Some of us have relatives, girlfriends, and business partners who are going to get caught up in this mess even if we ourselves don't travel past any borders.
Did you notice that nobody's using biometric systems that aren't also sold to companies. All you really need is to have a front company that says it needs a secure biometric company id system. The same people that sold the US their system will happily sell you an exact copy scaled down to one site. Once you own the system, you can run it to your heart's content. You can get data off of passports and create proper fakes at your leisure.
Total cost for piercing the false security of the system? Way to little to be a barrier to ObL.
It's more likely that the decent shows will be sponsored instead of saturated with ads. Firefly, brought to you by Preparation H!
Seriously, good entertainment will always draw an audience and audiences will always draw advertisers. If broadband continues to get rolled out, we could see TVoIP with advertisers taking an international market campaign sponsoring programs on the net.
That's the beauty of capitalism. It eventually dethrones the most entrenched incumbents as they continue to foul up. You just can't predict how and when.
I'm writing a final proposal for a network redesign. I'm going to recommend that if they need to add a server in future it be a Mac OS X server box and swap out their current file and print box to handle the new application service they adopt. Why? Because their chief IT guy is also their chief accountant and their current IT consultants have been using fixed IP assignment instead of DHCP so that he needed to call them every time they had to install a machine. If you want to migrate a company like this off of Windows file and print, which makes more sense to you? Exactly.
You can't say hire a linux support person because their salary will be more than made up by the money you save on licensing and hardware over Mac. It just isn't. Even if you could get the chief accountant into a Linux class to take on an OS, is it really a wise use of his time and talents? No.
Macs are about as user friendly to administer as you can get and with 10.3 giving Active Directory integration with a dead simple GUI interface, it's a good choice for companies like this.
They might, they might not. That's the funny thing about copyright renewal. You don't know who has the current rights to it and what their attitude will be. I'm sure that there are plenty of copyrighted works that are the property of corporations who have no interest in them but acquired them unknowingly or are in a completely different business line.
It's probably pretty safe to say that Mickey Mouse will have his copyrights renewed but what about some bankrupt comic book house whose assets were bought at auction on the value of the scrap metal the presses would get? Does the junk man really care that he also owns the rights to the character Sergeant Snoot? He may not even be consciously aware of it.
As long as non-copyright holders can't pay the fee for the copyright holder, I think it's a real advance.
If you had any brains you would have read the many refutations of the OSX on x86 idea and given up on this sad excuse for a business plan.
Most of the market wants to get their work done and doesn't care if it's x86, ppc, or some other chip that powers their computers. With Apple's unlimited client server licensing they're a cheaper solution for standard file and print servers than Windows. That's not as cheap as Linux but the hardware price difference very quickly gets swallowed up by Windows CAL costs. For small companies in the 10-100 employee range who don't want to have a full-time administrator Apple has a compelling enterprise product.
The weakest point of Mac systems for many years has been slow bus speeds. Nobody's challenging the bus speeds and they're much, much faster. If you had a bus this fast on the G4 systems, they would dramatically improve their real-world performance.
RAM capacity is also not under challenge. So, for 23999 I can get a system that would permit up to 8GB of ram on the system.
Just those two unchallenged figures make this much more than just another boring speed bump hardware upgrade.
If they're providing the actual compiler flags they used and the flags used disprove one of the doubter's claims (no SSE2 use) then maybe Apple is *not* just making stuff up?
Apple's pulling off a miracle every day of the week by staying competitive and often moving ahead of the pack when it has such a small market share. When Apple has 10% of the market, they'll likely have the money to support such a project. But then again, why not just pour the same effort into gcc PPC optimizations? You get the same result (more hardware sales due to faster software) and you get kudos for contributing code.
Yes, yes, and who will ever need more than 640k of RAM?
The truth is that if your competitor is turning out his renders 2 hours faster than you on a regular basis, he's going to incrementally increase his ability to compete and gain marketshare on the firm that thinks that what they have is 'good enough'.
Analysts have been predicting Apple's bankruptcy for going on two decades now. Their predictions of Apple's marketshare should be taken with a smidgen of salt.
You missed some of it. Intel issued a new chip announcement today and MS had an announcement on Pocket PCs. They knew that something good was coming so they tried to give people an excuse not to cover it. It's standard corporate ankle biting.
Currently, Apple has carefully put itself in the position that if they try to create true vendor lock-in with incompatibilities, a large portion of their userbase will have the ability to just jump ship and shift to FreeBSD. Open Directory 2 can be replaced by OpenLDAP, Rendezvous wth ZeroConf, etc.
Apple might have had the potential to become MS at one point but their current positioning means that they have to walk the straight and narrow even if they do become dominant.
Wouldn't the relevant measure be the 2-6GB more RAM athe G5 Macs can hold? Imagine running an 8 hour Maya or Photoshop session and not having to use your swap files. That's the real goodness for graphics shops.
Since you can run pretty much everything on Mac OS X that you can on Linux, I don't see this as being a very realistic scenario. OTOH, you can't run everything on Linux that Mac OS X has so which alternative OS has a wider variety of apps?
Even better, it's written for Slate. One MS property promoting another MS property's product. Isn't cross-subsidizing what got them in trouble with the DOJ in the first place?;-)
The low end box for Apple is $799. The low end professional line just got introduced at $1999. Like it's lower end cousin, the iMac, the low end power mac is within a few hundred of Dell's offering (compare them to the precisions, not the dimensions). Dell beats them out on price but it can't match their power curve and memory capacity. To a great extent, real world performance is RAM bound, not processor bound. 4 or 8 GB beats 2 all day long.
GhostScript is a cheapo knockoff of Postscript. Apple has the original. GIMP is in development for Mac OS X (see macgimp), Cinepaint runs on OS X, Blender is available on OS X, OpenOffice just went to GM, and LaTex runs on OS X.
So you have two platforms, one of which (OS X) runs all the relevant software from the other platform plus it has many titles that the other one does not have. I think that Mac OS X has nothing to worry about there.
Apple's been hamstrung by Motorola's lackluster perfomrance as their high end chip supplier. With that problem now solved come August, I expect that a great deal of marketshare improvement will start showing up in the next year or two.
1.8 Ghz Macs were supposed to be at parity with the 3.2 Ghz Pentiums that were just released. Well, surprise, we have 2.0 Ghz Macs and the possibility that when it's IBM v. Intel in a chip improvement race, IBM might beat out Intel. For people with serious computing needs that might mean PPC hardware (IBM or Apple label) and a continued lowering of PPC chip costs vis a vis Intel.
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Some of us have relatives, girlfriends, and business partners who are going to get caught up in this mess even if we ourselves don't travel past any borders.
Did you notice that nobody's using biometric systems that aren't also sold to companies. All you really need is to have a front company that says it needs a secure biometric company id system. The same people that sold the US their system will happily sell you an exact copy scaled down to one site. Once you own the system, you can run it to your heart's content. You can get data off of passports and create proper fakes at your leisure.
Total cost for piercing the false security of the system? Way to little to be a barrier to ObL.
And you need to know what else about Charlies Angels to get the entire point of the movie?
It's more likely that the decent shows will be sponsored instead of saturated with ads. Firefly, brought to you by Preparation H!
Seriously, good entertainment will always draw an audience and audiences will always draw advertisers. If broadband continues to get rolled out, we could see TVoIP with advertisers taking an international market campaign sponsoring programs on the net.
That's the beauty of capitalism. It eventually dethrones the most entrenched incumbents as they continue to foul up. You just can't predict how and when.
It's not the pricing. It's the legal rights. It seems that Europe doesn't exist when it comes to music licensing.
Congratulations, you now have prior art.
Whittle didn't deserve his patent. There was prior art as far back as 1910.
Stupid patents were issued back then too...
I'm writing a final proposal for a network redesign. I'm going to recommend that if they need to add a server in future it be a Mac OS X server box and swap out their current file and print box to handle the new application service they adopt. Why? Because their chief IT guy is also their chief accountant and their current IT consultants have been using fixed IP assignment instead of DHCP so that he needed to call them every time they had to install a machine. If you want to migrate a company like this off of Windows file and print, which makes more sense to you? Exactly.
You can't say hire a linux support person because their salary will be more than made up by the money you save on licensing and hardware over Mac. It just isn't. Even if you could get the chief accountant into a Linux class to take on an OS, is it really a wise use of his time and talents? No.
Macs are about as user friendly to administer as you can get and with 10.3 giving Active Directory integration with a dead simple GUI interface, it's a good choice for companies like this.
They might, they might not. That's the funny thing about copyright renewal. You don't know who has the current rights to it and what their attitude will be. I'm sure that there are plenty of copyrighted works that are the property of corporations who have no interest in them but acquired them unknowingly or are in a completely different business line.
It's probably pretty safe to say that Mickey Mouse will have his copyrights renewed but what about some bankrupt comic book house whose assets were bought at auction on the value of the scrap metal the presses would get? Does the junk man really care that he also owns the rights to the character Sergeant Snoot? He may not even be consciously aware of it.
As long as non-copyright holders can't pay the fee for the copyright holder, I think it's a real advance.
If you had any brains you would have read the many refutations of the OSX on x86 idea and given up on this sad excuse for a business plan.
Most of the market wants to get their work done and doesn't care if it's x86, ppc, or some other chip that powers their computers. With Apple's unlimited client server licensing they're a cheaper solution for standard file and print servers than Windows. That's not as cheap as Linux but the hardware price difference very quickly gets swallowed up by Windows CAL costs. For small companies in the 10-100 employee range who don't want to have a full-time administrator Apple has a compelling enterprise product.
The weakest point of Mac systems for many years has been slow bus speeds. Nobody's challenging the bus speeds and they're much, much faster. If you had a bus this fast on the G4 systems, they would dramatically improve their real-world performance.
RAM capacity is also not under challenge. So, for 23999 I can get a system that would permit up to 8GB of ram on the system.
Just those two unchallenged figures make this much more than just another boring speed bump hardware upgrade.
If they're providing the actual compiler flags they used and the flags used disprove one of the doubter's claims (no SSE2 use) then maybe Apple is *not* just making stuff up?
Apple's pulling off a miracle every day of the week by staying competitive and often moving ahead of the pack when it has such a small market share. When Apple has 10% of the market, they'll likely have the money to support such a project. But then again, why not just pour the same effort into gcc PPC optimizations? You get the same result (more hardware sales due to faster software) and you get kudos for contributing code.
Yes, yes, and who will ever need more than 640k of RAM?
The truth is that if your competitor is turning out his renders 2 hours faster than you on a regular basis, he's going to incrementally increase his ability to compete and gain marketshare on the firm that thinks that what they have is 'good enough'.
Analysts have been predicting Apple's bankruptcy for going on two decades now. Their predictions of Apple's marketshare should be taken with a smidgen of salt.
You missed some of it. Intel issued a new chip announcement today and MS had an announcement on Pocket PCs. They knew that something good was coming so they tried to give people an excuse not to cover it. It's standard corporate ankle biting.
Currently, Apple has carefully put itself in the position that if they try to create true vendor lock-in with incompatibilities, a large portion of their userbase will have the ability to just jump ship and shift to FreeBSD. Open Directory 2 can be replaced by OpenLDAP, Rendezvous wth ZeroConf, etc.
Apple might have had the potential to become MS at one point but their current positioning means that they have to walk the straight and narrow even if they do become dominant.
I just looked at Dell's equivalent workstation. It runs about $300 cheaper (2.8Ghz, 256MB RAM). I'd be interested in speed comparisons though.
Wouldn't the relevant measure be the 2-6GB more RAM athe G5 Macs can hold? Imagine running an 8 hour Maya or Photoshop session and not having to use your swap files. That's the real goodness for graphics shops.
Since you can run pretty much everything on Mac OS X that you can on Linux, I don't see this as being a very realistic scenario. OTOH, you can't run everything on Linux that Mac OS X has so which alternative OS has a wider variety of apps?
The point is that there's a symbiotic relationship. Whether that would be with Gecko or KHTML is a detail.
Even better, it's written for Slate. One MS property promoting another MS property's product. Isn't cross-subsidizing what got them in trouble with the DOJ in the first place? ;-)
The low end box for Apple is $799. The low end professional line just got introduced at $1999. Like it's lower end cousin, the iMac, the low end power mac is within a few hundred of Dell's offering (compare them to the precisions, not the dimensions). Dell beats them out on price but it can't match their power curve and memory capacity. To a great extent, real world performance is RAM bound, not processor bound. 4 or 8 GB beats 2 all day long.
GhostScript is a cheapo knockoff of Postscript. Apple has the original. GIMP is in development for Mac OS X (see macgimp), Cinepaint runs on OS X, Blender is available on OS X, OpenOffice just went to GM, and LaTex runs on OS X.
So you have two platforms, one of which (OS X) runs all the relevant software from the other platform plus it has many titles that the other one does not have. I think that Mac OS X has nothing to worry about there.
Nobody on the OS X side will mind if you dual boot into Yellow Dog Linux.
Apple's been hamstrung by Motorola's lackluster perfomrance as their high end chip supplier. With that problem now solved come August, I expect that a great deal of marketshare improvement will start showing up in the next year or two.
1.8 Ghz Macs were supposed to be at parity with the 3.2 Ghz Pentiums that were just released. Well, surprise, we have 2.0 Ghz Macs and the possibility that when it's IBM v. Intel in a chip improvement race, IBM might beat out Intel. For people with serious computing needs that might mean PPC hardware (IBM or Apple label) and a continued lowering of PPC chip costs vis a vis Intel.