You're missing the point of BOINC--if your favorite project is down, go ahead and join up with another. If you RTFA, Mr. Anderson recommends this because high project availability is NOT one of BOINC's goals.
Furthermore the credits from one project to another still are scored equally, so you don't lose any headway in the standings when a project is idle.
Still, by the fact that you own an iPod, Apple has made their buck already. Anything else is pure gravy for them.
I think that what they are going for here is keeping you firmly ensconced with iTunes, rather than resorting to other programs (iPodderX, etc.). Anytime you use iTunes there is a sales opportunity for Apple.
Also, if you notice a small green or red arrow icon in the upper left corner of the window (next to the Firefox homepage icon) you can just click on that arrow to launch the Firefox Update process.
Amen brutha--I was hoping that there would be discussion about this, but I'm sad to see it so low down the page. Apparently we're all comedians on Slashdot today (no, I'm not new here).
Hopefully the physicists haven't been completely driven away yet. A gravity wave detection coincident with the gamma ray burst and visible light aftermath would be a great event for these folks.
I've started to check out another alternative, presented by the folks at Digg.
The novel concept at Digg is the use of audience-based article promotion, so dupes get low ratings and are demoted. You can report dupes and have them removed. High audience interest in an article promotes it so it has a higher ranking. The audience has much more of a say, rather than the arbitrary whims of a select pool of editors.
The entire process is spelled out nicely in their faq.
There is a great utility for repairing print functions on OS X called (strangely enough) Print Center Repair.app that can spare you the inconvience of tearing-down and rebuilding just to get your printer working. It's worth a shot before resorting to "desparate measures."
Ahhh, I should have RTFA...
It does appear the DVD Studio Pro has XGrid-like capability built in, with the ability to farm out rendering and conversion jobs to other Macs on the network.
I'm sure that this is gonna give XServe sales a big boost...
It seems to me that some of these apps could really take advantage of XGrid, especially since it appears that they are only going to work with OS X 10.4. Can anyone confirm whether XGrid capability is present in any of these apps?
Apparently, you haven't heard of the dataflow programming paradigm, best exemplified by National Instruments LabVIEW.
Interestingly, LabVIEW was first available only on the Mac (in circa 1986 even!) and still is available for various Unixes as well as OS X and Windows. It's an interesting object-oriented programming "alternative reality" compared to C++ and Objective C.
NEW YORK, January 13 (newratings.com) - Apple Computer's (AAPL.NAS) share price appreciated more than 10% in early trade on Thursday, after the company reported its highest-ever quarterly sales and earnings for 1Q FY05.
Apple Computer said in a statement late on Wednesday that its earnings more than quadrupled in the fiscal first quarter this year. The company's net income increased to $295 million or $0.70 per share in 1Q FY05 ended December 25, while sales increased to $3.5 billion, representing 75% y/y growth. Apple Computer's first fiscal quarter results were ahead of the Wall Street forecasts. The company's iPod shipments increased to 4.58 million units in the quarter, from the year-ago figure of 2 million units. The company witnessed robust y/y growth in the shipment volumes of its Macintosh computers as well during the quarter. Apple Computer has projected earnings of $0.40 per share and sales of $2.9 billion for the current quarter ending March this year, which is ahead of the current consensus forecasts. Earlier this week, the company introduced low-priced versions of its popular iPod music player and Mac personal computer, iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini.
Yeah, I have a Sawtooth too, and I'm using the third (internal) Firewire port for my iSight connection. This has freed me up from having to get a FW switching hub, as I have two iPods plugged into the two back FW ports.
If I just want to be able to open the occasional simple.doc file that someone sends me as an email attachment, I can install X11 and the X11 version of OOo.
Not to nitpick, but the copy of TextEdit that is already on your OS X machine can open.doc files already. Thus, another reason Apple has reduced the need of OOo.
All good points, but that gets me to a' thinking...
I'm the owner of an original iPod (and thus a Mac user). I can also argue that because none of the other music providers that compete with Apple provide a DRM which is compatible with the Mac OS, I am also suffering from the "monopolistic practices" of Real and Microsoft.
When these companies provide DRM solutions which will work on Mac OS X (as Apple's solution has worked on Windows) then, and only then, will I feel there is any merit to these arguements. But for now, if you use a Mac you only have one choice, and Apple is not at fault here.
Yeah, my first dualie setup was a Mac SE (with 30mHz upgrade!) and an Eahman 20" grayscale. We used to run CAD and the Wingz spreadsheet on that setup, quite nice in the day--1990!
My issue with.Mac Backup is that the Backup app itself seems to be pretty fragile. I've had a lot of trouble in the past with interrupted backups because the program choked on some obscure Safari preference file and aborted the rest of the backup session. To me, Backup should keep on truckin' and finish its work rather than just quitting in the middle of the job--log problems, not quit!
Because of this behavior, I've had to modify the backup item selection and keep a pretty close eye on things since the files that cause problems seem to pop up randomly. Still, I've continued to use Backup since the convience factor is pretty high. It's a nice supplement to Retrospect.
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You're missing the point of BOINC--if your favorite project is down, go ahead and join up with another. If you RTFA, Mr. Anderson recommends this because high project availability is NOT one of BOINC's goals.
Furthermore the credits from one project to another still are scored equally, so you don't lose any headway in the standings when a project is idle.
So, is Q2DX (or whatever ya want to call it) enabled with this update? Inquiring minds want to know...
The patent is supposed to be filed within 1 year, and the filing date on this one was 13 February 1996. Contois did his paperwork correctly.
Anakin's father was Count Dooku.
Still, by the fact that you own an iPod, Apple has made their buck already. Anything else is pure gravy for them.
I think that what they are going for here is keeping you firmly ensconced with iTunes, rather than resorting to other programs (iPodderX, etc.). Anytime you use iTunes there is a sales opportunity for Apple.
Also, if you notice a small green or red arrow icon in the upper left corner of the window (next to the Firefox homepage icon) you can just click on that arrow to launch the Firefox Update process.
My guess is that "her system" was just an account on some university *nix box, and that she had no more power to "pull the plug" than any other user.
And anyway, since when does etiquette play into the considerations of teenage vandals of any kind?
Amen brutha--I was hoping that there would be discussion about this, but I'm sad to see it so low down the page. Apparently we're all comedians on Slashdot today (no, I'm not new here).
Hopefully the physicists haven't been completely driven away yet. A gravity wave detection coincident with the gamma ray burst and visible light aftermath would be a great event for these folks.
I've started to check out another alternative, presented by the folks at Digg.
The novel concept at Digg is the use of audience-based article promotion, so dupes get low ratings and are demoted. You can report dupes and have them removed. High audience interest in an article promotes it so it has a higher ranking. The audience has much more of a say, rather than the arbitrary whims of a select pool of editors.
The entire process is spelled out nicely in their faq.
There is a great utility for repairing print functions on OS X called (strangely enough) Print Center Repair.app that can spare you the inconvience of tearing-down and rebuilding just to get your printer working. It's worth a shot before resorting to "desparate measures."
Ahhh, I should have RTFA... It does appear the DVD Studio Pro has XGrid-like capability built in, with the ability to farm out rendering and conversion jobs to other Macs on the network. I'm sure that this is gonna give XServe sales a big boost...
It seems to me that some of these apps could really take advantage of XGrid, especially since it appears that they are only going to work with OS X 10.4. Can anyone confirm whether XGrid capability is present in any of these apps?
RPN on macs--it looks like the Apple / HP collaboration has finally started to pay off!
My HP48SX might get jealous though...
So...are you trying to tell us something? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Interestingly, LabVIEW was first available only on the Mac (in circa 1986 even!) and still is available for various Unixes as well as OS X and Windows. It's an interesting object-oriented programming "alternative reality" compared to C++ and Objective C.
Sweet! It was bred for its skills in magic...
Here's a quick link to the 10 oldest companies in the US . Doubtless there are a lot of older ones out there worldwide.
It's sadly lacking in warmth as well.
Time to refresh your memory:
NEW YORK, January 13 (newratings.com) - Apple Computer's (AAPL.NAS) share price appreciated more than 10% in early trade on Thursday, after the company reported its highest-ever quarterly sales and earnings for 1Q FY05.
Apple Computer said in a statement late on Wednesday that its earnings more than quadrupled in the fiscal first quarter this year. The company's net income increased to $295 million or $0.70 per share in 1Q FY05 ended December 25, while sales increased to $3.5 billion, representing 75% y/y growth. Apple Computer's first fiscal quarter results were ahead of the Wall Street forecasts. The company's iPod shipments increased to 4.58 million units in the quarter, from the year-ago figure of 2 million units. The company witnessed robust y/y growth in the shipment volumes of its Macintosh computers as well during the quarter. Apple Computer has projected earnings of $0.40 per share and sales of $2.9 billion for the current quarter ending March this year, which is ahead of the current consensus forecasts. Earlier this week, the company introduced low-priced versions of its popular iPod music player and Mac personal computer, iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini.
Yeah, I have a Sawtooth too, and I'm using the third (internal) Firewire port for my iSight connection. This has freed me up from having to get a FW switching hub, as I have two iPods plugged into the two back FW ports.
Amen, brutha'--this is what really scares the bejeesus out of me
Not to nitpick, but the copy of TextEdit that is already on your OS X machine can open .doc files already. Thus, another reason Apple has reduced the need of OOo.
All good points, but that gets me to a' thinking...
I'm the owner of an original iPod (and thus a Mac user). I can also argue that because none of the other music providers that compete with Apple provide a DRM which is compatible with the Mac OS, I am also suffering from the "monopolistic practices" of Real and Microsoft.
When these companies provide DRM solutions which will work on Mac OS X (as Apple's solution has worked on Windows) then, and only then, will I feel there is any merit to these arguements. But for now, if you use a Mac you only have one choice, and Apple is not at fault here.
Yeah, my first dualie setup was a Mac SE (with 30mHz upgrade!) and an Eahman 20" grayscale. We used to run CAD and the Wingz spreadsheet on that setup, quite nice in the day--1990!
My issue with .Mac Backup is that the Backup app itself seems to be pretty fragile. I've had a lot of trouble in the past with interrupted backups because the program choked on some obscure Safari preference file and aborted the rest of the backup session. To me, Backup should keep on truckin' and finish its work rather than just quitting in the middle of the job--log problems, not quit!
Because of this behavior, I've had to modify the backup item selection and keep a pretty close eye on things since the files that cause problems seem to pop up randomly. Still, I've continued to use Backup since the convience factor is pretty high. It's a nice supplement to Retrospect.