yeah, but, with respect, you can tweak vista in about 5 minutes (google it) and you'll get all that performance back (and in fact, vista is really quite KDE like in a lot of ways). it's not hard.
the main act of Supreme Retardation by microsfot was in selecting the default settings that vista uses. it seems maximized to piss people off. i agree you shouldn't have to tweak them out of the box. (XP also requires tweaking to get huge improvements, though not as drastic).
also, don't be mislead by vista's memory use. it's doing much smarted things with memory than XP does and does not signify sloth. google "superfetch".
I often run on a similarly spec'd machine to yours and it's absolutely fine, and benchmarks the electro-magnetic simulation software I use in the same time as XP on the machine.
is there a way (short of mandating a CSS) to make safari use only the fonts that I want? That puts me off it more than anything. i hate most web designers font choices.
It's also worth noting that Conroy (the relevant minister) is widely perceived within his own party to be a real prick, though something of a factional kingmaker. One can't can't help but suspect he is being set up to fail and possibly leave the Senate as a result, while the government can still say to Fielding (the family first buffoon) that at least it tried. Plus, it all plays well with the (mainly Murdoch owned) tabloid media. Win win.
Such a yawn. You have to distinguish between Vista out-of-the-box and Vista as reconfigured by any fool who can type a google query. It's trivial to fix the problems in Vista and hugely increase its start-up times, general performance, and anything else you care to mention, and people bleating on to the contrary are just fucking idiots. Microsoft's major failing is in the default config they've set, which is retarded.
Vista needs a few tweaks out of the box to run well (but so did XP, only less so). Five seconds with your friend Google will show all you need to know about tweaking Vista.
I think it's okay now. Closest experience to KDE;)
Also, my main hope with Vista is that it'll drag the consumer PC world to 64bit. That should have happened years ago.
More than the OS, it's two other software things. (I use mac, windows, and ubuntu linux everyday.) First, the quality of small software projects out there is far higher for Mac OS software (freeware, little $20 shareware utilities that so some useful thing). Second, the default config out-of-the-box is far better thought out in Mac OS X. Linux isn't too bad, but needs a fair bit of knowledge to set up, and it has the best package management. I quite like Vista - it's fixed up a ton of retarded issues with XP - but the out-of-the-box config is madness. It needs a lot of tweaking to fix up, and then it's really pretty good. I couldn't give a shit about the mac hardware - the laptops are nice but as the parent says, IT'S THE SOFTWARE.
Yeah, it took a while to register what was going on. But the same mouse in my windows box just seemed easier to use. I googled around and came up with the mouse tool i mentioned. It's not the end of the world, but just makes it a little nicer experience.
You certainly can, but in my experience third party mice have a slightly jerky motion with the standard Mac driver, and don't decelerate properly. I found it difficult to move quickly and accurately across the screen. USB Overdrive fixed that completely.
The mighty mouse has another glaring design fault too - the little track ball is easily fouled by little hairs and such like, and it's a total pain to take the thing apart and get them out.
There's plenty of far better mice out there. I use a neat utility called USB Overdrive to get their acceleration etc working properly under OS X.
Realistically, it was once, and it wasn't from the Germans, it was from the Communists who would certainly have taken over France when the Russians had defeated the Germans and had the western Allies not invaded Western Europe. Russia was always going to beat Germany no matter what the Americans or British did, so really the latter saved Western Europe from Soviet domination. Pity they were too late for Eastern Europe.
Yeah, same deal for the intel iMacs. I replaced the hard drive in mine (I couldn't wait two or three days for the local Apple lug to do it). It was really a bastard removing the LCD panel (the tape!) and getting at the disk - there was only a few centimetres of space to work with. Also, had to glue (!) the disk drive temp sensor to the new drive. Getting the panel back in was the hardest part, and there's a point where you are manoeuvring the LCD mounting screws through a little hole in the tape, and if you lose them, sayonara. Anyway, it all worked, but took a hour and half or so, as opposed to about the 2 minutes it would take for standard box hardware.
You don't need an Apple motherboard. Just about any (x86) motherboard made in the last couple of years will do. Even the chipset doesn't matter too much.
You are quite right of course. The only thing larger adoption rates wins is attention from the likes of Adobe et al - an incentive to port their apps to Linux (same goes for hardware drivers, but hardware incompatibility is greatly exaggerated). Like you I much prefer Linux, and it does a lot of things much more nicely than windows, but most folks don't have a clue how windows can be limiting (and why should they? life's too short to give a shit about OS crapola). But I have to use windows much more than I'd like because several key apps that I make my living with are windows-only and the vendors responsible are waaaaay too stretched to contemplate a linux port (honestly, it would take about 60% market penetration I reckon).
Nah. I was looking at some numbers the other day comparing tower numbers in Asia, Europe, and Nth America. About 1 in 5 towers in Asia is 3G, nearly one in two in Europe, but only 1 in 6 in Nth America. (total tower numbers are roughly, 1.1M, 600k, 235k, respectively, incidently). The problems in Nth America are historical, to do with the weird shit business models that have operated there since early days in mobile phones (seems to be obsessed with lock in). Large parts of the US have the same population density as Europe and Asia, but far fewer 3G towers.
pig's arse. all the intel imacs have supported multiple monitors right out of the box. i plugged in my other 20" monitor into my 20" inmac the day i bought the imac and it just worked. with Leopard, with Spaces enabled, you even get double the virtual monitor space. i don't know if the g5 imacs supported dual monitors.
get your facts straight! the imac is a very good work station for nearly all uses, and for your web devel is a walk over. i design chips on mine.
Yeah, same. I had two or three crashes a week with Tiger (20" c2d iMac late 2006) and not a single crash with Leopard. Twice with Tiger a whole chunk of system/library went missing (wtf!), requiring reinstall. With Leopard I am having to use the latest beta Parallels since their latest non-beta build has some weird bugs. They are on the case, apparently.
It's possible my Tiger problems may have been hardware related - I also replaced my hard drive when I upgraded (now that was fun) since, thanks Apple, the system updated wanted to update the firmware on my Seagate disk, which was promptly hosed. I couldn't wait for Apple warranty repairs to fuck around, so wore the repair myself. Maybe the disk was dodgy to start with - I dunno. Anyway, new Samsung disk much quieter. Seagate won'r replace the disk since it's Apple OEM branded. The thought of talking to some pimple-head at Apple to get a replacement disk sends me into a deep, unhappy, slumber.
Leopard is fine by me.
I believe Cisco did come to some licensing agreement with CSIRO, which is not surprising since the start-up they acquired in 2000-2001 to do.11a/g chip development (Radiata) was largely ex-CSIRO people (and also Macquarie University people, who did a lot of collab with CSIRO on OFDM research). Disclaimer: I was peripherally involved and know all the patent holders.
Six ARM cores in every iPhone (really!)
I use a 1.2GHz C7 as a fanless server CPU. The machine is dead quiet (disk is muffled too) in an open aluminium frame I riveted together. Keeps cool, always on, proven very very reliable.
God-Damn that's so the question of someone who has long suffered the egregiously ridiculous North American cell phone system. GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAM. I laughed a good laugh....
Then you need a good thermal design. And without meaning to sound like a fanboy, the only commodity PCs with newish CPUs that have a good thermal design are Apple PCs. The iMac is easily the quietist desktop computer out there with a core2duo. The are some pretty good non-Apple PC designs in the laptop world, but not so in desktop land.
No, I get some apps running faster in the VM than natively. I can only make the claim for number-crunching apps (EM solvers and the like) running in a 32-bit XP VM on a 64-bit linux host (running VMWare Workstation 5.5x), no swapping going on. But yes, definitely faster in the VM than on the same hardware running XP natively. Maybe it's that the VM presents fewer overheads to the XP OS, with it's simplified virtual hardware. You would expect at least nearly comparable performance for number crunching only (almost no disk, no graphics). Graphics intensive apps run like shit in the VM.
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yeah, but, with respect, you can tweak vista in about 5 minutes (google it) and you'll get all that performance back (and in fact, vista is really quite KDE like in a lot of ways). it's not hard.
the main act of Supreme Retardation by microsfot was in selecting the default settings that vista uses. it seems maximized to piss people off. i agree you shouldn't have to tweak them out of the box. (XP also requires tweaking to get huge improvements, though not as drastic).
also, don't be mislead by vista's memory use. it's doing much smarted things with memory than XP does and does not signify sloth. google "superfetch".
I often run on a similarly spec'd machine to yours and it's absolutely fine, and benchmarks the electro-magnetic simulation software I use in the same time as XP on the machine.
is there a way (short of mandating a CSS) to make safari use only the fonts that I want? That puts me off it more than anything. i hate most web designers font choices.
It's also worth noting that Conroy (the relevant minister) is widely perceived within his own party to be a real prick, though something of a factional kingmaker. One can't can't help but suspect he is being set up to fail and possibly leave the Senate as a result, while the government can still say to Fielding (the family first buffoon) that at least it tried. Plus, it all plays well with the (mainly Murdoch owned) tabloid media. Win win.
Exactly. This kite ain't gonna fly. The Gov just wants to be seen to be tough on this bullshit to wedge their even more conservative opposition.
It's just politics. You can all stop panicking.
Such a yawn. You have to distinguish between Vista out-of-the-box and Vista as reconfigured by any fool who can type a google query. It's trivial to fix the problems in Vista and hugely increase its start-up times, general performance, and anything else you care to mention, and people bleating on to the contrary are just fucking idiots. Microsoft's major failing is in the default config they've set, which is retarded.
Vista needs a few tweaks out of the box to run well (but so did XP, only less so). Five seconds with your friend Google will show all you need to know about tweaking Vista.
I think it's okay now. Closest experience to KDE ;)
Also, my main hope with Vista is that it'll drag the consumer PC world to 64bit. That should have happened years ago.
So what are they using on the Battlestar Galactica? I bet it's really neat.
More than the OS, it's two other software things. (I use mac, windows, and ubuntu linux everyday.) First, the quality of small software projects out there is far higher for Mac OS software (freeware, little $20 shareware utilities that so some useful thing). Second, the default config out-of-the-box is far better thought out in Mac OS X. Linux isn't too bad, but needs a fair bit of knowledge to set up, and it has the best package management. I quite like Vista - it's fixed up a ton of retarded issues with XP - but the out-of-the-box config is madness. It needs a lot of tweaking to fix up, and then it's really pretty good. I couldn't give a shit about the mac hardware - the laptops are nice but as the parent says, IT'S THE SOFTWARE.
Yeah, it took a while to register what was going on. But the same mouse in my windows box just seemed easier to use. I googled around and came up with the mouse tool i mentioned. It's not the end of the world, but just makes it a little nicer experience.
You certainly can, but in my experience third party mice have a slightly jerky motion with the standard Mac driver, and don't decelerate properly. I found it difficult to move quickly and accurately across the screen. USB Overdrive fixed that completely.
The mighty mouse has another glaring design fault too - the little track ball is easily fouled by little hairs and such like, and it's a total pain to take the thing apart and get them out. There's plenty of far better mice out there. I use a neat utility called USB Overdrive to get their acceleration etc working properly under OS X.
Realistically, it was once, and it wasn't from the Germans, it was from the Communists who would certainly have taken over France when the Russians had defeated the Germans and had the western Allies not invaded Western Europe. Russia was always going to beat Germany no matter what the Americans or British did, so really the latter saved Western Europe from Soviet domination. Pity they were too late for Eastern Europe.
Yeah, same deal for the intel iMacs. I replaced the hard drive in mine (I couldn't wait two or three days for the local Apple lug to do it). It was really a bastard removing the LCD panel (the tape!) and getting at the disk - there was only a few centimetres of space to work with. Also, had to glue (!) the disk drive temp sensor to the new drive. Getting the panel back in was the hardest part, and there's a point where you are manoeuvring the LCD mounting screws through a little hole in the tape, and if you lose them, sayonara. Anyway, it all worked, but took a hour and half or so, as opposed to about the 2 minutes it would take for standard box hardware.
You don't need an Apple motherboard. Just about any (x86) motherboard made in the last couple of years will do. Even the chipset doesn't matter too much.
Well, Cisco did once patent the base2 logarithm.
You are quite right of course. The only thing larger adoption rates wins is attention from the likes of Adobe et al - an incentive to port their apps to Linux (same goes for hardware drivers, but hardware incompatibility is greatly exaggerated). Like you I much prefer Linux, and it does a lot of things much more nicely than windows, but most folks don't have a clue how windows can be limiting (and why should they? life's too short to give a shit about OS crapola). But I have to use windows much more than I'd like because several key apps that I make my living with are windows-only and the vendors responsible are waaaaay too stretched to contemplate a linux port (honestly, it would take about 60% market penetration I reckon).
Nah. I was looking at some numbers the other day comparing tower numbers in Asia, Europe, and Nth America. About 1 in 5 towers in Asia is 3G, nearly one in two in Europe, but only 1 in 6 in Nth America. (total tower numbers are roughly, 1.1M, 600k, 235k, respectively, incidently). The problems in Nth America are historical, to do with the weird shit business models that have operated there since early days in mobile phones (seems to be obsessed with lock in). Large parts of the US have the same population density as Europe and Asia, but far fewer 3G towers.
pig's arse. all the intel imacs have supported multiple monitors right out of the box. i plugged in my other 20" monitor into my 20" inmac the day i bought the imac and it just worked. with Leopard, with Spaces enabled, you even get double the virtual monitor space. i don't know if the g5 imacs supported dual monitors. get your facts straight! the imac is a very good work station for nearly all uses, and for your web devel is a walk over. i design chips on mine.
Yeah, same. I had two or three crashes a week with Tiger (20" c2d iMac late 2006) and not a single crash with Leopard. Twice with Tiger a whole chunk of system/library went missing (wtf!), requiring reinstall. With Leopard I am having to use the latest beta Parallels since their latest non-beta build has some weird bugs. They are on the case, apparently. It's possible my Tiger problems may have been hardware related - I also replaced my hard drive when I upgraded (now that was fun) since, thanks Apple, the system updated wanted to update the firmware on my Seagate disk, which was promptly hosed. I couldn't wait for Apple warranty repairs to fuck around, so wore the repair myself. Maybe the disk was dodgy to start with - I dunno. Anyway, new Samsung disk much quieter. Seagate won'r replace the disk since it's Apple OEM branded. The thought of talking to some pimple-head at Apple to get a replacement disk sends me into a deep, unhappy, slumber. Leopard is fine by me.
I believe Cisco did come to some licensing agreement with CSIRO, which is not surprising since the start-up they acquired in 2000-2001 to do .11a/g chip development (Radiata) was largely ex-CSIRO people (and also Macquarie University people, who did a lot of collab with CSIRO on OFDM research). Disclaimer: I was peripherally involved and know all the patent holders.
Six ARM cores in every iPhone (really!) I use a 1.2GHz C7 as a fanless server CPU. The machine is dead quiet (disk is muffled too) in an open aluminium frame I riveted together. Keeps cool, always on, proven very very reliable.
God-Damn that's so the question of someone who has long suffered the egregiously ridiculous North American cell phone system. GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAM. I laughed a good laugh....
Then you need a good thermal design. And without meaning to sound like a fanboy, the only commodity PCs with newish CPUs that have a good thermal design are Apple PCs. The iMac is easily the quietist desktop computer out there with a core2duo. The are some pretty good non-Apple PC designs in the laptop world, but not so in desktop land.
No, I get some apps running faster in the VM than natively. I can only make the claim for number-crunching apps (EM solvers and the like) running in a 32-bit XP VM on a 64-bit linux host (running VMWare Workstation 5.5x), no swapping going on. But yes, definitely faster in the VM than on the same hardware running XP natively. Maybe it's that the VM presents fewer overheads to the XP OS, with it's simplified virtual hardware. You would expect at least nearly comparable performance for number crunching only (almost no disk, no graphics). Graphics intensive apps run like shit in the VM.
-pete
hey, it's only auto- and semi-automatic guns that were banned. we can still go after the bastards with shotties.