Brands are merely personable “identities” that corporations create in order to connect with the consumer on a human level.
@3 days agoAlways building consensus.
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Brands are merely personable “identities” that corporations create in order to connect with the consumer on a human level.
@3 days agoWhat defines our individuality?… what IS individuality?… Intelligence… Personality… Pure physical characteristics based on genes?… way I look at it, our individuality is defined by our genes, and creativity. although this probably can be considered plausible when we’re … super duper advanced and SMRT. not today though, not close enough. we still have too many variables that can make us different… anyway back to the original topic…
Imagine this…If we ever gain the ability to communicate wirelesly in pure digital form with our brains, many aspects that makes us what we are as individuals will be gone. Only factors that will differentiate ourselves from each other is our genes, and our creativity. Even then, the human gene pool can very possibly be in a unified state in some time in the future. If we have access to massive information networks such as an entire volume of encyclopedia, we have no need for education, we have no need for redundant research groups. Only way to be different (which also ties into making money; aka utilizing your special skills to society) will be superior genes (which could be available in only limited time as stated before) for physical strength as a means to provide manual labor; and superior intelligence for researching newer technology. However, even then, those two factors are very well can be eliminated with technology.
So whatever your skill set is; cooking, knowing how to repair a car, whatever… it will be publically available to everyone in the world… And especially with pure digital communication (instead of today, using our sensory organs such as our eyes, ears, to interpret information from books, computers, etc to our brain); there is no getting “used to”any kind of skills… If the guy next to you knows how to do it, you’ll know how to repeat his exact method as well instantly. No training is required whatsoever.
However, only one thing that might be different from the guy next to you and yourself is your genes. Now, in a time when human DNA is in a unified state… what do we have left that makes us different from anyone else?
Creativity.
The motivation to create, and the different perspectives that each human offers will be the only things left of our characteristics of individuality.
will continue at a later time. time to build consensus.
@1 week ago with 1 notegotta get those goggles on, its gonna get geeky.
so… my old (old? no… just my last pc), my computer was a monster. equipped with a 6 core cpu with 8gb of ram, a sata iii ssd, and a radeon 4890.. it ran everything i threw at it. 3dsmax, photoshop, fireworks, starcraft 2, mass effect 2… in first time of my life, i had to sell and get a different computer because of these 2 reasons: power consumption and heat.
my last pc output so much heat it turned my room into a sauna. some.. idiots told me to get more cooling.. they didn’t understand that my room was getting hot, not the computers. pushing more heat generated by the computer to my room would even make it hotter…
so i was going to buy a intel i3 cpu with a cheap mobo and a gtx 460. but i have forgotten that with i3’s i can run Apple’s mac os x with it. So I looked at a list and cancelled a lot of my orders and had to reorder a lot of parts. (I had to return the original i3 cpu and dvd burner I got)…
Originally I got an i3-530, GTX 460, Gigabyte P55A-UD2 or UD3 I forget, LG DVD Drive, Antec 300, OCZ ModXStream Pro 500 watt PSU, Corsair XMS3 DHX 1333mhz 2GB RAM x 2, and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive… (Oh I also got a Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro Rev. 2 CPU Cooler)
My revised hardware goes (if it’s not listed, then I kept the same parts) i3-540, Gigabyte P55-UD6, GTX 260 core 216, and a Pioneer DVR-218L DVD Burner… actually I also added a Targus ACB10US (first revision silver version) Bluetooth adapter.
Why the revisions? I’ll tell you now.
for the motherboard, I could have used the P55A-UD2/UD3, however there are 3 reasons I didn’t want it for running Mac OS X.
My goal was simple. (Actually it’s extremely hard to achieve and had to make calculated decisions). Make an energy efficient computer that ran Mac OS X just like an official Apple made computer does. (Although Apple doesn’t even make their computers, a Chinese company foxconn does… only thing that’s different from a regular computer and an apple computer is just software, the hardware has the same standards as PC, if not sometimes lower)
So going on with the reasons why I haven’t got the P55-UD2/UD3 motherboard..
1. USB 3.0 Isn’t used in Apple hardware yet.
2. SATA III Isn’t used in Apple hardware yet
3. The audio card needed an extra driver/kernel to run. I don’t like that because it adds a third-party (non-Apple) created file in their operating system. Apple operating system loves to run with its own files ONLY. And plus, third party files mean when an update rolls around for Snow Leopard, my entire computer could be non-functional.
The P55-UD6 motherboard fixes all that with 100% compatible hardware.
1. USB 2.0 + SATA II
2. The audio chipset is the one that Apple uses in their own computers
As for the processor, I don’t think it was really necessary to get the i3-540. but I did it just incase Apple got smart and excluded anything that they haven’t used. So i would be safe from potential future upgrades that does such a thing, since the i3-540 is used in their iMac.s
For the DVD Burner, this is something I’ve been wondering about with my old computer that ran OS X unofficially. Whenever computer was going to enter “sleep” mode, the DVD burner randomyl spun and the computer didn’t slep. And the burning mode in OS X was considered Generic supported isntead of Apple Shipped Drive supported (I think it burns faster if it says Apple Shipped Drive)… and since the Pioneer DVR218 is what they used on their Mac Pros (I think) it should let my computer auto-sleep and would have Apple Shipped Drive support for burning DVDs.
For the bluetooth, I simply got it because it’s what Apple officially supports for Snow Leopard. (It lets you wake the computer up from sleep mode with their wireless keyoard + mouse. Other bluetooth adapters still work, but they do not wake the computer up from sleep mode and often lose connections when the computer is woken up manually by pressing the power button).
The only hardware that’s not used by Apple is my graphics card, GTX 260, however with the special boot loader (Chameleon) it makes it possible to fully utilize this card in Mac OS X without any problems (even updates).. and I had very good experiences with this method with my old computer using a NVIDIA GTS 250 (although ithey are two different architectures) So potentially this would be the only part that would cause any problems.
I’m still waiting for the 10.6.5 update so I can see if people are confirming better support with their ATI Radeon 5770 card (better performance, less power usage, cooler what’s not to like?). But one thing I don’t like though, is that ATI Radeon drivers tend to break everytime there is an update because it relys on third party kexts. (Although there are 2 methods using either DSDT or using a modified boot file to use 5770). So I will keep an watchful eye on this gfx card.
Oh one thing I left out on the list of things I bought… I also bought the full retail copy of Snow Leopard (hoping it’s the new 10.6.3 version because it supports i3 out of the box).
Also in the future I will be purchasing a firewire 800 card and a Mini PCIe to PCI-e 1x card and a Airport card for WiFi capabilities. and a internal usb to female USB cable so I can put my bluetooth usb card internally :-)
So these are my things to test/concerns (incase they don’t work):
CPU Speed Stepping (Dynamic frequecny change to reduce temps/power usage)
Graphics Card support (Quartz Extreme + Core Image support) with all of the ports working
Auto-Sleep
Sleep
Restarting
Shutting Down
Sound
Network Sleep
Network
64-Bit Kernel Support
And in the future for 10.6.5 I need to watch out for these:
1. Chameleon RC5 so it injects my CPUID (It will show up as Unknown CPU in 10.6.4 because the i3 CPUs haven’t been implemented yet. Only the new iMac’s special version of OS X has it, so the latest update (common denominator) will have this update)
2. If it will continue supporting my GTX 260
3. If it will give native/vanilla support to Radeon 5770.
Other than that I will have no problems. and I am expecting very few problems with this setup.
Will report back when I actually built the computer and have it up. Maybe a video?
Hopefully in the future I will buy these:
2nd monitor (DELL G2410)
SSD (Crucial RealSSD 64GB)
Additional 4GB or 8GB RAM (Totalling 8GB or 12GB RAM)
Sell my GTX260 and get a 5770.
Apple Keyboard
Apple Magic Trackpad or Magic Mouse
Firewire 1394b / 800 card
MiniPCIe to PCI-E 1x card
Apple Airport card.
oh and the reason that it’s called a Mac Pro + iMac frankenstein is that there are elements of both computers in my setup… The Mac Pro part is the DVD Burner, Graphics Card… (Well and the resemblence of the computer itself), and lack of the built in monitor /etc other built in parts.
The iMac parts come from the CPU, and the motherboard. Oh and it has 1 optical port lol compared 2 on the Mac Pro.
So only 3rd party files are located in a partition SEPARATE from the actual Mac OS partition so it doesn’t actually have any interruptions with it.
1. DSDT.aml (an edited BIOS Table file to apple specifications)
2. JMicron36xATA.kext (Makes me use the IDE slot if I need to in teh future)
3. JMicron36xESATA.kext (Makes Mac OS X Display my SATA controller correctly)
4. LegacyHDA889a.kext (Injects Mac OS X With the correct Device-ID for my Audio card)
5. RealtekR1000SL.kext (Makes my network card work, it’s officialy from Realtek, so no worries) This one will be installed to the actual Snow Leopard partition.
The 3 files Jmicron x2 + LEgacy HDA aren’t actually 3rd party drivers, but actually injectors. since the hardware is exactly same (more or less supported officialy by Mac OS X) it only needs to “change” the name of my components to the same one that apple uses so the operating system pulls out the correct kernel/drivers and start communicating with the device. (So my computer parts are named John, but Apple calls for Jake, the injectors change my computer parts to Jake instead.)
god i got a lot of things to do.
@1 week ago