a few misconceptions... Opterons were not being delivered to manufacturers at the time that the G5 was introduced, though they both hit store shelves at about the same time.
Apple still doesn't support the 64-bit'ness in OSX, so "so what"
OSX has been 64 bit enabled since it's inception, because of the availability of the appropriate libraries <cough>BSD</cough>.
What does it mean to be "marketed"?
Glad you asked! Marketing is a form of advertising, wherein a company seeks to convince you that you should buy a product you don't really need... i.e. the creation of a MARKET. This is not the same as advertising, where the goal is to make you aware that a product exists.
sigh... Photoshop has been 64 bit enabled since the G5 was introduced, Finalcut followed suit shortly after the introduction, and AfterEffects will no doubt be discontinued in the very near future, since Apple will clearly be pushing Shake (64 bit).
As outlined in my original comment, both assertions are factual... since 'Personal Computer' != 'Workstation' != 'Server'. 'Fastest' == "whatever best suits the marketeers" =P
Please know what you are talking about... OSX is and always has been a 64 bit enabled os, by virtue of the availability of the appropriate libraries for use with a 64 bit processor (<cough>BSD</cough>).
Why would anyone want a 64 bit os? At least, not untill the average joe needs to move, copy, and edit terabyte sized files.
what we want, and are starting to get, is 64 bit applications that run on these 64 bit platforms... the OS is just the host, not the workhorse.
Apple has made no false claims...
The G5 is claimed to be the worlds first 64 bit Desktop. Common arguments such as "Sun was there first!" or "Alpha has been around..." are not accurate, since both of those product lines were marketed as servers or workstations. A workstation is not the same as a Desktop PC, at least as far as marketing is concerned.
As far as claims about 'Fastest'... people... please please please learn what marketing is. "Fastest" is a subjective term, becuase no reference is made to the scale of measurement. If I strap a TI-80 to the fuselage of the X-43 being tested today, then that TI-80 would be the worlds fastest computer.
Marketeers twist the english language more than any lawyer, and can say one thing, but cause you to think something entirely different. Need an example? You probably know someone who collects Beanie Babies as an "investment".
inline into a web page is HORRIBLE, it's hard to read, it's easy to miss a badly spelt variable name
PHP can be written as OO or Speghetti; inline with presentation or seperate... the choice is yours... (if you know what you are doing... PHP can be incredibly flexible)
Thats probably true, but you'll find incompetent coders under any language. In the right hands, PHP is a *very* fast and powerful language to use. So many people love to hate PHP, but knowing the right tool for the right job is what makes for 'genius' level programming.
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They don't have identical audio quality. The SNR of the Nitrus is -4db higher than the mini iPod
from ZDNet: "Apple won't release the signal-to-noise ratio, but the player sounds quite clean to our ears". Please quote your source... or else you sound like a fanboi.
the term "superior" is purely subjective... please make note of this before shoving your opinions down people's throat. Just as the Nitrus might be "superior" due to lower price and more supported formats, the iPod might be "superior" due to its integration with the leading music download site, and its outstanding interface especially when compared to the Nitrus' control clit.
it began shipping in the beginning of February
A search of Pricewatch, Pricegrabber, and Amazon only finds the original Nitrus, and we are well into March... where are they selling them? if the nitrus 2 makes it to market and if they are able to better the price of the iPod, it will definitely be a device to consider. Now that you have heard a reasonable response to your flamebait, please take yourself back to the unbiased news source that is the forums-riovolution.com and tell someone who won't expose you for the fool you sound like.
How the fsck is the bot gonna have the DBI string to interface my DB without knowing the name of the DB, the name of the account that created the DB or the user account on the DB with correct permissions to read the info??????????????
instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender's good faith.
Just like Bill once predicted that the 'Net was a passing fad, and had to be forcibly brought up to speed by his inner circle of co-conspirators associates, Bill has missed the mark again. This assumes that computers won't get dramatically faster in the forseeable future.
My old P1 used to take ~15 minutes to render a video composite, while today it happens real-time... but I guess that Bill also counts on his marketshare not changing
Invention for the sake of invention is occasionally a boon for later developments, and very occasionally is immediately useful.
Developing hardware that the public doesn't need, hasn't requested or hasn't even dreamed about could most likely be described as a waste of resources. The worst by-porduct of invention of this type is that the marketeers will 'invent' a market for junk like this and forcibly sell it to a gullible percentage of tech consumers.
While millions are spent developing such wonderful creations... I STILL DON'T HAVE MY FLYING CAR!!!!!
It's sad to see em go, but I used to be a competitor of theirs until I cashed out my site (heh heh heh.
While they produced good articles, many of their articles were poorly written, or written far above the heads of their intended audience.
Back in the boom days, some of the WebMonkey employees got fed up with the corporate policies that valued ad placement over good content, often writing articles specifically tailored to woo the advertisers... a practice that clearly continued beyond the boom days. Those rebels started e-volt.. which still exists and is a vastly superior service.
Slashdot is successful because they provide content that their readers want... instead of what the advertisers want. A simple thing to understand unless you are a marketing professional.
The average marketing pro thinks that the average 'customer' doesn't know what to (think||read||buy) unless a marketeer tells them.
What's wrong... A federal agency (CIA if I remember correctly) was recently ordered by a court of law to cease 'wire tapping' the GPS and other sattelite signals from OnStar due to the fact that the surveilance interfered with the ability of OnStar users to summon emergency services.
I used to live in Atlanta, GA... notorious for bad traffic. Back in the early 90's they installed several large digital billboards that would display important traffic information such as "overturned vehicle at I-85 & I-285... expect delays".
The result of these billboards... I had something to read while parked on the freeway.
Get yerself an XServe Raid from Apple to store the images you make using DVDBackup... Use Disk Utility to create images of the disks (so each movie is its own single file). Get yerself a nifty VGA extender from Gefen (a simple little box that converts VGA (or any variant thereof) to travel up to 300 ft over ethernet, emerging on the far end in another Gefen box with a VGA out port. Then get yerself an X10 remote control for the whole setup.
when you double click on any Disk Image you made, it will automatically mount, and DVD Player will automatically start playing it. No hacking, no muss, no fuss... it just works!
an antenna, with its signal suitably filtered, is connected to an amplifier
I might be interested to hear this... but only if good 'ol mother Earth can play this giant theremin better than people can!
theremin noise can be violently irritating
All these brains focused on this topic, and no-one seems to get it. OSS/FS initiatives have already seriously eroded the earning potential of MANY commercial software products. This trend will continue (duh). Apple has never been a software company... they sell hardware. They give away a boat load of software with any machine they sell. They do charge for some of their software packages (OS upgrades and premium design apps), but the fees they charge are usually a fraction of what a 'software' company would charge for a similar project.
Recently, Apple has made significant moves to more closely incorporate the GNU tools that Linux users expect, or at least design the OS to allow seamless installation of GNU tools. They are hedging their bets. Linux is Apple's friend at the moment, because as Linux makes advances on the desktop, Microsoft users might actually take a moment to ponder their alternatives... some of the people might look at a Mac.
Its not about Linux > OSX or OSX > Linux, As a Mac, Linux, and Windoze user, I cheer the advances of Linux. When my Macs get outdated (after 5 or 6 years) they get a nice Linux distro installed and do odd jobs around the office.
The original premise of Enterprise was quite interesting, and there would have been long legs for the series if the writers had just 'got it'.
The writers threw out the concept of Human Sociatal Evolution which was supposed to be a major contributor to plot development in this series. When I first heard of the concept, I thought "awesome, lets see some hotheaded top-gun types handling the photon torpedo targeting!". It should have harkened back to scenes like classic Earth-Klin barfight scenes from the original star trek.
So, where they went wrong was having the sickeningly fair-minded Bacula for captain, when what they needed was a ego-maniacal, sex starved hedonist to play the part.
Now my idea for the next series is sure to succeed. Forget the federation, I want to see the crazy adventures of six 'buddies' (3 male, 3 female), who are in no way associated with the federation, and their only association with earth is that they are human. They have hilarious situations brought about by miscommunications, misplaced affections, and misguided sexual adventures.
I think the market for this type of show is about to open up.
practically everthing on a Mac is proprietary Apple software and you don't see the Mac people going ballistic over it
MS LOST their anti-trust case based largely on the fact that they (unneccesarily) integrated IE in such a way that forced their comptetetors to either quit the business or play by MS's rules.
Although they were found guilty, they continue to abuse their competetors in the same way that caused them to lose their anti-trust case. Since they were not compelled by the government to correct these abuses, it has fallen on concerned parties to pressure MS, under threat of legal actions, to abide by the rulings of their anti-trust settlement.
Now, this doesnt affect you unless you monopolize the excell plug-ins market, and write your plug-ins in such a way that they disable plug-ins for use with with openoffice/staroffice or even Corel's wordperfect suite written by your competitors.
What it does for you (in the long run) is that it will work toward preventing MS from writing Excell in such a way that plug-ins will not function under windows unless they are written specifically for use with Excel, and written according to MS's dictate.
You have a strong opinion on the MS ruling... so please educate yourself a little about how MS's actions, and actions taken against MS affect the computing industry as a whole, and not just MS's segment of that market.
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sigh... Photoshop has been 64 bit enabled since the G5 was introduced, Finalcut followed suit shortly after the introduction, and AfterEffects will no doubt be discontinued in the very near future, since Apple will clearly be pushing Shake (64 bit).
As outlined in my original comment, both assertions are factual... since 'Personal Computer' != 'Workstation' != 'Server'. 'Fastest' == "whatever best suits the marketeers" =P
what we want, and are starting to get, is 64 bit applications that run on these 64 bit platforms... the OS is just the host, not the workhorse.
As far as claims about 'Fastest'... people... please please please learn what marketing is. "Fastest" is a subjective term, becuase no reference is made to the scale of measurement. If I strap a TI-80 to the fuselage of the X-43 being tested today, then that TI-80 would be the worlds fastest computer.
Marketeers twist the english language more than any lawyer, and can say one thing, but cause you to think something entirely different. Need an example? You probably know someone who collects Beanie Babies as an "investment".PHP can be written as OO or Speghetti; inline with presentation or seperate... the choice is yours...
(if you know what you are doing... PHP can be incredibly flexible)
Thats probably true, but you'll find incompetent coders under any language. In the right hands, PHP is a *very* fast and powerful language to use. So many people love to hate PHP, but knowing the right tool for the right job is what makes for 'genius' level programming.
from ZDNet: "Apple won't release the signal-to-noise ratio, but the player sounds quite clean to our ears". Please quote your source... or else you sound like a fanboi.
the term "superior" is purely subjective... please make note of this before shoving your opinions down people's throat. Just as the Nitrus might be "superior" due to lower price and more supported formats, the iPod might be "superior" due to its integration with the leading music download site, and its outstanding interface especially when compared to the Nitrus' control clit.
it began shipping in the beginning of February A search of Pricewatch, Pricegrabber, and Amazon only finds the original Nitrus, and we are well into March... where are they selling them?if the nitrus 2 makes it to market and if they are able to better the price of the iPod, it will definitely be a device to consider. Now that you have heard a reasonable response to your flamebait, please take yourself back to the unbiased news source that is the forums-riovolution.com and tell someone who won't expose you for the fool you sound like.
Search my database????
How the fsck is the bot gonna have the DBI string to interface my DB without knowing the name of the DB, the name of the account that created the DB or the user account on the DB with correct permissions to read the info??????????????
Hmmm... sounds like marketing hype.
My old P1 used to take ~15 minutes to render a video composite, while today it happens real-time... but I guess that Bill also counts on his marketshare not changing
Invention for the sake of invention is occasionally a boon for later developments, and very occasionally is immediately useful.
Developing hardware that the public doesn't need, hasn't requested or hasn't even dreamed about could most likely be described as a waste of resources. The worst by-porduct of invention of this type is that the marketeers will 'invent' a market for junk like this and forcibly sell it to a gullible percentage of tech consumers.
While millions are spent developing such wonderful creations... I STILL DON'T HAVE MY FLYING CAR!!!!!
It's sad to see em go, but I used to be a competitor of theirs until I cashed out my site (heh heh heh.
While they produced good articles, many of their articles were poorly written, or written far above the heads of their intended audience.
Back in the boom days, some of the WebMonkey employees got fed up with the corporate policies that valued ad placement over good content, often writing articles specifically tailored to woo the advertisers... a practice that clearly continued beyond the boom days. Those rebels started e-volt.. which still exists and is a vastly superior service.
Slashdot is successful because they provide content that their readers want... instead of what the advertisers want. A simple thing to understand unless you are a marketing professional.
The average marketing pro thinks that the average 'customer' doesn't know what to (think||read||buy) unless a marketeer tells them.
What's wrong...
A federal agency (CIA if I remember correctly) was recently ordered by a court of law to cease 'wire tapping' the GPS and other sattelite signals from OnStar due to the fact that the surveilance interfered with the ability of OnStar users to summon emergency services.
That is a serious problem in at least 2 ways
I used to live in Atlanta, GA... notorious for bad traffic. Back in the early 90's they installed several large digital billboards that would display important traffic information such as "overturned vehicle at I-85 & I-285... expect delays".
The result of these billboards...
I had something to read while parked on the freeway.
This sounds like history repeating.
Get yerself an XServe Raid from Apple to store the images you make using DVDBackup... Use Disk Utility to create images of the disks (so each movie is its own single file).
Get yerself a nifty VGA extender from Gefen (a simple little box that converts VGA (or any variant thereof) to travel up to 300 ft over ethernet, emerging on the far end in another Gefen box with a VGA out port.
Then get yerself an X10 remote control for the whole setup.
when you double click on any Disk Image you made, it will automatically mount, and DVD Player will automatically start playing it. No hacking, no muss, no fuss... it just works!
DUDE, include some hints... I wanna hack my gf so as to disable the "bitch and moan" mode
theremin noise can be violently irritating
Sam Rockwell is Zaphod...
Who plays the other head???
All these brains focused on this topic, and no-one seems to get it.
OSS/FS initiatives have already seriously eroded the earning potential of MANY commercial software products. This trend will continue (duh).
Apple has never been a software company... they sell hardware. They give away a boat load of software with any machine they sell. They do charge for some of their software packages (OS upgrades and premium design apps), but the fees they charge are usually a fraction of what a 'software' company would charge for a similar project.
Recently, Apple has made significant moves to more closely incorporate the GNU tools that Linux users expect, or at least design the OS to allow seamless installation of GNU tools. They are hedging their bets. Linux is Apple's friend at the moment, because as Linux makes advances on the desktop, Microsoft users might actually take a moment to ponder their alternatives... some of the people might look at a Mac.
Its not about Linux > OSX or OSX > Linux, As a Mac, Linux, and Windoze user, I cheer the advances of Linux. When my Macs get outdated (after 5 or 6 years) they get a nice Linux distro installed and do odd jobs around the office.
Can't we all just get along?
In Other News:Grass is green, rain is wet, and people will find a way to appear stupid despite the level of their intellect.
Make heatpipe socks first! Gloves can wait, My feet haven't had good circulation since I learned my first Regular Expression!
OH THE HORROR!
The writers threw out the concept of Human Sociatal Evolution which was supposed to be a major contributor to plot development in this series. When I first heard of the concept, I thought "awesome, lets see some hotheaded top-gun types handling the photon torpedo targeting!". It should have harkened back to scenes like classic Earth-Klin barfight scenes from the original star trek.
So, where they went wrong was having the sickeningly fair-minded Bacula for captain, when what they needed was a ego-maniacal, sex starved hedonist to play the part.
Now my idea for the next series is sure to succeed. Forget the federation, I want to see the crazy adventures of six 'buddies' (3 male, 3 female), who are in no way associated with the federation, and their only association with earth is that they are human. They have hilarious situations brought about by miscommunications, misplaced affections, and misguided sexual adventures.I think the market for this type of show is about to open up.
MS LOST their anti-trust case based largely on the fact that they (unneccesarily) integrated IE in such a way that forced their comptetetors to either quit the business or play by MS's rules.
Now, this doesnt affect you unless you monopolize the excell plug-ins market, and write your plug-ins in such a way that they disable plug-ins for use with with openoffice/staroffice or even Corel's wordperfect suite written by your competitors.Although they were found guilty, they continue to abuse their competetors in the same way that caused them to lose their anti-trust case. Since they were not compelled by the government to correct these abuses, it has fallen on concerned parties to pressure MS, under threat of legal actions, to abide by the rulings of their anti-trust settlement.
What it does for you (in the long run) is that it will work toward preventing MS from writing Excell in such a way that plug-ins will not function under windows unless they are written specifically for use with Excel, and written according to MS's dictate.
You have a strong opinion on the MS ruling... so please educate yourself a little about how MS's actions, and actions taken against MS affect the computing industry as a whole, and not just MS's segment of that market.