Simple painful fact is if you are after raw processing power you were better off with a basic OS like DOS and probably should shift to Linux. If you want no bells and whistles none of the newer OSs are going to be of interest. Mac was never designed to be a stripped OS. It's always been designed to give the users added features. Windows has tried to mimic this but they are getting buried in playing catch up with security because of all the attacks. It really comes down to what you need and want. The bigger issue is stability for me. What I've found after four months of running a Mac, I still use several PCs daily as well, is that Mac native software, software written primarily for the Mac, is very stable, much more so than any PC software I've used. The problem is after using a variety of Windows based software that was ported to Mac it's all roughly as stable as it was on the PC. Some are the same, some are worse than on PC and some are better. There's no consistency on ported software so it's impossible to say Mac is more or less stable running ported Windows software. I can though say absolutely that the Mac software is far more stable. I haven't done speed comparisons since most of my rendering software is on the PCs and not the Mac but the speed appears similar. I used Macs years ago and always found PCs much fast. This is not the case now for at least normal functions. Microsoft insists their OS is stable but what they won't say is the software on it is not stable. Great if you don't install anything it won't crash. Not realistic. I deal with crashes on the PCs all day long. On the Mac with Mac native apps they are a very rare event although some of the ported software is unstable. If you hate bells and whistles shift to Linux where you have OS and shell options. In a sense I do feel sorry for Microsoft having to shift virtually all their focus to security but they also had nearly unlimited resources so they made their bed there. Being an OS agnostic I tend to prefer Mac. There are some WIndows functions I miss but when I'm working on WIndows I find more often than not I'm missing Mac functions than the other way around. Vista does address some of these issues but that's some of their catch up. Personally I can't wait for Leopard. It's a pretty massive upgrade feature wise and is going to leave Vista in the dust. Will Apple ever out sell Microsoft? No, it's called a monopoly for a reason. I think if the average user tried Mac they would switch. For pro users it depends the software. For better or worse I'm likely stuck with Windows for some software and types of work but I'd never edit on a PC again and my personal stuff will be on a Mac from here on out. Graphics and video editing Mac rules and probably always will. For most everything else Windows is likely to be the way to go. For high end 3D graphics oddly enough Linux is becoming the system of choice. In truth if you are going to do high end work you kind of need all three systems. Like I say I'm an agnostic so I'll happily use all three and let the religious zealots fight it out. I get the benefits of all three without the stress of whether my OS can beat up the other OSs.
Agreed. There's no way in hell an advanced intelligence would be Windows compatible.
You're badly underestimating Microsofts market dominance. A deleted subplot had the aliens attacking as a preemptive strike against Windows ME. I for one wish the aliens had won if it would have avoided the pain and suffering caused by ME.
I have an aftermarket mouse for my Mac that already charges AA sized batteries for the wireless mouse. Works great and I always have spares. They tend to just last for a week in the mouse but I think that's more of a a lack of real power management. I couldn't care less since it's already outlasted virtually all my wireless PC mice. My average on PC wireless mice is 30 days and I've had several die after a week. I've tried every name brand for wireless PC mice and they all seem like crap. I went back to hardwired optical mice on my PCs but my Mac is still going strong. Wish the company made PC mice.
Mine's part of my security system. If the thieves stupid enough to try to take the cabling too I'll catch them for sure. It's like the old Ray Bradbury story "Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl". Even if I'm on vacation they'll still be trying to untangle the cables when I get hope. The Gordian knot has nothing on my cabling!
Damn that one I think got Slashdotted before it was posted. The Slashdotting effect seems to work on a quantum level. Websites are begining to antiscipate being Slashdotted so they are able to exceed their usuage before a story is even posted. I have to wonder if a site exists in an exceeded and unexceeded state? If you try to log on will it come up quota exceeded half the time and the other half the time load up properly? Okay we need to test this puppy. I need a cat and a pistol and a box. My room mate has two cats so we're covered there and I can even repeat the experiment. "Here kitty kitty. Want to play in the nice box?"
The result is a hybrid. Like a capacitor, the battery can be rapidly charged then discharged to deliver power. Like a battery, it can store and deliver that charge over long periods of time. During performance testing, the new battery performed like a hybrid, too. It had twice the storage capacity of an electric double-layer capacitor. And it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery.
Just to clarify. The article never mentions how much storage capacity it has it simply references to the storage capacity compared to a capacitor which is much less than a battery. The 100X seems to refer to discharge rate. This would be a major advantage for electric cars given the need for high voltage for the motors. It still sounds like the storage capacity is pretty bad on the plastic batteries the advantage here being fast recharging. Where it'll best traditional batteries is in weight. They are likely to be able to hold several times the capacity verses weight of traditional batteries. Also they can be molded into shapes making the batteries easier to fit into tight spaces. Batteries might end up in ceiling and door panels increasing capacity and freeing up trunk space. An electric car with a real trunk would be a major advancement on it's own.
Isn't it Bruce Willis's turn to make disparaging remarks about a racial or ethnic group? It does seem to be the favorite sport of over the hill action stars.
Rationalize much? Called the freemarket dude. Don't like the music, don't like paying? No one is forcing you to listen. Personally I hope the whole music industry says fuck it and calls it quits. In the end the corporate types will just find another industry it's the artists it'll hurt. They always got screwed by the industry now they get screwed by the fans. They are just plain screwed. There's too much competition for bar band gigs so no one wants to pay for that. People are offended at paying for albums so they can't make money at that. The big venues are for big name acts it's the ones at the middle and bottom that it'll really hurt. The big names will always find a way to make money but with the middle gone your big hope of making it is bloody American Idol. You may be stealing from corporate fat cats but you're also stealing from struggling artists. Can the hypocrasy and just admit you're too damn cheap to pay for what you can take for free. You aren't striking a blow for liberty you are taking something because you want it. Try that one in a 7-11.
This seems similar to "three strikes" proposals I've seen, wherein if three bills a Senator or Congressman voted for are declared unconstitutional, he is ineligible to hold office again.
The idea being to discourage a "throw whatever at the wall and see what sticks" approach, and actually encourage them to recognize limits on their own power.
One problem, then who'll run the government? They maybe incompetent and crooks but they are the only Congress we've got.
I'm shocked at the barrage of attacks on Apple over the last few days. Seems like the keynote struck a nerve with the PC world and Slashdot has taken the side of the attackers. I've used Microsoft products almost exclusively since the late 80s but in the last two months started the migration to Mac and I couldn't be happier. I don't care about statistics I care about real world use and Mac programs rarely crash. Windows apps constantly crash. For me case closed. For the first two months I rarely used the OSX built in applications but I'm using them more and more every day. I've never seen anything like them on any release of Windows and Leopard blows away Tiger. I can install software without closing open applications because of their mirror install system and I generally keep a dozen or more apps open. The hardware is excellent and the OS is stable. OSs are like religion so people feel they have to depend theirs. Personally I'm a heretic. I'll use what works. Mac works and Windows simply doesn't. I was promised XP Pro was more stable but it's no more stable than Win 2000. I spend half my time with XP turning things off. It constantly demands I update things, if I put a disk in the drive it insists on helping me open it. It wants to do things for me but 9 times out of 10 it's wrong about what I need to do so it's just a hassle. I have none of that trouble with Mac. If you enjoy fighting to get software to install properly and don't mind all the crashing stick with windows, you won't be happy with Mac. The lack of viruses and easy installation means all you are left with is using the software. I'd just love to see some more balanced reporting. Jobs may have been making fun of Microsoft but as some one that struggled for years with Windows there's a lot to make fun of. Fix the OS, stop the crashing before you worry about catching up to Mac feature wise. OSX had some growing pains, gee that never happened to Microsoft (cough) ME (cough). Now they have a rock solid powerful OS. Microsoft has a DLL house of cards.
It'll eventually have an impact on things like 3D desktop environments. For now it's a massive boon to the graphics people. THere was some lag in software developers supporting it, not to mention hardware, but now that's changing. Where it really shines is rendering large scene files or working with complex scenes. The memory limts in the 32 bit systems were devastating. Having the memory limit change also has a major effect on modelling if you are a micropoly nut like me. Zbrush has been able to handle 20 million polygons for awhile now but the memory limits kept you from really taking advantage of that. My next purchase is a quad Xeon Mac with 16 gig of ram. It'd be laughable for word processing but for complex models and rendering large scene files it's the way to go. One machine now can take the place of what a few years ago was handled by a render farm. Photoreal shots are not only possible now but they are becoming accessable to smaller companies. Not many can aford a 999 machine render farms. Between software and hardware improvements a handful of machines can take the place what those massive render farms used to do. And best of all you don't need a sub station to power them. Just look at the difference in what Pixar does. Toy Story call all but be rendered live on today's systems. Ratatouille looks like a painting.
In this game Jocks beat up on nerds and the nerds get sent to the principals office and branded trouble makers. The upside is if you play the game as a nerd you can graduate school and become a highly paid programmer where as the the best the jock can hope for is janitor at the local Dairy Queen.
Actually Leopard has a feature called Nerdy that is similar. It's a Bill Gates looking character that when you click on it crashes the computer. It's to ease the transition for Windows users to Mac. Crash withdrawl often makes the transition difficult. They are also hoping to include phoney virus warnings to make Windows users feel at home.
Ironically it's the pro applications now that port first. Things like Maya are more and more focasing on Linux. I doubt you'll see most consumer applications paying much attention to Linux anytime soon but the professionals are adopting it faster than any group. The 3D realm likes the power and stability. Photoshop is still dragging it's feet as far as I know but but there are plenty of higher end 3d animating and modelling apps availible and they tend to be released before even the Mac versions.
I think I'm going to sue/. for not protecting me against wasting my time. That should be worth a few millions too, right?
And if that fails I could sue my laywer for not protecting me against sueing someone for rediculous reasons.
Yes but you have to prove that without Slashdot you wouldn't be wasting your time. Mastrobation doesn't count.
I already ruined my credit. Or more to the point being an independant contractor nonpayment from clients ruined my credit. If they try to buy a toothpick on credit with my info they are in for one hell of a surprise.
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Simple painful fact is if you are after raw processing power you were better off with a basic OS like DOS and probably should shift to Linux. If you want no bells and whistles none of the newer OSs are going to be of interest. Mac was never designed to be a stripped OS. It's always been designed to give the users added features. Windows has tried to mimic this but they are getting buried in playing catch up with security because of all the attacks. It really comes down to what you need and want. The bigger issue is stability for me. What I've found after four months of running a Mac, I still use several PCs daily as well, is that Mac native software, software written primarily for the Mac, is very stable, much more so than any PC software I've used. The problem is after using a variety of Windows based software that was ported to Mac it's all roughly as stable as it was on the PC. Some are the same, some are worse than on PC and some are better. There's no consistency on ported software so it's impossible to say Mac is more or less stable running ported Windows software. I can though say absolutely that the Mac software is far more stable. I haven't done speed comparisons since most of my rendering software is on the PCs and not the Mac but the speed appears similar. I used Macs years ago and always found PCs much fast. This is not the case now for at least normal functions. Microsoft insists their OS is stable but what they won't say is the software on it is not stable. Great if you don't install anything it won't crash. Not realistic. I deal with crashes on the PCs all day long. On the Mac with Mac native apps they are a very rare event although some of the ported software is unstable. If you hate bells and whistles shift to Linux where you have OS and shell options. In a sense I do feel sorry for Microsoft having to shift virtually all their focus to security but they also had nearly unlimited resources so they made their bed there. Being an OS agnostic I tend to prefer Mac. There are some WIndows functions I miss but when I'm working on WIndows I find more often than not I'm missing Mac functions than the other way around. Vista does address some of these issues but that's some of their catch up. Personally I can't wait for Leopard. It's a pretty massive upgrade feature wise and is going to leave Vista in the dust. Will Apple ever out sell Microsoft? No, it's called a monopoly for a reason. I think if the average user tried Mac they would switch. For pro users it depends the software. For better or worse I'm likely stuck with Windows for some software and types of work but I'd never edit on a PC again and my personal stuff will be on a Mac from here on out. Graphics and video editing Mac rules and probably always will. For most everything else Windows is likely to be the way to go. For high end 3D graphics oddly enough Linux is becoming the system of choice. In truth if you are going to do high end work you kind of need all three systems. Like I say I'm an agnostic so I'll happily use all three and let the religious zealots fight it out. I get the benefits of all three without the stress of whether my OS can beat up the other OSs.
You're badly underestimating Microsofts market dominance. A deleted subplot had the aliens attacking as a preemptive strike against Windows ME. I for one wish the aliens had won if it would have avoided the pain and suffering caused by ME.
I have an aftermarket mouse for my Mac that already charges AA sized batteries for the wireless mouse. Works great and I always have spares. They tend to just last for a week in the mouse but I think that's more of a a lack of real power management. I couldn't care less since it's already outlasted virtually all my wireless PC mice. My average on PC wireless mice is 30 days and I've had several die after a week. I've tried every name brand for wireless PC mice and they all seem like crap. I went back to hardwired optical mice on my PCs but my Mac is still going strong. Wish the company made PC mice.
When's the last time you replaced a cable? I've only done it when building out a system and found a defective one.
Mine's part of my security system. If the thieves stupid enough to try to take the cabling too I'll catch them for sure. It's like the old Ray Bradbury story "Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl". Even if I'm on vacation they'll still be trying to untangle the cables when I get hope. The Gordian knot has nothing on my cabling!
Long dead corpse, pen glued to hand, 20,000 volts, new novel in dead authors own hand. Profit!
Damn that one I think got Slashdotted before it was posted. The Slashdotting effect seems to work on a quantum level. Websites are begining to antiscipate being Slashdotted so they are able to exceed their usuage before a story is even posted. I have to wonder if a site exists in an exceeded and unexceeded state? If you try to log on will it come up quota exceeded half the time and the other half the time load up properly? Okay we need to test this puppy. I need a cat and a pistol and a box. My room mate has two cats so we're covered there and I can even repeat the experiment. "Here kitty kitty. Want to play in the nice box?"
Just to clarify. The article never mentions how much storage capacity it has it simply references to the storage capacity compared to a capacitor which is much less than a battery. The 100X seems to refer to discharge rate. This would be a major advantage for electric cars given the need for high voltage for the motors. It still sounds like the storage capacity is pretty bad on the plastic batteries the advantage here being fast recharging. Where it'll best traditional batteries is in weight. They are likely to be able to hold several times the capacity verses weight of traditional batteries. Also they can be molded into shapes making the batteries easier to fit into tight spaces. Batteries might end up in ceiling and door panels increasing capacity and freeing up trunk space. An electric car with a real trunk would be a major advancement on it's own.
In an ass kicking contest it wouldn't stand a chance.
Air Horn $5. Smile that it brings to my face, priceless.
Gee that should help availiblity.
Isn't it Bruce Willis's turn to make disparaging remarks about a racial or ethnic group? It does seem to be the favorite sport of over the hill action stars.
Rationalize much? Called the freemarket dude. Don't like the music, don't like paying? No one is forcing you to listen. Personally I hope the whole music industry says fuck it and calls it quits. In the end the corporate types will just find another industry it's the artists it'll hurt. They always got screwed by the industry now they get screwed by the fans. They are just plain screwed. There's too much competition for bar band gigs so no one wants to pay for that. People are offended at paying for albums so they can't make money at that. The big venues are for big name acts it's the ones at the middle and bottom that it'll really hurt. The big names will always find a way to make money but with the middle gone your big hope of making it is bloody American Idol. You may be stealing from corporate fat cats but you're also stealing from struggling artists. Can the hypocrasy and just admit you're too damn cheap to pay for what you can take for free. You aren't striking a blow for liberty you are taking something because you want it. Try that one in a 7-11.
One problem, then who'll run the government? They maybe incompetent and crooks but they are the only Congress we've got.
I'm shocked at the barrage of attacks on Apple over the last few days. Seems like the keynote struck a nerve with the PC world and Slashdot has taken the side of the attackers. I've used Microsoft products almost exclusively since the late 80s but in the last two months started the migration to Mac and I couldn't be happier. I don't care about statistics I care about real world use and Mac programs rarely crash. Windows apps constantly crash. For me case closed. For the first two months I rarely used the OSX built in applications but I'm using them more and more every day. I've never seen anything like them on any release of Windows and Leopard blows away Tiger. I can install software without closing open applications because of their mirror install system and I generally keep a dozen or more apps open. The hardware is excellent and the OS is stable. OSs are like religion so people feel they have to depend theirs. Personally I'm a heretic. I'll use what works. Mac works and Windows simply doesn't. I was promised XP Pro was more stable but it's no more stable than Win 2000. I spend half my time with XP turning things off. It constantly demands I update things, if I put a disk in the drive it insists on helping me open it. It wants to do things for me but 9 times out of 10 it's wrong about what I need to do so it's just a hassle. I have none of that trouble with Mac. If you enjoy fighting to get software to install properly and don't mind all the crashing stick with windows, you won't be happy with Mac. The lack of viruses and easy installation means all you are left with is using the software. I'd just love to see some more balanced reporting. Jobs may have been making fun of Microsoft but as some one that struggled for years with Windows there's a lot to make fun of. Fix the OS, stop the crashing before you worry about catching up to Mac feature wise. OSX had some growing pains, gee that never happened to Microsoft (cough) ME (cough). Now they have a rock solid powerful OS. Microsoft has a DLL house of cards.
It'll eventually have an impact on things like 3D desktop environments. For now it's a massive boon to the graphics people. THere was some lag in software developers supporting it, not to mention hardware, but now that's changing. Where it really shines is rendering large scene files or working with complex scenes. The memory limts in the 32 bit systems were devastating. Having the memory limit change also has a major effect on modelling if you are a micropoly nut like me. Zbrush has been able to handle 20 million polygons for awhile now but the memory limits kept you from really taking advantage of that. My next purchase is a quad Xeon Mac with 16 gig of ram. It'd be laughable for word processing but for complex models and rendering large scene files it's the way to go. One machine now can take the place of what a few years ago was handled by a render farm. Photoreal shots are not only possible now but they are becoming accessable to smaller companies. Not many can aford a 999 machine render farms. Between software and hardware improvements a handful of machines can take the place what those massive render farms used to do. And best of all you don't need a sub station to power them. Just look at the difference in what Pixar does. Toy Story call all but be rendered live on today's systems. Ratatouille looks like a painting.
No but for so bizarre reason it will play HD disks just fine.
In this game Jocks beat up on nerds and the nerds get sent to the principals office and branded trouble makers. The upside is if you play the game as a nerd you can graduate school and become a highly paid programmer where as the the best the jock can hope for is janitor at the local Dairy Queen.
Hood is within specs for Vista. A big relief for Cray since they weren't sure it'd meet memmory specs for Vista.
Actually Leopard has a feature called Nerdy that is similar. It's a Bill Gates looking character that when you click on it crashes the computer. It's to ease the transition for Windows users to Mac. Crash withdrawl often makes the transition difficult. They are also hoping to include phoney virus warnings to make Windows users feel at home.
Ironically it's the pro applications now that port first. Things like Maya are more and more focasing on Linux. I doubt you'll see most consumer applications paying much attention to Linux anytime soon but the professionals are adopting it faster than any group. The 3D realm likes the power and stability. Photoshop is still dragging it's feet as far as I know but but there are plenty of higher end 3d animating and modelling apps availible and they tend to be released before even the Mac versions.
Yes but you have to prove that without Slashdot you wouldn't be wasting your time. Mastrobation doesn't count.
Irresponsible person+Lawyer=Profit. Economics 101.
I already ruined my credit. Or more to the point being an independant contractor nonpayment from clients ruined my credit. If they try to buy a toothpick on credit with my info they are in for one hell of a surprise.
They stole my identity, not my stapler.
They can pry my stapler from my cold dead fingers.