Hard drives aren't what Microsoft is after. They're after things like USB keychains, Compact Flash cards, etc. There are a lot more of those sold than there are external HD's, and they come pre-formatted to work in digital cameras.
Could be "over a barrel" syndrome because you have lots of devices like digital cameras that can read FAT and nothing else. I doubt many average joes have the ability to flash their camera BIOS to get them to read reiserfs or xfs;-)
The fact that there have been some misaccused doesn't change the fact that some have also actually been caught.
If they accuse 3 people and 2 are guilty but the third is innocent, that fact doesn't automatically mean the two guilty ones should get off scott free just because someone else innocent was accused.
This 15 year old said as much that she was sharing 1100 songs. "I didn't know it was illegal." Tough sh*t. She's lying.
For God's sake, you think she REALLY didn't know there was anything wrong with this? "Oh I just randomly went to this KazAA web site, and downloaded this, and got these 1100 songs and didn't know it was wrong."
I guess that TV she watches all day is NEVER turned to the news.
If she's really that dumb, well, here's a way to learn a lesson:-/
Well, coupled with the fact that 99.995% of hardware works with Windows out of the box, or provides Windows drivers, I'm not so worried about the.005% of things that don't have drivers.
It's a silly argument IMO. There are 100 devices on Linux with no drivers for every one on Windows with no drivers.
And I'm not going to bring out an old VESA based card.
I'm sure you could build a system that will outperform a G5 for the same price, in every application.
However, again comparing white box systems to full systems with a warranty by a major vendor really isn't fair. You need to compare to a system from a top tier vendor like Dell.
Compare a dual Xeon from Dell to a G5, and you'll see they're fairly similar.
Well Apple builds full systems, I really think it *is* fair of them to compare against full systems from other premier vendors, and not "white box" systems. Their market is NOT people who have the skill set to buy a power supply, video card, RAM, mobo, etc. a Radeon 9800 Pro, and slap it all together.
And I cry bullsh*t on the 3 GHz PC for under $500. Quote me a FULL system with 512 MB of RAM and a 160 MB SATA drive with an equivalent video card for that price;-)
I've used G5's, and I've also built a system -- Athlon 2800+ with 1 GB of RAM and a 120 GB SATA drive, nforce2, etc. The home-built system was about $1700 (could be a lot cheaper now -- the 2800+ is about $100 now and it was $380 when I got it). They're both good, and they're both fast. The G5 is probably faster, of course now there's the Athlon 64 (which wasn't shipping in commercial systems when the G5 launched).
It's pretty common knowledge that benchmark results depend in large part on who runs them. Apple ran some tests (carefully selected, no doubt) which did show the G5 was superior to everything on those tests. I'm not surprised, it's a VERY fast computer.
But sure, if you used a different compiler on the PC, or if you ran a different set of tests, the PC could well be faster on those tests.
Does that mean that Apple's claims are blatantly false and misleading? I don't really think so. It's a marketing spin on something that's true in some (but not all) cases.
I mean... you realize the metal in the car had to be generated by a SUPERNOVA explosion right? Which means it had to "burn" in a star for billions of years, and then explode cataclysmically, and then cruise around the universe, and accrete around our star, and eventually for a planet, and go like that for a couple billion years, before it was extracted from ore and made into your car.
How monumentally inefficient! We should all be living as hunter/gatherers, like the Bushmen of the Kalahari.:-/
Johnny and Jill are shown as in the janitor's closet. And they've been in there for 15 minutes!
It must be a kiddie shag-a-thon. Dispatch the troops to break up this scandalous act!
Damn, my "back in the day I had to walk 7 miles in the snow each way to school" stories aren't gonna be nothin' when they come back with "yeah, but you could get away with STUFF":-P
I mean, with all the spoofing and crap, aren't you just giving them a nice, fresh, clean list of email addresses to bombard?
I mean, this anti-spam list will have to be available to spammers, how can you ensure the "bad" ones don't get the list and use it for nefarious purposes?
I'd guess that info in the swap file could be recovered, yes, because that's not in a home folder.
As for the cryptographic solutions, it's AES 128 I believe. Encrypted disk images have been a feature of OS X for years (they're really cool, based on my use).
I'd have to check, but you know like 50% of everything that OS X is built on is open source (hell, Darwin is open source). I believe the encryption algorithms used are all open source and you could verify them. Unless you think Apple is calling something AES 128 and actually using something else, Mulder;-)
That's the WHOLE POINT of an encrypted file system. If they get your computer, they CANNOT get the data, unless they have the crypt password.
Like... DUH.
Well of course unless they plug it in to the Apple cluster at Virgina Tech and use brute force... then it may only take a year or so to crack it by brute force:-P
Expose isn't really a virtual desktop application. You still have just one desktop.
What it is GREAT at is accessing any window immediately. If you want to get to Mail, hit F9, all the windows will shrink, click on it, and there you go.
What I use most though is F10, which shows all windows from the current foreground app at once -- to find that draft email that's behind the main mail window (say I was cutting and pasting from another window). Takes about a second, instead of the old "minimize click restore" of old.
And F11 gets you straight to the desktop... no need to manally hide every window to get to that thing you saved on the desktop.
I don't think it's going to change the world, I just know it saves me 3 or 4 seconds, about 20 times a day. So maybe it's only 3 or 4 more minutes of productivity per day, but it's for free (well, $129 amortized over 14 months... guess it more than pays for the OS just itself based on salary savings:-)
You're talking about the BUS speed when you refer to the 320 MB/sec. An Ultra 320 drive cannot sustain 250 MB/sec for a long period of time... for example if you transferred a 2 GB file off that U320 it wouldn't maintain 250 MB/sec.
Now the ATA RAID certainly *can* sustain that for a long time, as it's pulling off 7 or 14 drives in parallel.
A large IDE RAID set is faster for throughput than an U320 SCSI drive, by far. It's defininitely not quicker (seek times), but it's certainly faster. We're talking 400 MPH school bus versus a go-kart... one takes a lot longer to get up to speed but its max speed is WAY higher.
All the HD vendors do more rigorous testing on SCSI drives than IDE drives. Of that there is no debate -- because they produce 10x to 100x more IDE drives at such a low price point, they can't do rigorous qualification.
Now, some vendors actually do extensive testing on IDE drives they receive before they put them in a system, and fail a large percentage. Those drives in general are pretty darn good... possibly as reliable as SCSI drives due to the failure modes of drives (generally not a hard failure, but a soft failure when the drive has no more entries in the bad sector mapping table).
IDE drives these days are rated up to 1 million hours MTBF, which is pretty good;-)
How long does it take to read my 50,000 message maildir.
Well that's scientific.
Not to mention, it's an archaic 2 MB cache drive. Yeesh.
I think IDE versus SCSI is a fairly silly comparison these days. They each have their use cases. For lowest seek times and max IOPS, go with a 15K SCSI drive. For fastest transfer rates, do RAID with IDE drives. Hell, the Xserve RAID I work with daily can transfer about 350 MB/sec sustained. Try matching that with SCSI drives:-)
You could probably use it with Windows... it's just that the synching on the Mac is seamless... when you plug in the iPod, iPhoto will open up and "suck in" all the photos and they're ready to be organized in the app. Very smooth.
On the PC, there isn't any automatic synching, for example to Kodak Photoshare. You'll have to manually navigate to whatever folder, and copy the files to your HD. And this may be tough if the iPod is formatted with HFS+ -- you'll need MacDrive or something.
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Hard drives aren't what Microsoft is after. They're after things like USB keychains, Compact Flash cards, etc. There are a lot more of those sold than there are external HD's, and they come pre-formatted to work in digital cameras.
;-)
Could be "over a barrel" syndrome because you have lots of devices like digital cameras that can read FAT and nothing else. I doubt many average joes have the ability to flash their camera BIOS to get them to read reiserfs or xfs
And how is my PC or Mac going to read a Compact Flash card formatted with reiserfs?
This really could be a big issue... quite a stinker. I'd think CF makers could be over a barrel, and perhaps digital camera makers, too.
if you deleted your yahoo account?
I don't understand.
The fact that there have been some misaccused doesn't change the fact that some have also actually been caught.
If they accuse 3 people and 2 are guilty but the third is innocent, that fact doesn't automatically mean the two guilty ones should get off scott free just because someone else innocent was accused.
This 15 year old said as much that she was sharing 1100 songs. "I didn't know it was illegal." Tough sh*t. She's lying.
For God's sake, you think she REALLY didn't know there was anything wrong with this? "Oh I just randomly went to this KazAA web site, and downloaded this, and got these 1100 songs and didn't know it was wrong."
:-/
I guess that TV she watches all day is NEVER turned to the news.
If she's really that dumb, well, here's a way to learn a lesson
Well, coupled with the fact that 99.995% of hardware works with Windows out of the box, or provides Windows drivers, I'm not so worried about the .005% of things that don't have drivers.
It's a silly argument IMO. There are 100 devices on Linux with no drivers for every one on Windows with no drivers.
And I'm not going to bring out an old VESA based card.
I'm sure you could build a system that will outperform a G5 for the same price, in every application.
However, again comparing white box systems to full systems with a warranty by a major vendor really isn't fair. You need to compare to a system from a top tier vendor like Dell.
Compare a dual Xeon from Dell to a G5, and you'll see they're fairly similar.
Well Apple builds full systems, I really think it *is* fair of them to compare against full systems from other premier vendors, and not "white box" systems. Their market is NOT people who have the skill set to buy a power supply, video card, RAM, mobo, etc. a Radeon 9800 Pro, and slap it all together.
;-)
And I cry bullsh*t on the 3 GHz PC for under $500. Quote me a FULL system with 512 MB of RAM and a 160 MB SATA drive with an equivalent video card for that price
I've used G5's, and I've also built a system -- Athlon 2800+ with 1 GB of RAM and a 120 GB SATA drive, nforce2, etc. The home-built system was about $1700 (could be a lot cheaper now -- the 2800+ is about $100 now and it was $380 when I got it). They're both good, and they're both fast. The G5 is probably faster, of course now there's the Athlon 64 (which wasn't shipping in commercial systems when the G5 launched).
In the world... so they must not TOTALLY suck w.r.t. performance.
;-)
I'm talking about VA tech, BTW. Have a looksie at the news
Blatantly false? Hardly.
It's pretty common knowledge that benchmark results depend in large part on who runs them. Apple ran some tests (carefully selected, no doubt) which did show the G5 was superior to everything on those tests. I'm not surprised, it's a VERY fast computer.
But sure, if you used a different compiler on the PC, or if you ran a different set of tests, the PC could well be faster on those tests.
Does that mean that Apple's claims are blatantly false and misleading? I don't really think so. It's a marketing spin on something that's true in some (but not all) cases.
I must have ADD. It's a bad movie to watch if you have ADD.
Nope. Slap in a Pioneer A05 or A06 and you're golden.
I mean... you realize the metal in the car had to be generated by a SUPERNOVA explosion right? Which means it had to "burn" in a star for billions of years, and then explode cataclysmically, and then cruise around the universe, and accrete around our star, and eventually for a planet, and go like that for a couple billion years, before it was extracted from ore and made into your car.
:-/
How monumentally inefficient! We should all be living as hunter/gatherers, like the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
Johnny and Jill are shown as in the janitor's closet. And they've been in there for 15 minutes!
:-P
It must be a kiddie shag-a-thon. Dispatch the troops to break up this scandalous act!
Damn, my "back in the day I had to walk 7 miles in the snow each way to school" stories aren't gonna be nothin' when they come back with "yeah, but you could get away with STUFF"
I did not know that.
I assume it doesn't work with Exchange? Seems to work great with my mail servers.
I mean, with all the spoofing and crap, aren't you just giving them a nice, fresh, clean list of email addresses to bombard?
I mean, this anti-spam list will have to be available to spammers, how can you ensure the "bad" ones don't get the list and use it for nefarious purposes?
I'd guess that info in the swap file could be recovered, yes, because that's not in a home folder.
;-)
As for the cryptographic solutions, it's AES 128 I believe. Encrypted disk images have been a feature of OS X for years (they're really cool, based on my use).
I'd have to check, but you know like 50% of everything that OS X is built on is open source (hell, Darwin is open source). I believe the encryption algorithms used are all open source and you could verify them. Unless you think Apple is calling something AES 128 and actually using something else, Mulder
No, it doesn't explode tabs. A Safari window, with all the tabs, is "atomic."
You could have multiple Safari windows of course and they're independent.
No...
:-P
That's the WHOLE POINT of an encrypted file system. If they get your computer, they CANNOT get the data, unless they have the crypt password.
Like... DUH.
Well of course unless they plug it in to the Apple cluster at Virgina Tech and use brute force... then it may only take a year or so to crack it by brute force
Expose isn't really a virtual desktop application. You still have just one desktop.
:-)
What it is GREAT at is accessing any window immediately. If you want to get to Mail, hit F9, all the windows will shrink, click on it, and there you go.
What I use most though is F10, which shows all windows from the current foreground app at once -- to find that draft email that's behind the main mail window (say I was cutting and pasting from another window). Takes about a second, instead of the old "minimize click restore" of old.
And F11 gets you straight to the desktop... no need to manally hide every window to get to that thing you saved on the desktop.
I don't think it's going to change the world, I just know it saves me 3 or 4 seconds, about 20 times a day. So maybe it's only 3 or 4 more minutes of productivity per day, but it's for free (well, $129 amortized over 14 months... guess it more than pays for the OS just itself based on salary savings
Apple does significant testing for all the drives it puts in its Apple Drive Modules that go in Xserve and Xserve RAID.
You're talking about the BUS speed when you refer to the 320 MB/sec. An Ultra 320 drive cannot sustain 250 MB/sec for a long period of time... for example if you transferred a 2 GB file off that U320 it wouldn't maintain 250 MB/sec.
Now the ATA RAID certainly *can* sustain that for a long time, as it's pulling off 7 or 14 drives in parallel.
A large IDE RAID set is faster for throughput than an U320 SCSI drive, by far. It's defininitely not quicker (seek times), but it's certainly faster. We're talking 400 MPH school bus versus a go-kart... one takes a lot longer to get up to speed but its max speed is WAY higher.
All the HD vendors do more rigorous testing on SCSI drives than IDE drives. Of that there is no debate -- because they produce 10x to 100x more IDE drives at such a low price point, they can't do rigorous qualification.
;-)
Now, some vendors actually do extensive testing on IDE drives they receive before they put them in a system, and fail a large percentage. Those drives in general are pretty darn good... possibly as reliable as SCSI drives due to the failure modes of drives (generally not a hard failure, but a soft failure when the drive has no more entries in the bad sector mapping table).
IDE drives these days are rated up to 1 million hours MTBF, which is pretty good
How long does it take to read my 50,000 message maildir.
:-)
Well that's scientific.
Not to mention, it's an archaic 2 MB cache drive. Yeesh.
I think IDE versus SCSI is a fairly silly comparison these days. They each have their use cases. For lowest seek times and max IOPS, go with a 15K SCSI drive. For fastest transfer rates, do RAID with IDE drives. Hell, the Xserve RAID I work with daily can transfer about 350 MB/sec sustained. Try matching that with SCSI drives
You could probably use it with Windows... it's just that the synching on the Mac is seamless... when you plug in the iPod, iPhoto will open up and "suck in" all the photos and they're ready to be organized in the app. Very smooth.
On the PC, there isn't any automatic synching, for example to Kodak Photoshare. You'll have to manually navigate to whatever folder, and copy the files to your HD. And this may be tough if the iPod is formatted with HFS+ -- you'll need MacDrive or something.