... before the launch; there was a discount offer 4 pounds off a month for life. The biggest plus to this service is that it is the first one of them that offers a cheap Static IP option (if they offer one at all). So whatever the speed benefits the cost of my broadband comes down and the fats upstream means checking my home email becomes less of a chore.
I would buy one at the drop of a hat if it could act as a little portable WiFi IMAP client, a budget blackberry. I could spend more time in the cafe and less in the office.
According to the Developer docs about the Universal binary released today Intel Macs will NOT use Open Firmware.
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We need both. Most of the alt fuel sources are relatively low power density compared to say a 1000MW coal fired power station and often further from the places people live. So a high transmission efficiency technology such as this makes alt-energy sources much more viable. By the same token it cuts the need for power overall. A lot of power is wasted in transmission.
You make a good point, though. Right now though, there are lots of viable alt-energy sources and this is far from ready to roll. So let's keep working on both.
well said. It's also meant to be thermally very good. 25W @ 2Ghz. On-Board quad gigabit ethernet controllers, PCI-E controllers and dual DDR controllers. It's a great chip and it saves having a few others on the board as well. It ought to make a killer apple sub-notebook.
Unless you could couple a load of the trailers together it is of no use for freight. The main benefit of Railfreight is the fact that you can move a lot at once; thousands of tonnes of train at a time. You can already split trains up and send them down branch lines. What limits the usefulness is the fact that sub-container sized freight has not been a popular commodity for Rail for morethan 25 years and the facilities for dealing with pallet freight on rail have all but gone. The irony being, of course thatthe infrastructure is pretty minimal. The problem of course is the fact that unimode (road) is often quicker especially for that final distribution leg where it would often make the most difference in rural areas.
For Longer distance trains there are already piggy back trains right across europe (See the HUPAC services that keep lorries off the swiss roads).
Passenger wise, multi-mode vehicles are an expensive geegaw. Combinign the worst of both worlds. Anyone who has ridden on a 'Pacer' rail bus (merely a train built by a bus company) will know the meaning of that statement. What works better is tight integration of public transport (guaranteed connections, through ticketing, etc.) and the reoping of old lines where appropriate; see the Wensleydale Rly., CAST.Iron and many others
Depending on how exactly it works. Hopefully, in the same way as core Audio it is not just a plugin and interconnect layer for video applications but a complet abstraction layer for hardware as well. Hurry up with some godamned documentation.
at the same time I was dissapointed not to see distributed rendering using Xgrid for Apples Pro Video Apps.
I can vouch for the traffic bottleknecks. This Bridge means my occasional London-Perignan Trips are now possible in a day by road.Roll on finishing the Montpellier-Perpignan LGV rail line though.
Think of the time saved by being able to buy a preconfigured cluster. Just open the box plug in, fire up and go. Now Beowulf may be cheaper, butthink of the time saved by just being able to buy a cluster off the shelf. Think of the time saved by not having to set up and configure. I don't really mind who's selling this kind of solution but I'm glad someone someone is.
Roll on clustered Shake and FCP renndering though.
The aim of the game though is to make it easier for devlopers to devlop for Windows and at the same time, make devloping for Mac easy on the devloper's resources, bring more apps to the mac, thus making the Mac a more atractive platform. It's not to give Mac interfaces or functionality or ease of use to Linux or Windows. Look what happened when apple ported iTunes to Windows, windows users complained about certain interface behaviors not being PC like and Apple had to release n altered version.
There will still be the OS choice to make, based on security, ease of use, functionality etc. Apple will still make their Mac only killer and consumer apps, (FCP, Logic, iMovie etc.), as I'm sure windows will. Bringing easy cross platform development, is a great way for Apple to broaden it's user base without affecting the crown jewels of hardware sales.
We would love to port the products of the company I work for to OS X and Linux. Mainly so we can leverage whatever the best processor available at any time is. Unfortunately without compatibility products in certain areas it won't happen. If GNUstep and cocoa were in sync this would take care of a lot of issue. OpenSource products already solve most of the other cross compatibility issues. The overarching set of frameworks is the big hurdle.
Apple could swing a lot of converts with a write once, compile everywhere system. I'm not interested in Aqua on windows or Linux, in fact I'd prefer the interface to be OS consistent, (one of the big swing gui and X11 on OS X issue). Being able to produce an app for which ever platform the customer wants or has the best processors.
If we'd had an OS X based solution for our core product (a broadcast playout system) we could shift a lot of Macs and a lot of copies of final cut pro. The all Mac workflow isn't necessary but it looks attractive, especially with XSan, XServes, Motion, even iMovie thrown into the mix (it may seem hard to believe but there are some people using iMovie to edit for broadcast and for cuts only editing why the hell not). However the activation energy hump to port to OS X is too high at the moment, we can't afford to develop for two platforms unless we get a little help. We can't afford to move to OS X exclusively, what if another processor bottleneck happens as happened before the arrival of the G5, we'd feel much safer if we had Xeon, Opteron and PPC as options in case one stalls.
So come on Apple, you will sell more hardware, more crown jewels software if you make cross platform a doddle.
News is ont he brain at the moment, the projetc I'm working on right now is a 24 hour news station. The fact that you can knock out a high quality news report on something as cheap as an eMac is very very attractive to some people to whom getting content to air at the lowest possible cost is paramount. Of course it's not going to suit everyone.
However note that Logic audio has just been updated and among the features is better integration with FCP. Granted Logic Audio Pro is not Pro Tools (yet) but it is very good and very well liked. Motion completes the suite. Apple has a very good case in the low to mid-scale scheme ofthings and is going to be banging on the high end with the FCPHD, Shake, Motion, DVDSP, Logic Pro solution. Back this with a relatively cheap SAN and server plaform and you have a winner. It's not gouing to steal Avid's or Matrox's business overnight but It the price performance ratio is going to be a big seller. Currently I wouldn't sell anything but a Mac for DVD production or field editing. It's going to get harder and harder to sell Avid if FCP etc FCP keeps on improving like this. (And don't get me wrong I really like Avid/ProTools).
And FCP is driving up market as well. As hardware gets more powerful the need for avid, Matrox or whatever gets much less. I work for a company that builds tv stations. Our workflow is moving away from hardware based solutions (Currently not Avid but Matrox Digisuite + Incite) to all software based solution. Already a 17" Powerbook makes a killer field editing machine for a news crew. It gets even better now, roll on a G5 laptop and there will be no reason to specify anything else.
Don't leave out the PC, it's a stinking piece of shit on the PC. It'lll crash doing the simplest tasks, it makes my work life a pain in the arse and thankfully work is dumping it, although not in favour of FCP, worst luck, it won't fit into our Matrox digisuite based workflow.
The PDA may proeduce no pollution during use, but then neither does My LiIon powered laptop.
There are plenty of Biomass sources for methanol, that is not the problem. Think of all of the energy and pollution used to make the damn thing, and the pollution problem of the fuel cell's platinum catlyst on disposal.
The blue could be anything, minerals, the way the digital camera picks up shadow, but it is interesting that it is in the shady areas, worth a closer look though.
My girlfriend's iBook has (clamshell, graphite) just devloped backlight problems. When you switch it on the back light fires up but as soon as the OS starts loading it cuts out. I believe it's also when the PMU kicks in, but whether it's the PMU (resetting the PMU hasn't cured it), tube or driver bord. Anyone have ant insight into this problem?
I think this will really take of with xpat indians world wide. I'd say that 90% or more of bollywood dvds and video sold outside India are pirates. So any way the studios can extract a bit of money from the xpat market is a bonus. $2.99 for one viewing is fair enough but how about $9.99 for something burnable to a vcd and $15.99 for something burnable at dvd quality.
And while we're at it get hollywood doing the same. Sunday I wanted to watch about schmidt but not badly enough to go to the video store. They have taken a few quid off me if I could have downloaded it there and then. P2P isn't at threat it's a distribution method. With or without DRM there are plenty of people willing to pay for the convenience of media downloads.
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... before the launch; there was a discount offer 4 pounds off a month for life. The biggest plus to this service is that it is the first one of them that offers a cheap Static IP option (if they offer one at all). So whatever the speed benefits the cost of my broadband comes down and the fats upstream means checking my home email becomes less of a chore.
I would buy one at the drop of a hat if it could act as a little portable WiFi IMAP client, a budget blackberry. I could spend more time in the cafe and less in the office.
According to the Developer docs about the Universal binary released today Intel Macs will NOT use Open Firmware.
We need both. Most of the alt fuel sources are relatively low power density compared to say a 1000MW coal fired power station and often further from the places people live. So a high transmission efficiency technology such as this makes alt-energy sources much more viable. By the same token it cuts the need for power overall. A lot of power is wasted in transmission.
You make a good point, though. Right now though, there are lots of viable alt-energy sources and this is far from ready to roll. So let's keep working on both.
well said. It's also meant to be thermally very good. 25W @ 2Ghz. On-Board quad gigabit ethernet controllers, PCI-E controllers and dual DDR controllers. It's a great chip and it saves having a few others on the board as well. It ought to make a killer apple sub-notebook.
Unless you could couple a load of the trailers together it is of no use for freight. The main benefit of Railfreight is the fact that you can move a lot at once; thousands of tonnes of train at a time. You can already split trains up and send them down branch lines. What limits the usefulness is the fact that sub-container sized freight has not been a popular commodity for Rail for morethan 25 years and the facilities for dealing with pallet freight on rail have all but gone. The irony being, of course thatthe infrastructure is pretty minimal. The problem of course is the fact that unimode (road) is often quicker especially for that final distribution leg where it would often make the most difference in rural areas.
For Longer distance trains there are already piggy back trains right across europe (See the HUPAC services that keep lorries off the swiss roads).
Passenger wise, multi-mode vehicles are an expensive geegaw. Combinign the worst of both worlds. Anyone who has ridden on a 'Pacer' rail bus (merely a train built by a bus company) will know the meaning of that statement. What works better is tight integration of public transport (guaranteed connections, through ticketing, etc.) and the reoping of old lines where appropriate; see the Wensleydale Rly., CAST.Iron and many others
Unfortunately I don't have a seed key. I don't evenb have a working OS X machine at the moment, which is even worse.
I'd agree with you there. But you could argue that that would be up to the person designing the network.
Depending on how exactly it works. Hopefully, in the same way as core Audio it is not just a plugin and interconnect layer for video applications but a complet abstraction layer for hardware as well. Hurry up with some godamned documentation.
at the same time I was dissapointed not to see distributed rendering using Xgrid for Apples Pro Video Apps.
I can vouch for the traffic bottleknecks. This Bridge means my occasional London-Perignan Trips are now possible in a day by road.Roll on finishing the Montpellier-Perpignan LGV rail line though.
Think of the time saved by being able to buy a preconfigured cluster. Just open the box plug in, fire up and go. Now Beowulf may be cheaper, butthink of the time saved by just being able to buy a cluster off the shelf. Think of the time saved by not having to set up and configure. I don't really mind who's selling this kind of solution but I'm glad someone someone is.
Roll on clustered Shake and FCP renndering though.
The aim of the game though is to make it easier for devlopers to devlop for Windows and at the same time, make devloping for Mac easy on the devloper's resources, bring more apps to the mac, thus making the Mac a more atractive platform. It's not to give Mac interfaces or functionality or ease of use to Linux or Windows. Look what happened when apple ported iTunes to Windows, windows users complained about certain interface behaviors not being PC like and Apple had to release n altered version.
There will still be the OS choice to make, based on security, ease of use, functionality etc. Apple will still make their Mac only killer and consumer apps, (FCP, Logic, iMovie etc.), as I'm sure windows will. Bringing easy cross platform development, is a great way for Apple to broaden it's user base without affecting the crown jewels of hardware sales.
We would love to port the products of the company I work for to OS X and Linux. Mainly so we can leverage whatever the best processor available at any time is. Unfortunately without compatibility products in certain areas it won't happen. If GNUstep and cocoa were in sync this would take care of a lot of issue. OpenSource products already solve most of the other cross compatibility issues. The overarching set of frameworks is the big hurdle.
Apple could swing a lot of converts with a write once, compile everywhere system. I'm not interested in Aqua on windows or Linux, in fact I'd prefer the interface to be OS consistent, (one of the big swing gui and X11 on OS X issue). Being able to produce an app for which ever platform the customer wants or has the best processors.
If we'd had an OS X based solution for our core product (a broadcast playout system) we could shift a lot of Macs and a lot of copies of final cut pro. The all Mac workflow isn't necessary but it looks attractive, especially with XSan, XServes, Motion, even iMovie thrown into the mix (it may seem hard to believe but there are some people using iMovie to edit for broadcast and for cuts only editing why the hell not). However the activation energy hump to port to OS X is too high at the moment, we can't afford to develop for two platforms unless we get a little help. We can't afford to move to OS X exclusively, what if another processor bottleneck happens as happened before the arrival of the G5, we'd feel much safer if we had Xeon, Opteron and PPC as options in case one stalls.
So come on Apple, you will sell more hardware, more crown jewels software if you make cross platform a doddle.
News is ont he brain at the moment, the projetc I'm working on right now is a 24 hour news station. The fact that you can knock out a high quality news report on something as cheap as an eMac is very very attractive to some people to whom getting content to air at the lowest possible cost is paramount. Of course it's not going to suit everyone. However note that Logic audio has just been updated and among the features is better integration with FCP. Granted Logic Audio Pro is not Pro Tools (yet) but it is very good and very well liked. Motion completes the suite. Apple has a very good case in the low to mid-scale scheme ofthings and is going to be banging on the high end with the FCPHD, Shake, Motion, DVDSP, Logic Pro solution. Back this with a relatively cheap SAN and server plaform and you have a winner. It's not gouing to steal Avid's or Matrox's business overnight but It the price performance ratio is going to be a big seller. Currently I wouldn't sell anything but a Mac for DVD production or field editing. It's going to get harder and harder to sell Avid if FCP etc FCP keeps on improving like this. (And don't get me wrong I really like Avid/ProTools).
And FCP is driving up market as well. As hardware gets more powerful the need for avid, Matrox or whatever gets much less. I work for a company that builds tv stations. Our workflow is moving away from hardware based solutions (Currently not Avid but Matrox Digisuite + Incite) to all software based solution. Already a 17" Powerbook makes a killer field editing machine for a news crew. It gets even better now, roll on a G5 laptop and there will be no reason to specify anything else.
Don't leave out the PC, it's a stinking piece of shit on the PC. It'lll crash doing the simplest tasks, it makes my work life a pain in the arse and thankfully work is dumping it, although not in favour of FCP, worst luck, it won't fit into our Matrox digisuite based workflow.
Certainly not.
The PDA may proeduce no pollution during use, but then neither does My LiIon powered laptop.
There are plenty of Biomass sources for methanol, that is not the problem. Think of all of the energy and pollution used to make the damn thing, and the pollution problem of the fuel cell's platinum catlyst on disposal.
Shouldn't need multiple instances.
The blue could be anything, minerals, the way the digital camera picks up shadow, but it is interesting that it is in the shady areas, worth a closer look though.
My girlfriend's iBook has (clamshell, graphite) just devloped backlight problems. When you switch it on the back light fires up but as soon as the OS starts loading it cuts out. I believe it's also when the PMU kicks in, but whether it's the PMU (resetting the PMU hasn't cured it), tube or driver bord. Anyone have ant insight into this problem?
sorry, way to short for of expatriate.
I think this will really take of with xpat indians world wide. I'd say that 90% or more of bollywood dvds and video sold outside India are pirates. So any way the studios can extract a bit of money from the xpat market is a bonus. $2.99 for one viewing is fair enough but how about $9.99 for something burnable to a vcd and $15.99 for something burnable at dvd quality.
And while we're at it get hollywood doing the same. Sunday I wanted to watch about schmidt but not badly enough to go to the video store. They have taken a few quid off me if I could have downloaded it there and then. P2P isn't at threat it's a distribution method. With or without DRM there are plenty of people willing to pay for the convenience of media downloads.
Three years is about the life expectancy of a Li Ion battery, but the guy must have been using the battery in something else before he got is iPod.
I wasn't trying to link Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq, just responding to comments about Islamic terrorism.
Don't forget that France suffered several islamic terrorist attacks before 11/9/01 including a horrific attack on the Paris metro.