Sucks that your parents didn't take advantage of an education IRA or some such.
My folks put away about $1K a year from when I was 0 through 8. It paid for all my college and grad school and there was about $50K left over at the end.
It's a shame people are so short-sighted in this regard.
Not sure I agree... you have to be able to pack the crap on your resume to get an interview in the first place, to get through the moron resume screeners or search engines.
The 3rd and 4th steps in the process aren't good for crap if you get blocked at the 1st step.
That would REALLY stink performance-wise, because unless you have independent heads you'd have to thrash for every single bit of data on the disk. I have never heard of that being done, and it would also reduce capacity by half.
I'd bet a million to one... no THREE million to one, that nobody's ever done what you propose;-)
OS X is based on UNIX, so I don't really get your point;-)
Pretty much anything that runs on Linux, runs on OS X. Including KDE and Gnome, if you're so inclined, as well as Perl, Python, Ruby, MySQL, JBoss, Oracle 10g, etc.
And there's a debian-style package manager (check out "fink" on Sourceforge).
The thing that's true now is that the Mac systems are competitive. They're close to the fastest Intel/Athlon systems -- close enough that there's not an OBVIOUS performance reason to choose one or another.
They're close in price, too (if you go PC white box then the PC is still less than half the price, but for a Xeon system or something from Dell it's fairly close).
I don't think this benchmark is going to make up ANYBODY's mind one way or another, though -- it's an emotional debate rather than a logical one.
The good thing is the Mac's numbers are no longer embarrasingly crappy, as they were in the latter G4 days.
FAT is useful in the device market because everything can read and write to it (i.e. Macs, Linux, Windows). Not true of NTFS.
Everyone keeps thinking about an entire computer when they think of the file system. This is targeted around *devices*, most commonly CF cards (or SD cards, or whatever), and keychain fobs, which come pre-formatted as FAT. And if they're not pre-formatted, then the camera maker or device maker will have to pay a license fee for the ability for format an unformatted card. And they'll choose FAT as their format, because then the device can be read in any computer without special software requirements (which would require the camera maker to write drivers for every OS they wanted the camera to attach to).
What the heck is that, and does it work on a Mac or Windows box?
You see, about 90% of the people with digital cameras plug them into a PC. Via direct from the camera or via a $10 compact flash reader. You're not going to get JFFS to "whatever" translation in a $10 device.
About 9% of the remaining people plug cameras or CF readers into Macs.
Which leaves like 1% of all CF users that are using it for some sort of other storage, or plugging them into a Linux box.
So using JFFS on a CF card is exactly worthless. Sorta like an iPod that plays OGG;-)
I mean, you can study the psychology of a Grue on the//c's with no problem. If you buy a PC or a Mac you have to pay for an expensive retro-port of the game.
So, tell me, how do I know that if I turn "Workstation" or "Server" off my machine will go kaput, but that I *should* turn off "Messenger" and "UPnP" (which are on by default, or were when XP originally shipped).
And should it be "disabled" or "stopped" or something else?
This stuff is NOT clear to the average user, at all. I've figured it out for the most part, but mainly through enthusiast magazine articles.
Sure, there are security holes in OS X. There are also security holes in Linux, as well as Solaris, AIX, and pretty much everything. There are a number of open source components that run on all of them, and as fixes are found, they're patched and fixed.
What's more important though is how often they ARE exploited. Name anyone you know that uses a Mac that has had a virus, or has been hacked. Now name folks that use Windows that were affected by the old shutdown virus.
Dude Sun is getting KILLED on Sparc machines. Who the hell wants to pay $150K for a 4-way Sparc that can get circles run around it by a $5000 Linux server?
In the boom days, maybe (it was Sun, EMC, Cisco, etc.). These days people won't overpay by 10x for a reliable brand name in the same way, when they can get a $5K box from IBM with a $5K support contract for an IBM/Linux box that kicks the sh*t out of the Sparc/Solaris machine, in performance AND reliablilty.
To the Scott McNealy "Strategy of the Month" club!
Wonder how long this will last, before they have a change of heart.
I have a buddy who worked there in product management for their app server. They had like 30 middleware products that all had the same message, and the VP printed out the statements, passed them out, and asked the PMs to identify their products by the message. They couldn't do it, because it was all the same sh!t. Heh.
Because, if you grow with the camera, and you decided to go for a big $$$ body or a big $$$ DSLR, you'd rather have lenses you can take with you.
People who buy a Nikon or Canon SLR are overwhelmingly likely to go for the same brand of DSLR, simply because the value of the lenses can be 10x the value of the body (well, maybe 20x with a manual SLR;-)
And actually the real problem is that millions of "embedded" devices write to FAT32 cards. For example, you can't change my Canon D60 to read ReiserFS formatted cards instead of FAT/FAT32 formatted cards.
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Not sure.
Sucks that your parents didn't take advantage of an education IRA or some such.
My folks put away about $1K a year from when I was 0 through 8. It paid for all my college and grad school and there was about $50K left over at the end.
It's a shame people are so short-sighted in this regard.
Not sure I agree... you have to be able to pack the crap on your resume to get an interview in the first place, to get through the moron resume screeners or search engines.
The 3rd and 4th steps in the process aren't good for crap if you get blocked at the 1st step.
Set it up on a bunch of Xserves.
Haven't tried it on a G4 or G5, but OS X supports it, because it's easy to do on Xserves. Booted off 2 and 4 drive RAID 0 volumes.
Er...
;-)
That would REALLY stink performance-wise, because unless you have independent heads you'd have to thrash for every single bit of data on the disk. I have never heard of that being done, and it would also reduce capacity by half.
I'd bet a million to one... no THREE million to one, that nobody's ever done what you propose
It's not actually RAID 1, and in fact there's no RAID in the unit at all.
Is this an attempt because it synchs your data? I've seen RAID 1. I know RAID 1. And lemme tell ya, that ain't RAID 1.
RAID 0 and 1 are built into Mac OS X. And you can boot from it (you can't boot from a SoftRAID volume).
Though rebuild is a bit crappy (you must manually rebuild the mirror in case of a failure... sucks).
OS X is based on UNIX, so I don't really get your point ;-)
Pretty much anything that runs on Linux, runs on OS X. Including KDE and Gnome, if you're so inclined, as well as Perl, Python, Ruby, MySQL, JBoss, Oracle 10g, etc.
And there's a debian-style package manager (check out "fink" on Sourceforge).
WTF?
Why should they care? B is fast enough for anyone browsing the web. And why SHOULD the barista care?
If he calls you a dork for asking, and I'm there, I'll throw anouther buck in his tip jar.
$10/hour? Why, when you can probably search networks and find another network that's FREE which you can also access from Starbucks(TM)?
;-)
Hell, at home I can see 3 open access points, I don't even have to use my own! Of course, it's the only encrypted one of the bunch
The thing that's true now is that the Mac systems are competitive. They're close to the fastest Intel/Athlon systems -- close enough that there's not an OBVIOUS performance reason to choose one or another.
They're close in price, too (if you go PC white box then the PC is still less than half the price, but for a Xeon system or something from Dell it's fairly close).
I don't think this benchmark is going to make up ANYBODY's mind one way or another, though -- it's an emotional debate rather than a logical one.
The good thing is the Mac's numbers are no longer embarrasingly crappy, as they were in the latter G4 days.
They're just 6-12 months late.
Warcraft 3 was a simultaneous release. UT2003 was about 6 months later for the Mac. Dungeon Siege was a year; NWN was about a year also.
The Mac isn't as good for gaming. But, if you only care about the popular titles, and not total breadth of titles, it's mostly sufficient.
Why, so intermediate files can be 100 times larger than they already are? :-P
FAT is useful in the device market because everything can read and write to it (i.e. Macs, Linux, Windows). Not true of NTFS.
Everyone keeps thinking about an entire computer when they think of the file system. This is targeted around *devices*, most commonly CF cards (or SD cards, or whatever), and keychain fobs, which come pre-formatted as FAT. And if they're not pre-formatted, then the camera maker or device maker will have to pay a license fee for the ability for format an unformatted card. And they'll choose FAT as their format, because then the device can be read in any computer without special software requirements (which would require the camera maker to write drivers for every OS they wanted the camera to attach to).
JFFS?
;-)
What the heck is that, and does it work on a Mac or Windows box?
You see, about 90% of the people with digital cameras plug them into a PC. Via direct from the camera or via a $10 compact flash reader. You're not going to get JFFS to "whatever" translation in a $10 device.
About 9% of the remaining people plug cameras or CF readers into Macs.
Which leaves like 1% of all CF users that are using it for some sort of other storage, or plugging them into a Linux box.
So using JFFS on a CF card is exactly worthless. Sorta like an iPod that plays OGG
I mean, you can study the psychology of a Grue on the //c's with no problem. If you buy a PC or a Mac you have to pay for an expensive retro-port of the game.
So, tell me, how do I know that if I turn "Workstation" or "Server" off my machine will go kaput, but that I *should* turn off "Messenger" and "UPnP" (which are on by default, or were when XP originally shipped).
And should it be "disabled" or "stopped" or something else?
This stuff is NOT clear to the average user, at all. I've figured it out for the most part, but mainly through enthusiast magazine articles.
How can you be sure this is the only cause?
Yes, Mac has a lesser market share. So you're 100% sure that's the reason viruses don't exist?
Don't you think SOMEONE would like to brag about the writing the first Mac virus?
Sure, there are security holes in OS X. There are also security holes in Linux, as well as Solaris, AIX, and pretty much everything. There are a number of open source components that run on all of them, and as fixes are found, they're patched and fixed.
What's more important though is how often they ARE exploited. Name anyone you know that uses a Mac that has had a virus, or has been hacked. Now name folks that use Windows that were affected by the old shutdown virus.
Hmmm.
Dude Sun is getting KILLED on Sparc machines. Who the hell wants to pay $150K for a 4-way Sparc that can get circles run around it by a $5000 Linux server?
In the boom days, maybe (it was Sun, EMC, Cisco, etc.). These days people won't overpay by 10x for a reliable brand name in the same way, when they can get a $5K box from IBM with a $5K support contract for an IBM/Linux box that kicks the sh*t out of the Sparc/Solaris machine, in performance AND reliablilty.
To the Scott McNealy "Strategy of the Month" club!
Wonder how long this will last, before they have a change of heart.
I have a buddy who worked there in product management for their app server. They had like 30 middleware products that all had the same message, and the VP printed out the statements, passed them out, and asked the PMs to identify their products by the message. They couldn't do it, because it was all the same sh!t. Heh.
Because, if you grow with the camera, and you decided to go for a big $$$ body or a big $$$ DSLR, you'd rather have lenses you can take with you.
;-)
People who buy a Nikon or Canon SLR are overwhelmingly likely to go for the same brand of DSLR, simply because the value of the lenses can be 10x the value of the body (well, maybe 20x with a manual SLR
I keep forgetting to eat Dinner... if I got Evolution's calendar, I'd never wonder why I was starving at 10 PM again!
Apple can enforce a "Minimum Advertised Price." That is, you cannot advertise the product for less than a certain amount.
Apple cannot control what you actually SELL it for, though.
However, if you're a retailer and you know you have X allocation of iPods, and you can sell them all at full retail, why discount?
A 1.7 GHz celeron blows doors off an E10K.
And it's like 1% the cost, too!
You've completely missed the issue.
And actually the real problem is that millions of "embedded" devices write to FAT32 cards. For example, you can't change my Canon D60 to read ReiserFS formatted cards instead of FAT/FAT32 formatted cards.