In PHP all arrays have the same designator, even for associative arrays (hashes) and numerical arrays, and even more so they're the same as variables. That is 'wishy washy'. In perl you know what your $scalars, @arrays and %hashes are just by glancing at them. Even so, the flexibility of PHP's method is great, especially with functions like wantarray(), but you do have to code accordingly.
Additionally, you can't just say "I want to use perl" when you're not the one even coding it, but just installing the software.
He doesn't specify at all what he's talking about, and that gives him bad rapport. He simply says "OS Wars," which to me doesn't necessarily describe only the non-desktop market, in which case he's clearly left out OS X as a player. If he is referring to the supercomputer market he has also brushed OS X aside, is completely unaware of the difference between it (and in turn any other number of other flavors of BSD) and Linux, or is completely ignorant of the existence of it altogether. Windows likely doesn't run on any of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but I don't have stats to back me up, the top500 list doesn't keep track of OS, but we do know that OS X does so it is at least a contender there as well. If he's talking about the server market, I really can't say. I couldn't find any statistics that showed Apple having any presence in the server market, so let's just give him the benefit of the doubt and say they have 0% of the server market. That means he would be correct in 1/3 of the markets, but since his statement doesn't specify that when he broadly says "OS Wars," as if he means "all computers" with even an implied "and embedded devices and anything running an OS at all," he is either missing a large portion of the picture or just not that good at writing out complete thoughts. Sure it was a blog, but it was a Corporate blog. An avenue for expression of personal opinions, perspectives, and goals for the bigger picture. It certainly doesn't inspire confidence in his readers. Shareholders beware.
"Simply reimplementing it under a different OS is not radical."
You clearly don't understand the technology here. It's this is not a service that is built in to the OS that goes through and indexes files, such as the Windows Indexing service you're talking about, or even updatedb on a cron schedule. This is implemented in the filesystem layer, just like Apple's defrag on the fly scheme. That means that when a file is written you will see the usual info such as owner, group, mtime, ctime, size, but on top of that you'll have an instantly updated entry in the metadata database. That means that you don't have to wait for the Indexing Service or the cron job to get around to updating the entire filesystem, it's instantanious. Of course, I'm sure there are people who are still skeptical about how awesome this technology is, so let me remind you that Microsoft was working on this same exact function for Longhorn, but had to trim it off the initial Longhorn release in order to meet a late 2005/early 2006 ship date. Well, Apple has it working already, and the technology is new and awesome when we're talking about a filesystem, not an add-on service, be it for HFS+ or WinFS.
I agree, using a scroll wheel to switch desktops just doesn't sound like the tool is fit for the job. A virtual desktop is not a sort of thing that you have to "dial in". It's not a matter of precision, you're either on desktop 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.. The tactile sensation that knobs offer goes quite well with tuning things that require a matter of precision. Think microscope, slr camera, guitar string. This need for precision is why outboard midi controllers have been around for so long, and why people like Roland brought out things like the JP 8000 years ago. The technology is there where the need is, and the Power-Mate definitely fills that need in a lot of instances. I just don't think switching desktops is one of those instances.
Skype is considered P2P and it's a plenty legitimate application, and it uses standard SIP for it's protocol. Being that SIP is a widely used protocol I'd think that it would hold the precedence in most legitimate P2P VOIP app.
I really don't think this is the case. People say that windows boxes are targeted more, and sure, they're the ideal target since you've got a great chance of getting in and a great many to get into, but to say they are targeted sooner or more overwhelmingly is taking it a bit far. The amount of IIS exploit attempts I see coming through my apache logs and the amount of failed authentication attempts I see in my smbd logs say that my Mac is getting hit plenty, and with complete disregard for platform when selecting a target, except that the expected exploit will be found in windows. The fact that I see these hits on my Mac means any node has an equal chance for getting hit just as soon or just as frequently as windows. The "windows is targetted more" only holds true when you factor in the desired target platform, the number of exploits on that platform and the number of nodes that platform has, not the frequency or timing of attacks.
I agree. I've had a BP3 for about a year now for hauling my 12" Powerbook around and it's awesome. It has some funky pockets that I never use, but there's plenty of space. I've taken this thing on about 10 different plane trips, a train trip, countless road trips, and a bit of biking and walking as well, and it's never let me down. It's always comfortable, has enough room that I can pack a weekend's worth of clothes along with my gps, F717, power adapters, Base station, 2-3 books, my laptop and still fit under the seat in front of me on the plane so I don't have to check bags. I highly recommend the BP3, despite it's extra cost.
Flow Chart? How about liquid cooling...
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That's a pretty complex flow chart, if you ask me, but I suppose the logic is all the same. My first thought was more along the lines that the cpu could cool itself in the very act of computing. Neat idea.:) If only we could teach electricity to cool itself, since it's incredibly doubtful that fluidic cpu's are going to be giving us an extra edge.
This is the first thing I thought while reading it... By running software that already runs on all 3 main desktop platforms they haven't demonstrated anything useful about their product. Why would they do that? The only reason I can think of is so they could say "here is how it runs natively, and here is how it runs through our architecture-translating process." However, since they didn't say anything specific about speed comparisons, only that "95 percent won't notice," I seriously doubt that comparisons were the reason. If they really want to clear the air of the scent of BS they ought to at least release a video, not just a photo of the title screen of Quake III running KDE on a powerbook. 95 percent of powerbook users would notice KDE running on instead of their beloved Aqua.
Personally, I've never found red light or any other red colored things to be that useful since I have "red and green color inhibited vision," as my doctor put it. I call it "sorta color blind." Statistically, one in four men has some sort of color inhibited vision and so I wonder how it is that red light became so useful that it would be put on a swiss army knife.
My first thought was "Sure, that makes sense. Healthy competition is good for the marketplace." So, I went to real's site to see what it was all about... I then remembered their myriad of links which all seemed to lead to nowhere in particular. The next thing I remembered was how terrible their software is, the Real Guide resizing itself for optimal advertising assault in full video aside displaying a huge wealth of worthless crap right up in my face, but giving you a convenient X in order to close everything except full-width advertisement that it loaded into the player without even asking... Yeah, I think I'd rather pay twice as much per song than have to use their nightmarish software. If I could purchase music right from their website that'd be a different story, or if it was somebody else then maybe I'd give it a shot, but it really does come down to one bottom line... This is Real Networks we're talking about. The company name alone pretty much sums it up, sending a feeling of frustrated, dreadful stress through my body. I believe in a competitive market, and I believe in more choice than Apple is giving us (ie: licensing fairplay), but to me, Real has never been a choice.
True true, Service Pack has traditionally meant "a pack of fixes". You just have to wonder how wrong things were done in the first place if you have to break compatibility to fix stuff... I think SP2 is several things rolled in to one...
It's a pacifier for the MS faithful, so that they have something to play with during the wait for longhorn.
It's a pacifier to appease the people who would knock MS for not releasing a big OS revision in 4-6 years (by the time Longhorn rolls around).
It's a big enough revision that anybody who claims MS didn't do anything big with their OS between XP and Longhorn can be reminded of XP SP2.
It's (hopefully) a bunch of well needed fixes on technologies that have matured since XP was first release (ie: 802.11x, WPA, etc..)
It's most likely a place where they have laid down a framework that will work with the stuff they're programming for longhorn, but won't work with XP SP1-. This would explain the break in reverse compatibility...
Of course, that's a lot of speculation on my part. I'm not too interested in SP2, but I am interested in Longhorn... it better kick some serious ass.
I agree that having the classic environment available within OS X is a good thing for those applications that don't run natively, which is just about none anymore, but with XP it's a different story... XP SP2 is a SERVICE PACK. If microsoft did this same sort of thing it would be the equivalent of having OS 10.3 emulate OS 10.2, which is clearly retarded. However, to turn the paraphrase around, OS X emulating OS 9 is more like (although this might be a crude example) when Win9x allows you to run DOS programs from within the GUI. The necessity to break backwards compatibility comes down to design flaws, a lack of perfect forethought. There are some design flaws in the framework of Windows that just prevent some things from working securely, easily and quickly. Hopefully the time MS is taking to release Longhorn is an indicator that they're designing a better framework and that we'll see less of this in the future...
I'd like to say that MS is jumping the gun on this breaking backwards compatibility by doing it within a point release, but this might be just what developers need to get them ready to code applications for Longhorn, a little exercise in future Windows application design. Apple fans (like myself) can't be too high and mighty on this one though, each version of OS X has had some kind of backwards compatibility breakage.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that this is just slinging mud. I mean, how many people launch a campaign to tarnish the name of another competitor? I suppose I've seen ad's disputing competition, but a freaking bus tour?? The knoppix cd's are a brilliant idea. I wonder if distributing knoppix cd's to support the non-profit orgs would be considered community service......
I welcome Apple to the problems of making an OS for people other than the tech savy.
OS for people other than the tech savy? I think Apple's been doing that for a looooong time. However, making an OS that doesn't suck for the techies yet remains usable for the dummies is another story.
All in all though I think they've done a fine job. My mom got an iBook about 8 months ago and She hasn't called me with questions for the last 6 months. When she had Windows she called me frequently... for years...
You're leaving out all the other points that this devices has.
It's an 802.11g repeater
It's a NAT router
It's a network usb printer server
It's most likely the only AP that was designed for portability (correct me if I'm wrong)
So sure, if you're buying this thing strictly for music then yeah, you might be buying the wrong, or simply less expensive alternative to squeezebox. But if you want a portable AP/Router that has a nifty added feature of wireless audio support it's a hell of a product.
That's key--I would make it a condition of the donation, unless you want to spend a lot more time re-jiggering that computer later. I can guarantee that even if they know what they want to do with it now, they'll come up with something different/additional within a month.
Very true, there's a good chance that whatever the case is they'll call you back one of these days to fix/update/change it. I'd make sure to create a disk image of the hard drive after you've set it all up. That way when they call you back you can just boot into target-disk mode and restore the original image, make any tweaks from there, then re-image. I do this same thing in Windows using Norton Ghost and it's a HUGE time saver. Luckily OS X has this functionality all built in with the Disk Utility.
Great, I just got back from Wolf camera and now I'm going to have to go buy one of these D70's, because I freakin fell in love with it. The only reason I'd considered switching from Nikon to Canon while switching from a prosumer digicam to a digital SLR was the focus system that canon uses, which was incredibly more responsive than the Nikon AF series. However, after playing with the rather solid D70 I've realized that this newer system, AF-S (correct me if i'm wrong), is just as responsive... Not only did I decide to buy it one of these days, I came home and found a tax return for half the price of the camera! How can I say no now?? Anybody in the market for a used Sony F717?;-)
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In PHP all arrays have the same designator, even for associative arrays (hashes) and numerical arrays, and even more so they're the same as variables. That is 'wishy washy'. In perl you know what your $scalars, @arrays and %hashes are just by glancing at them. Even so, the flexibility of PHP's method is great, especially with functions like wantarray(), but you do have to code accordingly.
Additionally, you can't just say "I want to use perl" when you're not the one even coding it, but just installing the software.
"They can load whatever software they want on their machines"
Point in case: Radium's release of SoundForge
Yes, definitely use Judges. They're easier to pay off or whack, which just isn't feasible with an entire jury.
He doesn't specify at all what he's talking about, and that gives him bad rapport. He simply says "OS Wars," which to me doesn't necessarily describe only the non-desktop market, in which case he's clearly left out OS X as a player. If he is referring to the supercomputer market he has also brushed OS X aside, is completely unaware of the difference between it (and in turn any other number of other flavors of BSD) and Linux, or is completely ignorant of the existence of it altogether. Windows likely doesn't run on any of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but I don't have stats to back me up, the top500 list doesn't keep track of OS, but we do know that OS X does so it is at least a contender there as well. If he's talking about the server market, I really can't say. I couldn't find any statistics that showed Apple having any presence in the server market, so let's just give him the benefit of the doubt and say they have 0% of the server market. That means he would be correct in 1/3 of the markets, but since his statement doesn't specify that when he broadly says "OS Wars," as if he means "all computers" with even an implied "and embedded devices and anything running an OS at all," he is either missing a large portion of the picture or just not that good at writing out complete thoughts. Sure it was a blog, but it was a Corporate blog. An avenue for expression of personal opinions, perspectives, and goals for the bigger picture. It certainly doesn't inspire confidence in his readers. Shareholders beware.
"Simply reimplementing it under a different OS is not radical."
You clearly don't understand the technology here. It's this is not a service that is built in to the OS that goes through and indexes files, such as the Windows Indexing service you're talking about, or even updatedb on a cron schedule. This is implemented in the filesystem layer, just like Apple's defrag on the fly scheme. That means that when a file is written you will see the usual info such as owner, group, mtime, ctime, size, but on top of that you'll have an instantly updated entry in the metadata database. That means that you don't have to wait for the Indexing Service or the cron job to get around to updating the entire filesystem, it's instantanious. Of course, I'm sure there are people who are still skeptical about how awesome this technology is, so let me remind you that Microsoft was working on this same exact function for Longhorn, but had to trim it off the initial Longhorn release in order to meet a late 2005/early 2006 ship date. Well, Apple has it working already, and the technology is new and awesome when we're talking about a filesystem, not an add-on service, be it for HFS+ or WinFS.
Since everybody is already familiar with VNC, why not stick with it when you move to hardware?
http://www.realvnc.com/products/KVM-via-IP/
I agree, using a scroll wheel to switch desktops just doesn't sound like the tool is fit for the job. A virtual desktop is not a sort of thing that you have to "dial in". It's not a matter of precision, you're either on desktop 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.. The tactile sensation that knobs offer goes quite well with tuning things that require a matter of precision. Think microscope, slr camera, guitar string. This need for precision is why outboard midi controllers have been around for so long, and why people like Roland brought out things like the JP 8000 years ago. The technology is there where the need is, and the Power-Mate definitely fills that need in a lot of instances. I just don't think switching desktops is one of those instances.
Oh man, you're totally right. I don't know what I was thinking... You're right though, Skype does use a proprietary encrypted protocol.
Skype is considered P2P and it's a plenty legitimate application, and it uses standard SIP for it's protocol. Being that SIP is a widely used protocol I'd think that it would hold the precedence in most legitimate P2P VOIP app.
I really don't think this is the case. People say that windows boxes are targeted more, and sure, they're the ideal target since you've got a great chance of getting in and a great many to get into, but to say they are targeted sooner or more overwhelmingly is taking it a bit far. The amount of IIS exploit attempts I see coming through my apache logs and the amount of failed authentication attempts I see in my smbd logs say that my Mac is getting hit plenty, and with complete disregard for platform when selecting a target, except that the expected exploit will be found in windows. The fact that I see these hits on my Mac means any node has an equal chance for getting hit just as soon or just as frequently as windows. The "windows is targetted more" only holds true when you factor in the desired target platform, the number of exploits on that platform and the number of nodes that platform has, not the frequency or timing of attacks.
I agree. I've had a BP3 for about a year now for hauling my 12" Powerbook around and it's awesome. It has some funky pockets that I never use, but there's plenty of space. I've taken this thing on about 10 different plane trips, a train trip, countless road trips, and a bit of biking and walking as well, and it's never let me down. It's always comfortable, has enough room that I can pack a weekend's worth of clothes along with my gps, F717, power adapters, Base station, 2-3 books, my laptop and still fit under the seat in front of me on the plane so I don't have to check bags. I highly recommend the BP3, despite it's extra cost.
That's a pretty complex flow chart, if you ask me, but I suppose the logic is all the same. My first thought was more along the lines that the cpu could cool itself in the very act of computing. Neat idea. :) If only we could teach electricity to cool itself, since it's incredibly doubtful that fluidic cpu's are going to be giving us an extra edge.
I wonder how often those two words are used, especially in that particular order.
This is the first thing I thought while reading it... By running software that already runs on all 3 main desktop platforms they haven't demonstrated anything useful about their product. Why would they do that? The only reason I can think of is so they could say "here is how it runs natively, and here is how it runs through our architecture-translating process." However, since they didn't say anything specific about speed comparisons, only that "95 percent won't notice," I seriously doubt that comparisons were the reason. If they really want to clear the air of the scent of BS they ought to at least release a video, not just a photo of the title screen of Quake III running KDE on a powerbook. 95 percent of powerbook users would notice KDE running on instead of their beloved Aqua.
Personally, I've never found red light or any other red colored things to be that useful since I have "red and green color inhibited vision," as my doctor put it. I call it "sorta color blind." Statistically, one in four men has some sort of color inhibited vision and so I wonder how it is that red light became so useful that it would be put on a swiss army knife.
My first thought was "Sure, that makes sense. Healthy competition is good for the marketplace." So, I went to real's site to see what it was all about... I then remembered their myriad of links which all seemed to lead to nowhere in particular. The next thing I remembered was how terrible their software is, the Real Guide resizing itself for optimal advertising assault in full video aside displaying a huge wealth of worthless crap right up in my face, but giving you a convenient X in order to close everything except full-width advertisement that it loaded into the player without even asking... Yeah, I think I'd rather pay twice as much per song than have to use their nightmarish software. If I could purchase music right from their website that'd be a different story, or if it was somebody else then maybe I'd give it a shot, but it really does come down to one bottom line... This is Real Networks we're talking about. The company name alone pretty much sums it up, sending a feeling of frustrated, dreadful stress through my body. I believe in a competitive market, and I believe in more choice than Apple is giving us (ie: licensing fairplay), but to me, Real has never been a choice.
I'm not sure what the noted review was supposed to show, but I see nothing about Doom3 running well on average $50+ hardware.
Speculation is certainly not equal to hard facts, which are typically what evidence is made of.
- It's a pacifier for the MS faithful, so that they have something to play with during the wait for longhorn.
- It's a pacifier to appease the people who would knock MS for not releasing a big OS revision in 4-6 years (by the time Longhorn rolls around).
- It's a big enough revision that anybody who claims MS didn't do anything big with their OS between XP and Longhorn can be reminded of XP SP2.
- It's (hopefully) a bunch of well needed fixes on technologies that have matured since XP was first release (ie: 802.11x, WPA, etc..)
- It's most likely a place where they have laid down a framework that will work with the stuff they're programming for longhorn, but won't work with XP SP1-. This would explain the break in reverse compatibility...
Of course, that's a lot of speculation on my part. I'm not too interested in SP2, but I am interested in Longhorn... it better kick some serious ass.I agree that having the classic environment available within OS X is a good thing for those applications that don't run natively, which is just about none anymore, but with XP it's a different story... XP SP2 is a SERVICE PACK. If microsoft did this same sort of thing it would be the equivalent of having OS 10.3 emulate OS 10.2, which is clearly retarded. However, to turn the paraphrase around, OS X emulating OS 9 is more like (although this might be a crude example) when Win9x allows you to run DOS programs from within the GUI. The necessity to break backwards compatibility comes down to design flaws, a lack of perfect forethought. There are some design flaws in the framework of Windows that just prevent some things from working securely, easily and quickly. Hopefully the time MS is taking to release Longhorn is an indicator that they're designing a better framework and that we'll see less of this in the future...
I'd like to say that MS is jumping the gun on this breaking backwards compatibility by doing it within a point release, but this might be just what developers need to get them ready to code applications for Longhorn, a little exercise in future Windows application design. Apple fans (like myself) can't be too high and mighty on this one though, each version of OS X has had some kind of backwards compatibility breakage.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that this is just slinging mud. I mean, how many people launch a campaign to tarnish the name of another competitor? I suppose I've seen ad's disputing competition, but a freaking bus tour?? The knoppix cd's are a brilliant idea. I wonder if distributing knoppix cd's to support the non-profit orgs would be considered community service......
All in all though I think they've done a fine job. My mom got an iBook about 8 months ago and She hasn't called me with questions for the last 6 months. When she had Windows she called me frequently... for years...
- It's an 802.11g repeater
- It's a NAT router
- It's a network usb printer server
- It's most likely the only AP that was designed for portability (correct me if I'm wrong)
So sure, if you're buying this thing strictly for music then yeah, you might be buying the wrong, or simply less expensive alternative to squeezebox. But if you want a portable AP/Router that has a nifty added feature of wireless audio support it's a hell of a product.Great, I just got back from Wolf camera and now I'm going to have to go buy one of these D70's, because I freakin fell in love with it. The only reason I'd considered switching from Nikon to Canon while switching from a prosumer digicam to a digital SLR was the focus system that canon uses, which was incredibly more responsive than the Nikon AF series. However, after playing with the rather solid D70 I've realized that this newer system, AF-S (correct me if i'm wrong), is just as responsive... Not only did I decide to buy it one of these days, I came home and found a tax return for half the price of the camera! How can I say no now?? Anybody in the market for a used Sony F717? ;-)