(found a bug in Slashdot code, will report it, apologies re-posting original comment)
They need to change the font caching architecture seriously. I got iDefrag, a advanced disk defrag here (video guy here,I deal with huge files) with online defrag capabilities and it can show which file has fragments while disk online (in use)
Annex.aux right now have 10 fragments (3.52 mb file) Of course it is a cache and bound to be fragmented but if I see only horrible fragmentation exist on that file only, I suspect something is done wrong by OS X. I think file is also so highly active that core system can't even try to hot defrag it.
It is one of font caches. This is a very "stock" system and never used in DTP. I can't imagine DTP people's font caches right now.
I don't like the idea of clearing caches weekly etc while having licensed utilities here which are capable of doing it. I notice on www sites and usenet that people suggest cleaning their caches to eachother having problems. While I am about to hit "reply" and explain why clearing cache wouldn't mean anything, I notice the OP posts reply saying "it fixed my problem, thanks"
If you think about half of the market of OS X consists of DTP professionals it is almost tragi-comic that OS X having problem with Font Caches which can even crash entire system.
They need to change the font caching architecture seriously. I got iDefrag, a advanced disk defrag here (video guy here,I deal with huge files) with online defrag capabilities and it can show which file has fragments while disk online (in use)
Annex.aux right now have 10 fragments (3.52 mb file,what happened to auto defrag of http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 27903
You can imagine the reports they get from their customers if they added such option.
I am not a graphics artist of course and my toolset is limited. That is not an excuse. You know why I gave up and didn't work on menu extras and add the trollish (4x faster) to about box? I could NOT STAND TO XP! Yes, I was surprised that as a guy who used PC until 2003, I get psychologically effected by a theme!
If Apple has more consumers like me, they can switch to anything, any CPU and still win. Note I am one of rare people out there which never had virus infection,worm infection, spyware infection in my life.
On OS X some of the best performing multi platform software is written using QT. They have great reviews from ordinary mac users too. I see Mono guys shipped.NET for OS X but I haven't seen a single software requires it.
QT programs are complete commercial success. A good example is Skype. If you are against QT because they require money from closed source developers who sell commercial software please say it openly.
If they will be crushed, I won't believe until one of these guys who actually codes real life, billion dollar stuff switch to.NET http://www.trolltech.com/customers
As we speak about Apple here, these guys gave up PowerPC because they see future as portable. Guess who already has a working product which works on every portable device out there? Trolltech.
I see c# people speaks about how great thing it will be and how excellent it performs but in reality I got Opera Mini on my phone, a free application which uses 107kb of space. It is the J2ME 2.0 version with all bells and whistles. I got Skype which gets good reviews from the most OS X community.
Where is the.NET for OS X or Linux? I mean the usage. I see there is.NET for OS X true, downloadable, perfectly packaged. Where is the software using it?
Don't forget OS X. Game companies get flamed because of their driver bugs.
It is consumers fault too, they should report problems to ATI instead of flamebaiting game support boards etc. If a game crashes or displays horrible stuff, fps, one thing comes to average end users mind "It is buggy/broken".
Finland is already economic and IT superpower. Guess where Nokia based in?;)
It is a good idea to check https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/inde x.html before mocking countries. There is no wonder why CIA, among all the secret agencies on planet spares their time and bandwidth for such a project;) Tax payers money you know.
Notice 3dLabs, Intel, Apple, Sun, Dell and IBM which lives its good days again?
It is not some sort of a "geek" "4 guys coding" project which Microsoft can take over. Military even relies on OpenGL.
They need a clarification , people think opengl may be effected at all by SGI going down. No, it can't. I tell you, lets say all of those board members gone chap. 11, DARPA will take over the OpenGL. Military simulations, petrol industry...
"2) Install AVG or Avast AV. They're free, they update automatically, they're light on resources and they work."
Why they are light on resources don't you wonder? They don't have heuristics, virtual machine emulation, proactive security, behaviour based stuff.
So, they miss those evil viruses/worms. They are signature based. Signature based antivirus has been abandoned by commercial antivirus companies ages ago, in DOS days when first polymorphic stuff appeared.
If I run windows or setup a windows machine, I either choose F-Prot or Kaspersky based on how critical data on that machine is and which kind of environment it will be used. Yes they cost money but they deserve it.
It is kinda "dead" now but let me give an example about how important proactive security is. Remember the "loveletter" worm? Machines running eSafe desktop weren't infected or effected without any kind of database update since it "figured" something strange going on.
Of course the CPUs of that time couldn't handle such a massive analysis all the time so they gave up the "desktop" and kept on working on "device" version with dedicated CPUs etc.
One effect of that success was, Kaspersky and F-Prot guys figured how important to watch behaviour of programs aside from already taken heuristics.
You can't race with those spyware people only via searching their signatures. They are lame but not that stupid, they sometimes hire very advanced coders who has no ethics and make them code.
BTW, I don't say one can't afford those Kaspersky, F-Prot should not use AVG or Avast. Pirating them? Worst idea. They want money but they deserve the money I say. It is not like Kaspersky does same thing as AVG but those crooks(!) want money.
KDE and Gnome has nothing to do with OS X. OS X has nothing to do with other OS'es except NeXT.
It can't act exactly like NeXT since there is a huge community coming/moving from OS 9. Still, claiming OS X copied Gnome and KDE is really weird. No wonder how Apple got nuts to warn people not to "steal" Aqua theme. We see side effects now:)
If you like the concept of Dock etc, there is windowmaker based on NexT btw, it is OpenStep.
KDE has a good reason for "copying" windows experience: They want to replace windows in corporate environments.
He means that thing will not likely work with Macs. They ignore the community which STARTED legit download business, remember iTunes was only a Mac product.
If they ignore OS X, that should give a clue how serious "competitor" they are.
They are not competing. I know how windows media division brain works. They try to "bug" Apple.
Whether you use OS X or not, when some company comes with a new promise on multimedia, check if OS X supported. If not, you may safely ignore. Or site, service etc.
As their user since they are founded, sad to say same applies to Yahoo "media" division too. They were telling us, OS X users to install Netscape 4.7 just months ago.
They may do their weird, dark deals with companies like Viacom to distribute wmedia only.
Oh wait, they do already.
"Unfortunately, Microsoft's Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available for Macintosh, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works on a Mac."
If a company needs exclusive deals like that, their format stinks. It is not their format even, they acquired dozens of codec companies and packaged them into some sort of naziware which never worked on other OS'es except their windows. If you don't use their OS, you get punished.
You know what makes me mad? Those videos are more likely cut, edited and processed on Mac. I wouldn't be surprised if they used Telestream pro products to produce that windows media on OS X even.
Now you would tell me Apple does not make iTunes for Linux. Well, Real just SPOKE about enabling DRM on Linux/FreeBSD and you see what happened and the feedback they got.
I am glad Apple Quicktime Division and Real Networks still alive competing with that mafia style company...
I bought a needless computing power dubbed "quad G5" as result of Mr. Jobs recent "Intel fan" attitude. I would buy a dual G5 but you know, I wanted to stay up to date next 3-4 years.
Now it is "duopoly" possible situation and I hope AMD and Intel does not exploit it.
If I was a portable user, I would be supporting this "Mactel" decision but I am a desktop user and I got tired of those confusion etc by end users about how bad G5 (yes, not G4!) is. G4 was the one having horrible FSB speed and IBM didn't really care about end users anymore (last 2 years)
First time in computer history a company distributed false info about their own machines. If you posted those "X86 is 4x faster than Mac" as an ordinary user on Slashdot, you would get -1 troll and people would call you "Dell fan boy".
Steve Jobs did it himself, Apple site insists on doing it.
The companies trying to make Linux friendlier to desktop users are either gone away (Eazel) or attacked by zealots (Linspire, ex Lindows).
Only competing OS to Windows right now is OS X and they (you know who) try to transform it to sort of Linux too. They hate every kind of easy GUI program doing advanced (but same) Unix scripts even if it is offered free.
Glad Apple Inc doesn't really care, they care about 98% of their userbase first. That is why they are still around so I could get rid of both x86 and Windows switching to G5 in 2003.
I use OS X so they are "nicer" to us.. They shipped Flash 9 final , as we can't find anywhere "what's new", all could only guess there must be some better performance, compatibility fixes and even unlisted security fixes.
We updated.
Result? Sites claim we don't have Flash installed! Yes, not "older" version problem, just because "newer" version problem.
I tried to downgrade a program/plugin first time in my life as result of it. If I could find the 8.22...
Flash professionals (very common on OS X) claim a reasonable reason: A very widely used Flash detector script was not coded with anything higher than 8 in mind. As Adobe (new boss!) does not come up with an official explanation, that is what I believe.
If that detector is widely used (including my bank!), couldn't they try to add some hack of backwards compatibility?
As far as I know, x86's have some compatibility features dating back to 1980s.
What do they suggest? Contact millions of web page authors?
I try not being negative but it is the first time I saw a problem happens when you get a newer flash plugin. I can't remember anything like that since version 1.0, never filtered it in my life too. Congrats Adobe?
"And which broadcasts go out in 1080p anywhere in the world, just out of curiosity? "likely 2k"? Hahaha. Was that realtime film scanning and developing, too? Or are you just playing Final Cut buzzword bingo?"
Japan. You really work in video business? Since even end user , consumer nowadays knows editing and fixing is never done on exact output resolutions intended. E.g. if you intend to air max 1080p, you work higher resolution, apply needed effects , cuts, downsample to HDTV resolution.
"Sounds like something my Avid DS Nitris suite does. Except it can do it in realtime, with 10bit, 4K film, and multiple RT effects. Funnily, though, when I look at the spec sheet for Avid, it doesn't run on on G5's, it runs on *gasp shock quelle horreur* Xeon boxes. Not that I'd necessarily need Nitris. Stupid question though - humour me here - if you're outputing to TAPE why would it need to be RT, with no frame drop?"
Because an accident happened and we had hurry, only thing in hand was betacam SP. Real life, real TV, real schedules, real advertising contracts. hear me now?
AVID doesn't run on G5? Or you just checked their never updating site? I have no clue how you got your AVID but normally they offer turnkey based solutions via some distributor/importer with extensive support agreement. AVID does run with G5 based solutions just people like you can't afford them nor AVID or any professional video company really, really care about people browsing on web for AVID shopping.
There are G5 based studios and all happy with their "overpriced" "heating" workstations.
I can even use old good Amiga 4000 with Genlock in such a critical situation. In fact, did once. For titles.
"Folding@Home is a toy application - the calculations it does are simple and straightforward - they're not advanced in any way shape or form, though I'll grant you they are complex. The F@H project is also a niche - no-one really cares how much Team Mac OS X has scored because that's/utterly irrelevant/ to anything but "how many people care enough to even want to do it", rather than "OMG, Altivec BURNS your Intel!""
Protein Folding is a TOY Application?
I was stupidly copying/pasting and replying to that point. Toy? With Stanford funds? Get a life, jerk.
Just to prove I am wrong, you dare to speak shit about a scientific simulation. Steve, meet your new customer profile.
You used "Dell" and "Workstation" at same paragraph, I decided to ignore you. You have a serious language problem but it is usual for trailer living Intel fanboys so I forgive for now.
Keep playing with your hacked OS X OK Intel fanboy?
A random thing comes to mind
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Beginning GIMP
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ilgaz: hi people. Is there a single sentence explanation why GIMP doesn't have 48bit image editing capability? Or it is common thing in Photoshop too?
some_gimp_guy: ilgaz: yes : you haven't coded yet.
That is called FSB in Intel x86 area. You will get a clue if you compare FSB levels. PowerPC gives that FSB for years and it reaches 16GB Max RAM in my model.
When Intel does something like that, keep dreaming it will fit to a laptop box.
Dell fanboys were enough, now Mactel Steve Jobs cult zealots. I love my machine, it does my tasks great but I hate this community. Just for the record...
When PowerPC does not suit my needs , even after a dedicated HDI capture card and a better SA-SCSI external disk, you know what will I buy? An AMD. I will also install the latest available Windows on it since they really know better how to code for x86 CISC. Years of experience you know.
That time, Apple computers won't exist anyway.;) With such "community"
"You're completely full of shit. Intel has surpassed Altivec, benchmarks prove it. I don't know what you're babbling about the world cup for. Does Quad G5 excel at playing soccer?"
Real life having people watched soccer, billion+ plus. The excerpts from World Cup relied on 4 Quad G5s, a mission critical (paid content) and time critical job. Like I gave the clue, Workstations have different things to do. It does 1080p suitable (likely 2k) RAW editing, real time and serves them in at least 4 formats to recipients. Got me now? That is first time so many formats and so many platforms exist for distributing such content. First time they are paid content in some platforms such as 3G.
"Finally, you have the gall to act as if a folding@home list means something. You are truly stupid. Here's a clue: If I had been running folding@home for 1 day with a quad G5 and for 5 years with a dozen pentium II's, who do you think would have the higher ranking? You are either stupid or you think everyone else is. I vote "a lot of column A, a little of column B".
I get HD content here and downsample them to SDI, once I had to output to Betacam SP which wouldn't allow a single frame loss. You consumer grade Intel fanboys are really don't know what you talk about.
Folding@home means very much. It is a real life , highly advanced scientific computation which does use whatever it can. It is the benchmark of benchmarks. Also it is not very popular in Mac community since many Macs are used in professional applications which really doesn't like something running idle at background.
Next time speak about machines you can afford and don't bitch/comment about professional workstations. Even Intel preferring professionals laugh at you since the machines they use has NOTHING to do with your Intel Core Duo crap. Go check http://www.tyan.com/ for a clue.
I didn't forget about answering to DRM. You just can't figure what it means putting a TPM/DRM chip to a computer by default. Also it includes your very polite , new Apple Intel cheap whitebox customer profile like name calling "dipshit". I would answer that but that time you would feel like calling FBI.
Also next time , dare to post your own nick and uid OK? It is lower than posting with AC.
It doesn't need to be a professional analyst to figure why IBM wouldn't , won't bother with Apple Inc.
IBM sold their desktop/laptop business to China. They don't want to bother with end users one by one anymore.
IBM is not "hurt" by Apple giving up PowerPC, PowerPC is not "dead" because Apple gave it up. PowerPC 970 (G5) is only a single, feature cut model of PowerPC line.
As you guys worked at IBM and working at IBM does not care to tell these simple facts, we feel urge to say it. See there are people who think PowerPC was "Apple" CPU and it "died" after Steve Jobs became Mhz comparing Intel fanboy.:)
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They need to change the font caching architecture seriously. I got iDefrag, a advanced disk defrag here (video guy here,I deal with huge files) with online defrag capabilities and it can show which file has fragments while disk online (in use)
Annex.aux right now have 10 fragments (3.52 mb file) Of course it is a cache and bound to be fragmented but if I see only horrible fragmentation exist on that file only, I suspect something is done wrong by OS X. I think file is also so highly active that core system can't even try to hot defrag it.
It is one of font caches. This is a very "stock" system and never used in DTP. I can't imagine DTP people's font caches right now.
I don't like the idea of clearing caches weekly etc while having licensed utilities here which are capable of doing it. I notice on www sites and usenet that people suggest cleaning their caches to eachother having problems. While I am about to hit "reply" and explain why clearing cache wouldn't mean anything, I notice the OP posts reply saying "it fixed my problem, thanks"
If you think about half of the market of OS X consists of DTP professionals it is almost tragi-comic that OS X having problem with Font Caches which can even crash entire system.
The professional font company Linotype has coded some iTMS like font utility (freeware), one of the main options of program is to clear font caches. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
You can imagine the reports they get from their customers if they added such option.
They need to change the font caching architecture seriously. I got iDefrag, a advanced disk defrag here (video guy here,I deal with huge files) with online defrag capabilities and it can show which file has fragments while disk online (in use)
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Annex.aux right now have 10 fragments (3.52 mb file,what happened to auto defrag of http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
You can imagine the reports they get from their customers if they added such option.
I fired Shapeshifter (theme util) http://www.unsanity.com/ , got more than perfect windows XP theme by Max Rudenberg http://www.maxthemes.com/themes/?theme=Mac%20OS%20 XP (free) and fake leopard about box http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 30318 (free)
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That was a perfect plan including opening a archive.org page with Apple advertising G4 as some supercomputer. (They now say Mactel is 4x faster)
Here is the result which I am not very proud of:
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=faketest
I am not a graphics artist of course and my toolset is limited. That is not an excuse. You know why I gave up and didn't work on menu extras and add the trollish (4x faster) to about box? I could NOT STAND TO XP! Yes, I was surprised that as a guy who used PC until 2003, I get psychologically effected by a theme!
If Apple has more consumers like me, they can switch to anything, any CPU and still win. Note I am one of rare people out there which never had virus infection,worm infection, spyware infection in my life.
On OS X some of the best performing multi platform software is written using QT. They have great reviews from ordinary mac users too. I see Mono guys shipped .NET for OS X but I haven't seen a single software requires it.
.NET
.NET for OS X or Linux? I mean the usage. I see there is .NET for OS X true, downloadable, perfectly packaged. Where is the software using it?
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QT programs are complete commercial success. A good example is Skype. If you are against QT because they require money from closed source developers who sell commercial software please say it openly.
If they will be crushed, I won't believe until one of these guys who actually codes real life, billion dollar stuff switch to
http://www.trolltech.com/customers
As we speak about Apple here, these guys gave up PowerPC because they see future as portable. Guess who already has a working product which works on every portable device out there? Trolltech.
I see c# people speaks about how great thing it will be and how excellent it performs but in reality I got Opera Mini on my phone, a free application which uses 107kb of space. It is the J2ME 2.0 version with all bells and whistles. I got Skype which gets good reviews from the most OS X community.
Where is the
Perhaps people got their own reservations because of stories like this?
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/
Don't forget OS X. Game companies get flamed because of their driver bugs.
It is consumers fault too, they should report problems to ATI instead of flamebaiting game support boards etc. If a game crashes or displays horrible stuff, fps, one thing comes to average end users mind "It is buggy/broken".
I can imagine how your mailbox after that article "printed" on site, you deserve a good "I am not bragging but.." article :)
Finland is already economic and IT superpower. Guess where Nokia based in? ;)
e x.html before mocking countries. There is no wonder why CIA, among all the secret agencies on planet spares their time and bandwidth for such a project ;) Tax payers money you know.
It is a good idea to check https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ind
If OpenGL "dies" somehow, say bye to already troublesome gaming on Mac too.
In fact OS X desktop uses OpenGL extensively. Quartz Extreme and Quartz 2D Extreme (not enabled yet) relies on OpenGL.
I don't get how OpenGL can be "bought" anyway. OpenGL is an industry board already,
http://opengl.org/about/arb/overview/
Notice 3dLabs, Intel, Apple, Sun, Dell and IBM which lives its good days again?
It is not some sort of a "geek" "4 guys coding" project which Microsoft can take over. Military even relies on OpenGL.
They need a clarification , people think opengl may be effected at all by SGI going down. No, it can't. I tell you, lets say all of those board members gone chap. 11, DARPA will take over the OpenGL. Military simulations, petrol industry...
"2) Install AVG or Avast AV. They're free, they update automatically, they're light on resources and they work."
Why they are light on resources don't you wonder? They don't have heuristics, virtual machine emulation, proactive security, behaviour based stuff.
So, they miss those evil viruses/worms. They are signature based. Signature based antivirus has been abandoned by commercial antivirus companies ages ago, in DOS days when first polymorphic stuff appeared.
If I run windows or setup a windows machine, I either choose F-Prot or Kaspersky based on how critical data on that machine is and which kind of environment it will be used. Yes they cost money but they deserve it.
It is kinda "dead" now but let me give an example about how important proactive security is. Remember the "loveletter" worm? Machines running eSafe desktop weren't infected or effected without any kind of database update since it "figured" something strange going on.
Of course the CPUs of that time couldn't handle such a massive analysis all the time so they gave up the "desktop" and kept on working on "device" version with dedicated CPUs etc.
One effect of that success was, Kaspersky and F-Prot guys figured how important to watch behaviour of programs aside from already taken heuristics.
You can't race with those spyware people only via searching their signatures. They are lame but not that stupid, they sometimes hire very advanced coders who has no ethics and make them code.
BTW, I don't say one can't afford those Kaspersky, F-Prot should not use AVG or Avast. Pirating them? Worst idea. They want money but they deserve the money I say. It is not like Kaspersky does same thing as AVG but those crooks(!) want money.
KDE and Gnome has nothing to do with OS X. OS X has nothing to do with other OS'es except NeXT.
:)
It can't act exactly like NeXT since there is a huge community coming/moving from OS 9. Still, claiming OS X copied Gnome and KDE is really weird. No wonder how Apple got nuts to warn people not to "steal" Aqua theme. We see side effects now
If you like the concept of Dock etc, there is windowmaker based on NexT btw, it is OpenStep.
KDE has a good reason for "copying" windows experience: They want to replace windows in corporate environments.
I just have the most horrible petition in my mind.
"Sign this petition to make Microsoft support OGG on ZUNE"
ew.
He means that thing will not likely work with Macs. They ignore the community which STARTED legit download business, remember iTunes was only a Mac product.
If they ignore OS X, that should give a clue how serious "competitor" they are.
They are not competing. I know how windows media division brain works. They try to "bug" Apple.
Whether you use OS X or not, when some company comes with a new promise on multimedia, check if OS X supported. If not, you may safely ignore. Or site, service etc.
As their user since they are founded, sad to say same applies to Yahoo "media" division too. They were telling us, OS X users to install Netscape 4.7 just months ago.
Now, how to take them serious?
They may do their weird, dark deals with companies like Viacom to distribute wmedia only.
Oh wait, they do already.
"Unfortunately, Microsoft's Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available for Macintosh, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works on a Mac."
If a company needs exclusive deals like that, their format stinks. It is not their format even, they acquired dozens of codec companies and packaged them into some sort of naziware which never worked on other OS'es except their windows. If you don't use their OS, you get punished.
You know what makes me mad? Those videos are more likely cut, edited and processed on Mac. I wouldn't be surprised if they used Telestream pro products to produce that windows media on OS X even.
Now you would tell me Apple does not make iTunes for Linux. Well, Real just SPOKE about enabling DRM on Linux/FreeBSD and you see what happened and the feedback they got.
I am glad Apple Quicktime Division and Real Networks still alive competing with that mafia style company...
I bought a needless computing power dubbed "quad G5" as result of Mr. Jobs recent "Intel fan" attitude. I would buy a dual G5 but you know, I wanted to stay up to date next 3-4 years.
Now it is "duopoly" possible situation and I hope AMD and Intel does not exploit it.
If I was a portable user, I would be supporting this "Mactel" decision but I am a desktop user and I got tired of those confusion etc by end users about how bad G5 (yes, not G4!) is. G4 was the one having horrible FSB speed and IBM didn't really care about end users anymore (last 2 years)
First time in computer history a company distributed false info about their own machines. If you posted those "X86 is 4x faster than Mac" as an ordinary user on Slashdot, you would get -1 troll and people would call you "Dell fan boy".
Steve Jobs did it himself, Apple site insists on doing it.
The companies trying to make Linux friendlier to desktop users are either gone away (Eazel) or attacked by zealots (Linspire, ex Lindows).
Only competing OS to Windows right now is OS X and they (you know who) try to transform it to sort of Linux too. They hate every kind of easy GUI program doing advanced (but same) Unix scripts even if it is offered free.
Glad Apple Inc doesn't really care, they care about 98% of their userbase first. That is why they are still around so I could get rid of both x86 and Windows switching to G5 in 2003.
Wow people think it is a joke.
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It is not people!
Look what happened to my mac without antivirus
http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=faketest
(I know it is a shame graphic wise but I couldn't stand to XP theme anymore)
Oh well, I was "punished" already because I spoke about some real problem before Linux gets flash 9.
It will get that problem anyway, they will report that issue like "Adobe Sux! Flash doesn't work!" and get +5 informative instead of my "offtopic".
Quality goes lower each day...
I use OS X so they are "nicer" to us.. They shipped Flash 9 final , as we can't find anywhere "what's new", all could only guess there must be some better performance, compatibility fixes and even unlisted security fixes.
We updated.
Result? Sites claim we don't have Flash installed! Yes, not "older" version problem, just because "newer" version problem.
I tried to downgrade a program/plugin first time in my life as result of it. If I could find the 8.22...
Flash professionals (very common on OS X) claim a reasonable reason: A very widely used Flash detector script was not coded with anything higher than 8 in mind. As Adobe (new boss!) does not come up with an official explanation, that is what I believe.
If that detector is widely used (including my bank!), couldn't they try to add some hack of backwards compatibility?
As far as I know, x86's have some compatibility features dating back to 1980s.
What do they suggest? Contact millions of web page authors?
I try not being negative but it is the first time I saw a problem happens when you get a newer flash plugin. I can't remember anything like that since version 1.0, never filtered it in my life too. Congrats Adobe?
"And which broadcasts go out in 1080p anywhere in the world, just out of curiosity? "likely 2k"? Hahaha. Was that realtime film scanning and developing, too? Or are you just playing Final Cut buzzword bingo?"
/utterly irrelevant/ to anything but "how many people care enough to even want to do it", rather than "OMG, Altivec BURNS your Intel!""
Japan. You really work in video business? Since even end user , consumer nowadays knows editing and fixing is never done on exact output resolutions intended. E.g. if you intend to air max 1080p, you work higher resolution, apply needed effects , cuts, downsample to HDTV resolution.
"Sounds like something my Avid DS Nitris suite does. Except it can do it in realtime, with 10bit, 4K film, and multiple RT effects. Funnily, though, when I look at the spec sheet for Avid, it doesn't run on on G5's, it runs on *gasp shock quelle horreur* Xeon boxes. Not that I'd necessarily need Nitris. Stupid question though - humour me here - if you're outputing to TAPE why would it need to be RT, with no frame drop?"
Because an accident happened and we had hurry, only thing in hand was betacam SP. Real life, real TV, real schedules, real advertising contracts. hear me now?
AVID doesn't run on G5? Or you just checked their never updating site? I have no clue how you got your AVID but normally they offer turnkey based solutions via some distributor/importer with extensive support agreement. AVID does run with G5 based solutions just people like you can't afford them nor AVID or any professional video company really, really care about people browsing on web for AVID shopping.
There are G5 based studios and all happy with their "overpriced" "heating" workstations.
I can even use old good Amiga 4000 with Genlock in such a critical situation. In fact, did once. For titles.
"Folding@Home is a toy application - the calculations it does are simple and straightforward - they're not advanced in any way shape or form, though I'll grant you they are complex. The F@H project is also a niche - no-one really cares how much Team Mac OS X has scored because that's
Protein Folding is a TOY Application?
I was stupidly copying/pasting and replying to that point. Toy? With Stanford funds? Get a life, jerk.
Just to prove I am wrong, you dare to speak shit about a scientific simulation. Steve, meet your new customer profile.
Who really cares about laptops in pro segment? Which laptop including creatures by Alienware was suitable for workstation class data manipulation?
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G4 had a problem and Apple could not dare to order better models because people couldn't afford them.
CPU is there if you want:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview
G5 (ppc970) is lower end model of Power5 processor arch. If we are speaking about workstations having huge power, there if you can afford:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/intellistation/powe
Don't make fun of yourself comparing it to your precious "Dell Workstations". First learn what CATIA V5 is.
PowerPC G5 had 1 Ghz FSB in 2003.
Macbook "pro"'s have heat problems. Wonder why?
You used "Dell" and "Workstation" at same paragraph, I decided to ignore you. You have a serious language problem but it is usual for trailer living Intel fanboys so I forgive for now.
Keep playing with your hacked OS X OK Intel fanboy?
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ilgaz: hi people. Is there a single sentence explanation why GIMP doesn't have 48bit image editing capability? Or it is common thing in Photoshop too?
some_gimp_guy: ilgaz: yes : you haven't coded yet.
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I paste a line from my own spec here:
;) With such "community"
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
That is called FSB in Intel x86 area. You will get a clue if you compare FSB levels. PowerPC gives that FSB for years and it reaches 16GB Max RAM in my model.
When Intel does something like that, keep dreaming it will fit to a laptop box.
Dell fanboys were enough, now Mactel Steve Jobs cult zealots. I love my machine, it does my tasks great but I hate this community. Just for the record...
When PowerPC does not suit my needs , even after a dedicated HDI capture card and a better SA-SCSI external disk, you know what will I buy? An AMD. I will also install the latest available Windows on it since they really know better how to code for x86 CISC. Years of experience you know.
That time, Apple computers won't exist anyway.
"You're completely full of shit. Intel has surpassed Altivec, benchmarks prove it. I don't know what you're babbling about the world cup for. Does Quad G5 excel at playing soccer?"
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Real life having people watched soccer, billion+ plus. The excerpts from World Cup relied on 4 Quad G5s, a mission critical (paid content) and time critical job. Like I gave the clue, Workstations have different things to do. It does 1080p suitable (likely 2k) RAW editing, real time and serves them in at least 4 formats to recipients. Got me now? That is first time so many formats and so many platforms exist for distributing such content. First time they are paid content in some platforms such as 3G.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/22/worldcup/
"Finally, you have the gall to act as if a folding@home list means something. You are truly stupid. Here's a clue: If I had been running folding@home for 1 day with a quad G5 and for 5 years with a dozen pentium II's, who do you think would have the higher ranking? You are either stupid or you think everyone else is. I vote "a lot of column A, a little of column B".
I get HD content here and downsample them to SDI, once I had to output to Betacam SP which wouldn't allow a single frame loss. You consumer grade Intel fanboys are really don't know what you talk about.
Folding@home means very much. It is a real life , highly advanced scientific computation which does use whatever it can. It is the benchmark of benchmarks. Also it is not very popular in Mac community since many Macs are used in professional applications which really doesn't like something running idle at background.
Next time speak about machines you can afford and don't bitch/comment about professional workstations. Even Intel preferring professionals laugh at you since the machines they use has NOTHING to do with your Intel Core Duo crap. Go check http://www.tyan.com/ for a clue.
I didn't forget about answering to DRM. You just can't figure what it means putting a TPM/DRM chip to a computer by default. Also it includes your very polite , new Apple Intel cheap whitebox customer profile like name calling "dipshit". I would answer that but that time you would feel like calling FBI.
Also next time , dare to post your own nick and uid OK? It is lower than posting with AC.
It doesn't need to be a professional analyst to figure why IBM wouldn't , won't bother with Apple Inc.
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IBM sold their desktop/laptop business to China. They don't want to bother with end users one by one anymore.
IBM is not "hurt" by Apple giving up PowerPC, PowerPC is not "dead" because Apple gave it up. PowerPC 970 (G5) is only a single, feature cut model of PowerPC line.
As you guys worked at IBM and working at IBM does not care to tell these simple facts, we feel urge to say it. See there are people who think PowerPC was "Apple" CPU and it "died" after Steve Jobs became Mhz comparing Intel fanboy.