Recent content by telarium

They also have a little-known digital video segment. I suppose Drunkmac's thread was the most insightful (or should I say inciteful) of all. And isn't it interesting how my last post was deleted, yet his remained? Am I not allowed to defend my decisions here? I noted the news BEFORE...

An alarmist? Maybe. I troll, don't see it. I did make some good points, and I didn't say Apple wasn't trying -- I'm just a bit scared of the RIAA's influence and Apple's response (which has been positive thus far). But let's think this out logically. Wholesale prices of CDs have gone up... And...

I agree. But it is the principle of the subject, not the exact nature of it. There aren't, however, supply problems with the Opteron. I'm not saying that the G5 is any less of a capable system -- in fact, I'm eager to get my hands on one. The problem I have is with the fact that if I can't...

Better unicode support and a lockdown feature might be a few features. And when it comes to server applications, I would love to see an x86 vs. G5 comparison - especially with a dual proc. 2.0 Ghz AMD 64-bit beast. And especially if both have FreeBSD at their core. I can see an x86 victory...

Alright, Legal online popular non-indie music. Christ- Brad

No, no, no... cool case. As in one that keeps the heat out... Brad

Doesn't this sound a lot like the G5? Brad

"I suppose I should add that they will be selling some albums for $16.99. I think I'll just go purchase the cd for cheaper (Wal-Mart?), and rip it to whatever format I want, without limitations." The point I'm trying to make is that the convienence factor, which is a selling point within...

I didn't say I was going to be running Windows. In fact, I'll be running FreeBSD (or OpenBSD depending on environmental specifications). Further, I didn't say Apple had anything to do with it. But they do offer iPods, and do direct people to their iTunes music store with a selling point of...

Wal-Mart sells music for 88 cents, at a loss - so as to attract customers to their other offerings. If they're selling it at a loss now, I don't see why they wouldn't keep the 88 cent price point - and take a slightly bigger loss, while, in turn, making themselves the more attractive music...

As noted on Slashdot and The Register - the price of some songs in iTunes will be upped to $1.25. Since I surely won't be paying for this anymore, I suppose I've now rendered my iPod useless (old 5 Gigger) in the legal music arena. I had considered purchasing a new iPod to replace my...

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Testers or not - when you encrypt files in the scheme that FileVault uses, or use any related encrpytion scheme for that matter, there will usually (if not always) be a 10-15% performace hit when comparing accessability time for the same file in an encrypted and unencrypted...

Yes, roughly a 10-15% slowdown when accessing files to/from your Home folder, as encryption is done on the fly. Brad

I made a mistake, it was the GeForce MX, not the FX that I used.

Simcity 4 is a graphically intense program that uses a considerable amount of resources. I've used it both on a G4 733, GeForce FX w/ 32 MB of ram (which ran very, very slowly) and on a 1 GHz Thunderbird w/ Radeon 9000 (which runs fair). I would thus advise against it. -Brad