I have recently thought up a new invention that is a refinement on existing stuff but not the same as that stuff in a number of ways. I am going about the business of finding out if my "invention" is marketable - I dont want the existing laws messed with too much in terms of quality becuase I dont believe it's nessacary.
I'll give an example, an absurd one. Somebody actually succeeded in getting a patent for a helmet that you wore on your head that was airtight - except you would be breathing oxygen generated by little cactus's that sat on a shelf near your ears inside the helmet !!!! No, it's not a gag!
The point is that anyone but that inventor knows that that patent is wasted time and effort on the inventors part, but he paid his share of the fees too. I dont want some one at the government looking at my patent for worthyness or not; that's NOT what they should do. The *marketplace* determines that, not the patent office. A patent on a stupid or unneeded thing is worthless.
We dont need armies of government types doing this. The marketplace does it for us.
I think Apple should go balls to the wall and remake the Mac IIfx again, but this time use Quad 970fx's @ 3.0 ghz. 1.5 Ghz FSb each CPU. Charge 10 grand for it, just like they did for the IIfx way back when. They sold a fair amount of IIfx's.
The biggest effect it would have would be that Apple would indeed have the baddest, slickest 64 bit personal computer around. There was a time when being "wicked fast" belonged to Apple and no one else. I'd like to see them do it again, instead of just being back to par with the PC world.
Apple should not only be on par, they should stomp the PC world into dust in the speed game. They can do it now, it's just a question of do they have the balls?
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Yeah, +1. The OS X player works, it doesn't fuck up your system, it keeps everything in one place, and it interferes with nothing.
The only gripe I have is that it litters your desktop up with RAM and RA file-ettes that you have to manually toss in the trash.
But the player works like a old G2 player on the PC. No crap.
Shit. "Looks like Quartz Extreme"? I bet it *IS* Quartz Extreme, a nice little secret. Why should MS develop a whole new display system that looks like QE when it can just leach it from Apple with some minor changes and dare Apple to sue them?
"Looks like Quartz Extreme" indeed. I'd bet anything they "borrow" the technology.
I wonder is anyone has remembered that paper always burns from the edge first when ignited, becuase thats wheres the most oxygen is located ( 3 points of surrounding axis of air rather than 2 )
maybe it not a rfid, but rather another way the gov has found to track bills. With the budget and unlimited resources they have, I'm sure the dudes at the NSA can always come up with something new. Notice that we have had 2 complete currency makeovers in a very short timeframe. There's a reason beyond the old anti counterfeiter argument - but I dont pretend to know what it is.
Theres a lot more people out there like that than you think. They really arent listening to the the music, it's just background noise to them, like white noise only better.
I cant stand the country music stations of today for the same reason. They play a 20 song playlist over and over for sometimes 4 or 5 years. Only if a song breaks big or the star is big enough to have a payola racket going do they break that list.
I'm like you - when I listen to music, I do it all the way.
Thats becuase anything they send to Mercury will burn up in a very short time, limiting the scientific value. It's all about maximum value gained for the bucks.
I would have modded this +1 funny, but you need to discover such wonders of the world as capitalization, "to" does not = "too", that sort of thing. Sorry, it was funny.
It's a ram hog becuase it's designed to be. Ram is thousands of times faster to access than your HD - the whole OS caches *everything* it can get it hands on. The real minimum to run OS X with aplomb is 1.5 GB. Above that you run into the diminishing return factor, unless you are doing really serious video work.
They looked at Opterons and they looked at Dell( Xeons.) THEY WERE REJECTED based on cost and performance issues ( the G5 can perform a fused multiply + add in one clock cycle, multiply that times billions of iterations ) and thats something the Opteron cannot do.
The G5 was the clear winner out of all the chips on the market, and Apple was the clear winner of the platforms considered, and they considered *ALL* of them worth considering.
The success of the venture simply proves the superiority of keeping an open mind and not bringing tired old pre-conceptions (Apple's slow, Apple sux, etc.) to your work.
From the Pixar/Apple deal gone bad. Eisner is going to try to punish Jobs for dismissing him.
Vain egos often make bad business decisions. Pixar does not need Disney any longer, and most of Disney's recent ventures have been pale imitations of Pixar's work.
I didnt see anything about the free OS X version from a quick scan of the threads.
BTW, the player on OS X is not nearly as bad as the Windows player. It doesnt hijack anything nor install spyware. It stays away until it's called upon. They still littler the desktop with little rm icons though - they should auto clean that shit when the file is done playing....
There's no way thats a troll. Give him a 0 if you must for being a AC but there's no way thats a troll. He makes constructive points.
I hope this comes to me in meta-mederation, I'll fix it. He's a AC but some AC's have worthwhile things to say and being a AC does not automatically make one a troll.
To whoever modded this: what prompted this? You are abusing your points IMO.
This will be very useful for video with my GF who lives just far enough away for me that we cant get together during the work week very well. I was hoping for a cross platform video client I could put on her PC and have it work with my G5 here.
Next thing to do....buy me a iSight....get a cam for her....broadband on her end....then.....lights camera action!
Keep in mind that 55% of the country's population are *STILL* not on the internet, and of those, the great majority do want want anything to do with the internet.
Plain old phones will be with us for quite a while. Sometimes a bit of perspective is needed.
If this does not inform as to how ahead the hardware is over the OS's and the software right now on every platform. Apple has the lead over AMD & MS but not by much.
The next 2 years are going to be a blast. I am thankful I was born at the right time (1963) to come of age to see the computing revolution from it's practical start (late 70's) to hopefully 2040 or so, when we are all on stuff we cant even know about yet. It's been neat to see it unfold.
And 15 year old kids will still be arguing about fps. That is the only given. I can tell em stories about how I played Quake 1 as a wee lad.
Dood. Your old hardware is worth anywhere from 3 to 5 X what the same PC hardware is worth. Check Ebay if you dont believe me. You can still get 300 bucks for a clean well maintained B & W G3 300. You MIGHT get 65 bucks for the closest = PC.
Please remember this as you whine. I quit crying and started buying. It's a brave new 64 bit Mac world out there. Wait until after the next speed bump then buy yourself a Dual 1.8. By then they should be what a 1.6 Single costs today.
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I'll give an example, an absurd one. Somebody actually succeeded in getting a patent for a helmet that you wore on your head that was airtight - except you would be breathing oxygen generated by little cactus's that sat on a shelf near your ears inside the helmet !!!! No, it's not a gag!
The point is that anyone but that inventor knows that that patent is wasted time and effort on the inventors part, but he paid his share of the fees too. I dont want some one at the government looking at my patent for worthyness or not; that's NOT what they should do. The *marketplace* determines that, not the patent office. A patent on a stupid or unneeded thing is worthless.
We dont need armies of government types doing this. The marketplace does it for us.
The biggest effect it would have would be that Apple would indeed have the baddest, slickest 64 bit personal computer around. There was a time when being "wicked fast" belonged to Apple and no one else. I'd like to see them do it again, instead of just being back to par with the PC world.
Apple should not only be on par, they should stomp the PC world into dust in the speed game. They can do it now, it's just a question of do they have the balls?
The only gripe I have is that it litters your desktop up with RAM and RA file-ettes that you have to manually toss in the trash.
But the player works like a old G2 player on the PC. No crap.
You have captured the essence of /. in less than 4 lines of text.
"Looks like Quartz Extreme" indeed. I'd bet anything they "borrow" the technology.
maybe it not a rfid, but rather another way the gov has found to track bills. With the budget and unlimited resources they have, I'm sure the dudes at the NSA can always come up with something new. Notice that we have had 2 complete currency makeovers in a very short timeframe. There's a reason beyond the old anti counterfeiter argument - but I dont pretend to know what it is.
Maybe you can engrave it like somone suggested they could do with the Va. Tech G5's and get mo money.
I cant stand the country music stations of today for the same reason. They play a 20 song playlist over and over for sometimes 4 or 5 years. Only if a song breaks big or the star is big enough to have a payola racket going do they break that list.
I'm like you - when I listen to music, I do it all the way.
Not to mention they all dance way better.
Thats becuase anything they send to Mercury will burn up in a very short time, limiting the scientific value. It's all about maximum value gained for the bucks.
I would have modded this +1 funny, but you need to discover such wonders of the world as capitalization, "to" does not = "too", that sort of thing. Sorry, it was funny.
It's a ram hog becuase it's designed to be. Ram is thousands of times faster to access than your HD - the whole OS caches *everything* it can get it hands on. The real minimum to run OS X with aplomb is 1.5 GB. Above that you run into the diminishing return factor, unless you are doing really serious video work.
I wish I had mod points right now. That's a +2 funny.
The G5 was the clear winner out of all the chips on the market, and Apple was the clear winner of the platforms considered, and they considered *ALL* of them worth considering.
The success of the venture simply proves the superiority of keeping an open mind and not bringing tired old pre-conceptions (Apple's slow, Apple sux, etc.) to your work.
Vain egos often make bad business decisions. Pixar does not need Disney any longer, and most of Disney's recent ventures have been pale imitations of Pixar's work.
Yeah, it's flamebait. But every once in a while I gotta let my ya'ya's out, dude.
IF you want money grubbing execs, try Halliburton scheming with their best bud DICK Cheney to invade a country so they can rebuild it.
1. Look around for new target in War on Terrorism
2. DICK Cheney suggests Iraq. Bush goes "duh..OK"
3. Invade Iraq. Destroy everything. Make sure the oil ministry is the only safe building in Bagdad. Dont guard anything else, no matter how priceless.
4.?
5. Halliburton execs openly sneer, point, and laff at AMD and their pitiful attempts to make money. AMD cannot invade anyone! AMD has no power!
I didnt see anything about the free OS X version from a quick scan of the threads. BTW, the player on OS X is not nearly as bad as the Windows player. It doesnt hijack anything nor install spyware. It stays away until it's called upon. They still littler the desktop with little rm icons though - they should auto clean that shit when the file is done playing....
I hope this comes to me in meta-mederation, I'll fix it. He's a AC but some AC's have worthwhile things to say and being a AC does not automatically make one a troll.
To whoever modded this: what prompted this? You are abusing your points IMO.
Next thing to do....buy me a iSight....get a cam for her....broadband on her end....then.....lights camera action!
Oooooh, jiggle that for me agin, baby....
No communication system in this world can make up for a addled mind. :D
Plain old phones will be with us for quite a while. Sometimes a bit of perspective is needed.
If this does not inform as to how ahead the hardware is over the OS's and the software right now on every platform. Apple has the lead over AMD & MS but not by much.
The next 2 years are going to be a blast. I am thankful I was born at the right time (1963) to come of age to see the computing revolution from it's practical start (late 70's) to hopefully 2040 or so, when we are all on stuff we cant even know about yet. It's been neat to see it unfold.
And 15 year old kids will still be arguing about fps. That is the only given. I can tell em stories about how I played Quake 1 as a wee lad.
Please remember this as you whine. I quit crying and started buying. It's a brave new 64 bit Mac world out there. Wait until after the next speed bump then buy yourself a Dual 1.8. By then they should be what a 1.6 Single costs today.