Wednesday, June 20, 2001

MacOS X Andrew Welch, Ambrosia Software's President offers his thoughts on the MacOS X speed deficit: President's Letter: Why is OS X slow? I haven't found MacOS X speed on my 466MHz PowerBook to be all that bad actually all things considered. On the other hand system-wide stability is great compared to MacOS 9. I've had an uptime of over a week that easily could have gone longer if I hadn't needed do something in MacOS 9. And considering I can run classic apps, carbon/cocoa apps, and now x-windows apps all at once that's a significant improvement. 3:18:00 PM     Post lunch posting Last night Dateline had a look at the dangers of driver multi-tasking. I think they raised a valid point in that drivers doing other things than driving like (dialing a cellphone or changing cds) are much more likely to have accidents. Watching various people driving around the hazard simulation course up while attempting to accomplish assigned tasks was pretty scary. But the thing I didn't like about the segment was that they didn't really demonstrate that average drivers can handle unexpected situations even when they aren't distracted. I have a feeling that most of the drivers would have had problems with the course even if they weren't distracted. 1:58:00 PM

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