Backtothemac
Oct 9, 02:50 PM
Dude, I am a microsoft certified professional and spend all day dealing with PC problems. I have worked on the slowest ones and the fastest ones. The dual power macs fly! On top of that they do not run winblows. PC's suck because of the OS period. My mind will never be changed on that because I have almost 2 decades of dealing with Microsoft's crap!
MrMacMan
Oct 7, 03:01 PM
Just one little statement.
They Overclocked to make the Althon Faster, so why not the mac. They could make their mac 'Closer' to the 2 GHZ mark, just by a little. And anyways not every program is going to take the 2ed processor and use it fully.
1 (1 ghz processor) *2 does not equal to 2 GHZ.
They Overclocked to make the Althon Faster, so why not the mac. They could make their mac 'Closer' to the 2 GHZ mark, just by a little. And anyways not every program is going to take the 2ed processor and use it fully.
1 (1 ghz processor) *2 does not equal to 2 GHZ.
Nipsy
Sep 21, 01:22 AM
Friday nights are the standard maintenance period for the Apple store.
You should get excited when you see that graphic, and it is not a Friday night.
You should get excited when you see that graphic, and it is not a Friday night.
CorvusCamenarum
Jun 21, 04:19 AM
Who is this fruitcake? I've never heard of him. Is he one of those people who likes to make noise badmouthing Apple or something (like that other guy..Thurmond or something)?
applemacdude
Sep 12, 06:45 PM
There will be a G5 announced in MWSF. I got this information from a very important person at Apple. He's my friend and I can't risk his job and won't say anything else.
Applespider
Mar 20, 06:27 PM
I switch all the time on this issue. For the most part, DRM doesn't get in the way of anything I do so I think 'what the hey!'
Then I envision wanting to make a silly video and using some music with it (which I could do if I'd burned it off a CD) and not being allowed to with the iTMS stuff. And yes, I know that the CD way is illegal too but until the RIAA make a very easy way for Joe Public to be able to pay a nominal amount for a very limited distribution, not-for-sale video, people are going to do it illegally.
Then I envision wanting to make a silly video and using some music with it (which I could do if I'd burned it off a CD) and not being allowed to with the iTMS stuff. And yes, I know that the CD way is illegal too but until the RIAA make a very easy way for Joe Public to be able to pay a nominal amount for a very limited distribution, not-for-sale video, people are going to do it illegally.
Sky Blue
Mar 16, 11:50 AM
GTA just has a level of humour that doesn't seem as contrived as Saints Row, and personally I'm not keen on the future style of Crackdown (note my fave GTA so far is Vice City).
aye, thats what puts GTA over it's competitor's for me...the dialogue, the radio ads, the billboards, item and location names all awesome...soundtracks are aleasy good too.
aye, thats what puts GTA over it's competitor's for me...the dialogue, the radio ads, the billboards, item and location names all awesome...soundtracks are aleasy good too.
bousozoku
Jan 2, 01:48 AM
That's an interesting and possibly controversial statement.
Putting Macromedia to one side... what beef do you have with Adobe?
Any apps in particular? And where does the past come into it?
Only curious 'cos Adobe are the people I rely on to get work done...
The frameworks that Adobe use for their applications are far older than those that Macromedia use but both are rooted in the 1980s and are a significant CPU drain compared to techniques for modern Mac OS X software. Apple was unwise to allow the same core of an application to run on Mac OS 8.x, 9.x and X. Even AppleWorks has two separate applications which call various Carbon modules. What works well on one operating system is counterproductive on the other.
Considering that Adobe converted their software to run on Mac OS X, they should have used Carbon Events to allow Mac OS X to use the idle time for other processes rather than using the old event loop. It is apparent from the way their applications use CPU while idle that they have not chosen the more efficient path but only the more expedient one.
Part of the problem with converted applications is MetroWerks' PowerPlant framework, which Macromedia and many, many others use. It has used the old event loop too. However, they redeemed themselves by creating PowerPlant X, which uses Carbon Events. I believe that the patched versions of Macromedia's applications are using PowerPlant X but are simply inefficiently coded.
Sorry to those who have been reading this for the past two years. It's an old, sad story that should have changed by now. I want to say something nice instead.
Here's to Brad and Ryan! :) They're the good guys.
Putting Macromedia to one side... what beef do you have with Adobe?
Any apps in particular? And where does the past come into it?
Only curious 'cos Adobe are the people I rely on to get work done...
The frameworks that Adobe use for their applications are far older than those that Macromedia use but both are rooted in the 1980s and are a significant CPU drain compared to techniques for modern Mac OS X software. Apple was unwise to allow the same core of an application to run on Mac OS 8.x, 9.x and X. Even AppleWorks has two separate applications which call various Carbon modules. What works well on one operating system is counterproductive on the other.
Considering that Adobe converted their software to run on Mac OS X, they should have used Carbon Events to allow Mac OS X to use the idle time for other processes rather than using the old event loop. It is apparent from the way their applications use CPU while idle that they have not chosen the more efficient path but only the more expedient one.
Part of the problem with converted applications is MetroWerks' PowerPlant framework, which Macromedia and many, many others use. It has used the old event loop too. However, they redeemed themselves by creating PowerPlant X, which uses Carbon Events. I believe that the patched versions of Macromedia's applications are using PowerPlant X but are simply inefficiently coded.
Sorry to those who have been reading this for the past two years. It's an old, sad story that should have changed by now. I want to say something nice instead.
Here's to Brad and Ryan! :) They're the good guys.
mcrain
Oct 4, 01:48 PM
It is to me
meeble
Jun 24, 10:22 PM
what we need is more of our old folders to jump back in.
Is there anyway we can email them and invite them to help?
We need bertman and FritzTheWonderMutt to get their groove back!
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Is there anyway we can email them and invite them to help?
We need bertman and FritzTheWonderMutt to get their groove back!
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MacBandit
Oct 3, 10:41 PM
Originally posted by bousozoku
I hear the Brooklyn Bridge may be up for sale. Want to buy it?
Somehow I doubt your veracity in basing a purchase on rumors.
Hey yeah I want to buy it. Oh and if your messing with me I'll have to delete your first born! Or maybe just go cry in the corner. :D
I hear the Brooklyn Bridge may be up for sale. Want to buy it?
Somehow I doubt your veracity in basing a purchase on rumors.
Hey yeah I want to buy it. Oh and if your messing with me I'll have to delete your first born! Or maybe just go cry in the corner. :D
rockthecasbah
Mar 21, 05:52 PM
The mediocre (at best) games keep rolling in... I hadn't been looking at this game so i'm not that disappointed at it but more the Wii market in general. Also on the IGN wii page is their less review of Cooking Mama which got a similar score, 5.8 overall. While i expected this score, the game had tons of potential to be great.
It really is a sad time for the wii right now. I haven't touched mine except for once in about 2 weeks... I borrowed my friend's excite truck and didn't find it too fun, Red Steel that i lent him was entertaining for a bit but i lost interest, beat Zelda, and conquered much of Wii Sports. What else is there? A bunch of lousy games with decent playability and lousy graphics but nothing thrilling. Until Paper Mario comes out i don't even really think i'll play Wii all that much! It's just not captivating me like it should and it's sad.
Come on developers, stop making games with half-ass graphics and weak playability. Look at games like RE on the GC and the type of graphics you can do on last gen machines, it's time to actually TEST the machine!
:mad:
It really is a sad time for the wii right now. I haven't touched mine except for once in about 2 weeks... I borrowed my friend's excite truck and didn't find it too fun, Red Steel that i lent him was entertaining for a bit but i lost interest, beat Zelda, and conquered much of Wii Sports. What else is there? A bunch of lousy games with decent playability and lousy graphics but nothing thrilling. Until Paper Mario comes out i don't even really think i'll play Wii all that much! It's just not captivating me like it should and it's sad.
Come on developers, stop making games with half-ass graphics and weak playability. Look at games like RE on the GC and the type of graphics you can do on last gen machines, it's time to actually TEST the machine!
:mad:
matticus008
Mar 20, 10:49 PM
I do agree that it is effectively the break of a promise. Hell, it's the breaking of a contract... which is certainly quite wrong. But what if you believe the original terms and conditions to be morally wrong in themselves?
Yes, yes, I know. Don't use the software, but people do, and people will. In the scheme of things, considering all alternatives, I really can't see such strong objection. For reasons noted in my first post, the software will likely only be picked up by a small number of tech-savvy, yet honest users - and that's the thing. This is a very small market, quite unlikely to be distributing these songs over p2p - which is (correct me if I'm wrong) the main reason for DRM in the first place?
Trying to stay pragmatic here without advocating anarchy. It's not working.
Yours is a noble attempt at being pragmatic. It's very hard to be as liberal as possible and still maintain order :). You're right, people will use the software. It will allow them to play music on devices that don't support FairPlay or the AAC file format without them having to take extra steps to do everything in a compliant manner. It's a pain to have to buy a song, download it, burn it to a CD from iTunes, and reimport it. But each of those steps are allowed by iTunes TOS, whereas this software is specifically not allowed. They probably don't want to put iTunes music on P2P services, since they paid for it. But if Apple allows this software to go on, then it just takes one person to buy the song and redistribute it. At least the current system requires you to take ten minutes of your time and a CD to pirate from iTunes. It's not that big of a roadblock, and for the very small market you suggest, wanting just for their music to work on their other players, it's a small price to ask to prevent sales-damaging (as opposed to personal use only) piracy.
If you believe the terms and conditions to be morally wrong as they were presented to you, you should not have accepted them, so it's still not right to violate them. You weren't forced into accepting them. You chose to, and you chose them knowing the limitations. There's no cause for illegal action. Of course I don't mean "you" as in you particularly, but in the general sense for this post.
Yes, yes, I know. Don't use the software, but people do, and people will. In the scheme of things, considering all alternatives, I really can't see such strong objection. For reasons noted in my first post, the software will likely only be picked up by a small number of tech-savvy, yet honest users - and that's the thing. This is a very small market, quite unlikely to be distributing these songs over p2p - which is (correct me if I'm wrong) the main reason for DRM in the first place?
Trying to stay pragmatic here without advocating anarchy. It's not working.
Yours is a noble attempt at being pragmatic. It's very hard to be as liberal as possible and still maintain order :). You're right, people will use the software. It will allow them to play music on devices that don't support FairPlay or the AAC file format without them having to take extra steps to do everything in a compliant manner. It's a pain to have to buy a song, download it, burn it to a CD from iTunes, and reimport it. But each of those steps are allowed by iTunes TOS, whereas this software is specifically not allowed. They probably don't want to put iTunes music on P2P services, since they paid for it. But if Apple allows this software to go on, then it just takes one person to buy the song and redistribute it. At least the current system requires you to take ten minutes of your time and a CD to pirate from iTunes. It's not that big of a roadblock, and for the very small market you suggest, wanting just for their music to work on their other players, it's a small price to ask to prevent sales-damaging (as opposed to personal use only) piracy.
If you believe the terms and conditions to be morally wrong as they were presented to you, you should not have accepted them, so it's still not right to violate them. You weren't forced into accepting them. You chose to, and you chose them knowing the limitations. There's no cause for illegal action. Of course I don't mean "you" as in you particularly, but in the general sense for this post.
makkystyle
Aug 30, 08:22 AM
Silvor....
Why would apple want to announce new PowerBooks at their Paris show??? It makes no sense because it would undermine the discounting that they are doing in the educational store. Why would someone by a notebook they know will become the "old" model in only a few weeks time? The only way I could see that happening is for apple to further discount at that point and that would erode their profit margins too much and set a precedent that people might wait for in the future i.e. they know if they wait till the end of the product life they can get the machine DEEPLY discounted. This scenario would be horrible business practice. That being said, this is just my opinion, but I think everyone is going to have to wait for another month before the announcement of new PB's.
NOTE: Remember how Apple is trying to get away from computer releases at shows and how the new PowerMacs were released a month after the NY show on the back end of a discounting program.
Why would apple want to announce new PowerBooks at their Paris show??? It makes no sense because it would undermine the discounting that they are doing in the educational store. Why would someone by a notebook they know will become the "old" model in only a few weeks time? The only way I could see that happening is for apple to further discount at that point and that would erode their profit margins too much and set a precedent that people might wait for in the future i.e. they know if they wait till the end of the product life they can get the machine DEEPLY discounted. This scenario would be horrible business practice. That being said, this is just my opinion, but I think everyone is going to have to wait for another month before the announcement of new PB's.
NOTE: Remember how Apple is trying to get away from computer releases at shows and how the new PowerMacs were released a month after the NY show on the back end of a discounting program.
MrMacMan
Nov 17, 11:12 PM
Originally posted by eyelikeart
jellow...jef...ok... ;)
I had no clue what the rankings were to be honest.
I wonder what Mr. A would be? :D
Yeh really.
Tell arn to remove the Mod abilities and see what he has hit...
That is waay too high whatever it is.
If my school unblocked these forums I could get some posting in but arg!
:mad:
jellow...jef...ok... ;)
I had no clue what the rankings were to be honest.
I wonder what Mr. A would be? :D
Yeh really.
Tell arn to remove the Mod abilities and see what he has hit...
That is waay too high whatever it is.
If my school unblocked these forums I could get some posting in but arg!
:mad:
boo-bear
Oct 16, 01:17 PM
Mayte this is too logical, but the double your memory program is going until Dec. 31st. How likely is it that they would release a new product while that promotion is going? As hopeful as I am for a new PB release, I am now leaning towards MWSF.
wdlove
Sep 22, 01:56 PM
5. Who is the other admin of Macrumors?
I thought that arn was the only administrator. This if the first time that I have heard of this subject. I will admit that I don't know any of the answers. Could someone PM the answer to #5?
I thought that arn was the only administrator. This if the first time that I have heard of this subject. I will admit that I don't know any of the answers. Could someone PM the answer to #5?
brap
May 19, 05:03 PM
I'm back folding for 3446, finally fixed the PC earlier this week.
Production's been low because I've been running it at it's bleeding edge for a couple of days. Math errors don't sit too well with the F@H software :o
Hopefully found the sweet spot now, though, so long as it doesn't burst into flames.
Production's been low because I've been running it at it's bleeding edge for a couple of days. Math errors don't sit too well with the F@H software :o
Hopefully found the sweet spot now, though, so long as it doesn't burst into flames.
daveL
Dec 2, 05:48 PM
I've been using it for a while. It's simply and free. Virtual Desktop is much more complete, e.g. you can drag a window from one desktop to another in the pager. It's not free, though.
runninmac
Jul 15, 05:33 PM
Whoo the iMacs are impressive. What speed are you averaging on the computer? I just added my brothers computer to the Macrumors folding.
Peyton
Apr 3, 06:58 PM
The way it's written doesn't make it sound very official.
I will forward it to you if I have to. PM me. I'm seriously getting annoyed with the lack of trust around here. Why would I make this up?!
I will forward it to you if I have to. PM me. I'm seriously getting annoyed with the lack of trust around here. Why would I make this up?!
nixd2001
Sep 15, 06:32 PM
Originally posted by edvniow
What is a DEC Alpha chip exactly?
A high performance RISC processor designed by Digital Equipment Corporation (ie DEC). DEC got bought by Compaq, but a lot of the Alpha design team went to AMD. The Alpha was one of the first (if not the first?) real 64 bit chips to hit the market. It was an extremely clean design, with a stated design goal of being capable of lasting 25 years (design, not individual chips!) with a 1000 fold performance increase - 10 times from increased clock rates, 10 times from increased superscalar capabilities and 10 times from multiple processors. The instruction set architecture was designed to support this, including lots of consideration for keeping memory accesses consistent and coherent when multiple processors read/wrote the same value.
It was a really neat bit of work and a shame to see it gradually fade away - especially likely now HP as bought Compaq!
What is a DEC Alpha chip exactly?
A high performance RISC processor designed by Digital Equipment Corporation (ie DEC). DEC got bought by Compaq, but a lot of the Alpha design team went to AMD. The Alpha was one of the first (if not the first?) real 64 bit chips to hit the market. It was an extremely clean design, with a stated design goal of being capable of lasting 25 years (design, not individual chips!) with a 1000 fold performance increase - 10 times from increased clock rates, 10 times from increased superscalar capabilities and 10 times from multiple processors. The instruction set architecture was designed to support this, including lots of consideration for keeping memory accesses consistent and coherent when multiple processors read/wrote the same value.
It was a really neat bit of work and a shame to see it gradually fade away - especially likely now HP as bought Compaq!
ddtlm
Oct 2, 08:53 PM
Not Microsoft's market... yet.
They want that peice of the pie. Give them time, they will try to take it.
They want that peice of the pie. Give them time, they will try to take it.
Lacero
Mar 20, 09:59 PM
Apple will need to add a few extra Xserves to add DRM to the files before it uploads it to the end user. More bandwidth and processing power required to circumvent this hack. Or, iTMS would require post authentication to authorize the purchase or the user account gets suspended.
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