Remember, Pentium M was far and away Apple's primary consideration. Even with the failure to hit 3GHz, the G5 is still a good CPU. However, Mac laptops have been stuck with the same old crappy-bus G4s for a long Long LONG time, and they're the majority of Apple's sales.
Apple's transition will start the LAPTOPS, where Intel is strongest. Centrino/Pentium-M is generally equal to AMD's stuff and has lower power consumption.
On the desktop, G5 will stick around until 2007. Let's wait and see what Intel has to offer at that point before you get so stressed about it.
Every time this sort of anti-competetive stuff occurs (99% of US cable markets are monopolies by license, aka local gov bribery), it makes me wonder if the various forms of wire infrastructure ought to be public property, just like the roads, water pipes, etc. Companies would be allowed to connect to them at cost. I can't help but think it would be win-win for everyone, except the monopoly owners and maybe Adam Smith purists.
Hmm...considering last week's supreme court ruling, perhaps the gov should just TAKE all the wires away from the companies by eminent domain. Infrastructure is about the only thing I consider a valid "public use".
Plenty of big ISPs already go along. Out of the big 4, AOL, Earthlink & MSN have SPF records; only Yahoo is sitting out due to DomainKeys. Other SPFs include Gmail, RR, and Adelphia. Another interesting note: top spam sources MCI, SBC, Comcast, and XO do NOT publish SPF.
As an anti-spammer, I really hope that Hotmail has the cojones to follow through with this. It would be a huge wake-up call to lots of ISPs if millions of emails suddenly get rejected.
BTW, what's the correct SMTP error code to put on an SPF hard bounce?
OmniGraffle is becoming a plausible alternative now that it's getting Visio import/export (XML only though). But Mac users still have very little choice when it comes to DWG/DWF/DXF. It's hard enough to find a cheap viewer, much less an editor.
The other important difference between games and office/home/utility apps is the user interface. Many Mac users would consider it appalling to run, say, Eudora or Word under WINE, because the Mac look and feel would be so obviously lacking. However, most commercial games run full-screen and create their own independent GUI. A game under WINE would be 90+% indistinguishable from the equivalent Mac game.
I have great respect for the Mac porting houses, but I need to be honest. If, for example, the NWN2 Toolset will run on Macintel WINE, I'll buy it that way and send MacSoft a fond farewell.
How much quicker could we have had NeoOffice on MacOS if it were written in an easily-ported language like Java?
Wow, this thread is much Much MUCH farther into the bizarro world than usual, even by the lax non-article-reading standards for Slashdot. NeoOffice/J IS WRITTEN IN JAVA with some Carbon for native Mac goodies. What the heck do you think the "/J" stands for?
It really freaks me out that NINE OTHER PEOPLE already responded to Santa's question and none of them mentioned this minor detail.
Hold on, you're discussing the theoretical merits of different ways to start a business? This is pointless. The capitalist system has a very simple, very clear method of determining worthiness. If your plan sucks, you go out of business.
Actually, "steal" is an accurate word to use in this case. It's true that "copyright infringement" (making an unlicensed copy of a proprietary work) is not "stealing", because the rightsholder has lost neither physical property nor the ability to use their creation.
OTOH, Disney and friends have taken huge swaths of existing work, which was either scheduled to enter the public domain or had already entered it, and snatched it away into their vaults. If no one else is able to use something that previously belonged to the public, then yes, they have in fact stolen it.
No, that's dumb. You may as well say "the reason that Linux has poor NTFS support is a hardware problem. The hardware does not have a chip that automatically translates NTFS calls, so this is handled by software instead, which isn't 100% working in Linux yet".
If other systems do a particular task in software, and yours fails at it, then it is a failure of your software, period.
Pay attention. Your chronology is, in technical terms, messed up.
When he said that, you had not yet read the actual paper. You only read some reporter's snarky article about it. Therefore, yes, your previous opinion was uninformed and insubstantial.
After you read the paper, if the methodology, logic, or data seems flawed, then you have good grounds to say so.
Adding a separate Altivec VPU doesn't sound plausible, especially since such a beast is not currently being manufactured.
FWIW, OS X 10.4 is officially supported on several G3 Macs (Blue G3, Pismo, Kihei & Kiva iMac, iceBook). OS X is designed to handle a lot of alternate paths.
when the spirit of the law and the letter of the law grow distant, the wording is at fault.
I don't think there's any "fault" here, except possibly the folks in the audience who assumed too much about Apple & K's relationship.
The letter of *GPL says "thou shalt not screw over those who developed before you". The spirit of *GPL says "in fact, you really ought to be nice to them". There's no contradiction, just a certain level of friendliness which may or may not exist.
Apple was doing the minimum necessary, and maybe a tiny bit more. KHTML asked them to play nicer, and then they did. I think this is exactly the way it's supposed to work.
No, I would say that LCDs look great at every resolution they can display... which is to say, they look great at their one true native resolution. All of the other listed "resolutions" are simulated / interpolated and should not be used for anything except legacy support.
Think about all the software updates & installs that you've done on OS X that end with "A Restart is Required". 99% of them (all except for major point-version OS updates) would effect immediately, no reboot, in a true microkernel.
Although Darwin does use Mach at the heart, it also has large chunks of the BSD kernel bolted on to avoid Mach's typical performance hit. Consequently, OS X really isn't microkernel, and you can't do all the cool microkernel tricks (load or unload almost anything dynamically, drivers can't crash the OS, etc).
This approach doesn't make much logical sense to me, but it's what Steve and Avie wanted, and somehow, amazingly, it still just plain works.
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If large numbers of people ended up with FOSS on their desktop instead of MS products, yes, it would be a LOT different.
Remember, Pentium M was far and away Apple's primary consideration. Even with the failure to hit 3GHz, the G5 is still a good CPU. However, Mac laptops have been stuck with the same old crappy-bus G4s for a long Long LONG time, and they're the majority of Apple's sales.
Apple's transition will start the LAPTOPS, where Intel is strongest. Centrino/Pentium-M is generally equal to AMD's stuff and has lower power consumption.
On the desktop, G5 will stick around until 2007. Let's wait and see what Intel has to offer at that point before you get so stressed about it.
Every time this sort of anti-competetive stuff occurs (99% of US cable markets are monopolies by license, aka local gov bribery), it makes me wonder if the various forms of wire infrastructure ought to be public property, just like the roads, water pipes, etc. Companies would be allowed to connect to them at cost. I can't help but think it would be win-win for everyone, except the monopoly owners and maybe Adam Smith purists.
Hmm...considering last week's supreme court ruling, perhaps the gov should just TAKE all the wires away from the companies by eminent domain. Infrastructure is about the only thing I consider a valid "public use".
Plenty of big ISPs already go along. Out of the big 4, AOL, Earthlink & MSN have SPF records; only Yahoo is sitting out due to DomainKeys. Other SPFs include Gmail, RR, and Adelphia. Another interesting note: top spam sources MCI, SBC, Comcast, and XO do NOT publish SPF.
As an anti-spammer, I really hope that Hotmail has the cojones to follow through with this. It would be a huge wake-up call to lots of ISPs if millions of emails suddenly get rejected.
BTW, what's the correct SMTP error code to put on an SPF hard bounce?
OmniGraffle is becoming a plausible alternative now that it's getting Visio import/export (XML only though). But Mac users still have very little choice when it comes to DWG/DWF/DXF. It's hard enough to find a cheap viewer, much less an editor.
The other important difference between games and office/home/utility apps is the user interface. Many Mac users would consider it appalling to run, say, Eudora or Word under WINE, because the Mac look and feel would be so obviously lacking. However, most commercial games run full-screen and create their own independent GUI. A game under WINE would be 90+% indistinguishable from the equivalent Mac game.
I have great respect for the Mac porting houses, but I need to be honest. If, for example, the NWN2 Toolset will run on Macintel WINE, I'll buy it that way and send MacSoft a fond farewell.
Wow, this thread is much Much MUCH farther into the bizarro world than usual, even by the lax non-article-reading standards for Slashdot. NeoOffice/J IS WRITTEN IN JAVA with some Carbon for native Mac goodies. What the heck do you think the "/J" stands for?
It really freaks me out that NINE OTHER PEOPLE already responded to Santa's question and none of them mentioned this minor detail.Hold on, you're discussing the theoretical merits of different ways to start a business? This is pointless. The capitalist system has a very simple, very clear method of determining worthiness. If your plan sucks, you go out of business.
Sadly, Apple doesn't have a Torrent link, which is an obvious choice for a 770MB file. 2 hours to download software in this day and age, bleah.
...the Gord in question is almost certainly Gordon Matzigkeit. Make of this what you will.
Except that out of those, only microlensing is likely to detect non-giant planets (orbiting non-pulsars) and it's based on random luck.
In practical terms, if you want to find earthlike planets, you use the doppler method.
Actually, "steal" is an accurate word to use in this case. It's true that "copyright infringement" (making an unlicensed copy of a proprietary work) is not "stealing", because the rightsholder has lost neither physical property nor the ability to use their creation.
OTOH, Disney and friends have taken huge swaths of existing work, which was either scheduled to enter the public domain or had already entered it, and snatched it away into their vaults. If no one else is able to use something that previously belonged to the public, then yes, they have in fact stolen it.
No, that's dumb. You may as well say "the reason that Linux has poor NTFS support is a hardware problem. The hardware does not have a chip that automatically translates NTFS calls, so this is handled by software instead, which isn't 100% working in Linux yet".
If other systems do a particular task in software, and yours fails at it, then it is a failure of your software, period.
Pay attention. Your chronology is, in technical terms, messed up.
When he said that, you had not yet read the actual paper. You only read some reporter's snarky article about it. Therefore, yes, your previous opinion was uninformed and insubstantial.
After you read the paper, if the methodology, logic, or data seems flawed, then you have good grounds to say so.
Adding a separate Altivec VPU doesn't sound plausible, especially since such a beast is not currently being manufactured. FWIW, OS X 10.4 is officially supported on several G3 Macs (Blue G3, Pismo, Kihei & Kiva iMac, iceBook). OS X is designed to handle a lot of alternate paths.
when the spirit of the law and the letter of the law grow distant, the wording is at fault.
I don't think there's any "fault" here, except possibly the folks in the audience who assumed too much about Apple & K's relationship.
The letter of *GPL says "thou shalt not screw over those who developed before you".
The spirit of *GPL says "in fact, you really ought to be nice to them".
There's no contradiction, just a certain level of friendliness which may or may not exist.
Apple was doing the minimum necessary, and maybe a tiny bit more. KHTML asked them to play nicer, and then they did. I think this is exactly the way it's supposed to work.
- Previously, Apple was following the LETTER of the LGPL license, and giving back all changes
- The KHTML developers were not pleased about the monolithic tarballs, but accepted that it was a valid option
- They were, however, annoyed about all the fanboys who complained that KHTML wasn't merging Apple's changes
- Apple is now following the SPIRIT of LGPL
- Yes, we are in fact through the looking glass, but that was yesterday's article
Any questions?No, I would say that LCDs look great at every resolution they can display ... which is to say, they look great at their one true native resolution. All of the other listed "resolutions" are simulated / interpolated and should not be used for anything except legacy support.
Think about all the software updates & installs that you've done on OS X that end with "A Restart is Required". 99% of them (all except for major point-version OS updates) would effect immediately, no reboot, in a true microkernel.
Although Darwin does use Mach at the heart, it also has large chunks of the BSD kernel bolted on to avoid Mach's typical performance hit. Consequently, OS X really isn't microkernel, and you can't do all the cool microkernel tricks (load or unload almost anything dynamically, drivers can't crash the OS, etc).
This approach doesn't make much logical sense to me, but it's what Steve and Avie wanted, and somehow, amazingly, it still just plain works.
No speculation in New York, it's a done deal
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Let's try and keep this discussion focused on Sun, Java, and OO.org, but not the Bitkeeper flamewar, mmmkay?
Status Bar is blank if the link has an onMouseOver with return true and your javascript prefs don't allow "change status bar text".
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40838