This is overdue X 10. The ATX case has quite a few problems -
it's a tangled mess of power supply wires that reduce airflow and look like shit, the lack of a standardized layout of ports and such on the back means you have to make like 30 cut outs on each case to get it to work with every mobo on the market, and the process of adding even more ports in the mix like Firewire (1394) and such via cables and slot headers make the inside look even worse. Why the 733T wants to have windows on their cases is beyond me - now look at the inside of a freakin Dual G5 - THERE'Sa case to have a window for.
The heat from the CPU(s) is exhausted INSIDE the case (!) leading to high temps and heat related failures.
The Apple G5 case is the best designed case around IMHFO and the BTX is still behind it on a number of fronts. At least they are'nt going to exhaust the hot air from the CPU inside the freaking case any more. Jeeezzz.:/
Just for the record on my end I consider myself a Deist.
Remember, we are taking about from the dawn of man to roughly 1900? I would venture to say I am competely correct - wars, death, and suffering caused by religion or started by the military class for gain was my criteria. Name me one war that has not begun in such a manner.
When I lived in Maryland the government there refused to allow me to register as a member of the Libertarian Party for over 20 years. I could not declare what I was politically. That's not the mark of a free country. In a free country, you woulds be able to declare yourself to be what you are.
In West Virginia, only registered Republicans and Democrats can be poll workers to over see the voting process. Anyone else need not apply. These poeple will soon have electronic voting machines and control over same. That's not the mark of free elections. In a free country, any voter could oversee the process no matter what party they were in.
How about the Fed's new rights to sneak inside your house while you are at work and rummage around and look at whats on your computer, without a proper warrant issued by a civil judge? Is that the sign that you are living in a free country?
America is rapidly becoming something other than what it was meant to be, accelerated by 9/11. Everything is going in the direction of limiting personal freedom, EVERYTHING.
Horseshit. Religion in general is the biggest cause of social and mental retardation in history, and more wars and death and killing have been it's result, directly contradicting it's stated goals.
Humans will not be free until they have stopped being afraid of death and the scare tactics used to control the weak religious minded, such as belief in heaven, hell, judgement day, etc. nothing good will happen. All are used as tools by the Leaders and Pontiffs to keep the masses in line.
Until the substitution of reason and thought for blind faith happens nothing will ever change.
But honor the 2 biggest killers of mankind - the military class and religion as advancers of society? Fuck, no. They are the biggest millstones around the human condition.
Paralax,
I was a Libertarian Party candidate for state house here in WV in 2000. I have voted in every election since I was 18. Please dont assume I dont participate in the process - I am very active but there is no freedom in this country, not real freedom anyway. It's managed freedom, just like NAFTA and GATT were managed trade agreements.
Managed means the corporatists and their lackeys in the House and Senate make sure the laws they pass MANAGE to enrich their friends and punish their enemies, and make damn well sure no one but the two approved political parties ( read MANAGED ) are able to get into office.
Yes, Dean is a fucking paragon of liberty. He only wants to stick chips inside your computer and give you a national ID card that you have to swipe before you go online so that you can be identified.
Yes, voting. That will work wonders. You realistically have the choice of poeple who voted and/or supported the Patriot Act (Kerry, Dean, Edwards, Leiberman, i.e. the entire Democratic field) *OR* the guy that actually signed the shit into law, Mr. G.W. Bush. Whutta choice.:/
Meanwhile, all the poeple running for President that are against the Patriot Act and PA II have dropped out of the race, or can't sell their souls to the devil to call themselves Republicans or Democrats, and therefore have zero chance of becoming President.
Yes, being allowed to vote surely gives one more freedom to vote for the government of your choice. As long as they support the NEW WORLD ORDER, you can pick any of them you like.
I got the money to spend and I like nice things. I think right now, Apple's kit is better than Microsoft's. So I have my fingers in both pies, thank you.
Thats not a fair comparision. XP does not scale like OS X. 10.3 is not an updated 10.2, anymore than 10.2 is a updated 10.1. They are huge revisions, considered in the mac world to be major enough to pay for, the same way you might pay for a WinXP upgrade over Win 2K. The fair comparision would be to treat 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 as separate OS releases and count the security updates in each one.
Yeah man, it was a mutually agreeable decision to go our seperate ways. She lives 500 miles away but travels a bit and when she's in town we go out and have dinner.
Theres no reason to hate for no reason. It's a choice.
Funny, my ex-wife stopped by tonight becuase she had gotten a brand new Emachine A64 based laptop and wanted me to check it out. I hooked it up to my router and procured a IP and went to windows update.
Damn thing took 13 Critical Updates/Service Packs before it was done. (WinXP) Then she proceeded to check her email, which she had not checked for 4 days becuase she was on the road. Her email in box had 126 copies of MyDoom.A in it.
She had only had the computer for less than 3 hours since purchase, not even finished setting the fucking thing up, and she had to update the OS 13 times and had 126 viruses in her email. And this without any doing on her part.
Thats pretty fucking sad. I'm glad I got my G5. Everything a bit more relaxed.:)
You may be interested to know that the OS 6.0.8 version of Macdraw will run in Classic, on OS X, on my G5.:)
it's not really usable, mind you becuase of the tremedous speed increase, but maybe one of those CPU slowdown thingies would work. I tried it one day taking it off my Mac SE FDHD.
Now tell me THAT dont blow your mind. Name a app from 1985 that will run on Windows XP, in any fashion.
that this topic came up at all. I think it shows just how far Apple has come in 3 years. There's no way this would have even been discussed on/. 3 years ago.
Now, OS X and Apple hardware are making hardcore linux users quiver and twitch......:)
Apple, you're doing something right. Keep doing it.
Little known fact: Maximium PC magazine is from the same company that brings you Mac Addict. Guess what Maximum PC is designed and laid out on?:D Macs.
And dont call bullshit on me. It was a honest response to a reader question in Mac Addict who noticed and asked. They admitted it!
I guess PC's are not so Maximum at desktop publishing.
They had to go with the desktops or else they couldnt get on the Top 500 ranking. It had very little to do with your reasons, and everything to do with getting on the listing in the first place.
The Prof is a smart guy, and I'm sure he knew before the damn thing was even built that the X serves were on the way, probably becuase Apple TOLD HIM IT WAS, and cut him a sweetheart deal for the upgrades.
This will cost me some karma, but fuck it. I have no idea how come all you naysaying negative nabobs of negitivism on this post feel the continued NEED to badmouth everything possible about this project whenever possible. THEY DID IT. It deserves respect and maybe observation to see if you can learn anything from that success.
Here's the karma killer....get ready...it's coming....
I bet if was a goddamn Linux cluster we would see 1/5th the criticism. But since Apple hardware is involved, lets fuck it up so we can feel better! Yeah!:/
.. with the Yugo being the worst car of all time, at least of the cars made or imported into the US. Some of the East German plastic body cars would probably be worse.
I drove a Yugo as a delivery guy out of high school for an auto parts place. The owner had bought a fleet of them becuase they were so cheap. Within 3 months every single one had a major failure ( engine blew, tranny seized ) and he junked the entire lot and bought Ford Escorts.
Yeah, that was a shitty deal for Mr. Ahar, who has never been charged with any crime ( at least in a non-kangaroo court fashion. )
BTW, The RCMP ( the Mounties ) just searched a reporters notes, computer, sources for the Toronto Star for information about his case.
From the Star:
Prime Minister Paul Martin has blasted the RCMP for raiding an Ottawa journalist's house in search of leaked information in the case of a Syrian-born Canadian who was detained by the Americans and later deported to Syria. Martin says the RCMP's focus should be on who leaked the information, not who reported it.
They have a Canadian version of the Patriot Act, you see.
We already had the first example of the self produced "hit" from a regular guy: The Howard Dean YEARRGH Song, made using GarageBand about 8 days after it was introduced. Went national less than a day after release.
This is going to be the actual salvation of bands from the RIAA. Eventually, all the tools they need will be place so that they wont need the RIAA's "help".....they will be able to write, produce, distribute, (and this is the only part not yet complete: get PAID ) for everything they do. Shit, you dont even need actual musicians anymore for some types of music.
Think of enabling tech like GarageBand to be the beginning of the open source of music movement. Now, if Apple REALLY wanted to control the entire industry, he would invent a way for the indies to get paid going thru iTMS without the RIAA taxes. I'm sure that's going to get threatened in the next round of negotations between Apple and the RIAA as leverage for giving Apple more of a cut.
Cut off all the new bands all over the world from the RIAA's grip, using tools like iTMS and GarageBand like apps in the future - thats the way to kill a beast. Go, Go, Gadget Apple.
Oh yeah? Sounds like ass, eh? Have you even used it yet?
It's limited in some ways but by no manner does it sound like crap. You havent used it, ot you would'nt have made that statement.
The guy that came up with that Howard Dean 15 second song with the yyeeeeaargghhh scream in it used GarageBand to make it. It's on his blog - it took him 15 minutes to come up with it, and it's been played on every radio station in the US by now. He got his 15 minutes of fame.....
Sounded good enough for CBS, NBC, FOX, and every radio comedy show in the US to use it. And now everybody knows it how it happened, and that *anyone* can do it. That's powerful shit.You wanna explain how GarageBand sounds like shit to me again?
I guess Intel's short term game plan is to keep the Mhz game going yet again until they can get something going on the 64 bit front worth having.
I suspect AMD and even Apple are going to shrink Intel's bragging rights in that same time frame unless Intel gets their act together. From AMD's recent earnings report it sure seems somebody is buying Athlon 64's.
Intel blew it when they made the decision to let 32 bits ride for another 2 to 3 years. They look like old fuddy-duddys now. It's AMD and Apple via IBM thats has the cool shit.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/cluster/wgcluster.html
and try to tell me Apple is producing shit hardware.
Maybe the reason there is so much Apple stuff on/. lately is becuase at this moment they are making the coolest stuff available in the computing world bar none, and/. editors *might* be able to tell when a company has turned itself around and react accordingly with increased coverage of thats company's offerings??
Or do you think they should still be pissing down a rope at Apples products of 3 or 4 years ago, like the asshats who give lame outdated reasons to bash Apple. Wake up. Things are different now.
/. editors are getting this - some of you other people need to.
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it's a tangled mess of power supply wires that reduce airflow and look like shit, the lack of a standardized layout of ports and such on the back means you have to make like 30 cut outs on each case to get it to work with every mobo on the market, and the process of adding even more ports in the mix like Firewire (1394) and such via cables and slot headers make the inside look even worse. Why the 733T wants to have windows on their cases is beyond me - now look at the inside of a freakin Dual G5 - THERE'Sa case to have a window for.
The heat from the CPU(s) is exhausted INSIDE the case (!) leading to high temps and heat related failures.
The Apple G5 case is the best designed case around IMHFO and the BTX is still behind it on a number of fronts. At least they are'nt going to exhaust the hot air from the CPU inside the freaking case any more. Jeeezzz. :/
Just for the record on my end I consider myself a Deist. Remember, we are taking about from the dawn of man to roughly 1900? I would venture to say I am competely correct - wars, death, and suffering caused by religion or started by the military class for gain was my criteria. Name me one war that has not begun in such a manner.
When I lived in Maryland the government there refused to allow me to register as a member of the Libertarian Party for over 20 years. I could not declare what I was politically. That's not the mark of a free country. In a free country, you woulds be able to declare yourself to be what you are.
In West Virginia, only registered Republicans and Democrats can be poll workers to over see the voting process. Anyone else need not apply. These poeple will soon have electronic voting machines and control over same. That's not the mark of free elections. In a free country, any voter could oversee the process no matter what party they were in.
How about the Fed's new rights to sneak inside your house while you are at work and rummage around and look at whats on your computer, without a proper warrant issued by a civil judge? Is that the sign that you are living in a free country?
America is rapidly becoming something other than what it was meant to be, accelerated by 9/11. Everything is going in the direction of limiting personal freedom, EVERYTHING.
Secure whose freedom?
Humans will not be free until they have stopped being afraid of death and the scare tactics used to control the weak religious minded, such as belief in heaven, hell, judgement day, etc. nothing good will happen. All are used as tools by the Leaders and Pontiffs to keep the masses in line.
Until the substitution of reason and thought for blind faith happens nothing will ever change.
But honor the 2 biggest killers of mankind - the military class and religion as advancers of society? Fuck, no. They are the biggest millstones around the human condition.
Managed means the corporatists and their lackeys in the House and Senate make sure the laws they pass MANAGE to enrich their friends and punish their enemies, and make damn well sure no one but the two approved political parties ( read MANAGED ) are able to get into office.
Here's the article from my blog:
http://westvirginia.typepad.com/tim/2004/01/howard _deans_da_1.html
Since he is pretty obviously no freedom fighter, I lump in in where he belongs: in with G.W. Bush.
How could you ever support Howard Dean knowing this?
Meanwhile, all the poeple running for President that are against the Patriot Act and PA II have dropped out of the race, or can't sell their souls to the devil to call themselves Republicans or Democrats, and therefore have zero chance of becoming President.
Yes, being allowed to vote surely gives one more freedom to vote for the government of your choice. As long as they support the NEW WORLD ORDER, you can pick any of them you like.
Thats not a fair comparision. XP does not scale like OS X. 10.3 is not an updated 10.2, anymore than 10.2 is a updated 10.1. They are huge revisions, considered in the mac world to be major enough to pay for, the same way you might pay for a WinXP upgrade over Win 2K. The fair comparision would be to treat 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 as separate OS releases and count the security updates in each one.
Theres no reason to hate for no reason. It's a choice.
Simple filter in mail.app takes care of my light work.
Meanwhile, every dolt in the world, still clicking on attachments from poeple they dont know with email addresses they dont know, CANT TOUCH THIS.
Lets not get carried away, shall we? Being able to recieve virii and being able to be actually INFECTED by said virii are two very different things.
Damn thing took 13 Critical Updates/Service Packs before it was done. (WinXP) Then she proceeded to check her email, which she had not checked for 4 days becuase she was on the road. Her email in box had 126 copies of MyDoom.A in it.
She had only had the computer for less than 3 hours since purchase, not even finished setting the fucking thing up, and she had to update the OS 13 times and had 126 viruses in her email. And this without any doing on her part.
Thats pretty fucking sad. I'm glad I got my G5. Everything a bit more relaxed. :)
Ok......WHOSE hardware is overpriced again?
it's not really usable, mind you becuase of the tremedous speed increase, but maybe one of those CPU slowdown thingies would work. I tried it one day taking it off my Mac SE FDHD. Now tell me THAT dont blow your mind. Name a app from 1985 that will run on Windows XP, in any fashion.
Or does that kinda stuff only count when the chip is running OS X?
Now, OS X and Apple hardware are making hardcore linux users quiver and twitch...... :)
Apple, you're doing something right. Keep doing it.
And dont call bullshit on me. It was a honest response to a reader question in Mac Addict who noticed and asked. They admitted it!
I guess PC's are not so Maximum at desktop publishing.
The Prof is a smart guy, and I'm sure he knew before the damn thing was even built that the X serves were on the way, probably becuase Apple TOLD HIM IT WAS, and cut him a sweetheart deal for the upgrades.
This will cost me some karma, but fuck it. I have no idea how come all you naysaying negative nabobs of negitivism on this post feel the continued NEED to badmouth everything possible about this project whenever possible. THEY DID IT. It deserves respect and maybe observation to see if you can learn anything from that success.
Here's the karma killer....get ready...it's coming....
I bet if was a goddamn Linux cluster we would see 1/5th the criticism. But since Apple hardware is involved, lets fuck it up so we can feel better! Yeah! :/
I drove a Yugo as a delivery guy out of high school for an auto parts place. The owner had bought a fleet of them becuase they were so cheap. Within 3 months every single one had a major failure ( engine blew, tranny seized ) and he junked the entire lot and bought Ford Escorts.
BTW, The RCMP ( the Mounties ) just searched a reporters notes, computer, sources for the Toronto Star for information about his case.
From the Star:
Prime Minister Paul Martin has blasted the RCMP for raiding an Ottawa journalist's house in search of leaked information in the case of a Syrian-born Canadian who was detained by the Americans and later deported to Syria. Martin says the RCMP's focus should be on who leaked the information, not who reported it.
They have a Canadian version of the Patriot Act, you see.
This is going to be the actual salvation of bands from the RIAA. Eventually, all the tools they need will be place so that they wont need the RIAA's "help".....they will be able to write, produce, distribute, (and this is the only part not yet complete: get PAID ) for everything they do. Shit, you dont even need actual musicians anymore for some types of music.
Think of enabling tech like GarageBand to be the beginning of the open source of music movement. Now, if Apple REALLY wanted to control the entire industry, he would invent a way for the indies to get paid going thru iTMS without the RIAA taxes. I'm sure that's going to get threatened in the next round of negotations between Apple and the RIAA as leverage for giving Apple more of a cut.
Cut off all the new bands all over the world from the RIAA's grip, using tools like iTMS and GarageBand like apps in the future - thats the way to kill a beast. Go, Go, Gadget Apple.
It's limited in some ways but by no manner does it sound like crap. You havent used it, ot you would'nt have made that statement.
The guy that came up with that Howard Dean 15 second song with the yyeeeeaargghhh scream in it used GarageBand to make it. It's on his blog - it took him 15 minutes to come up with it, and it's been played on every radio station in the US by now. He got his 15 minutes of fame.....
Sounded good enough for CBS, NBC, FOX, and every radio comedy show in the US to use it. And now everybody knows it how it happened, and that *anyone* can do it. That's powerful shit.You wanna explain how GarageBand sounds like shit to me again?
Ok, I'm a Fanboy. Thats wasnt so hard. ;>
I suspect AMD and even Apple are going to shrink Intel's bragging rights in that same time frame unless Intel gets their act together. From AMD's recent earnings report it sure seems somebody is buying Athlon 64's.
Intel blew it when they made the decision to let 32 bits ride for another 2 to 3 years. They look like old fuddy-duddys now. It's AMD and Apple via IBM thats has the cool shit.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/cluster/wgcluster.html
and try to tell me Apple is producing shit hardware.
Maybe the reason there is so much Apple stuff on /. lately is becuase at this moment they are making the coolest stuff available in the computing world bar none, and /. editors *might* be able to tell when a company has turned itself around and react accordingly with increased coverage of thats company's offerings??
Or do you think they should still be pissing down a rope at Apples products of 3 or 4 years ago, like the asshats who give lame outdated reasons to bash Apple. Wake up. Things are different now.
When is Apple gonna bring out iSex? To hell with this....