You're quite right. Performance in single-threaded apps will suck. Does this matter? Your average system will have a bunch of threads running, why not split them between the 2 processors (or cores).
We have multi-tasking OS's for quite some time now. Multiple processors isn't just about running one application faster, it's about running all your applications faster collectively.
So at the start of Episode 4, Yoda and Obi-wan are like the only Jedi still alive. This movie starts out with a bunch of Jedi living. BUT I NEVER EXPECTED A BLOOD BATH!!!!!!!!
While the suit may have some merit, it is odd for them to wait until now to try and halt such a heralded product.
Yeah, it is quite strange that they would seek a settlement at the point when Apple would have the most incentive to end the matter as quickly as possible. Idiot.
The only thing Apple did was format the presentation of the operating nature of those GUI apps via that stupid immobile menu bar at the top of the screen. Microsoft definitely didn't copy that! It was, and remains the most silly thing Apple has done. I hate it, and is still one of the reasons I refuse to buy into anything Mac.
It's different than what you're used to, but is there really any reason why it's bad? Having one menu has some advantages:
Always in the same place, allowing for a predictable user-interface (can't be overridden with some custom bitmapped interface that you have to figure out)
Only needs to take up screen real estate once -- kinda silly in menu-in-window apps that you have the same menu bar drawn in several windows.
The application menu has some items (and key-cmds) which remain static: About box, preferences, and quit. It's nice to be able to pull up prefs in any app using the same keystroke.
I think your rant is actually about the lack of MDI windows (application window as parent, with several child windows). I, too, shared your anguish because this leads to a lot of clutter, but 10.3 fixed that with exposé.
Anyway, that's a silly reason to write off an entire company's products, and there's dumber mistakes Apple has made. Firing Jobs and the first iMac mouse (the round one that you had to look at to make sure you were holding it straight) are on the top of my list.
Apple is a hardware company. Being a hardware company always gives you a better grip in the industry, a more permanent user base. Selling OSX ported to other platforms would mean people would undermine the neccessity of the Mac hardware, and probably hurt their sales. They don't want to fade into a struggling software company (kinda like what SEGA has done).
The OS itself is open-source, it's just the environment that's closed. It does suck that X86 users can't experience OSX, but what can I say.... Buy a Mac!
The only similarity to DirectX is that they're writing a software API that does the dirty-work of dealing with hardware. That way, you just write your code for the API and not for the different video/audio cards.
Microsoft's horrible security track record is to our benefit when it comes to their gaming consoles. They put the copy protection routines from the first xbox on a removable chip (I think it was even flashable.)
The Xbox 2 is supposedly powered by 3 (three) PowerPC 970 (G5) chips, and some equally insane video processor. It would make quite the media-center PC if someone can hack it. I'm not so sure about.NET but I would expect to see Linux running on one of these, and a whole bunch of software shortly thereafter.
It's not really a video of the machine in action, as one would expect. They could have cut down their traffic by 80% by simply mentioning that in the article blurb.
I don't know about you, but I find myself typing a lot less URL's these days. Google gets used a lot. Firefox makes the address bar an I'm-feeling-lucky search if it can't resolve it, so you dont have to worry about monster.com/.jobs/.net/.porn you simply just say "monster jobs" and it goes there.
When I graduated high school, a lot of people gave me money. Most just gave me a check, but my godmother (japanese ex-patriot) gave me a box full of 50 paper cranes, each folded from a $2 bill. I waited the longest to spend these, but eventually started using a couple every week. I would buy lunch with them and the places always gave me weird looks, like I was giving them monopoly money.
While I'm not surprised that they didn't know this was legal tender, I am surprised that a manager wasn't able to accept the bills.
An extreme example: I, the federal government, make a ruling that only Dell is allowed to sell computers. Dell immediately octuples the prices of all new computers. Your free market argument fails to apply
This argument doesn't work because you're talking about a commodity, not an infastructure. Regulated business tends to work out pretty well for the consumer when you're talking about businesses that grant access to an infastructure.
If free market is allowed, then each company has to build their own infastructure, and they all spread themselves too thin. The result is a lot of choice, but they're all expensive and sucky. Look at cell phones in the US. In much of the world (Europe, Japan?) they've regulated the industry to a single infastructure, GSM. In the US there was no regulation, so everyone built their own network. As a result, I can choose from several different providers, all of which have to pass the building cost of their massive infastructure along to me, but none of them will get 100% coverage of my city.
My cable company controls all of the south county; a different one controls the north. If both companies had to lay cable for the entire county, and make house-calls for the entire county, I don't think the service would be as good.
This does, still, permit a free market -- but not at the consumer level. Your elected representatives generally put up a request for proposals and let these companies bid on the contract.
With all that said, this is just one more reason not to use the local telco in my book. DSL sucks cable balls anyway, and forcing you to take the land-line with the service clearly serves no benefit other than protecting their ass from VOIP and cell-phone companies.
At least Spanish is phonetic (you see a written word, there are no ambiguities as to pronunciation besides those attributable to regional accent), and managed by a standards council (kinda like HTML is managed by W3C).
It's really _THE_ reason to watch STTNG re-runs. I even remember one of his jokes from this episode: When I was a boy, I was so ugly that I had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
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You're quite right. Performance in single-threaded apps will suck. Does this matter? Your average system will have a bunch of threads running, why not split them between the 2 processors (or cores).
We have multi-tasking OS's for quite some time now. Multiple processors isn't just about running one application faster, it's about running all your applications faster collectively.
PROBLEM SOLVED.
So at the start of Episode 4, Yoda and Obi-wan are like the only Jedi still alive. This movie starts out with a bunch of Jedi living. BUT I NEVER EXPECTED A BLOOD BATH!!!!!!!!
...Microsoft's "Team 99" evangelism effort will be composed of bloggers that will become Microsoft's voice to the masses...
That should read: voice to them asses
Slashdot really needs to put more effort into catching this sort of stuff before it hits the front page.
While the suit may have some merit, it is odd for them to wait until now to try and halt such a heralded product.
Yeah, it is quite strange that they would seek a settlement at the point when Apple would have the most incentive to end the matter as quickly as possible. Idiot.
It's different than what you're used to, but is there really any reason why it's bad? Having one menu has some advantages:
I think your rant is actually about the lack of MDI windows (application window as parent, with several child windows). I, too, shared your anguish because this leads to a lot of clutter, but 10.3 fixed that with exposé.
Anyway, that's a silly reason to write off an entire company's products, and there's dumber mistakes Apple has made. Firing Jobs and the first iMac mouse (the round one that you had to look at to make sure you were holding it straight) are on the top of my list.
Yuo must be in INdia where programmars work for $1..... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH WTF! LOL1 BBQ!!!!!
They were too busy sucking hash vapors through a straw. I was, at least...
a unit called the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, or NAMBLA
Apple is a hardware company. Being a hardware company always gives you a better grip in the industry, a more permanent user base. Selling OSX ported to other platforms would mean people would undermine the neccessity of the Mac hardware, and probably hurt their sales. They don't want to fade into a struggling software company (kinda like what SEGA has done).
The OS itself is open-source, it's just the environment that's closed. It does suck that X86 users can't experience OSX, but what can I say.... Buy a Mac!
Blade Runner was nothing like "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" but it was still one of the best movies ever made.
The only similarity to DirectX is that they're writing a software API that does the dirty-work of dealing with hardware. That way, you just write your code for the API and not for the different video/audio cards.
Microsoft's horrible security track record is to our benefit when it comes to their gaming consoles. They put the copy protection routines from the first xbox on a removable chip (I think it was even flashable.)
.NET but I would expect to see Linux running on one of these, and a whole bunch of software shortly thereafter.
The Xbox 2 is supposedly powered by 3 (three) PowerPC 970 (G5) chips, and some equally insane video processor. It would make quite the media-center PC if someone can hack it. I'm not so sure about
It's not really a video of the machine in action, as one would expect. They could have cut down their traffic by 80% by simply mentioning that in the article blurb.
...quote of article...
Sarcastic comment. Reference to other frequent slashdot subjects. Bad joke.
Geeky closing line.
Anyone who's ridden Space Mountain at Disneyland knows of the existance of Space Cookies
I don't know about you, but I find myself typing a lot less URL's these days. Google gets used a lot. Firefox makes the address bar an I'm-feeling-lucky search if it can't resolve it, so you dont have to worry about monster.com/.jobs/.net/.porn you simply just say "monster jobs" and it goes there.
When I graduated high school, a lot of people gave me money. Most just gave me a check, but my godmother (japanese ex-patriot) gave me a box full of 50 paper cranes, each folded from a $2 bill. I waited the longest to spend these, but eventually started using a couple every week. I would buy lunch with them and the places always gave me weird looks, like I was giving them monopoly money.
While I'm not surprised that they didn't know this was legal tender, I am surprised that a manager wasn't able to accept the bills.
you've heard wrong. start with india.
An extreme example: I, the federal government, make a ruling that only Dell is allowed to sell computers. Dell immediately octuples the prices of all new computers. Your free market argument fails to apply
This argument doesn't work because you're talking about a commodity, not an infastructure. Regulated business tends to work out pretty well for the consumer when you're talking about businesses that grant access to an infastructure.
If free market is allowed, then each company has to build their own infastructure, and they all spread themselves too thin. The result is a lot of choice, but they're all expensive and sucky. Look at cell phones in the US. In much of the world (Europe, Japan?) they've regulated the industry to a single infastructure, GSM. In the US there was no regulation, so everyone built their own network. As a result, I can choose from several different providers, all of which have to pass the building cost of their massive infastructure along to me, but none of them will get 100% coverage of my city.
My cable company controls all of the south county; a different one controls the north. If both companies had to lay cable for the entire county, and make house-calls for the entire county, I don't think the service would be as good.
This does, still, permit a free market -- but not at the consumer level. Your elected representatives generally put up a request for proposals and let these companies bid on the contract.
With all that said, this is just one more reason not to use the local telco in my book. DSL sucks cable balls anyway, and forcing you to take the land-line with the service clearly serves no benefit other than protecting their ass from VOIP and cell-phone companies.
...Gilbert Gottfried
At least Spanish is phonetic (you see a written word, there are no ambiguities as to pronunciation besides those attributable to regional accent), and managed by a standards council (kinda like HTML is managed by W3C).
It's really _THE_ reason to watch STTNG re-runs. I even remember one of his jokes from this episode: When I was a boy, I was so ugly that I had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
Everyone knows these "dinosaur" fossils were put there by Satan to cast doubt on the creation of the world, 6,000 years ago.