| From: | DaTwinkDaddy@*****.com (Da Twink Daddy) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | SR Computer prices and [OT] Macs and gentoo |
| Date: | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:47:00 -0600 |
> On Dec 10, 2004, at 19:45, Da Twink Daddy wrote:
> >> Would you even walk around outdoors with a US$5000 computer? I know
> >> that
> >> if I'd spent that kind of money the thing would not leave my house...
> >
> > I'm going to have to disagree here and side with Adam. My laptop only
> > cost
> > $1000, but if it was a $5000 machine, I'd still carry it around. (I
> > would
> > be more cautious though.) That's near my limit though, I wouldn't buy
> > a
> > $15000 laptop because I wouldn't want to carry it around.
>
> True. And in Shadowrun, the shittiest cyberdeck in the world, the
> Allegiance Sigma, the one with which you get in trouble when cracking
> Blue hosts, costs a whopping 20000¥. Without any software. (damn, where
> has Linux gone when we need it!)
Yeah, the prices are just wrong. Just from memory it seems like cyberdeck
prices use linear functions to step up. I think the low end needs to be
cust to about 1/10th of the current price, and then some sort of quadratic
system used.
I know SR software already uses a quadratic size increase so I think just
cutting the price down on software would work. I never get to play
though, so I'm not sure when/how to palytest stuff.
> > Unfortunately, I have to be able to write code targeting J2EE and
> > .Net. And I'm not sure on the avialability of those APIs under
> > Gentoo/PPC. (I think G5 is PPC... Bleh, /me is *not* a hardware geek.)
>
> Yes, all Macs have been using PowerPC processors for quite a while now
> (ever since System 7, IIRC).
Well, I'm wondering if it is ppc or ppc64.
> Apparently, the availability of Mono for Gentoo-PPC is the same as for
> Gentoo-x86 (that is, ~).
Well, that's good to hear, maybe I will be able to go G5 for my next
system. I'm fine with ~ support. My desktop is a ~x86 system 'cept for
gcc, and I'm having to use a few ~x86 apps on my stable x86 laptop.
> As for J2EE, I don't know about Gentoo, but it
> works perfectly under OS X, and so does Eclipse (best IDE ever, by the
> way). And I suppose Apple will be upgrading its version of the JRE from
> 1.4.2 to 1.5.x when Tiger is released (which should be in a couple of
> months).
Well, we aren't targeting Tiger right now. I love generics, but it's a
significant language change that we can't force on our customers; heck, we
still have to make sure most of the software is 1.3 compatible.
I do my java programming in jEdit with a list of plugins and it works
really well for me. I'm thinking of moving to KDevelop, but I've had
problems importing projects into it. [Works fine if the project is
entirely developed in KDevelop though.]
I saw someone working in Eclipse and it looked really slick, I may try it
in the future.
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