Or "Office"..... FCS -
The most amazing thing about this is MS is clearly burning while Ballmer fiddles, spending time and resources on disputing if "App Store" has become more generic than say.... Kleenex, Coke or Xerox (which is doubtful) (or Windows or office or word)
And the firm that compiled that statistic (10.5% of the 30GB models) doesn't count figures from stores like Amazon, Walmart the Apple retail stores or Apple online.
If you looks at the numbers really sold during the Christmas season (zune sold, perhaps, a couple hundred thousand vs even 15 million iPods) you realise that the zune doesn't even have 2% of Apple's market much less the entire market.
I would be surprised if they have much more than a 1% share of the total market
What, what what...
CP is exceptionally weak compared to what? The yield strength of CP titanium (even annealed) is above all but exotic steel alloys (and has better fatigue strength). It is also exceptionally lightweight, corrosion resistant and exceptionally tough and flexible.
I was sad to see the titanium cases go away on the powerbooks You can actually do some fairly cool film effects (rainbow) on titanium by anodizing (no dyes, all thin film diffraction). The effects are not consistent and not very controllable but the effects can be spectacular.
http://www.titaniumarts.com/images/bikeart/ano/spl atter.jpghttp://www.titaniumarts.com/images/bikeart/ano/azt ec.jpghttp://www.titaniumarts.com/images/bikeart/ano/pla nets.jpg
It would be waaay cool to strip the paint off an old powerbook and get some of that work done eh?
It is likely that Apple's designers were referring to half "the perceived" noise which is accepted to equal 10DB (in fact I think the G5's were about 10-12Db quieter than the G4's)
Doubling the acoustic energy (in watts) does in result in a 3db measured change in SPL, but that is a barely noticeably change in the (human) perceived volume level. Our ears are not linear devices, that is the reason that differences in loudness (sound pressure level) are represented logarithmically. 1 DB is considered to be so small a change as to be imperceptible (in nearly all cases) even though it represents a significant change in absolute acoustic energy (in watts).
This points out why it is so difficult to keep things quiet, (and why this was a significant change) you must reduce the acoustic energy tenfold in order to halve the perceived loudness.
for a quick definition of sound pressure level
http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/tech_background/TE- 06/teces_06.html
On the OSX file finder "misses"; why would find file ('cmd' F) using the file 'name' 'contains' foo AND the 'extension' is.bar not work?
An added advantage (to ff) is that you can also (easily) stack criteria like 'date modified' is 'is within' 'the last 3 months' So, searches like; a file that contains both the strings 'foo' and 'bar' and has a file extension '.app' that was modified in the last two weeks on the drives 'foo' and 'bar' are quick and simple.
Actually, not. The $5M cost for the VT cluster includes infrastructure like racks, networking, and facility cooling updates. The $2.5M figure quoted by UT was for boxes only. I don't have the VT figures in front of me but I would guess that the G5 only costs for the VT cluster are likely close to the $3-3.5m mark. The performance being better than 4X and the box costs being close makes VT's cluster a much better deal.
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Or "Office"..... FCS - The most amazing thing about this is MS is clearly burning while Ballmer fiddles, spending time and resources on disputing if "App Store" has become more generic than say.... Kleenex, Coke or Xerox (which is doubtful) (or Windows or office or word)
If you looks at the numbers really sold during the Christmas season (zune sold, perhaps, a couple hundred thousand vs even 15 million iPods) you realise that the zune doesn't even have 2% of Apple's market much less the entire market.
I would be surprised if they have much more than a 1% share of the total market
What, what what... CP is exceptionally weak compared to what? The yield strength of CP titanium (even annealed) is above all but exotic steel alloys (and has better fatigue strength). It is also exceptionally lightweight, corrosion resistant and exceptionally tough and flexible. I was sad to see the titanium cases go away on the powerbooks You can actually do some fairly cool film effects (rainbow) on titanium by anodizing (no dyes, all thin film diffraction). The effects are not consistent and not very controllable but the effects can be spectacular. http://www.titaniumarts.com/images/bikeart/ano/spl atter.jpg
http://www.titaniumarts.com/images/bikeart/ano/azt ec.jpg
http://www.titaniumarts.com/images/bikeart/ano/pla nets.jpg
It would be waaay cool to strip the paint off an old powerbook and get some of that work done eh?
Doubling the acoustic energy (in watts) does in result in a 3db measured change in SPL, but that is a barely noticeably change in the (human) perceived volume level. Our ears are not linear devices, that is the reason that differences in loudness (sound pressure level) are represented logarithmically. 1 DB is considered to be so small a change as to be imperceptible (in nearly all cases) even though it represents a significant change in absolute acoustic energy (in watts).
This points out why it is so difficult to keep things quiet, (and why this was a significant change) you must reduce the acoustic energy tenfold in order to halve the perceived loudness.
for a quick definition of sound pressure level http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/tech_background/TE- 06/teces_06.html
On the OSX file finder "misses"; why would find file ('cmd' F) using the file 'name' 'contains' foo AND the 'extension' is .bar not work?
An added advantage (to ff) is that you can also (easily) stack criteria like 'date modified' is 'is within' 'the last 3 months' So, searches like; a file that contains both the strings 'foo' and 'bar' and has a file extension '.app' that was modified in the last two weeks on the drives 'foo' and 'bar' are quick and simple.
Actually, not. The $5M cost for the VT cluster includes infrastructure like racks, networking, and facility cooling updates. The $2.5M figure quoted by UT was for boxes only. I don't have the VT figures in front of me but I would guess that the G5 only costs for the VT cluster are likely close to the $3-3.5m mark. The performance being better than 4X and the box costs being close makes VT's cluster a much better deal.