Oh wait.... we can tell just by counting the pro-microsoft comments in this thread!!
Not necessarily!
If I were a paid Microsoft Troll, why would I blindly spout pro-Microsoft rhetoric when I could be much more effective by quietly offering little tidbits of wisdom that cast doubt among the/. horde?.. This wisdom could be offered in the form of pro-BSD comments (MS likes BSD) or even as psuedo-reverse psychology type comments (i.e. "MS sucks, because they have huge security holes in tehir code like *this*".. Which prompts half a dozen folks to either mention that Linux has the same hole, or that MS fixed that problem 6 months ago)..
The point is that if MS were hiring individuals to sway the/. crowd, you can bet your arse that they wouldn't be hiring script kiddies!
Maybe.. But they need to add a Firewire or USB2 port, a small HD, a DAC, and a nice interface.. For a drive, IBM's microdrive might work, but it's slower and smaller than the Toshiba Firewire drive in the iPod..
The point is that the iPod looks pretty secure for the time being..
I think what the poster was referring to was yesterday's announcement that Apple will begin shipping the GeForce4 Titanium cards in the top of the line towers as a BTO option... Apple announced two weeks ago that the towers would ship with GeForce4 MX cards..
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Maya 4 runs on x86 and PPC boxes too.. How does the ability to run Maya 4 make the Itanium powerful.. I'd be much more impressed if you'd told me that Intel had Maya 4 running on a 500MHz Itanium and it blew the doors off a dual Athalon or Dual 1GHz G4 box..
I want to see numbers.. How does the Itanium compare to the Ultrasparc 3 or Power4 processors? Does it play nicely in SMP configurations like the Power4? etc..
Carbon nano-tubes have a strength to weight ratio that is roughly 100x that of kevlar, and depending on how it's rolled can be either an insulator, a smiconductor, or a conductor.. Pretty cool stuff.. Unfortunately, they can currently only be manufactured in micron lengths..
Just for giggles, I decided to price out a little cluster..
I hopped on the Apple Education page and priced 65 1GHz Power Mac G4's @ $2,943.00 each = $191,295.00 (that's 64 work nodes and 1 node for data visualization)
1.5GB SDRAM - 3 DIMMs
Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
Accessory kit
Mac OS - U.S. English
1GHz - DP PowerPC G4
ATI Radeon 7500 dual
Apple SuperDrive
80GB Ultra ATA drive
We should probably include a 22" cinema display for our visualization box, so let's tack on another $2300 for that.. That brings us up to $195,895.. Which is a hefty chunk of change, but let's see what we cna do..
If we're bright we recognize that Apple has announced that they will begin shipping G4 server boxes with CD-RW drives rather than the SuperDrives in February (tomorrow).. That'll save us roughly $200/machine (or $12,800 overall) dropping our total cost to $183,095...
This is a lot of money for a 128 cpu cluster.. BUT this is a one time cost.. There is also the operating costs.. The new G4 chips are the first PowerPC chips to use IBM's SOI technology.. They actually use less power than the dual 800MHz machines do.. I'm not going to speculate on how much power a G4 cluster like this would consume or how much it would cost to cool such a cluster, but I expect it to be MUCH cheaper to run than an Athalon cluster with similar performance..
The Air Force must not have gotten too far because DARPA is currently requesting proposals for research leading to a Brain-Machine interface.
The problem with most brain-machine interfaces is the skull and fluid surrounding the brain. Both of these elements serve as spatial and temporal filters degrading the usefullness of electrodes placed outside the skull as control sensors.
Additions like alti-vec, etc Are mearly extensions and not any program I know of yet REQUIRES alti-vec to run
Apple's iDVD software requires the Altivec unit to perform the MPEG-2 encoding.. I'm sure it could be done on a G3 but the time to perform that operation is prohibitive so Apple requires a G4 processor or better..
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Woz is on Apple's board of directors and I'll bet he get's to see, try out, and probably even suggest improvements to all of Apple's newest toys before they're announced..
So let me get this straight.. Palm spins off their PalmOS division allowing it to chase anyone interested in building Dragonball based PDA's (i.e. Handspring) about a year after they announced that the next Palm would be ARM based, and right after they bought Be.. Hmmm?..
Did BeIA support ARM cpus?
What do you think the chances are that Palm decided to spin off the PalmOS division to make room for the new BeOS engineering team?
Is the header munged up on the disk?.. Has anyone tried accessing the disk as a simple iso CD, copying the unencrypted tracks (the screwed up.wav files) from the CD, then digitally filtering the bit stream to remove the pops, hisses, or whatever else causes problems for CD-ROMs?.. This is a serious question. I'm just curious. If a regular CD player will play the tracks, why won't a non-ms machine simply mount the CD as a data disk?..
The word was carefully chosen to be PC, not computer , which would enrage Mac users at large.
The problem with your statement is that Apple has regarded the Mac as a personal computer (PC) for a long time. Their product is not an "IBM compatible" x86 box but that does not make it any less a PC.. The key phrase is the Pentium® 133mHz or compatible processor, not the PC portion of the statement. Mac users are bright enough to realize that their machines do not use Pentium or compatible processors.
It should be noted that VPC will probably run this without any problem..
Grandma isn't going to buy a CD burner for her new iMac she uses to view those huge pictures of the grandkids and email her friends. She doesn't have a DSL connection so attaching them to an email may be to difficult. The easiest way for her to bring those files over to a friends house to show off is on a floppy
Nope!.. Grandma is going to be selecting the photos she really wants, and then sending them to Apple to be printed and hard bound into a canvas covered picture book.. That's how grandmas think!..
Try giving a Word Bird (who has only ever started up windows and double clicked on 'Microsoft Word 97') MacOS X. To her at least, the experience is completely bewildering.
I'm a little lost.. To install Office I grab the folder off the CD and drag it to the Applications folder.. I know where I just dragged the folder, so I can find it when I need the app. It's not a mysterious thing to most people.. If I want a shortcut, I drag the app to the to dock and a shortcut is created.. I click the Word icon on the dock, or in the Applications folder and Word launches. It looks nicer similar to and contains most of the Windows version of Word..
I know of 6 people who sat down in front of OS X for 5 minutes at the Apple Store or at a friends place and have decided to sell their Windows machines (many of which are under a year old) for new Macs and OS X. These are geeks and teachers mostly who have never used anything but Windows or Unix and immediately recognized how much friendlier OS X felt.. A number of the researchers here have purchased Macs for their desks. They code in project builder (which are generally run on Athalon boxes running Linux), write papers using TexShop (PDFLaTeX), touch up figures using Adobe Illustrator for OS X, read the interdepartmental memos using Word v.X, and maintain their grades in an Excel v.X spreadsheet... The point is that a lot of people are seeing Macs and saying "Wow! You mean I just drag and drop things where I want them and it works? Damn!! That's cool!" and that's what Apple is selling...
Why would anyone buy 120,000 copies of Linux? Does buying 120,000 copies entitle the users of each machine to a year or two of service? If that's the case, then maybe.. If not, then why not simply buy 1 copy and install it the 120,000 machines?..
PDF is an open standard and there are a number of utilities that will act as virtual printers, thus allowing you to 'convert' any document to PDF without the use of Adobe Distiller..
As for the MINORITY comment.. You're right.. I'm definitely in the minority but I hate word attachments.. 95% of the word documents that I recieve require no formatting.. They are essentially text documents, and that's exactly what bothers me the most!! Many, many people just can't seem to recognize that the tool they're using is not the right one for the job..
Much of the interface is still bitmapped images to speed up rendering. Jpegs and non-vector images are handled just like the bitmapped interface images..
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There are more announcements on the way tomorrow! Don't rule out a G5 or a few more G4's in the Professional Quicksilver enclosures..
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Oh wait.... we can tell just by counting the pro-microsoft comments in this thread!!
Not necessarily!
If I were a paid Microsoft Troll, why would I blindly spout pro-Microsoft rhetoric when I could be much more effective by quietly offering little tidbits of wisdom that cast doubt among the /. horde?.. This wisdom could be offered in the form of pro-BSD comments (MS likes BSD) or even as psuedo-reverse psychology type comments (i.e. "MS sucks, because they have huge security holes in tehir code like *this*".. Which prompts half a dozen folks to either mention that Linux has the same hole, or that MS fixed that problem 6 months ago)..
The point is that if MS were hiring individuals to sway the /. crowd, you can bet your arse that they wouldn't be hiring script kiddies!
Maybe.. But they need to add a Firewire or USB2 port, a small HD, a DAC, and a nice interface.. For a drive, IBM's microdrive might work, but it's slower and smaller than the Toshiba Firewire drive in the iPod..
The point is that the iPod looks pretty secure for the time being..
I think what the poster was referring to was yesterday's announcement that Apple will begin shipping the GeForce4 Titanium cards in the top of the line towers as a BTO option... Apple announced two weeks ago that the towers would ship with GeForce4 MX cards..
Maya 4 runs on x86 and PPC boxes too.. How does the ability to run Maya 4 make the Itanium powerful.. I'd be much more impressed if you'd told me that Intel had Maya 4 running on a 500MHz Itanium and it blew the doors off a dual Athalon or Dual 1GHz G4 box..
I want to see numbers.. How does the Itanium compare to the Ultrasparc 3 or Power4 processors? Does it play nicely in SMP configurations like the Power4? etc..
Carbon nano-tubes have a strength to weight ratio that is roughly 100x that of kevlar, and depending on how it's rolled can be either an insulator, a smiconductor, or a conductor.. Pretty cool stuff.. Unfortunately, they can currently only be manufactured in micron lengths..
Just for giggles, I decided to price out a little cluster..
I hopped on the Apple Education page and priced 65 1GHz Power Mac G4's @ $2,943.00 each = $191,295.00 (that's 64 work nodes and 1 node for data visualization)
- 1.5GB SDRAM - 3 DIMMs
- Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
- Accessory kit
- Mac OS - U.S. English
- 1GHz - DP PowerPC G4
- ATI Radeon 7500 dual
- Apple SuperDrive
- 80GB Ultra ATA drive
We should probably include a 22" cinema display for our visualization box, so let's tack on another $2300 for that.. That brings us up to $195,895.. Which is a hefty chunk of change, but let's see what we cna do..If we're bright we recognize that Apple has announced that they will begin shipping G4 server boxes with CD-RW drives rather than the SuperDrives in February (tomorrow).. That'll save us roughly $200/machine (or $12,800 overall) dropping our total cost to $183,095...
This is a lot of money for a 128 cpu cluster.. BUT this is a one time cost.. There is also the operating costs.. The new G4 chips are the first PowerPC chips to use IBM's SOI technology.. They actually use less power than the dual 800MHz machines do.. I'm not going to speculate on how much power a G4 cluster like this would consume or how much it would cost to cool such a cluster, but I expect it to be MUCH cheaper to run than an Athalon cluster with similar performance..
If Oracle ships a very light version of Linux with their database, then there's a good chance that this may be feasible.
The Air Force must not have gotten too far because DARPA is currently requesting proposals for research leading to a Brain-Machine interface.
The problem with most brain-machine interfaces is the skull and fluid surrounding the brain. Both of these elements serve as spatial and temporal filters degrading the usefullness of electrodes placed outside the skull as control sensors.
The DVD player in OS X still does not support the Bronze (Lombard) PowerBooks that shipped with DVD-ROMs..
An automatic speling an grammar checking filter each on downloaded page would be pretty slick.. Work on this for us you will?
I've never heard of MORE.. Is it anything like Omni's OmniOutliner?
Additions like alti-vec, etc Are mearly extensions and not any program I know of yet REQUIRES alti-vec to run
Apple's iDVD software requires the Altivec unit to perform the MPEG-2 encoding.. I'm sure it could be done on a G3 but the time to perform that operation is prohibitive so Apple requires a G4 processor or better..
Woz is on Apple's board of directors and I'll bet he get's to see, try out, and probably even suggest improvements to all of Apple's newest toys before they're announced..
The fastest processor out there (in terms of sheer power, not mere MHz) is the Athlon XP 2000+.
I thought the IBM POWER4 processors were still out front..
So let me get this straight.. Palm spins off their PalmOS division allowing it to chase anyone interested in building Dragonball based PDA's (i.e. Handspring) about a year after they announced that the next Palm would be ARM based, and right after they bought Be.. Hmmm?..
Did BeIA support ARM cpus?
What do you think the chances are that Palm decided to spin off the PalmOS division to make room for the new BeOS engineering team?
Ah, but you don't BUY software do you? You liscense it!!
Is the header munged up on the disk?.. Has anyone tried accessing the disk as a simple iso CD, copying the unencrypted tracks (the screwed up .wav files) from the CD, then digitally filtering the bit stream to remove the pops, hisses, or whatever else causes problems for CD-ROMs?.. This is a serious question. I'm just curious. If a regular CD player will play the tracks, why won't a non-ms machine simply mount the CD as a data disk?..
The word was carefully chosen to be PC, not computer , which would enrage Mac users at large.
The problem with your statement is that Apple has regarded the Mac as a personal computer (PC) for a long time. Their product is not an "IBM compatible" x86 box but that does not make it any less a PC.. The key phrase is the Pentium® 133mHz or compatible processor, not the PC portion of the statement. Mac users are bright enough to realize that their machines do not use Pentium or compatible processors.
It should be noted that VPC will probably run this without any problem..
Grandma isn't going to buy a CD burner for her new iMac she uses to view those huge pictures of the grandkids and email her friends. She doesn't have a DSL connection so attaching them to an email may be to difficult. The easiest way for her to bring those files over to a friends house to show off is on a floppy
Nope!.. Grandma is going to be selecting the photos she really wants, and then sending them to Apple to be printed and hard bound into a canvas covered picture book.. That's how grandmas think!..
Try giving a Word Bird (who has only ever started up windows and double clicked on 'Microsoft Word 97') MacOS X. To her at least, the experience is completely bewildering.
I'm a little lost.. To install Office I grab the folder off the CD and drag it to the Applications folder.. I know where I just dragged the folder, so I can find it when I need the app. It's not a mysterious thing to most people.. If I want a shortcut, I drag the app to the to dock and a shortcut is created.. I click the Word icon on the dock, or in the Applications folder and Word launches. It looks nicer similar to and contains most of the Windows version of Word..
I know of 6 people who sat down in front of OS X for 5 minutes at the Apple Store or at a friends place and have decided to sell their Windows machines (many of which are under a year old) for new Macs and OS X. These are geeks and teachers mostly who have never used anything but Windows or Unix and immediately recognized how much friendlier OS X felt.. A number of the researchers here have purchased Macs for their desks. They code in project builder (which are generally run on Athalon boxes running Linux), write papers using TexShop (PDFLaTeX), touch up figures using Adobe Illustrator for OS X, read the interdepartmental memos using Word v.X, and maintain their grades in an Excel v.X spreadsheet... The point is that a lot of people are seeing Macs and saying "Wow! You mean I just drag and drop things where I want them and it works? Damn!! That's cool!" and that's what Apple is selling...
You don't pay for speed when you buy a Mac, you pay for an engineered general purpose computer that works when you pull it out of the box!
Why would anyone buy 120,000 copies of Linux? Does buying 120,000 copies entitle the users of each machine to a year or two of service? If that's the case, then maybe.. If not, then why not simply buy 1 copy and install it the 120,000 machines?..
PDF is an open standard and there are a number of utilities that will act as virtual printers, thus allowing you to 'convert' any document to PDF without the use of Adobe Distiller..
As for the MINORITY comment.. You're right.. I'm definitely in the minority but I hate word attachments.. 95% of the word documents that I recieve require no formatting.. They are essentially text documents, and that's exactly what bothers me the most!! Many, many people just can't seem to recognize that the tool they're using is not the right one for the job..
Much of the interface is still bitmapped images to speed up rendering. Jpegs and non-vector images are handled just like the bitmapped interface images..
There are more announcements on the way tomorrow! Don't rule out a G5 or a few more G4's in the Professional Quicksilver enclosures..