Technically, the drive controller is in the drive (that's what IDE stands for). The controller they referred to was one that was added to support the flash. These flash parts aren't cache RAM's like everyone seems to be imagining, they're additional storage.
No there's not. The hard drive will have a conventional filesystem just as it does today. The flash storage contents are managed separately. Flash storage is not a "write buffer".
They aren't "released" to the public, they are deployed on private, internal machines to do their jobs. It isn't a loophole, it's working exactly as designed. If the authors of the software wanted internal modifications to software released they would have said so in the license.
not to mention that the newton won on the highly subjective design category with one of the arguments being that it's uncluttered with buttons. kind of like the ipod not being cluttered with an on/off button when it can't ever be turned off (it only pretends to be off). Apple has a history of sacrificing function for form yet always gets credit for it.
I liked the part about the low resolution screen being "100dpi" therefore ideal for document editing. Mac lovers have a constant stream of excuses for their low resolution displays.
Loved the pitiful networking and connectivity arguments as well. Irda is superior to bluetooth because it's not as buggy. Right. It's got a RS-422 port!
How about the newton's design is better because it's not cluttered with all those functional buttons?
Since when would I ever want to use a newton for 30 hours? 30 hours of crap is still crap. Newtons sucked when they were new and that's why they failed. Perhaps UMPC's suck just as bad but at least they'll only suck 2.5 hours at a time;-) This was a shootout of 2 very undesirable products by a biased, overstylized publication.
Fascinating how mac users forget the meaning of "intuitive" when called on it. The icons referred to are definitely style over substance. Why do you have to hover over them in order to see them? Why is color used as a differentiating element? Did the guys who designed this flunk out of usability school? They should have.
Having large numbers of threads only seriously hurts throughput (your term) in crappy operating systems. The apps you listed did what they did in response to poor threading performance issues in a specific OS. You don't see that kind of thing generally speaking.
How many emails does your email app process concurrently and since when has email performance been an issue for you?
Threads exist specifically because they are lightweight. If the weren't we would only have processes. When a kernel team fails to realize this you end up with apps that do screwy things like apache does. Kernels are made to cope with scheduling lots of threads, at least the real ones are.
...and these users you refer to have direct experience with the benefits 8 cores brings to their productivity? Or is it that you're pulling that out of your ass?
How much faster is photoshop with 8 cores that 4? Premiere for a long time barely took advantage of 2 processors (though I haven't used it recently). You're mistaken to think these apps are parallelized enough to benefit from 8 cpus. Adobe can't even release a universal binary for mac photoshop in a year's time.
If there really was a benefit to such machines today there would be people building them. You can make an 8 core machine if you're willing to pay. If there's not enough of these users you refer to then who cares? Fact is that these types of users aren't really as performance sensitive as you say as witnessed by the fact that many use the mac platform.
yes, this proposal doesn't fix the electoral college, it breaks it further. the purpose of the electoral college is necessary and sound but unfortunately has been undermined by politics. The president should not be selected by popular vote but by a group of experienced and qualified representatives. Democracy is the rule of the dumbest and there is no greater example than George W.
If you want to fix the electoral college, prevent electors from pledging to one candidate prior to election. Require them to be qualified. Of course, the inherent corruption of the political system must be addressed first.
Funny how state and local governments as well as most all corporations have figured out that your executive officer should be chosen by your congress/house/counsel/board. Many foreign democracies understand that as well including most of the US'es peers. Only the US hasn't gotten that right and thinks it needs to be broken further.
What constitutes "a lot of people and companies"? Care to back that up with facts?
The Japanese care and I'm sure Google cares but, as a percentage of the market, just how many care? Power consumption these days is about making things work at all.
you use "everyone" pretty liberally. not everyone believes in your freedoms even regarding your body and not everyone values human life as most do. In the US we have restrictions on what we can do regarding our own health and the health of our families and we also have the death penalty. Mass murderers don't respect the value of life and judges don't respect the sanctity of the body when they order medical treatment against the wishes of the person or the family. If you think your body is yours to choose, try to end your life.
regardless of the reasonableness of your arguments, pro-life people are, in fact, the religious right. the debate should be had on the facts of the matter but don't think the opponents of abortion are open-minded as you seem to be. you don't convince an anti-abortionist regardless of the arguments you use. they will tell you that life begins at conception, birth control is evil and boys had better not masturbate. so much for the freedom of controlling your own body. without that perspective they can't justify an outright ban on all abortion.
feeling especially biggoted today? Yes, there are people like that but I doubt they are any more pro-life than anything else. I have no illusions of the greatness of "pro-life"-ers but there are crappy people everywhere.
no doubt the term "pro-life" is a joke. "pro-choice" is a joke as well. just how many "pro-choice"-ers will be in favor of gay marriage for example? probably more than the other side but nowhere near 100%. pro-choice is in favor of choice for the things they'd like to choose. pro-choice means "pro-abortion rights", nothing more.
I'm always in favor of more rights and more choice. I'm in favor of life too. None of that helps me choose sides in the abortion matter.
both sides present themselves with appealing names to cover up their hatred of the other.
the parent isn't an apology in any way, and how is anything related to OSX remotely relevant? As the parent said, any issue with Windows will be viewed as an opportunity to evangelize macs1. Nicely done.
The screen is very readable and the keyboard very usable. You don't type on it like a desktop or laptop. It works like a large blackberry. It offers a stylus as well.
A couple corrections. The display is 22.2" diagonal and 13HZ is the slowest refresh when using a single DVI. There several versions of the monitor but all can do at least twice that refresh rate. I operate mine at 30Hz.
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Technically, the drive controller is in the drive (that's what IDE stands for). The controller they referred to was one that was added to support the flash. These flash parts aren't cache RAM's like everyone seems to be imagining, they're additional storage.
No there's not. The hard drive will have a conventional filesystem just as it does today. The flash storage contents are managed separately. Flash storage is not a "write buffer".
They aren't Microsoft's users. MS is within their right to deny owners of pirated copies. MS didn't collect a penny after all.
It is always the case that, when you buy stolen goods, you risk losing your money and the product. Ignorance is beside the point.
which Microsoft is under no obligation to give. If you buy stolen goods you end up with nothing.
they don't have to force you to buy it, they can just call the police
you mean sued for $500.
They aren't "released" to the public, they are deployed on private, internal machines to do their jobs. It isn't a loophole, it's working exactly as designed. If the authors of the software wanted internal modifications to software released they would have said so in the license.
The web output of GPL'ed software isn't GPL'ed.
not to mention that the newton won on the highly subjective design category with one of the arguments being that it's uncluttered with buttons. kind of like the ipod not being cluttered with an on/off button when it can't ever be turned off (it only pretends to be off). Apple has a history of sacrificing function for form yet always gets credit for it.
I liked the part about the low resolution screen being "100dpi" therefore ideal for document editing. Mac lovers have a constant stream of excuses for their low resolution displays.
;-) This was a shootout of 2 very undesirable products by a biased, overstylized publication.
Loved the pitiful networking and connectivity arguments as well. Irda is superior to bluetooth because it's not as buggy. Right. It's got a RS-422 port!
How about the newton's design is better because it's not cluttered with all those functional buttons?
Since when would I ever want to use a newton for 30 hours? 30 hours of crap is still crap. Newtons sucked when they were new and that's why they failed. Perhaps UMPC's suck just as bad but at least they'll only suck 2.5 hours at a time
Fascinating how mac users forget the meaning of "intuitive" when called on it. The icons referred to are definitely style over substance. Why do you have to hover over them in order to see them? Why is color used as a differentiating element? Did the guys who designed this flunk out of usability school? They should have.
Having large numbers of threads only seriously hurts throughput (your term) in crappy operating systems. The apps you listed did what they did in response to poor threading performance issues in a specific OS. You don't see that kind of thing generally speaking.
How many emails does your email app process concurrently and since when has email performance been an issue for you?
Threads exist specifically because they are lightweight. If the weren't we would only have processes. When a kernel team fails to realize this you end up with apps that do screwy things like apache does. Kernels are made to cope with scheduling lots of threads, at least the real ones are.
...and these users you refer to have direct experience with the benefits 8 cores brings to their productivity? Or is it that you're pulling that out of your ass?
How much faster is photoshop with 8 cores that 4? Premiere for a long time barely took advantage of 2 processors (though I haven't used it recently). You're mistaken to think these apps are parallelized enough to benefit from 8 cpus. Adobe can't even release a universal binary for mac photoshop in a year's time.
If there really was a benefit to such machines today there would be people building them. You can make an 8 core machine if you're willing to pay. If there's not enough of these users you refer to then who cares? Fact is that these types of users aren't really as performance sensitive as you say as witnessed by the fact that many use the mac platform.
yes, this proposal doesn't fix the electoral college, it breaks it further. the purpose of the electoral college is necessary and sound but unfortunately has been undermined by politics. The president should not be selected by popular vote but by a group of experienced and qualified representatives. Democracy is the rule of the dumbest and there is no greater example than George W.
If you want to fix the electoral college, prevent electors from pledging to one candidate prior to election. Require them to be qualified. Of course, the inherent corruption of the political system must be addressed first.
Funny how state and local governments as well as most all corporations have figured out that your executive officer should be chosen by your congress/house/counsel/board. Many foreign democracies understand that as well including most of the US'es peers. Only the US hasn't gotten that right and thinks it needs to be broken further.
What constitutes "a lot of people and companies"? Care to back that up with facts?
The Japanese care and I'm sure Google cares but, as a percentage of the market, just how many care? Power consumption these days is about making things work at all.
you use "everyone" pretty liberally. not everyone believes in your freedoms even regarding your body and not everyone values human life as most do. In the US we have restrictions on what we can do regarding our own health and the health of our families and we also have the death penalty. Mass murderers don't respect the value of life and judges don't respect the sanctity of the body when they order medical treatment against the wishes of the person or the family. If you think your body is yours to choose, try to end your life.
regardless of the reasonableness of your arguments, pro-life people are, in fact, the religious right. the debate should be had on the facts of the matter but don't think the opponents of abortion are open-minded as you seem to be. you don't convince an anti-abortionist regardless of the arguments you use. they will tell you that life begins at conception, birth control is evil and boys had better not masturbate. so much for the freedom of controlling your own body. without that perspective they can't justify an outright ban on all abortion.
the church doesn't admit it, it hopes for it.
feeling especially biggoted today? Yes, there are people like that but I doubt they are any more pro-life than anything else. I have no illusions of the greatness of "pro-life"-ers but there are crappy people everywhere.
no doubt the term "pro-life" is a joke. "pro-choice" is a joke as well. just how many "pro-choice"-ers will be in favor of gay marriage for example? probably more than the other side but nowhere near 100%. pro-choice is in favor of choice for the things they'd like to choose. pro-choice means "pro-abortion rights", nothing more.
I'm always in favor of more rights and more choice. I'm in favor of life too. None of that helps me choose sides in the abortion matter.
both sides present themselves with appealing names to cover up their hatred of the other.
"...just as any issue with a Mac not have game #x available is viewed as an opportunity to evangelize windows."
Irrelevant. Besides I'm not the original poster of this nor have I evangelized windows.
"Use the tool that suits YOU and don't deride others for their choice of OS."
Didn't deride anybody. That was the mac fanboy...
"I think your 2nd last sentence should've read: "As the parent said, any issue with Windows will be viewed as an opportunity to evangelize linux""
No, it was mac evangelism.
the parent isn't an apology in any way, and how is anything related to OSX remotely relevant? As the parent said, any issue with Windows will be viewed as an opportunity to evangelize macs1. Nicely done.
Inches aren't what's important either. An inch viewed a foot away is a lot diffferent than one viewed from three feet away.
Optimum dpi is a function of viewing distance, and viewing distance of this device is typically much less than a desktop monitor.
The IBM can be driven by one or two DVI channels as well. Refresh rates are reduced. Mine is driven by two DVI's at 30Hz.
DVI supports 1920x1200.
Sounds like Linux on just about any device!
it's completely "intuitive" just different. you can't use your fingers when they're busy holding the device.
thumbing is clearly better than stylus typing. you obviously haven't tried one.
The screen is very readable and the keyboard very usable. You don't type on it like a desktop or laptop. It works like a large blackberry. It offers a stylus as well.
I think plenty have heard of it. I own two.
A couple corrections. The display is 22.2" diagonal and 13HZ is the slowest refresh when using a single DVI. There several versions of the monitor but all can do at least twice that refresh rate. I operate mine at 30Hz.