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Totally patently FALSE. Here's some references:

• 1999: Dungeon Masters moderating online games will be able to create their own scenarios using BioWare's Solstice Toolset.
• 2000: From the very start of our development cycle, we have been designing Neverwinter Nights not only to be multiplatform but also to be fully interoperable between the different OS versions," says Oster. "We want a Be OS player and her Windows friend to be able to play together on a Mac server under the guidance of a Linux-based dungeon master.
• 2000: Neverwinter Nights will support the Windows, Mac, Linux, and the ever-popular BeOS operating systems, and all versions will be completely interoperable.
• 2001: * The powerful and user-friendly Neverwinter Aurora Toolset allows players to create entirely new adventures, campaigns, and worlds of their own devising. The toolset is a major features of the title and will receive full post-product support. * Single-box release across multiple Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Macintosh and BeOS). All versions will be fully interoperable.
• 2001: So the big question in everyone's minds seems to be "Why did you wait this long to tell us that the toolset is Windows-only?" That's a fair question and the honest answer is that we didn't know, we still don't know. [...] The truth is that we want our toolset to be available on all platforms.
• 2002 (right now): We are planning a simultaneous PC/Macintosh/Linux release for Neverwinter Nights, with all three versions to be included in a single box.

>If they can afford to pay for a computer, digital cameras, and a cast, I think it's safe to say most of them can afford something much nicer, like Final Cut Pro.

I would say not. Final cut pro costs $1000. A decent Mac costs $3000. Pi (an independent filmt that actually "made it") had a budget of $60,000. If 7% of that budget was on computers, I doubt the film would ever be made!

This piece of FUD was already picked apart on Maccentral yesterday.

In short, this was a piece of FUD backed by Symantec to try to sell more copyies of Norton Antivirus for the Mac. I've been using Mac's since the 80's and I've not had a virus since 1993 when I got a floppy infected with Scores and NVIR from an infected High school computer lab.

This piece of FUD was already picked apart on Maccentral yesterday.

In short, this was a piece of FUD backed by Symantec to try to sell more copyies of Norton Antivirus for the Mac. I've been using Mac's since the 80's and I've not had a virus since 1993 when I got a floppy infected with Scores and NVIR from an infected High school computer lab.

Wasn't Halo originally supposed to be a Mac game (highlighted at a Mac trade show), followed by being a PC game, however Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie switched gears to it being a console game first. Of course as a console game probably 99% of the people playing the game are playing legitimate copies, versus the average computer game where I doubt more than 25% are playing legit copies. For all of the anti-copy protection babbling on Slashdot, the fruits of the rampant piracy on the PC is publishers who will only support the safest PC game (such as The Sims).

Here you are, Mr Head...

"We consider product placement very, very important," says Suzanne Forlenza, Apple's senior manager, entertainment placement and marketing. "Our advertising budget pales in comparison to what Microsoft, IBM, Compaq, DEC and NEC all put behind the Windows/IBM compatible systems. So we need to find marketing that can strike a chord, and product placement is a unique way to familiarize people with our brand and product line. In placements, I want a breadth of exposure - I want to be in the hands of the spy, the president, the girlfriend. I don't want just to be in the hands of the high-tech nerd."

"Our arrangement was simply a loaning of equipment in exchange for exposure in the hands of Meg Ryan," said Suzanne Forlenza, manager of product placement for Apple.

"Mimi wears a lot of blue eyeshadow so at the outset of the season we approached the producers and said the iMac's quite a colorful product, it would be perfect on Mimi's desk," said Suzanne Forlenza, senior manager for product placement and entertainment promotions at Apple. "We aggressively place our products on TV and film as a complement to our other marketing efforts."......... "

Every placement bought and paid for by Apple. Hardly inside knowlege. He just put it straight. On tv, the FCC regs prevent money from changeing hands, but if your job reqires you to use a computer, and Apple offers you a bunch of dual G4s and an ibook for each member of the crew, in exchange for an imac prop that you need anyway, you take the bribe and run...

I've owned both the old toilet seat model and the newer iceBook model, and they're darn near bulletproof.

Macworld Mag had a pretty funny 'realworld test' article about the iClam model, called "dieBook"--which included testing the toughness with things like a blowtorch. http://www.macworld.com/2001/05/buzz/diebook.html

I think MacAddict did something like this too...

I remember lots of stories of 2-story drops and cars backing up over 1xx PowerBooks that still booted. Bragging about your trashed 'Book: a weird kind of macho?

Power Page has some of these stories archived.

Watson development to continue, says developer

Dan Wood of Karelia Software, the developer of Watson, confirmed for MacCentral that he had no part in the development of Sherlock 3. Wood also confirmed that Watson is alive and well and he will continue the development of the product.

What is your source for this information? Here's a few folks who disagree with you:

• one of Apple's Java developers:"...Quartz is not (yet) hardware accelerated
• another task that is not currently off-loaded to the video card's GPU
• Apple inexplicably still isn't doing any hardware acceleration of the "Quartz" graphics engine
• UI slowness comes from no Quartz acceleration on current video cards
• haven't enabled hardware acceleration for some of the 2D acceleration capabilities

Agreed, requiring 32MB of VRAM is ridiculous. There are exactly two features I wanted out of 10.2:

1. Speed (by way of refactored Darwin and GCC 3)
2. Speed (by way of hardware accelerated Quartz)

Quartz Extreme is a Soup Nazi scenario. "No speed boost for you!" Okay Steve, here's a deal -- you make a 32MB Radeon upgrade for my Pismo, and I'll stop supporting the Wallstreet lawsuit.

1) Latency is insane. Don't even *consider* it for any type of gaming.

2) It will work if you plug it directly into your switch, apparently (The modem has an Ethernet port in the back, as well). HOWEVER...the software (Internet Page Accelerator) that keeps file from being chewed in Win95/98/2K is really needed. Graphics on sites get eaten in transit, and it's just ugly. We used their suggested proxy package (WinProxy) to allow our mostly-mac network to connect using the IPA on the proxy machine, and it worked, (downloads 30-40k on average) with a fair number of errors (page won't load, hit reload, it's fine, that type of thing).

3) Starband technical support is totally, totally useless -- even if you're using the systems they recommend and support. They keep buying JD Powers & Associates ratings every year, but it's horrible.

4) Upload over the proxy was stupid. We had 40-60% of our larger ftp and mail chewed in transit, and rendered useless. And, it was a total bitch to get it working right -- it just "started" working one time, after using the same settings for over a week.

I wouldn't recommend it unless you have no other option, and need fast download speeds.

On a side note, I don't think the submitter did much looking into the task at hand before the article was posted. There is a *wealth* of information out there on this topic. Try Starband Users, for starts. And, Macworld has a very comprehensive article that outlines some of the problems I mentioned above, which I would assume also apply (partially, anyways) to a Linux setup.

MacCentral has run a bunch of Forward Migration Kits for different industries. They ran one about medical management software about two years ago -- kinda dated, but it should give you a starting point:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

--Paul

MacCentral has run a bunch of Forward Migration Kits for different industries. They ran one about medical management software about two years ago -- kinda dated, but it should give you a starting point:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

--Paul

MacCentral has run a bunch of Forward Migration Kits for different industries. They ran one about medical management software about two years ago -- kinda dated, but it should give you a starting point:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

--Paul

MacCentral has run a bunch of Forward Migration Kits for different industries. They ran one about medical management software about two years ago -- kinda dated, but it should give you a starting point:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

--Paul

MacCentral has run a bunch of Forward Migration Kits for different industries. They ran one about medical management software about two years ago -- kinda dated, but it should give you a starting point:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

--Paul

You're fucking hilarious.

Thanks for the laugh.

Maine Department of Education to provide 36,000 iBook systems to seventh and eighth grade students and teachers across the state

This is just the start...

-Russ

No, no. It's better than that. It's technically called the Flower Power iMac, but everyone calls it the Acid Trip iMac.

I'm a long-time Mac user and it gets on my nerves when I see other Mac users dismiss these kinds of critiques against Apple by pointing out how it may be Microsoft's fault because of their browser. I'm no defender of MS, but gimme a break!

MSIE is one of the few examples of software done right on the Mac... or anywhere for that matter. The Microsoft Macintosh unit doesn't port Windows code to the Mac--they maintain their own code and overall, they do great work. Read one of the interviews with Kevin Browne that have been featured in Macworld or Macaddict. This excuse that I'm seeing posted here (and hinted at) that it's "not made for the Mac" is pure apologist horse-shit and an embarrassing example of the kind of zealotry we Mac users are routinely (and not always fairly) accused of.

There's no excuse for Apple not to have OS X optimized at this point. Steve Jobs himself even used the clock analogy to show OS X's progress over the last year, and this March was 12:00. OS X should have been optimized for speed then... not in the possibly "18 months" that the article specifies. What possible excuse could there be for that? Apple is one of the few companies actually turning a profit right now. It can't be budgetary reasons.

I don't understand the delay on this issue, but no Mac users should be rushing to Apple's defense over this.

--Rick

Actually, from reading Adobe's product page, you'd think all of ImageReady's features had finally been folded into its parent app, seeing as there's no mention of IR anywhere. It was only after reading this MacCentral article that I realized the unwelcome guest was back yet again. Ugh.

For anyone who does a lot of web work in Photoshop, having to jump back and forth between the two apps is both an inconvenience and a resource hog, particularly since they duplicate many of each other's features. (So much so that the only time I fire up ImageReady these days is to bang out an animated GIF. Everything else can be done better by hand -- image slicing, rollovers -- or in Photoshop itself.)

All that said, of course I'm going to upgrade; the OS X support alone is worth it. (Photoshop and Flash were my last real reasons for running OS 9 day-to-day.)

Here's linkage for those w/ out $500+ to spend on image editing software.

Adobe CEO on PDF, Mac OS X, 'Premiere Elements,' more

Yeah I know gimp is free, blah blah OSS or die, blah blah.

Seriously folks I like Photoshop, & Elements is functional enough for my needs (No pre-press support) - definaltey worth the $100 (IMHO)

Back in September Macworld had an opinion piece by Andy Ihnatko about making great software.

A worthwhile read, in my opinion. It seems some developers forget that there are other programs out there and try to build "The Only App You'll Ever Need".

Linus doesn't talk shit.

Didn't he say the MacOS-X was a piece of crap?
(I think I heard it on this month's LM, but I can't confirm)

PS: before the trolls start, seems like he called the microkernel, not the OS itself...

We have several Windows machines, and they will likely remain for special purpose usage (web developers that need to view sites in Windows + IE, Quickbooks, other specialty applications

Those tasks can easily be done on a Mac running Virtual PC.

CHRP:
Common Hardware Reference Platform. 1995 AIM Alliance (Apple, IBM, Motorola) strategy for doing the same thing but with details like OpenFirmware defined. Motorola lost several hundred million dollars when Apple killed it's licensing program and they were stuck with warehouses full of CHRP motherboards. Be's BeBox were based on a superset of CHRP. This evolved into Apple's modern line of Macs as well as IBM's RS/6000.

Operating systems that were to run on this hardware:
Windows NT (up to versions 3.5.1 and 4.0, Service Pack 2), AIX (still does on the RS/6000 & AS/400), OS/2-PPC, Solaris, ChorusOS, Netware, Taligent (never released), WorkplaceOS, LynxOS, MkLinux, LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog Linux, MacOS.

Most folks aren't aware that Apple actually did ship some fully CHRP boxes, the Apple Network Server 500 & 700. These ran AIX by the way, from Apple.

Also any number of other CHRP-derived boards have shipped over the years, most based on Motorola's VME series but IBM has also released plans.

On a related topic there was a widespread rumor in '95 that had lots of legs of IBM's PowerPC 615 project. This was supposedly an x86 (486?) core on chip alongside a PPC (604?) core. They'd share data paths, cache, other portions but would be able to run either x86 or PPC OS's. Nothing ever publicly came of it.

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• As The Apple Turns
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Integrated custom Bose sound system with woofer/power suppply, integrated TV & FM radio system, S-Video input, and of course the little leather pads on the keyboard. Oh, and the high tech metal bracket holding it up that reportedly cost over a hundred bucks each to manufacture. Originially sold for around $10,000 then as low as $2,000. Of course for 10k it arrived a limo and was set up for you by a tech in a tux (kid you not!) A review from when it first came out is on MacWorld

Bet Gateway doesn't offer a tech in a cow suit to set theirs up...

I can't get to Panorama's site right now but there is a little more detail in this article from MacCentral, which I quote below:

"The software doesn't work by hacking the software on the iPod at all -- instead, it turns the data into tiny iTunes-compatible MP3 files -- the files are silent, but the artist and track field information contain the data."

Check this out
Pixar still has a few movies left in their contract with Disney.

Note to Pixar: Keep up the good work, but don't sell out! :-)

Record companies should loosen their grip

Quote: Jobs suggested that recording labels need to make it easier for consumers to use their own music however they want. "If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own," said Jobs.

Cannot come up with comments your self?

What the Great Eared One fails to mention is the fact that Apple has made several important concessions to the music industry in the design of their products.

First, there is the hard-to-miss "Don't Steal Music" warnings that one finds in Apple's materials. Second, much to the annoyance of consumers, Apple has designed the iPod/iTunes product in order to minimize the opportunity for piracy - it only synchs one way. Yeah there are ways around that but not with Apple software tools.

Incidentally Jobs has already issued a response that is quite interesting.

"If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own," said Jobs.

Goddamned right.

Apple did have that little iTunes installer script fiasco, but even that was corrected later the same day. I'd just like to give the OS X team at Apple kudos for releasing updates on a regular basis, and showing themselves to be committed to improving OS X. If nothing else, it's fun to be the hamster pressing on the Software Update button and getting rewarded with food pellets every so often.

Here's a story about a guy who has successfully clustered some G4 Cubes, bypassing the heat problem by adding some fans and removing the computer from the plastic casing. Sure, it's not quiet any more, but it apparently makes for a decent cluster.

Secure images before sharing them -- Photoshop now offers complete support for Acrobat 5.0 security settings, allowing you to add passwords and other protections to Photoshop PDF files before sharing them with others online or adding them to Adobe PDF workflows.

MacCentral is running a much more in-depth article, complete with screenshots you can actually see. Also included are a hands-on review and some intelligent commentary missing from the very PC-centric C|Net.

MacCentral is running a much more in-depth article, complete with screenshots you can actually see. Also included are a hands-on review and some intelligent commentary missing from the very PC-centric C|Net.

From an article at Maccentral:

Nine of the world's largest electronics companies have taken a joint step towards commercialization of a next-generation optical disk system and with it raised the possibility of a new format battle.
(...)
Four of DVD's main backers -- Mitsubishi Electric Corp., AOL Time Warner Inc., Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) and Toshiba Corp.-- are absent from the initial Blu-ray disk consortium.
Toshiba's absence is the most significant. The company is chair of the DVD Forum, the industry group that promotes DVD and handles development of new DVD formats, and has publicly stated that it intends to propose its prototype blue-laser optical-disk format to the organization as a next-generation DVD format. It's absence from the Blu-ray disk group raises the possibility that a format battle, just like the one that took place before the industry settled on DVD, may be about to begin again.
"We are not in that discussion group," said Midori Suzuki, a spokeswoman for Toshiba. "For the next-generation blue-laser optical disk, we will keep proposing a standard to the DVD Forum."

If you think it was "movies on computer," you probably weren't a very good player. Ah, the joys of King of the Hill on Venice, with the WW2 plugin... your squad gets torn apart in about 5 minutes but you can still hold the flag long enough to win. "Woot" and stuff.

In fact it was Bungie's networking code for Myth II that was so good it was originally a replacement for, and later became a new version of, Apple's net gaming library (NetSprockets).

• 933MHz PowerPC G4; Mac OS X Server software; 256K L2 cache and 2MB L3 cache; 256MB SDRAM memory (PC-133); 80GB 7200 rpm Ultra ATA drive; and a CD-RW drive for US$2,799.00
• Dual 1-GHz PowerPC G4; Mac OS X Server software 256K L2 cache and 2MB L3 cache; 512MB SDRAM memory (PC-133) 80GB 7200 rpm Ultra ATA drive; and a CD-RW drive for $3,299.00
• Dual 1-GHz PowerPC G4; Mac OS X Server software; 256K L2 cache and 2MB L3 cache; 1GB SDRAM memory (PC-133) 72GB 10000 rpm Ultra 160 SCSI drive; and a CD-RW drive for $4,549.00

The new ATI cards (8500 AGP only and 7000 PCI only) are the only new ones that'll work in Macs. Details here.

There is a more in depth article about Wheels of Zeus at Maccentral .

Despite the advances in LCD technology and the innate superiority of digital LCDs, these monitors still aren't appropriate for demanding graphics professionals--their color shifts make it difficult to display images accurately.

You need to use an application that shows invisible files. In OS X, use TinkerTool. In OS 9, use Greg's Browser or something like that.

Once you've got invisible files/folders showing, use the following path:

"iPod_Control/Music"

Inside this folder are a series of other folders named "F01, F02, F03,...etc."

Your music files are grouped in there in their original MP3 glory. I don't pretend to have parsed out the rationale/pattern for placement of songs in the "F" series of subdirectories.

Another way to do it is posted on Macworld.com here.

Disclaimer: The above is from memory and hastily prepared. Feel free to correct me, but no need to get pissy!

Anyone manage to find a link so us less fortunate to see the broadcast that was sent out live (Apple cannot even get that right, tried for over an hour, kept getting timeout's!) and capture it or whatever.

A link to a .mov foile would be great.

I found that it was being broadcast on satellite, from here, MWSF keynote to be available via satellite.

Telstar 5/Transponder 25 KU Band
Orbital slot: 97 degrees west
Downlink Frequency: 12144 MHz
Polarity: Vertical down
Audio Subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8

Galaxy 3R/Transponder 5 C Band
Orbital slot: 95 degrees west
Downlink Frequency: 3800 MHz
Polarity: Horizontal down
Audio Subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8

MacCentral restores via a reference in this article.

MacWorld magazine published an article back in 1995 showing off some Apple prototypes. One of the designs shown (unfortunately the online article is devoid of pictures) is remarkably similiar to the new iMac, though much cooler IMO. It was black in color and the base was a horizontally flattened dome instead of a hemisphere. The LCD was mounted on a metallic boom that pivoted in the middle; the display on one and and a counter weight on the opposite end.

If anyone can can post a picture of this, I'm sure it would get you some quick karma points. :)

check it check it yo

motorola is already using them
(and i swear that Sanyo or someone will be releasing full-color phones shortly in Japan with 'em.)

eMagin has beautiful dk's available. i want one!

some talk from a year ago.

do you like to dream?

umm... soOOoo cool