Should not the question be "How much experience matters?"
There are those out there who refuse to vote for a candidate simply because of their lack of experience. To them I say, look at the past 8 years. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfled et al. Do they not have ALOT of experience? And despite all that experience, can you not see the incredible quagmire the good ole US of A has fallen into?
I believe a candidate should be chosen because of a balance of qualities they possess, including experience.
Isn't this an Apples to Oranges comparison?
OS9 was a 16 bit , non-protected mode OS. OSX isn't, and it is better. Faster? On machines that can run OSX and OS9, like my G3, OS9 ran like a Ferarri, and OSX slowed the box down significantly. Same could be said with the G4s.
Still, I went with OSX. Why? Because like you said, it is better. Way better. A fully protected mode modern OS running the latest applications was worth a bit of a slow down. OS9 was yesterday.
Comparing OS9 to OSX is just like comparing Windows for workgroups 3.11 (the 1st Windows OS that got the TCP/IP stack, yay!) to Win XP or Vista. They're vastly different OSes. And yeah, Windows 3.11 will run on a intel box way way way faster than that same box loaded with XP and much more so Vista, but who in the world wants to do that?
The main reason Vista didn't really please is because the upgrade from XP went from a 32 bit OS to . . . . . . . . . . . wait for it . . . . . . . . . a 32 bit OS. And things got slower, and much more hardware demanding. Sheesh. Sounds like my other significant.
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Perhaps if you bought HP/Compaq, you'd see several models of real AMD servers in their product line. I work at a datacenter and we bring many AMD systems online. With regard to 64 bit systems, we have a bunch of AMD servers and a trickle of IA64. Our VMWare environment is also based entirely on AMD hardware. Of the 500+ servers in our datacenter, at least 200 of them are AMD. AMD is definitely making inroads to Intel server territory.
Very well said. We are increasingly living in a world of individuals who want something yesterday so fast that they didn't even get a chance to figure out why they wanted it in the 1st place.
This is odd.
Remember when Apple sued MS for copying their gui?
Remember when Xerox sued Apple for copying their gui?
If MS were to win this, would it then mean that Apple could re-open and win its case, then Xerox would re-open and win theirs?
And in the end, Xerox would become the richest software company in the world because it would wind up owning ALL the patents?
That would be interesting.
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Exactly. Apple does not own AAC. In fact, AAC is a format that is a subset of MP4, the next generation of MP3. Apple, Dolby Labs, Fraunhoffer and others got together and created this better specification for lossy audio. And who invented MP3? Fraunhoffer.
Stop all this Apple hatin'
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Where's Adobe? What do they have to say? They created Photoshop and the PDF format. If anyone should be making a new image format it should be them. Hell maybe even Apple should do it since they did Quicktime.
What did MS do? PAINT?
Sheesh
Or could the slowing of innovation be inevitable due to saturtaion? Don't we live in a been there done that world, much more so than ever before?
Caveman days, fire and the wheel are invented. There was soooo much to invent back then that even the simplest inventions were remarkable. The earth is round. OH MY GOD!
1860s to 1960 - the birth of the electronic age. There was so much to invent in electronics; transistors, ICs, lasers, microwaves, digital audio and video, etc. It was the wild wild west back then.
2000 and beyond - my guess is that this is the birth of quantum era. It's still in it's nascency, but we are just so totally saturated with electronics that it's so hard to find something new. Look at the Blackberry lawsuit. Looks like RIM borrwed technology from someone else.
The shame here really is, we'll be laughing but the newer techs will be less and less apreciable of just how massive their hard drives are. Jeez, today's 120 GB drives are stupendously generous. My colleague complains of running out of space on his 400 GB HD. Well, all that video you've been storing, most of it just un-watched and being kept for no particular reason might have smething to do with it.
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Oh, and this small example of change can also be applied to the entire United States of America? Things that work in small numbers don't necessarily scale.
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1. Cheap.--> Anything but an Ipod. How about an Iriver product? Ipods aren't bad, but you know that alot of their cost goes into R&D and Marketing.
2. No proprietary formats required.---->MP3?
3. No "DRM."--->MP3?
4. Reliable, built to last, long battery life. Se number 1.
5. Connects to my machine without drivers, i.e. acts like an external hard disk. My Iriver flash player can do that, and everything else you mentioned above.
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Hell froze over when Itunes came out for Windows. Because of that the Ipod market must have blown up stupendously on the PC side. Since PCs don't usually have Firewire, and Apple had to get its cost down, rather than ship 2 wires they got rid of one cable and kept the lowest common denominator, USB.
We should keep in mind that these Ipods still have firewire connectabilty, they just don't have the wire.
In summation, when hell froze over, the firewire cable froze with it:)
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This may simply be due to the XM system being inferior to Sirius. In the XM system, the satellite orbits they use tend to need many land based repeaters to boost the signal, on the order of a thousand to cover the continental US. Ironically, it means when using XM, you are more likely getting your music from a land based repeater than a Satlellite.
Sirius, on the other hand, chose the best orbits for their satelites. They need only like 100 land based repeaters to cover the entire continental US.
Sirius took longer to come to market, but they made sure to do it right. Still, XM has given them a beating in terms of market share.
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Hello! History lesson. Isn't that how Star Trek got started? Kirk and his crew were galavanting across the universe for 66 epsisodes, then NBC canned them. Lo and behold, reruns and fan support blew it up for 30 years into the "Enterprise" it is today, pun intended:)
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Back in the 70s, or perhaps late 60s, before IBM DOS, IBM created DOS. IBM did not see much profit in the OS, preferring to concentrate on their "new" at the time PC business. They practically gave all the rights to that original DOS,which eventually grew to become MS-DOS, to this young collge Dude named Bill Gates. Thus, Microsoft was born.
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IBM owned OS/2 and we can be safe to assume 100% that IBM would not make the same mistake (selling DOS to Gates for pennies) of giving it away. So Microsoft could hardly shut IBM out of its own OS.
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Why bother to innovate when it's easier to copy and buy them out? R&D at MS? What's that? MS has been the king of letting someone else do the R&D gruntwork, then they swoop in with their mass marketing and billions in cash to flush them out. If you extrapolate this ideology further, what will MS do once there are no more companies to buy or copy? Are they going to work to improve our computing experience? So long as they're making money, most probably not.
This should make a great plot for a movie. Who will save us from the evil empire of software un-inventiveness?
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Re:So much easier to knock down than to build up
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Actually, by looking back now, perhaps it was inevitable the Apple lost the lead in the PC revolution. Apple's philosophy has always to have strick control over its hardware and software. Apple could not be on top without relinquishing some control. Remember the Apple clones? Apple tried and saw things unravelling so they stopped it. Look at Bill Gates and his Windows empire. He's number 1, but is Windows in full control of all the hardware it installs on? Is the synergy between OS and hardware as thorough as with an Apple machine? If you install software and get that dreaded "not digitally signed by Microsft" message, is it that big a deal? If you install Firefox to replace IE, does your Windows computing experience get worse?
All in all, to be number one, a PC company had to make sacrifices that may have compromised their goals, and Apple was less willing to make those sacrifices.
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So let me get this straight:
150 MB OS
3 MB Player
The remaining space all for media files.
If that's the case, why get an G5 Mac when you can simply get an iPod? Costs much less and is way smaller, too.
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The disk space issue would be a concern if HDs weren't as cheap as water now. You can buy a 20 gig HD for $25. We live in a digital media world dealing with mulit-megapixel pictures, MP3,WAV,AAC sound files, and MPEG movies. Sure, you can build a sytem with a 150 meg OS. Chances are those system files will be sitting next to your multi-media documents which span gigabytes.
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Joe will ogle Sarah and as a result vote for John:)
Madoff makes off with billions under the SECs watch and they decide to review Apple's protection of Jobs health. Bet that cost a pretty nickel, huh?
Should not the question be "How much experience matters?" There are those out there who refuse to vote for a candidate simply because of their lack of experience. To them I say, look at the past 8 years. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfled et al. Do they not have ALOT of experience? And despite all that experience, can you not see the incredible quagmire the good ole US of A has fallen into? I believe a candidate should be chosen because of a balance of qualities they possess, including experience.
Underdog, you say? Then Obama should win by a landslide. He's black, you know:)
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Perhaps if you bought HP/Compaq, you'd see several models of real AMD servers in their product line. I work at a datacenter and we bring many AMD systems online. With regard to 64 bit systems, we have a bunch of AMD servers and a trickle of IA64. Our VMWare environment is also based entirely on AMD hardware. Of the 500+ servers in our datacenter, at least 200 of them are AMD. AMD is definitely making inroads to Intel server territory.
Very well said. We are increasingly living in a world of individuals who want something yesterday so fast that they didn't even get a chance to figure out why they wanted it in the 1st place.
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This is odd.
Remember when Apple sued MS for copying their gui?
Remember when Xerox sued Apple for copying their gui?
If MS were to win this, would it then mean that Apple could re-open and win its case, then Xerox would re-open and win theirs?
And in the end, Xerox would become the richest software company in the world because it would wind up owning ALL the patents?
That would be interesting.
CD
Exactly. Apple does not own AAC. In fact, AAC is a format that is a subset of MP4, the next generation of MP3. Apple, Dolby Labs, Fraunhoffer and others got together and created this better specification for lossy audio. And who invented MP3? Fraunhoffer.
Stop all this Apple hatin'
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Where's Adobe? What do they have to say? They created Photoshop and the PDF format. If anyone should be making a new image format it should be them. Hell maybe even Apple should do it since they did Quicktime. What did MS do? PAINT? Sheesh
The size of the downlaod is 1/10 of the size. You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between AAC (MP3 on steroids) and the original CD music. CD
Wow, I guess we really will become one with the Borg!
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Or could the slowing of innovation be inevitable due to saturtaion? Don't we live in a been there done that world, much more so than ever before?
Caveman days, fire and the wheel are invented. There was soooo much to invent back then that even the simplest inventions were remarkable. The earth is round. OH MY GOD!
1860s to 1960 - the birth of the electronic age. There was so much to invent in electronics; transistors, ICs, lasers, microwaves, digital audio and video, etc. It was the wild wild west back then.
2000 and beyond - my guess is that this is the birth of quantum era. It's still in it's nascency, but we are just so totally saturated with electronics that it's so hard to find something new. Look at the Blackberry lawsuit. Looks like RIM borrwed technology from someone else.
Food for thought
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The shame here really is, we'll be laughing but the newer techs will be less and less apreciable of just how massive their hard drives are. Jeez, today's 120 GB drives are stupendously generous. My colleague complains of running out of space on his 400 GB HD. Well, all that video you've been storing, most of it just un-watched and being kept for no particular reason might have smething to do with it. CD
Oh, and this small example of change can also be applied to the entire United States of America? Things that work in small numbers don't necessarily scale. CD
1. Cheap.--> Anything but an Ipod. How about an Iriver product? Ipods aren't bad, but you know that alot of their cost goes into R&D and Marketing. 2. No proprietary formats required.---->MP3? 3. No "DRM."--->MP3? 4. Reliable, built to last, long battery life. Se number 1. 5. Connects to my machine without drivers, i.e. acts like an external hard disk. My Iriver flash player can do that, and everything else you mentioned above. CD
Hell froze over when Itunes came out for Windows. Because of that the Ipod market must have blown up stupendously on the PC side. Since PCs don't usually have Firewire, and Apple had to get its cost down, rather than ship 2 wires they got rid of one cable and kept the lowest common denominator, USB. We should keep in mind that these Ipods still have firewire connectabilty, they just don't have the wire. In summation, when hell froze over, the firewire cable froze with it:) CD
This may simply be due to the XM system being inferior to Sirius. In the XM system, the satellite orbits they use tend to need many land based repeaters to boost the signal, on the order of a thousand to cover the continental US. Ironically, it means when using XM, you are more likely getting your music from a land based repeater than a Satlellite. Sirius, on the other hand, chose the best orbits for their satelites. They need only like 100 land based repeaters to cover the entire continental US. Sirius took longer to come to market, but they made sure to do it right. Still, XM has given them a beating in terms of market share. CD
Hello! History lesson. Isn't that how Star Trek got started? Kirk and his crew were galavanting across the universe for 66 epsisodes, then NBC canned them. Lo and behold, reruns and fan support blew it up for 30 years into the "Enterprise" it is today, pun intended :)
CD
Back in the 70s, or perhaps late 60s, before IBM DOS, IBM created DOS. IBM did not see much profit in the OS, preferring to concentrate on their "new" at the time PC business. They practically gave all the rights to that original DOS ,which eventually grew to become MS-DOS, to this young collge Dude named Bill Gates. Thus, Microsoft was born.
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IBM owned OS/2 and we can be safe to assume 100% that IBM would not make the same mistake (selling DOS to Gates for pennies) of giving it away. So Microsoft could hardly shut IBM out of its own OS. CD
Why bother to innovate when it's easier to copy and buy them out? R&D at MS? What's that? MS has been the king of letting someone else do the R&D gruntwork, then they swoop in with their mass marketing and billions in cash to flush them out. If you extrapolate this ideology further, what will MS do once there are no more companies to buy or copy? Are they going to work to improve our computing experience? So long as they're making money, most probably not. This should make a great plot for a movie. Who will save us from the evil empire of software un-inventiveness? CD
Actually, by looking back now, perhaps it was inevitable the Apple lost the lead in the PC revolution. Apple's philosophy has always to have strick control over its hardware and software. Apple could not be on top without relinquishing some control. Remember the Apple clones? Apple tried and saw things unravelling so they stopped it. Look at Bill Gates and his Windows empire. He's number 1, but is Windows in full control of all the hardware it installs on? Is the synergy between OS and hardware as thorough as with an Apple machine? If you install software and get that dreaded "not digitally signed by Microsft" message, is it that big a deal? If you install Firefox to replace IE, does your Windows computing experience get worse? All in all, to be number one, a PC company had to make sacrifices that may have compromised their goals, and Apple was less willing to make those sacrifices. CD
So let me get this straight: 150 MB OS 3 MB Player The remaining space all for media files. If that's the case, why get an G5 Mac when you can simply get an iPod? Costs much less and is way smaller, too. CD
The disk space issue would be a concern if HDs weren't as cheap as water now. You can buy a 20 gig HD for $25. We live in a digital media world dealing with mulit-megapixel pictures, MP3,WAV,AAC sound files, and MPEG movies. Sure, you can build a sytem with a 150 meg OS. Chances are those system files will be sitting next to your multi-media documents which span gigabytes. CD