Any good size application will always have bugs so they'll make fixes and enhancements over time. We see incremental improvements to OS X all the time although some might debate on this.
In addition, they'll be taking advantage of multicore so applications will be fine tuned for performance. If they tried to squeeze all this in Leopard, then we wouldn't have Leopard today. It's all good, but, as someone already mentioned, is pretty hard to justify full release price. As a end user, I don't need the Exchange aspect, but would like all the other stuff.
Or, it could be they lost business deals from customers like Google who are switching to faster SDD drives. It would also explain the recent grumbles they had about suing flash companies on trying to get in their enterprise business.
I for one still prefer to buy my music on CDs. If only they could lower the price for CDs... Now, I stopped buying CDs unless it is something I really need to have. Radio is good enough.
Same goes for movies. The only ones I buy are on the discount rack at Target/Walmart. Nope, I don't own an HD player. Probably never will.
All it does is drives the price up on hardware since it requires an extra component. It also increase the cost of development since they'll need to employ a 3rd party secure package to prevent people from copying it. This will also drive the price of the software. With higher cost, less people will buy and game company will make even less money. And piracy ensues. Don't get too greedy.
According to a "Big Secrets" book by William Poundstone, Disney's death certificate is available to anyone from the Los Angeles County registrar's office. Dr. Bert H. Cotton listed cause of death as "cardiac arrest". His body was cremated at Forest Lawn, Glendale on December 17, 1966. It also cites that they located Disney's gravesite. Quoting from the book:
"Big Secrets located Disney's gravesite. Much like Disneyland, Forest Lawn is divided into thematic sections: Slumberland, Vale of Memory, Babyland, etc. Disney's gravesite is in an area known as the Court of Freedom. This is on the eastern extremity of the park, about as far from the entrance as possible."
I actually converted my Mini from a desktop to an entertainment box since my laptop became my desktop. I have the audio output hooked up to my stereo and the video drives my LCD TV. This replaced my DVD player.
I'm aware of TiVo-like hacks for the Mini and is a popular alternative. I thought about getting one of those TV tuners, but I was under the impression that they only decode analog signals and over the air HD. This will all be obsolete when everything turns digital in 2009.
In 6 to 12 month when cleaning the roller no longer restores usability you'll go back to Microsoft or Logitech like many other early adopters.
I've had one for over 6 months and I can't say I have this problem. After 3 months of using the Mighty Mouse, I bought a second pair for the laptop. I do, however, try to keep things clean. I also use the iKlear polish to keep the computer and peripherals looking new.
I own a MS Wireless Laser 6000 and a Wireless NoteBook Presenter Mouse 8000 (bluetooth). The Laser 6000 works great, but I had bad results with the Presenter. The bluetooth comes and goes. I ended up replacing it with the Mighty Mouse which has been trouble free thus far.
I also work with VNC/X11 to connect to Unix boxes and the Mighty Mouse just works out of the box! I get the expected X11 3 button functionality. Cut & Paste works just like it would if you were on a Unix workstation. With the MS mouse, I had to mess around with it just to get things to work.
My Mighty Mouse only has a clit, but it can emulate 4 buttons! After using it for a few months, I prefer this over my MS Mouse now. I now own two of them: one for the mini and one for the laptop.
I'm still waiting on TiVo like functionality before I get an Apple TV.
Agree. I bought mini-itx boards from logicsupply. I'm sure they'll carry Atom based mini-itx boards when they come out. This will run circles around my 1Ghz Via C7.
It's a noble idea, but is it practical? We're talking about companies with different priorities/development schedules. Not to mention the commitments they make to their paying customers for new features and deliverables. For example, what if Red Hat's big customer doesn't want to move to the new kernel? Red Hat can't force their customers to upgrade. Also, Ubuntu already has access to all the open source work that Red Hat produces. Ubuntu would have to spend the development effort integrating it with their system.
To be fair though, Samsung just came out with SSD that can do 100MB/s. I'm guessing the one that comes with the Air does not. I'd say wait a while for SSD to mature and for the price to come down. I agree, in general, what the author is saying.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36084/118/
Flash can be configured with smaller block size. In general, they are higher block size. If you buy flash chips direct from the vendor, you can tailor it for your application. They make, for example, compact flash that are tuned for a lot of small files. When buying flash from a 3rd party vendor (i.e. suppliers that buy parts from the cheapest supplier), then your mileage may vary.
They did, however, spend two terms teaching Hoare logic. Or rather, they spent one term teaching it, and then repeated the same material in another term with a different lecturer, because their communication was so poor they never realised they had duplicated their teching.
They did a "Hoare"-bble job. Couldn't resist.;-)
Sounds like they are following Lucent's footsteps. Sad... There is nothing new with SSD. They've been doing this with PCMCIA and Compact Flash. Those devices use NAND flash and runs in IDE mode. The only difference is the capacity (# of NAND flash parts populated).
You're just jealous. 3D pipeline in software is cool. 3D pipeline in Excel is even cooler! I try to avoid using office apps, but it's pretty impressive what Excel can do and how people think of ways to use it. Maybe Microsoft can advertise it (3D pipeline inside).;-)
I agree. Having done it for 20 yrs now, I see a lot of cut & paste style programmers. The sad part is this type of programmers are unable to solve things on their own. If one just blindly copy code, one may end up with bugs sprinkled everywhere. If someone is there to show them how things are done, you generally end up with better quality code. Now, having a bunch of Prima donnas probably isn't a good thing, either. Like all things in life, knowledge and learning is never ending.
It was a lot easier to change things with a hex editor than spend hours trying to build up the characters. I got more things done that way. It was also fun to figure out what they meant. Yeah, Apple is the reason why I got into computing. My first game I ever played was Oregon Trail at school. I was hooked!;-)
Just have to find the right place in the hex editor and change the instructions to no-ops or make them jump in the right place.;-)
I remember when games loaded in memory. People with Wildcards would take a snapshot dump and save to floppies then execute them with the "brun" command.
Fontrix was a great graphics editor. People used that to edit the title page and leave their signature, Cracked by the...
There were also neat stuff one could do in the monitor.
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I enjoyed reading books like Beneath Apple Dos and Pro-Dos, Hardcore Computing journals and the Beagle Bros. Those were the good ole days. Gosh, I'm feeling old.
I also purchased a fanless C7 motherboard and had problems with older Linux distro. With Fedora 8, it installed cleanly and runs great. I'm using it as a home mail/web server and VPN access. I'm thinking of replacing the 2.5" SATA drive with one of those high capacity 32G compact flash. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it.
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In addition, they'll be taking advantage of multicore so applications will be fine tuned for performance. If they tried to squeeze all this in Leopard, then we wouldn't have Leopard today. It's all good, but, as someone already mentioned, is pretty hard to justify full release price. As a end user, I don't need the Exchange aspect, but would like all the other stuff.
to police my traffic!
Or, it could be they lost business deals from customers like Google who are switching to faster SDD drives. It would also explain the recent grumbles they had about suing flash companies on trying to get in their enterprise business.
I for one still prefer to buy my music on CDs. If only they could lower the price for CDs... Now, I stopped buying CDs unless it is something I really need to have. Radio is good enough. Same goes for movies. The only ones I buy are on the discount rack at Target/Walmart. Nope, I don't own an HD player. Probably never will.
All it does is drives the price up on hardware since it requires an extra component. It also increase the cost of development since they'll need to employ a 3rd party secure package to prevent people from copying it. This will also drive the price of the software. With higher cost, less people will buy and game company will make even less money. And piracy ensues. Don't get too greedy.
I'm aware of TiVo-like hacks for the Mini and is a popular alternative. I thought about getting one of those TV tuners, but I was under the impression that they only decode analog signals and over the air HD. This will all be obsolete when everything turns digital in 2009.
I've had one for over 6 months and I can't say I have this problem. After 3 months of using the Mighty Mouse, I bought a second pair for the laptop. I do, however, try to keep things clean. I also use the iKlear polish to keep the computer and peripherals looking new.
I own a MS Wireless Laser 6000 and a Wireless NoteBook Presenter Mouse 8000 (bluetooth). The Laser 6000 works great, but I had bad results with the Presenter. The bluetooth comes and goes. I ended up replacing it with the Mighty Mouse which has been trouble free thus far.
I also work with VNC/X11 to connect to Unix boxes and the Mighty Mouse just works out of the box! I get the expected X11 3 button functionality. Cut & Paste works just like it would if you were on a Unix workstation. With the MS mouse, I had to mess around with it just to get things to work.
My Mighty Mouse only has a clit, but it can emulate 4 buttons! After using it for a few months, I prefer this over my MS Mouse now. I now own two of them: one for the mini and one for the laptop. I'm still waiting on TiVo like functionality before I get an Apple TV.
At least he didn't plaster a picture of himself all over the place like Peter Norton.
Agree. I bought mini-itx boards from logicsupply. I'm sure they'll carry Atom based mini-itx boards when they come out. This will run circles around my 1Ghz Via C7.
It's a noble idea, but is it practical? We're talking about companies with different priorities/development schedules. Not to mention the commitments they make to their paying customers for new features and deliverables. For example, what if Red Hat's big customer doesn't want to move to the new kernel? Red Hat can't force their customers to upgrade. Also, Ubuntu already has access to all the open source work that Red Hat produces. Ubuntu would have to spend the development effort integrating it with their system.
To be fair though, Samsung just came out with SSD that can do 100MB/s. I'm guessing the one that comes with the Air does not. I'd say wait a while for SSD to mature and for the price to come down. I agree, in general, what the author is saying. http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36084/118/
Flash can be configured with smaller block size. In general, they are higher block size. If you buy flash chips direct from the vendor, you can tailor it for your application. They make, for example, compact flash that are tuned for a lot of small files. When buying flash from a 3rd party vendor (i.e. suppliers that buy parts from the cheapest supplier), then your mileage may vary.
They did, however, spend two terms teaching Hoare logic. Or rather, they spent one term teaching it, and then repeated the same material in another term with a different lecturer, because their communication was so poor they never realised they had duplicated their teching. They did a "Hoare"-bble job. Couldn't resist. ;-)
They can pry it from my cold dead hands.
Somewhere between 1W to 3W
Sounds like they are following Lucent's footsteps. Sad... There is nothing new with SSD. They've been doing this with PCMCIA and Compact Flash. Those devices use NAND flash and runs in IDE mode. The only difference is the capacity (# of NAND flash parts populated).
You're just jealous. 3D pipeline in software is cool. 3D pipeline in Excel is even cooler! I try to avoid using office apps, but it's pretty impressive what Excel can do and how people think of ways to use it. Maybe Microsoft can advertise it (3D pipeline inside). ;-)
I agree. Having done it for 20 yrs now, I see a lot of cut & paste style programmers. The sad part is this type of programmers are unable to solve things on their own. If one just blindly copy code, one may end up with bugs sprinkled everywhere. If someone is there to show them how things are done, you generally end up with better quality code. Now, having a bunch of Prima donnas probably isn't a good thing, either. Like all things in life, knowledge and learning is never ending.
It was a lot easier to change things with a hex editor than spend hours trying to build up the characters. I got more things done that way. It was also fun to figure out what they meant. Yeah, Apple is the reason why I got into computing. My first game I ever played was Oregon Trail at school. I was hooked! ;-)
Just have to find the right place in the hex editor and change the instructions to no-ops or make them jump in the right place. ;-)
I remember when games loaded in memory. People with Wildcards would take a snapshot dump and save to floppies then execute them with the "brun" command.
Fontrix was a great graphics editor. People used that to edit the title page and leave their signature, Cracked by the ...
There were also neat stuff one could do in the monitor.
] call -151
$ 7fdg
I enjoyed reading books like Beneath Apple Dos and Pro-Dos, Hardcore Computing journals and the Beagle Bros. Those were the good ole days. Gosh, I'm feeling old.
I still have a bunch of those floppies in my parent's basement. Hope they didn't throw them out. Those were fun times. :) Castle Wolfenstein rocked!
I also purchased a fanless C7 motherboard and had problems with older Linux distro. With Fedora 8, it installed cleanly and runs great. I'm using it as a home mail/web server and VPN access. I'm thinking of replacing the 2.5" SATA drive with one of those high capacity 32G compact flash. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it.
Sure, as long as they are allowed to kick you also.