Oh, cut the bullshit. Price drops happen, and Apple gave everyone a $100 store credit, something they absolutely didn't have to do. Quit the bitching already.
Huh? I had a 550mhz B&W G3 and 10.4 was definitely snappier on it than 10.3. Same with a Gigabit G4 running at 450mhz. I don't get the whole "10.4 is slower" crowd.
Newsflash: Very few people outside of open-source fanboys (and application developers who want a royalty-free codec, but then they build support themselves) gives a shit about ogg, much less knows what it is. Crawl out of your shell once in a while.
From a business standpoint, it makes sense. AT&T and T-Mobile are the only GSM carriers in the US. Apple wants GSM because it's an international standard and they don't want multiple versions of the iPhone for different countries. AT&T has a larger customer base and more coverage than T-Mobile, so Apple went with them to maximize sales. AT&T does suck (as someone who's currently locked into their glitchy network), but looking at the numbers, it was the logical choice. to make.
What I'm still wondering about was Maynor's video where he plugged in the disguised USB stick, then claimed to hack it...even though the MAC address he hacked was registered to Apple. Why not just say he was hacking the Airport? And why not demonstrate this hack when he had the chance instead of just KPing the machine remotely? It almost sounds like he never had the hack and had to dig for it for a while to make it work. Maybe I'm wrong. Can anyone clarify?
Not just that, but show me wireless running at gigabit speeds, or even coming close to it's rated speed if you're not right next to the base station. I could be using 802.11n on my home network, but I prefer a wired Gigabit one.
What he doesn't take into account are people unloading their old iPods for a new one. I have an 80GB iPod Video right now, and I will put it up for sale the moment Apple announces a video iPod. If it has everything the iPhone does minus the phone, expect sales to go off the charts.
I don't think it's so much that. Geeks make more money because people pay more money for what we do. It has jack shit to do with political leanings and ideology.
So believing in God makes you more likely to be a fatty? Yeah, right, I'll believe that one. Being religious doesn't make you any less likely to be ignorant of a Big Mac and large fries making your ass huge than being non-religious.
Please. There will still be plenty of 32-bit machines running in a few years that could easily run the next version of Windows (all cracks about astronomical requirements aside). What baffles me is that MS will STILL be doing separate versions, making it more of a pain in the ass for everyone involved. Apple is already releasing a hybrid 32/64-bit OS (and I believe some Linux distros are as well), so why the hell can't MS pull their head out of their ass and do the same?
I signed up for Commiecast as I just moved to a new area and their price/bandwidth was by far the best deal. First off, I ran into the IE issue on my Intel iMac. Thing is, IE constantly crashes in Rosetta, making it impossible for me to configure the modem on my Mac. I booted into Windows to do the "installation" (yeah, tweak a few settings on the modem, get my info, and try to install a bunch of shitware). I was so pissed. I wrote a very nasty letter to Comcast about it, and they said they'd pass it on to the tech team. Thing is, the idiots have had two fucking YEARS to fix a problem couldn't NOT know about! How fucking idiotic and lazy are their coders? It bogglees the mind! Then there were issues with signal strength and the modem dropping out every few hours. Took some time on the phone and a couple visits from their guys to finally get that one fixed. Ugh. Thus far, I have been less than impressed with the incompetence of Commiecast.
Utter and total bullshit. I've known many CS majors that could finesse code like a pro, but couldn't even tell you what individual components of a computer look like when shown. CS is generally for coders. You'll be hard pressed to find a pure CS guy that can run a large network with directory services, printing, security, etc, etc, etc.
You're full of it. For one, benchmarks have shown that performance between a Core 2 Duo and a dual core G5 at similar clock speeds is pretty good, and the C2D edges out the G5 when there are SSE3 and other optimizations. In addition, Apple didn't have a roadmap. Poke around a little. They couldn't keep selling G5s while everyone else kept going. They had to go somewhere else, because IBM didn't want to make a G6, and Motorola was still notorious for getting their chips out too slow, too late. Pull your head out.
I installed Firefox...and have barely used it. I used to work in a campus computer lab as a student. They had Safari, Firefox, and, God help me, Netscape on them. Netscape was utter shit as you might expect. Thing is, I saw a lot of browser hangs, usually on Myspace, and Firefox would lock up a lot more often than Safari did. I force-quit Firefox fairly often on some students lab computer. I've used Firefox a handful of times when Safari wouldn't render a page properly, but now 3.0 seems to have fixed those issues. It feels smoother and more polished to me, too. I have no real need to use Firefox.
No, they are not a lot better. They are festering warts and cancerous polyps on the rectum of filmmaking. Boll has absolutely no talent and churns out some of the worst garbage Hollywood has ever seen. Here's hoping this is Boll's last gasp. These three films are going to tank, FreeStyle will abandon him, and then hopefully no one will ever fund his films again.
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As opposed to open-source, where everyone can see how shitty the code is. Gimme a break.
Ars is saying that iPhones really aren't bricked by this update, so I'd chalk this up to sensationalism.
Oh, cut the bullshit. Price drops happen, and Apple gave everyone a $100 store credit, something they absolutely didn't have to do. Quit the bitching already.
Huh? I had a 550mhz B&W G3 and 10.4 was definitely snappier on it than 10.3. Same with a Gigabit G4 running at 450mhz. I don't get the whole "10.4 is slower" crowd.
Newsflash: Very few people outside of open-source fanboys (and application developers who want a royalty-free codec, but then they build support themselves) gives a shit about ogg, much less knows what it is. Crawl out of your shell once in a while.
From a business standpoint, it makes sense. AT&T and T-Mobile are the only GSM carriers in the US. Apple wants GSM because it's an international standard and they don't want multiple versions of the iPhone for different countries. AT&T has a larger customer base and more coverage than T-Mobile, so Apple went with them to maximize sales. AT&T does suck (as someone who's currently locked into their glitchy network), but looking at the numbers, it was the logical choice. to make.
What I'm still wondering about was Maynor's video where he plugged in the disguised USB stick, then claimed to hack it...even though the MAC address he hacked was registered to Apple. Why not just say he was hacking the Airport? And why not demonstrate this hack when he had the chance instead of just KPing the machine remotely? It almost sounds like he never had the hack and had to dig for it for a while to make it work. Maybe I'm wrong. Can anyone clarify?
Not just that, but show me wireless running at gigabit speeds, or even coming close to it's rated speed if you're not right next to the base station. I could be using 802.11n on my home network, but I prefer a wired Gigabit one.
They tried the study with Diggers, but the answer for everything was, "RON PAUL!"
What he doesn't take into account are people unloading their old iPods for a new one. I have an 80GB iPod Video right now, and I will put it up for sale the moment Apple announces a video iPod. If it has everything the iPhone does minus the phone, expect sales to go off the charts.
I don't think it's so much that. Geeks make more money because people pay more money for what we do. It has jack shit to do with political leanings and ideology.
...launch a lot of snide grammar nazi posts.
Except that dynamic binary recompilers (ie, Rosetta in OS X) would make an architecture switch a helluva lot easier.
Except that this is a dedicated, tweaked, and optimized wrapper rather than a virtualizer with very poor and spotty 3D support.
So believing in God makes you more likely to be a fatty? Yeah, right, I'll believe that one. Being religious doesn't make you any less likely to be ignorant of a Big Mac and large fries making your ass huge than being non-religious.
Since when are 60 hour work weeks the norm? They're around, but last I knew, most people are working a standard 40 hours.
Please. There will still be plenty of 32-bit machines running in a few years that could easily run the next version of Windows (all cracks about astronomical requirements aside). What baffles me is that MS will STILL be doing separate versions, making it more of a pain in the ass for everyone involved. Apple is already releasing a hybrid 32/64-bit OS (and I believe some Linux distros are as well), so why the hell can't MS pull their head out of their ass and do the same?
I signed up for Commiecast as I just moved to a new area and their price/bandwidth was by far the best deal. First off, I ran into the IE issue on my Intel iMac. Thing is, IE constantly crashes in Rosetta, making it impossible for me to configure the modem on my Mac. I booted into Windows to do the "installation" (yeah, tweak a few settings on the modem, get my info, and try to install a bunch of shitware). I was so pissed. I wrote a very nasty letter to Comcast about it, and they said they'd pass it on to the tech team. Thing is, the idiots have had two fucking YEARS to fix a problem couldn't NOT know about! How fucking idiotic and lazy are their coders? It bogglees the mind! Then there were issues with signal strength and the modem dropping out every few hours. Took some time on the phone and a couple visits from their guys to finally get that one fixed. Ugh. Thus far, I have been less than impressed with the incompetence of Commiecast.
You know, to turn into your worst fear, then suck it out of you? Dave Lister got that treatment a while ago.
Utter and total bullshit. I've known many CS majors that could finesse code like a pro, but couldn't even tell you what individual components of a computer look like when shown. CS is generally for coders. You'll be hard pressed to find a pure CS guy that can run a large network with directory services, printing, security, etc, etc, etc.
You're full of it. For one, benchmarks have shown that performance between a Core 2 Duo and a dual core G5 at similar clock speeds is pretty good, and the C2D edges out the G5 when there are SSE3 and other optimizations. In addition, Apple didn't have a roadmap. Poke around a little. They couldn't keep selling G5s while everyone else kept going. They had to go somewhere else, because IBM didn't want to make a G6, and Motorola was still notorious for getting their chips out too slow, too late. Pull your head out.
I installed Firefox...and have barely used it. I used to work in a campus computer lab as a student. They had Safari, Firefox, and, God help me, Netscape on them. Netscape was utter shit as you might expect. Thing is, I saw a lot of browser hangs, usually on Myspace, and Firefox would lock up a lot more often than Safari did. I force-quit Firefox fairly often on some students lab computer. I've used Firefox a handful of times when Safari wouldn't render a page properly, but now 3.0 seems to have fixed those issues. It feels smoother and more polished to me, too. I have no real need to use Firefox.
No shit. Why is the reporting of bugs/vulnerabilities in a fucking BETA a story? It happens all the goddamned time!
Doom 3 was simply a very shitty port. Don't let that taint your idea of Mac games.
No, they are not a lot better. They are festering warts and cancerous polyps on the rectum of filmmaking. Boll has absolutely no talent and churns out some of the worst garbage Hollywood has ever seen. Here's hoping this is Boll's last gasp. These three films are going to tank, FreeStyle will abandon him, and then hopefully no one will ever fund his films again.