I am not an extraterrestrial. I use a Macintosh because it is the best computer available on this backwards planet, even if it is a mere abacus compared to a child's toy from where I come from, which is France, of course.
Do not continue to claim that I am an alien unless you wish to become assimilated into The Collective.
They paid for the software, and they can use it on whatever hardware they own if it runs
And if all they did was use it on whatever hardware they own, Apple probably wouldn't have bothered them. I don't recall any reports of Apple going after people who build a Hackintosh for their own use. The problem came when they modified the software and resold it.
Five years? You've got to be kidding. Modern cars far outlast older ones.
Back in what is often considered the golden era of American cars, the mid-Fifties to the mid-Sixties, you were doing well if you got ten years and 100K miles out of a car before it was time to start shopping for a new one. My current vehicle, on the other hand, is 15 years old with 120K miles on it and still doesn't use a drop of oil. Well, not as long as I keep the speed under 80 mph or so. Luckily, it's a Ford Ranger, which means it takes so long to get to 80 that I could only exceed that speed on a long trip. A long, downhill trip.
for now OSX is substantially slower on the same hardware for Photoshop.
The reason that Photoshop is substantially slower on the Mac than on Windows has nothing to do with it being a 32 bit binary. The real explanation is that Adobe is still writing all their Mac apps using the old Carbon APIs rather than in OS X native Cocoa.
You may recall that when Apple announced they were switching to a new OS based on Steve Job's NeXT OS and that this would require a substantial re-write of existing software, Adobe was one of the developers who screamed the loudest, even threatening to cease developing Mac software altogether. In response, Apple developed a set of APIs--dubbed "Carbon"--that would allow existing software to run under OS X with only minor alterations. In the ten years since then, most major Mac software development has migrated over to using the Cocoa APIs. Unfortunately, Adobe has been one of the few developers who have elected to stay with Carbon and, as a result, their products take longer to launch and run more slowly than is usual for modern OS X applications.
Delving into the realm of speculation for a moment: while trying to promote non-proprietary Web standards is a good thing, one has to wonder if this doesn't have at least something to do with with Apple's efforts to kill Flash in recent years. Steve Jobs has never been very tolerant of people (or companies) who don't share his vision of the way things should be.
In the words of P. J. O'Rourke, giving money to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to adolescent boys.
Of course, that quote is from someone who once wrote an article for The National Lampoon entitled How to Drive Fast On Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.
Construction of a simple tube that tall should be considerably simpler.
It was interesting how, in the artist's conceptual drawings, the whole thing looked slick and clean and modern while in the photograph of the real, working power station, it was rough and industrial-looking. And notice the guy wires supporting the chimney that weren't included in the drawing.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a pretty cool thing. I just find the somewhat deceitful methods often used by corporations to sell things to the public by not telling the whole truth rather...fascinating. The Sutro Tower (a 700+ foot high TV antenna tower) in San Francisco is a case in point. The original plans called for a rather futuristic single needle. The actual tower as built was a brutally expedient latticework that San Franciscans hate to this day.
As an Mac user who's tried out the OS X version of Chrome, I can assure you that no one is abandoning Safari for it.
Okay, looks like I was wrong then, there are at last a few people who hate Safari enough to put up with the quirks in the current version of Chrome. I will have to use it more, I guess, and see what I'm missing.
This may be partially explained by the release of the Chrome beta on Mac
As an Mac user who's tried out the OS X version of Chrome, I can assure you that no one is abandoning Safari for it. While it's a decent enough browser for a beta, there are enough annoying things about it to make me wait until the next version to decide whether or not it will replace Safari (or Firefox; I switch between the two) as my primary browser.
If anything, it's more likely that the relative few Windows users who have been trying Safari for Windows have switched over to Chrome, at least temporarily.
A huge source of innovation now essentially peddles middling printers and copier machines...
Xerox is doing a lot more than peddling middling printers and copiers. They're making big bucks manufacturing super-high-end, super-fast laser printers aimed at the print-on-demand industry. Really nice equipment that typically comes with a PostScript RIP and a price that would buy you a house in many markets. And will easily fill a room in said house, too.
Still, I know what you mean. The glory days of Xerox PARC are gone, and that's too bad. They gave us the GUI computer OS, among other things
Maybe the signal strength shown on his computer includes signals reflected from the pan back into the wifi modem.
Just to be sure, I watched the video again. The graph on his computer was measuring download speed in KB/s rather than actual signal strength. Although there's a correlation between the two, I'd tend to agree with the other posters who have postulated that the pot was more likely attenuating interfering signals rather than boosting the desired ones.
I feel the same way when I hear about 3 inches of snow in New York plastered all over the national news.
Hah. You think that's bad, you ought to see what happens here in southern California whenever the weather is anything other than sunny and 74 degrees. Really--when the temperature drops below 60 F, the weather-droids act like it's the beginning of the next ice age.
That is until they mention the hundreds of car crashes, then I just think New York drivers must be dumbasses. Holy shit! It's snow! Snow is slick! Slow the hell down! ZOMGWTFBBQ!
Again, you ought to see what happens here in southern California. A little drizzle and people are spinning off the road all over ten counties. It's pathetic.
(Spoken as someone who comes from a place where it seldom snowed but where it rains more than four times a year.)
I know I can buy a new one. You've obviously missed the point of my post which was that outdated modems, which were once ubiquitous and often available for free, are now scarce.
I could send you a few but its going to be from Australia, which could be expensive.
Yeah, it would undoubtedly be cheaper to drop the USD 20 on the new parts from Mouser, but thanks anyhow. I only brought it up to point out the current scarcity of modems.
They used to be pretty common but not so much anymore. And I just wanted cannibalize them for a specific part--I wouldn't have even cared if the things worked as long as the 1:1 audio transformers weren't burnt out.
I was trying to put together an inexpensive homebrew computer-to-transceiver audio interface for digital radio transmissions and needed a pair of audio frequency transformers. I knew that all POTS line modems had a transformer in them that would work and I thought that this would be a cheap source for parts that cost about ten bucks apiece new. Of course, I had just recently sent all my old modems to the recycler so I started asking around to see if anyone had a modem that they wanted to get rid of. Out of the more than 20 people I asked, not a single person still had one.
Hard to believe that only ten years ago the modem ruled supreme when it came to Internet access. Now you can't even find one to cannibalize.
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I am not an extraterrestrial. I use a Macintosh because it is the best computer available on this backwards planet, even if it is a mere abacus compared to a child's toy from where I come from, which is France, of course.
Do not continue to claim that I am an alien unless you wish to become assimilated into The Collective.
They paid for the software, and they can use it on whatever hardware they own if it runs
And if all they did was use it on whatever hardware they own, Apple probably wouldn't have bothered them. I don't recall any reports of Apple going after people who build a Hackintosh for their own use. The problem came when they modified the software and resold it.
Five years? You've got to be kidding. Modern cars far outlast older ones.
Back in what is often considered the golden era of American cars, the mid-Fifties to the mid-Sixties, you were doing well if you got ten years and 100K miles out of a car before it was time to start shopping for a new one. My current vehicle, on the other hand, is 15 years old with 120K miles on it and still doesn't use a drop of oil. Well, not as long as I keep the speed under 80 mph or so. Luckily, it's a Ford Ranger, which means it takes so long to get to 80 that I could only exceed that speed on a long trip. A long, downhill trip.
for now OSX is substantially slower on the same hardware for Photoshop.
The reason that Photoshop is substantially slower on the Mac than on Windows has nothing to do with it being a 32 bit binary. The real explanation is that Adobe is still writing all their Mac apps using the old Carbon APIs rather than in OS X native Cocoa.
You may recall that when Apple announced they were switching to a new OS based on Steve Job's NeXT OS and that this would require a substantial re-write of existing software, Adobe was one of the developers who screamed the loudest, even threatening to cease developing Mac software altogether. In response, Apple developed a set of APIs--dubbed "Carbon"--that would allow existing software to run under OS X with only minor alterations. In the ten years since then, most major Mac software development has migrated over to using the Cocoa APIs. Unfortunately, Adobe has been one of the few developers who have elected to stay with Carbon and, as a result, their products take longer to launch and run more slowly than is usual for modern OS X applications.
Delving into the realm of speculation for a moment: while trying to promote non-proprietary Web standards is a good thing, one has to wonder if this doesn't have at least something to do with with Apple's efforts to kill Flash in recent years. Steve Jobs has never been very tolerant of people (or companies) who don't share his vision of the way things should be.
In the words of P. J. O'Rourke, giving money to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to adolescent boys.
Of course, that quote is from someone who once wrote an article for The National Lampoon entitled How to Drive Fast On Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.
Construction of a simple tube that tall should be considerably simpler.
It was interesting how, in the artist's conceptual drawings, the whole thing looked slick and clean and modern while in the photograph of the real, working power station, it was rough and industrial-looking. And notice the guy wires supporting the chimney that weren't included in the drawing.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a pretty cool thing. I just find the somewhat deceitful methods often used by corporations to sell things to the public by not telling the whole truth rather...fascinating. The Sutro Tower (a 700+ foot high TV antenna tower) in San Francisco is a case in point. The original plans called for a rather futuristic single needle. The actual tower as built was a brutally expedient latticework that San Franciscans hate to this day.
So, care to calculate some epicycles for us?
Sure, just as soon as I can get some Phlogiston to power my N-ray generator.
I know there's a joke in there somewhere, I just can't quite figure it out.
The goatse guy will still be there.
As an Mac user who's tried out the OS X version of Chrome, I can assure you that no one is abandoning Safari for it.
Okay, looks like I was wrong then, there are at last a few people who hate Safari enough to put up with the quirks in the current version of Chrome. I will have to use it more, I guess, and see what I'm missing.
From the summary:
This may be partially explained by the release of the Chrome beta on Mac
As an Mac user who's tried out the OS X version of Chrome, I can assure you that no one is abandoning Safari for it. While it's a decent enough browser for a beta, there are enough annoying things about it to make me wait until the next version to decide whether or not it will replace Safari (or Firefox; I switch between the two) as my primary browser.
If anything, it's more likely that the relative few Windows users who have been trying Safari for Windows have switched over to Chrome, at least temporarily.
I don't understand why people think it is ok to force their beliefs on me.
Because your beliefs (or lack thereof) scare them.
Holy shit!
Nevermind HP. How about Xerox[...]
A huge source of innovation now essentially peddles middling printers and copier machines...
Xerox is doing a lot more than peddling middling printers and copiers. They're making big bucks manufacturing super-high-end, super-fast laser printers aimed at the print-on-demand industry. Really nice equipment that typically comes with a PostScript RIP and a price that would buy you a house in many markets. And will easily fill a room in said house, too.
Still, I know what you mean. The glory days of Xerox PARC are gone, and that's too bad. They gave us the GUI computer OS, among other things
"That's shoes for industry."
Maybe the signal strength shown on his computer includes signals reflected from the pan back into the wifi modem.
Just to be sure, I watched the video again. The graph on his computer was measuring download speed in KB/s rather than actual signal strength. Although there's a correlation between the two, I'd tend to agree with the other posters who have postulated that the pot was more likely attenuating interfering signals rather than boosting the desired ones.
By "get over it", of course, you mean, "compromise their principles out of convenience, instant gratification, or short-term benefit."
Apparently, this is one of the people who hasn't gotten over it yet.
Ayn Rand, you're alive and posting on slashdot!
Funny!
Lots of people (especially engineering types and other nerds) go through an Ayn Rand stage in early adulthood. Most of them get over it, though.
I feel the same way when I hear about 3 inches of snow in New York plastered all over the national news.
Hah. You think that's bad, you ought to see what happens here in southern California whenever the weather is anything other than sunny and 74 degrees. Really--when the temperature drops below 60 F, the weather-droids act like it's the beginning of the next ice age.
That is until they mention the hundreds of car crashes, then I just think New York drivers must be dumbasses. Holy shit! It's snow! Snow is slick! Slow the hell down! ZOMGWTFBBQ!
Again, you ought to see what happens here in southern California. A little drizzle and people are spinning off the road all over ten counties. It's pathetic.
(Spoken as someone who comes from a place where it seldom snowed but where it rains more than four times a year.)
I know I can buy a new one. You've obviously missed the point of my post which was that outdated modems, which were once ubiquitous and often available for free, are now scarce.
I could send you a few but its going to be from Australia, which could be expensive.
Yeah, it would undoubtedly be cheaper to drop the USD 20 on the new parts from Mouser, but thanks anyhow. I only brought it up to point out the current scarcity of modems.
Are there similar markets where you live?
They used to be pretty common but not so much anymore. And I just wanted cannibalize them for a specific part--I wouldn't have even cared if the things worked as long as the 1:1 audio transformers weren't burnt out.
I was trying to put together an inexpensive homebrew computer-to-transceiver audio interface for digital radio transmissions and needed a pair of audio frequency transformers. I knew that all POTS line modems had a transformer in them that would work and I thought that this would be a cheap source for parts that cost about ten bucks apiece new. Of course, I had just recently sent all my old modems to the recycler so I started asking around to see if anyone had a modem that they wanted to get rid of. Out of the more than 20 people I asked, not a single person still had one.
Hard to believe that only ten years ago the modem ruled supreme when it came to Internet access. Now you can't even find one to cannibalize.
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"Less talk, more synthehol!"
so.. umm.. she got a sister?
Yeah, but I got the good-looking one, sorry. Besides, the sister's not a nerd.