China, despite having the world's largest mobile phone market (~250 million users), the growth is now mainly in the lower end of the market, so innovations like these will take a long time to penetrate.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/10/c on tent_280187.htm
However, I remember reading that most people in Japan have already using their mobiles to access the Internet by default. A lot of Japanese don't even have home Internet access, if I recall correctly, because mobile access has been so good.
My main concern with deploying Solaris on x86 is Sun's commitment to the platform. Sun's on-again off-again approach to releasing Solaris for x86 and its perceived lack of enthusiasm on supporting the product makes me uneasy about using it. Furthermore, the user community for Linux on x86 must be much larger than Solaris on x86, so getting support/trouble-shooting through the community should be more effective.
I think the key is rational setting of goals. After all, compared to the original optimism and fantastical goals set by Netscape and the OS community when Netscape was open-sourced, clearly Mozilla didn't "magically work". However, when seen in a more conservative light, the Mozilla project did come an extremely long way and have done relatively well.
Sure, it didn't decimate IE's market share as originally planned, but it nevertheless carved out a nice niche in the browser space, and most tech-savvy people I know all use it as their default browser - so that must count for something.
But isn't this the type of attitude that led to the traffic congestion problems in most major cities? Despite a set schedule, most train/tram systems do get people to their destination with a minimal amount of time, since they tend to have the right of way or exclusive tracks that allows them to avoid traffic congestion.
It is disturbing to see that so many people automatically think that Muslims are automatically terrorists. Please check your facts. The Islamic faith, like Christianity, abhors the slaughtering of innocents. The committing of atrocities under the name of God/religion is by no means exclusive to Islam. Throughout history, various religious orders have used their faith to justify attacks on other people.
There is no doubt that many innocent Muslims died on September 11, since despite Islam's negative perception in the West, it is one of the largest and fastest growing religion in the world.
Other than that, I can see some validity to the parent post's concerns, but certainly that concern is not tied exclusively to religion.
-B
Statistically most prison rape victims are not violent criminals. They are generally there for "petty" crimes - like drug possession. Often these non-violent criminal are targeted for abuse because they have "more to lose". If they try to retaliate through violence, their short sentences could be converted to longer ones, while the violent criminals often have less to lose because they already have longer sentences. So the less violent criminals often choose to endure the rapes, but sadly they usually suffer not only physical trauma but also tremendous long-term psychological damage.
I am not an investment banker, but from what I understood, for a company to initiate a hostile takeover, once the company has acquired a certain percentage of shares (s rather low percentage), it would have to inform the takeover target. The target can then take actions to avert such a hostile takeover.
I don't know the full details, but that's how I understood it. Besides, as others have stated, Google isn't putt the majority of its shares on the market. And if indeed MS want to persuade shareholders to vote for a merger, MS would have to offer a REALLY sweet deal, and considering Google's potential market cap, that deal has to be in the billions. MS has a lot of money, so they can do it, but they may enrage their own shareholders, which wouldn't be a good thing.
I think you'll love 10.3! It's definitely more polished and sleeker than Jaguar... The interface just seems more polished - or more responsive at least. If you're on 10.1, you'll definitely see a difference! Although I love Panther, I have to admit I don't think its price tag is completely justified (but Expose is without a doubt, amazing), but if you can get educational discount (I did), it's definitely worth it!
However, I do notice that there are some application and stability issues at times. I am looking forward to the 10.3.1 patch.
I was also really annoyed by the change from Command-N to Shift-Command-N for making new folders. It just seems so bizarre... I would think most people create new folders more often than new views. Oh well...
The other thing is, you can still make the finder folder centric like in Classic. You don't have to use the column view you don't want to. And in the Finder preferences you can have each folder open a new window. I am running Panther now, but those options were in Jaguar too. Unless I am misunderstanding some of your qualms.
I have to admit I am still trying to make up my mind about the column view. I have a love hate relationship with it. I don't actually like the old style folder centric Finder, but the column view isn't better at times either. Strangely enough, I find navigating directories most easy with the Windows 98/2000 interface. Maybe I am just more used to it, since I used Windows a long time. I think Apple should examine its attachment to column views and see if they can get some inspiration from other OS vendors.
If the original design came from 12ghosts.de, how can he patent the design? Or is he the same person that came up with the design at 12ghosts.de? Wouldn't prior art be applicable to patents?
Interesting concept, but that case looks really bulky, and I would worry about airflow. Would this idea work if we shrink it down drastically?
I have to admit that Swinburne does have the best UI research though! RMIT dropped their usability track after I enrolled, and that was the track I wanted to follow for my postgrad! Oh well... Maybe I'll go and get a second degree from Swinburne if I can afford it.:-D
I see RMIT isn't the only tech university in Australia to be in deep financial doo-doo. From personal experience, I can say that RMIT's support for faculty and students aren't much better. The computer labs are way over-crowded, and the equipments are ridiculously old. It's really a shame. RMIT has a great reputation, but so far I haven't really been getting the kind of education and support I was expecting. At least the teaching is better than Monash or Swinbourne (or so I hear).
I would think a lot of the speed boost in POWER4 came from the fact that it is a multi-cored processor. PPC 970 is single cored. So if seen from that perspective, performance per core, PPC 970 is faster. Of course this isn't a completely fair comparison, but PPC 970 is certainly no slouch.
>A similarly specced Dell 1750 (or even the superceded >1650) is thousands (AU$) cheaper
Actually, I just had to price out the different configurations of different servers for my class, and the price difference is actually not that much. See below, they are both gathered from both company's online stores...
The XServe is definitely more expensive. However, keep in mind that the Dell comes with no operating system, while the XServe comes with OS X Server with unlimited clients (all the goodies of OS X like deployment license for WebObjects, etc.). So if you want a "GUI" server software, you would have to pony up for unlimited client version of Windows to compare (OUCH!). But if you just plan to use BSD or Linux on it, Dell is definitely cheaper.
I think the most important thing is to make sure that all the machines have as much RAM as possible. Mac OS X is great but it eats RAM like nothing else. I find that with plenty of RAM, most of the older machines are still usable.
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China, despite having the world's largest mobile phone market (~250 million users), the growth is now mainly in the lower end of the market, so innovations like these will take a long time to penetrate.
c on tent_280187.htm
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/10/
However, I remember reading that most people in Japan have already using their mobiles to access the Internet by default. A lot of Japanese don't even have home Internet access, if I recall correctly, because mobile access has been so good.
-B
My main concern with deploying Solaris on x86 is Sun's commitment to the platform. Sun's on-again off-again approach to releasing Solaris for x86 and its perceived lack of enthusiasm on supporting the product makes me uneasy about using it. Furthermore, the user community for Linux on x86 must be much larger than Solaris on x86, so getting support/trouble-shooting through the community should be more effective.
-B
I think the key is rational setting of goals. After all, compared to the original optimism and fantastical goals set by Netscape and the OS community when Netscape was open-sourced, clearly Mozilla didn't "magically work". However, when seen in a more conservative light, the Mozilla project did come an extremely long way and have done relatively well.
Sure, it didn't decimate IE's market share as originally planned, but it nevertheless carved out a nice niche in the browser space, and most tech-savvy people I know all use it as their default browser - so that must count for something.
-B
But isn't this the type of attitude that led to the traffic congestion problems in most major cities? Despite a set schedule, most train/tram systems do get people to their destination with a minimal amount of time, since they tend to have the right of way or exclusive tracks that allows them to avoid traffic congestion.
-B
It is disturbing to see that so many people automatically think that Muslims are automatically terrorists. Please check your facts. The Islamic faith, like Christianity, abhors the slaughtering of innocents. The committing of atrocities under the name of God/religion is by no means exclusive to Islam. Throughout history, various religious orders have used their faith to justify attacks on other people. There is no doubt that many innocent Muslims died on September 11, since despite Islam's negative perception in the West, it is one of the largest and fastest growing religion in the world. Other than that, I can see some validity to the parent post's concerns, but certainly that concern is not tied exclusively to religion. -B
Statistically most prison rape victims are not violent criminals. They are generally there for "petty" crimes - like drug possession. Often these non-violent criminal are targeted for abuse because they have "more to lose". If they try to retaliate through violence, their short sentences could be converted to longer ones, while the violent criminals often have less to lose because they already have longer sentences. So the less violent criminals often choose to endure the rapes, but sadly they usually suffer not only physical trauma but also tremendous long-term psychological damage.
I am not an investment banker, but from what I understood, for a company to initiate a hostile takeover, once the company has acquired a certain percentage of shares (s rather low percentage), it would have to inform the takeover target. The target can then take actions to avert such a hostile takeover.
I don't know the full details, but that's how I understood it. Besides, as others have stated, Google isn't putt the majority of its shares on the market. And if indeed MS want to persuade shareholders to vote for a merger, MS would have to offer a REALLY sweet deal, and considering Google's potential market cap, that deal has to be in the billions. MS has a lot of money, so they can do it, but they may enrage their own shareholders, which wouldn't be a good thing.
-B
I think you'll love 10.3! It's definitely more polished and sleeker than Jaguar... The interface just seems more polished - or more responsive at least. If you're on 10.1, you'll definitely see a difference! Although I love Panther, I have to admit I don't think its price tag is completely justified (but Expose is without a doubt, amazing), but if you can get educational discount (I did), it's definitely worth it!
However, I do notice that there are some application and stability issues at times. I am looking forward to the 10.3.1 patch.
-B
I was also really annoyed by the change from Command-N to Shift-Command-N for making new folders. It just seems so bizarre... I would think most people create new folders more often than new views. Oh well...
The other thing is, you can still make the finder folder centric like in Classic. You don't have to use the column view you don't want to. And in the Finder preferences you can have each folder open a new window. I am running Panther now, but those options were in Jaguar too. Unless I am misunderstanding some of your qualms.
I have to admit I am still trying to make up my mind about the column view. I have a love hate relationship with it. I don't actually like the old style folder centric Finder, but the column view isn't better at times either. Strangely enough, I find navigating directories most easy with the Windows 98/2000 interface. Maybe I am just more used to it, since I used Windows a long time. I think Apple should examine its attachment to column views and see if they can get some inspiration from other OS vendors.
-B
If the original design came from 12ghosts.de, how can he patent the design? Or is he the same person that came up with the design at 12ghosts.de? Wouldn't prior art be applicable to patents?
Interesting concept, but that case looks really bulky, and I would worry about airflow. Would this idea work if we shrink it down drastically?
-B
> Where the hell do you think Microsoft made it's money? On making PC's???
By screwing over all of its business partners (IBM, Sybase, etc.) and abusing its monopoly.
Yeah, the school I am attending switched to PeopleSoft in late 2001 and it's been a big mess ever since then. :-(
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http://www.crikey.com.au/columnists/2002/11/07/
-B
>In Heaven music is English, girls Australian, beer German.In Hell beer is Australian, girls English, music German
I think in Hell the beer is American (Budweiser), girls non-existent, and music is Japanese pop.
-B
HEHE... Didn't mean to offend, mate! ;-)
:-D
I have to admit that Swinburne does have the best UI research though! RMIT dropped their usability track after I enrolled, and that was the track I wanted to follow for my postgrad! Oh well... Maybe I'll go and get a second degree from Swinburne if I can afford it.
-B
I see RMIT isn't the only tech university in Australia to be in deep financial doo-doo. From personal experience, I can say that RMIT's support for faculty and students aren't much better. The computer labs are way over-crowded, and the equipments are ridiculously old. It's really a shame. RMIT has a great reputation, but so far I haven't really been getting the kind of education and support I was expecting. At least the teaching is better than Monash or Swinbourne (or so I hear).
-B
I would think a lot of the speed boost in POWER4 came from the fact that it is a multi-cored processor. PPC 970 is single cored. So if seen from that perspective, performance per core, PPC 970 is faster. Of course this isn't a completely fair comparison, but PPC 970 is certainly no slouch.
-B
>A similarly specced Dell 1750 (or even the superceded
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>1650) is thousands (AU$) cheaper
Actually, I just had to price out the different configurations of different servers for my class, and the price difference is actually not that much. See below, they are both gathered from both company's online stores...
Apple XServe (http://www.apple.com.au/xserve/)
* 1 x 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 processor
* 1 GB RAM
* 3 x 60GB HDD (180 GB total)
* AU$7,398.01
Dell PowerEdge 1750 (http://www.ap.dell.com/ap/au/en/bsd/products/mod
* 1 x 2.40GHz Intel Xeon Processor
* 1 GB RAM
* 3 x 73GB HDD (219 GB total)
* AU$6,436.10
The XServe is definitely more expensive. However, keep in mind that the Dell comes with no operating system, while the XServe comes with OS X Server with unlimited clients (all the goodies of OS X like deployment license for WebObjects, etc.). So if you want a "GUI" server software, you would have to pony up for unlimited client version of Windows to compare (OUCH!). But if you just plan to use BSD or Linux on it, Dell is definitely cheaper.
-B
I think the most important thing is to make sure that all the machines have as much RAM as possible. Mac OS X is great but it eats RAM like nothing else. I find that with plenty of RAM, most of the older machines are still usable.