afaik the G5 used POWER5 CPU's, very shortly into the life of the G5 IBM moved on to the POWER6 CPU. This caused issues for the supply of CPUs to apple, also there is no PPC based low power, low heat, CPU for laptops. Not that IBM couldn't do it, but the POWER CPUs are for servers. Anyways, it looks like POWER7 CPUS go from 3.0-4.14GHz max frequency. I also think that the POWER architecture is backwards compatible mostly. Long story short, the lack of PPC based apple products is almost 100% apples deal.
Why do 99% of Apple users care the actual frequency of the CPU, if it'll shorten a render time by 20% its 20% faster end of story. So who cares that the CPU goes to 3.0GHz if the new one is faster per clock. Just rename it the G6 or G7 and seel it as a new faster machine, marketing problem solved.
can you keep it doing something >95% of the time? by something, something making you money. Even then at 1,000,000USD you probably won't make it back if all you are doing is art. As an engineer you would try to avoid using this machine if you could because it costs so damn much. Even if you have one sitting there, make a non high value part is dumb, because it could be done for half the cost in some other fashion.
The amazing part for me was when they had the like 18" extension on the end of the mill. How do you not break the tool off?
thats because the awesome bar is not run in it's own thread, and thats actually a lot harder to do well than you would expect. So while it is busy processing the awesome bar it cannot update the gui. nothing to do with the speed of the OS at all.
actually it looks like he's saying that there is a law on the books that says doing exactly what this new sex ed program does is illegal.
"If a teacher instructs any student aged 16 or younger how to utilize contraceptives under circumstances where the teacher knows the child is engaging in sexual activity with another child -- or even where the 'natural and probable consequences' of the teacher's instruction is to cause that child to engage in sexual intercourse with a child -- that teacher can be charged under this statute" of contributing to the delinquency of a minor...."
"Forcing our schools to instruct children on how to utilize contraceptives encourages our children to engage in sexual behavior, whether as a victim or an offender," he wrote. "It is akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then instructing them on how to make mixed alcoholic drinks.""
so maybe he is somewhere in the middle, but i didn't see any mention of god or religion anywhere in there. It is just a county DA and i would have expected the state DA to be involved at the state level. If the law does have some sort of inducement clause like this guy says, I can see how this might be a problem for the school districts/teachers involved.
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so i can open a xlsx with vba macros and it will work fine? thought not. Just about every engineering sheet has a vba macro, and thats not counting the ones using it to talk to a third part app.
They will likely be a "manual" as in has a clutch, and that gear shifting will be almost entirely in your control. I would expect that the only time it shifts is to keep the engine from stalling, and will likely let you bang the car off the red line in 3rd all day if thats what you want to do. The issue is more that the automatics make poor shifting choices, down shifting 2 gears when you press down the peddle lightly while going up one of those clover leaf ramps, and it's snowy out so all of a sudden your front wheels start spinning and you get to play catch the car.
hulu, old netflix, youtube(changing), flash games(line rider), last.fm, pandora, thedailyshow.com, most streaming TV sites. You never use any of that?
The lack of media formats is what is killing it for me. It supports h264 in a mp4 container just like my ps3, but they do not in any way over lap on the spec, my ps3 needs main or higher level 4 or higher h264 video, the ipad needs baseline level 3 and no more than 30 fps. So that would be, 1 copy ofr the ps3, one for my mythical iPhone, and one for my mythical iPad. The lack of both my ps3 and mythical iPad to support mkv containers is annoying as well, because I could put the whole dvd menus and all in them.
it's some XML in a zip container from my knowledge. In fact on *NIX systems the file utility shows them as zips. I remember at uni that we had issues with the linux based mail system marking the attachments as zips and then they didn't auto open in word.
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Ahh, i've never used on of the touches. can i run the pandora app and read an ibook? how about last.fm in the browser(if flash ever makes it to the device) and an iBook?
Meanwhile, if you want to run your own software on the iPad its simple: forget the App store and code whatever the hell you like in loverly open standards-based HTML5/ECMAScript/SVG and host it on your Real Computer. Practical upshot: odds are your "cloud" apps will also be compatible with anything running a half-decent browser.
that won't let me listen to music while reading an iBook. It also won't give me hulu on it.
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I agree, but how many of them are going to want/expect to listen to music and browse facebook at the same time? or play those flash based face book games? Everything i have seen says one thing at a time, so i have 0 hope that i can even do something as simple as read an e-book while listening to music count me out, granted what i'd really like is this running OSX or an option to enable "advanced mode" that is full OSX.
perfectly legit case of multi tasking using only apps that come preloaded(i hope); Read an E-Book from the book store while listening to music. Actually do just about anything on the device while listening to music. A slightly different answer, run pandora (app or website) while doing just about anything else on the device. No I'm not talking playing a game and browsing the web at the same time in side by side windows, but simply leaving an app running in the background while i go read a book. If it can't do that, I have 0 interest.
right to a fair trial applies to the accused, and then only in criminal cases, not civil like this one. He is not saying lawyers should be punished if their client is found guilty, but if they bring a lawsuit the court feels is wasting it's time. Perhaps a smaller hearing to decide if the case has merits before getting a lawyer would be a good introduction to the system. If you don't have the courts, "it seems you have your ducks in a row" stamp good luck finding a lawyer. Even then it would still be possible, but just the lawyer would be sticking out his own neck as well.
ask the telco to turn it off a day or two over a few weeks without notification, and record your feelings during those few weeks, if you get a false positive, or no change it's not the telcos tower thing. See that community in south africa that was having issues, and the tower hadn't even been powered up yet.
never thought of that, these devices talk at ~2.4GHZ, you can buy phones that use that same frequency, your microwave uses it as well. DOes this man have a cordless phone, microwave, or any other non shielded wiring in his home? if so, it's his own damn problem, also the amount of radation on an omni directional source goes down by the square of the distance, so even being 10 meters from the 5mW AP should make the radition around 50uW. I wonder what the level of radiation just the earth has, in the very helpful North/south poles thing.
Moving parts, hinges, even rotating mirrors, are failure-prone and take a lot of space. Most phone with front-facing cameras use two smaller lenses instead and leave out any moving parts -- my 4-year-old Sony Ericsson K610 has a VGA front camera for videoconferencing and a 2MP rear-facing camera for proper pictures. I am pretty sure that the iPhone will use the same concept.
"proper pictures" with a 2MP cam, with a tiny tiny tiny sensor, with a shit lens, right.... I have found very little use for my camera on my phone, anything i want to take pictures of gets the SLR camera, and things like if the car gets hit, are better off on a disposable, as photos on film are much harder to manipulate. Any US carriers allow video conferencing on their networks? or do i need to pay $20 a month for that feature? Then again i like my phones phones, and my computers computers, and my cameras cameras, and an all in one device seems to do a shitty job at all of them. Just let me teather devices to my phone, and then i can have a small phone and a pda/tablet that just has internet.
to bad i like hulu, pandora, last.fm, bbc's iPlayer, the ocasional crappy flash game. Now i know things like the games, and iplayer should be easy to port to html5+JS+svg, things like hulu are less likely, as that layer of DRM is required for them to exist. So while i hate flash as much of the next guy, it's here, and to use parts of the web i like, i need it on my MID.
running things locally would work great if >90% these days didn't need files from some sort of network drive/server/export/etc, requiring network access anyways. Lots of commercial software won't run if it can't get a license from the network, Outlook is just about worthless without a network connection. So really you need that connection anyways. Why do you seem to think that the loss of network access would need to imeditly kill any thing you were doing at the time? wait for the network to come back up, and resume work as if nothing happened.
Why would you buy an Atom for this? a ARM SoC, Nvidia tegra 2 comes to mind, would fit in the monitor and be able to do all of this. Since the client CPU isn't running any apps, the type isn't important on the client end. Since the apps are executed on server, if it has X86 compatible CPUs all your software should work fine. Also this is really only a concern on proprietary apps, lots of the major opensource apps work on ARM/PPC/blackfin just fine with little to no modification. Mplayer maybe not, by why does your client need to be able to play videos? flash, again not on ARM yet, but that would seem to be a good thing in a corporate network. Youtube stops working, hulu, lots of other time wasters.
On linux with X, you can already do this, GDM has support for logging into a remote machine, worst case, you need to run GDM on the real hardware, and make the X session a SSH+key+exec gnome/kde/etc. The only catch here is that removable devices don't work as well, without a few more games, but in a coperate environment that may not be a bad thing. In fact this should all work fine for off network use(slower but useable) by just checking to see if you are at home, if not vpn home and then do the login.
Of course i have no idea how to do any of this if you need windows, and it would not be a good idea for cpu/gpu intensive loads, photoshop/CAD/3d animation. Windows doesn't really support showing only a few windows as windowing calls and not pushing a pile of pixels. Yes i know RDP handles only updating small parts of the screen at once, but that doesn't handle encrypting the stream, the key presses, mouse movements, etc. To be honest windows seems to really care about which machine something is being run on. Also I'm not sure how licenses would work for say, excel, it's only installed on one or a handful of machines, yes it's being run by 30 users at a time, but it's only installed in one place. Do you need to seats of Excel if people share a computer?
not to condone them, but all of that could be an automated algorithm, one that changes modifiers based on the relationship between Yelp and the thing being looked at. "ohh paying customer, subtract 4 from all of the reviews before sending them along to verify the rating(below -5 gets tossed), show only the ones that come back, and then add back the 4 we took away. ohh ex paying customer, same thing but add 4, and drop all that are not within 0+-5." Sales guys have no direct influance on that, apart from being able to make you a paying customer.
But then i have to block every single "make your own quiz" app... the script is a block all by default, which is better IMO. I wouldn't use it if FB had a "block all apps, except [list]"
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Or as long as it takes IBM to release a 3 GHz G5?
afaik the G5 used POWER5 CPU's, very shortly into the life of the G5 IBM moved on to the POWER6 CPU. This caused issues for the supply of CPUs to apple, also there is no PPC based low power, low heat, CPU for laptops. Not that IBM couldn't do it, but the POWER CPUs are for servers. Anyways, it looks like POWER7 CPUS go from 3.0-4.14GHz max frequency. I also think that the POWER architecture is backwards compatible mostly. Long story short, the lack of PPC based apple products is almost 100% apples deal.
Why do 99% of Apple users care the actual frequency of the CPU, if it'll shorten a render time by 20% its 20% faster end of story. So who cares that the CPU goes to 3.0GHz if the new one is faster per clock. Just rename it the G6 or G7 and seel it as a new faster machine, marketing problem solved.
"useless" bridgeport? I'm not sure i'd call it useless, lots of things can be made on them. with a pit of paint marker and a jig, even rather quickly.
can you keep it doing something >95% of the time? by something, something making you money. Even then at 1,000,000USD you probably won't make it back if all you are doing is art. As an engineer you would try to avoid using this machine if you could because it costs so damn much. Even if you have one sitting there, make a non high value part is dumb, because it could be done for half the cost in some other fashion.
The amazing part for me was when they had the like 18" extension on the end of the mill. How do you not break the tool off?
thats because the awesome bar is not run in it's own thread, and thats actually a lot harder to do well than you would expect. So while it is busy processing the awesome bar it cannot update the gui. nothing to do with the speed of the OS at all.
actually it looks like he's saying that there is a law on the books that says doing exactly what this new sex ed program does is illegal.
"If a teacher instructs any student aged 16 or younger how to utilize contraceptives under circumstances where the teacher knows the child is engaging in sexual activity with another child -- or even where the 'natural and probable consequences' of the teacher's instruction is to cause that child to engage in sexual intercourse with a child -- that teacher can be charged under this statute" of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. ..."
"Forcing our schools to instruct children on how to utilize contraceptives encourages our children to engage in sexual behavior, whether as a victim or an offender," he wrote. "It is akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then instructing them on how to make mixed alcoholic drinks.""
so maybe he is somewhere in the middle, but i didn't see any mention of god or religion anywhere in there. It is just a county DA and i would have expected the state DA to be involved at the state level. If the law does have some sort of inducement clause like this guy says, I can see how this might be a problem for the school districts/teachers involved.
so i can open a xlsx with vba macros and it will work fine? thought not. Just about every engineering sheet has a vba macro, and thats not counting the ones using it to talk to a third part app.
They will likely be a "manual" as in has a clutch, and that gear shifting will be almost entirely in your control. I would expect that the only time it shifts is to keep the engine from stalling, and will likely let you bang the car off the red line in 3rd all day if thats what you want to do. The issue is more that the automatics make poor shifting choices, down shifting 2 gears when you press down the peddle lightly while going up one of those clover leaf ramps, and it's snowy out so all of a sudden your front wheels start spinning and you get to play catch the car.
hulu would seem to be a great sort of a thing for this device, but with no flash...
hulu, old netflix, youtube(changing), flash games(line rider), last.fm, pandora, thedailyshow.com, most streaming TV sites. You never use any of that?
The lack of media formats is what is killing it for me. It supports h264 in a mp4 container just like my ps3, but they do not in any way over lap on the spec, my ps3 needs main or higher level 4 or higher h264 video, the ipad needs baseline level 3 and no more than 30 fps. So that would be, 1 copy ofr the ps3, one for my mythical iPhone, and one for my mythical iPad. The lack of both my ps3 and mythical iPad to support mkv containers is annoying as well, because I could put the whole dvd menus and all in them.
it's some XML in a zip container from my knowledge. In fact on *NIX systems the file utility shows them as zips. I remember at uni that we had issues with the linux based mail system marking the attachments as zips and then they didn't auto open in word.
Ahh, i've never used on of the touches. can i run the pandora app and read an ibook? how about last.fm in the browser(if flash ever makes it to the device) and an iBook?
you must be new here, funny is no karma, insightful is.
Meanwhile, if you want to run your own software on the iPad its simple: forget the App store and code whatever the hell you like in loverly open standards-based HTML5/ECMAScript/SVG and host it on your Real Computer. Practical upshot: odds are your "cloud" apps will also be compatible with anything running a half-decent browser.
that won't let me listen to music while reading an iBook. It also won't give me hulu on it.
I agree, but how many of them are going to want/expect to listen to music and browse facebook at the same time? or play those flash based face book games? Everything i have seen says one thing at a time, so i have 0 hope that i can even do something as simple as read an e-book while listening to music count me out, granted what i'd really like is this running OSX or an option to enable "advanced mode" that is full OSX.
perfectly legit case of multi tasking using only apps that come preloaded(i hope); Read an E-Book from the book store while listening to music. Actually do just about anything on the device while listening to music. A slightly different answer, run pandora (app or website) while doing just about anything else on the device. No I'm not talking playing a game and browsing the web at the same time in side by side windows, but simply leaving an app running in the background while i go read a book. If it can't do that, I have 0 interest.
as is that new mouse thing they released.
right to a fair trial applies to the accused, and then only in criminal cases, not civil like this one. He is not saying lawyers should be punished if their client is found guilty, but if they bring a lawsuit the court feels is wasting it's time. Perhaps a smaller hearing to decide if the case has merits before getting a lawyer would be a good introduction to the system. If you don't have the courts, "it seems you have your ducks in a row" stamp good luck finding a lawyer. Even then it would still be possible, but just the lawyer would be sticking out his own neck as well.
ask the telco to turn it off a day or two over a few weeks without notification, and record your feelings during those few weeks, if you get a false positive, or no change it's not the telcos tower thing. See that community in south africa that was having issues, and the tower hadn't even been powered up yet.
never thought of that, these devices talk at ~2.4GHZ, you can buy phones that use that same frequency, your microwave uses it as well. DOes this man have a cordless phone, microwave, or any other non shielded wiring in his home? if so, it's his own damn problem, also the amount of radation on an omni directional source goes down by the square of the distance, so even being 10 meters from the 5mW AP should make the radition around 50uW. I wonder what the level of radiation just the earth has, in the very helpful North/south poles thing.
Moving parts, hinges, even rotating mirrors, are failure-prone and take a lot of space. Most phone with front-facing cameras use two smaller lenses instead and leave out any moving parts -- my 4-year-old Sony Ericsson K610 has a VGA front camera for videoconferencing and a 2MP rear-facing camera for proper pictures. I am pretty sure that the iPhone will use the same concept.
"proper pictures" with a 2MP cam, with a tiny tiny tiny sensor, with a shit lens, right.... I have found very little use for my camera on my phone, anything i want to take pictures of gets the SLR camera, and things like if the car gets hit, are better off on a disposable, as photos on film are much harder to manipulate. Any US carriers allow video conferencing on their networks? or do i need to pay $20 a month for that feature? Then again i like my phones phones, and my computers computers, and my cameras cameras, and an all in one device seems to do a shitty job at all of them. Just let me teather devices to my phone, and then i can have a small phone and a pda/tablet that just has internet.
to bad i like hulu, pandora, last.fm, bbc's iPlayer, the ocasional crappy flash game. Now i know things like the games, and iplayer should be easy to port to html5+JS+svg, things like hulu are less likely, as that layer of DRM is required for them to exist. So while i hate flash as much of the next guy, it's here, and to use parts of the web i like, i need it on my MID.
running things locally would work great if >90% these days didn't need files from some sort of network drive/server/export/etc, requiring network access anyways. Lots of commercial software won't run if it can't get a license from the network, Outlook is just about worthless without a network connection. So really you need that connection anyways. Why do you seem to think that the loss of network access would need to imeditly kill any thing you were doing at the time? wait for the network to come back up, and resume work as if nothing happened.
Why would you buy an Atom for this? a ARM SoC, Nvidia tegra 2 comes to mind, would fit in the monitor and be able to do all of this. Since the client CPU isn't running any apps, the type isn't important on the client end. Since the apps are executed on server, if it has X86 compatible CPUs all your software should work fine. Also this is really only a concern on proprietary apps, lots of the major opensource apps work on ARM/PPC/blackfin just fine with little to no modification. Mplayer maybe not, by why does your client need to be able to play videos? flash, again not on ARM yet, but that would seem to be a good thing in a corporate network. Youtube stops working, hulu, lots of other time wasters.
On linux with X, you can already do this, GDM has support for logging into a remote machine, worst case, you need to run GDM on the real hardware, and make the X session a SSH+key+exec gnome/kde/etc. The only catch here is that removable devices don't work as well, without a few more games, but in a coperate environment that may not be a bad thing. In fact this should all work fine for off network use(slower but useable) by just checking to see if you are at home, if not vpn home and then do the login.
Of course i have no idea how to do any of this if you need windows, and it would not be a good idea for cpu/gpu intensive loads, photoshop/CAD/3d animation. Windows doesn't really support showing only a few windows as windowing calls and not pushing a pile of pixels. Yes i know RDP handles only updating small parts of the screen at once, but that doesn't handle encrypting the stream, the key presses, mouse movements, etc. To be honest windows seems to really care about which machine something is being run on. Also I'm not sure how licenses would work for say, excel, it's only installed on one or a handful of machines, yes it's being run by 30 users at a time, but it's only installed in one place. Do you need to seats of Excel if people share a computer?
not to condone them, but all of that could be an automated algorithm, one that changes modifiers based on the relationship between Yelp and the thing being looked at. "ohh paying customer, subtract 4 from all of the reviews before sending them along to verify the rating(below -5 gets tossed), show only the ones that come back, and then add back the 4 we took away. ohh ex paying customer, same thing but add 4, and drop all that are not within 0+-5." Sales guys have no direct influance on that, apart from being able to make you a paying customer.
But then i have to block every single "make your own quiz" app... the script is a block all by default, which is better IMO. I wouldn't use it if FB had a "block all apps, except [list]"
not always, but those who shop bestbuy certainly. If you can find a samsung xyz model TV there for cheeper why not buy from them?