Edit: In the comments, Boris and David pointed out that I misread the code, and that this is a global preference so that there are no more than 8 cached pages for the entire session, not per tab. My initial posting had claimed that it was per-tab. Oops!
Bullshit. Apple did nothing to improve the bus or memory bandwidth with the latest G4 PowerBook refresh. The FSB is still an anemic 167Mhz. The RAM is still running at 333Mhz (167Mhz DDR). They changed from DDR to DDR2 for lower power consumption, but the clockrate is the same.
All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September.
What makes you think the switch will prompt Dassault Systemes to port CATIA to OSX?
They already support AIX on POWER and PowerPC. Given that they haven't ported a program that runs on AIX/PPC to OSX/PPC, what makes you think they will port a Win/x86 program to OSX/x86?
It's not about obscurity. CATIA runs on platforms with tiny marketshares like HP-UX (on PA-RISC?), Solaris on Sparc, and IRIX on Rx000. The software is obviously very portable, DS just has no interest in an OSX port.
I'm a huge fan of CATIA (just reupped my license a week ago:\), and it's one of those pieces of software that keeps me from switching to OSX (Valve's Source is the other big one).
A lot of people are griping that this exec only sees a need for pricing above $0.99. People, read the news!
"That's not to say we want to raise prices across the board or that we don't believe in a 99-cent price point for most music," he said. "But there are some songs for which consumers would be willing to pay more. And some we'd be willing to sell for less."
I think the $0.99 model for any song is stupid, because it doesn't reflect the value of the song. Some songs should sell for $0.01 and some should sell for $10.00.
(on a side note , does anyone have any benchmarks comparing a pentium m procesor to a G4)
Yea, it's not pretty: http://barefeats.com/al15b.html PM beats G4 per-clock in CineBench. Keep in mind that the PM is 500Mhz faster than the G4 now, and has twice as much cache as it did when that test was run.
Promise UltraTrak SX4000 - $1150 4x Hitachi 7K500 500GB drives (should be out RSN) - $1200-1500 A good U160 SCSI card for one of your computers - $200.
For about $2500-3000 (half the price of an Xserve RAID), you can have 1TB of RAID0+1.
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The student discount for CATIA V5 was 99% ($150 instead of $15000) when I bought it 2 years ago.
Now look at the Dreamliner -- a mass-produced majority-carbon-fiber giant by Boeing, which despite delays, companies have been snapping up.
I think you're confusing the Dreamliner with the WhaleJet.... Dreamliner hasn't had any delays.
What's your beef with Immelt?
For all of the commenters asking for a source, here it is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/05/07/AR2005050700178.html.
His G4-based Mac mini is too slow to play them without dropping frames.
Reread the article.
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The reason they chose these two chips was that they wanted to test the AMD chip against an Intel chip which cost about the same.
Ok... and?
Just the chip:
760 (2M L2 cache 2A GHz 533 MHz FSB 90nm) $294
T2400 (2M L2 cache 1.83 GHz 667 MHz FSB 65nm) $294
Chip and chipset:
760 (2M L2 cache 2A GHz 533 MHz FSB) w/ Intel 915 PM Chipset and Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG $356
T2400 (2M L2 cache 1.83 GHz 667 MHz FSB) w/ Intel 945 PM Chipset and Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG $359
Turion is also a core short of Intel's Core Duo offering.
The Dell display includes a ~4 ft cable... you only have to buy a cable if you want 8-12 feet, something Apple doesn't offer at all.
As the GP said, the firmware is freely downloadable. But OpenBSD can't include the file in their distribution; you have to download it from Intel.
Bullshit.
Apple did nothing to improve the bus or memory bandwidth with the latest G4 PowerBook refresh.
The FSB is still an anemic 167Mhz. The RAM is still running at 333Mhz (167Mhz DDR).
They changed from DDR to DDR2 for lower power consumption, but the clockrate is the same.
PowerBook Tech Specs page
September that never ended
All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September.
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What makes you think the switch will prompt Dassault Systemes to port CATIA to OSX?
:\), and it's one of those pieces of software that keeps me from switching to OSX (Valve's Source is the other big one).
They already support AIX on POWER and PowerPC. Given that they haven't ported a program that runs on AIX/PPC to OSX/PPC, what makes you think they will port a Win/x86 program to OSX/x86?
It's not about obscurity. CATIA runs on platforms with tiny marketshares like HP-UX (on PA-RISC?), Solaris on Sparc, and IRIX on Rx000. The software is obviously very portable, DS just has no interest in an OSX port.
I'm a huge fan of CATIA (just reupped my license a week ago
A lot of people are griping that this exec only sees a need for pricing above $0.99.
People, read the news!
"That's not to say we want to raise prices across the board or that we don't believe in a 99-cent price point for most music," he said. "But there are some songs for which consumers would be willing to pay more. And some we'd be willing to sell for less."
I think the $0.99 model for any song is stupid, because it doesn't reflect the value of the song. Some songs should sell for $0.01 and some should sell for $10.00.
and the Turion is a 64 bit chip.
So what?
Really, so what?
What advantage does that give in a laptop?
Xserve RAID uses an Intel Xscale chip for the controller.
(on a side note , does anyone have any benchmarks comparing a pentium m procesor to a G4)
Yea, it's not pretty: http://barefeats.com/al15b.html
PM beats G4 per-clock in CineBench. Keep in mind that the PM is 500Mhz faster than the G4 now, and has twice as much cache as it did when that test was run.
Promise UltraTrak SX4000 - $1150
4x Hitachi 7K500 500GB drives (should be out RSN) - $1200-1500
A good U160 SCSI card for one of your computers - $200.
For about $2500-3000 (half the price of an Xserve RAID), you can have 1TB of RAID0+1.
33 Grand for one seat of a CAD program has finally become a thing of the past.
:)
Looked at DS CATIA V5 pricing lately?
cheapest 1600x1200 LCD: $~1000(!) (Viewsonic VP201b)
Dell 2001FP LCD is $750.
cheapest 1920x1200 LCD: $~2750 (Samsung 243T)
HP 23" WUXGA LCD is $1600.
I think he meant that VNC only does video; no audio support.
The insurance company won't care much, except for liability. Once you pop the chute, the FAA will not certify the airframe as airworthy ever again.
Refering to programs as "codes" is pretty common in the engineering world: CFD codes, FEA codes, etc.
Do you have a link to a copy of the video that doesn't require a $15 codec?