This is good news. The pro audio software has been slow in coming as they seem to access the hardware at a fairly low level, which wasn't permitted in Classic. My understanding of Core Audio in Mac OS X, though, is that it's a lot better than the tools that developers had at their disposal previously.
Yes. The estate of Gene Rodenberry (sp?) shouldn't be off making crappy new shows with his name. They should derive income from suing Motorola! The thing's even called a StarTac: an obvious take-off of Star Trek. Sue! Sue! Sue! (While they're at it, sue for the general suckiness of "Earth: Final Conflict.")
Not joking, though, the real limitation that I see is that there is no variable intensity. Most of the people who want fancy lighting systems want to have fancy scenes and modes. Also, the relay sound is annoying as heck.
Back when we were silly freshman (at CMU), I hid a PC running Linux in the bathroom ceiling and had it play outrageously loud music while people were on the john. They had to decide whether to finish their business or get up and find out who was responsible for "Put It In Your Mouth." Clever little things, weren't we?
The project you're talking about is Star Trek. It happened at the same time as Taligent and Pink. Any idea where all of those things are now? Find me a Dylan programmer and we can ask him together. Or we could send him an RTF e-mail with Cyberdog. Running in Copland.
All of your points are precisely why Apple won't do it:
1. Apple is a hardware company. They get their money from your $1100 iMac, not your $600 commodity iMac.
2. Steve would cringe to see Mac OS X running on your monitor. He'd make the most god-awful face, and we don't want to see that.
3. Microsoft would respond to a kick in the balls by cutting Apple's balls right off. Office X for the Mac? Sorry, it only runs on PPC macs. We had technical issues porting it.
He's thinking about when Apple went from Motorola 680x0 chips to PowerPC ones. The OS had a 68k emulator that allowed it to continue to run old apps. The poster is expecting that if Apple releases an OS on x86 hardware, the OS will include an emulator so granny won't then wonder why her old recipe application doesn't work on her new computer.
As someone who's been if a few multi-architecture operating systems (BeOS, OpenStep, NEXTSTEP), I can say that it isn't as pleasant as everyone says. While OpenStep made it pretty easy to cross compile, there were always apps that just weren't available for your platform (particularly NEXTSTEP for HP Apollo machines.) It's not a good place to be, and it is always frustrating for users. How many PPC BeOS apps were there when the BeOS stopped being something a lot of people did? Certainly not as many as there were for Intel.
My basic point is that it will be a major pain in the ass for all of the users for gains that aren't yet a big enough deal to convince me.
There's that, and there's the fact that if it's an open standard, then others are more likely to use it. And everyone who's ever used anything involving a network knows that the more people who are participating, the better it is.
Because it's absolutely hilarious. Doonesbury has a very odd pacing and quirky beat. When I was a young-un, I couldn't figure out how in hell a comic strip with so much text that didn't make sense was funny. Now I'm in stitches reading that one. Even though I have and love my Newton.
Curiously, Graffiti was first released for the Newton and the AT&T EO (which I also had.)
Have any of y'all ever used GO's PenPoint OS? It's been a while, but it might be my favorite OS ever (even before NEXTSTEP.) It was all OOP and encapsulated a lot of the ideas of OpenDoc back in the heady days of 1993. Great OS for a great machine. Built-in crazy faxing capabilities, and it had an optional cell phone. The lack of a TCP stack really ruined more-than-nostalgia use, though.
Probably something color NEXTSTEP. Everyone bitched and moaned like it was the end of the world, but nowadays it still looks better than everything else out there =)
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It's actually a male goose. Which makes a lot more sense in the context of the cliche.
Crazy right-wing nut.
Slow enough that I've seen such things for years. My dad was looking into things like that at least three or four years ago.
He was in that for like five minutes before he got shot.
Besides, I wasn't trying give a complete filmography, just make some sort of fairly amusing almost-trend.)
PARC, as in Palo Alto Research Center
Except Tron was good :)
From Tron to Babylon 5 to this.
Then it's a good thing you spent so much on the box, then!
This is good news. The pro audio software has been slow in coming as they seem to access the hardware at a fairly low level, which wasn't permitted in Classic. My understanding of Core Audio in Mac OS X, though, is that it's a lot better than the tools that developers had at their disposal previously.
Yes. The estate of Gene Rodenberry (sp?) shouldn't be off making crappy new shows with his name. They should derive income from suing Motorola! The thing's even called a StarTac: an obvious take-off of Star Trek. Sue! Sue! Sue! (While they're at it, sue for the general suckiness of "Earth: Final Conflict.")
That is a bit farfetched. But lawyers come up with some funky positions to advance their lawsuits.
Ooh, honey, turn on the romantic lights...
'clak' 'clak' 'clak.'
What was that?
The relays going into sexy mode.
Do me!
Not joking, though, the real limitation that I see is that there is no variable intensity. Most of the people who want fancy lighting systems want to have fancy scenes and modes. Also, the relay sound is annoying as heck.
Yes.
Back when we were silly freshman (at CMU), I hid a PC running Linux in the bathroom ceiling and had it play outrageously loud music while people were on the john. They had to decide whether to finish their business or get up and find out who was responsible for "Put It In Your Mouth." Clever little things, weren't we?
"BTW, wont it be cool when you can set up a dual boot for mac osx and windows 2k/xp."
No.
System 7 kicked butt.
The project you're talking about is Star Trek. It happened at the same time as Taligent and Pink. Any idea where all of those things are now? Find me a Dylan programmer and we can ask him together. Or we could send him an RTF e-mail with Cyberdog. Running in Copland.
All of your points are precisely why Apple won't do it:
1. Apple is a hardware company. They get their money from your $1100 iMac, not your $600 commodity iMac.
2. Steve would cringe to see Mac OS X running on your monitor. He'd make the most god-awful face, and we don't want to see that.
3. Microsoft would respond to a kick in the balls by cutting Apple's balls right off. Office X for the Mac? Sorry, it only runs on PPC macs. We had technical issues porting it.
Down the toilet, swirl swirl swirl.
He's thinking about when Apple went from Motorola 680x0 chips to PowerPC ones. The OS had a 68k emulator that allowed it to continue to run old apps. The poster is expecting that if Apple releases an OS on x86 hardware, the OS will include an emulator so granny won't then wonder why her old recipe application doesn't work on her new computer.
As someone who's been if a few multi-architecture operating systems (BeOS, OpenStep, NEXTSTEP), I can say that it isn't as pleasant as everyone says. While OpenStep made it pretty easy to cross compile, there were always apps that just weren't available for your platform (particularly NEXTSTEP for HP Apollo machines.) It's not a good place to be, and it is always frustrating for users. How many PPC BeOS apps were there when the BeOS stopped being something a lot of people did? Certainly not as many as there were for Intel.
My basic point is that it will be a major pain in the ass for all of the users for gains that aren't yet a big enough deal to convince me.
Ain't nothing wrong with your homepage, sir.
Most people who die every day are not teenagers beaten to death with a golf club by a punk-ass neighbor who thinks he's above society and the law.
There's that, and there's the fact that if it's an open standard, then others are more likely to use it. And everyone who's ever used anything involving a network knows that the more people who are participating, the better it is.
Language neutral? It's a networking standard.
And the fact that Steve killed the Newton dead with the wrath of God on a bad hair day.
Because it's absolutely hilarious. Doonesbury has a very odd pacing and quirky beat. When I was a young-un, I couldn't figure out how in hell a comic strip with so much text that didn't make sense was funny. Now I'm in stitches reading that one. Even though I have and love my Newton.
Curiously, Graffiti was first released for the Newton and the AT&T EO (which I also had.)
Have any of y'all ever used GO's PenPoint OS? It's been a while, but it might be my favorite OS ever (even before NEXTSTEP.) It was all OOP and encapsulated a lot of the ideas of OpenDoc back in the heady days of 1993. Great OS for a great machine. Built-in crazy faxing capabilities, and it had an optional cell phone. The lack of a TCP stack really ruined more-than-nostalgia use, though.
Probably something color NEXTSTEP. Everyone bitched and moaned like it was the end of the world, but nowadays it still looks better than everything else out there =)