[begin geek rant] (feel free to skip this bit)
I am so bloody annoyed with Apple Computer that I nearly didn’t blog today (had it not been for the opportunity to launch into a rant). You see, one of our computers – a relatively new MacBook – crashed in grand style this morning and I’ve spent most of the day trying to recover it as its dormancy alone has brought half of our business to a standstill. Honestly, though, the MacBook has been nothing but trouble since the day we got it and, having been “Mac people” since the mid-1980s, we’ve been seriously disappointed in their latest efforts (as have a number of friends and business associates who’ve recently migrated to this current generation of Macs).
The trouble lies, imho, in Apple’s switch from the PowerPC platform to Intel processors (their excuse being that the G5 technology wasn’t compatible with portable applications). Our old G4 & G5-based Macs perform brilliantly – in fact, they run circles around our new Intel-based MacBook. As a software developer, my disdain for the inferior array processing abilities of Intel and the laborious linked libraries of Windows runs deep, thus my reliance upon the previously superior Mac platform under OSX (a UNIX derivative). However, now that the PowerPC Macs have been sadly discontinued, all of my prior software development efforts targeting the wondrously fast AltiVec vector processing engine have been rendered suddenly and utterly obsolete.
*sigh* When the beloved dual-G5 PowerMac upon which I’m presently typing eventually gives up the ghost, I guess it’ll be time to change platforms, with the current front-running contender being Sony’s PlayStation 3 under Yellow Dog Linux. The reasoning is that the PS3 utilises the Cell Broadband Engine as its main processor, essentially the next generation of the PowerPC technology – the last being the Apple abandoned G5 – with each core containing seven functioning AltiVec engines (as opposed to the two found in my current PowerMac…which further means it’s also largely compatible with my past vector coding efforts)! Yes, odd though it may seem, one day in the future may well find MyBoobSite being composed entirely upon a PlayStation.
Why couldn’t Apple have simply been patient and waited for the Cell BE to come along, allowing them once again to have a vastly superior platform, rather than crippling their poor Macs with Intel? After all, the Cell is said to be fully compatible with mobile applications in addition to its presently pursued games console, workstation and supercomputing niches. But I suppose that the deed is done now, so I’ll just have to accept my fate and deal with it. No use crying over spilled milk, as they say. So, sincere apologies for the raving geek rant – just had to get that off my chest – and I’ll now return you to our regularly schedule program already in progress…
[/end geek rant] (see? don’t you wish you’d skipped it?!)
In order to alleviate the stress caused by my Mac-induced misery, I decided that a distraction was in order…and who better than busty blonde bombshell Faith to take my mind off the trials and tribulations of the day? Getting lost in her G-cup breasts proved an effortless task indeed (especially since she seems to have finally got over the bizarre practice of putting stuff on her tits). Besides, it’s the least I can do after subjecting you to the above off-topic rant. Ah, leave it to boobs to make everything better with the world. So, restoring the sanity in these technically troubled time, here’s 32G Faith Nelson in a selection of HD videos from InBedWithFaith.com:
Hey Reece,
Sorry to hear about your problems with the mac. I have a PowerBook that hasn’t given me any trouble, but then again I only use it as a portable typewriter.
Here’s a model and her site for you to check out:
http://www.sofiatherose.com/
Sofia Rose has appeared on JuggMaster, where I’m sure you’ve seen her. Hot bbw Latina – very delicious!
Best,
A
That’s interesting. If you’re on a power pc mac as am I, how are you able to view all the wmv movies you post? I can’t do it.
Reese
I am sorry to hear about your disappointments with the x86 Apple products. Actually I have heard the reverse. People have been relatively happy with the “Intel Inside” experience. If you would ever like to provide more details on what exactly broke please feel free to drop me an email.
Mason
PS Thanks for the Videos
A G4 run circles around the current Intel Core chips? I didn’t think the RDF had such long lasting effects. Please focus on the boobs. I liked the PPC machines too, but face it. IBM was dragging it’s feet in terms of low power G5 cpus for the laptops and higher clock speeds for the desktops. Apple was a small fraction of that business for them. Going with the Cell processor would have meant even more time before moving on to a faster platform, giving the traditional MSFT OEMs to gain more marketshare. Now Apple doesn’t have to worry too much about their cpu manufacturer getting focused on other things and leaving them in a lurch. Besides, you don’t need vector processing to edit a T&A website. Make Apple fix the damn thing and find more wonderful boobs for us to drool over.
Atreus: PowerBook’s not a problem at all, as it uses the old G4 processor. I got my first G4 PowerBook in 2002 and it’s never given me any trouble whatsoever. It’s the new Intel-based MacBooks & Mac Pro systems I’m having issues with.
Skeeve Jobs: I use Flip4Mac both for viewing and encoding .wmv videos through QuickTime (encoding because I edit most of the video clips featured on MyBoobSite myself, and have found the compression ratio in .wmv files saves me a fortune in monthly bandwidth charges). If you’re just viewing .wmv videos, though, you can download a free version of Flip4Mac that’s play-only.
Mason: Glad someone’s happy with ’em. We can’t help but compare the new one to our old PowerPC-based Macs which still perform with lightning speed by comparison, even in the most basic tasks like opening applications or awakening from sleep mode. My only hope for Apple is that they’ve not yet ported everything in OSX over to Intel and still have bits running in PPC emulation mode, similar to the Virtual PC software I use to maintain the limited number of Windows applications I’d written in the mid-’90s. Thanks so much for the offer of assistance but, after spending hours on the phone and on-line with Apple support yesterday and trying countless “fixes” that they’d kindly offered, we’re off to our nearest authorised service centre – about an hour away – to get things taken care of.
kws: No, I’m not saying that the two-generation old G4 processor runs circles around the current Intel chips in all cases, just that that’s been our experience with Mac OSX. And yes, I do utilise the vector processing performance of the G5 to edit video clips for my lowly “T&A website”. Besides, if I didn’t get my real work done (which does require a profound measure of GFLOPS), I wouldn’t have time to bring you any tits whatsoever!
Cheers,
~Reese! :~)
Heh. I’ve heard once you go Mac you don’t go back. ;) But, back to BOOBS. I love Faith – one of the cutest, sexiest and most natural looking women out there. Love it and her boobs. Sweet sweet sexy Faith. Yummy.
As far as I know Apple gave up on the PPC since IBM was having problems with yield – they simply couldn’t supply chips at the same pace that Apple needed ’em. Also, a big problem with the G5 and PPC series was that they had hit a roof as far as performance went. Sure, you could make em faster, but they ran really, really hot as it was and IBM was having big problems with making them cooler. Intel had already solved this with the Core-chips which ran as fast as (or faster) than a G5, all the while running at a much lower thermal output. This was why Apple never got a G5-based laptop out.
I’ve not used a Intel-mac yet, but you are the first one I’ve heard about that has problems with them and that leads me to think that this is an isolated incident. I’m not a mac-fanboy either (one of those annoying critters that think Apple can do no wrong) but IMHO this must be related to the macbook you guys use.
But all geekiness aside, keep them boobs coming, and thanks for all the work in that area!
I love how most of these comments are about macs :P
I enjoyed your Apple essay very much. Well said. I love the d_mn things and switched over from PCs something like a hundred years ago.
Faith is very nice!
Thanks for the advice. Let me ask anyone who’s following this thread one more question. Does anyone know how to download video streams such as those found on You Tube or its porno equivalents to the mac?
Linux FTW!! :)
Faith is simply stunning and my favourite model on the net (level top with Jelena jensen and Erica Campbell). Shame her webiste is running by monkeys. Its awful.
Using Intel chips is one of the smartest things Apple has done. It’s given the Mac access to ALL software in PC land.
By going with Intel, they’re going with a company who’s #1 focus is making CPUs and other chips. Whereas IBM’s #1 focus is selling you overpriced consultants.
By the time you hack things together to run on a Playstation, Mac’s will be running with 16 core CPUs.
While I will agree with you that it may have been a sound business decision for Apple, it effectively abandoned those who who’d dedicated the past several years to creating high performance computing applications for the superior vector performance of the PowerPC architecture. Thus, rather than remaining a highly respected (not to mention reasonably priced) platform in the scientific community, they’ve chosen to do the same as everyone else.
Good for them, from a business perspective, but bad for us lowly developers. Until I finish porting my existing applications over to the PlayStation 3, any new customers I might acquire have no choice but to look for used or refurbished G5 Macs on places like eBay. :~(
It’s a personal thing with me, really, as I’ve had it in for Intel ever since they discontinued their innovative 80170NX Electrically Trainable Analog Neural Network processor to which I’d devoted my early-’90s development efforts without so much as a lateral migration path. So, yes, having lost 3+ years of my life and over a quarter of a million dollars based upon their decision to pull the plug on the ETANN, I suppose I’m somewhat bitter.
As far as IBM is concerned, I’ve had nothing but brilliant support from them as a developer.
Ha ha – it’s too late! Between Terrasoft’s Yellow Dog Linux & Mercury’s MultiCore Framework combined with the Cell’s G5-compatible PPC / AltiVec instruction set, the initial stages of porting my code to the PS3 is turning out to be a cakewalk. Just need a few low-level drivers and I’ll be well away.
Honestly, anyone involved in biospectral informatics (or indeed any discipline requiring supercomputer-grade performance ), I’d highly recommend looking into the PlayStation 3 as a profoundly powerful and affordable solution!
~Reese! :~)
I’m still using a first generation G4 Sawtooth!
Yeah… I’ve never made enough money to finally upgrade. :(
but so far it’s runnin just fine with the small upgrades I’ve made to the hardware over the years! Then maybe by the time I’m able to finally buy my new Mac, they’ll have rectified Reese’s issue, satisfied everyone else in the process, and I’ll have a great new computer that everyone just flat out raves over!
Until then… seven year old computer for me. :(
Skeeve: Get Flip4Mac… its awesome.
Also, ANYTHING of Faith is welcome. She is my #2 girl (behind Jelena ;) ) Just a beautiful, sexy HOT girl. Love her to death
kumudu is my fem.cousin.she is a lesbia. her t.p no is +940112830811