...makes all the difference. The thing that made me switch to PPC was, without an effing doubt, MacOS X. I went from an Athlon 2400+ with 768MB RAM to a home-made PowerMac 800 with 512MB RAM. I cut my processor by a 3rd and lowered my RAM. What did I gain? An amazing OS. If RISC processors continue to get more and more into the same processing spectrum as x86's, I think that OS X will help draw in the masses. Another thing that would help would be increased yields. That would lower prices and increase market share. Anyways, if x86 had OS X, I probably would have stayed with x86. But since it doesn't, I didn't.
Gotcha. I was wrongfully comparing this style (cartoonish animation) to other styles that are just trying to be realistic and act as technology demos (Monsters Inc, Final Fantasy...). Those had MUCH more than 16 strands of hair. But I guess they're trying to do something completely different.
The least technologically advanced "feature" I've ever heard a company boast about.
"Each Siren has 16 strands of hair"
Alright... 16 strands of hair? I thought modern computer graphics were up to thousands of strands. Am I missing something here? Maybe 16,000? Anyways, it's good to see Linux in the mianstream like this. Eventhough I use Windows and Mac OSX for work and school, linux still finds a way to get into my life.
Those are the most rediculous naming rules I have ever heard! Gone are the days of Ultima Online when names were meant to be fun. It was fun killing "George W. Bush" and/or his family... Gotta to run...
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Well, I think that 4GB ought to be enough for Personal Computers for quite some time. What possible use is another 4GB for personal use? I can see it in use for corporate or scientific uses, but personal? Apple's trying to make it seem like 4GB is insufficient. They sound like a used-car salesman.
(Before you bash me: I'm going to get a G5 early next year. OS X is beautiful and my 800MHz Mac will be showing its age by then.)
I think we've succeeded in/.'ing the entire Mac community. Their store is down and their site is slow. No to mention all the links list in these comments. Come to think of it, the only site with G5 info that is not slashdotted is... slashdot. Hmm...
I play lots of disc golf. It's a great way to just get outside and walk around and throw a few discs. Anyone can play and it's a great conversation starter if the course is on a park. Check out www.pdga.org for more info! Also: any players in the Blacksburg/Lynchburg VA area?
Although I agree that some of the wording is not consistant with Apple's regular product descriptions, the specs are not at all impossible. If you've been keeping up with the news behind the G5, you'll know a few things. First, the G5 is the PPC970. The "G" product name has a shit-load of product recognition. Like the Pentiums. How close is a Pentium4 to a Pentium3? Not very much. Also, about the system bus, they are using Hyper-Transport which does allow for a 1GHz system bus. I've seen system design specs that indicate a doulbe (or possibly even quad) pumped, bidirectional bus (500MHz out / 500MHz in). About the FireWire 800/400 issues: it's all about cost and bandwidth. Anything more than 1 FireWire 800 port is so unnecessary, it's rediculous. Name anything that can use all that bandwidth, let alone the system bus! All that bandwidth room requires computing power which requires more circuits which, in turn, requires more money. FireWire 400 is fast enough for anything right now. Also, about USB 2.0, look at the number of products out now which requires USB 2.0. Apple would be stupid not to build in support for it. One more thing: AGP 8x is necessary now for graphics.
...any resistance. I have numerous tattoos and a couple of piercings (nothing extreme, though) and I have not had anyone turn me down for a job or look at me funny at work. I have all of my tattoos within my t-shirt line so only a tiny bit is visible when I'm wearing a t-shirt (like if my sleeves get rolled up or caught on something). I think tattoos are a great way to decorate yourself. I personally like mottos and such. I have "Nothing is Permanent" written across my back and "Totally Life!" (...maybe) soon to be on my chest. As long as you keep it mostly consealed and not too extreme, nobody will mind. My current boss actually commented on my tattoos (he got a glimce of something on my neck).
(Spelling Nazis: Go to town!)
I use my computer to its fullest everyday. I do AutoCAD renderings and RF propogation analysis. I am currently very limited with my current top-end hardware. I think that PCI Express is a very needed step towards much high overall system bandwidth. If I could push more data through my subsystem, I would be able to be proportionately more productive.
I guess Apple either did a lot of bitching or threw money at the IEEE (or possibly both) to get the standard finalized at 54mbit. I had heard that the IEEE was skeptical about that speed and had mentioned something along the lines of mid-to-low 20's. Anyways, I'm glad to see that Apple's investiment in their Airport Extreme products wasn't a waste. Now if we could agree on a wireless power standard...
It has the same color stars, same layout of the picture of the DVD with it's rating and title. It has very similar graphics, sidebar, wait descriptions, and pop-up answers. The overall feel is that of NetFlix. I prefer NetFlix because it doesn't have the huge, annoying Wal-Mart top-menu. Also, Wal-Mart doesn't offer the "movie-geek" (that's what I call it) subscription plan of 8 DVDs out at a time for $40 a month.
When I went to Wal-Marts DVD rental site, it had the look-and-feel of NetFlix. It doesn't have all of the fancy way to rate the movies, but it def. has the feel of NetFlix. I wonder how they are able to copy the site so blatantly without recourse.
Eventhough BASIC has its problems when it comes to relating it to modern OO languages, it's still a great introduction for younger people into thinking like a computer. Making a computer solving a simple math problem line by line in detail is very good training for a young programmer. No matter how Object-Oriented you make a C++ program, there is always going to be that underlying simple, procedural code. BASIC teaches you how to be procedural in your design of simple algorithms. After mastering BASIC, you can then move on to more advance laguages and topics such as functions and whatnot. But, all in all, BASIC is still great for young programmers.
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...does it take to get to the center of the blog aggregate? 1... 2... 3.
It's similar to not being able to sell tickets for a sporting event or concert to people below their listed price.
They needed to get the system up and running before the becnhmarking deadline so they could get ranked and gather funding.
...makes all the difference. The thing that made me switch to PPC was, without an effing doubt, MacOS X. I went from an Athlon 2400+ with 768MB RAM to a home-made PowerMac 800 with 512MB RAM. I cut my processor by a 3rd and lowered my RAM. What did I gain? An amazing OS. If RISC processors continue to get more and more into the same processing spectrum as x86's, I think that OS X will help draw in the masses. Another thing that would help would be increased yields. That would lower prices and increase market share. Anyways, if x86 had OS X, I probably would have stayed with x86. But since it doesn't, I didn't.
Gotcha. I was wrongfully comparing this style (cartoonish animation) to other styles that are just trying to be realistic and act as technology demos (Monsters Inc, Final Fantasy...). Those had MUCH more than 16 strands of hair. But I guess they're trying to do something completely different.
Anyone else notice her lack of nipples? Were they censored away? Or did the SCO and Amazon.com jointly patent X-Ray pr0n®?
Those are the most rediculous naming rules I have ever heard! Gone are the days of Ultima Online when names were meant to be fun. It was fun killing "George W. Bush" and/or his family... Gotta to run...
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Well, I think that 4GB ought to be enough for Personal Computers for quite some time. What possible use is another 4GB for personal use? I can see it in use for corporate or scientific uses, but personal? Apple's trying to make it seem like 4GB is insufficient. They sound like a used-car salesman. (Before you bash me: I'm going to get a G5 early next year. OS X is beautiful and my 800MHz Mac will be showing its age by then.)
Pick up dry-cleaning on way back from work? That's what wives are for. That, and other things...
I think we've succeeded in /.'ing the entire Mac community. Their store is down and their site is slow. No to mention all the links list in these comments. Come to think of it, the only site with G5 info that is not slashdotted is... slashdot. Hmm...
All the rumors and leaks about the specs of the G5 were true.
I play lots of disc golf. It's a great way to just get outside and walk around and throw a few discs. Anyone can play and it's a great conversation starter if the course is on a park. Check out www.pdga.org for more info! Also: any players in the Blacksburg/Lynchburg VA area?
Although I agree that some of the wording is not consistant with Apple's regular product descriptions, the specs are not at all impossible. If you've been keeping up with the news behind the G5, you'll know a few things. First, the G5 is the PPC970. The "G" product name has a shit-load of product recognition. Like the Pentiums. How close is a Pentium4 to a Pentium3? Not very much. Also, about the system bus, they are using Hyper-Transport which does allow for a 1GHz system bus. I've seen system design specs that indicate a doulbe (or possibly even quad) pumped, bidirectional bus (500MHz out / 500MHz in). About the FireWire 800/400 issues: it's all about cost and bandwidth. Anything more than 1 FireWire 800 port is so unnecessary, it's rediculous. Name anything that can use all that bandwidth, let alone the system bus! All that bandwidth room requires computing power which requires more circuits which, in turn, requires more money. FireWire 400 is fast enough for anything right now. Also, about USB 2.0, look at the number of products out now which requires USB 2.0. Apple would be stupid not to build in support for it. One more thing: AGP 8x is necessary now for graphics.
...any resistance. I have numerous tattoos and a couple of piercings (nothing extreme, though) and I have not had anyone turn me down for a job or look at me funny at work. I have all of my tattoos within my t-shirt line so only a tiny bit is visible when I'm wearing a t-shirt (like if my sleeves get rolled up or caught on something). I think tattoos are a great way to decorate yourself. I personally like mottos and such. I have "Nothing is Permanent" written across my back and "Totally Life!" (...maybe) soon to be on my chest. As long as you keep it mostly consealed and not too extreme, nobody will mind. My current boss actually commented on my tattoos (he got a glimce of something on my neck). (Spelling Nazis: Go to town!)
Say goodbye to tailgating... and my drivers license.
I use my computer to its fullest everyday. I do AutoCAD renderings and RF propogation analysis. I am currently very limited with my current top-end hardware. I think that PCI Express is a very needed step towards much high overall system bandwidth. If I could push more data through my subsystem, I would be able to be proportionately more productive.
How many /. readers wear calculator watches. I haven't seen 'normal' people wearing thos ein years! I wonder if it'll catch on again with these?
I guess Apple either did a lot of bitching or threw money at the IEEE (or possibly both) to get the standard finalized at 54mbit. I had heard that the IEEE was skeptical about that speed and had mentioned something along the lines of mid-to-low 20's. Anyways, I'm glad to see that Apple's investiment in their Airport Extreme products wasn't a waste. Now if we could agree on a wireless power standard...
Good luck with Coca-Cola OS. I'm sure that'd fly...
It has the same color stars, same layout of the picture of the DVD with it's rating and title. It has very similar graphics, sidebar, wait descriptions, and pop-up answers. The overall feel is that of NetFlix. I prefer NetFlix because it doesn't have the huge, annoying Wal-Mart top-menu. Also, Wal-Mart doesn't offer the "movie-geek" (that's what I call it) subscription plan of 8 DVDs out at a time for $40 a month.
When I went to Wal-Marts DVD rental site, it had the look-and-feel of NetFlix. It doesn't have all of the fancy way to rate the movies, but it def. has the feel of NetFlix. I wonder how they are able to copy the site so blatantly without recourse.
Eventhough BASIC has its problems when it comes to relating it to modern OO languages, it's still a great introduction for younger people into thinking like a computer. Making a computer solving a simple math problem line by line in detail is very good training for a young programmer. No matter how Object-Oriented you make a C++ program, there is always going to be that underlying simple, procedural code. BASIC teaches you how to be procedural in your design of simple algorithms. After mastering BASIC, you can then move on to more advance laguages and topics such as functions and whatnot. But, all in all, BASIC is still great for young programmers.
Juggling four languages in your head while typing and trying to be 100% correct and formal in an informal forum = Challenging.