For those who've already picked up Tiger, how well is application compatibility preserved?
I'm worried that some apps that I have might be broken and may take a while for fixes to arrive. The one I'm worried about the most is Office for Mac being broken ( yeah yeah I know iWork is better but I got this for free from a friend )
don't 90% of Windows users run as an Administrator anyway because there are a lot of programs require adminstrator access?
I think what we need is a proper rewrite of some common apps so they don't need you to run with Administrator privledges. That would most likely solve a lot of vunerabilities and make securing a computer easier. How one would go about forcing the developers of the software to rewrite them properly, I don't know.
I think MS has dug themselves into a bit of a hole by having Windows start off as a single user OS.
For one thing most of these systems are designed as fault tolerant using voting systems of multiple computers doing the same calculation and the decision being taken by majority vote.
Considering who has been elected as the President of the United States for a second term, my confidence in voting systems has gone down incredibly:)
I believe this might greatly slow down or even reverse the switching of browsers for a lot of people.
IE7 might just be "good enough" for people to warrant not switching to Firefox. For people who are new, and perhaps not computer savvy, getting plugins to work with Firefox on Windows is non trivial. This isn't Firefox's fault because development focus for most plugins is still on IE.
But then again, it might be good news for us. Competition is good, this might ramp up Firefox development and bring more innovations for the rest of us.
and it's been pointed out many times that most of these people losing interest are people shouldn't be in CS anyway. The people who are "leaving" are simply the crowd following the next get rich quick career.
The people who are left are the ones who actually like Computer Science and actually know what it is. What angers me is that there are a lot of programs out there at community colleges and such and call themselves Computer Science programs when they only teach you C/C++ syntax.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -Edsger Dijkstra
I just thought that I'd mention that there aren't any real specific courses for training for ACM here at Waterloo. However the ACM team does have frequent practices.
I think one thing a lot of people forget to mention are the profs that are often coaching these teams. With myself being a CS student at Waterloo and being a student of some of the profs coaching these teams, I can say that there are some very good profs here. So much to the point where my interest in math and CS has grown greatly after spending a few years here at Waterloo.
Sometimes I wonder why the coaches don't recieve medals ( or do they? ).
I'm a Computer Science student at UW, and I'd agree with you that the CS program here is quite good, at least in terms of the way it's taught past first year. I've found some of the first year professors they give us in Math/CS/Engineering are really clueless.
UW is known more for it's Engineering programs with co-op. However I've found that the way Engineering is taught here is completely the wrong way here. It's among the most difficult in Canada but the philosophy seems to be to just give you more work, and less focus on actually understanding concepts and being innovative. So in return you have students who are fed up with school work and labs, just try to get it done and end up hating engineering once they've graduated. I know this is the case because most of my friends here are in Engineering and they're in this situation. They all feel as if they're just being force fed information and just told to "accept it".
I want to be able to download and save video I view on the net. Web sites don't stick around forever, and if you see something cool, there's no guarantee it'll be there tomorrow. Therefore, I want to be able to save it.
So, according to your logic, you should be able to go to a Movie theatre and view the film as many times as you like for the price of one ticket?
If you only want to watch it once, go to the theatre or rent it for a week. If you want to watch the movie as many times as you want, buy the DVD when it comes out. Can't wait till the DVD comes out? Too bad, because the world would be a much different place if you didn't have to wait for anything.
So, why not release DVD for movies when they're also in theatres? Because that's where a lot of the money comes from, and believe it or not, but a lot of these studios are businesses, making money is one of their priorities.
Right now enough people go to the theatres to make the decision Profitable, maybe if enough people decide to wait for the DVD, that will change.
I remember on some of the older PowerPC's in the computer lab back when I was in elementary school, the power button was right where you'd think the floppy eject button was.
I don't think I can count on one hand how many times people have switched off their PC's when trying to eject a floppy!
that a big touchscreen ususally equates to something that's very fragile.
I know a lot of people who've cracked the LCD's on their PDA's because they were dropped. I'd feel somewhat uncomfortable using these iPAQ's these days the fear of dropping one.
That's probably another reason why Smartphones are gaining ground because they're generally lot more durable than these toyish PocketPC based PDA's. The only PDAs that come to mind that are durable are Blackberries, but I'd say those fit into the smartphone category ( even though they started off as PDA-type handhelds )
I can personally see an online movie store where people can download copies of movies with broadband becoming available practically everywhere.
And I predict that Apple is already looking into this and might release something very similar their iTunes music store. I was surprised how easy iTunes is to use, they just have to put that same philosophy in Movies ( after they have all of the infrastructure to handle the increased load ).
I would gladly pay $1 to download a commercial-free episode of Top Gear, or maybe 50 cents for an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond if they can give me a good download speed ( 200KB/s is good enough for me ). They could even sell movies, DVD quality, but $10-$15 and without the fancy DVD cases and inserts.
Try Lian-Li
But I agree with you, most stock PC cases are crap, and are too flashy without elegance. I love the Lian-li cases, they're clean and don't look tacky if you decide to put a few quad-LED fans in there. All sharp corners are lined with a plastic to avoid cuts, the cases are easy to take apart, and most models have slide out motherboard trays. However, these cases do cost a premium.
True, raw numbers don't say much. You could have a $1M Unix supercomputer and two regular off the shelf Linux machines, that's obviously a bad comparison.
I guess a better way to evaluate market share of servers that are in a certain "class". For example, what's the market share of webservers for websites that get around 10,000 hits ( or maybe in terms of bandwidth, say 5 gigs of bandwidth per day )?
This way at least we're comparing servers that are all considered "equal".
With that said, I still say that raw revenue figures can be misleading. For a render farm, you could spend $1M on a Unix supercomputer, or spend $100K on a cluster of linux machines that does the same job. The revenue figures in this case don't imply that there are 10 times more Unix machines doing rendering for studios out there.
These figures are based on revenue, what's the market share in terms of numbers?
That is, in terms of the number of Unix servers vs. Linux servers vs. Windows servers?
I don't think revenue gives one an accurate picture of the market share of these servers, especially for Linux since I'd expect the software for Linux machines ( and probably hardware too, since it's off the shelf stuff versus a lot of the stuff from Sun/IBM ) to be a lot cheaper.
I have over 1 million PC's connected together in one large cluster, each responsible one pixel on my display with load balancing just in case a certain pixel is more complex than another.
This is really one elaborate plan devised by older geeks to help the younger geeks get dates! Most of those women in marketting and the "normal" majors/teams at work wont even talk to us!
to regular video cards? I've always been curious that exactly these cards offer ( other than more raw power ) over regular video cards other than the dual DVI setup.
Are there any benchmarks comparing regular video cards versus these graphic workstation cards on modelling? Also, how do these cards do in games? Do these cards perhaps do worse in games ( optimizations toward different types of rendering, like more photo-realistic hardware rendering that isn't that distinguishable for games but is for 3d work )
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those Paris Hilton Torrents wont be broken!
It just needs some NAWWS and a cold air intake
For those who've already picked up Tiger, how well is application compatibility preserved?
I'm worried that some apps that I have might be broken and may take a while for fixes to arrive. The one I'm worried about the most is Office for Mac being broken ( yeah yeah I know iWork is better but I got this for free from a friend )
I think what they have in mind is detection of fissile material (i.e. uranium and plutonium, as in nukes).
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Are you fo shizzle about the fissile?
Sorry:)
don't 90% of Windows users run as an Administrator anyway because there are a lot of programs require adminstrator access?
I think what we need is a proper rewrite of some common apps so they don't need you to run with Administrator privledges. That would most likely solve a lot of vunerabilities and make securing a computer easier. How one would go about forcing the developers of the software to rewrite them properly, I don't know.
I think MS has dug themselves into a bit of a hole by having Windows start off as a single user OS.
For one thing most of these systems are designed as fault tolerant using voting systems of multiple computers doing the same calculation and the decision being taken by majority vote.
:)
Considering who has been elected as the President of the United States for a second term, my confidence in voting systems has gone down incredibly
I believe this might greatly slow down or even reverse the switching of browsers for a lot of people.
IE7 might just be "good enough" for people to warrant not switching to Firefox. For people who are new, and perhaps not computer savvy, getting plugins to work with Firefox on Windows is non trivial. This isn't Firefox's fault because development focus for most plugins is still on IE.
But then again, it might be good news for us. Competition is good, this might ramp up Firefox development and bring more innovations for the rest of us.
and it's been pointed out many times that most of these people losing interest are people shouldn't be in CS anyway. The people who are "leaving" are simply the crowd following the next get rich quick career.
The people who are left are the ones who actually like Computer Science and actually know what it is. What angers me is that there are a lot of programs out there at community colleges and such and call themselves Computer Science programs when they only teach you C/C++ syntax.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -Edsger Dijkstra
The University seems to look down upon pranks. Here at U of Waterloo, they look down upon pranks that are even just contained within the University.
I just thought that I'd mention that there aren't any real specific courses for training for ACM here at Waterloo. However the ACM team does have frequent practices.
I think one thing a lot of people forget to mention are the profs that are often coaching these teams. With myself being a CS student at Waterloo and being a student of some of the profs coaching these teams, I can say that there are some very good profs here. So much to the point where my interest in math and CS has grown greatly after spending a few years here at Waterloo.
Sometimes I wonder why the coaches don't recieve medals ( or do they? ).
I'm a Computer Science student at UW, and I'd agree with you that the CS program here is quite good, at least in terms of the way it's taught past first year. I've found some of the first year professors they give us in Math/CS/Engineering are really clueless.
UW is known more for it's Engineering programs with co-op. However I've found that the way Engineering is taught here is completely the wrong way here. It's among the most difficult in Canada but the philosophy seems to be to just give you more work, and less focus on actually understanding concepts and being innovative. So in return you have students who are fed up with school work and labs, just try to get it done and end up hating engineering once they've graduated. I know this is the case because most of my friends here are in Engineering and they're in this situation. They all feel as if they're just being force fed information and just told to "accept it".
I want to be able to download and save video I view on the net. Web sites don't stick around forever, and if you see something cool, there's no guarantee it'll be there tomorrow. Therefore, I want to be able to save it.
So, according to your logic, you should be able to go to a Movie theatre and view the film as many times as you like for the price of one ticket?
If you only want to watch it once, go to the theatre or rent it for a week. If you want to watch the movie as many times as you want, buy the DVD when it comes out. Can't wait till the DVD comes out? Too bad, because the world would be a much different place if you didn't have to wait for anything.
So, why not release DVD for movies when they're also in theatres? Because that's where a lot of the money comes from, and believe it or not, but a lot of these studios are businesses, making money is one of their priorities.
Right now enough people go to the theatres to make the decision Profitable, maybe if enough people decide to wait for the DVD, that will change.
because you see more of how great the company is. I'd love to work there as a developer on Pixar Renderman after I graduate.
That's 72 Crystal clear raisins.
I remember on some of the older PowerPC's in the computer lab back when I was in elementary school, the power button was right where you'd think the floppy eject button was.
I don't think I can count on one hand how many times people have switched off their PC's when trying to eject a floppy!
this is slashdot, obviously we have to point fingers at the M$ product!
The percentage of nerds getting dates dropped by 50%
that a big touchscreen ususally equates to something that's very fragile.
I know a lot of people who've cracked the LCD's on their PDA's because they were dropped. I'd feel somewhat uncomfortable using these iPAQ's these days the fear of dropping one.
That's probably another reason why Smartphones are gaining ground because they're generally lot more durable than these toyish PocketPC based PDA's. The only PDAs that come to mind that are durable are Blackberries, but I'd say those fit into the smartphone category ( even though they started off as PDA-type handhelds )
I can personally see an online movie store where people can download copies of movies with broadband becoming available practically everywhere.
And I predict that Apple is already looking into this and might release something very similar their iTunes music store. I was surprised how easy iTunes is to use, they just have to put that same philosophy in Movies ( after they have all of the infrastructure to handle the increased load ).
I would gladly pay $1 to download a commercial-free episode of Top Gear, or maybe 50 cents for an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond if they can give me a good download speed ( 200KB/s is good enough for me ). They could even sell movies, DVD quality, but $10-$15 and without the fancy DVD cases and inserts.
Why can't somebody come up with a decent design?
Try Lian-Li
But I agree with you, most stock PC cases are crap, and are too flashy without elegance. I love the Lian-li cases, they're clean and don't look tacky if you decide to put a few quad-LED fans in there. All sharp corners are lined with a plastic to avoid cuts, the cases are easy to take apart, and most models have slide out motherboard trays. However, these cases do cost a premium.
True, raw numbers don't say much. You could have a $1M Unix supercomputer and two regular off the shelf Linux machines, that's obviously a bad comparison.
I guess a better way to evaluate market share of servers that are in a certain "class". For example, what's the market share of webservers for websites that get around 10,000 hits ( or maybe in terms of bandwidth, say 5 gigs of bandwidth per day )?
This way at least we're comparing servers that are all considered "equal".
With that said, I still say that raw revenue figures can be misleading. For a render farm, you could spend $1M on a Unix supercomputer, or spend $100K on a cluster of linux machines that does the same job. The revenue figures in this case don't imply that there are 10 times more Unix machines doing rendering for studios out there.
These figures are based on revenue, what's the market share in terms of numbers?
That is, in terms of the number of Unix servers vs. Linux servers vs. Windows servers?
I don't think revenue gives one an accurate picture of the market share of these servers, especially for Linux since I'd expect the software for Linux machines ( and probably hardware too, since it's off the shelf stuff versus a lot of the stuff from Sun/IBM ) to be a lot cheaper.
I have over 1 million PC's connected together in one large cluster, each responsible one pixel on my display with load balancing just in case a certain pixel is more complex than another.
Now that's serious gaming.
...it's hard finding a date in the department...
This is really one elaborate plan devised by older geeks to help the younger geeks get dates! Most of those women in marketting and the "normal" majors/teams at work wont even talk to us!
to regular video cards? I've always been curious that exactly these cards offer ( other than more raw power ) over regular video cards other than the dual DVI setup.
Are there any benchmarks comparing regular video cards versus these graphic workstation cards on modelling? Also, how do these cards do in games? Do these cards perhaps do worse in games ( optimizations toward different types of rendering, like more photo-realistic hardware rendering that isn't that distinguishable for games but is for 3d work )