Quote: Originally Posted by Kevin Yes, Troll has a bad habit of confusing his belief or projections to be absolute fact.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg I just thought it was a great article since I live in an area where flaunting wealth vis-a-vis jewelry is de rigeur. That's a complete …

Ok, found it. ;-) Installing the beta client helped resolve the problems mentioned above.

those Top Macs are Quad CPU, so they should score way higher then your Dual machine

Quote: Originally Posted by TiloProbst those Top Macs are Quad CPU, so they should score way higher then your Dual machine I was talking about the PowerMac7,3, not about t…

Quote: Originally Posted by phantomac I was talking about the PowerMac7,3, not about the PowerMac11,2, which is the 4 CPU machine. A dual 2.7 GHz G5 should still be the second …

I've still yet to see results from a DC2.3. Anyone have one to try it?

I was quite dissapointed of dual 2.7ghz performance. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_...hostid=1789945 My DC 2.3ghz's outperforms that easily. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sh…

Yeah, the 2.7 seems to be suffering from a clash between the RAMs and the FSBs speeds.

Interesting... Your 2.7 gets about what my 2.5 does. Actually, a little worse in some cases. It should do a bit better but....what kind of ram? My 2.5 has PC3200-30330 ram…

Don't expect any of these machines to scale linearly in performance with clock speed. The determining factor here is definitely L2 cache and memory bandwidth, although the clock sp…

What I notice most of all is that there seems to be large variation even between machines of the same type. I ponder whether some G5 chips work better than others for reasons of…

Quote: Originally Posted by SteveJobs Hello everyone, I'm about to start getting into programming. I had some Java lessons at school, so I thought I'd start off with that. So, a…

Xcode works as well if you don't want to spend upward of $200 to learn to program…

Quote: Originally Posted by SteveJobs And is XCode ok even in the long run or would Eclipse (or something else?) be a better choice? -- Or should I try to start getting going in…

If you're still in school, and future classes will be taught in Java, I would personally recommend sticking with Java...at least for awhile longer. IMHO, it is a real good idea to…

Steve, I'm coming from an academic standpoint. I'd say learn Scheme or LISP as a first language, because they are truly excellent, beautiful languages. After spending some time wit…

Hey everyone, thanks for all the answers. I'll specify my point of view by commenting on some of your remarks. I am no longer attending any kind of school, so I don't get any Java…

a few weeks have passed since the last post but i will still post for what it is worth... what language you want to learn depends on what you want to acheive. why do you want to l…

Quote: Originally Posted by phoenix78 what language you want to learn depends on what you want to acheive. why do you want to learn programming? with anything a person does in l…

Quote: Originally Posted by SteveJobs Other than this, which compiler should I use in order to get into Java? java sdk comes with javac. This is a good one. There is also…

yeah java is a good place to start.. it comes built into the OS? or do you have to install the developer packages yourself from the OS cd/dvd? lol.. i cant remember it has been age…

Cocoa/Objective-C. There's really no other option for great OS X apps. Sure, Java is popular, but you don't need to learn it as a first language. It's really something you learn la…

I've found the best way to learn a language and its API is to sit down and give yourself goals/projects to do. For example, work on writing a simple calculator or a really simple 2…

SteveJobs, If you want to write applications for Mac OS X, Objective-C/Cocoa is definitely a great place to start. However, I suggest that you take daily supplements of learning L…