Actually, it comes from Mac users who feel a VERY REAL speed increase after they install a 10.X upgrade. Every major release of OSX, with the exception of Tiger has resulted in a significant increase in overall responsiveness - which users interpret as speed.
"Remember back in 1997,"
when the Mac OS sucked?
What did the Mac OS have over windows in 1997? Or if you prefer, what did windows have over the Mac OS in 1997?
I think OSX changes things a bit between then and now - mainly because now the Mac OS is heads and shoulders above Windows.
I was in the same boat when I first installed iTunes. I had spent hours organizing my music files into Genre -> Artist -> Album -> (Track) Song.mp3 format.
I began to panic when I saw iTunes "Processing..." and heard my hard drive grinding.
But then it occurred to me, iTunes had done in a few minutes what had taken me countless hours to do by hand. I can find my music in iTunes 10x faster than I can using the Finder / Explorer - so what was I worried about?
If I actually need the physical file for something, I search for it in iTunes and then hit command-R and it pops a finder window open with the file selected - no file / folder browsing required.
iTunes was Spotlight for music files. Shortly thereafter I was wishing that I could find any file as easily as I can find a song file using iTunes. A few years later, we have Spotlight:)
The only way we're going to get thee *AA to change their tactics and start selling downloadable content online is to force them to innovate.
Right now the *AA is under the misconception that they can actually abolish p2p by suing the pants off of anyone and everyone who shares files.
Currently they are using IP addresses to track down uploader's personal information. These anonymous p2p systems are going to make that A LOT harder to do.
Personally, I am for anything that puts the squeeze on the *AA - I think eventually they *will* get the hint.
except I'm not a million miles from civilization - time warner just decided that they didn't want to run cable down my street, despite the fact that there are 17 houses per mile (1.5 miles of road).
I've been fighting with them for almost 2 years now and so far I haven't gotten anywhere. They want me to pay $26,000 to have the cable run down the road so they can make money on everyone else on the street who is also dying for high speed internet & cable TV.
anybody have any suggestions?
there is a cell tower within a half mile of my house, and I did look into the highspeed wireless service, but at the time the drivers for the required pcmcia card were windows only (I need something that will work with OSX).
I am the administrator of my own machine (the account I use to log in has admin access). I've never had any spyware, viruses, malware, trojans or any other problems what so ever - and I've been to quite a few seedy websites. I don't always use a firewall. My machine is actually a laptop and I am constantly changing networks and traveling around. I haven't disabled or changed any of the machine's settings. I'm using the default web browser. My machine hasn't been rebooted since April 29th when I installed a new OS. Before that it had been on for 3 months straight, previously rebooted for an OS update.
What am I using?
Tiger on a Powerbook.
I don't care what you do to a wintel laptop, you will not be able to abuse your machine the way I do and have this kind of reliability.
I never said the airbags were useless junk, nor did i say the sound proofing or electronics were useless junk. i said there was other useless junk along side those things.
I have a TDI swap - I took a TDI from 2001 new beetle (golf / jetta are all the same) and retrofitted it into a 1990 Jetta. I have a personal fetish for the MK2 body style (1985 - 1992) which was the reason for the swap.
A friend of mine has an automatic 2003 Jetta TDI and she averages about 48 MPG. The car weighs in at about 2900 lbs.
My swap gets 55+ MPG if I keep my foot out of it. That's 770 miles per tank. It's a 5 speed which helps (the autos get a few mpg less), but the biggest reason for the increase is the weight of the car. The old cars aren't packed with sound proofing / airbags / electronics / other useless junk the way the new cars are. My car weighs around 2300 lbs - 600 lighter than the newer car.
This has other advantages as well - the car handles better and is considerably faster. With a performance chip & bigger fuel injectors it will make 300 foot pounds of torque and 160 horsepower - its no slouch. It won't run a very fast quarter mile because of the 4500 RPM redline (RPMs make horsepower and horsepower makes fast 1/4 mile times) but the driving characteristics of the car are awesome. 300 ft/lbs around town is a real riot. The chip actually increases fuel mileage in most cases, depending on how you drive of course. But no matter how hard I drive the car it will never get less than 45mpg.
I feel that I've attained something that apparently is pretty difficult to do - I built a fast car that gets phenomenal fuel mileage. Why can't the auto industry do the same?
I submitted a request to make Safari Acid2 Compliant a while back - its a good feeling when a request you submitted is fulfilled:) (of course, I have no idea if they actually even read my request, but I'd like to think that they did:P)
As much as I am for moving technology forward, this topic really pisses me off. We still cannot get cable / broadband at my house, and now they want to shut off analog broadcasting? Uhm hello? Shouldn't you have a infrastructure that supports digital communication in place before pulling the plug?
Wednesday Apple announced their second quarter results - net profit of.34 per share. And then then projected 3rd quarter net profit to be around.28 per share - the stock tanked over night.
The iPod line represents 30% of apples revenue right now. I attribute the lowered projection to be based on Apple's feeling that for the first time, they're not going to sell more iPods next quarter than they did this quarter.
like mine where the IT department full of MCSE's hasn't got the foggiest idea of how to even use linux. Sure they've heard of it and know the names of the major distributions, but aside from installing it, they haven't go the first clue how to use it.
I'm the first "IT Guy" in our company (we have 27,000 employees world wide) that snuck a linux based web server onto the network. I maintain it and develop all of the software that runs on it. My coworkers know of it's existance, but if I get hit by a beer truck they're SOL.
A lot of the shots in this film were used with that same design.
Specifically any of the "lead cam" shots, where the camera car is leading the picture car with the camera shooting backwards.
It works very well, the only issue being keeping the whole setup from rotating side to side. Its very difficult to hold in this position for extended periods of time (just try holding a 30lb weight straight out in front of you for 3 minutes).
You can see the rotating movement in some of the shots... but overall they didn't come out too bad considering I was hanging out of the back of a convertible rabbit while doing 50 mph:)
Here, we're going to give you a file thats locked and encrypted. We're also going to give you the keys so that you can open it and actually use it. Oh yeah, please don't copy it while you have it unlocked.
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Actually, it comes from Mac users who feel a VERY REAL speed increase after they install a 10.X upgrade. Every major release of OSX, with the exception of Tiger has resulted in a significant increase in overall responsiveness - which users interpret as speed.
"Remember back in 1997," when the Mac OS sucked? What did the Mac OS have over windows in 1997? Or if you prefer, what did windows have over the Mac OS in 1997? I think OSX changes things a bit between then and now - mainly because now the Mac OS is heads and shoulders above Windows.
I was in the same boat when I first installed iTunes. I had spent hours organizing my music files into Genre -> Artist -> Album -> (Track) Song.mp3 format.
I began to panic when I saw iTunes "Processing..." and heard my hard drive grinding.
But then it occurred to me, iTunes had done in a few minutes what had taken me countless hours to do by hand. I can find my music in iTunes 10x faster than I can using the Finder / Explorer - so what was I worried about?
If I actually need the physical file for something, I search for it in iTunes and then hit command-R and it pops a finder window open with the file selected - no file / folder browsing required.
iTunes was Spotlight for music files. Shortly thereafter I was wishing that I could find any file as easily as I can find a song file using iTunes. A few years later, we have Spotlight :)
and surprisingly - for once - I agree with ballmer: http://news.com.com/Quote+of+the+day+What+changed/ 2110-1006_3-5735703.html?part=rss&tag=5735703&subj =news
Why does Apple changing processors suddenly threaten linux? It makes no logical sense.
"The kit will include a 3.6GHz, Pentium-based Mac. (Probably similar to the one Jobs used for the entire keynote leading up to the announcement)"
I wish... the one steve demo'd at the keynote was a quad processor machine!
During the keynote steve said that they looked for one thing when making the decision about switching processors - performance per watt.
My guess is that Intel's chips are more efficient than AMD's albeit not as fast.
ehh, good point. leave it to the sickos to always ruin everything.
The only way we're going to get thee *AA to change their tactics and start selling downloadable content online is to force them to innovate.
Right now the *AA is under the misconception that they can actually abolish p2p by suing the pants off of anyone and everyone who shares files.
Currently they are using IP addresses to track down uploader's personal information. These anonymous p2p systems are going to make that A LOT harder to do.
Personally, I am for anything that puts the squeeze on the *AA - I think eventually they *will* get the hint.
except I'm not a million miles from civilization - time warner just decided that they didn't want to run cable down my street, despite the fact that there are 17 houses per mile (1.5 miles of road).
I've been fighting with them for almost 2 years now and so far I haven't gotten anywhere. They want me to pay $26,000 to have the cable run down the road so they can make money on everyone else on the street who is also dying for high speed internet & cable TV.
anybody have any suggestions?
there is a cell tower within a half mile of my house, and I did look into the highspeed wireless service, but at the time the drivers for the required pcmcia card were windows only (I need something that will work with OSX).
I'm not saying that you can't secure a windows network. We have a very secure windows network where I work.
All I'm saying is that it's A LOT harder.
If our network was comprised of all OSX machines we could fire at least one of our full time PC support specialists.
I am the administrator of my own machine (the account I use to log in has admin access). I've never had any spyware, viruses, malware, trojans or any other problems what so ever - and I've been to quite a few seedy websites. I don't always use a firewall. My machine is actually a laptop and I am constantly changing networks and traveling around. I haven't disabled or changed any of the machine's settings. I'm using the default web browser. My machine hasn't been rebooted since April 29th when I installed a new OS. Before that it had been on for 3 months straight, previously rebooted for an OS update.
What am I using?
Tiger on a Powerbook.
I don't care what you do to a wintel laptop, you will not be able to abuse your machine the way I do and have this kind of reliability.
I never said the airbags were useless junk, nor did i say the sound proofing or electronics were useless junk. i said there was other useless junk along side those things.
In any case, it all adds up to one thing: weight
I have a TDI swap - I took a TDI from 2001 new beetle (golf / jetta are all the same) and retrofitted it into a 1990 Jetta. I have a personal fetish for the MK2 body style (1985 - 1992) which was the reason for the swap.
A friend of mine has an automatic 2003 Jetta TDI and she averages about 48 MPG. The car weighs in at about 2900 lbs.
My swap gets 55+ MPG if I keep my foot out of it. That's 770 miles per tank. It's a 5 speed which helps (the autos get a few mpg less), but the biggest reason for the increase is the weight of the car. The old cars aren't packed with sound proofing / airbags / electronics / other useless junk the way the new cars are. My car weighs around 2300 lbs - 600 lighter than the newer car.
This has other advantages as well - the car handles better and is considerably faster. With a performance chip & bigger fuel injectors it will make 300 foot pounds of torque and 160 horsepower - its no slouch. It won't run a very fast quarter mile because of the 4500 RPM redline (RPMs make horsepower and horsepower makes fast 1/4 mile times) but the driving characteristics of the car are awesome. 300 ft/lbs around town is a real riot. The chip actually increases fuel mileage in most cases, depending on how you drive of course. But no matter how hard I drive the car it will never get less than 45mpg.
I feel that I've attained something that apparently is pretty difficult to do - I built a fast car that gets phenomenal fuel mileage. Why can't the auto industry do the same?
Here is the gallery of the project
Be real patient, go real slow and use lots of ... oh wait.
I submitted a request to make Safari Acid2 Compliant a while back - its a good feeling when a request you submitted is fulfilled :) (of course, I have no idea if they actually even read my request, but I'd like to think that they did :P)
Check your math again 2.7 is 11% behind 3.0 not 30%
As much as I am for moving technology forward, this topic really pisses me off. We still cannot get cable / broadband at my house, and now they want to shut off analog broadcasting? Uhm hello? Shouldn't you have a infrastructure that supports digital communication in place before pulling the plug?
Wednesday Apple announced their second quarter results - net profit of .34 per share. And then then projected 3rd quarter net profit to be around .28 per share - the stock tanked over night.
The iPod line represents 30% of apples revenue right now. I attribute the lowered projection to be based on Apple's feeling that for the first time, they're not going to sell more iPods next quarter than they did this quarter.
they're getting awful crafty these days....
yup.
like mine where the IT department full of MCSE's hasn't got the foggiest idea of how to even use linux. Sure they've heard of it and know the names of the major distributions, but aside from installing it, they haven't go the first clue how to use it.
I'm the first "IT Guy" in our company (we have 27,000 employees world wide) that snuck a linux based web server onto the network. I maintain it and develop all of the software that runs on it. My coworkers know of it's existance, but if I get hit by a beer truck they're SOL.
they're running out of cool cat names... I can't think of any more. Calico just doesn't have the same cool factor as Tiger :)
A lot of the shots in this film were used with that same design.
Specifically any of the "lead cam" shots, where the camera car is leading the picture car with the camera shooting backwards.
It works very well, the only issue being keeping the whole setup from rotating side to side. Its very difficult to hold in this position for extended periods of time (just try holding a 30lb weight straight out in front of you for 3 minutes).
You can see the rotating movement in some of the shots... but overall they didn't come out too bad considering I was hanging out of the back of a convertible rabbit while doing 50 mph :)
Here, we're going to give you a file thats locked and encrypted. We're also going to give you the keys so that you can open it and actually use it. Oh yeah, please don't copy it while you have it unlocked.
WTF is the point?