I have heard that 1929's financial crisis served to IBM as big companies needed to calculate their loans, finance etc. better. I had "citation" too but I forgot where I read it. Their sales went up instead of down.
Average Joe will exactly do that. Instead of going out to Cinema, he will buy a big screen TV and buy 6 pack beer.
I kept wondering how come eBay shares gone down because of economic trouble too. The economic crisis is the time you would look to second hand but working stuff at eBay instead of buying new stuff.
Interestingly, IBM is also the company who provides a working Java 6 on PPC/Linux for years, years before Apple supported J2SE 6 on Intel (64bit Intel only).
Currently, if your need to run Java 6 on PPC, your only chance is installing a PPC Linux (not sure about BSD) and run IBM Java on it. I also keep wondering how the heck Apple doesn't call their old friends at IBM and borrow some code to fix the scandal of no Java 6 on PPC OS X.
Some wings of IBM are very old fashion but some aren't. Perhaps the enterprise division carries "don't fix a working thing" motto?
Most of people doesn't get the "EE" (enterprise edition) in the article and comments on story like hitting a poor java applet/application on desktop while they have never seen/worked on enterprise environment. It happens to any Enterprise/non general thing mentioned on slashdot.
As far as I know, J2EE is the actual thing which saved the mainframes and near all finance industry runs on it.
I bet if some article posted regarding (true or not).NET enterprise features, it would get comments like "but.net is 990 MB install" and stuff like that which aren't really cared in that focus.
For a genuine, truly reasonless beating you should check Real Networks stories. They went open source, shipped a full working media player for Linux, solved the mp3 patent issue, offer their million dollar patents free to GPL projects and numerous things. Some guy will still popup and say "spyware". It never fails to happen.
I stay on search.yahoo.com , less spammed as search engine rank spammers either doesn't care or there is something yahoo does about it.
I was shocked at results of "Avast" on Google recently, half of them were malware. I install mcafee sitechecker extension/plugin to click happy newbies computers so I could be aware or I was almost about to click one of them. So Google indeed have malware checker for results... Who knew?:)
Well, Apple saved (!) those poor GPU driver coders from endian problem with Intel switch, they use standard EFI and OpenFirmware as BIOS I think we should point fingers at ATI and Nvidia gang and even S3 for not releasing similarly priced graphics cards for Apple. What excuse do they have now?
Apple can't do any more favor unless they sit and make a "Apple GPU" which is impossible. They are giving away free SDK/ Driver development kit/ specs and it is up to ATI and Nvidia to ship graphics cards.
I got a Quad G5 and the only graphics upgrade option I have is ATI X1900 G5 edition which is priced more than $300 and not even in market anymore. How can I blame Apple? We can blame them on Intel GMA junk but not on availability of graphics cards for mac market.
I am on OS X Tiger (10.4) now which is 1 generation older than Leopard. Even Tiger supports 9% of OpenGL 3 specs on a very old NVidia 6600 card/GPU. So, 2 of 21 extensions are already here.
If I know Apple well after all these years, if there is a particularly impressive feature of OpenGL 3.x which is related to their frameworks, they will sure use it. At least on Snow Leopard. OS X does have massive opengl 2d acceleration already in use.
I think he talks about GPU h264 decoding support being available on Windows (drivers) while it is non existent on Apple OS X. Another issue is, Apple H264 decoder is multi core/SMP enabled while ffmpeg/mplayer based decoders doesn't have it. Latest Perian codec set solves this issue by not supporting h264 base decoding and leave it to Apple h264 decoder.
MKV format has some weird issues on OS X too and I have no clue why since it is just a container like mov. I started to suspect filesystem.
Hope ATI fans won't get mad at me but from what I read and watch, it will be a nvidia unreleased card. VIA/S3 started to do really interesting things too as releasing a DirectX 10 card and having Linux support pages for some products too.
The GPU supporting it is one matter, having a decent/supported driver on all systems is another. Drivers really, really matters. Let me give a example, on Tiger OS X (10.4) I get 130 FPS from same benchmark executable while on Leopard (10.5) which has way better kernel and OS architecture, system chokes to 50-60 fps. I still run Quad G5 (PPC) so I suspect lack of interest/time from Apple/Nvidia.
Well as the World moves to laptops, some good GPUs started to appear on laptops with good formulas as putting one low power and one high power gpu, give user the choice. Some good games are already playable _unless_ you run Intel integrated graphics.
Another thing is, coding the game on OpenGL and ship an OpenGL ES (scaled) version same time on iPhone, Symbian and even PSP. Companies who are clever to use OpenGL are already making use of it.
I am almost sure Apple will be hurrying to implement them under OS X. OS X had very early OpenGL 2.x support, very silently with a OS X update. They try to use whatever available as you probably know, for desktop acceleration and CoreImage etc.
Interestingly my low end NV5200 had OpenGL 2.x support just with a system update. While on it, here is the tool I get such details and benchmark/test them: http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/version3.html
Even if their OpenGL 2.x or 3.x got miraculously bug free and performing, ATI needs to convince game developers that it will stay that way. I know a couple of companies who really, really hates ATI because of valid technical/support issues.
I even know a OpenGL game which users inadvertently cheated because of ATI driver bugs as it had "invisible walls", "see through bushes". Some guys even gave up playing game until issue was resolved as they felt like cheating.
Lets not forget the 10% approaching Mac OS X. While game developers may think otherwise, users _hate_ bootcamp to run games or Cider (Windows) games under OS X. Under OS X, native 3d is OpenGL.
I guess Amarok 2 will be a major hit on Windows, most parts of KOffice like Krita has that potential too. Other than that, it will be more like Windows kernel, top of line drivers running KDE desktop suite which may give a huge boost in corporate adoption.
This is too similar to GNUStep/NeXT on Windows which unfortunately isn't too popular because of lack of apps. KDE has all apps.
I used NV5200 on my Apple G5 1600. It wasn't a top end card but it indeed supports almost all OpenGL acceleration and OS X really uses them. You may have an overheat problem on GPU chip and if you aren't a gamer, it will show up on desktop 3d acceleration. Or... A driver problem.
I am almost sure it must be a graphics temp. checker for Linux, you better check. KDE should have something.
i950 (Intel) is the most famous and (unfortunately) popular one. It is the main reason I don't upgrade my PPC Mac Mini to Mactel one since it includes that disaster.
It was converted to Qt 4 to be exact and Qt 4 does these things (use of native platform frameworks). They would convert to Qt4 sooner or later. What you see is also the stabilisation of Trolltech Qt 4 and its side effects too.
It is not like they said "Lets rm -rf that working library to support Windows people". They converted from Qt 3 to Qt 4 which is a huge thing.
If you really want to use Win2K, I suggest you convert to Opera. They have a very good history of never abandoning their users (they even support win98!) and thanks to their mobile developer culture, they always take security and performance as first priority. When you say "This is it", you can also use same browser on Linux with same settings too.
Of course, I hope you run a good firewall/AV combination there. Blaster doesn't really care what browser you use:)
You would be very surprised if you could run IE for Mac (including early OS X) and compared it to any browser of that date. It runs Tasman rendering engine, not Trident.
MS can code standards compliant browser with some really good real life features as seen on Mac. They somehow choose not to. It must be political/business rather than technical.
Mac IE had Download manager, auction watch and several other features which still doesn't exist on Windows one. Of course it was also uninstalled very easily:)
I don't think the release of Safari was the only reason of dropping it. It may have bugged their Windows camp very badly as people kept comparing it to Windows IE.
If I were you, I would support any kind of IE update to version 6. IE 6 must go away in one way or another.
For the performance? Well, don't push the thing as it has "tabs as processes". What matters is Windows getting a good, more secure (compared to unfixable IE6) and said to be more standards compliant HTML framework. Other than that? Just don't launch the thing.
I don't know if it is indicator of anything but that "(evil?) eye" icon appears on some of MS sites too. I am speaking up to IE 7.
I really wonder what the heck happened with P3P, the standard had MS, IBM support and Mozilla didn't adopt it, I lost the track since then.
BTW MS will happily track you if you accept that politely written "Help Microsoft to improve products" or something, it comes as disabled by default but MS has setup many traps to enable it, e.g. network troubleshooting.
If you have x86 machine, it should be easy. Get Sun VirtualBox or Microsoft Virtual PC, set IE 6, 7, 8 virtual machines (with dynamic expanding and NO system restore) and basic net connectivity.
It shouldn't occupy more than 12 GB in worst condition. Also remember to set that "Internet Cache" value to something sane level rather than 546 MB!
I test my sites with MS Virtual PC for OS X which I also have to emulate Intel x86 and IE 8 loads. Horribly slow but good for testing.
Isn't there a way to detect CPU/Gfx card acceleration capabilities and disable them in certain conditions? E.g. if there is no hardware support for transform and lighting?
Windows does it, OS X does it. It would prevent a lot of criticism. Not sure about CPU detection but at least OpenGL should give tips about hardware in multi platform manner and it could be scaled to support OpenGL ES in future (on PDA etc.).
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I have heard that 1929's financial crisis served to IBM as big companies needed to calculate their loans, finance etc. better. I had "citation" too but I forgot where I read it. Their sales went up instead of down.
Average Joe will exactly do that. Instead of going out to Cinema, he will buy a big screen TV and buy 6 pack beer.
I kept wondering how come eBay shares gone down because of economic trouble too. The economic crisis is the time you would look to second hand but working stuff at eBay instead of buying new stuff.
Interestingly, IBM is also the company who provides a working Java 6 on PPC/Linux for years, years before Apple supported J2SE 6 on Intel (64bit Intel only).
Currently, if your need to run Java 6 on PPC, your only chance is installing a PPC Linux (not sure about BSD) and run IBM Java on it. I also keep wondering how the heck Apple doesn't call their old friends at IBM and borrow some code to fix the scandal of no Java 6 on PPC OS X.
Some wings of IBM are very old fashion but some aren't. Perhaps the enterprise division carries "don't fix a working thing" motto?
Most of people doesn't get the "EE" (enterprise edition) in the article and comments on story like hitting a poor java applet/application on desktop while they have never seen/worked on enterprise environment. It happens to any Enterprise/non general thing mentioned on slashdot.
As far as I know, J2EE is the actual thing which saved the mainframes and near all finance industry runs on it.
I bet if some article posted regarding (true or not) .NET enterprise features, it would get comments like "but .net is 990 MB install" and stuff like that which aren't really cared in that focus.
For a genuine, truly reasonless beating you should check Real Networks stories. They went open source, shipped a full working media player for Linux, solved the mp3 patent issue, offer their million dollar patents free to GPL projects and numerous things. Some guy will still popup and say "spyware". It never fails to happen.
Today must be the "Google searching freaks on Google" number record as many people searched Google just for screenshots/fun.
I stay on search.yahoo.com , less spammed as search engine rank spammers either doesn't care or there is something yahoo does about it.
I was shocked at results of "Avast" on Google recently, half of them were malware. I install mcafee sitechecker extension/plugin to click happy newbies computers so I could be aware or I was almost about to click one of them. So Google indeed have malware checker for results... Who knew? :)
There is a $37 phone from Motorola. If you only care about speaking, it could be a nice idea.
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Motofone-F3-Unlocked-Phone-International/dp/B0013A7KMW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1233324126&sr=1-3
and here is a Nokia, for $39 which I actually seen/used one
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-2610-Unlocked-Phone-U-S-Warranty/dp/B000K8IAS6/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&qid=1233324203&sr=1-5
Well, Apple saved (!) those poor GPU driver coders from endian problem with Intel switch, they use standard EFI and OpenFirmware as BIOS I think we should point fingers at ATI and Nvidia gang and even S3 for not releasing similarly priced graphics cards for Apple. What excuse do they have now?
Apple can't do any more favor unless they sit and make a "Apple GPU" which is impossible. They are giving away free SDK/ Driver development kit/ specs and it is up to ATI and Nvidia to ship graphics cards.
I got a Quad G5 and the only graphics upgrade option I have is ATI X1900 G5 edition which is priced more than $300 and not even in market anymore. How can I blame Apple? We can blame them on Intel GMA junk but not on availability of graphics cards for mac market.
I am on OS X Tiger (10.4) now which is 1 generation older than Leopard. Even Tiger supports 9% of OpenGL 3 specs on a very old NVidia 6600 card/GPU. So, 2 of 21 extensions are already here.
The application which I use check is: OpenGL extensions viewer 3.11 which is clean freeware by a known company. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/55098
If I know Apple well after all these years, if there is a particularly impressive feature of OpenGL 3.x which is related to their frameworks, they will sure use it. At least on Snow Leopard. OS X does have massive opengl 2d acceleration already in use.
I think he talks about GPU h264 decoding support being available on Windows (drivers) while it is non existent on Apple OS X. Another issue is, Apple H264 decoder is multi core/SMP enabled while ffmpeg/mplayer based decoders doesn't have it. Latest Perian codec set solves this issue by not supporting h264 base decoding and leave it to Apple h264 decoder.
MKV format has some weird issues on OS X too and I have no clue why since it is just a container like mov. I started to suspect filesystem.
Hope ATI fans won't get mad at me but from what I read and watch, it will be a nvidia unreleased card. VIA/S3 started to do really interesting things too as releasing a DirectX 10 card and having Linux support pages for some products too.
They (S3) say their hardware already supports OpenGL 3.0 http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/desktop/chrome_530gt/ , I bet it works too... Issue is, there isn't any sign of Linux driver for it. See what I mean?
The GPU supporting it is one matter, having a decent/supported driver on all systems is another. Drivers really, really matters. Let me give a example, on Tiger OS X (10.4) I get 130 FPS from same benchmark executable while on Leopard (10.5) which has way better kernel and OS architecture, system chokes to 50-60 fps. I still run Quad G5 (PPC) so I suspect lack of interest/time from Apple/Nvidia.
Well as the World moves to laptops, some good GPUs started to appear on laptops with good formulas as putting one low power and one high power gpu, give user the choice. Some good games are already playable _unless_ you run Intel integrated graphics.
Another thing is, coding the game on OpenGL and ship an OpenGL ES (scaled) version same time on iPhone, Symbian and even PSP. Companies who are clever to use OpenGL are already making use of it.
I am almost sure Apple will be hurrying to implement them under OS X. OS X had very early OpenGL 2.x support, very silently with a OS X update. They try to use whatever available as you probably know, for desktop acceleration and CoreImage etc.
Interestingly my low end NV5200 had OpenGL 2.x support just with a system update. While on it, here is the tool I get such details and benchmark/test them: http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/version3.html
Even if their OpenGL 2.x or 3.x got miraculously bug free and performing, ATI needs to convince game developers that it will stay that way. I know a couple of companies who really, really hates ATI because of valid technical/support issues.
I even know a OpenGL game which users inadvertently cheated because of ATI driver bugs as it had "invisible walls", "see through bushes". Some guys even gave up playing game until issue was resolved as they felt like cheating.
Lets not forget the 10% approaching Mac OS X. While game developers may think otherwise, users _hate_ bootcamp to run games or Cider (Windows) games under OS X. Under OS X, native 3d is OpenGL.
I guess Amarok 2 will be a major hit on Windows, most parts of KOffice like Krita has that potential too. Other than that, it will be more like Windows kernel, top of line drivers running KDE desktop suite which may give a huge boost in corporate adoption.
This is too similar to GNUStep/NeXT on Windows which unfortunately isn't too popular because of lack of apps. KDE has all apps.
I used NV5200 on my Apple G5 1600. It wasn't a top end card but it indeed supports almost all OpenGL acceleration and OS X really uses them. You may have an overheat problem on GPU chip and if you aren't a gamer, it will show up on desktop 3d acceleration. Or... A driver problem.
I am almost sure it must be a graphics temp. checker for Linux, you better check. KDE should have something.
i950 (Intel) is the most famous and (unfortunately) popular one. It is the main reason I don't upgrade my PPC Mac Mini to Mactel one since it includes that disaster.
It was converted to Qt 4 to be exact and Qt 4 does these things (use of native platform frameworks). They would convert to Qt4 sooner or later. What you see is also the stabilisation of Trolltech Qt 4 and its side effects too.
It is not like they said "Lets rm -rf that working library to support Windows people". They converted from Qt 3 to Qt 4 which is a huge thing.
If you really want to use Win2K, I suggest you convert to Opera. They have a very good history of never abandoning their users (they even support win98!) and thanks to their mobile developer culture, they always take security and performance as first priority. When you say "This is it", you can also use same browser on Linux with same settings too.
Of course, I hope you run a good firewall/AV combination there. Blaster doesn't really care what browser you use :)
You would be very surprised if you could run IE for Mac (including early OS X) and compared it to any browser of that date. It runs Tasman rendering engine, not Trident.
MS can code standards compliant browser with some really good real life features as seen on Mac. They somehow choose not to. It must be political/business rather than technical.
Mac IE had Download manager, auction watch and several other features which still doesn't exist on Windows one. Of course it was also uninstalled very easily :)
I don't think the release of Safari was the only reason of dropping it. It may have bugged their Windows camp very badly as people kept comparing it to Windows IE.
If I were you, I would support any kind of IE update to version 6. IE 6 must go away in one way or another.
For the performance? Well, don't push the thing as it has "tabs as processes". What matters is Windows getting a good, more secure (compared to unfixable IE6) and said to be more standards compliant HTML framework. Other than that? Just don't launch the thing.
I don't know if it is indicator of anything but that "(evil?) eye" icon appears on some of MS sites too. I am speaking up to IE 7.
I really wonder what the heck happened with P3P, the standard had MS, IBM support and Mozilla didn't adopt it, I lost the track since then.
BTW MS will happily track you if you accept that politely written "Help Microsoft to improve products" or something, it comes as disabled by default but MS has setup many traps to enable it, e.g. network troubleshooting.
If you have x86 machine, it should be easy. Get Sun VirtualBox or Microsoft Virtual PC, set IE 6, 7, 8 virtual machines (with dynamic expanding and NO system restore) and basic net connectivity.
It shouldn't occupy more than 12 GB in worst condition. Also remember to set that "Internet Cache" value to something sane level rather than 546 MB!
I test my sites with MS Virtual PC for OS X which I also have to emulate Intel x86 and IE 8 loads. Horribly slow but good for testing.
Isn't there a way to detect CPU/Gfx card acceleration capabilities and disable them in certain conditions? E.g. if there is no hardware support for transform and lighting?
Windows does it, OS X does it. It would prevent a lot of criticism. Not sure about CPU detection but at least OpenGL should give tips about hardware in multi platform manner and it could be scaled to support OpenGL ES in future (on PDA etc.).