2 was released on Oct 31st 2005 and was the first offical build of a web browsers that could past the Acid2 test. Here we are in 2008 and it looks like IE8 (not out yet) will not be making the cut. Oh, and a DirectX update has NEVER broken Windows functionality? *insert sarcasm* Give me a break! Just take a look at all the things that DirectX 10 isn't compatible with... like Windows XP or DirectX 9 graphics cards!
Oh, and in case you haven't notice, Apple would love nothing more than to do away with DRM.
Its an Urban Archipelago.
[...]It's time to state something that we've felt for a long time but have been too polite to say out loud: Liberals, progressives, and Democrats do not live in a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. We live on a chain of islands. We are citizens of the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America. We live on islands of sanity, liberalism, and compassion--New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and on and on. And we live on islands in red states too--a fact obscured by that state-by-state map. Denver and Boulder are our islands in Colorado; Austin is our island in Texas; Las Vegas is our island in Nevada; Miami and Fort Lauderdale are our islands in Florida. Citizens of the Urban Archipelago reject heartland "values" like xenophobia, sexism, racism, and homophobia, as well as the more intolerant strains of Christianity that have taken root in this country. And we are the real Americans. They--rural, red-state voters, the denizens of the exurbs--are not real Americans. They are rubes, fools, and hate-mongers. Red Virginia prohibits any contract between same-sex couples. Compassionate? Texas allows the death penalty to be applied to teenaged criminals and has historically executed the mentally retarded. (When the Supreme Court ruled executions of the mentally retarded unconstitutional in 2002, Texas officials, including Governor Rick Perry, responded by claiming that the state had no mentally retarded inmates on death row--a claim the state was able to make because it does not test inmates for mental retardation.) Dumb? The Sierra Club has reported that Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Tennessee squander over half of their federal transportation money on building new roads rather than public transit...
http://www.konformist.com/2001/hicks.htm
Fundamentalist Christianity - fascinating. These people actually believe that the the world is 12,000 years old. Swear to God. Based on what? I asked them.
"Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years."
Well how fucking scientific, okay. I didn't know that you'd gone to so much trouble. That's good. You believe the world's 12,000 years old?
"That's right."
Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?
"Uh-huh."
Dinosaurs.
You know the world is 12,000 years old and dinosaurs existed, they existed in that time, you'd think it would have been mentioned in the fucking Bible at some point.
"And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big fucking lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend.
"And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch for O so many years inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat fucking families and their fat dollar bills.
"And oh Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord."
The past has shown this to be untrue. Apple held the CPU speed crown with the G3s when they first came out. Motorola has been screwing Apple for dropping the clones (and cost Moto big $$$), and because there is no incentive in their embedded market for fast FSB. Mark my words! This is just the beginning. IBM has the most advance fabs in the world. And they just made a deal with AMD to share process techniques. The POWER 5 (and its PPC 980 derivitive) are a hell of a lot closer then you think. Oh, you want benchmarks? http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date= 2003-05-05#5440
The G4 is a 32-bit CPU with a 128-bit vector processing unit (aka SIMD Unit) called Velocity Engine or Altivec. This kind of like (though much superior) to MMX, 3DNow!, etc. The new IBM chip is suppose to be a 64-bit chip with a 128-bit Altivec compatible unit. In the past, the Altivec unit has always suffered from Motorola's slow FSB on the G4. One bonus of the PPC 970 is that it sports a 900MHz DDR bus that can keep the SIMD unit fully fed.
EEEEERRRRNNNNTTTT!
But thank you for playing!
Sept 2000 - Mac OS X Public Beta is demo-ed.
Oct 2000 - Whistler (XP) Beta 1 released w/ a Win2k look
March 2001 - XP Beta 2 released with Luna added, Mac community laughs.
Funny that they didn't included (according to you) what MUST have been a multi-year spanning IU change with their first beta. Looks more like they got scared by all of the interest that Mac OS X PB generated, and copied the interface as usual. I was beta testing both and nearly p!ssed myself laughing when I first installed the second beta of Whistler. I'd dig up some screen shots but its not really worth the time.
What I really want to know is how much this chip is going to cost. If its cheap for Apple to put 2 or 4 of these in a machine, then how much will it matter that an expensive P4 (P5) out performs it? Hmmm.... The current Wind-Tunnel G4s raised a few eyebrows when it first came out do to the new case design. These things were designed to disapate heat! A HUGE (7 lbs) heat sink w/ matching fan, a small case fan, 2 fans on the power supply, and a ton of ventalation in the back. WAY more cooling that those 2 little G4s require. I think Apple is trying to avoid the fiasco it had with the Sawtooth (1st gen) G4s where they just slapped a G4 onto a G3 mobo. This time around, I believe they're releasing a new mobo first and then put a new proc in it down the road. I've also read stuff in forums suggesting that the power supply for the Wind-Tunnel had way more juice than the system currently demands. Can anyone out there do the math on this? We know how much power the PPC 970 eats. Can we figure out how much heat the Wind-Tunnel case is designed to disapate? What about how much power the power supply is putting? With these numbers, can we figure out how many PPC 970 the Wind-Tunnel case could power and cool? I've been suffering with a 266MHz G3 iMac, and I refuse to upgrade until Apple comes out with a system that really is worth that premium they charge, and a G4 is not it.