It's not like Sun would earn a lot of money from Apple using ZFS (I guess atleast, if Apple didn't hired people to help with porting it).
However ZFS is a major selling point for running Solaris on servers and therefor buying Sun hardware. Having ZFS as an option on Apples servers aswell might have been a bad thing for Sun (not that Apples server market can be anything near Suns in size, seriously who runs a server on OS X and why?)
Anyway, the less people who uses ZFS and the more exclusive it is to Solaris the better for Sun. Or? Sure it's open-source but I doubt that is because Sun wants everyone to copy their technology, it's probably more because it sounds better, safer and more future proof.
It might be that gasoline taxes also pays for some roads, I don't know, but in any case the taxes on those are higher than on environmental friendly fuel just because the government want to make the environmental fuel an easier choice, and I like ideas like that.
If this guy uses vegetable oil because it's cheaper when wtf is the problem!? I thought the problem with environmental friendly fuel was that they where more expensive than oilbased ones, but if they aren't why stop people from using them?
I'm quite sure the taxes on gasoline in the USA can't be that much? Over here 1 litre of 95 octane gasoline cost around 12 sek, often more. 12 Swedish kronor = 1.71492 U.S. dollars
You don't pay that do you? Because if you did I guess you would have more fuel efficient cars;D
Duh, you didn't tested it with the same site as Apple did! You can only imagine how many pages they tried to load until they got the best result. Of course you can't just get one out of random and belive it will be faster.
I wouldn't care if the machine came with a decent graphics card from the begining, because then I would have to replace it all at the next update anyway. But currently most of them come with to shitty specs. Althought the iMac will probably see an update real-soon-now(tm).
Atleast you can change the graphics card in the Mac Pro if you are one of the people who needs something faster, but yes, it's very expensive and comes with a very low end graphics card.
Mac mini and Macbooks suck for gaming, yes, but hopefully the buyers are aware of that. Sadly it doesn't help that mac fanatics argue that this and that games can play oh so fine on them.. No they can't, the graphics might show up thought.
Anyway, the reason I answer is because of your iMac point, yes, the iMacs comes with laptop CPUs, but what is wrong with that? They uses less electricity, doesn't run as hot and are plenty fast. The graphics cards are quite low-mid end by todays standards, but atleast the 24" model had decent graphics card when it came out. After the next update it will probably have something decent again, even thought it's very likely not beeing a high end card, but what high end über gamer buy a mac anyway? The 24" iMac 7600 GT (and probably 7300 GT) aren't mobile versions, they are real desktop versions on MXM slot. I guess the X1600 in the 20" are mobile version thought.
Yeah, you can get a higher end desktop gaming rig for the same money as a high end laptop, what else is new?
... thought some mac fanatics thinks a shitty graphic card is good: macrumor comment.
Also you shouldn't but macs who haven't been updated for long since their prices are almost always fixed until the next update. You can see when a modell where last updated here: http://www.macrumors.com/
Anyway, here goes the current situation:
Mac Mini, not updated for long, integrated Intel graphics, rumor says it will be discontinued.
Macbook, recently updated, integrated Intel graphics, sucks for gaming.
iMac, not updated for long, intel/ATI X1600 or nv7300/7600 GT graphics in 24"-model, price/performance ratio suck, wait for next update, buy close to it and you will probably get a decent value.
Macbook Pro, recently updated, Nvidia 8600M GT graphics, mid-range card in a laptop, one of the better ones in a laptop you can get atm. Decent price, good buy currently.
Mac Pro, no major updates for a while, stock card is quite crappy thought you can replace it (you can actually have four graphics cards in the mac pro, I doubt it will help gaming thought), expensive so don't buy it unless you want quad/octo xeon cores and need all the upgrading options.
What you can expect in the future:
iMac update real-soon-now(tm).
Mac Mini scrapped and eventually replaced by something else.
Eventually a Mac Pro update, some people think it won't happen until the next chipset version thought, which is quite long into the future by computer time measures.
Well, if only MSN actually worked, or does it now? Earlier I thought it had a hard time sending messages quite often. Thought of course I get that in adium all the fucking time aswell so it might just be that MSN sucks major donkey ass.
Also it doesn't support webcams, or does it? I guess that might be an issue for some people.
I've never understood why people started to use MSN thought, the lack of offline messages for so long time was a major drawback, the fact that like 30% of your messages never seems to be able to connect is another. Damn I hate that shit, to bad everyone uses it:(
I like Adium a lot, but it seems it won't get any video support until gaim/pidgin 3.0 which I guess is a major drawback for some people.
Also, does anyone know if it's possible to get contacts from all supported networks in iChat in the same contact list? 2-3 contact lists suck. Over here in Sweden most people use MSN but if iChat didn't looked like shit and used multiple contact lists I would use it anyway (it doesn't support MSN, only AIM/ICQ, Jabber and its own.)
So it's not only when metal touches the metal in the microwave? Or when there are no water or anything else to heat? What "radiation" are we talking about, I guess it's just the radio waves bounching of the metal thing?
Is it a bad idea to put tea in a metallic "ball" and put it into something with water and microwave it? Why? What happens? (No explosions so far...)
Isn't DPG mpegI video with mp3 or ogg sound? I think it's something like that.
Anyway the DS can play like 384 kbps video at say 12 fps with mono sound decently atleast, that's what I used. Screen resolution are only 256x192 of course so 384 kbps gives quite-very good quality on it.
Well, 802.11b would seriously limit the download rate of our 100 mbps...
But on the PSP I guess it's rather the rendering of pages which takes time, if anything. The interface for surfing and commenting on slashdot must suck thought.
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It's not like Sun would earn a lot of money from Apple using ZFS (I guess atleast, if Apple didn't hired people to help with porting it).
However ZFS is a major selling point for running Solaris on servers and therefor buying Sun hardware. Having ZFS as an option on Apples servers aswell might have been a bad thing for Sun (not that Apples server market can be anything near Suns in size, seriously who runs a server on OS X and why?)
Anyway, the less people who uses ZFS and the more exclusive it is to Solaris the better for Sun. Or? Sure it's open-source but I doubt that is because Sun wants everyone to copy their technology, it's probably more because it sounds better, safer and more future proof.
It might be that gasoline taxes also pays for some roads, I don't know, but in any case the taxes on those are higher than on environmental friendly fuel just because the government want to make the environmental fuel an easier choice, and I like ideas like that.
;D
If this guy uses vegetable oil because it's cheaper when wtf is the problem!? I thought the problem with environmental friendly fuel was that they where more expensive than oilbased ones, but if they aren't why stop people from using them?
I'm quite sure the taxes on gasoline in the USA can't be that much? Over here 1 litre of 95 octane gasoline cost around 12 sek, often more.
12 Swedish kronor = 1.71492 U.S. dollars
You don't pay that do you? Because if you did I guess you would have more fuel efficient cars
It's evil against me since noone in my family cares about computers that much, we are only four, and my systers laptop runs XP ;/
;D ARR!
Ohwell, guess I'll put on that special hat and eye piece anyway
Duh, you didn't tested it with the same site as Apple did! You can only imagine how many pages they tried to load until they got the best result.
Of course you can't just get one out of random and belive it will be faster.
Opera > *
I wouldn't care if the machine came with a decent graphics card from the begining, because then I would have to replace it all at the next update anyway. But currently most of them come with to shitty specs. Althought the iMac will probably see an update real-soon-now(tm).
You are sure that's not there in the new Safari 3 beta aswell? I haven't tried it.
Atleast it's there in Opera 9.x, just hit . and type something.
Atleast you can change the graphics card in the Mac Pro if you are one of the people who needs something faster, but yes, it's very expensive and comes with a very low end graphics card.
Mac mini and Macbooks suck for gaming, yes, but hopefully the buyers are aware of that. Sadly it doesn't help that mac fanatics argue that this and that games can play oh so fine on them.. No they can't, the graphics might show up thought.
Anyway, the reason I answer is because of your iMac point, yes, the iMacs comes with laptop CPUs, but what is wrong with that? They uses less electricity, doesn't run as hot and are plenty fast. The graphics cards are quite low-mid end by todays standards, but atleast the 24" model had decent graphics card when it came out. After the next update it will probably have something decent again, even thought it's very likely not beeing a high end card, but what high end über gamer buy a mac anyway?
The 24" iMac 7600 GT (and probably 7300 GT) aren't mobile versions, they are real desktop versions on MXM slot. I guess the X1600 in the 20" are mobile version thought.
Yeah, you can get a higher end desktop gaming rig for the same money as a high end laptop, what else is new?
Macbook Pro benchmarks for those who care: http://www.barefeats.com/santarosa.html
For what it's worth:
Works fine here in Safari 2.0.4, thought Opera 9.x is a much better browser anyway.
... thought some mac fanatics thinks a shitty graphic card is good: macrumor comment.
Also you shouldn't but macs who haven't been updated for long since their prices are almost always fixed until the next update. You can see when a modell where last updated here: http://www.macrumors.com/
Anyway, here goes the current situation:
Mac Mini, not updated for long, integrated Intel graphics, rumor says it will be discontinued.
Macbook, recently updated, integrated Intel graphics, sucks for gaming.
iMac, not updated for long, intel/ATI X1600 or nv7300/7600 GT graphics in 24"-model, price/performance ratio suck, wait for next update, buy close to it and you will probably get a decent value.
Macbook Pro, recently updated, Nvidia 8600M GT graphics, mid-range card in a laptop, one of the better ones in a laptop you can get atm. Decent price, good buy currently.
Mac Pro, no major updates for a while, stock card is quite crappy thought you can replace it (you can actually have four graphics cards in the mac pro, I doubt it will help gaming thought), expensive so don't buy it unless you want quad/octo xeon cores and need all the upgrading options.
What you can expect in the future:
iMac update real-soon-now(tm).
Mac Mini scrapped and eventually replaced by something else.
Eventually a Mac Pro update, some people think it won't happen until the next chipset version thought, which is quite long into the future by computer time measures.
Intresting comment, what moron modded you flamebait?
Atleast the iBook had Radeon 9200 instead of Intel 950 GMA...
And I would guess a dual/quad G5 with whatever decent graphics card would handle the games just fine..
It's not like the G5 is slow, even by todays standards.
... is if Apple didn't put junk graphics cards in them, or even better let them be user replacable... And no retarded special Mac version either.
AIM and ICQ is compatible. Isn't MSN and Yahoo to? Or what is the other major client which are compatible with MSN?
Anyway the ICQ client looks like shit.
Yeah, and how many of the extra protocols do you actually use?
Well, if only MSN actually worked, or does it now? Earlier I thought it had a hard time sending messages quite often. Thought of course I get that in adium all the fucking time aswell so it might just be that MSN sucks major donkey ass.
Also it doesn't support webcams, or does it? I guess that might be an issue for some people.
Care to tell why you switched?
Adium uses the same libs for im as gaim/pidgin so that's not that weird...
Thought you can always choose "send later".
:(
I've never understood why people started to use MSN thought, the lack of offline messages for so long time was a major drawback, the fact that like 30% of your messages never seems to be able to connect is another. Damn I hate that shit, to bad everyone uses it
I like Adium a lot, but it seems it won't get any video support until gaim/pidgin 3.0 which I guess is a major drawback for some people.
Also, does anyone know if it's possible to get contacts from all supported networks in iChat in the same contact list? 2-3 contact lists suck.
Over here in Sweden most people use MSN but if iChat didn't looked like shit and used multiple contact lists I would use it anyway (it doesn't support MSN, only AIM/ICQ, Jabber and its own.)
Yeah, me to, but for some reason it looks a little blue in indoor pools to? More blue than the white color on the floor, I guess.
Thought it's called HFSX when it's case sensetive.
So it's not only when metal touches the metal in the microwave? Or when there are no water or anything else to heat? What "radiation" are we talking about, I guess it's just the radio waves bounching of the metal thing?
...)
Is it a bad idea to put tea in a metallic "ball" and put it into something with water and microwave it? Why? What happens? (No explosions so far
So, you want your MP3-player to work as an USB Mass Storage device so you bought an iPod? Makes sense...
I can buy the file size trouble thought.
Isn't DPG mpegI video with mp3 or ogg sound? I think it's something like that.
Anyway the DS can play like 384 kbps video at say 12 fps with mono sound decently atleast, that's what I used. Screen resolution are only 256x192 of course so 384 kbps gives quite-very good quality on it.
Well, 802.11b would seriously limit the download rate of our 100 mbps...
But on the PSP I guess it's rather the rendering of pages which takes time, if anything.
The interface for surfing and commenting on slashdot must suck thought.