Ironic how you couldn't correctly spell smart. Also, there was nothing grammatically wrong with what was written, asshole.
Dear A.C.:
Maybe you didn't notice that the previous poster was correcting himself. You should chill out. Your aggressive response was exaggerated.
Even if realdpk was correcting someone else, it does not justify calling him asshole, since he wasn't nasty. You, on the other hand, showed a lack of human relationship skills in your post. Just stop and think about this for a minute, it may help you in the future.
I wonder if this is because the rendering engine on OS X is the old generation rendering engine vs. the new engine they use on Windows (codename trident.)
It also crashes IE 4 on Windows, and I believe it also uses an old generation rendering engine.
How could I have helped us to avoid the slashdot effect? Let me know so next time I'll do it right.
Unless you have a server that will withstand the/. effect and put a mirror on it, there is nothing you can do to avoid it. Thus the winking emoticon in my comment:;-)
No, KW, a guy simply exercised his right to say that he didn't like the movie and that he can't understand why other people think it's so cool.
If you look at some other threads, they actually discuss the article (they not always agree with it, but that's OK). Maybe you have your score threshold too high...
And don't forget that it took a longer time for people to actually read the article because the site got slashdotted very fast (which, by the way, was actually your fault...;-) ).
If you need the money, sell both the Windows laptop and the iBook and buy a 12" PowerBook.
Actually, I would sell the Windows laptop, keep the iBook, buy myself an iPod, and pocket the rest of the cash.
My iBook is the 700 MHz model, by the way.
Well, I don't know if I should feel surprised or relieved. I plan to buy an 800 MHz iBook on September, but I have heard that the lack of Altivec makes it unbearably slow. I am a poor grad student, so the PowerBooks are way out of my budget. Your insistence in preferring your iBook even over the 12" PB makes me believe that I may be happy with one after all.
In general, the voices in favor of the iBook seem to come from actual owners, while the ones against it seem to come from PC users like me who can't afford a G4 and are too afraid of the performance drop.
Did you lose a limb? You see, there are two ctrl keys on the keyboard. One on the left, and one on the right. You should be able to use the right ctrl key with your right hand, then use your left hand to hit the x,c or v.
Frequently I need to cut/copy/paste/select all while using the mouse with my other hand.
Do you use the same hand to shift and hit a letter? Perhaps you just need to learn how to use a keyboard properly.
You usually type upper-case letters when typing text, so both hands are on the keyboard. But frequently you need to use control (or command) keys while doing other things (using the mouse or other pointing device, the keypad, etc).
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Does it run Linux?:)
As another poster said, you can run Yellow Dog Linux. And YDL is based on LinuxPPC, which is similar to Red Hat. You can also find: Mandrake, Debian, Suse, only to mention the distributions that are popular on x86. There are a few more, and there is also OpenBSD and NetBSD for PPC.
Of course, most people don't really use any of the above since MacOS X satisfies their Unix needs.
A few of the non-assholes here already answered your question. But in the future, you may want to have TechWeb's TechEncyclopedia handy for simple definitions related to basic technology/computers/communications concepts.
I suppose that you want something like OSXvnc, which allows you to share your main (and only) quartz display.
But you may also want to check out Xvnc for MacOS X, which allows you to share secondary X Window sessions (:1 through:99, in theory). This is one of the few huge advantages of X over Quartz/Aqua: you can create several simultaneous sessions that are kept alive independently, and that may be created by different users. It is a really useful feature but unfortunately you can only launch X applications in them, not common Cocoa/Carbon/Classic ones, and you need an X-Win window manager such as WindowMaker or AfterStep or even a full desktop environment as KDE or Gnome.
Yes, that's a nice feature. Windows apps can do this too, if the're written properly. Office, for example, can be moved, as can most other applications. Instead of dragging the executable bundle, however, you drag the program directory.
I'm sorry but this is not quite true. Your commentary struck me as odd, so I decided to test it myself (as I am tied to a Win 200 machine). I moved the "Microsoft Office" folder from the "C:\Program Files\" folder to another one in drive C. This is what happens every time I launch the programs directly from the "Microsoft Office\Office" folder:
Excel:"An error occurred and this feature is not functioning properly. Would you like to repair this feature now?". If I say yes, it asks me for the Office installers. As I don't have the installers at hand, I am forced to cancel the "installation", after several error dialogs. Afterwards, (or if I say I don't want to "repair this feature"), things appear to work correctly (I haven't checked everything, though).
PowerPoint: It launches without a problem, but the first time I use a menu command the installer dialog appears. I am also unable to open templates.
Word: The dialog appears when launching, as with Excel.
Access, Outlook: I don't use them so I don't really care.
The shortcuts in the Start menu, the launch bar, and the desktop invoke the installer dialog and don't launch the application if the dialog is cancelled.
We can argue that the programs anyway appear to be operative after dismissing all the dialogs, and that everything will probably be corrected by running the installer from the CD. But this is a far cry from what MacOS X (apparently) offers: they can (apparently) simply move their directory to a CD-R or a FireWire disk (or an iPod) and the first time the programs are run they heal themselves automatically.
There is even a story of a kid pirating MS Office from a display Mac in a store by copying it to his iPod. Some tech reporter saw him, I think.
PS: I returned the directory to its location and (thank God) everything returned to normal.
Not really. AltiVec is the Motorola SIMD extensions to PPC. IBM's extensions are called VMX. VMX is compatible with AltiVec and both presumable would be marketed by Apple as Velocity Engine.
You are right, but the IBM article says:
Further technical highlights of the PowerPC 970:
Onchip 512 KB L2 Cache
Altivec (TM) Vector/SIMD unit
6,4 GB/s I/O system bus throughput
So in an IBM online document, THEY are calling the SIMD unit in the PowerPC 970 "Altivec". Go figure.
Yup, but you also mixed up "the Univ. of Columbia" (which is in NY), with the University of the Andes, which happens to be in Colombia. There is no "University of Colombia".
They were honest mistakes, but certainly your post isn't informative. In fact it helps to spread misinformation.
to get all the programs I actually use daily I would have to reboot several times per day
Umm duhh Its called a laptop. You don't use it constintely throughtout the day and if you are, why don't you just buy a desktop (a little cheaper plus easier to upgrade) You should turn it off when you are moving it and its not in use.
What are you talking about? Precisely one of the appeals of a laptop is to move your work around (the building, the city, or the world) without having to reboot. You simply put it to sleep and wake it up when you need it (which in current Apple laptops takes less that 2 seconds), and every application is just as you left it.
Plus, if you use it daily wouldn't you want something it little bigger for less eye strain.
Good point. If you are using a laptop as a desktop replacement you should get a 15" model or larger, or simply attach an external monitor when you are at your main workplace. The 12" PB supports a second monitor (not necessarily mirrored) of up two 1600x1200 (more than enough for me). But these small laptops are appealing precisely because they are small enough to carry everywhere.
I would have to reboot several times per day
How many programs are you running?
Six applications on Windows. One is a VNC session to a Solaris box that is running two more. On weekdays I frequently run MUCH more simultaneously, some on Cygwin and sometimes one or two on Linux. Of course this is a desktop machine that is tied to the network to get all the programs. The PB could run them all, at the same time, in the same environment.
Do you you install a new program everyday? If you do then how much hard drive space left to do the things that you want?
I've lost you completely on this one. I rarely install new programs, but I don't see the relevance of this.
(and believe me, your problems are quite uncommon)
and why should i believe you? are you some great god of the mac world? This isn't an isolated insadent. Everyone that i talk to that use macs say that theirs have crashed on them many times. And I thought Macs never crash?? Ha ha
I suppose I have as much credibility as your ever-crashing Macs. Back in the late 90's, when I was an undergrad, we had Macs (OS 7.5.x - 8.1), along with Win 98 and Linux/LinuxPPC machines. And boy, did those Macs crash! At least once a day, sometimes more. Of course, we were not so concerned because they crashed as much because the Win 98/95 machines that we used also crashed daily. Win NT 4 was very uncommon because the licenses were too expensive (OK, I suppose the university got educational prices, but anyway NT was not common on desktops). Linux and LinuxPPC never crashed.
Since 1999 I have used Macs very rarely. But I frequently talk with several people who use them (and who I trust), and they say that OS 9 still crashes a lot, but OS X is as stable as Linux. (Of course they can't prove it since they reboot at least monthly for upgrades, while I have had Linux installations being heavily used for six straight months.)
That's an important point: Win 2k and XP are acceptably stable. OS X is apparently more stable (although on both platforms there are huge exceptions). But most people still run Win 9x or ME or MacOS 8 or 9, so they will tell you that in stability their platform sucks.
(( (believe me you are a blumbling idiot!)
By considering that everyone who has a different opinion or experience from you is an idiot, you close the door to new experiences that may change your view of the world (or at least make your day occasionally). And I am certainly not talking only about computers here.
Now I still wonder why in the heck would you even have the smallest thought of putting 1800 into such a obsolete piece of hardware. I am looking at a Dell laptop with double the cpu and even greather specs on everything else. Plus it is $400 less than what you are willing to pay for a powerbook
Because the 12" Powerbook is a small portable that according to the reviews performs quite decently. It is quite costly, but not as obsolete as a cheaper iBook (which by the way performs acceptably for what I do).
The $1400 Dell runs either Windows or Linux (or some other Unix-like system), so to get all the programs I actually use daily I would have to reboot several times per day, or settle down for Cygwin. And although I really thank the Cygwin developers for their work, the truth is that it actually sucks (remember, I use it daily).
If any PC OS performed as nicely as OS X (and believe me, your problems are quite uncommon), I would probably not consider switching, but in the mean time I'm only waiting for the money to get an Apple.
What kind of Macs are they? What version of the operating system are they using?
On the other hand, the Windows 2000 machine from which I'm typing this either crashes after using it for around two weeks, or becomes so unbearably slow that I'm forced to restart it. Maybe XP performs better (though I've heard it has similar problems), but the Fisher-Price interface certainly seems designed for preschool children. (Of course I know it can be disabled).
I don't own a Mac now, but I am really craving for one because of the "friendly" BSD integration. I regularly use Cygwin to run Unix programs on Windows (LyX among others) and VNC connections to Linux and Solaris to get the other programs that I either don't have for Windows or that simply suck on it.
But that is far form a good solution. Cygwin itself sucks, the other Unixes are good but too complex to configure, and Window's performance leaves a lot to desire. And it turns out that ALL the SW that I regularly use in the three platforms (four with Cygwin) actually exists or has an excellent substitute on the Mac.
If I only had $1800 to spare I would get a 12" Powerbook.
OK, I apologize... I actually didn't get it the first time, and the fact that you didn't know about Photoshop made me believe that you didn't know about the GIMP for MacOS X either. I thought you were an ignorant troll and got kind of upset.
The next time I will try to be more aware of irony in your posts...:-)
You are confusing cut-and-paste with paste-the-selection. The two are different mechanisms and X11 supports both (as do most toolkits and many applications).
Can you PLEASE tell me the "standard" way to use the real cut-and-paste on X11? I am not trolling, I work regularly with Solaris, Linux and Cygwin and this really affects me. I thought the only standard option was the middle-button paste which really mortifies me...
apple moderators are vicous bastards. They will mod you down if you say anything bad about their OS, without even bothering to argue with you that you are wrong, and even if what you are saying is perfectly logical and sencible.
You may have a point. Just a note: moderators can't argue with you because they can't post on the discussions they moderate.
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Maybe you didn't notice that the previous poster was correcting himself. You should chill out. Your aggressive response was exaggerated.
Even if realdpk was correcting someone else, it does not justify calling him asshole, since he wasn't nasty. You, on the other hand, showed a lack of human relationship skills in your post. Just stop and think about this for a minute, it may help you in the future.
No, KW, a guy simply exercised his right to say that he didn't like the movie and that he can't understand why other people think it's so cool.
;-) ).
If you look at some other threads, they actually discuss the article (they not always agree with it, but that's OK). Maybe you have your score threshold too high...
And don't forget that it took a longer time for people to actually read the article because the site got slashdotted very fast (which, by the way, was actually your fault...
In general, the voices in favor of the iBook seem to come from actual owners, while the ones against it seem to come from PC users like me who can't afford a G4 and are too afraid of the performance drop.
If you need the money, sell both the Windows laptop and the iBook and buy a 12" PowerBook.
If you don't care about the money, sell the Windows laptop, buy a 15" or 17" PowerBook and keep the iBook.
If you really don't care, sell the Windows laptop, buy any PowerBook and give me the iBook!
It's mindless bigots like you that hurt the Slashdoter's perception of the Mac community! ;^)
(By the way, if someone really wants to give me a 600+ MHz PowerBook/iBook I will cheerfully accept it. Really!)
Frequently I need to cut/copy/paste/select all while using the mouse with my other hand.
You usually type upper-case letters when typing text, so both hands are on the keyboard. But frequently you need to use control (or command) keys while doing other things (using the mouse or other pointing device, the keypad, etc).
As another poster said, you can run Yellow Dog Linux. And YDL is based on LinuxPPC, which is similar to Red Hat. You can also find:
Mandrake,
Debian,
Suse,
only to mention the distributions that are popular on x86. There are a few more, and there is also OpenBSD and NetBSD for PPC.
Of course, most people don't really use any of the above since MacOS X satisfies their Unix needs.
I suppose that you want something like OSXvnc, which allows you to share your main (and only) quartz display.
:99, in theory). This is one of the few huge advantages of X over Quartz/Aqua: you can create several simultaneous sessions that are kept alive independently, and that may be created by different users. It is a really useful feature but unfortunately you can only launch X applications in them, not common Cocoa/Carbon/Classic ones, and you need an X-Win window manager such as WindowMaker or AfterStep or even a full desktop environment as KDE or Gnome.
But you may also want to check out Xvnc for MacOS X, which allows you to share secondary X Window sessions (:1 through
Just in case someone wonders, my machine is running Windows 2000 Professional, not "Win 200". I guess I should proofread my posts...
I'm sorry but this is not quite true. Your commentary struck me as odd, so I decided to test it myself (as I am tied to a Win 200 machine). I moved the "Microsoft Office" folder from the "C:\Program Files\" folder to another one in drive C. This is what happens every time I launch the programs directly from the "Microsoft Office\Office" folder:
Excel: "An error occurred and this feature is not functioning properly. Would you like to repair this feature now?". If I say yes, it asks me for the Office installers. As I don't have the installers at hand, I am forced to cancel the "installation", after several error dialogs. Afterwards, (or if I say I don't want to "repair this feature"), things appear to work correctly (I haven't checked everything, though).
PowerPoint: It launches without a problem, but the first time I use a menu command the installer dialog appears. I am also unable to open templates.
Word: The dialog appears when launching, as with Excel.
Access, Outlook: I don't use them so I don't really care.
The shortcuts in the Start menu, the launch bar, and the desktop invoke the installer dialog and don't launch the application if the dialog is cancelled.
We can argue that the programs anyway appear to be operative after dismissing all the dialogs, and that everything will probably be corrected by running the installer from the CD. But this is a far cry from what MacOS X (apparently) offers: they can (apparently) simply move their directory to a CD-R or a FireWire disk (or an iPod) and the first time the programs are run they heal themselves automatically.
There is even a story of a kid pirating MS Office from a display Mac in a store by copying it to his iPod. Some tech reporter saw him, I think.
PS: I returned the directory to its location and (thank God) everything returned to normal.
You are right, but the IBM article says:
So in an IBM online document, THEY are calling the SIMD unit in the PowerPC 970 "Altivec". Go figure.
Man, RTFA.... ;)
Now that is informative. By the way, I also graduated from Los Andes. :-)
You're right! My mistake. (Although in my opinion a slightly smaller one). There is a University of British Columbia to make matters worse.
OK, point taken. Although I was not really criticizing the poster, but the moderators who modded him as informative.
That's OK. There is a "National University of Colombia" (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), the biggest one, so you were almost right.
The problem is not people who make honest mistakes, but moderators who help spread those mistakes.
Yup, but you also mixed up "the Univ. of Columbia" (which is in NY), with the University of the Andes, which happens to be in Colombia. There is no "University of Colombia".
They were honest mistakes, but certainly your post isn't informative. In fact it helps to spread misinformation.
What are you talking about? Precisely one of the appeals of a laptop is to move your work around (the building, the city, or the world) without having to reboot. You simply put it to sleep and wake it up when you need it (which in current Apple laptops takes less that 2 seconds), and every application is just as you left it.
Good point. If you are using a laptop as a desktop replacement you should get a 15" model or larger, or simply attach an external monitor when you are at your main workplace. The 12" PB supports a second monitor (not necessarily mirrored) of up two 1600x1200 (more than enough for me). But these small laptops are appealing precisely because they are small enough to carry everywhere.
Six applications on Windows. One is a VNC session to a Solaris box that is running two more. On weekdays I frequently run MUCH more simultaneously, some on Cygwin and sometimes one or two on Linux. Of course this is a desktop machine that is tied to the network to get all the programs. The PB could run them all, at the same time, in the same environment.
I've lost you completely on this one. I rarely install new programs, but I don't see the relevance of this.
I suppose I have as much credibility as your ever-crashing Macs. Back in the late 90's, when I was an undergrad, we had Macs (OS 7.5.x - 8.1), along with Win 98 and Linux/LinuxPPC machines. And boy, did those Macs crash! At least once a day, sometimes more. Of course, we were not so concerned because they crashed as much because the Win 98/95 machines that we used also crashed daily. Win NT 4 was very uncommon because the licenses were too expensive (OK, I suppose the university got educational prices, but anyway NT was not common on desktops). Linux and LinuxPPC never crashed.
Since 1999 I have used Macs very rarely. But I frequently talk with several people who use them (and who I trust), and they say that OS 9 still crashes a lot, but OS X is as stable as Linux. (Of course they can't prove it since they reboot at least monthly for upgrades, while I have had Linux installations being heavily used for six straight months.)
That's an important point: Win 2k and XP are acceptably stable. OS X is apparently more stable (although on both platforms there are huge exceptions). But most people still run Win 9x or ME or MacOS 8 or 9, so they will tell you that in stability their platform sucks.
By considering that everyone who has a different opinion or experience from you is an idiot, you close the door to new experiences that may change your view of the world (or at least make your day occasionally). And I am certainly not talking only about computers here.
Because the 12" Powerbook is a small portable that according to the reviews performs quite decently. It is quite costly, but not as obsolete as a cheaper iBook (which by the way performs acceptably for what I do).
The $1400 Dell runs either Windows or Linux (or some other Unix-like system), so to get all the programs I actually use daily I would have to reboot several times per day, or settle down for Cygwin. And although I really thank the Cygwin developers for their work, the truth is that it actually sucks (remember, I use it daily).
If any PC OS performed as nicely as OS X (and believe me, your problems are quite uncommon), I would probably not consider switching, but in the mean time I'm only waiting for the money to get an Apple.
What kind of Macs are they?
What version of the operating system are they using?
On the other hand, the Windows 2000 machine from which I'm typing this either crashes after using it for around two weeks, or becomes so unbearably slow that I'm forced to restart it. Maybe XP performs better (though I've heard it has similar problems), but the Fisher-Price interface certainly seems designed for preschool children. (Of course I know it can be disabled).
I don't own a Mac now, but I am really craving for one because of the "friendly" BSD integration. I regularly use Cygwin to run Unix programs on Windows (LyX among others) and VNC connections to Linux and Solaris to get the other programs that I either don't have for Windows or that simply suck on it.
But that is far form a good solution. Cygwin itself sucks, the other Unixes are good but too complex to configure, and Window's performance leaves a lot to desire. And it turns out that ALL the SW that I regularly use in the three platforms (four with Cygwin) actually exists or has an excellent substitute on the Mac.
If I only had $1800 to spare I would get a 12" Powerbook.
I think 1 base Pi would simply be: 1*Pi^0 = 1
And 11 base Pi: 1*Pi^1 + 1*Pi^0 = Pi + 1
And 0.1 base Pi: 1*Pi^-1 = 1/Pi
OK, I apologize... I actually didn't get it the first time, and the fact that you didn't know about Photoshop made me believe that you didn't know about the GIMP for MacOS X either. I thought you were an ignorant troll and got kind of upset.
:-)
The next time I will try to be more aware of irony in your posts...
Can you PLEASE tell me the "standard" way to use the real cut-and-paste on X11? I am not trolling, I work regularly with Solaris, Linux and Cygwin and this really affects me. I thought the only standard option was the middle-button paste which really mortifies me...
You can not only get Photoshop native for OS X. You can also get The GIMP for OS X.
Apparently you don't know much about MacOS X...
You may have a point. Just a note: moderators can't argue with you because they can't post on the discussions they moderate.