Try actually reading his comment. No one suggested anyone should be forced to by Apple accessories. Nor did anyone suggest that third party development should stop. He merely expressed the opinion that current third party offerings are substandard and thinks that Apple could do better.
That may or may not be true. You are assuming the only problem with increasing the speed is heat dissapation. It's not. If the design is just barely making timing closure at it's current frequency, it may very well be impossible to increase the clock frequency without a redesign of the critical paths.
There's really no reason they should care. You're right, a lot of RIT's art students haven't a clue how they're computer works. Same goes for engineering student( not CE, we know everything;-) ), business students, and just about everyone else in the world. There's no reason these people should need to know how they're computer works anymore than they need to know how the nuclear reactor that gives them electricity works. It's not their field. If they're interested, great. But it should not be a requirement.
I'd agree with you for any issue that you can have some control over before the patch becomes available. What I mean is that if you can work around the hole by turning off a certain service or blocking a specific range of ports, then certainly everyone should be made aware of this.
Security by obscurity is bad as a long term approach. However, it's not necessarilly a bad thing during the day/week/month it takes you to write and test the fix.
It would be a bad idea to protect your house by trying to keep the fact that your front door's lock is broken a secret. But, it also wouldn't be a good idea to put a giant sign out advertising that fact while you were waiting for the locksmith.
In all fairness, the Exchange e-mail system is about 8 billion times better than the old one. I used to routinely have mail that would not delete unless I telnetted into grace and removed it with pine.
I've tried several versions of OpenOffice.org on OSX and on other systems. My major issue with this project is that it's a complete carbon copy of MS Office. I realise that compatability with MS Office is vitally important to any success of this project, but the entire user interface does not need to be copied. The major reason that I hate using the Windows version of MS Office and earlier versions for the Mac was the god awful interface. It was far too much effort to do simple things like change the font on type size. OpenOffice.org has copied this atrocity of an interface. Frankly, the OSX vesion of MS Office is far better, and pricewise, isn't too bad for a student (3 licenses for $150). If OpenOffice.org can't come up with their own interface, they could at least copy a good one. I have fond memories of Corel WordPerfect 3.5 for MacOS. Look at that.
You apparently haven't yet realized that a ram/scram jet needs fuel just like a regular jet. It only gets its O2 from the air, just like a regular jet. This isn't some magic air burning thing.
I've done that with my original 5GB model and it survived just fine two. I haven't had the problem with the mini because I bought the armband. I highly recommend it for running. A few other companies are starting to make armbands that hold the mini if you think the Apple one is too pricey. I thought it was, but between the education discount and the fact that no one else was making them when I ordered mine, I got the Apple one.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I got mine about 2 weeks ago, and I have to say I love it. I run a couple time a week and the mini is several orders of magnitude better than the iPod it replaced (an original 5GB model). If you're doing anything that requires you to move, the size makes a huge difference. At about one quarter to one third the size and weight of my old one, it is a massive improvement.
I'm sure someone will point out that it doesn't hold all 7GB of my music. Well, . . . , I don't care. It goes in the dock every other day to charge it anyway. Changing some playlists around every week or so doesn't really matter.
Oh, and I'd have to say that I am tech savvy, I am a computer engineer after all. Now I better switch desktops and finish inserting JTAG before my boss comes by again.;-)
The Brontosaur was a bit different. It was never real. The single and only specimen turned out to be a mix of bones from two other species, mostly from the Apatasaur.
Not in OSX proper, as far as I can recall. But of course, plenty of applications with stupid toolbars still do. The only one I can think of that I have is MS Office. Oh, how I hate the toolbars in most programs. Especially office. The only toolbars I've ever liked are browsers, with the most minimal setup, and the old mac versions of Wordperfect. They put the toolbar down the side which was genius. My screen is more than wide enough to display a page of text, but I can always get a few more lines in vertically.
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That's certainly another interpretation. I hadn't consider that, and I agree. It would probably be quite difficult.
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Try actually reading his comment. No one suggested anyone should be forced to by Apple accessories. Nor did anyone suggest that third party development should stop. He merely expressed the opinion that current third party offerings are substandard and thinks that Apple could do better.
Well, you would only need two countries to make something international.
It's off to disk you go.
That may or may not be true. You are assuming the only problem with increasing the speed is heat dissapation. It's not. If the design is just barely making timing closure at it's current frequency, it may very well be impossible to increase the clock frequency without a redesign of the critical paths.
There's really no reason they should care. You're right, a lot of RIT's art students haven't a clue how they're computer works. Same goes for engineering student( not CE, we know everything ;-) ), business students, and just about everyone else in the world. There's no reason these people should need to know how they're computer works anymore than they need to know how the nuclear reactor that gives them electricity works. It's not their field. If they're interested, great. But it should not be a requirement.
Very good point. Discoling to the people affected makes more sense than telling the world at large.
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I'd agree with you for any issue that you can have some control over before the patch becomes available. What I mean is that if you can work around the hole by turning off a certain service or blocking a specific range of ports, then certainly everyone should be made aware of this.
Security by obscurity is bad as a long term approach. However, it's not necessarilly a bad thing during the day/week/month it takes you to write and test the fix.
It would be a bad idea to protect your house by trying to keep the fact that your front door's lock is broken a secret. But, it also wouldn't be a good idea to put a giant sign out advertising that fact while you were waiting for the locksmith.
In all fairness, the Exchange e-mail system is about 8 billion times better than the old one. I used to routinely have mail that would not delete unless I telnetted into grace and removed it with pine.
Disk players are just fine for jogging. I jog 3 or 4 times a week and have used both an original iPod and a iPod mini. No skips at all.
Conspiracies certainly can be proven, and are all the time. That's why people get convicted of thing like "conspiracy to commit murder."
Conspiracy theaories are impossible to disprove. That's why they're so fun.
I second that. One checkbox, how much more idiot friendly can it get?
I've tried several versions of OpenOffice.org on OSX and on other systems. My major issue with this project is that it's a complete carbon copy of MS Office. I realise that compatability with MS Office is vitally important to any success of this project, but the entire user interface does not need to be copied. The major reason that I hate using the Windows version of MS Office and earlier versions for the Mac was the god awful interface. It was far too much effort to do simple things like change the font on type size. OpenOffice.org has copied this atrocity of an interface. Frankly, the OSX vesion of MS Office is far better, and pricewise, isn't too bad for a student (3 licenses for $150). If OpenOffice.org can't come up with their own interface, they could at least copy a good one. I have fond memories of Corel WordPerfect 3.5 for MacOS. Look at that.
You apparently haven't yet realized that a ram/scram jet needs fuel just like a regular jet. It only gets its O2 from the air, just like a regular jet. This isn't some magic air burning thing.
I've done that with my original 5GB model and it survived just fine two. I haven't had the problem with the mini because I bought the armband. I highly recommend it for running. A few other companies are starting to make armbands that hold the mini if you think the Apple one is too pricey. I thought it was, but between the education discount and the fact that no one else was making them when I ordered mine, I got the Apple one.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I got mine about 2 weeks ago, and I have to say I love it. I run a couple time a week and the mini is several orders of magnitude better than the iPod it replaced (an original 5GB model). If you're doing anything that requires you to move, the size makes a huge difference. At about one quarter to one third the size and weight of my old one, it is a massive improvement.
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I'm sure someone will point out that it doesn't hold all 7GB of my music. Well, . . . , I don't care. It goes in the dock every other day to charge it anyway. Changing some playlists around every week or so doesn't really matter.
Oh, and I'd have to say that I am tech savvy, I am a computer engineer after all. Now I better switch desktops and finish inserting JTAG before my boss comes by again.
The Brontosaur was a bit different. It was never real. The single and only specimen turned out to be a mix of bones from two other species, mostly from the Apatasaur.
The other problem would be the small amount of memory on that kind of setup. It wouldn't be the first time that 4G of RAM wasn't enough.
Unfortunately it's not my choice. It would get faster, but it would never be quick. This was over a million gates.
6 - 12 minutes? You lucky bastard. My last DRC run was 9+ hours. Though I am running on a smaller box.
Not in OSX proper, as far as I can recall. But of course, plenty of applications with stupid toolbars still do. The only one I can think of that I have is MS Office. Oh, how I hate the toolbars in most programs. Especially office. The only toolbars I've ever liked are browsers, with the most minimal setup, and the old mac versions of Wordperfect. They put the toolbar down the side which was genius. My screen is more than wide enough to display a page of text, but I can always get a few more lines in vertically.
That's certainly another interpretation. I hadn't consider that, and I agree. It would probably be quite difficult.
Europa's the frozen planet, not Jupiter.
Because it is several orders of magnitude less expensive to mine those same materials right here on Earth.