So basically the fundamental difference between your beliefs and his regarding filesystems is that he is saying "look here! information should be organized according to relevance to other information. The user should be able to cross reference it (i.e. hotel, Indiana, Joe, emailed, etc) and get what he is looking for!". What you are saying is "Why get rid of what we already have? Why not just add this capability on? And stop using 'cyber' so much...:)".
As has been said before, don't be too concerned with speed on current builds of OSX - if the beta coming out in a few weeks is still slow, then worry.
I think VPC is one of the apps that could potentially benefit the most from the OS9->OSX changeover, but Connectix is probably looking at WINE source code as we speak, as well as looking at Cocoa. Most apps will just be carbonized; i'd be willing to bet VPC is getting revamped from the ground up.
Autour de Lucie, MC Solaar, Air -- all excellent, if not true Rock and Roll. And yes, they're all modern. Pity America only appreciates music sung in English, but such is life.
>The French have no humor. (They like!! Jerry Lewis).
Howabout Les Visiteurs (an absolutely hilarious movie)? I think the Jerry Lewis fascination has finally died.
>The only unique cultural expresion they have is an astonishing rudeness towards strangers.
If I were as misunderstood (not to mention *expected* to be rude), I would be that rude too. Been to NYC lately? If tourists went anywhere but Paris in July when most French are on vacation and the only people left there are the ones raking tourist bucks, they'd find the French are far from rude, especially if you speak their language.
>The Italians have better food.
Italian food is wonderful, but you must be high if you try to diss the French on their food. They *invented* haute cuisine.
>The Germans have a better life.
The Germans are about as uptight a people as you ever met. They don't even Jaywalk, for christ's sake. The French may be tight assed, but they can at least enjoy a good meal and some wine.
>The Brits make better music.
Yes, that is the one thing (besides complain and overcook things) that British people do extremely well.
>The Californians make better wine.
This is flamebait, but that is because we took those vines from the French. Lucky for them too -- it ended up saving the French wine industry.
>Everyone makes better beer.
Have to agree with you there. Kronenbourg 1664 sucks major ass.
>The Belgians have better everything!!! ('cept wine).
When was the last time you were in Belgium? ALl I can say is, along with Portugal, what a pit! (although being half Dutch, I love to cap on the Belgians!).
Just providing a little reality check from an American who has lived there, as well as in other European countries, long enough to dispel some of the common myths about them, or so I hope.
Yes, the French see Mickey D's as so much an abomination that they let their landscape be dotted by "Quick" restaurants from their neighbor Belgium.
I lived in Grenoble, France for 14 months about five years ago. The only times i ate "chez McDo" was when my French friends insisted we go there, generally because everything else (except perhaps the Kebab stands) were closed after 8pm. Guess who goes to those McDonalds? The same people who go to them in the US - kids, pre-teens, and those in a hurry. Everyone else hates it, just like they do here.
The only difference is that they have a built-in anti-anything-not-french sentiment to drop onto their loathing of that restaurant, whereas we don't know any better.
I design GUIs for web based applications. I'm pretty convinced that the web killed (by dilution of focus) any kind of focussed improvement of the GUI as we know it (i.e. by a GUI team).
However, by suddenly handing over GUI development to millions of GUI novices, we have seen (and are seeing) some really cool new GUI development. I think most of the rollover effects you now see in GUIs (ie. the colored buttons in Aqua) were inspired from the ubiquitous use of image rollovers on web sites.
The problem is, with everyone creating everything (and being doomed to reinvent it, poorly) on the web, GUI paradigms are being broken down and morphed on fast forward. I'm not sure if that means that, as a whole, users will be forced to become bolder and more intelligent when exploring GUIs (I doubt it), or that everything that isn't Winlike will be ignored. In my current experience, it's something in between. I guess only the future will tell.
>I think most of the moderation was Funny... but some bonehead probably went and tacked on an Informative to make it +5
Actually, it's probably a mouse-wheel error (seriously). Sometimes I moderate, then try to scroll using a scroll wheel mouse and I have changed my moderation accidently before I notice it and before the focus returns to the scrollbar.
"Intel will also be offering it's new, jointly developed, industrial strength power supply for ISPs using large scale P4 systems"
"Earlier today, seven intel engineers were incinertated in a systems-test accident. The incident occurred on power-up of the test-bed of Intel's new quad-P4 board, codenamed Phoenix. Witnesses describe the cause as 'spontaneous combustion'. 'The damn thing just blew', said one engineer, 'and then everything was just a ball of fire! I'm sure glad I got out of there alive... Sources report that Intel management has reportedly been talking to executives at Frigidaire regarding the incident."
It went CRISC with the Athlon. Don't fret too much - juicy dual/quad G4 goodness should be out shortly, as well as G4 becoming G4e (i.e. jumping significantly in clockspeed).
Wow, looks like Intel finally released the P4 BBQ model in time for fourth of July. Put them ribs on the heatsink, baby, slather them in head-conductive grease, and we're cookin', baby!
If they sell enough of these we'll start hearing stories about "Intel brownouts"...
>The first starwars trilogy is the only SCI-FI >I've seen (well, maybe Dune) that really looks >believable. A lot had to do with the fact that >every piece of new technology wasn't shiney and >brand new.
Actually, I think Blade Runner trumps every other film in this department. I think one reviewer actually referred to it as "the first period-piece set in the future". Of course, it's a lot easier to be believable when it's not set on a galaxy far, far away...
As was mentioned before, DayStar had dual and quad 604 machines out a while ago. Apple produced the 8500/180 and 200 with dual 604s. Also, IIRC, the original BeBoxen were dual 603 machines...
However, I'm not sure that any of these were truly "on the board" and not on processor daughtercards.
Last I checked, the StrongARM didn't even come close to approaching the kind of clock speeds that PPC has hit. Although I suppose you could just use like 16 StrongARMs:)
The Lupo is not street legal because it has never been crash tested by NHTSA. I'm sure VW has never planned to import them -- they would not sell well in the US.
If you want obscene fuel economy, buy an insight, or buy an 85' Nissan Sentra Diesel (I owned one once -- 40+ mpg and cheap as hell nowadays to buy)
My 1990 miata gets 30mpg (mixed) easily. My wife's 1994 Civic EX automatic got 37mpg at 80+mpg *with the air conditioning on the whole time* on our last trip to LA.
Smallness generally helps fuel efficiency, but so does weight, aerodynamics, gearing, rolling resistence, etc. All of those tend to be better (or lower) on smaller cars.
My experience here in So Cal is exactly the opposite. It's the little micro-cars that weave in and out of traffic, because they can. It's hard for a behemoth to nimbly slice through traffic.
I grew up in So Cal and my experience is that SUV drivers tend to be pretty shitty, but then again )(and I have to agree with you after 8 months of commuting from Hollywood to S.M.), that everyone is a pretty shitty driver there.
Driving a small car doesn't necessarily make one a better driver, but given their nimbleness, it makes it more likely the driver of one will be able to avoid the accident, in the first place. I prefer to view safety BMW-style (performance), not Cadillac-style(weight)...
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So basically the fundamental difference between your beliefs and his regarding filesystems is that he is saying "look here! information should be organized according to relevance to other information. The user should be able to cross reference it (i.e. hotel, Indiana, Joe, emailed, etc) and get what he is looking for!". What you are saying is "Why get rid of what we already have? Why not just add this capability on? And stop using 'cyber' so much...:)".
Or did I completely misunderstand your post?
>Might a horizontal stack of "book spines" onscreen be more useful than a clutter of icons?
How about a vertical one -- let's call it "List Mode"! (depending on OS).
As has been said before, don't be too concerned with speed on current builds of OSX - if the beta coming out in a few weeks is still slow, then worry.
I think VPC is one of the apps that could potentially benefit the most from the OS9->OSX changeover, but Connectix is probably looking at WINE source code as we speak, as well as looking at Cocoa. Most apps will just be carbonized; i'd be willing to bet VPC is getting revamped from the ground up.
>France has no Rock and Roll.
Autour de Lucie, MC Solaar, Air -- all excellent, if not true Rock and Roll. And yes, they're all modern. Pity America only appreciates music sung in English, but such is life.
>The French have no humor. (They like!! Jerry Lewis).
Howabout Les Visiteurs (an absolutely hilarious movie)? I think the Jerry Lewis fascination has finally died.
>The only unique cultural expresion they have is an astonishing rudeness towards strangers.
If I were as misunderstood (not to mention *expected* to be rude), I would be that rude too.
Been to NYC lately? If tourists went anywhere but Paris in July when most French are on vacation and the only people left there are the ones raking tourist bucks, they'd find the French are far from rude, especially if you speak their language.
>The Italians have better food.
Italian food is wonderful, but you must be high if you try to diss the French on their food. They *invented* haute cuisine.
>The Germans have a better life.
The Germans are about as uptight a people as you ever met. They don't even Jaywalk, for christ's sake. The French may be tight assed, but they can at least enjoy a good meal and some wine.
>The Brits make better music.
Yes, that is the one thing (besides complain and overcook things) that British people do extremely well.
>The Californians make better wine.
This is flamebait, but that is because we took those vines from the French. Lucky for them too -- it ended up saving the French wine industry.
>Everyone makes better beer.
Have to agree with you there. Kronenbourg 1664 sucks major ass.
>The Belgians have better everything!!! ('cept wine).
When was the last time you were in Belgium? ALl I can say is, along with Portugal, what a pit! (although being half Dutch, I love to cap on the Belgians!).
Just providing a little reality check from an American who has lived there, as well as in other European countries, long enough to dispel some of the common myths about them, or so I hope.
Yes, the French see Mickey D's as so much an abomination that they let their landscape be dotted by "Quick" restaurants from their neighbor Belgium.
I lived in Grenoble, France for 14 months about five years ago. The only times i ate "chez McDo" was when my French friends insisted we go there, generally because everything else (except perhaps the Kebab stands) were closed after 8pm. Guess who goes to those McDonalds? The same people who go to them in the US - kids, pre-teens, and those in a hurry. Everyone else hates it, just like they do here.
The only difference is that they have a built-in anti-anything-not-french sentiment to drop onto their loathing of that restaurant, whereas we don't know any better.
>for people making under 60k (read - the vast majority of folks in both countries)
read: the vast minority of slashdot readers.
I design GUIs for web based applications. I'm pretty convinced that the web killed (by dilution of focus) any kind of focussed improvement of the GUI as we know it (i.e. by a GUI team).
However, by suddenly handing over GUI development to millions of GUI novices, we have seen (and are seeing) some really cool new GUI development. I think most of the rollover effects you now see in GUIs (ie. the colored buttons in Aqua) were inspired from the ubiquitous use of image rollovers on web sites.
The problem is, with everyone creating everything (and being doomed to reinvent it, poorly) on the web, GUI paradigms are being broken down and morphed on fast forward. I'm not sure if that means that, as a whole, users will be forced to become bolder and more intelligent when exploring GUIs (I doubt it), or that everything that isn't Winlike will be ignored. In my current experience, it's something in between. I guess only the future will tell.
Yeah, I moderate my own posts all the time ;) It's the only way I can get any karma.
>I think most of the moderation was Funny... but some bonehead probably went and tacked on an Informative to make it +5
Actually, it's probably a mouse-wheel error (seriously). Sometimes I moderate, then try to scroll using a scroll wheel mouse and I have changed my moderation accidently before I notice it and before the focus returns to the scrollbar.
>long rant about G4 vs P3 power use, conclusion being G4 and P3 power consumption are about equal
Points well taken. However, consider...
A) it was my attempt at humor (and no, it doesn't deserve 5 and definitely *not* informative, but hey, i'm a karma whore like everyone else).
B) try raggin on the G4 a little in retaliation as a non-AC.
C) the G4's a power hog by PPC standards, but the G3 isn't (funny you see all those fan-less iMacs and kick-ass powerbooks).
D) I tried to find wattage specs on the P4, but couldn't.
E) The Alpha and Athlon make both look power efficient.
F) You bothered looking at my homepage?
>I wonder how it will handle OSX?
At this point, with an extremely confused BIOS.
I think they should start to refer to processor lines by nice round three digit integers, just to confuse the fsck out of neophyte consumers.
Or call it the HELP!
(Huge-ass Erect Large Processor)
I think that's what Chef would call it...
"Intel will also be offering it's new, jointly developed, industrial strength power supply for ISPs using large scale P4 systems"
"Earlier today, seven intel engineers were incinertated in a systems-test accident. The incident occurred on power-up of the test-bed of Intel's new quad-P4 board, codenamed Phoenix. Witnesses describe the cause as 'spontaneous combustion'. 'The damn thing just blew', said one engineer, 'and then everything was just a ball of fire! I'm sure glad I got out of there alive... Sources report that Intel management has reportedly been talking to executives at Frigidaire regarding the incident."
It went CRISC with the Athlon. Don't fret too much - juicy dual/quad G4 goodness should be out shortly, as well as G4 becoming G4e (i.e. jumping significantly in clockspeed).
Wow, looks like Intel finally released the P4 BBQ model in time for fourth of July. Put them ribs on the heatsink, baby, slather them in head-conductive grease, and we're cookin', baby!
If they sell enough of these we'll start hearing stories about "Intel brownouts"...
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Christensen,+Hayden
Is the Virgin Suicides major?
>The first starwars trilogy is the only SCI-FI >I've seen (well, maybe Dune) that really looks >believable. A lot had to do with the fact that >every piece of new technology wasn't shiney and >brand new.
Actually, I think Blade Runner trumps every other film in this department. I think one reviewer actually referred to it as "the first period-piece set in the future". Of course, it's a lot easier to be believable when it's not set on a galaxy far, far away...
Et pour ceux qui ne parlent pas francais (ou n'ont pas etudie Latin):
puissance/consummation = power (as in mhz)/(energy) consumption
Ask the people at Be. The original BeBox used dual 603s and SMPd like nobody's business.
As was mentioned before, DayStar had dual and quad 604 machines out a while ago. Apple produced the 8500/180 and 200 with dual 604s. Also, IIRC, the original BeBoxen were dual 603 machines...
However, I'm not sure that any of these were truly "on the board" and not on processor daughtercards.
I think it's only available for the *500 series PowerMacs at this point. I'll sell you my 8500 if you're really interested :)
Last I checked, the StrongARM didn't even come close to approaching the kind of clock speeds that PPC has hit. Although I suppose you could just use like 16 StrongARMs :)
The Lupo is not street legal because it has never been crash tested by NHTSA. I'm sure VW has never planned to import them -- they would not sell well in the US.
If you want obscene fuel economy, buy an insight, or buy an 85' Nissan Sentra Diesel (I owned one once -- 40+ mpg and cheap as hell nowadays to buy)
My 1990 miata gets 30mpg (mixed) easily. My wife's 1994 Civic EX automatic got 37mpg at 80+mpg *with the air conditioning on the whole time* on our last trip to LA.
Smallness generally helps fuel efficiency, but so does weight, aerodynamics, gearing, rolling resistence, etc. All of those tend to be better (or lower) on smaller cars.
My experience here in So Cal is exactly the opposite. It's the little micro-cars that weave in and out of traffic, because they can. It's hard for a behemoth to nimbly slice through traffic.
I grew up in So Cal and my experience is that SUV drivers tend to be pretty shitty, but then again )(and I have to agree with you after 8 months of commuting from Hollywood to S.M.), that everyone is a pretty shitty driver there.
Driving a small car doesn't necessarily make one a better driver, but given their nimbleness, it makes it more likely the driver of one will be able to avoid the accident, in the first place. I prefer to view safety BMW-style (performance), not Cadillac-style(weight)...
Actually, I posted the article as an AC because Slashdot refused to let me post -- oh well.