That's probably more accurate. But.. As a Mac-user I know that _a lot_ of webbrowsers om the Mac platform disguises themselves as Windows based browsers just so we can get past all those stupid You NEED Windows, It won't work otherwise-warnings.
Re:Why not new Nobel Prizes? Math Prize and more..
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"My professor at university claimed that there isn't a Nobel prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel's wife ran off with a mathematician..."
Wow.. I've never heard THAt one before, but it sounds plausible.
However.. I think Nobel's idea was to reward discoveries and inventions witch benefited mankind in it's implementation, not the teory behind it. There might be a lot om mathematical discovery but they are rewarded when it's implemented, and it becomes economics, physics and/or chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if a mathematical breaktrough was rewarded i conjunction wih it's implementation in some other science.
"What is the sense in providing children with an education on a piece of hardware that they will probably never see outside of their classroom (or maybe their home)?"
Ha ha.. you make me laugh. Do you really think that anyone will use the same computer system in 7:th grade and when they are employed, some 10 years later? And.. It's probably a really good thing to learn stuff in school of witch you'll never else get the opportunity to learn. Hey.. everyone have a Wintel box at home.. why must they learn the same thing in schools? That would really be a wast of money. By exposing kids to different ways of doing things they might learn something about the benefits of diversity.
Or.. why should we learn anything about other countries, or even other states. Most of us probably wont go there anyway. Most of us wont have any use of chemistry skills och even a second language, but hey.. it's a good thing to know of these things anyway.
The reason why these kids get computers in school is so they can use the Internet, learn to communicate with students in foreign countries, learn to create digitally, learn to write, to cooperate with peers, learn the value of property and responsibility, learn an independent way of doing things, and inspire to higher education.. They are not getting computers so they can learn Windows XP, Frontpage or Office XP, in 20 years time those skills would be as useful as stenography or planting crops.
So.. the key is "computers", not "Dells with Windows XP", and everything the students have on their curriculum is doable on Macs, in Windows or even Linux.. Apple supply the whole package.. hardware, software, education, and support. I don't know any one else who can pull that off.
Well.. I have Power Mac 7500. Originaly a 100 MHz computer.. but now it has a 400 MHz G4-processor, a USB/FireWire-card, twin 9 GB SCSI-drives, two graphics adapters and a 10/100 ethernet-adapters (and of cource the standard 10 Mbps internal). And.. 512 MB RAM. It runs Mac OS X just perfectly, and Linux, and BeOS and Mac OS 9.. bought in the fall 1995.
Got to love those Macs.. quite upgradable.. who'd known? And a PCI-slot to spare..
Re:Lets play spot the SPA enforcer
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Those kind of EULAs does not apply in Sweden, they do not comply to Swedish law. Distributing and copying copyrighted material is against the law in Sweden, not using it.
Murmansk is an ice free harbor all year around thanks to the Gulf Stream. There are reasons why it's one of the largest ports for the Russian/Soviet Navy.
If the US goes to war in a week flying across the Atlantic with 100's of employees and tons of cargo isn't a great idea. The risk of getting stuck in Europe, or half of the staff on Iceland and the rest i Amsterdam isn't that good. I dontät think Apples is really afraid of being a target, but they are concerned for their emploees.
There are a lot of places in Mac OS X where they refer to Mac OS X 10.0 som I'm certain that it'll be called Mac OS X 10.0 in it's final release, and updates will be version 10.1 and so forth.
Actually.. in the licence agreement it clearly states that you have to delete all copies you have of "the Software". According to a previous definition of "the Software" that includes the CD.
Very nice.. not.
- Henrik
Re:Wonder what the advantages are with a G4?
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I think the G4-processor will be the new G4e-processor. Why G4? It consumes a lot less power than any x86-processor do. It will really have use of the AltiVec-units when conducting specielised scentific research usch as signal processing.
Re:iMovie punches? Yeah, that's right!
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I've demoed iMovie for some 10 consecutive weekends.. Even if we leave the machines on during the weeks, we have _all_ the material we make during the weekends left. No corrupt files and close to 8 GB of filmed data.
This in om a standard iMac DV, 10 GB HD and 64 MB RAM. We didn't have to reinstall anything, and a Mac standing alone in any store is a sitting duck for malicious PC-using teenagers.
If you want to separate the audio från the video, that's easily done in the QT Player. And.. Digital Video do take a lot of space on your hard drive.. there's no way getting around that problem. 10 GB (inkl OS and other programs) is sufficient for close to half an hour of film, and that's about 15 times as much as one should when you edit.
Any sane person will see that editing 2 minutes of film at once is too much. A clip shouldn't last longer than about 10 secs anyway. And when you're done with the clip you just store it away on you camcorder again.
Those 8 GB of film we had.. I tried to mount it in iMovie at one time.. worked great.. no problems! 64 MB of RAM is enough. More clips doesn't seem to effect the RAM-usage att all. But.. i severely impared the editing process with hundreds of clips, and that's why it's silly to try to edit 15 mins of film at once.. That's just plain dumb.
iMovie is very competent if you know what you're doing. But there's no question about iMovie being short of features. But again.. If people use AppleWorks (or Paint and VX) for editing their photos.. iMovie is more than enough for the average user.
I also hate the three blinks in Mac-menues.. but why? The MacOS can't multitask.. that's why.. MacOS X can.
Didn't you see the key note? Not only did the genie-effect multitask and the menues did also.. and THAT was really cool.. when Jobs tried to show how the menues was transparent he pulled a menue down and moved a window underneeth it.. come on.. you can't do that in ANY OS.
So.. the effects won't bother you in that respect, but it most certainly will annoy the hell out of me because I want to have things dome fast. When I dismiss a window is should be GONE in an instant.. not zoom away, not fade away, not spin away.. just disappear.
I think Apple know this and will give you an option to turn off all the effects, or even better. the effects you wan't.
No it's not Display Postscript since that tecnology requires paying licencedees to Adobe.. Qartz is free for Apple since it's based on PDF wich is free..
One of the reasons why MacOS X Server is so expensive is because it uses a lot of licenced technology.. Apple seems to have done a lot of work on freeing the system of licenced tehnology.. and I can see two reasons 1) the OS will be cheaper and 2) they can OpenSource it whenever they wan't to.
In addition to an additional ethernet-card, you'd have to supply the Vaio with SCSI-interface, s-video-connector, supprot for a second monitor (not just mirroring), 5.5 MB extra VRAM (8 MB in the Powerbook) and a second battery to match the Powerbooks battey length.
Those features doesn't come cheap.. and all that Vaio has to offer in return is 33 MHz more CPU.. but that's a PII Mobility-chip.. the 333 G3 with 1 MB L2 cache has desktop performance.. guess wich is the fastest?
Need I add that the Powerbook is 1 pound lighter and got a glowing apple on its cover?:)
I think Wallstreet love Apple because they eraned 40% more tils quarter than they predicted. And.. Since the G4's aren't shipping too well yet.. the iBook isn't shipping at all (with 300.000 in back order) yet, and the new iMac have recieved 250.000 orders in the first week and is just starting to ship the _next_ quarter is probably going to be the most profitable in many, many years.. So.. BUY while the stock is cheap!
I think it's pretty obvious why Apple compares the iMac's G3 and Rage 128 to Celeron and Rage Pro.
The iMac is Apples low-end machine, and should be compared to other companies low ends, and then especially eMachine's eOne.
The eOne comes with a Celeron 433 and Rage XL-graphix. I obviously havn't compared the two but I think the iMac will have a fair chance of winning every serious benchmarking-tests.
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That's probably more accurate. But.. As a Mac-user I know that _a lot_ of webbrowsers om the Mac platform disguises themselves as Windows based browsers just so we can get past all those stupid You NEED Windows, It won't work otherwise-warnings.
"My professor at university claimed that there isn't a Nobel prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel's wife ran off with a mathematician ..."
Wow.. I've never heard THAt one before, but it sounds plausible.
However.. I think Nobel's idea was to reward discoveries and inventions witch benefited mankind in it's implementation, not the teory behind it. There might be a lot om mathematical discovery but they are rewarded when it's implemented, and it becomes economics, physics and/or chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if a mathematical breaktrough was rewarded i conjunction wih it's implementation in some other science.
"What is the sense in providing children with an education on a piece of hardware that they will probably never see outside of their classroom (or maybe their home)?"
Ha ha.. you make me laugh. Do you really think that anyone will use the same computer system in 7:th grade and when they are employed, some 10 years later? And.. It's probably a really good thing to learn stuff in school of witch you'll never else get the opportunity to learn. Hey.. everyone have a Wintel box at home.. why must they learn the same thing in schools? That would really be a wast of money. By exposing kids to different ways of doing things they might learn something about the benefits of diversity.
Or.. why should we learn anything about other countries, or even other states. Most of us probably wont go there anyway. Most of us wont have any use of chemistry skills och even a second language, but hey.. it's a good thing to know of these things anyway.
The reason why these kids get computers in school is so they can use the Internet, learn to communicate with students in foreign countries, learn to create digitally, learn to write, to cooperate with peers, learn the value of property and responsibility, learn an independent way of doing things, and inspire to higher education.. They are not getting computers so they can learn Windows XP, Frontpage or Office XP, in 20 years time those skills would be as useful as stenography or planting crops.
So.. the key is "computers", not "Dells with Windows XP", and everything the students have on their curriculum is doable on Macs, in Windows or even Linux.. Apple supply the whole package.. hardware, software, education, and support. I don't know any one else who can pull that off.
Well.. I have Power Mac 7500. Originaly a 100 MHz computer.. but now it has a 400 MHz G4-processor, a USB/FireWire-card, twin 9 GB SCSI-drives, two graphics adapters and a 10/100 ethernet-adapters (and of cource the standard 10 Mbps internal). And.. 512 MB RAM. It runs Mac OS X just perfectly, and Linux, and BeOS and Mac OS 9.. bought in the fall 1995.
Got to love those Macs.. quite upgradable.. who'd known? And a PCI-slot to spare..
Those kind of EULAs does not apply in Sweden, they do not comply to Swedish law. Distributing and copying copyrighted material is against the law in Sweden, not using it.
Murmansk is an ice free harbor all year around thanks to the Gulf Stream. There are reasons why it's one of the largest ports for the Russian/Soviet Navy.
The Mac OS X version is already out.1 19 70&db=mac
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Ever read "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card?
If not.. do it!
If the US goes to war in a week flying across the Atlantic with 100's of employees and tons of cargo isn't a great idea. The risk of getting stuck in Europe, or half of the staff on Iceland and the rest i Amsterdam isn't that good. I dontät think Apples is really afraid of being a target, but they are concerned for their emploees.
"The cube had "microfractures" around where the screws went into the plastic"
Hello? There are no screws going it the plastic of the cube, not the clear external plastics anyways.
- Henrik
It doesn't work for me >:( I can't find any way for it to remember any settings I make regarding borwser windows..
- Henrik
There are a lot of places in Mac OS X where they refer to Mac OS X 10.0 som I'm certain that it'll be called Mac OS X 10.0 in it's final release, and updates will be version 10.1 and so forth.
- Henrik
Actually.. in the licence agreement it clearly states that you have to delete all copies you have of "the Software". According to a previous definition of "the Software" that includes the CD.
Very nice.. not.
- Henrik
I think the G4-processor will be the new G4e-processor.
Why G4?
It consumes a lot less power than any x86-processor do.
It will really have use of the AltiVec-units when conducting specielised scentific research usch as signal processing.
- Henrik
Where did you read that? URLs please!
and I agreee.. that's about time!
- Henrik
I've demoed iMovie for some 10 consecutive weekends.. Even if we leave the machines on during the weeks, we have _all_ the material we make during the weekends left. No corrupt files and close to 8 GB of filmed data.
This in om a standard iMac DV, 10 GB HD and 64 MB RAM. We didn't have to reinstall anything, and a Mac standing alone in any store is a sitting duck for malicious PC-using teenagers.
If you want to separate the audio från the video, that's easily done in the QT Player. And.. Digital Video do take a lot of space on your hard drive.. there's no way getting around that problem. 10 GB (inkl OS and other programs) is sufficient for close to half an hour of film, and that's about 15 times as much as one should when you edit.
Any sane person will see that editing 2 minutes of film at once is too much. A clip shouldn't last longer than about 10 secs anyway. And when you're done with the clip you just store it away on you camcorder again.
Those 8 GB of film we had.. I tried to mount it in iMovie at one time.. worked great.. no problems! 64 MB of RAM is enough. More clips doesn't seem to effect the RAM-usage att all. But.. i severely impared the editing process with hundreds of clips, and that's why it's silly to try to edit 15 mins of film at once.. That's just plain dumb.
iMovie is very competent if you know what you're doing. But there's no question about iMovie being short of features. But again.. If people use AppleWorks (or Paint and VX) for editing their photos.. iMovie is more than enough for the average user.
- Henrik
It's of course the old style eOne that Apple has a case against.. and that's exactly why you can't find any pics of it.. why? It's illegal.
- Henrik
The One killer app the PowerBook run that a Sony Vaio can't is Mac OS.
The one reason anyone should bye a Mac is Mac OS.
- Henrik
She really needs some lotion for that.. sunblock factor 20+
- Henrik
- Henrik
I also hate the three blinks in Mac-menues.. but why?
The MacOS can't multitask.. that's why.. MacOS X can.
Didn't you see the key note? Not only did the genie-effect multitask and the menues did also.. and THAT was really cool.. when Jobs tried to show how the menues was transparent he pulled a menue down and moved a window underneeth it.. come on.. you can't do that in ANY OS.
So.. the effects won't bother you in that respect, but it most certainly will annoy the hell out of me because I want to have things dome fast. When I dismiss a window is should be GONE in an instant.. not zoom away, not fade away, not spin away.. just disappear.
I think Apple know this and will give you an option to turn off all the effects, or even better. the effects you wan't.
- Henrik
No it's not Display Postscript since that tecnology requires paying licencedees to Adobe.. Qartz is free for Apple since it's based on PDF wich is free..
One of the reasons why MacOS X Server is so expensive is because it uses a lot of licenced technology.. Apple seems to have done a lot of work on freeing the system of licenced tehnology.. and I can see two reasons 1) the OS will be cheaper and 2) they can OpenSource it whenever they wan't to.
- Henrik
In addition to an additional ethernet-card, you'd have to supply the Vaio with SCSI-interface, s-video-connector, supprot for a second monitor (not just mirroring), 5.5 MB extra VRAM (8 MB in the Powerbook) and a second battery to match the Powerbooks battey length.
:)
Those features doesn't come cheap.. and all that Vaio has to offer in return is 33 MHz more CPU.. but that's a PII Mobility-chip.. the 333 G3 with 1 MB L2 cache has desktop performance.. guess wich is the fastest?
Need I add that the Powerbook is 1 pound lighter and got a glowing apple on its cover?
- Henrik
I think Wallstreet love Apple because they eraned 40% more tils quarter than they predicted.
And..
Since the G4's aren't shipping too well yet.. the iBook isn't shipping at all (with 300.000 in back order) yet, and the new iMac have recieved 250.000 orders in the first week and is just starting to ship the _next_ quarter is probably going to be the most profitable in many, many years.. So.. BUY while the stock is cheap!
- Henrik
Ahem..
Firewire is only 400Mbps, ie about 40MB/s
Gigabit Ethernet is 1000Mbps, ie about 100MB/s
But.. it'd be nice with hot-swapable networking.
- Henrik
I think it's pretty obvious why Apple compares the iMac's G3 and Rage 128 to Celeron and Rage Pro.
The iMac is Apples low-end machine, and should be compared to other companies low ends, and then especially eMachine's eOne.
The eOne comes with a Celeron 433 and Rage XL-graphix. I obviously havn't compared the two but I think the iMac will have a fair chance of winning every serious benchmarking-tests.
- Henrik