I don't know what I'll get (if anything), but what I *want* is an iPod. Go to the Apple Store and click on iPod....it seems Apple offers discounts on iPods for companies that give them as gifts! C'mon boss!!!!
I think if he meant 60 minutes, he would have said 1 hour, to compare hours to hours. When was the last time you heard someone say "the nearest Exxon station is 1 to 1.5 miles down the road...but there's a Texaco 5280 feet away." Comparisons are generally made "Apples to Apples."
Also, if it were a typo it wouldn't prove his point, because 1-1.5 hours of WMV is basically the same as 60 minutes of DV...its not a drastic difference, which he made it out to be.
Additionally, because he made mention of the various Pro-Mac users that had commented on "Part 1" in "Part 2" he obviously read some...and at least the first 2 mention that same issue...I bet he would have changed or retracted it if it were a typo.
I'd say that my order is: Chimera, Mozilla, IE, OmniWeb.
Why would anyone use a browser that obviously pauses for each character I enter into a text field?
How slow is your Mac? Or how the hell fast can you type? Because I type ~65-70 words a minute (fairly fast) and I'm typing this on Chimera 0.60 and I'm not seeing any "pauses" between characters. IE is fast. Mozilla is slow. But Chimera is definitely miles ahead of Mozilla. There really isn't significant delay. Maybe you were using an older version of Chimera?
Expecting me to use stuff like Chimera, which offers a "Cocoa" interface with all non-Cocoa widets for interaction, is also insulting.
What are you talking about non-Cocoa widgets? Are you high? All of Chimera's widgets are Cocoa...or rather, they are "Aqua," which is the proper name. The close, minimize and whatever-the-official-name-for-the-green-button-is buttons are all Aqua. The scroll bars and arrows are Aqua. The tabs are Aqua. You can test these by going to the "General" System Preferences and selecting the Graphite theme. Chimera's widgets turn graphite! They are real.
The button bar is true Aqua. You can test this by Command-clicking the White button. The buttons rotate through configurations as Aqua does. The Sidebar is Aqua--it's actually called a "Drawer." Its alerts are real--they are "Sheets." Even form elements (buttons, etc) are Aqua-sized.
So yeah...Chimera is definitely Cocoa, and definitely Aqua. And it's fast and renders perfectly (in my experience). I never use another browser anymore. Mozilla used to be my browser but it was way too slow.
I should be seeing four times the bandwidth on the 1394 link than I see with 100 Ethernet, but in reality it's not that big of a difference. As people are saying about gig-ethernet, other things, like the PCI bus, start to be limiting factors.
I bet that your laptop's HD is also one of the limiting factors. Even if it is ATA/66 or ATA/100, the sustained read/write rate is not going to be full, and you'll be limited there as well.
But PCI is undoubtedly an issue as well. I know that the new PowerMacs have the "Xserve architecture" with the Firewire, USB, etc busses on a controller (Agere ASIC I believe) that is attached to the Northbridge...so Firewire probably WILL be faster in some cases on one of them. Someone else posted that other Macs have it direct on the Northbridge...though I cannot confirm or deny that...Firewire is always on the mobo though.
No offense intended, but you can't blame this on Apple in any way. It's your fault for not knowing you need a Crossover Cable to go from a Cable/DSL modem to a router. If you're going from a Cable/DSL modem to a hub you can use a Patch cable, but IIRC any time you're going to a device that has its own IP (router, a single computer, etc) you need a crossover. RTFM for the modem--I bet it said you needed one...mine did.
GNOME is being shipped as the default desktop for the biggest player in the commercial UNIX market.
Not to be anal retentive or a Troll or anything, but Apple is actually now the leader distributor of UNIX, with OS X. Of course there's no arguing that in it's markets, Sun is the leader of commercial UNIX, but overall...Steve Jobs slings the most *nix licenses. That's just info.
And what I was getting at is that in the markets that Sun is aiming at, most users (geeks) know of Gnome already and its features/benefits. The only thing this is doing is making it easy to put it on the Sun machines...because it's already there! I doubt it is going to attract that many new Gnome fans. What would be bigger news, as I've already said, is if a PC with Gnome were to be targetted at "Joe Dumbass Windows XP User." Not so likely....but hey we can always dream!
Right but buying a used Sun machine is something a geek user would do. I just don't see Mom, Pop, or Grandma buying a Sun Ultra 60 off of an auction, when Dell and Gateway have such "deals" on their brand-new hardware. Your use is still not mainstream--it's very specific.
Given how expensive Sun hardware is, I'm not sure how much of a dent this is going to make for most people. Many schools have deals with Sun, as do many corporations...but I don't know of any individuals that use a Sun box themselves.
It would be more interesting to see a major commerical player, such as HP, begin to ship Linux systems with Gnome as the default. Gnome already has a strong geek following...what it needs now is mainstream use, which Sun is not.
Yes!!! I love it when the producers of a great soap opera decide not to cancel the show. Now I'll still have my fill of "Redmond Justice" to stay tuned to...at least for one more season.
Maybe they should spice it up for sweeps with some guest appearances in the courtroom...maybe Larry Lessig, Steve Jobs, and the perennial courtroom favorite, OJ!:-D
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Obviously, Microsoft has a business reason for wanting "one program" (to rule them all...) as opposed to a suite of apps. I'm sorry but they don't make their decisions based on the consumer's convenience.
As it currently stands, you can choose to buy the whole MS Office Suite (as many do, and as many OEMs sell), or if you only need one app, you can just buy Word, Powerpoint, Excel individually. MS has discouraged this by making the individual apps way overpriced, but it is still done a lot.
With Microsoft One(TM) you won't have that option--you'll have to pay the full $500 price for the one application, regardless of whether or not you'll use all the functionality.
Duh. Would MS really do something not designed to make money?
I don't see how it's either. It's certainly not offtopic...it's a valid question for William Shatner...and it's not trolling by any definition of "troll..."
Granted...it may very well have been "Overrrated" but certainly not offtopic or troll. Sigh...Oh well:)
One that has already appeared this year for some is the absence of Mac support for CFLIX, a content distribution model on college campuses. There is no Mac support because they use Windows Media for its DRM support, and the Mac WMP application does not support a server redirect (to balance traffic) like they do. It's a lose-lose situation....but I've already dealt with this before.
I get a signal about 50% of the time...and it has this nasty habit of going from full signal to zero (dropped connection) and immediately back up to full signal....what happened in the middle?
Sons of bitches...do NOT get Sprint...they seem to have a "random service droppage" policy...or a major bug in the system.
Well, in case people haven't noticed, Apple is unfortunately trying to prevent people from modding the GUI in OS X, by making the Dock omnipresent and disabling 3rd party menu extras (sort of). Something tells me they'd never allow this sort of capability. It's hard to explain why I think that...but let's just say I have good reason.:)
Even though it's not the true nature of the question, OroborOSX (that's the correct spelling) is a nice tool to complment XDarwin and make things look like Aqua. You can find it here
I would recommend its use for anyone at all a novice to X on OS X.
It'll never happen. Imagine Grandpa (or another extremely basic user) waving his mouse around and having it lose focus every time he accidently moves it. I know my Grandpa (who currently uses Win98...against my advice) would loathe this system, and I would have to explain it to him about 20 times before he understood it, and then he would probably just unplug the mouse while he was typing things to prevent it from happening.
Sloppy focus can be nice for pro users, but its terribly confusing for novices, and it goes against Apple's beliefs.
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Coat waterslides in this stuff. Imagine screaming down a waterslide that has virtually no friction. WHEEEEEEEEE!
Even though I've posted this below, I'll be more specific and reply directly. ARD only lets 1 machine use its display at a time, which means only 1 remote user. X by comparison lets you have as many connections as you want, logged in as whomever they are.
Not being a teacher certainly doesn't make ARD off-limits to you, as I mentioned below, it is great for managing apps and interacting with a single machine from a single terminal if you do not have to do it for very long as a time. But it kills productivity and is not very fun to work on for a period of more than a few minutes.
But a good point was made in that ARD IS good for teachers. I worked as a sysadmin for a school that was going to OS X, and we installed ARD for teacher use in demos, etc. And yes, others can use it, but for the purposes the poster was getting at, I think he wants the full X functionality.
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I don't know what I'll get (if anything), but what I *want* is an iPod. Go to the Apple Store and click on iPod....it seems Apple offers discounts on iPods for companies that give them as gifts! C'mon boss!!!!
I think if he meant 60 minutes, he would have said 1 hour, to compare hours to hours. When was the last time you heard someone say "the nearest Exxon station is 1 to 1.5 miles down the road...but there's a Texaco 5280 feet away." Comparisons are generally made "Apples to Apples."
Also, if it were a typo it wouldn't prove his point, because 1-1.5 hours of WMV is basically the same as 60 minutes of DV...its not a drastic difference, which he made it out to be.
Additionally, because he made mention of the various Pro-Mac users that had commented on "Part 1" in "Part 2" he obviously read some...and at least the first 2 mention that same issue...I bet he would have changed or retracted it if it were a typo.
Only if it were a RAID I guess...moderator....might want to mod this up! Insightful, Interesting...something.
"a whole 50 HOURS" of video.
Dumbass...
Why would anyone use a browser that obviously pauses for each character I enter into a text field?
How slow is your Mac? Or how the hell fast can you type? Because I type ~65-70 words a minute (fairly fast) and I'm typing this on Chimera 0.60 and I'm not seeing any "pauses" between characters. IE is fast. Mozilla is slow. But Chimera is definitely miles ahead of Mozilla. There really isn't significant delay. Maybe you were using an older version of Chimera?
Expecting me to use stuff like Chimera, which offers a "Cocoa" interface with all non-Cocoa widets for interaction, is also insulting.
What are you talking about non-Cocoa widgets? Are you high? All of Chimera's widgets are Cocoa...or rather, they are "Aqua," which is the proper name. The close, minimize and whatever-the-official-name-for-the-green-button-is buttons are all Aqua. The scroll bars and arrows are Aqua. The tabs are Aqua. You can test these by going to the "General" System Preferences and selecting the Graphite theme. Chimera's widgets turn graphite! They are real.
The button bar is true Aqua. You can test this by Command-clicking the White button. The buttons rotate through configurations as Aqua does. The Sidebar is Aqua--it's actually called a "Drawer." Its alerts are real--they are "Sheets." Even form elements (buttons, etc) are Aqua-sized.
So yeah...Chimera is definitely Cocoa, and definitely Aqua. And it's fast and renders perfectly (in my experience). I never use another browser anymore. Mozilla used to be my browser but it was way too slow.
I bet that your laptop's HD is also one of the limiting factors. Even if it is ATA/66 or ATA/100, the sustained read/write rate is not going to be full, and you'll be limited there as well.
But PCI is undoubtedly an issue as well. I know that the new PowerMacs have the "Xserve architecture" with the Firewire, USB, etc busses on a controller (Agere ASIC I believe) that is attached to the Northbridge...so Firewire probably WILL be faster in some cases on one of them. Someone else posted that other Macs have it direct on the Northbridge...though I cannot confirm or deny that...Firewire is always on the mobo though.
No offense intended, but you can't blame this on Apple in any way. It's your fault for not knowing you need a Crossover Cable to go from a Cable/DSL modem to a router. If you're going from a Cable/DSL modem to a hub you can use a Patch cable, but IIRC any time you're going to a device that has its own IP (router, a single computer, etc) you need a crossover. RTFM for the modem--I bet it said you needed one...mine did.
Not to be anal retentive or a Troll or anything, but Apple is actually now the leader distributor of UNIX, with OS X. Of course there's no arguing that in it's markets, Sun is the leader of commercial UNIX, but overall...Steve Jobs slings the most *nix licenses. That's just info.
And what I was getting at is that in the markets that Sun is aiming at, most users (geeks) know of Gnome already and its features/benefits. The only thing this is doing is making it easy to put it on the Sun machines...because it's already there! I doubt it is going to attract that many new Gnome fans. What would be bigger news, as I've already said, is if a PC with Gnome were to be targetted at "Joe Dumbass Windows XP User." Not so likely....but hey we can always dream!
Right but buying a used Sun machine is something a geek user would do. I just don't see Mom, Pop, or Grandma buying a Sun Ultra 60 off of an auction, when Dell and Gateway have such "deals" on their brand-new hardware. Your use is still not mainstream--it's very specific.
Informative, but offtopic...that's a story of itself.
Given how expensive Sun hardware is, I'm not sure how much of a dent this is going to make for most people. Many schools have deals with Sun, as do many corporations...but I don't know of any individuals that use a Sun box themselves.
It would be more interesting to see a major commerical player, such as HP, begin to ship Linux systems with Gnome as the default. Gnome already has a strong geek following...what it needs now is mainstream use, which Sun is not.
Maybe they should spice it up for sweeps with some guest appearances in the courtroom...maybe Larry Lessig, Steve Jobs, and the perennial courtroom favorite, OJ! :-D
As it currently stands, you can choose to buy the whole MS Office Suite (as many do, and as many OEMs sell), or if you only need one app, you can just buy Word, Powerpoint, Excel individually. MS has discouraged this by making the individual apps way overpriced, but it is still done a lot.
With Microsoft One(TM) you won't have that option--you'll have to pay the full $500 price for the one application, regardless of whether or not you'll use all the functionality.
Duh. Would MS really do something not designed to make money?
They are getting double slashdotted! ...one more link and they might need this cluster serving their pages up! :)
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I don't see how it's either. It's certainly not offtopic...it's a valid question for William Shatner...and it's not trolling by any definition of "troll..."
Granted...it may very well have been "Overrrated" but certainly not offtopic or troll. Sigh...Oh well :)
One that has already appeared this year for some is the absence of Mac support for CFLIX, a content distribution model on college campuses. There is no Mac support because they use Windows Media for its DRM support, and the Mac WMP application does not support a server redirect (to balance traffic) like they do. It's a lose-lose situation....but I've already dealt with this before.
Why...do...you...talk...so.........slowly?
I get a signal about 50% of the time...and it has this nasty habit of going from full signal to zero (dropped connection) and immediately back up to full signal....what happened in the middle?
Sons of bitches...do NOT get Sprint...they seem to have a "random service droppage" policy...or a major bug in the system.
Well, in case people haven't noticed, Apple is unfortunately trying to prevent people from modding the GUI in OS X, by making the Dock omnipresent and disabling 3rd party menu extras (sort of). Something tells me they'd never allow this sort of capability. It's hard to explain why I think that...but let's just say I have good reason. :)
I would recommend its use for anyone at all a novice to X on OS X.
Sloppy focus can be nice for pro users, but its terribly confusing for novices, and it goes against Apple's beliefs.
Coat waterslides in this stuff. Imagine screaming down a waterslide that has virtually no friction. WHEEEEEEEEE!
Not being a teacher certainly doesn't make ARD off-limits to you, as I mentioned below, it is great for managing apps and interacting with a single machine from a single terminal if you do not have to do it for very long as a time. But it kills productivity and is not very fun to work on for a period of more than a few minutes.
But a good point was made in that ARD IS good for teachers. I worked as a sysadmin for a school that was going to OS X, and we installed ARD for teacher use in demos, etc. And yes, others can use it, but for the purposes the poster was getting at, I think he wants the full X functionality.