Keep it in context: this is an anecdotal comment from a single person comparing a bleeding edge 2005 pre-release Mac with their old 2003 retail Mac.
On top of that, the highly objective tests are: "web pages open faster." (Which makes me think if I built a state of the art, water cooled Athlon screamer, I'd be able to load all those Slashdotted sites I don't get to see.)
But yes, the signs are good that Apple fanboys are losing their chip snobbery.
Yes there is, it's under "What are the limits of conventional computing?"
Subsection 1: "Are there any limits to the desire of the organism homogeekus to port Linux to any device imaginable and then communicate the accomplishment in symbolic form?"
the AW laptop looked wicked, I just wonder if it comes with nuclear rocket control software built in.
With the way Li-on batteries are being recalled these days (esp. those manufactured by LG), it probably has its own thermonuclear explosive device as well.
I'm being overly fearful, but I'm thinking between the scaldings, the potential for catching fire and/or exploding, the last place you want to put a hotrod laptop... is your lap!
Yes, that is a valid comment. The commentators are probably viewing it like Dell, who are said to have an agreement with Intel to purchase chips at a discount if they do not use AMD chips. Thus there are no AMD-based Dells.
I'm thinking of the Dune series... If one started reading them books in chronological order (the 3x "Butlerian Jihad" books + the 3x "House" books), I doubt very much anyone would ever get to "Dune" as they would have given up in sheer boredom.
Those prequels only made sense in the context of explaining the events of the original books (and bad explanations at that, imho).
That's going to be true of most prequels, isn't it?
Well, I'm just thankful that JK Rowling has said that she'd never write a "Happy Potter Episode 1."
At 999$, this 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 developper kit sounds like the fastest machine Apple is selling for a much lower price than PowerMac G5 !
Three catches:
You have to be a Select or Premier developer, which you have to pay for separately.
You have to give it back at the end of 2006, as the company doesn't want these mutants in an Alu case hanging around on eBay, etc.
It won't be optimized for performance, just porting. If you want to use it as a general purpose machine as well, you'd be better off with a dual G5 for the next year until retail grade hardware ships.
Some doctors in England want to outlaw long, pointy chef's knives (no, I'm really not kidding)...
Why should you be kidding? Chef's knives are hardly playthings. They're extremely sharp and can be put into a vital organ and do fatal damage with minimal effort.
Even successfully putting up an arm to defend yourself against an uncoordinated attack could see an artery severed or a couple of fingers lost.
I'm not a medical expert, but at close range I'd give an even chance to surviving an attack from a shotgun than a chef's knife.
I thought Palm bought Be to integrate parts of its OS technology into future Palm OSes. (Not that BeOS was ever intended to be a handheld OS, but Palm did buy them for something.)
If it's now Linux all the way, what aspects of BeOS, if any, are going to be in there?
Have any of you noticed the the hardware producers are standing in the way of open source software ? If you intend to install a Linux BSD or SunOS, drivers for the videocard`s, LAN card`s, TV Tuners, digital camera`s are very hard to find. On the driver CD suplied by the vendor you will find only drivers for Windows.
Depends who you buy from and if they want to increase sales. In many cases, if they don't have drivers on the CD-ROM, they're sometimes downloadable from the manufacturer's web site. If the manufacturer hasn't made a driver, a Google search on the product code can often turn one up.
Many of the hardware pieces I've bought recently have had a little Tux symbol on the box indicating they are Linux friendly. Guess who I'll be going back to next time.
After serial number verification, a new battery will be shipped to you, free of charge. When you receive the replacement battery, please use the same shipping packaging and included prepaid shipping label to return the recalled battery
Give her a lump of coal. She can actually use that for something.
Then squeeze the coal in your hand, pretending to do it real hard and murmuring something about rearranging the structure of its carbon atoms, and open it to reveal a sparkling diamond.
Kinda romantic... if the girlfriend hadn't walked away the moment the Superman IV quoting started.
This article reads like a book report turned in by a not-so-bright eighth grader. Gad. Just because you can type doesn't mean you should write.
Welcome to the Blogosphere. Enjoy your stay!
(I kinda agree with you, but that doesn't stop me knowing you'll be modded Troll for speaking your mind, which is ironically what blogs do, but there you are.)
It's like sleep: say you need to get something done in 72 hours. Now, you could attempt to work non-stop 72 hours, or you could take 3 * 8 = 24 hours to leave you 48 hours.
So it's 72 hours vs 48 hours, a theoretical 33% loss of productivity. But it isn't is it, since the last half of those non-stop 72 hours would have been more or less worthless.
Human beings need breaks... coffee breaks, water cooler chats, walks in the fresh air, entertainment, sex, sleep, etc. Without them, we're less productive.
If your life is boring and unstimulated, you're not productive.
If Gates had never created Microsoft, and never cloned the PC's underpinnings away from IBM, we would probably never have seen the day of ubiquitous, commodity PCs.
It was Compaq that reverse engineered the BIOS to start the clones rolling. All those clones then ultimately ran Microsoft's OS because its aggressive marketing techniques drove out all other competitors.
Result: a 95+% domination of the market, establishing a monoculture where almost everyone uses Windows, Outlook, IE, with the resulting lack of innovation, viruses, and security holes that monocultures bring with it.
Alternate history: If Microsoft hadn't come into being, companies that made alternate OSes (DR-DOS, GemStar, Visio, etc) could have continued and the situation could be like the various Linux distros (Red Hat, SuSE, Gentoo) today, except on a much more marketshare significant scale. Hardware markers would still have flourished, widespread demand for hardware would still have driven PC prices down to commodity levels.
This was actually like the situation before Microsoft came to dominate. Lots of computer makers - Commodore, Atari, Tandy, etc - competing with both hardware and an OS. The big bad Apple was never a monopoly - at its height the Mac had a maximum of 18% marketshare, and even the venerable Apple II no more than 50%. There were always others. IBM may have started the monoculture, but it was Microsoft that embraced and established it.
Everyone seems to be getting into downloadable music game (I half expect to see a headline announcing Google Music one of these days).
But is this a currently profitable market, or are they gambling on it being so in the future?
The last financial briefing of Apple Computer stated that they had achieved "about break even" for the quarter.
Break even? When iTunes is the currently the biggest thing around. Why even bother. Presumably for Apple, it's to provide a service to encourage more iPod sales with an easy way to fill them with music. But are the other services gambling on a future where many more people are buying downloads?
What if it's another dotcom, where everyone is jumping into the game, but the profits just don't eventuate...?
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Keep it in context: this is an anecdotal comment from a single person comparing a bleeding edge 2005 pre-release Mac with their old 2003 retail Mac.
On top of that, the highly objective tests are: "web pages open faster." (Which makes me think if I built a state of the art, water cooled Athlon screamer, I'd be able to load all those Slashdotted sites I don't get to see.)
But yes, the signs are good that Apple fanboys are losing their chip snobbery.
ROT13 is easily cracked, run it twice instead
Probably modded just-not-funny, but I seriously did start parsing the headline as Failing Windows etc.
Yes there is, it's under "What are the limits of conventional computing?"
Subsection 1: "Are there any limits to the desire of the organism homogeekus to port Linux to any device imaginable and then communicate the accomplishment in symbolic form?"
Glass is transparent because the majority of its atoms are aligned so the photons of light are not reflected, absorbed or scattered.
Steve Jobs is also playing and he's landed on Regent Street.
With the way Li-on batteries are being recalled these days (esp. those manufactured by LG), it probably has its own thermonuclear explosive device as well.
I'm being overly fearful, but I'm thinking between the scaldings, the potential for catching fire and/or exploding, the last place you want to put a hotrod laptop... is your lap!
It's probably just me, but did anyone else think the way the model ended up in the last frame of the movie look remarkably like a table lamp?
Something distinctly Douglas Adams about it all. Maybe they were infinite improbability constants being entered in the console panel.
Yes, that is a valid comment. The commentators are probably viewing it like Dell, who are said to have an agreement with Intel to purchase chips at a discount if they do not use AMD chips. Thus there are no AMD-based Dells.
I'm thinking of the Dune series... If one started reading them books in chronological order (the 3x "Butlerian Jihad" books + the 3x "House" books), I doubt very much anyone would ever get to "Dune" as they would have given up in sheer boredom. Those prequels only made sense in the context of explaining the events of the original books (and bad explanations at that, imho). That's going to be true of most prequels, isn't it? Well, I'm just thankful that JK Rowling has said that she'd never write a "Happy Potter Episode 1."
Three catches:
Other than that, you're right!
20 bucks says his jeans have holes in the knees to make a point about how all the lawsuits are eating into profits.
Steps to making money out of technology companies:
Why should you be kidding? Chef's knives are hardly playthings. They're extremely sharp and can be put into a vital organ and do fatal damage with minimal effort.
Even successfully putting up an arm to defend yourself against an uncoordinated attack could see an artery severed or a couple of fingers lost.
I'm not a medical expert, but at close range I'd give an even chance to surviving an attack from a shotgun than a chef's knife.
And then Scotty proceeds to type at about 1000 wpm.
Always wondered about that: if he regarded a keyboard as an obsolete museum piece, why are his typing skills so good?
Maybe the skill from tapping those colored squares they use as the interface on Star Trek screens is directly transferrable to a keyboard.
http://www.ocees.com/mainpages/Powersystems.html
I thought Palm bought Be to integrate parts of its OS technology into future Palm OSes. (Not that BeOS was ever intended to be a handheld OS, but Palm did buy them for something.)
If it's now Linux all the way, what aspects of BeOS, if any, are going to be in there?
Depends who you buy from and if they want to increase sales. In many cases, if they don't have drivers on the CD-ROM, they're sometimes downloadable from the manufacturer's web site. If the manufacturer hasn't made a driver, a Google search on the product code can often turn one up.
Many of the hardware pieces I've bought recently have had a little Tux symbol on the box indicating they are Linux friendly. Guess who I'll be going back to next time.
https://depot.info.apple.com/batteryexchange/index .html
After serial number verification, a new battery will be shipped to you, free of charge. When you receive the replacement battery, please use the same shipping packaging and included prepaid shipping label to return the recalled battery
Then squeeze the coal in your hand, pretending to do it real hard and murmuring something about rearranging the structure of its carbon atoms, and open it to reveal a sparkling diamond.
Kinda romantic... if the girlfriend hadn't walked away the moment the Superman IV quoting started.
Welcome to the Blogosphere. Enjoy your stay!
(I kinda agree with you, but that doesn't stop me knowing you'll be modded Troll for speaking your mind, which is ironically what blogs do, but there you are.)
They're referring to c, the speed of light in a vacuum.
Otherwise, it's a bit bulky to say "E=m(something which is a dependent of the medium it travels in)^2".
Of course, put light into a Bose-Einstein Condensate, and you could cycle faster than it...
I don't buy it either.
It's like sleep: say you need to get something done in 72 hours. Now, you could attempt to work non-stop 72 hours, or you could take 3 * 8 = 24 hours to leave you 48 hours.
So it's 72 hours vs 48 hours, a theoretical 33% loss of productivity. But it isn't is it, since the last half of those non-stop 72 hours would have been more or less worthless.
Human beings need breaks... coffee breaks, water cooler chats, walks in the fresh air, entertainment, sex, sleep, etc. Without them, we're less productive.
If your life is boring and unstimulated, you're not productive.
So how long has your boss been the manager of the comic book store?
It was Compaq that reverse engineered the BIOS to start the clones rolling. All those clones then ultimately ran Microsoft's OS because its aggressive marketing techniques drove out all other competitors.
Result: a 95+% domination of the market, establishing a monoculture where almost everyone uses Windows, Outlook, IE, with the resulting lack of innovation, viruses, and security holes that monocultures bring with it.
Alternate history: If Microsoft hadn't come into being, companies that made alternate OSes (DR-DOS, GemStar, Visio, etc) could have continued and the situation could be like the various Linux distros (Red Hat, SuSE, Gentoo) today, except on a much more marketshare significant scale. Hardware markers would still have flourished, widespread demand for hardware would still have driven PC prices down to commodity levels.
This was actually like the situation before Microsoft came to dominate. Lots of computer makers - Commodore, Atari, Tandy, etc - competing with both hardware and an OS. The big bad Apple was never a monopoly - at its height the Mac had a maximum of 18% marketshare, and even the venerable Apple II no more than 50%. There were always others. IBM may have started the monoculture, but it was Microsoft that embraced and established it.
Everyone seems to be getting into downloadable music game (I half expect to see a headline announcing Google Music one of these days).
But is this a currently profitable market, or are they gambling on it being so in the future?
The last financial briefing of Apple Computer stated that they had achieved "about break even" for the quarter.
Break even? When iTunes is the currently the biggest thing around. Why even bother. Presumably for Apple, it's to provide a service to encourage more iPod sales with an easy way to fill them with music. But are the other services gambling on a future where many more people are buying downloads?
What if it's another dotcom, where everyone is jumping into the game, but the profits just don't eventuate...?