ACtualy I doubt that. I think they just decided to use the best available technology without consideration of what other PC manufacturers were using... and as a result got something incompatible.
Well, they are PCs in that they are Personal Computers. They aren't really "PC Compatible" as such - as evidenced by the fact that windows and x86/Linux boot CDs don't load on them. There's a bit more to an architecture than the CPU and chipset.
AMD can't produce the volume of chips that Apple need. Maybe in a few years time when AMD have taken a larger portion of the market then Apple might start using them... but I can't see it happening soon.
ACtualy the underlying basis of Mac OS X is quite complex. Its BSDness is normaly overstated. It's really a new version of NeXTSTeP (did I get capitalisation that right?).
Seriously, Europe only doesn't have a history of slavery since the fall of rome because we chose instead to support slavery (of a far more barbaric sort than the Romans ever practiced) somewhere else - ie. America.
If the US has a history of blood, torture, and racial slavery it's because we, the European colonialists, took it there, and because the Americans didn't abolish it, oh, and lets not forget the East African tribes happily selling each other into slavery in order to steal each other's land.
This is not innovative in any way - much better games have existed for nearly twenty years - games that created innovative ideas which seemed to have become industry standards, like point-based chargen and skill-based character design. The release of a low-magic version of a game that has barely evolved since the late eighties is not news.
Agreed about the lovely internal designs. The inside of my Powermac G5 is truly a thing of Beauty - everything is easily accesible - there's plenty of room inside - it makes a huge change from old piece-assembled PC boxen that are so choked up with cables you can bareely reach anything.
1. An x86 mac is not a PC, they differ significantly, especialy in the BIOS.
2. They are going with x86 processors because they have to in order to stay competative. A 2.5 GHz G5 may be better than a 3 GHz Athlon, but in a year's time Intel and AMD will have improved again and again, whilst IBM would still be shipping the same hot underpowered G5s - or worse yet, would try to persuade Apple to switch to Cell.
Freedoms and rights by definition cannot be taken away - and since this is clearly impossible they obviously do not exist. Priveleges are granted by governments - the question is, which priveleeges should all governments be obliged to grant?
Modern games programming only uses certain mathematical operations over and over again. That's not to say that someone won't come up with an inovative new kind of game that uses the factoring of large numbers as part of its processing, of course.
Oh, and factoring numbers is not the same as computing factorials;)
OS X server is ok for low impact servers - but anything needing a large number of simultaneous connections runs afoul of the Mach/BSD hybrid's threading issues.
And in the end an enterprise server OS has no business having a GUI at all.
You make the erroneous assumption that a person who has had a couple of drinks with a meal is safe to drive.
Personal opinion, but I think anyone who'd be prepared to drive in such a circumstance has dangerously bad judgement and shouldn't be allowed to hold a license.
This doesn't shock me - I'd imagine that there are significant hardware differences which windows, BSD, and Linux will need to adjust to support before they will boot on the new machines.
(For comparison it's only in the last week or so that Linux has been made to boot on the Dual Core G5s, since they use a bridge chip that differs significantly from those used in earlier versions)
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It would be a lot of work. UNIX style security settups are not very friendly for Worm writers.
As a white male from a poor background I can discuss discrimination a bit at least ;)
ACtualy I doubt that. I think they just decided to use the best available technology without consideration of what other PC manufacturers were using ... and as a result got something incompatible.
Well, they are PCs in that they are Personal Computers. They aren't really "PC Compatible" as such - as evidenced by the fact that windows and x86/Linux boot CDs don't load on them. There's a bit more to an architecture than the CPU and chipset.
AMD can't produce the volume of chips that Apple need. Maybe in a few years time when AMD have taken a larger portion of the market then Apple might start using them ... but I can't see it happening soon.
ACtualy the underlying basis of Mac OS X is quite complex. Its BSDness is normaly overstated. It's really a new version of NeXTSTeP (did I get capitalisation that right?).
Seriously, Europe only doesn't have a history of slavery since the fall of rome because we chose instead to support slavery (of a far more barbaric sort than the Romans ever practiced) somewhere else - ie. America.
If the US has a history of blood, torture, and racial slavery it's because we, the European colonialists, took it there, and because the Americans didn't abolish it, oh, and lets not forget the East African tribes happily selling each other into slavery in order to steal each other's land.
There's more than enough blame to go around.
Yes, a Rouge state, namely revolutionary france - bunch of french speaking commie-pinkos :)
This is not innovative in any way - much better games have existed for nearly twenty years - games that created innovative ideas which seemed to have become industry standards, like point-based chargen and skill-based character design. The release of a low-magic version of a game that has barely evolved since the late eighties is not news.
Agreed about the lovely internal designs. The inside of my Powermac G5 is truly a thing of Beauty - everything is easily accesible - there's plenty of room inside - it makes a huge change from old piece-assembled PC boxen that are so choked up with cables you can bareely reach anything.
1. An x86 mac is not a PC, they differ significantly, especialy in the BIOS.
2. They are going with x86 processors because they have to in order to stay competative. A 2.5 GHz G5 may be better than a 3 GHz Athlon, but in a year's time Intel and AMD will have improved again and again, whilst IBM would still be shipping the same hot underpowered G5s - or worse yet, would try to persuade Apple to switch to Cell.
"I wouldn't steal a car, but I'd copyright infringe one in a second!"
Freedoms and rights by definition cannot be taken away - and since this is clearly impossible they obviously do not exist. Priveleges are granted by governments - the question is, which priveleeges should all governments be obliged to grant?
Oh, and factoring numbers is not the same as computing factorials ;)
Series 28 used a rearrangement of the same basic msuic as all of the previous series - but the change was much larger than had been done before.
And in the end an enterprise server OS has no business having a GUI at all.
Personal opinion, but I think anyone who'd be prepared to drive in such a circumstance has dangerously bad judgement and shouldn't be allowed to hold a license.
The developer kits have long been known to be quite different internaly from anything they plan on shipping.
Um, MoL is pretty damned specific to the PPC platform ...
This is that new asymetric multiprocessor thing!
(For comparison it's only in the last week or so that Linux has been made to boot on the Dual Core G5s, since they use a bridge chip that differs significantly from those used in earlier versions)
Real men comment their code misleadingly - which is much more confusing than no comments at all.
C# seems to have a lot of support these days too.
Still no information can emerge (according to current theories) - the output is (as far as we can tell) entirely random.
How do you know? Have you ever seen a genuinely free market? No? maybe that's because the free markey model is descriptive, not proscriptive.
In short a genuinely free-market is impossible, and what's more, would be quite a bad idea even if it was possible.