yeah, mPlayer is just great...for the "average" user.
ohh, well, sorry sir, we don't officially offer "binaries" (WTF is a binary Joe Average asks)...
but you can grab Source and Binaries, then a codec, and some fonts and then compile one just for your very own computer... it's really great....what compiler do you like to use Mr. Average?
Or, you could choose an unofficial build...but you wouldn't want an unofficial build Mr. Average, only cretins use unofficial builds
Anyone who remembers Jim Louderback from his days at TechTV would remember him to be a pompous dofus who was so uncomfortable in his own skin it made me feel bad just watching him. I rarely have strong feelings, particularly negative feelings about newscasters/reporters / celebrities...(contrast w/ Dvorak - I may disagree w/ many of his opinions or think he's a pinhead, but find him entertaining)...Louderback is somewhere between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
See Louderback's comments on Reliability: "I want everything to work right. I have some confidence that peripherals and software will work on my PCs, because I either built them myself or bought them outright from a vendor who knows how to make Windows PCs...Last I checked, Boot Camp is unsupported. So you're out of luck."
Boot Camp is a BETA...of course it's unsupported. INTEL designed/contributed the architecture of these all-in-one units...my guess is they know as much or more than Louderback, and the fundamental hardware will be echoed throughout the industry...(almost) any clown can assemble a PC...I suppose to some members of his audience this would qualify him as something of an ubergeek...Louderback expresses what he thinks really matters in hardware: "The really creative computer users are the case modders who build extravagant designs to house their systems. And that's just not possible if you aspire to run Windows and simultaneously "Think Different.""
Please...it doesn't compute for me.
That said, of course BootCamp isn't the end all for MOST users...very few people have the need for Windows-only apps, but for those that do the potential to boot Win (or Linux or whatever they want) next to the Mac OS is very appealing. For those rare business / school programs w/o a mac counterpart, or like me want to game but would never be worried about having the absolute latest gaming machine this takes away the last of the barriers to using the environment I prefer day in and day out...less hardware cost and clutter than a seperate machine.
The pundits who've declared Apple's death over and over and over, or said they were machines for artists and educators, this is the ultimate insurance policy...Should the underdog Apple fail you can always just use the hardware as a Windows machine.
The promise of virtualization by Apple or the 3rd party (like parallels), or WINE along with Boot Camp really will put users in the driver's seat--CHOICES....whatever meets your needs for those w/ a taste for more than the basics.
Lastly: SPEED: As far as speed, perhaps a reminder is in order that we are still dealing w/ consumer desktops and the first gen pro laptops. I think upcoming pro machines that will build on multiple chips w/ multiple cores will be competitive w/ Win counterparts. Certainly enough has been said to document the strengths and weakesses of OS X's choice of kernel, and the old hardware debates...life is full of tradeoffs...
MOST consumers and business users could buy a machine that's half to three quarters the speed of the top of the line and think they are well served w/ a very snappy machine.
You know, I was uncertain at first, but I think if I had to pick one title for Louderback, it really is the TURD SANDWICH.
Apple could, but it would need to define base requirements such that
1) other manufacturers could produce to that...possibly even have a certification program.
2) also, this removes burden of supporting every little permutation...just as when you look for a linux distro you need to look through the support and see if your hardware works.
Otherwise, they could only sell it as "unsupported"...they are too smart to get stuck trying to support just any hardware configuration.
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for the record, I too wish Apple would add a small 2nd right click button - if some people are just too tuned into doing it the traditional one click with Ctrl modifier than let them disable the button.
More to the point, a REAL FACT is that people talk at very different volumes inherently...even IF I was louder for me, would I be loud compared to the grandpa with a poor hearing aid? Unless you are going to start going around and imposing a DB limit on table conversations of every kind, then I say Bollocks and I'll talk till the cows come home.
And for the immeasurable # of days/nights/weekends that I've been on call for a life-saving service (ie. direct patient healthcare purpose--as opposed to the above programmer-contractor being "on call " for mp3.com -- god forbid a website or internal system of such import go down, though I understand that what we are discussing here isn't the relative import of receiving the notifications, it is just a matter of receiving them) I have NEVER taken a call in a movie theatre or anywhere else that is an otherwise quiet place...
To disable the ability to receive incoming pages and cell phone messages/rings w/ caller ID, etc... is ridiculous, pointless waste...JUST ENFORCE THE RULES AS POSTED: get an usher, and if that doesn't work grow some balls and politely ask the person to respect their surroundings...
having a phone or pager vibrate quietly isn't annoying to anyone.
The only thing a theatre needs to enforce is not disturbing others, which should apply to ALL conversations, whether on a phone or to the person next to you, ie. quiet area of a library, for instance.
Any establishment that wishes to ban my talking on a cell phone better damn well be banning all conversations. If I want to sit in a restraunt and talk to my mate over a headset it is no louder or more an inconvenience than people conversing at the table... bunch of whiney bitches...
self centered twit with a workin' by the hour mentality... there's nothing wrong with receiving pages or text on a phone set to vibrate.
There are alot of people who are on call ALL THE TIME. While your pin headed imagination can't get around this one, it is true. Try thinking of rural areas where you are the only cardiologist within 40 miles, or the only ___whatever____....
I used to cover a largely rural geography for a pacer / defibrillator company as a clinical/sales representative and took call 24 hrs./day M-R and as a region covered calls F 6- M 12 am.
There are numerous other examples.
The potential loss of contact far outweighs the potential damage if a phone or beeper did sound off during a movie... out of courtesy no one should answer it in the theatre, but the messages need to get through.
The real protection is to not download from untrusted sources. If you download the file from withing ANY BROWSER then manually decompress it and click on the file it still executes the shell script...
TAKE AWAY: CHANGING YOUR SAFARI PREFS / BEHAVIORS ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH!!!
Further, NORTON AV 10 with all updates installed scanned my download folder and DID NOT FIND OR SEE THIS!
one computer, Unix, Linux, Mac consumer friendly GUI, win compatability (built in compatability tools to read/exchange in OS) as well as the Virtual PC tools....plus plus plus.
It will be more interesting as their servers mature, clustering evolves, etc...
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They do run on something other than gasoline...it's called a "UNIX", and is getting more interoperable with LINUX suff "X11" and FINK all the time.
One might argue, and certainly gnome and kde fans will disagree, that they have the best solution out there with a full powered command line, full line of consumer oriented (an polished) multimedia interfaces (Garage Band, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD) etc. etc.
Then look at the climate of MS haters...governments and cities looking for alternatives...it won't always be open source, as that too has it's limitations, and costs, for we all know open source isn't "Free $$".
Apple had some failures to modernize, and between Copland, Be, etc... I truly had doubts that they'd get their shit together, but time and again they've suprised me...past performance is no indicator of future success, for Apple, or Microsoft. That being said, in the end, I think the software (OS and apps) direction they took was fantastic, and the consumer end of things they're getting into shows tremendous success.
Apple doesn't need to be Microsoft. They are not successful if they have a certain market %, any more than you are I are only successful if we turn into a famous programmer, astronomer, athlete, etc...they are successful in their own right as long as they are a profitable self-sustaining company....which if you look at the financials, they absolutely are.
Who can guess how they will expand in the future? The next Sony, a Sony partner, or, if the shit hits the fan, and they can no longer be a "hardware" company, they may always have another go with software and just release the OS for sale on X86....but that's another story for another day.
when did coffee shops become "quiet places"....
what if i bring in my "smelly cat" song and my acoustic guitar...
smokey, people filled gathering places...a site of connection, not a site of meditation...
go to a library, a church, a yoga class, or your own kitchen antisocial prick
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why don't you have the BALLS to stand up and work with your peeers. Be a leader..,..or be a snitch and run to your professor since you apparently have no leadership or interpersonal skills to address your peers.
who cares if it's vital or not. If you're sitting there conversing with your mates, then I have every right to talk to my friend/associate/whatever virtually...
again, if it's a library, chrurch, theatre, where NO ONE should talk to anyone, fine....but to have a conversation with a person on the phone in a normal tone is no more distracting than listening to your annoying drivel to your table mates....
the logic is total BS: the first paragraph alone where some asshole is jamming conversation at a coffee house????? come the F*&^% on....tell the prick to go to a library...IF I caught someone doing this I wouldn't hesitate to take a swing at him...
And you know the only people running around with these devices would be greasy little geeks without friends to bring in person or to call on the phone that you could wipe the floor with one hand..
I'm tired as fuck of all the self-righteous pricks running around who think their one-on-one conversations are more important than my conversation over the phone. If I'm at a restraunt dining alone (traveling for business or just a loser....) unless everyone can't talk then I'll talk on my phone till the cows come home. Ms. Manners can shove it...
Never is it acceptable where no one should be talking, movies, churches, etc....but unless it's unacceptable for everyone to talk, then find something else to bitch about.
What are Yuins Doin 'n at?
Pittsburgh International Airport is one of the cleanest, best organized, consumer friendly airports around.
The local economy will experience alot of pain when / if US Airways pulls out. They've already reduced the contracted # of gates leased, and are rumored to cut back further.
Thankfully, the Airport Authority is aggressively seeking other carriers, and trying innovative ideas to increase service and convenience.... Why is that important?
USAir has had a virtual monopoly here and apart from the lost jobs, Pittsburghers as a whole will enjoy lower airfare....Many people drive to Cleveland where a better representation of carriers breeds COMPETITION...I've driven 2 hours north, taken a connecting flight from Erie back to Pittsburgh, then flown the same flight I originally wanted from Pittsburgh, and saved about $300...People routinely check prices from Baltimore/Washington/Philly/Cleveland/Erie and Buffalo...
From that perspective, I say good riddens to the monopoly of USeless Airways...Thanks for screwing us for years.
apple and aol have an agreement, in fact, it is posted all over apple.com's home page.
I'm sure they appreciate the business of selling bandwidth, but, access to music on aol is through iTunes store.
Apple seems to be aol friendly there, and w/ iChat client compatability too, not that they are related, but doesn't hurt. Anyway, AOL users are automatically loaded and ready for 1-click purchases at Apple's iTunes as of this week, though it was announced a while ago.
RIGHT ON!
If they have the "edited" version of Blink 182, the same retailer that won't carry albums w/ content they find objectionable will carry their milquetoast "tude" to the download business, but save you 0.11 vs. a vastly better interface of iTunes.....good luck.
plus, conversion of mp4 to mp3 is negligible degradation, then, no copyright restrictions....
If you anyone were so worried about quality, they'd start w/ the original cd, rip as new formats came out, or use the "lossless" formats, and upgrade through time....
plus, they wouldn't be critical when listening in a car, or most living rooms, or on most players, which can reveal a bad copy, but can't reveal the clarity of an excellent recording.
I have to call "shenanigans" on the title and wording of this thread. Total "Shenanigans"
An Apple tech service rep agreeing, Yep, after you installed iTunes your iPod isn't working, and you being a dipshit for using a "mac only" ipod in an unsupported configuration are 2 different things.
It isn't a question of the "reality distortion field", it is a question of dumbass users who don't understand the most basic statement "mac only". That is how it was sold, NO CLAIM ANYWHERE was made to refute or suggest otherwise.
I hope the jackass can recover it, but it is he who took the risk.
Can't believe the "intelligentsia" responding here w/ anything other than positive suggestions and well wishes. Sorry to take the wind out of the conspiracy theorists and those that would like to bash apple service.
Oh, and by the way, I took my mom's 1994 buick century off-roading, and, after a few steep inclines it just didn't want to go anymore...I think General Motors really sucks!!
I'm pretty sure the differentiation is this:
Jaguar and earlier don't support +R,
Panther/10.3 adds support for +R for DATA discs, but not for use w/ iDVD addplication.
which version is 32-bit....
you mean thru 10.2.x? yes
10.3 starts 64-bit in way win-64 is, 32-BIT OS w/ support for 64-bit apps, operations, memory address....
let's see who offers the commercial full 64-bit monty first...
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/37289-1. html
The informational session provided confirmation of some of the available information as well as some interesting details of the planning stage. As previously reported, the total cost of the Supercomputer Cluster comes to $5.2 million -- which includes systems, memory storage and "communication fabrics".
Even at $5.2 million, the overall cost of the system is said to be "one of the cheapest systems of its kind". In determining which architecture to use, many vendors were considered beyond Apple -- including Dell, Sun, IBM and HP. The final decision was made on a pure Cost vs Performance basis -- with Apple's solution providing the best overall price.
The PowerMac G5 systems will be running Mac OS X, and will also utilize a custom "fault tolerance" software system called Deja Vu. This fault tolerance system will allow the cluster to withstand "just about every failure".
The cluster is expected to begin operations on October 1, 2003, with performance tweaking through Mid November. At that time, it will be open for initial applications, with a fully operational cluster expected by January 2004.
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as the Fonz would say, "correctamundo...aaahhh."
iMacs have dedicated graphics cards.
Minis and the new MacBook (consumer iBook updates) have the integrated video. They are limited to sharing a max. of 64 MB
yeah, mPlayer is just great...for the "average" user.
ohh, well, sorry sir, we don't officially offer "binaries" (WTF is a binary Joe Average asks)...
but you can grab Source and Binaries, then a codec, and some fonts and then compile one just for your very own computer... it's really great....what compiler do you like to use Mr. Average?
Or, you could choose an unofficial build...but you wouldn't want an unofficial build Mr. Average, only cretins use unofficial builds
Anyone who remembers Jim Louderback from his days at TechTV would remember him to be a pompous dofus who was so uncomfortable in his own skin it made me feel bad just watching him. I rarely have strong feelings, particularly negative feelings about newscasters/reporters / celebrities...(contrast w/ Dvorak - I may disagree w/ many of his opinions or think he's a pinhead, but find him entertaining)...Louderback is somewhere between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
See Louderback's comments on Reliability: "I want everything to work right. I have some confidence that peripherals and software will work on my PCs, because I either built them myself or bought them outright from a vendor who knows how to make Windows PCs...Last I checked, Boot Camp is unsupported. So you're out of luck."
Boot Camp is a BETA...of course it's unsupported. INTEL designed/contributed the architecture of these all-in-one units...my guess is they know as much or more than Louderback, and the fundamental hardware will be echoed throughout the industry...(almost) any clown can assemble a PC...I suppose to some members of his audience this would qualify him as something of an ubergeek...Louderback expresses what he thinks really matters in hardware: "The really creative computer users are the case modders who build extravagant designs to house their systems. And that's just not possible if you aspire to run Windows and simultaneously "Think Different.""
Please...it doesn't compute for me.
That said, of course BootCamp isn't the end all for MOST users...very few people have the need for Windows-only apps, but for those that do the potential to boot Win (or Linux or whatever they want) next to the Mac OS is very appealing. For those rare business / school programs w/o a mac counterpart, or like me want to game but would never be worried about having the absolute latest gaming machine this takes away the last of the barriers to using the environment I prefer day in and day out...less hardware cost and clutter than a seperate machine.
The pundits who've declared Apple's death over and over and over, or said they were machines for artists and educators, this is the ultimate insurance policy...Should the underdog Apple fail you can always just use the hardware as a Windows machine.
The promise of virtualization by Apple or the 3rd party (like parallels), or WINE along with Boot Camp really will put users in the driver's seat--CHOICES....whatever meets your needs for those w/ a taste for more than the basics.
Lastly: SPEED:
As far as speed, perhaps a reminder is in order that we are still dealing w/ consumer desktops and the first gen pro laptops. I think upcoming pro machines that will build on multiple chips w/ multiple cores will be competitive w/ Win counterparts. Certainly enough has been said to document the strengths and weakesses of OS X's choice of kernel, and the old hardware debates...life is full of tradeoffs...
MOST consumers and business users could buy a machine that's half to three quarters the speed of the top of the line and think they are well served w/ a very snappy machine.
You know, I was uncertain at first, but I think if I had to pick one title for Louderback, it really is the TURD SANDWICH.
Apple could, but it would need to define base requirements such that
...they are too smart to get stuck trying to support just any hardware configuration.
1) other manufacturers could produce to that...possibly even have a certification program.
2) also, this removes burden of supporting every little permutation...just as when you look for a linux distro you need to look through the support and see if your hardware works.
Otherwise, they could only sell it as "unsupported"
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for the record, I too wish Apple would add a small 2nd right click button - if some people are just too tuned into doing it the traditional one click with Ctrl modifier than let them disable the button.
"False to fact."
Whose fact is this?
Who are you comparing my volume to?
More to the point, a REAL FACT is that people talk at very different volumes inherently...even IF I was louder for me, would I be loud compared to the grandpa with a poor hearing aid? Unless you are going to start going around and imposing a DB limit on table conversations of every kind, then I say Bollocks and I'll talk till the cows come home.
And for the immeasurable # of days/nights/weekends that I've been on call for a life-saving service (ie. direct patient healthcare purpose--as opposed to the above programmer-contractor being "on call " for mp3.com -- god forbid a website or internal system of such import go down, though I understand that what we are discussing here isn't the relative import of receiving the notifications, it is just a matter of receiving them) I have NEVER taken a call in a movie theatre or anywhere else that is an otherwise quiet place...
To disable the ability to receive incoming pages and cell phone messages/rings w/ caller ID, etc... is ridiculous, pointless waste...JUST ENFORCE THE RULES AS POSTED: get an usher, and if that doesn't work grow some balls and politely ask the person to respect their surroundings...
having a phone or pager vibrate quietly isn't annoying to anyone.
The only thing a theatre needs to enforce is not disturbing others, which should apply to ALL conversations, whether on a phone or to the person next to you, ie. quiet area of a library, for instance.
Any establishment that wishes to ban my talking on a cell phone better damn well be banning all conversations. If I want to sit in a restraunt and talk to my mate over a headset it is no louder or more an inconvenience than people conversing at the table...
bunch of whiney bitches...
score 1 for this troll comment?
/day M-R and as a region covered calls F 6- M 12 am.
self centered twit with a workin' by the hour mentality... there's nothing wrong with receiving pages or text on a phone set to vibrate.
There are alot of people who are on call ALL THE TIME. While your pin headed imagination can't get around this one, it is true. Try thinking of rural areas where you are the only cardiologist within 40 miles, or the only ___whatever____....
I used to cover a largely rural geography for a pacer / defibrillator company as a clinical/sales representative and took call 24 hrs.
There are numerous other examples.
The potential loss of contact far outweighs the potential damage if a phone or beeper did sound off during a movie... out of courtesy no one should answer it in the theatre, but the messages need to get through.
BS.
That only "mitigates" the automaticity.
The real protection is to not download from untrusted sources. If you download the file from withing ANY BROWSER then manually decompress it and click on the file it still executes the shell script...
TAKE AWAY: CHANGING YOUR SAFARI PREFS / BEHAVIORS ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH!!!
Further, NORTON AV 10 with all updates installed scanned my download folder and DID NOT FIND OR SEE THIS!
This article is along the lines of what I posted above:
4 &m ode=thread&order=0
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=746
one computer, Unix, Linux, Mac consumer friendly GUI, win compatability (built in compatability tools to read/exchange in OS) as well as the Virtual PC tools....plus plus plus.
It will be more interesting as their servers mature, clustering evolves, etc...
They do run on something other than gasoline...it's called a "UNIX", and is getting more interoperable with LINUX suff "X11" and FINK all the time.
One might argue, and certainly gnome and kde fans will disagree, that they have the best solution out there with a full powered command line, full line of consumer oriented (an polished) multimedia interfaces (Garage Band, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD) etc. etc.
Then look at the climate of MS haters...governments and cities looking for alternatives...it won't always be open source, as that too has it's limitations, and costs, for we all know open source isn't "Free $$".
Apple had some failures to modernize, and between Copland, Be, etc... I truly had doubts that they'd get their shit together, but time and again they've suprised me...past performance is no indicator of future success, for Apple, or Microsoft. That being said, in the end, I think the software (OS and apps) direction they took was fantastic, and the consumer end of things they're getting into shows tremendous success.
Apple doesn't need to be Microsoft. They are not successful if they have a certain market %, any more than you are I are only successful if we turn into a famous programmer, astronomer, athlete, etc...they are successful in their own right as long as they are a profitable self-sustaining company....which if you look at the financials, they absolutely are.
Who can guess how they will expand in the future? The next Sony, a Sony partner, or, if the shit hits the fan, and they can no longer be a "hardware" company, they may always have another go with software and just release the OS for sale on X86....but that's another story for another day.
Gotta get some work done.
when did coffee shops become "quiet places".... what if i bring in my "smelly cat" song and my acoustic guitar... smokey, people filled gathering places...a site of connection, not a site of meditation... go to a library, a church, a yoga class, or your own kitchen antisocial prick
why don't you have the BALLS to stand up and work with your peeers. Be a leader..,..or be a snitch and run to your professor since you apparently have no leadership or interpersonal skills to address your peers.
who cares if it's vital or not. If you're sitting there conversing with your mates, then I have every right to talk to my friend/associate/whatever virtually... again, if it's a library, chrurch, theatre, where NO ONE should talk to anyone, fine....but to have a conversation with a person on the phone in a normal tone is no more distracting than listening to your annoying drivel to your table mates.... the logic is total BS: the first paragraph alone where some asshole is jamming conversation at a coffee house????? come the F*&^% on....tell the prick to go to a library...IF I caught someone doing this I wouldn't hesitate to take a swing at him... And you know the only people running around with these devices would be greasy little geeks without friends to bring in person or to call on the phone that you could wipe the floor with one hand..
I'm tired as fuck of all the self-righteous pricks running around who think their one-on-one conversations are more important than my conversation over the phone. If I'm at a restraunt dining alone (traveling for business or just a loser....) unless everyone can't talk then I'll talk on my phone till the cows come home. Ms. Manners can shove it... Never is it acceptable where no one should be talking, movies, churches, etc....but unless it's unacceptable for everyone to talk, then find something else to bitch about.
What are Yuins Doin 'n at? Pittsburgh International Airport is one of the cleanest, best organized, consumer friendly airports around. The local economy will experience alot of pain when / if US Airways pulls out. They've already reduced the contracted # of gates leased, and are rumored to cut back further. Thankfully, the Airport Authority is aggressively seeking other carriers, and trying innovative ideas to increase service and convenience.... Why is that important? USAir has had a virtual monopoly here and apart from the lost jobs, Pittsburghers as a whole will enjoy lower airfare....Many people drive to Cleveland where a better representation of carriers breeds COMPETITION...I've driven 2 hours north, taken a connecting flight from Erie back to Pittsburgh, then flown the same flight I originally wanted from Pittsburgh, and saved about $300...People routinely check prices from Baltimore/Washington/Philly/Cleveland/Erie and Buffalo... From that perspective, I say good riddens to the monopoly of USeless Airways...Thanks for screwing us for years.
apple and aol have an agreement, in fact, it is posted all over apple.com's home page. I'm sure they appreciate the business of selling bandwidth, but, access to music on aol is through iTunes store. Apple seems to be aol friendly there, and w/ iChat client compatability too, not that they are related, but doesn't hurt. Anyway, AOL users are automatically loaded and ready for 1-click purchases at Apple's iTunes as of this week, though it was announced a while ago.
Sorry, AOL is sending people to Apple iTunes.
RIGHT ON! If they have the "edited" version of Blink 182, the same retailer that won't carry albums w/ content they find objectionable will carry their milquetoast "tude" to the download business, but save you 0.11 vs. a vastly better interface of iTunes.....good luck. plus, conversion of mp4 to mp3 is negligible degradation, then, no copyright restrictions.... If you anyone were so worried about quality, they'd start w/ the original cd, rip as new formats came out, or use the "lossless" formats, and upgrade through time.... plus, they wouldn't be critical when listening in a car, or most living rooms, or on most players, which can reveal a bad copy, but can't reveal the clarity of an excellent recording.
Where the F*^&*(&^ do you draw the conclusion that pre-mac osX was related to UNIX? this IS a typo, right?
I have to call "shenanigans" on the title and wording of this thread. Total "Shenanigans" An Apple tech service rep agreeing, Yep, after you installed iTunes your iPod isn't working, and you being a dipshit for using a "mac only" ipod in an unsupported configuration are 2 different things. It isn't a question of the "reality distortion field", it is a question of dumbass users who don't understand the most basic statement "mac only". That is how it was sold, NO CLAIM ANYWHERE was made to refute or suggest otherwise. I hope the jackass can recover it, but it is he who took the risk. Can't believe the "intelligentsia" responding here w/ anything other than positive suggestions and well wishes. Sorry to take the wind out of the conspiracy theorists and those that would like to bash apple service. Oh, and by the way, I took my mom's 1994 buick century off-roading, and, after a few steep inclines it just didn't want to go anymore...I think General Motors really sucks!!
I'm pretty sure the differentiation is this: Jaguar and earlier don't support +R, Panther/10.3 adds support for +R for DATA discs, but not for use w/ iDVD addplication.
fembots w/ machine gun jumblies, yeah!
which version is 32-bit.... you mean thru 10.2.x? yes 10.3 starts 64-bit in way win-64 is, 32-BIT OS w/ support for 64-bit apps, operations, memory address.... let's see who offers the commercial full 64-bit monty first...
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/37289-1. html
The informational session provided confirmation of some of the available information as well as some interesting details of the planning stage. As previously reported, the total cost of the Supercomputer Cluster comes to $5.2 million -- which includes systems, memory storage and "communication fabrics".
Even at $5.2 million, the overall cost of the system is said to be "one of the cheapest systems of its kind". In determining which architecture to use, many vendors were considered beyond Apple -- including Dell, Sun, IBM and HP. The final decision was made on a pure Cost vs Performance basis -- with Apple's solution providing the best overall price.
The PowerMac G5 systems will be running Mac OS X, and will also utilize a custom "fault tolerance" software system called Deja Vu. This fault tolerance system will allow the cluster to withstand "just about every failure".
The cluster is expected to begin operations on October 1, 2003, with performance tweaking through Mid November. At that time, it will be open for initial applications, with a fully operational cluster expected by January 2004.
Hometown Team "Wins" Bid for SuperComputer... Beating out who? Like they had any other choice in Austin, TX....seriously....