Great, maybe in a couple of years you can actually order and receive one. Still pretty much impossible to get any of their nano or pico products, and even the original mini stuff is scarce. VIA has a history of 'annoucements' and trade show demos, but actual product delivery seems to be problematic -- at least here in the states.
It's not 'Apple's SproutCore'. Last year at WWDC they had a session on the Dojotoolkit? but it wasn't Apple's dojotoolkit. In some of the web-related sessions Prototype was used, but it's not Apple's Prototype.
Let's just call it Apple's HTML5 and Apple's CCS3 while we're at it. Maybe it's Apple's DreamHost that the www.sproutcore.com site lives on too..
"considering the kind of retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices."
Are you talking about the MS that totally dominates the desktop and server OS world, and captures the vast majority of all web users with their browser -- even though both are dramatically sub-par?
The MS with the ~$260B market valuation?
yeah, who would ever want to emulate any of their clearly flawed tactics!
I feel like the altair / apple / C= stuff has all been done over many times.... Someone mentioned the sinclair, that might be interesting, especially if you could find one of the color ones. PDPs and the like fall in with one of my favorites, the Pr1me, as being mini-computers.
How about an Alpha-Micro? It dates to about 1982, so while not _super_ old, it's no spring chicken. The company still exisits in some form, so you might be able to get docs, schematics, etc. And that whole 'write your backups to a VHS tape' trick still raises eyebrows today.
In a strangely related story a previously undisocvered species of elephant has been theorized to actually be roosting in a previously unimagined type of tree somewhere in an undoubtedly remote and possibly futuristic remote area of a vaugely real sounding country or continent.
In other news Ford and GM have merged. Now going my the name General Ford, the auto company is contracting out the production of vehicles and components to Toyota, Honda, and Xerox, while sales will be handled exclusively though WalMart and Macys. General Ford will retain its primary function of funding executives, ad agencies and union representatives.
This doesn't seem that new. Folx have had large-scale "fibre optic" types of skylights that can reach to basements and other areas for quite some time. I think they are even available at Home Depot.
www.solartube.com comes to mind right off the bat...
not really. Apache+mod_webdav does generally provide that functionality, but not on a per-user basis. Say you've got a school with 20,000 students. To make Apache+mod_dav work you'd need 20,000 entries in the httpd.conf. Plus it all will still run as your www user, so folx couldn't access these files through any method other than WebDAV and keep things like permissions intact.
WebDAV is nifty in that there are client implementations built-in to most common OSes. It's also nice because it runs through most firewalls since it's built on top of HTTP. It's not so great at some things, though...speed can be an issue, resource usage on the server another, metadata concerns come up occasionally.
Hence a nice solution would allow WebDAV access when appropriate, and other types (e.g. SMB, AFP, NFS, local, etc) when needed.
So I don't think it's a stupid question at all -- just not asked very clearly.
We are working on a custom DAV service to accomodate this sort of usage currently, so if there is a way to use mod_dav, have it query an ldap server to log a user in, and have it read and write files to the local filesystem as that particular uid (under unix), and do so with a single config file entry for all users, please post a link to it!
That's not quite accurate. There were intial delivery problems with many G5s, but the only imac G5 delivery issues were some slight delays reported caused by a lack of the 17" LCDs. 2.0 and 2.5Ghz G5s, though, are another matter entirely. They are up there with the 4G CF drives. However, since there is demand (both through Macs and for the similar Power 5 in IBM's lineup), the supply problems will be over.
well, dude, supply ~= demand. I don't think the question was 'should PPC _replace_ x86?'.
"Hey let's ramp up production to 100Million plus of these chips" "but the market is only for ~ 10Million" "so what! we can never sell 100M if we only make 10M!" "wtf?"
I used Openstep for x86 when it appeared at the end of the NeXT run. NeXT being smaller than Apple could only support a few bits of hardware, but if you bought the right pieces, it ran well. Though Apple is a larger company, the voulme of available hardware has expanded, so support for various components would still be an issue.
And of course there would be costs. Look at the software Apple bundles in, from iPhoto, iDVD, to their complete development environment, XCode. Waaaay more than you get with the XP pro box. Folx should figure that in when doing their x86 vs Apple hardware comparos. I figure OS-X would be at least a $499 product and maybe a $699 product.
But it's really not quite fair to compare low-end self-assembled products to Apple hardware. Coming from someone whos basement is strewn with machines, a dozen plus x86 machines, some 'box o parts' machines, plus stuff from HP, Dell, IBM, a few apples, a stray SUN or DEC here there -- I can tell you that the Apple gear is built more on par with Sun, or (old) SGI workstation hardware. Things like OpenFirmware let you do really interesting stuff. Like Firewire target mode, where, by booting your mac with the T key held down, the whole machine becomes a giant firewire harddrive. Pair this with Apple's new setup assistant and you can plug your new Mac into your old Mac, boot it up, and it will move all your accounts, applications, and other bits onto your new machine as it completes the setup. That would require a lot of fiddling and some third party software to acheive under windowz.
From a company that's pushed Gig-E down to the laptops for litereally years...Constraining this unit to 100Mbit will limit it's use in various settings over the next couple of year. Just when desktop gigabit is finally becoming affordable and the idea of fast netboots and installs and moving large video files around and other such activities were becoming possible....
Otherwise a strong product in terms of design, price, performance, etc.
Someone here at the University of Kentucky has been doing the same sort of thing (and them some) for at least 5 years now. Including blending large numbers of projected screens through a distributed framebuffer (in linux, using cameras for auto-calibration), imposing projected images overtop one another for shadow removal, resolution enhancment and other various and sundry things.
That's 320G compressed, 160 raw, and I've not been able to find the tapes for $60 each. Not to mention that a single drive costs $2500+. Biggest problem is speed, ~6-8M/sec on a good day. $1000 gets you a laCie external 1TB firewire 800 drive which can move data at ~45M/sec. Guess it depends on how much one needs to keep, for how long, and what the backup window is.
I'm sure it will increase the contrast, but what about the actual brightness. The article doesn't mention the net reflectivity or gain of the screen. It also doesn't mention dispersion / white spot elimination and other important factors in screen design.
There are several other bits of screen technology that have been floating around the past few years. www.mocomtech.com has a line of 'dupic' clear screens comrised of essentially an array of lenses. These screens not only offer high contrast but can be viewed from both sides with equal brightness and clarity. There are also large flat and parabolic screens which deliver up to 20 gain, yet have reasonable viewing angles.
see www.projectorcentral.com to learn more about screens and projectors.
huh? It's just a bit of screen technology, it will work with any sort of video projector. And like all screens, I'm sure it will eventually come in a portable model...
Comparisons of the 2004 to the 1992 civic won't add up. the 2004 civic is approximately the size/weight of a 1992 accord. One must also factor in changes to the pollutant output of the respective engines. As we all saw in the 70s with the first generation of 'smog' control, cleaner burning engines extract some toll, be it performance, power, weight, complexity, cost, etc. Modern computer controlled and monitored engines have mostly erased such losses, but some still persist and current movments to LEV, ULEV and friends have been significant.
When Elephants roost in trees. Or Mkrozft writes a copy of Office for it. (Elephants or Linux)
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You must have a bum machine or maybe you only have 128M of RAM. I've found OS-X to be pretty responsive even on older hardware, at least on par with linux+Gnome or native freebsd on similar systems. The one exception may be memory. Many OS-X Cocoa apps have a large memory footprint, and once you start swapping, things go downhill fast. Similarly if you have an old slow hard-drive application launching will be slow. My 667Mhz tibook easily performs as fast as or faster than my 1G PIII laptop at virtually every task.
Of course, you could just pick a different section. I know for sure that at least one instructor of several intro CS sections has established accounts for their students on SUN and FreeBSD machines and will allow students to use
Codewarrior or gcc/g++ 2.95.2.
Regardless, you'll probably be asked to use all sorts of compilers and languages that may not be your preference, the newest, the best, etc. during your academic career. That's part of what a CS degree is about, learning how to work within certain arbitrary boundries and conditions.
Well, if I could get in to download it...I'll give it a try, we've been using htdig here at UK for years, but it's not very useable for the size of index we are trying to work with...takes basically all day to rebuild the index on a Xeon450 w/512M...An Infoseek demo we tried under Linux worked great, indexed much faster, had many more options, etc...but at ~$20K up front and ~$15K/year...well...
I agree, I've used WebObjects since pre WO1.0, and it's pretty reasonable. I mostly use PHP and perl now, since WO cost $$$ and is serious overkill for most web-apps -- if you really _need_ it's complexity you should be writing a real application not a web-enabled one... But, it's solid, follows a reasonable model, performance tested, runs on various OSes, and most importantly, fills the 'askers' request by being commercially supported, shoot Apple will even do all the coding of you web-app for you if you want.
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don't confuse your education with your certification. It's easy to do, but not that good for your long-term career goals.
Great, maybe in a couple of years you can actually order and receive one. Still pretty much impossible to get any of their nano or pico products, and even the original mini stuff is scarce. VIA has a history of 'annoucements' and trade show demos, but actual product delivery seems to be problematic -- at least here in the states.
It's not 'Apple's SproutCore'. Last year at WWDC they had a session on the Dojotoolkit? but it wasn't Apple's dojotoolkit. In some of the web-related sessions Prototype was used, but it's not Apple's Prototype.
Let's just call it Apple's HTML5 and Apple's CCS3 while we're at it.
Maybe it's Apple's DreamHost that the www.sproutcore.com site lives on too..
who do I sue?
"considering the kind of retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices."
Are you talking about the MS that totally dominates the desktop and server OS world, and captures the vast majority of all web users with their browser -- even though both are dramatically sub-par?
The MS with the ~$260B market valuation?
yeah, who would ever want to emulate any of their clearly flawed tactics!
I feel like the altair / apple / C= stuff has all been done over many times....
Someone mentioned the sinclair, that might be interesting, especially if you could find one of the color ones. PDPs and the like fall in with one of my favorites, the Pr1me, as being mini-computers.
How about an Alpha-Micro? It dates to about 1982, so while not _super_ old, it's no spring chicken. The company still exisits in some form, so you might be able to get docs, schematics, etc. And that whole 'write your backups to a VHS tape' trick still raises eyebrows today.
In a strangely related story a previously undisocvered species of elephant has been theorized to actually be roosting in a previously unimagined type of tree somewhere in an undoubtedly remote and possibly futuristic remote area of a vaugely real sounding country or continent.
In other news Ford and GM have merged. Now going my the name General Ford, the auto company is contracting out the production of vehicles and components to Toyota, Honda, and Xerox, while sales will be handled exclusively though WalMart and Macys. General Ford will retain its primary function of funding executives, ad agencies and union representatives.
cmon people.....
This doesn't seem that new. Folx have had large-scale "fibre optic" types of skylights that can reach to basements and other areas for quite some time. I think they are even available at Home Depot.
www.solartube.com comes to mind right off the bat...
not really. Apache+mod_webdav does generally provide that functionality, but not on a per-user basis. Say you've got a school with 20,000 students. To make Apache+mod_dav work you'd need 20,000 entries in the httpd.conf. Plus it all will still run as your www user, so folx couldn't access these files through any method other than WebDAV and keep things like permissions intact.
WebDAV is nifty in that there are client implementations built-in to most common OSes. It's also nice because it runs through most firewalls since it's built on top of HTTP. It's not so great at some things, though...speed can be an issue, resource usage on the server another, metadata concerns come up occasionally.
Hence a nice solution would allow WebDAV access when appropriate, and other types (e.g. SMB, AFP, NFS, local, etc) when needed.
So I don't think it's a stupid question at all -- just not asked very clearly.
We are working on a custom DAV service to accomodate this sort of usage currently, so if there is a way to use mod_dav, have it query an ldap server to log a user in, and have it read and write files to the local filesystem as that particular uid (under unix), and do so with a single config file entry for all users, please post a link to it!
That's not quite accurate. There were intial delivery problems with many G5s, but the only imac G5 delivery issues were some slight delays reported caused by a lack of the 17" LCDs. 2.0 and 2.5Ghz G5s, though, are another matter entirely. They are up there with the 4G CF drives. However, since there is demand (both through Macs and for the similar Power 5 in IBM's lineup), the supply problems will be over.
well, dude, supply ~= demand. I don't think the question was 'should PPC _replace_ x86?'.
"Hey let's ramp up production to 100Million plus of these chips" "but the market is only for ~ 10Million"
"so what! we can never sell 100M if we only make 10M!"
"wtf?"
I used Openstep for x86 when it appeared at the end of the NeXT run. NeXT being smaller than Apple could only support a few bits of hardware, but if you bought the right pieces, it ran well. Though Apple is a larger company, the voulme of available hardware has expanded, so support for various components would still be an issue.
And of course there would be costs. Look at the software Apple bundles in, from iPhoto, iDVD, to their complete development environment, XCode. Waaaay more than you get with the XP pro box. Folx should figure that in when doing their x86 vs Apple hardware comparos. I figure OS-X would be at least a $499 product and maybe a $699 product.
But it's really not quite fair to compare low-end self-assembled products to Apple hardware. Coming from someone whos basement is strewn with machines, a dozen plus x86 machines, some 'box o parts' machines, plus stuff from HP, Dell, IBM, a few apples, a stray SUN or DEC here there -- I can tell you that the Apple gear is built more on par with Sun, or (old) SGI workstation hardware. Things like OpenFirmware let you do really interesting stuff. Like Firewire target mode, where, by booting your mac with the T key held down, the whole machine becomes a giant firewire harddrive. Pair this with Apple's new setup assistant and you can plug your new Mac into your old Mac, boot it up, and it will move all your accounts, applications, and other bits onto your new machine as it completes the setup. That would require a lot of fiddling and some third party software to acheive under windowz.
From a company that's pushed Gig-E down to the laptops for litereally years...Constraining this unit to 100Mbit will limit it's use in various settings over the next couple of year. Just when desktop gigabit is finally becoming affordable and the idea of fast netboots and installs and moving large video files around and other such activities were becoming possible....
Otherwise a strong product in terms of design, price, performance, etc.
Someone here at the University of Kentucky has been doing the same sort of thing (and them some) for at least 5 years now. Including blending large numbers of projected screens through a distributed framebuffer (in linux, using cameras for auto-calibration), imposing projected images overtop one another for shadow removal, resolution enhancment and other various and sundry things.
See http://www.metaverse.org for technical details and contacts.
That's 320G compressed, 160 raw, and I've not been able to find the tapes for $60 each. Not to mention that a single drive costs $2500+. Biggest problem is speed, ~6-8M/sec on a good day. $1000 gets you a laCie external 1TB firewire 800 drive which can move data at ~45M/sec. Guess it depends on how much one needs to keep, for how long, and what the backup window is.
I'm sure it will increase the contrast, but what about the actual brightness. The article doesn't mention the net reflectivity or gain of the screen. It also doesn't mention dispersion / white spot elimination and other important factors in screen design.
There are several other bits of screen technology that have been floating around the past few years. www.mocomtech.com has a line of 'dupic' clear screens comrised of essentially an array of lenses. These screens not only offer high contrast but can be viewed from both sides with equal brightness and clarity. There are also large flat and parabolic screens which deliver up to 20 gain, yet have reasonable viewing angles.
see www.projectorcentral.com to learn more about screens and projectors.
huh? It's just a bit of screen technology, it will work with any sort of video projector. And like all screens, I'm sure it will eventually come in a portable model...
Comparisons of the 2004 to the 1992 civic won't add up. the 2004 civic is approximately the size/weight of a 1992 accord. One must also factor in changes to the pollutant output of the respective engines. As we all saw in the 70s with the first generation of 'smog' control, cleaner burning engines extract some toll, be it performance, power, weight, complexity, cost, etc. Modern computer controlled and monitored engines have mostly erased such losses, but some still persist and current movments to LEV, ULEV and friends have been significant.
Looks like he's only got the one shirt and hat.
When Elephants roost in trees. Or Mkrozft writes a copy of Office for it. (Elephants or Linux)
You must have a bum machine or maybe you only have 128M of RAM. I've found OS-X to be pretty responsive even on older hardware, at least on par with linux+Gnome or native freebsd on similar systems. The one exception may be memory. Many OS-X Cocoa apps have a large memory footprint, and once you start swapping, things go downhill fast. Similarly if you have an old slow hard-drive application launching will be slow. My 667Mhz tibook easily performs as fast as or faster than my 1G PIII laptop at virtually every task.
But I've had my VoiceStream (previously powertel) GSM phone for over two years...
unfortunately I don't think it will work in EU, because there appear to be two different GSM setups.
Of course, you could just pick a different section. I know for sure that at least one instructor of several intro CS sections has established accounts for their students on SUN and FreeBSD machines and will allow students to use
Codewarrior or gcc/g++ 2.95.2.
Regardless, you'll probably be asked to use all sorts of compilers and languages that may not be your preference, the newest, the best, etc. during your academic career. That's part of what a CS degree is about, learning how to work within certain arbitrary boundries and conditions.
Well, if I could get in to download it...I'll give it a try, we've been using htdig here at UK for years, but it's not very useable for the size of index we are trying to work with...takes basically all day to rebuild the index on a Xeon450 w/512M...An Infoseek demo we tried under Linux worked great, indexed much faster, had many more options, etc...but at ~$20K up front and ~$15K/year...well...
I agree, I've used WebObjects since pre WO1.0, and it's pretty reasonable. I mostly use PHP and perl now, since WO cost $$$ and is serious overkill for most web-apps -- if you really _need_ it's complexity you should be writing a real application not a web-enabled one... But, it's solid, follows a reasonable model, performance tested, runs on various OSes, and most importantly, fills the 'askers' request by being commercially supported, shoot Apple will even do all the coding of you web-app for you if you want.