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"MacKiDo rocks."

Imitation Gruel

Thu Apr 18 09:02:59 2002

[url=http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=001542#000027]Here. DrPizza, johnsonfromwisconsin, would you please school the offending moron?[/url]

I need URL's for evidence...but there are so many!

<Mr. T> I pity the fool... </Mr. T>

(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 2:03 am on April 18, 2002)

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Thu Apr 18 09:30:56 2002

I don't think I'll be playing internet janitor after Eric again.  he doesnt' have his facts straight, and despite a good discussion last time doesn't sem to care to get his facts straight.  He wants to believe the PPC is faster and that Intel are evil and no amount of correction or logic will fix that.  Eskimo works at AMD and is both sane.
and knowledgeble about tagnuts, so's I'll let him handle it.  Same thing for Programmer.

Hell, Eric thinks that 64bits offers merely twice the precision of 32.  I gather he's not had one college level class on computer organization. It looks like He just skims the net for articles written by shills to further his belief in the inherent superiority of Motorola and he considers himself educated.

Imitation Gruel

Thu Apr 18 09:34:26 2002

Hmmph.
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Thu Apr 18 09:47:01 2002

Oh well, sorry.  I dont see the purpose in going out of my way to preach to a pile of stone.  There are itards in AI and there's nothing we can do.  Though there are good points made by a few like the aforementioned Eskimo and Programmer, if I were you I'd pay attention to what they say rather than the uninformed.
Imitation Gruel

Thu Apr 18 10:08:53 2002

I suppose...

Edit: Still doesn't work.

(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 3:56 am on April 18, 2002)

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Thu Apr 18 10:11:33 2002

:sagrin:
Harbinger

Thu Apr 18 16:35:57 2002

Considering that DKE has argued FOR co-op multitasking and AGAINST pre-empt MT (pre-OSX, natch), I can't agree that mackiddo "rocks".  "Sucks" is more like it.
Magus

Thu Apr 18 20:11:46 2002

Is there anything else quite so simultaneously amusing and pathetic as a Maclot slamming something, learning Apple's going to implement it, and then defending it to the death?
HitScan

Thu Apr 18 21:55:11 2002

Is there anything else quite so simultaneously amusing and pathetic as a Maclot slamming something, learning Apple's going to implement it, and then defending it to the death?

I should think most certainly not. Well, perhaps a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest, but in that case you could call the guy "brave" whereas aforesaid maclots would be "simpletons" It's all semantics really. :biggrin:
OscarWilde

Fri Apr 19 03:57:45 2002

show me a link where David K. Every actually defuncts PMT? He never said PMT is worse then SMT.

He slammed Win9x PMT implementation. He said that the classic Mac SMT was not so much of a handicapp, but mostly just explained the differences between SMT and PMT.

I don't ever remember him saying that PMT was worse the SMT.

Then again he lost his rockers later on and got slammed by 'maclots' when he started writing articles for MacWeek. He does make some ridiculas comments. A lot of it stems from uncontrolled bitterness and anger. Why? I have no fucking clue. Maybe Bill Gates did something to him. Who knows.

(Edited by OscarWilde at 12:01 pm on April 19, 2002)

HitScan

Fri Apr 19 14:31:02 2002

I don't ever remember him saying that PMT was worse the SMT.

I remember fairly well him bitching about closing programs playing in other programs pants. Something about the chances of corruption being so small that it's not worth it. :rolleyes: He should be bludged with a sack full of hard drive platters. Or RAM sticks, that would be humorous.
HitScan

Fri Apr 19 14:50:30 2002

Do'h! I was hearing "Memory protection sucks" and feeling "I don't like pmt" I must have lumped them together in my head on account of both of them being features of any modern OS worth 2 shakes. :biggrin:

But yes, he laments MP, because he is a tard:

[url=http://www.mackido.com/Myths/memoryprotection.html]Memory Protection increases instability
Now there are some illusions about memory protection. It can not solve the worlds problems - or even the programmers problems. But it can reduce them and make up for bad programmers and poor Quality Assurance, and for the natural errors inherent to the process of development.

Memory protection actually can increase systems instability. Yes, you read that correctly. Memory maps are huge, and only a small percentage of the entire map (table-top) actually has data on it. So the likelihood of a spill ON someone elses work is pretty low to begin with. (And most of the time when it does spill it spills in predictable spaces - like location zero). So most of the time a program spills, it will not hit anything, or will only spill on itself (or you could protect only part of the memory and catch most of the bad spills). So normally, most spills are not that big of a deal, and without memory protection, nothing happens (the system keeps chugging along). However, with memory protection the Application comes crashing down (even though nothing bad would have happened). So the apps crash more than they would - but they do so as a preventative measure. The trade off is that apps are less likely to bring down the system (but more likely to come down).
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I actually checked his drek on PMT, and he does say it's ok, but explains away why it's no big deal not to have and how windows sucks at it and et cetera.

I fear Magus may have read my Macinchannel joke tv guide, which I believe mentions DKE saying something to that effect. Ooops. :biggrin:

pauli

Sat Apr 20 02:46:22 2002

mackiddo is still around??
Jeremy Reimer

Sat Apr 20 03:27:24 2002

Mackido hasn't updated his site since about 1999.  He got some kind of job at Macworld online writing crap columns, and so he stopped updating his website.  He wasn't that keen on OSX.

He was, and is, an utter tard, and should be left to the dustbin of forgotten, never-has-been history.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sat Apr 20 03:52:42 2002

indeed.
OscarWilde

Sat Apr 20 03:55:45 2002

yeah, D.Every used to write for macweek. Thats when it became really apparent that Every was more a raving lunatic that made more opinions then actually discussed anything with merit. So eventually even macweek stop having articles written by him. THe guy was slammed really hard even by mac users.
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sat Apr 20 07:45:36 2002

BTW Jeremy, it appears that your friend has [url=http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?q=Y&a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=9480915224&p=3]returned[/url]
Imitation Gruel

Sat Apr 20 09:57:53 2002

Oh joy, potential for hilarity = ++.
Jeremy Reimer

Sat Apr 20 17:07:46 2002

I like this bit:


BTW - Photoshop's slowdowns on OS X are 95% tracable to lame code in the OS (the last 5% I didn't bother to trace down). Yes, I've got about 30 RADAR bugs open on various slowdown issues. We're still working with them on the issues.

I knew that Photoshop's MacOS-Classic-orientation stupidity would cause them problems when it came time for OSX... I mentioned this to ccox back in the Battlefront's Most Famous Thread(tm), and he was very silent on the issue.

Guess I was right!  Ha ha!

Imitation Gruel

Sun Apr 21 01:43:49 2002

Vindication is a sweet thing.