Based on your responses below, I know I'm pissing into the wind, but... just be patient. It will happen. For a pick-up, you will need more battery capacity than a car due to its additional weight and aerodynamic losses. Expect, for 300 miles range (how often do you need that much range? daily? occasionally?), to need around 120-150kWh of battery. Even with today's battery prices, that might be doable. The truck will push your $50K boundary pretty hard, but it is feasible. The battery itself, conservatively, will be around $25-30K. Add a truck body and its components and it will be close to $50K. With quick charging, the battery should be able to go from empty to full in around 1.5 to 2 hours. Most of the time you rarely completely discharge the battery, so for daily-driving purposes (which, in the US, is an average of 40 miles) it shouldn't take very long to charge, even at home. I've been driving electric for over 5 years now and it's great. A pick-up with that much range and an electric powertrain would be amazing!
Do tell. I've been driving electric for 5 years. The "fuel" is very inexpensive compared to gas. I have yet to go to a mechanic or dealership to have maintenance done.
Your turn.
> upper/lower case
Are you talking about HFS+ Case Sensitive? It's been there for years in Mac OS X, though it can cause issues with sloppy applications that rely on case insensitivity.
I once ran our company's support web site on my iBook G3 while the server was undergoing maintenance. This maintenance ended up lasting a week -- and people were amazed at how fast the support web site was running!
Applications like CoreImage/QuickTime thrive off of vector code... (snip)
It's true, however much of CoreImage's functionality is GPU (not CPU) based. A more powerful video card will do wonders for CoreImage's performance level.
I just wonder how much performance will be lost using SSE1/2/3 and MMX versus AltiVec...
Finally, who in their right mind would host any type of server on a Windows or Macintosh machine?
Okay, I'll bite.
While doing some maintenance on a Windows 2000 web server for a now defunct dotcom, I put the content on my iBook G3 500MHz and used the built-in Apache web server on Mac OS 10.1 (this was several years ago) to serve the site.
Well, to make a long story short, we couldn't get the Windows 2000 system working because of a hardware fault so my iBook served the company's international technical support site for 10 days, serving over 8GB of files per day.
I asked several of our support personnel if they noticed any problems with the support site. All of them said no.
Given the fact a laptop of limited power could serve a server-side scripted support site (say that fast 10 times!), I would say I am crazy enough to host a site on a Mac.
You'll need an old computer (is anyone making P3 systems anymore?) to run this crippled operating system. As a computer gets older, generally speaking, it gets less reliable.
Windows crashes frequently, even when not crippled.
Uh... anyone see a pattern here?
On the upside, an old computer probably has an old monitor so the crippled version of Windows' 800x600 video display limitation probably won't matter either...
Um... am I the only one that thought those were not funny? Good special effects but special effects don't make things funny. Content makes things funny.
You are correct that you can write x86 code without buffer overflows. I've always thought that dynamically-assigned buffers were trouble since I first learned them.
What the author of this article is saying is that PowerPC-based computers would only have a 1-in-6 chance of being able to execute code arbitrarily spilled over actual code via buffer overflow.
Moreover the way that data and code "segments" (I'm using the x86 word here) just don't work the same way on PowerPCs. This essentially prevents arbitrary code from being executed on this particular RISC processor.
This is not a Mac-specific thing. Any computer (RS6000, AS/400, IBM xSeries, etc.) with a PowerPC family processor will have this benefit.
Windows might still be insecure, but it would be less insecure running on a PowerPC RISC processor.
I just tried outputting it to my Viewsonic G810 monitor at 1920x1080 and still have no problems displaying full HDTV resolution. Granted, CPU usage is over 60% at this point, but still not bad.
By the way, I have a 15" Powerbook, which is slightly higher resolution than the 12" Powerbook.
Elgato Systems updated their software and it only requires a reasonably fast G4 system. My EyeTV 500 works perfectly on my Powerbook G4 1.25GHz laptop at full screen.
I tried searching for "Hello Project" on MSN's search yesterday and got very few of the results I was interested in (a JPop conglomeration called the "Hello Project").
Strangely today, when I tried MSN's beta search, the returns were nearly identical to what Google's were. Too identical to be a coincidence in my opinion, especially since there aren't going to be very many people searching for the Japanese "Hello Project".
-Aaron-
Yes, but think about how out-of-date your IT skills will be by then.
"Nick, could you spec out a PC for me?" "Sure! You want something fast, like a 3.6GHz Pentium IV?" "You must be joking. My holographic communication watch has more power than that!"
Impact crater my ass. Interesting about the white methane cloud. Could that be the famed "exhaust port" that was the demise of the Death Star in the first place?
They are allowing you to download it to your hard drive, and then you can watch it later.
Then, why the "600kbps or faster Internet connection" requirement? Just so it doesn't take so long to download? That seems like far too precise a number for a direct download.
Did anyone else notice the system requirements include a Windoze computer?
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There are plenty on the LEAF message board that I frequent. They mostly charge at work.
Based on your responses below, I know I'm pissing into the wind, but... just be patient. It will happen. For a pick-up, you will need more battery capacity than a car due to its additional weight and aerodynamic losses. Expect, for 300 miles range (how often do you need that much range? daily? occasionally?), to need around 120-150kWh of battery. Even with today's battery prices, that might be doable. The truck will push your $50K boundary pretty hard, but it is feasible. The battery itself, conservatively, will be around $25-30K. Add a truck body and its components and it will be close to $50K. With quick charging, the battery should be able to go from empty to full in around 1.5 to 2 hours. Most of the time you rarely completely discharge the battery, so for daily-driving purposes (which, in the US, is an average of 40 miles) it shouldn't take very long to charge, even at home. I've been driving electric for over 5 years now and it's great. A pick-up with that much range and an electric powertrain would be amazing!
Do tell. I've been driving electric for 5 years. The "fuel" is very inexpensive compared to gas. I have yet to go to a mechanic or dealership to have maintenance done. Your turn.
> upper/lower case Are you talking about HFS+ Case Sensitive? It's been there for years in Mac OS X, though it can cause issues with sloppy applications that rely on case insensitivity.
I once ran our company's support web site on my iBook G3 while the server was undergoing maintenance. This maintenance ended up lasting a week -- and people were amazed at how fast the support web site was running!
It will be much easier to exit Windows Vista. No more clicking on Start, Shutdown, selecting Shutdown, and clicking okay.
Now, just type :q! on the keyboard!
With Windows and Mac sharing the same CPU there has got to be a way to do at least basic Mac emulation under Windows.
It probably won't have all the nice bells and whistles as running the same application on a Mac but, like Wine, it will be "good enough".
What do Windows users care about Widgets, Exposé, Quartz Extreme, etc.? What they don't have they won't miss. :)
-Aaron-
It's true, however much of CoreImage's functionality is GPU (not CPU) based. A more powerful video card will do wonders for CoreImage's performance level.
I just wonder how much performance will be lost using SSE1/2/3 and MMX versus AltiVec...
-Aaron-
Okay, I'll bite.
While doing some maintenance on a Windows 2000 web server for a now defunct dotcom, I put the content on my iBook G3 500MHz and used the built-in Apache web server on Mac OS 10.1 (this was several years ago) to serve the site.
Well, to make a long story short, we couldn't get the Windows 2000 system working because of a hardware fault so my iBook served the company's international technical support site for 10 days, serving over 8GB of files per day.
I asked several of our support personnel if they noticed any problems with the support site. All of them said no.
Given the fact a laptop of limited power could serve a server-side scripted support site (say that fast 10 times!), I would say I am crazy enough to host a site on a Mac.
-Aaron-
You'll need an old computer (is anyone making P3 systems anymore?) to run this crippled operating system. As a computer gets older, generally speaking, it gets less reliable.
Windows crashes frequently, even when not crippled.
Uh... anyone see a pattern here?
On the upside, an old computer probably has an old monitor so the crippled version of Windows' 800x600 video display limitation probably won't matter either...
-Aaron-
Yawn.
/Firefox user on PC; Safari on Mac
What the author of this article is saying is that PowerPC-based computers would only have a 1-in-6 chance of being able to execute code arbitrarily spilled over actual code via buffer overflow.
Moreover the way that data and code "segments" (I'm using the x86 word here) just don't work the same way on PowerPCs. This essentially prevents arbitrary code from being executed on this particular RISC processor.
This is not a Mac-specific thing. Any computer (RS6000, AS/400, IBM xSeries, etc.) with a PowerPC family processor will have this benefit.
Windows might still be insecure, but it would be less insecure running on a PowerPC RISC processor.
-Aaron-
-Aaron-
Windows 1.0 looked very much like the MS-DOS Executive application. It was not graphically enabled.
-Aaron-
By the way, I have a 15" Powerbook, which is slightly higher resolution than the 12" Powerbook.
-Aaron-
-Aaron-
I tried searching for "Hello Project" on MSN's search yesterday and got very few of the results I was interested in (a JPop conglomeration called the "Hello Project"). Strangely today, when I tried MSN's beta search, the returns were nearly identical to what Google's were. Too identical to be a coincidence in my opinion, especially since there aren't going to be very many people searching for the Japanese "Hello Project". -Aaron-
An EveTV 500 HDTV tuner hooked to my G5 and 21" CRT monitor, along with nice 5.1 speakers attached through the optical port on the G5.
"Nick, could you spec out a PC for me?"
"Sure! You want something fast, like a 3.6GHz Pentium IV?"
"You must be joking. My holographic communication watch has more power than that!"
Is Titan the Death Star?
Impact crater my ass. Interesting about the white methane cloud. Could that be the famed "exhaust port" that was the demise of the Death Star in the first place?
I have a Southwestern Bell DSL account, which came with a 100MB inbox when I signed up. I just noticed my Yahoo inbox now is 2GB!
The specs for the dual G5 2GHz model state a 700W power supply.
Your command of the obvious is extraordinary.
Then, why the "600kbps or faster Internet connection" requirement? Just so it doesn't take so long to download? That seems like far too precise a number for a direct download.
Did anyone else notice the system requirements include a Windoze computer?
Apparently some Windows user wants to mod my post down to hide the truth.