"And MAYBE part of the reason Word is being infected with worms, isn't some side-effect of monoculture and the lack of software diversity, but rather a result of hackers almost solely targeting Microsoft products."
The fact that Microsoft's products are targeted _is_ a direct effect of the monoculture that exists. If Word was used by 20% instead of 95% it wouldn't be such a nice target, and if it was to be targeted the effect wouldn't be as severe, and the rate of witch it spreads wouldn't be as fast.
..and Apple was about to. Sun was probably an obvious partner for Apple. However.. I think going PowerPC was the by far best choice at the time with massive backing by almost everyone. My take on history is that Apple have chosen the right processor architecture at any given moment taking account everything that was known at the time. In hindsight everything always looks different.
QuickTime is A LOT more than the QuickTime Player. Apple isn't stopping anyone from building a better player. QuickTime har supported everything you just said Flash does for ages.. they incorporated text layers in 1992, sprites and vectors a couple of yeas later. Scriptability, transparency has been there along, and so forth.. Damn shame there's no really good tools for buildning great QT content (sans simple movies) and Apple really shoud (years ago) have opened up much more of their architecture..
Windows Media Player was not a product that MacBU made, it was sorely lacking in almost every respect and laughing stock of the entire Mac community. It won't be missed. The QuickTime plugin Flip4Mac is better in almost every respect and enabled transcoding to the plethora of formats that QuickTime offers. However.. the free plugin does not enable a Mac user to encode WMV. You'll have to pay for that.
One interessting thing here is that Flip4Mac licenses technology from MS that MS now are paying to get back:)
Xenon is weaker than the G5 in almost every aspect and IBM will be putting the dual core PowerPC 970MP into their JS-class blades next year. Tehy will probably be called JS40 since they will have 4 cores each. the thermal caracteristics of the 970MP is similar to the original single core 970 so they could probably put two 970MPs in a singe slot blade unit.
This is a fully PowerPC compliant chip. Make no mistake. It WILL run standard PowerPC code, as will Cell BE. From where did you get that the singe core G5 costs 5-600 dollars? An iMac G5 (singe core PowerPC 970FX costs $1300 and that's a complete computer with a GPU, harddrive, DVD-burner, webcam, 512 MB RAM, an 17" TFT, package, shipping, advetising and about 30% margin. The cost of a processor is directly related to the die size and since the size of the Xenon is larger than the dual core G5 (about 130 million transisotrs compared to 165 million in the Xenon) there's a good chance that Xenon is actually more expensive than the PowerPC 970MP to manufacture.
Linux will run just fine on an Xbox 360 if one would fins a way around the DRM stuff. OSX too if Apple would want to. Same goes with the PS3. Hell.. Sony's boss even said so!
FireWire have fiber optic connectios (glass and plastic fibre) specified for 800-3200 Kbps up to several kilometers. We use it in house for backup purposes, and I know of TV-stations that uses it for live connection of DV-cameras straight to the editing studio some distance away.
The problem with this it the same as with all optic links, the cable is rigid and can't be turned nearly as tight as copper cables. It isn't that practical for the applications you mention.
Really?! I'm interessted in astronomy and physics at a hobbyist level, and have always assumed that the simulations of gravity and galaxy formation was done with relativistic mathematics. Instead they have used approximations using newtonian theories? WTF? No wonder they came out wrong!
I can live with newtonian approximations on a solar system level, but doing cosmology on the scale of galaxies, the age of the universe it self and so forth they really should have used the sharpest tool in the tool box.
If I had the knowledge and the machine power to do simulations my self I would've done so, but I don't so I trusted the astronomers. They really shuldn't have taken the shortcuts, escpecially after their scientific profgress went boink and they started devicing exotic new models just to cover up their seemingly faulty theories! Shouldn't they have done a simmulation without the approximations just to evaluate how good their approximations was?
"The people with the most free time to dedicate to an online encyclopedia will always be the people least-qualified to contribute, because those who are qualified spend their time earning and practicing those qualifications in the real world."
Couldn't this be said for almost all OSs projects, including Linux?
What I'm trying to say is that your statement here is wrong and really ingotant of who and why people contribute to non profit stuff in their free time.
I'm really glad to see the correct spelling of "Iä Iä". As a native Swedish speaker I use the "ä" daily as it is a common vowl in Swedish. "Iä" is pronounced quite like an English speaker would pronounce "yeah". I'm not quite sure of how Lovecraft would've pronounced it though.
This is what happens when one try to fight the reigning monopoly. Microsoft is effieciently killing complete markets with their marketing strategy. Microsoft knows this, and they know that they are getting away with it. Everything that they bundle with their operating systems is going to be standards eventually. EVERYTHING!
The only way to counter this is to make Microsoft not do this. DOJ tried (and failed), EU tried (and failed) and the justice department in Japan tried (and failed). So.. if the three most powerful governements on Earth is so weak that they can't make Microsoft stop killing competition and annexing markets, then who or what can? I really think this is a very frightening development.
You must ignore these obvious, but correct, thoughts you have. Listen to the crowd shouting foul!
My take on this it that Apple and the folks who did the TR-1 investigated what design would be best, and then implemented it. It's not uncommon for two different people to come to the same solution to the same problem. It's even common in nature where for example a flying fox a bat is pretty similar, as are a shark and a dolphin.
On the other hand.. Jonathan Ive have previously confessed that he does look at other designs and are influenced by them. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they new about the TR-1 while designing the mini.
This is the real deal! The Earth is getting smaller in a realistic manner witch I've never seen before. I wonder what kind of acceleration and speed we are taling about here? These would be completely different figures in the movie and the real event. Someone care to do the math?
Don't you just love the reflection of the Sun? And the absence of a "glowing" atmosphere halo? This is what the Earth really look like. Please render planets like this when you do SciFi flicks in the future!
There are quite a lot of Mac users that have anti virus installed. Mostly because they fall for the virus hysteria in the Windows centric press, and thinks that it applies to them too, but also because they don't want to risk sending a virus infected document or mail to a Windows user by mistake. Even if the virus didn't infect the Mac itself.
"How do they know if they have viruses that aren't commonly known yet?"
There are exactly zero known viruses for Mac OS X right this minute. If one would emerge it will be commonly known in the Mac community quite fast. It is a closely knit community after all.
"I keep virus scanner running on my linux machines just in case, and it disinfects few files every now and then."
Prudent, but it's mostly for the benefit of your Windows friends.
My GOD you are unimaginative. It's so upsettingly obvious for everyone outside the x86 world that the lot of us are just plain laughing when this issue is brought up.
Bah! My horoscope was beaten to a pulp when NASA shot Deep Impact into Tempel 1. now they are withholding info that will be of immense importance in my future. I'll sue their asses!
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"And MAYBE part of the reason Word is being infected with worms, isn't some side-effect of monoculture and the lack of software diversity, but rather a result of hackers almost solely targeting Microsoft products."
The fact that Microsoft's products are targeted _is_ a direct effect of the monoculture that exists. If Word was used by 20% instead of 95% it wouldn't be such a nice target, and if it was to be targeted the effect wouldn't be as severe, and the rate of witch it spreads wouldn't be as fast.
..and Apple was about to. Sun was probably an obvious partner for Apple.
However.. I think going PowerPC was the by far best choice at the time with massive backing by almost everyone.
My take on history is that Apple have chosen the right processor architecture at any given moment taking account everything that was known at the time. In hindsight everything always looks different.
QuickTime is A LOT more than the QuickTime Player. Apple isn't stopping anyone from building a better player.
QuickTime har supported everything you just said Flash does for ages.. they incorporated text layers in 1992, sprites and vectors a couple of yeas later. Scriptability, transparency has been there along, and so forth.. Damn shame there's no really good tools for buildning great QT content (sans simple movies) and Apple really shoud (years ago) have opened up much more of their architecture..
"Actually, it's a bad decision for Microsoft. Since they won't be able to claim that their evil DRM works for everyone"
Microsoft's DRM stuff never worked in Windows Media Palyer for Mac.. so this fact has been a reality for several years.
Windows Media Player was not a product that MacBU made, it was sorely lacking in almost every respect and laughing stock of the entire Mac community. It won't be missed. The QuickTime plugin Flip4Mac is better in almost every respect and enabled transcoding to the plethora of formats that QuickTime offers. However.. the free plugin does not enable a Mac user to encode WMV. You'll have to pay for that.
:)
One interessting thing here is that Flip4Mac licenses technology from MS that MS now are paying to get back
What moral responsibility does the journalists at The Register have to write an important article obviously missing from Wikipedia?
Xenon is weaker than the G5 in almost every aspect and IBM will be putting the dual core PowerPC 970MP into their JS-class blades next year. Tehy will probably be called JS40 since they will have 4 cores each. the thermal caracteristics of the 970MP is similar to the original single core 970 so they could probably put two 970MPs in a singe slot blade unit.
This is a fully PowerPC compliant chip. Make no mistake. It WILL run standard PowerPC code, as will Cell BE. From where did you get that the singe core G5 costs 5-600 dollars? An iMac G5 (singe core PowerPC 970FX costs $1300 and that's a complete computer with a GPU, harddrive, DVD-burner, webcam, 512 MB RAM, an 17" TFT, package, shipping, advetising and about 30% margin.
The cost of a processor is directly related to the die size and since the size of the Xenon is larger than the dual core G5 (about 130 million transisotrs compared to 165 million in the Xenon) there's a good chance that Xenon is actually more expensive than the PowerPC 970MP to manufacture.
Linux will run just fine on an Xbox 360 if one would fins a way around the DRM stuff. OSX too if Apple would want to. Same goes with the PS3. Hell.. Sony's boss even said so!
FireWire have fiber optic connectios (glass and plastic fibre) specified for 800-3200 Kbps up to several kilometers. We use it in house for backup purposes, and I know of TV-stations that uses it for live connection of DV-cameras straight to the editing studio some distance away.
The problem with this it the same as with all optic links, the cable is rigid and can't be turned nearly as tight as copper cables. It isn't that practical for the applications you mention.
Not only technically speacing, but correctly speaking too. Even more important IMHO.
I correct myself. It was in the bronze age, about 3000 years ago.
Wild grapes were groing in Sweden during the neolithic age, about 6000 years ago. We'd be lucky to even grow them in green houses now.
Really?! I'm interessted in astronomy and physics at a hobbyist level, and have always assumed that the simulations of gravity and galaxy formation was done with relativistic mathematics. Instead they have used approximations using newtonian theories? WTF? No wonder they came out wrong!
I can live with newtonian approximations on a solar system level, but doing cosmology on the scale of galaxies, the age of the universe it self and so forth they really should have used the sharpest tool in the tool box.
If I had the knowledge and the machine power to do simulations my self I would've done so, but I don't so I trusted the astronomers. They really shuldn't have taken the shortcuts, escpecially after their scientific profgress went boink and they started devicing exotic new models just to cover up their seemingly faulty theories! Shouldn't they have done a simmulation without the approximations just to evaluate how good their approximations was?
I'm dissapointed!
"The people with the most free time to dedicate to an online encyclopedia will always be the people least-qualified to contribute, because those who are qualified spend their time earning and practicing those qualifications in the real world."
Couldn't this be said for almost all OSs projects, including Linux?
What I'm trying to say is that your statement here is wrong and really ingotant of who and why people contribute to non profit stuff in their free time.
"Microsoft is 100 percent focused on Windows"
Guess what Buster, ever heard of Xbox and MacBU? Those departments are most certainly not focused on Windows.
I'm really glad to see the correct spelling of "Iä Iä". As a native Swedish speaker I use the "ä" daily as it is a common vowl in Swedish. "Iä" is pronounced quite like an English speaker would pronounce "yeah". I'm not quite sure of how Lovecraft would've pronounced it though.
This is what happens when one try to fight the reigning monopoly. Microsoft is effieciently killing complete markets with their marketing strategy. Microsoft knows this, and they know that they are getting away with it. Everything that they bundle with their operating systems is going to be standards eventually. EVERYTHING!
The only way to counter this is to make Microsoft not do this. DOJ tried (and failed), EU tried (and failed) and the justice department in Japan tried (and failed). So.. if the three most powerful governements on Earth is so weak that they can't make Microsoft stop killing competition and annexing markets, then who or what can? I really think this is a very frightening development.
You must ignore these obvious, but correct, thoughts you have. Listen to the crowd shouting foul!
My take on this it that Apple and the folks who did the TR-1 investigated what design would be best, and then implemented it. It's not uncommon for two different people to come to the same solution to the same problem. It's even common in nature where for example a flying fox a bat is pretty similar, as are a shark and a dolphin.
On the other hand.. Jonathan Ive have previously confessed that he does look at other designs and are influenced by them. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they new about the TR-1 while designing the mini.
That's why it says that it's "one of the most" not "the most".
This is the real deal! The Earth is getting smaller in a realistic manner witch I've never seen before. I wonder what kind of acceleration and speed we are taling about here? These would be completely different figures in the movie and the real event. Someone care to do the math?
Don't you just love the reflection of the Sun? And the absence of a "glowing" atmosphere halo? This is what the Earth really look like. Please render planets like this when you do SciFi flicks in the future!
"Do mac users run virus scanners often?"
There are quite a lot of Mac users that have anti virus installed. Mostly because they fall for the virus hysteria in the Windows centric press, and thinks that it applies to them too, but also because they don't want to risk sending a virus infected document or mail to a Windows user by mistake. Even if the virus didn't infect the Mac itself.
"How do they know if they have viruses that aren't commonly known yet?"
There are exactly zero known viruses for Mac OS X right this minute. If one would emerge it will be commonly known in the Mac community quite fast. It is a closely knit community after all.
"I keep virus scanner running on my linux machines just in case, and it disinfects few files every now and then."
Prudent, but it's mostly for the benefit of your Windows friends.
"Hence the need for more flexible boot loaders"
Really people? Hence the need for a better BIOS!
My GOD you are unimaginative. It's so upsettingly obvious for everyone outside the x86 world that the lot of us are just plain laughing when this issue is brought up.
OK.. seen the video and this things seems to be working a lot worse than I thought it would. Really, people are going to be hurt using this!
Really.. are we having that much problems with doors?
The copy writing muse wispered to me.. These are going to be called "UP Batteries" Urine Powered...
Bah! My horoscope was beaten to a pulp when NASA shot Deep Impact into Tempel 1. now they are withholding info that will be of immense importance in my future. I'll sue their asses!