You might want to consider ADDING MEMORY to that machine. With OS X being UNIX based, it either uses memory, or goes to a swap file (look these terms up, if they sound weird to you). Swap is bad, as it's dog slow... Your PowerBook is most likely in Swap Hell.
OS X makes a dramatic speed jump once a system goes above 512mb of RAM - 768 mb is the sweet spot. So, if you have one 256mb SO-DIMM in there, add another 512mb, and you should notice a significant speed increase.
Also, bear in mind tha such an old machine has an equally old hard drive - read: slow hard drive, which translates into further slowness.
I still kept my old Pismo at 500MHz - and with a fast 5400rpm hard drive, and 1 gig of RAM, it runs OS X Tiger just fine, and, in fact, pretty much flies for most operations.
> it's easy to imagine how a gene for building a vertebra > could mutate and get expressed twice and so there were > then two vertebrae, and so on
I don't have to imagine it, as I *have* the mutation that grows an extra vertebrae - yep, I have one additional vertebrae extra than you vertebrae challenged fools... (actually, thanks to my evolutionary luck, I have 1/3 of a vertebrae... woohoo)
How about Microsoft/Bill Gates fix their OS' feature as a spam/virus kit first, before they decide to jump into yet another market segment -- oh, right, fixing spam, virii, and your own bugs doesn't actually generate profits.
> Ethanol burns cleaner than current gasoline and will run > all automobiles without any vehicle modification
Not so - it is necessary to replace most gaskets and rubber hoses with silicone made ones, as ethanol will eventually degrade and destroy rubber. Nevertheless the cost of conversion is minmal.
Furthermore, and entire country ran off ethanol, Brazil, with all cars capable of burning ethanol, and Brazil being 100% independent of foreign fuel.
Sorry to disagree. I'm no bug friend of DELL but if you had taken the time to actually look inside some of their PC and servers, you'd see some very ingeniously designed systems - both operationally, as well as functionally. Sure, they are still PCs, but I don't see any innovative airflow designs, interactive sensors (for fan control), intelligently laid out motherboards, etc... from any other cheap PC manufacturer.
Oh yeah, and they are extremely inexpensive. Yeah, they most likely outsource the engineering and design, but who cares -- the stuff is extremely well priced (read: cheap), and quite intelligently designed (more so than some of the crap hp/compaq churns out).
a) If this doesn't push people to Macs more, I don't know what will.
b) Well, I guess I just bought my last legitimate commercial DVD -- all my future content will come from Plaza in Bangkok, at $2-$3 a pop, to boot. No skin off my back.
> Why is it that we STILL focus so much of our attention on > Nazi and Austria? Is this your way of showing you have a > certain media-induced level of historic information?
No, it's his way of showing that he has a certain America-based stupidity (or, if you want to be 'nice', ignorance).
Next time an American throws the Nazi reference at you, just kindly remind them:
- we have laws that outlaw any Nazi propaganda, symbols, or the likes, and thus you won't be seeing an Neo-Nazis marching up and down the street (as you can see in the US during their demonstrations).
- when reminded by your American friend that this is all part of Free Speech and Freedom of Expression, simply ask him "So, does that mean that it *would* be okay for Austria to have a Nazi presence, then?" Watch stuttering that follows.
- Remind the proud American that his own government engaged in the systematic extermination of his country's native population (the 'Native Americans/Indians') and remind same proud American about that little matter of the smallpox blankets. Quite a few of your antagonists will either be ignorant, or claim that this is something different. Yeah, right.
In the end, it comes down to ignorance and stupidity, and while it's sometimes entertaining to engage such dorks, I do, for the most part, find ignoring them to be the better part of valor.
Mac OS 9 has picked up a multitude of virii over the years, numbering the thousands by now, that is correct. Mac OS 9 is a defunct, and by now obsolete, version of the operating system. Also, the vast majority of these historical virii are no longer active - to wit, you can leave a Mac OS 9 system hooked up to the net, and exchange files for months, and upon running a virus checker will find, usually, nothing (MS Word Macro virii, notwithstanding)
Mac OS X currently has no known active virii that are capable, or actively, exploitig the operating system, and placing users at risk (again, MS Word macro virii, notwitstanding, since they don't affect the Mac user)
When talking about the Mac's lack of susceptibility to virii, the authors refer to current operating system usage, not something 4-6 years out of date.
Otherwise, by the same logic you would argue that Windows is virtually virus free (seeing as how none were around during Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.0).
It takes a lot more than having cheap coders (that code to US spec), and cheap hardware (manufactured, or trying to copy, US spec) to become a dominant force in IT.
This is something that China's Premier does not grasp - in fact, it is something that China's entire manufacturing industry doesn't grasp (so, this is no surprise).
What it takes is the ability to innovate, create, and be creative - all abilities that the Chinese state/culture neither supports, nor encourages.
What both countries have, is cheap labor, and lots of it - India leads somewhat, because they stress education of their population (and they have some of the best educated folks out there), something which China does not do (though, undoubtedly, will do in the future). Nevertheless, neither culture stresses a culture of individuality, creativity, and innovation - not much 'out of the box' thinking going on there.
So, that IT hegemony ain't gonna happen soon - just consider, if they hope to lead the world, why is all their internal techn ology (space program, weapons, etc...) all 50 years old Soviet era technology....hmmm?)
Why is it invariably the unemployed that have nothing better to do than rave about alien conspiracies... Geez, man, get a job, get some education, and grow your brain.
> They will continue to take away rights. iTunes version > 4.7.1 only allows streaming to 5 unique users per day, > it used to support any 5 simultaniuse users.
Yes, you are right - you can thank DVD Jon, and others, for that, for a) complaining about DRM (yet doing absolutely NOTHING about Windows DRM), and b) complaining that them hacking it is Apple's fault, for making it too easy....and then you're worried that Apple is forced to tighten their DRM (yet, still maintaining it as open for the consumer as they can)
Please, lay blame where it belongs, and it's not at Apple's feet!
This is a pretty nifty new angle, and something satellite radio most likely didn't consider - still, all things considered, mobile phones aren't really Hi-Fi devices (though if this catches on, the next generation *might* be -- but can you still receive phone calls while listening to the 'radio'?
Still, generally Richard Branson does come up with some neat ways to keep his name on the map, so it'd be interesting how this does, and how many others will follow suit.
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You might want to consider ADDING MEMORY to that machine. With OS X being UNIX based, it either uses memory, or goes to a swap file (look these terms up, if they sound weird to you). Swap is bad, as it's dog slow... Your PowerBook is most likely in Swap Hell.
OS X makes a dramatic speed jump once a system goes above 512mb of RAM - 768 mb is the sweet spot. So, if you have one 256mb SO-DIMM in there, add another 512mb, and you should notice a significant speed increase.
Also, bear in mind tha such an old machine has an equally old hard drive - read: slow hard drive, which translates into further slowness.
I still kept my old Pismo at 500MHz - and with a fast 5400rpm hard drive, and 1 gig of RAM, it runs OS X Tiger just fine, and, in fact, pretty much flies for most operations.
> I don't speed asshole, I don't even drive moron.
Well, then maybe you should rejoin this conversation in 4-5 years, when you get your driver's license, hmmmm...?
> He said he could never eat Canadian beef again,
> after watching them load all those heifers onto railcars,
> one after the other...
Was he talking about the cows, or the women?
Some guy who has no clue about what he wrotes about, speculates.
Fun.
> Could this ever happen?
No!
> it's easy to imagine how a gene for building a vertebra
> could mutate and get expressed twice and so there were
> then two vertebrae, and so on
I don't have to imagine it, as I *have* the mutation that grows an extra vertebrae - yep, I have one additional vertebrae extra than you vertebrae challenged fools... (actually, thanks to my evolutionary luck, I have 1/3 of a vertebrae... woohoo)
How about Microsoft/Bill Gates fix their OS' feature as a spam/virus kit first, before they decide to jump into yet another market segment -- oh, right, fixing spam, virii, and your own bugs doesn't actually generate profits.
> Ethanol burns cleaner than current gasoline and will run
> all automobiles without any vehicle modification
Not so - it is necessary to replace most gaskets and rubber hoses with silicone made ones, as ethanol will eventually degrade and destroy rubber. Nevertheless the cost of conversion is minmal.
Furthermore, and entire country ran off ethanol, Brazil, with all cars capable of burning ethanol, and Brazil being 100% independent of foreign fuel.
Oh, you mean Mac OS X?
Sorry to disagree. I'm no bug friend of DELL but if you had taken the time to actually look inside some of their PC and servers, you'd see some very ingeniously designed systems - both operationally, as well as functionally. Sure, they are still PCs, but I don't see any innovative airflow designs, interactive sensors (for fan control), intelligently laid out motherboards, etc... from any other cheap PC manufacturer.
Oh yeah, and they are extremely inexpensive. Yeah, they most likely outsource the engineering and design, but who cares -- the stuff is extremely well priced (read: cheap), and quite intelligently designed (more so than some of the crap hp/compaq churns out).
> Macintosh is actually shipping nearly the same system that
> NeXT came up with in the mid-1980's.
I love it when people that have never used either system, talk about it as if they were experts.
a) If this doesn't push people to Macs more, I don't know what will.
b) Well, I guess I just bought my last legitimate commercial DVD -- all my future content will come from Plaza in Bangkok, at $2-$3 a pop, to boot. No skin off my back.
Would be great if there were actually a website at the address given.
> I have the urge to comment on this one.
Ditto.
> Why is it that we STILL focus so much of our attention on
> Nazi and Austria? Is this your way of showing you have a
> certain media-induced level of historic information?
No, it's his way of showing that he has a certain America-based stupidity (or, if you want to be 'nice', ignorance).
Next time an American throws the Nazi reference at you, just kindly remind them:
- we have laws that outlaw any Nazi propaganda, symbols, or the likes, and thus you won't be seeing an Neo-Nazis marching up and down the street (as you can see in the US during their demonstrations).
- when reminded by your American friend that this is all part of Free Speech and Freedom of Expression, simply ask him "So, does that mean that it *would* be okay for Austria to have a Nazi presence, then?" Watch stuttering that follows.
- Remind the proud American that his own government engaged in the systematic extermination of his country's native population (the 'Native Americans/Indians') and remind same proud American about that little matter of the smallpox blankets. Quite a few of your antagonists will either be ignorant, or claim that this is something different. Yeah, right.
In the end, it comes down to ignorance and stupidity, and while it's sometimes entertaining to engage such dorks, I do, for the most part, find ignoring them to be the better part of valor.
> as an Austrian I have to surrender
No, you would need to be French for that
Another Austrian in Hiding!
> assuming they ported to OSX "properly" there should
> be no problems.
They didn't use XCode, I assure you - thus, Apple's switch to intel takes care of yet another languishing problem, effectively and elegantly.
> Quark is a superior product to its competitors, it has
> features that far surpass the next best offering (Indesign)
Not anymore.
Please do not base your rants on a prior version, when you haven't even bothered checking the latest version (or even the one before that).
Quark is dead - it just doesn't know it (well, it's former CEO is closer to realizing it)
'nuff said.
> (And they have more trouble getting pirated software)
Funny!
Thanks for the correction - duly noted.
(sigh!)
Mac OS 9 has picked up a multitude of virii over the years, numbering the thousands by now, that is correct. Mac OS 9 is a defunct, and by now obsolete, version of the operating system. Also, the vast majority of these historical virii are no longer active - to wit, you can leave a Mac OS 9 system hooked up to the net, and exchange files for months, and upon running a virus checker will find, usually, nothing (MS Word Macro virii, notwithstanding)
Mac OS X currently has no known active virii that are capable, or actively, exploitig the operating system, and placing users at risk (again, MS Word macro virii, notwitstanding, since they don't affect the Mac user)
When talking about the Mac's lack of susceptibility to virii, the authors refer to current operating system usage, not something 4-6 years out of date.
Otherwise, by the same logic you would argue that Windows is virtually virus free (seeing as how none were around during Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.0).
I want my digitally remastered Star Wars Christmas Special!!!
NOW!
It takes a lot more than having cheap coders (that code to US spec), and cheap hardware (manufactured, or trying to copy, US spec) to become a dominant force in IT.
This is something that China's Premier does not grasp - in fact, it is something that China's entire manufacturing industry doesn't grasp (so, this is no surprise).
What it takes is the ability to innovate, create, and be creative - all abilities that the Chinese state/culture neither supports, nor encourages.
What both countries have, is cheap labor, and lots of it - India leads somewhat, because they stress education of their population (and they have some of the best educated folks out there), something which China does not do (though, undoubtedly, will do in the future). Nevertheless, neither culture stresses a culture of individuality, creativity, and innovation - not much 'out of the box' thinking going on there.
So, that IT hegemony ain't gonna happen soon - just consider, if they hope to lead the world, why is all their internal techn ology (space program, weapons, etc...) all 50 years old Soviet era technology....hmmm?)
...no one suggested MANDINGO!
Why is it invariably the unemployed that have nothing better to do than rave about alien conspiracies... Geez, man, get a job, get some education, and grow your brain.
> They will continue to take away rights. iTunes version
...and then you're worried that Apple is forced to tighten their DRM (yet, still maintaining it as open for the consumer as they can)
> 4.7.1 only allows streaming to 5 unique users per day,
> it used to support any 5 simultaniuse users.
Yes, you are right - you can thank DVD Jon, and others, for that, for a) complaining about DRM (yet doing absolutely NOTHING about Windows DRM), and b) complaining that them hacking it is Apple's fault, for making it too easy.
Please, lay blame where it belongs, and it's not at Apple's feet!
This is a pretty nifty new angle, and something satellite radio most likely didn't consider - still, all things considered, mobile phones aren't really Hi-Fi devices (though if this catches on, the next generation *might* be -- but can you still receive phone calls while listening to the 'radio'?
Still, generally Richard Branson does come up with some neat ways to keep his name on the map, so it'd be interesting how this does, and how many others will follow suit.