It's not about trimming cents from a power bill (and since I live in Mauricie, Quebec, hydro-electricity is the rule, meaning cheap and clean electricity).
It's about a more powerful but still quiet computer. Since I bought my Mac mini, I consider external hard drives to be extremely noisy.
An efficient GPU that only requires a few watts equals less cooling, meaning a more quiet computer (perhaps even fanless, see low-end mini-ITX boards).
May I remind you that while some new videocards sometime require their own power connector, my whole computer can only take 110W at most? And that's a Core 2 Duo, not a wimpy VIA C3.
As a Mac mini user, I'm forced to use whatever GPU intel comes up with, unless Apple suddenly remembers their own words when they introduced the Mac mini G4:
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Or one 3D game. Go ahead, just try to play Halo on a budget PC. Most say they're good for 2D games only. That's because an âoeintegrated Intel graphicsâ chip steals power from the CPU and siphons off memory from system-level RAM. You'd have to buy an extra card to get the graphics performance of Mac mini, and some cheaper PCs don't even have an open slot to let you add one. - Apple Inc., Mac Mini G4 Graphics
In any case, what I'd really like is yesterday's technology with today's manufacturing capabilities. Imagine an old Radeon or GeForce GPU built at 45nm or lower. Would that result in a 5-10 watts GPU that could still beat whatever intel is making?
In your grand plan, no ISP would comply because companies still have to communicate between them.
Hey, how would you like to lose your connection to the rest of the world because your ISP (which could be your only choice as perhaps there is no alternative in your area) is too dumb to "get their act together"?
Your plan requires too many people from different levels and way too many ISPs collaborating all at once, it just can't work.
My point is: don't ditch PPC support and continue to compile as universal binaries, you never know when you might need it.
All this "intel Mac only" crap could potentially be very bad for your future (i.e. I'm talking to you, game companies not really porting your games to Mac OS X and using emulated Win API calls on the Mac).
Before you say "Apple will never do that", let me remind you of some things we all heard before: - Apple will never release a low-cost computer - Apple will never make a music player - Apple will never enter the cellphone market - Apple will never dump support for Mac OS classic - Apple will never switch to Intel
Why are we fighting the results instead of trying to fix the cause?
Why do we need CAPTCHA? Because people sign for email accounts to spam people with their crap.
Why is spam possible in the first place? Because the email system wasn't designed with abusers in mind. Email is broken and we need to dump it ASAP and replace it with something else.
Unfortunately I don't have the answer, but that doesn't mean my point is invalid. Surely there has to be a solution, someone somewhere will think of something.
I'm not saying there is any correlation, I'm saying that maybe that's what Microsoft is attempting to convey to the general public, with their push for OOXML as being "open" and their failure to comply with their own format.
If language is defined by usage, does that mean that copyright infringement now equals theft?;-)
You have never seen the confusion of metric users entering the CS field, have you? Ever seen a teacher struggle with the very same point we're having right now?
As I said, in the rest of the world, kilo means 1000, not 1024. And here you're saying it becomes something else because a particular field has abused it for 40 years?
Also note that both hard drive manufacturers and digital telecommunications, in a computing context, use 1000 for kilo.
So your argument becomes "if you're in a computing context BUT not talking about hard drives OR telecommunications, then kilo means 1024"...
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That was a direct quote from the old Apple Mac mini web page, FYI.
It's not about trimming cents from a power bill (and since I live in Mauricie, Quebec, hydro-electricity is the rule, meaning cheap and clean electricity).
It's about a more powerful but still quiet computer. Since I bought my Mac mini, I consider external hard drives to be extremely noisy.
An efficient GPU that only requires a few watts equals less cooling, meaning a more quiet computer (perhaps even fanless, see low-end mini-ITX boards).
May I remind you that while some new videocards sometime require their own power connector, my whole computer can only take 110W at most? And that's a Core 2 Duo, not a wimpy VIA C3.
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Or one 3D game. Go ahead, just try to play Halo on a budget PC. Most say they're good for 2D games only. That's because an âoeintegrated Intel graphicsâ chip steals power from the CPU and siphons off memory from system-level RAM. You'd have to buy an extra card to get the graphics performance of Mac mini, and some cheaper PCs don't even have an open slot to let you add one. - Apple Inc., Mac Mini G4 Graphics
In any case, what I'd really like is yesterday's technology with today's manufacturing capabilities. Imagine an old Radeon or GeForce GPU built at 45nm or lower. Would that result in a 5-10 watts GPU that could still beat whatever intel is making?
Colonel Mustard, in the library, with a wrench.
The Banana King will be dissapointed to hear that.
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Microsoft is finally using PNG with alpha channel on one of their website. Is this new? Can we ditch IE6 in web contracts yet?
In your grand plan, no ISP would comply because companies still have to communicate between them.
Hey, how would you like to lose your connection to the rest of the world because your ISP (which could be your only choice as perhaps there is no alternative in your area) is too dumb to "get their act together"?
Your plan requires too many people from different levels and way too many ISPs collaborating all at once, it just can't work.
My point is: don't ditch PPC support and continue to compile as universal binaries, you never know when you might need it.
All this "intel Mac only" crap could potentially be very bad for your future (i.e. I'm talking to you, game companies not really porting your games to Mac OS X and using emulated Win API calls on the Mac).
You can't fix people nor can you expect all the ISPs in the world to comply with your solution.
As soon as there is people involved, you have to assume that a lot of them are idiots and a lot of them will abuse your system. Build in consequence.
Email doesn't work (abused), spam is wasting bandwidth world-wide, we need to put a stop to it.
And please, whoever comes up with the solution... choose a better name than "Email 2.0"...
Universal Binary.
Hey, you never know.
Before you say "Apple will never do that", let me remind you of some things we all heard before:
- Apple will never release a low-cost computer
- Apple will never make a music player
- Apple will never enter the cellphone market
- Apple will never dump support for Mac OS classic
- Apple will never switch to Intel
Come on mods, this is one of the funniest comment so far!
Why are we fighting the results instead of trying to fix the cause?
Why do we need CAPTCHA? Because people sign for email accounts to spam people with their crap.
Why is spam possible in the first place? Because the email system wasn't designed with abusers in mind. Email is broken and we need to dump it ASAP and replace it with something else.
Unfortunately I don't have the answer, but that doesn't mean my point is invalid. Surely there has to be a solution, someone somewhere will think of something.
You may perceive the Web as a "visual medium", however technically the information is zeros and ones stored in files on a server.
You can see? Fine, your browser renders that information as text that you can read on your screen.
You can't see? Fine, your browser renders that information as speech that you read hear via your speakers/headphones.
Oh well, at least one person got the reference.
Thanks!
Nah, more like Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Now that's a wave of destruction that's easy on the eyes! - Zapp
Kinda. You'll be scared half to death. But don't do it twice!
Depends on the color of the LEDs. I've added blue LEDs to my CPU fan and it reduced the temperature by an average of 10C.
However, a friend of mine used red LEDs and totally fried his GPU! What a moron!
I'm not saying there is any correlation, I'm saying that maybe that's what Microsoft is attempting to convey to the general public, with their push for OOXML as being "open" and their failure to comply with their own format.
If language is defined by usage, does that mean that copyright infringement now equals theft? ;-)
:-)
You have never seen the confusion of metric users entering the CS field, have you? Ever seen a teacher struggle with the very same point we're having right now?
As I said, in the rest of the world, kilo means 1000, not 1024. And here you're saying it becomes something else because a particular field has abused it for 40 years?
Also note that both hard drive manufacturers and digital telecommunications, in a computing context, use 1000 for kilo.
So your argument becomes "if you're in a computing context BUT not talking about hard drives OR telecommunications, then kilo means 1024"...
I'd rather use KiB=1024, thank you very much.
Just because people have been using SI prefixes to redefine that "kilo means 1024" for 40+ years doesn't mean they're right.
:P
Also, "octet" is the french word for "byte", so it's also 8-bit.