Well, Apple is not in the Unix business as apparently as IBM, etc. So, this news doesn't look important to Apple, but.. I don't think so.
Do Apple executive officers remember when the X was born? Unix society needed GUI for their Unix.
As far as I remember, Unix society requested one to Apple, and Apple denied it. Apple could have not had strategy on GUI on other platform than Mac. What they have now is that GUI is available for not only Mac and but also other platforms.
And Apple lost any leadership in that area.
I've heard that pre-Apple-employee started Eazel project. Apple doesn't seem to fund it.
Now, big players including IBM support GNOME on Linux. Again, Apple is not one of them.
What if Apple's UI is available on other platforms? People will get more familiar to Mac.
I think it will be good.
Do Apple executive officers read slashdot article?
I hope that Mr. Jobs read my article.
Why don't he think differently?
Do he think only different?
Well, Linux people, including me, want a free OS. Will that kind of people buy application programs?
Some S/W for special need or selling a S/W used in a compnay only may be sold. But will general application S/W can be sold enough to maintain maker of the S/W?
Here in Korea, most companies in Linux business do IT business, not S/W business. What does that mean?
As I posted to linux advocacy newsgroup, Linux would need a stardardized UI ( not just look, but also API, etc ) for making Linux business as an industry. By doing so, programmers don't need to write codes for every desktop/windo managers.
Diversity is good. But too radical one is not good.
Anyway, by doing so, Linux business could be done in every expected field, not only IT and server business.
I used Linux from around 1992. My big question is that how Linux can be more easier to maintain?
simply deleting or upgrading ncurses library makes your screen "blank". Upgrading some library, for example, GTK, causes recompilation of application programs which use the library.
( I'm the person who tries every new version of libraries and application programs.:) )
I need to install QT, GTK, LessTIF, GNOME, KDE and others to use some application programs which are not available on others. It steals my weekend!
You know, Mac people argues against Windows scattered DLLs. In terms of that matter, Linux are worse than Windows. I think the most robust OS according to changing libraries, extension, is the Macintosh. Won't it be great if we saw that thing on Linux? ( MacOS X approaches Unix way.:(
I like Unix's operational robustness, stability,but don't like robustness and stability in maintenance. )
It looks like off-the-topic.
Well, but I think if Linux application programs, including games are to be sold, underlying things I mentioned are required, I think.
Well, the company, NeXT, is dead. But the technology it ignited is not dead. It's now overwhelming now.
Component wares like JavaBeans, MS COM, CORBA, and CodeWarriors PowerPlant framework, etc are now get lots of interest from people.
I won't say that NeXT introduced the idea, component, first. They didn't. But they showed how component wares, in OOP form, can make S/W production more efficient.
Maybe in your thought, the NeXT is dead. But it's still alive among us. And.. finally, although it's a little different story, but..it revived...as MacOS X and MacOS X server. ( expecially the MacOS X server. )
Hmm.. It's interesting. If t's off-the-topic, but cube of Cobalts looks like that Apple should build. You know, introducing Linux to Windows network can be hard, because the administrator or any one who are responsible for the network may doesn't like other OSes than the Windows. The Cobalt's solution make it transparent to put Linux box into existing Windows network. It's administrated by the Web browser, so people don't recognize that it's Linux based machine. And the Qube and the RaQ are looks good, and I personally think that they look better than Apple's own. If small market share is the origin of threat on Apple's existence, Apple will need machines like the Cobalt's for go into enterprise market.
Well, as a Mac lover, I like to see new products from Apple early. But.. Apple should not disclose its upcoming products. The market is competitive. So, disclosing information about their new products early is very harmful to the manufacturer.
So, MacOSRumors or AppleInsdier website do something wrong for their beloved company, Apple.
If they really like the Apple Computer Inc., they should stop posting early picture of new Apple products.
Well.. Apple can be seen as a successful company after a few years in red, but.. it's not stable still. They don't broaden their market share. ( Why care market share? As you can see, the smaller market share means that people don't trust the platform's strong stand. ) Why would Pixar and Disney ( especially! ) want to merger with the Apple? OK. Pixar is Mr. Jobs' company. But how about the Disney? I don't think that board members of Disney are not so dumb as to merge with the Apple. ( If they merge what the logo for the new company will be? Kill Apple's logo? It's the main reason the CEO of the Oracle supported the Apple. ( Brand recognition, strictly speaking ). The disney? The historic disney? Nonsense! What can they get? The Apple doesn't have an image as an innovator. Its image is "too-unstable" company. Disney will not want to get the image. I don't see any reason Disney should merge with the Apple Computer. The article, thus, smells like just a rumor. I like Macintosh platform. But.. I will not buy one. ( I owned 2. ) There is not so great reason to buy Mac. Some inconvenience of Windows can be justified due to the price gap. And even the Linux, the harder OS to configure and maintain, is getting popular. The image, easy-to-use, would be obtained by the MS not the Apple, compared to the Linux. Hm..
The real mainstream is still the Windows in Korea.
The Linux is.. UNIX, so.. people think it is difficult. People think that Linux is lack in S/W. ( I think it's half right, and half wrong. )
Don't cheer up too much, folks!
When you go to the MacWorld expo, you may think "Macintosh is the mainstream here! It's cool!".:)
Anyway the Linux is hot in Korea, just like in the U.S.
About the dance machine
There are various dance machines, DDR ( Dance Dance Revolution made by Japanese ), Dance Mania, etc. You can buy one for the Playstation, the Windows, and.. there is a Mac version ( not for sell!! ).
How does it look?
Basically it's a joypad for your feet.
While music is played, there are "arrows" in 4 or 8 directions ( different depending on the dance machines ) and when the arrow is hit some horizontal position, you should feet-click on the large button on a floor. And it makes you dance!
Me? I don't do it well.. Buy one for the Slash dotters and donate it to Rob Malda?:) Well...
In Korea, mountains cover 70% of the land of Korea. It makes setting up a decent mobile phone infra difficult. But we do it.
Actually, problems in Korea is that many mobile telephone companies used too much money on the infra, although, if they cooperated, they could save lots of money.
Except for the 001, other phones have "shadow" region, which means that the phone call is not established well. (It's called "explodes not so well, in Korea.:) )
I have a 016 PCS phone. It's worse than the 011 and 017 cellular phones.
Hmm... well.. anyway, Korean mobile phones used in many countries. Because the CDMA got popular in Korea. Actually one of the core the base technology was developed in Korea, although the control capability on market is stolen by the Qualcomm.
And you will be surprised that how the mobile phones looks beautiful. My sister living in the New Jersey was surprized by how they looks. She told be that there are not so small, ( so portable -- well.. we call the big mobile phones.. uh.. bricks.. sorry!!! ) and beautiful phones in the U.S.
But there are some problem with the phones. Because there are too many phones manufactured, they causes excessive consumption. People buy new ones although theirs are good enough. It's, I think, extravagant.
Well, there have been some articles like the one we talk about now.
["A company in the PC business" hindered Macs from public view, or access.]
But.. I've never heard that the Apple did the similar thing ever.
Are the companies in the PC business not moral, or the Apple people are stupid enough that they can't protect their business, or.. simply the article were just rumor?
If it's true, it's very serious issue. Maybe it's worse case than the MS's dominance in the PC industry.
Here in Korea, you can't publish any advertisement which compares products of one company with products of another company directly, whether it's true or not. I don't think it's allowed in the U.S. also. And.. the case we talk about is much more serious than that.
Well, it's interesting story. But I don't think that the Apple Computer Inc. get that popularity that easy.
Actually people don't mind how easy to use the Mac as much as the Apple want. And, I don't think that the Apple can provide freedom form the IRQ or other resource conflicts problem on "INTEL" platform. The reason Mac could provide that is thanks to the Apple's fine handling of 3rd party developers ( including H/W ) and makes them obey the most fundamental thing first. So, if nothing works, the most basic things works. ( It saves lots of time especially when you don't have enough time to work for something to do. ) In the PC world, the Apple could not make the 3rd parties do what the 3rd parties in the Mac world do. Because there are already sold H/Ws.
Second, I don't think the Apple is open-minded enough. Look at what Apple do now. They have white NeXT. The Mac OS X API still has name "NS..". But they don't develop Intel version seriously.
Third, the Apple can't grow as powerful as the MS. It's because the Apple makes the OS and the H/W together. It's ruling the Mac market, just like the MS does on the PC market. The difference is that the MS did unfair things using the power of the market dominance of the Windows. Will the Apple does the similar things when it grows? Whatever happens, in the capitalism, dominating the market is crime.
I want to have the Apple OS on the Intel H/Ws, though.
I don't think Apple insistantly promote proprietary format.
The QuickTime is just an architecture or wrapper or accessor to many codecs. It gives "Same access method on different codecs" So, if you make a codec as a plugin for a QuickTime, it works under QuickTime without significant modification of your existing source codes.
And the MPEG4 is just standardized.
Because the Apple is in multimedia industry not just for playing but also for editing media, QuickTime would be better editing format than just a MPEG S/W. Because there are many tracks, Text, Sound, Video, etc, it would be easier to edit with QuickTime movie files than MPEG movie files. For example, if there are 2 scens which are transited by dissolve effect, the cut detection could be done without considering "slow transition" or "abrupt transition". But with MPEG, although when a media is created, there would be no problem, when handling existing MPEG file, that kind of manipulation would be difficult. I still study the MPEG and QuickTime things. I have why MPEG could be bettern than the QuickTime or the AVI or vice versa in question for long time. Probably as a distribution media, MPEG could be better, but.. you know..
And the MPEG4 is not what you get from the MPEG1( video CD ) and the MPEG2 (DVD). The purpose is quite different. And the QuickTime already has the foundation and Apple's own solution to the MPEG4 issue already.
And the Apple is a strong supporter of the MPEG4. According to the MPEG group leader's own explanation in ETRI,located in Taejon, Korea.
The issue is not "Processor A is also a superscalar processor.". The point is how well they perform.
And the SIMD is very different idea from the pipelining. Pipelining is rather for MISD, or MIMD.
And.. the problem of Apples is always..
1. Speed on the Mac feels slower than on the PC.
2. The Mac feels more expensive.
3. The Mac has lower Mhz (GHz, soon ) than the PCs have. And that make people confuse. People doesn't understand why a CPU architecture A with slower MHz is faster than a CPU architecture B with faster Mhz.
4. It's business, not science! The Apple should make machines with higher number of Mhz or Ghz than PCs although the 500Mhz PowerPC machine runs as fast as the 800Mhz Pentium machines to give people impression that Mac runs faster!
Hmm, the standard benchmarks also mislead. Their is no typical benchmark to compare a machine A with a machine B. ( cf. the Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John Hennessy & David Patterson. ) It would be rather better to compare a machine A with a machine B with popular application programs, like MS Office ( it's optimized for the PC, though. ), many editors, graphic viewers, and.. well, Oracle for serious business transaction, and many others. For pure scientific calculation, where guys write their own programs for their computers, probably chips with better architectures like the PowerPC, Alpha, Power3, SuperSparc would be make the system faster, but.. I don't think that kind of measuring performance doesn't bring any interest to people who are here in slashdot, or any platform X advocates news group. I know that the PowerPC is more advanced than the x86 architecture, but the x86 systems are sold in much lower prices, ( sometimes you should pay the price, though. ). And the current x86 systems have lots of RISC-like features. So.. if the OS is not the MS Win-blows, the PC systems are more attractive. Why don't Apple make their MacOS X available for the PCs. Well, Mr. Jobs, give up the Mac H/W. Your values are on the S/W business. Unlike when NeXTStep was sold for the Intel boxes, the moods are more open. Linux needs unified UIs, and needs to be more manageable. I think the MacOS X is the anwer for it.
Well, as far as I know, it's possible to use the QuickTime on the SGI platforms. And, when the Mr. Jobs demonstrated the skill which the NeXT people had, they demoed the QuickDraw 3D and the QuickTime on the NeXTStep. So, I think the Apple Computer Inc. have the source codes for Unix platform. So, I assume the reason the QuickTime-Official for any Unix for free is not available is business strategy.
Will Apple port the MacOS X for the AMD chip? It looked like that PowerPC reaches 1GHz more quickly than others. What are the IBM and the Motorola doing?
There is an easy way. Just run the Netscape browser. It runs as a new process. - Well, each window of the browser do not, though.
Anyway, I've seen many times that the crash of the IE makes the Windows 2000 crash.
Windows 2000 doesn't look as stable as the 98.
And maintenance of the W2K is not as easy as the Linux. ( in some way. )
People at a network lab., which is 5th floor in our building, told me that the W2K is stable. So, I tried it, and I found that it was not. So, I asked them if you try this, this, this? They told me, "No, we just make the W2K server run and there was no regular frequency of user interaction." So.. it means that they didn't use the W2K as a client machine heavily.
So, my experience with it is more accurate than theirs.
You are right. But the explorer crash often causes the Windows' crash.
And although the explorer can restart, the programs run as tray mode, can't run correctly in many cases.
Even when the Windows itself does not crash, the explorer can block users' interaction with his/her computer. "ctrl+alt+delet"? It sometimes doesn't work.
Well, even the MS visual C++ editor can't handle the Unicode well.
I can't compile any QuickTime sample codes due to the problem. ( not really. )
But there are more problems in addition to it.
The ASCII table of the Windows platform is not so good or well organized as that
of Apple's. The umlaut characters conflict with the Korean characters.
Not only it makes the characters displayed broken, but also it makes real problem when
the C++ compiler tries compiling codes containing the chars. ( ref. http://soback.kornet21.net/~tomahawk/QuickTime/Qui ckTime.html )
It's not only due to the Unicode.
MS uses their own code for Korean. ( maybe similar situation with the Chinese, Japanese )
For example, the MS assumes that the encoding/decoding format of Korean is ISO 22something. It's not the standard for Korean. The standard code is KSC 5601 (old)
and the unicode, EUC-KR, So, when you write e-mail with the outlook express, or make
html page using the MS front page, you will sometimes have problem. There is no problem
with the Netscape. You can read any e-mail/webpage with any Unix e-mail/web client
if the message is written using the Netscape products. The Netscape even can read
characters encoded with the MS standard.
MS even can't handle the Unicode in standard way. I suffered it when I wrote
a Java program due to the problem. Only MS IE, and MS products caused problem.
The stability of the web browser? I don't think the IE is more stable than the NS.
The IE is even worse. It is more probable that one crash of the IE make my PC crashes.
The only drawback of the NS Communicator is that it tries reaccess - although it
accesses the cache - the network when the window is resized. So, the IE is faster in
drawing the web page when the window is resized.
It's very good news tha the NS supports the GIME. ( I submitted it to the Mozilla team.
They just replied "Why use the GIME instead of the system input method?", though. )
But, be careful! The GIME can be corrupted easily.
Although there is "recovery" button in the installer, it doesn't be recovered well, when
it is corrupted. To recover it, uninstall it, "restart your computer" ( if not, it's not recovered. ), and reinstall it.
The IE has similar "recovery" problem with encoding method. I can't recover Korean
encoding option.
I think the NS is much easier to maintain and troubleshoot.
Well, things are changed very, very rapidly for past 2~3 years. Now you can't differentiate personal workstations from PCs, due to rapid speed-up with PC processors.
PowerPC technology, and Pentium technology have had some problems in them. Although the RAMBUS technology is not specifict to the Pentium processors, it shows that things should be changed less rapidly.
I personally think that PC industry makes lots of wastes. Unlike TVs we have, it's very hard to use PCs more than 10 years. ( Well, you can, but you will be tempted by new S/Ws, faster graphics, larger S/Ws.. ) Sometimes, people may need not-so-powerful machines, but people buy them. PC companies always makes faster machines, instead of lowering the prices of existing machines. For example, Pentium 133 Mhz machines are still usuable for many games, wordprocessing, etc. But you can't buy new Pentium 133Mhz machines with prices under $300.
The article of the MS reminds me of that of Apple when Apple had some problem. Well.. anyway, the MS misses one. ( intentionally? ) YOU CAN'T SAY ONLY WITH THE MARKET SHARE. Although most web sites may run on the Windows family, serious management on network, systems are done with Unix machines. You can't compare it with the fact that how many OS the MS sell. And.. it's ridiculous to say that NT system is more reliable than Unix systems. I can show the MS how often the NT causes the blue screen. And.. management with NT system is not easy although it has GUI. UNIX system, on the other hand, is reliable, compared to the NT system. When it works nice, it's nice. ( But it went something wrong, you may waste much time to fix it. ) ( I wish a system which has Unix reliability and Mac convenient management. Probably the MacOS X family? ) Anyway.. the MS people are liar as they used to be. In addition to it, I don't want to buy an OS with 65000 bugs in it.:)
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Well, Apple is not in the Unix business as apparently as IBM, etc. So, this news doesn't look important to Apple, but.. I don't think so.
Do Apple executive officers remember when the X was born? Unix society needed GUI for their Unix.
As far as I remember, Unix society requested one to Apple, and Apple denied it. Apple could have not had strategy on GUI on other platform than Mac. What they have now is that GUI is available for not only Mac and but also other platforms.
And Apple lost any leadership in that area.
I've heard that pre-Apple-employee started Eazel project. Apple doesn't seem to fund it.
Now, big players including IBM support GNOME on Linux. Again, Apple is not one of them.
What if Apple's UI is available on other platforms? People will get more familiar to Mac.
I think it will be good.
Do Apple executive officers read slashdot article?
I hope that Mr. Jobs read my article.
Why don't he think differently?
Do he think only different?
Well, Linux people, including me, want a free OS. Will that kind of people buy application programs?
:) )
:(
Some S/W for special need or selling a S/W used in a compnay only may be sold. But will general application S/W can be sold enough to maintain maker of the S/W?
Here in Korea, most companies in Linux business do IT business, not S/W business. What does that mean?
As I posted to linux advocacy newsgroup, Linux would need a stardardized UI ( not just look, but also API, etc ) for making Linux business as an industry. By doing so, programmers don't need to write codes for every desktop/windo managers.
Diversity is good. But too radical one is not good.
Anyway, by doing so, Linux business could be done in every expected field, not only IT and server business.
I used Linux from around 1992. My big question is that how Linux can be more easier to maintain?
simply deleting or upgrading ncurses library makes your screen "blank". Upgrading some library, for example, GTK, causes recompilation of application programs which use the library.
( I'm the person who tries every new version of libraries and application programs.
I need to install QT, GTK, LessTIF, GNOME, KDE and others to use some application programs which are not available on others. It steals my weekend!
You know, Mac people argues against Windows scattered DLLs. In terms of that matter, Linux are worse than Windows. I think the most robust OS according to changing libraries, extension, is the Macintosh. Won't it be great if we saw that thing on Linux? ( MacOS X approaches Unix way.
I like Unix's operational robustness, stability,but don't like robustness and stability in maintenance. )
It looks like off-the-topic.
Well, but I think if Linux application programs, including games are to be sold, underlying things I mentioned are required, I think.
What do you think on that?
I just installed the Jabber, but how can I send msg to ICQ and AIM users?
I installed it, but it can't be launched on my Windows machine.
Well, the company, NeXT, is dead.
But the technology it ignited is not dead.
It's now overwhelming now.
Component wares like JavaBeans, MS COM, CORBA,
and CodeWarriors PowerPlant framework, etc are
now get lots of interest from people.
I won't say that NeXT introduced the idea, component, first. They didn't. But they showed
how component wares, in OOP form, can make
S/W production more efficient.
Maybe in your thought, the NeXT is dead.
But it's still alive among us.
And.. finally, although it's a little different
story, but..it revived...as MacOS X and MacOS
X server. ( expecially the MacOS X server. )
Hmm.. It's interesting.
If t's off-the-topic, but cube of Cobalts looks
like that Apple should build.
You know, introducing Linux to Windows network
can be hard, because the administrator or any
one who are responsible for the network may doesn't like other OSes than the Windows.
The Cobalt's solution make it transparent to put Linux box into existing Windows network.
It's administrated by the Web browser, so people don't recognize that it's Linux based machine.
And the Qube and the RaQ are looks good, and
I personally think that they look better than Apple's own.
If small market share is the origin of threat on
Apple's existence, Apple will need machines like the Cobalt's for go into enterprise market.
It's interesting.
Well, as a Mac lover, I like to see new products from Apple early. But.. Apple should not disclose its upcoming products. The market is competitive. So, disclosing information about their new products early is very harmful to the manufacturer.
;)
So, MacOSRumors or AppleInsdier website do something wrong for their beloved company, Apple.
If they really like the Apple Computer Inc., they should stop posting early picture of new Apple products.
It's interesting, though.
Well.. Apple can be seen as a successful company after a few years in red, but.. it's not stable still. They don't broaden their market share. ( Why care market share? As you can see, the smaller market share means that people don't trust the platform's strong stand. )
Why would Pixar and Disney ( especially! ) want to merger with the Apple?
OK. Pixar is Mr. Jobs' company. But how about the Disney? I don't think that board members of Disney are not so dumb as to merge with the Apple.
( If they merge what the logo for the new company will be? Kill Apple's logo? It's the main reason the CEO of the Oracle supported the Apple. ( Brand recognition, strictly speaking ). The disney? The historic disney? Nonsense! What can they get? The Apple doesn't have an image as an innovator. Its image is "too-unstable" company. Disney will not want to get the image.
I don't see any reason Disney should merge with the Apple Computer.
The article, thus, smells like just a rumor.
I like Macintosh platform. But.. I will not buy one. ( I owned 2. ) There is not so great reason to buy Mac. Some inconvenience of Windows can be justified due to the price gap. And even the Linux, the harder OS to configure and maintain, is getting popular. The image, easy-to-use, would be obtained by the MS not the Apple, compared to the Linux.
Hm..
The real mainstream is still the Windows in Korea.
:)
:) Well...
The Linux is.. UNIX, so.. people think it is difficult.
People think that Linux is lack in S/W. ( I think it's half right, and half wrong. )
Don't cheer up too much, folks!
When you go to the MacWorld expo, you may think "Macintosh is the mainstream here! It's cool!".
Anyway the Linux is hot in Korea, just like in the U.S.
About the dance machine
There are various dance machines, DDR ( Dance Dance Revolution made by Japanese ), Dance Mania, etc. You can buy one for the Playstation, the Windows, and.. there is a Mac version ( not for sell!! ).
How does it look?
Basically it's a joypad for your feet.
While music is played, there are "arrows" in 4 or 8 directions ( different depending on the dance machines ) and when the arrow is hit some horizontal position, you should feet-click on the large button on a floor.
And it makes you dance!
Me? I don't do it well.. Buy one for the Slash dotters and donate it to Rob Malda?
In addition to the Bill Gates, and the Richard Stallman( sorry for possible typo. ), there was the CEO of the CISCO.
He made contract with the Hansol company.
In Korea, mountains cover 70% of the land of Korea. It makes setting up a decent mobile phone
:) )
infra difficult. But we do it.
Actually, problems in Korea is that many mobile telephone companies used too much money on the infra, although, if they cooperated, they could save lots of money.
Except for the 001, other phones have "shadow" region, which means that the phone call is not established well. (It's called "explodes not so well, in Korea.
I have a 016 PCS phone. It's worse than the 011 and 017 cellular phones.
Hmm... well.. anyway, Korean mobile phones used in many countries. Because the CDMA got popular in Korea. Actually one of the core the base technology was developed in Korea, although the control capability on market is stolen by the Qualcomm.
And you will be surprised that how the mobile phones looks beautiful. My sister living in the New Jersey was surprized by how they looks.
She told be that there are not so small, ( so portable -- well.. we call the big mobile phones.. uh.. bricks.. sorry!!! ) and beautiful phones in the U.S.
But there are some problem with the phones. Because there are too many phones manufactured, they causes excessive consumption. People buy new ones although theirs are good enough. It's, I think, extravagant.
["A company in the PC business" hindered Macs from public view, or access.]
But.. I've never heard that the Apple did the similar thing ever.
Are the companies in the PC business not moral, or the Apple people are stupid enough that they can't protect their business, or.. simply the article were just rumor?
If it's true, it's very serious issue. Maybe it's worse case than the MS's dominance in the PC industry.
Here in Korea, you can't publish any advertisement which compares products of one company with products of another company directly, whether it's true or not.
I don't think it's allowed in the U.S. also.
And.. the case we talk about is much more serious than that.
Hmm..
Well, it's interesting story. But I don't think that the Apple Computer Inc. get that popularity that easy.
Actually people don't mind how easy to use the Mac as much as the Apple want.
And, I don't think that the Apple can provide freedom form the IRQ or other resource conflicts problem on "INTEL" platform. The reason Mac could provide that is thanks to the Apple's fine handling of 3rd party developers ( including H/W )
and makes them obey the most fundamental thing
first. So, if nothing works, the most basic things works. ( It saves lots of time especially when you don't have enough time to work for something to do. )
In the PC world, the Apple could not make the 3rd parties do what the 3rd parties in the Mac world do. Because there are already sold H/Ws.
Second, I don't think the Apple is open-minded enough. Look at what Apple do now. They have white NeXT. The Mac OS X API still has name "NS..".
But they don't develop Intel version seriously.
Third, the Apple can't grow as powerful as the MS.
It's because the Apple makes the OS and the H/W together. It's ruling the Mac market, just like the MS does on the PC market.
The difference is that the MS did unfair things using the power of the market dominance of the Windows. Will the Apple does the similar things when it grows?
Whatever happens, in the capitalism, dominating the market is crime.
I want to have the Apple OS on the Intel H/Ws, though.
I don't think Apple insistantly promote proprietary format.
The QuickTime is just an architecture or wrapper or accessor to many codecs.
It gives "Same access method on different codecs"
So, if you make a codec as a plugin for a QuickTime, it works under QuickTime without significant modification of your existing source codes.
And the MPEG4 is just standardized.
Because the Apple is in multimedia industry not just for playing but also for editing media, QuickTime would be better editing format than just a MPEG S/W.
Because there are many tracks, Text, Sound, Video, etc, it would be easier to edit with QuickTime movie files than MPEG movie files. For example, if there are 2 scens which are transited by dissolve effect, the cut detection could be done without considering "slow transition" or "abrupt transition". But with MPEG, although when a media is created, there would be no problem, when handling existing MPEG file, that kind of manipulation would be difficult.
I still study the MPEG and QuickTime things.
I have why MPEG could be bettern than the QuickTime or the AVI or vice versa in question for long time.
Probably as a distribution media, MPEG could be better, but.. you know..
And the MPEG4 is not what you get from the MPEG1( video CD ) and the MPEG2 (DVD). The purpose is quite different.
And the QuickTime already has the foundation and Apple's own solution to the MPEG4 issue already.
And the Apple is a strong supporter of the MPEG4.
According to the MPEG group leader's own explanation in ETRI,located in Taejon, Korea.
People! Calm down!!!
The issue is not "Processor A is also a superscalar processor.". The point is how well they perform.
And the SIMD is very different idea from the pipelining. Pipelining is rather for MISD, or MIMD.
And.. the problem of Apples is always..
1. Speed on the Mac feels slower than on the PC.
2. The Mac feels more expensive.
3. The Mac has lower Mhz (GHz, soon ) than the PCs have. And that make people confuse. People doesn't understand why a CPU architecture A with slower MHz is faster than a CPU architecture B with faster Mhz.
4. It's business, not science! The Apple should make machines with higher number of Mhz or Ghz than PCs although the 500Mhz PowerPC machine runs as fast as the 800Mhz Pentium machines to give people impression that Mac runs faster!
Hmm, the standard benchmarks also mislead. Their is no typical benchmark to compare a machine A with a machine B. ( cf. the Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John Hennessy & David Patterson. ) It would be rather better to compare a machine A with a machine B with popular application programs, like MS Office ( it's optimized for the PC, though. ), many editors, graphic viewers, and.. well, Oracle for serious business transaction, and many others. For pure scientific calculation, where guys write their own programs for their computers, probably chips with better architectures like the PowerPC, Alpha, Power3, SuperSparc would be make the system faster, but.. I don't think that kind of measuring performance doesn't bring any interest to people who are here in slashdot, or any platform X advocates news group. I know that the PowerPC is more advanced than the x86 architecture, but the x86 systems are sold in much lower prices, ( sometimes you should pay the price, though. ). And the current x86 systems have lots of RISC-like features. So.. if the OS is not the MS Win-blows, the PC systems are more attractive. Why don't Apple make their MacOS X available for the PCs. Well, Mr. Jobs, give up the Mac H/W. Your values are on the S/W business. Unlike when NeXTStep was sold for the Intel boxes, the moods are more open. Linux needs unified UIs, and needs to be more manageable. I think the MacOS X is the anwer for it.
Well, you are right.
I think it is just right time to think about what
MS and spelled-by-MS-advertisement people did with
Apple, and Apple products previously.
I think MS pays the price.
What is the BeOS for Linux?
It's a BeOS on top of the Linux?
Can it be called an OS, then?
I understand the low-level of the BeOS is
based on an Unix kernel.
So, does the article means that the low
level portion of the BeOS for Linux is the
Linux?
Well, as far as I know, it's possible to use the QuickTime on the SGI platforms. And, when the Mr. Jobs demonstrated the skill which the NeXT people had, they demoed the QuickDraw 3D and the QuickTime on the NeXTStep. So, I think the Apple Computer Inc. have the source codes for Unix platform. So, I assume the reason the QuickTime-Official for any Unix for free is not available is business strategy.
Will Apple port the MacOS X for the AMD chip? It looked like that PowerPC reaches 1GHz more quickly than others. What are the IBM and the Motorola doing?
Well, you mean a process? not a thread?
There is an easy way. Just run the Netscape browser. It runs as a new process.
- Well, each window of the browser do not, though.
Anyway, I've seen many times that the crash of the IE makes the Windows 2000 crash.
Windows 2000 doesn't look as stable as the 98.
And maintenance of the W2K is not as easy as the Linux. ( in some way. )
People at a network lab., which is 5th floor in our building, told me that the W2K is stable.
So, I tried it, and I found that it was not.
So, I asked them if you try this, this, this?
They told me, "No, we just make the W2K server
run and there was no regular frequency of user interaction." So.. it means that they didn't use the W2K as a client machine heavily.
So, my experience with it is more accurate than theirs.
You are right. But the explorer crash often causes the Windows' crash.
And although the explorer can restart, the programs run as tray mode, can't run correctly in many cases.
Even when the Windows itself does not crash, the explorer can block users' interaction with his/her computer. "ctrl+alt+delet"? It sometimes doesn't work.
Well, even the MS visual C++ editor can't handle the Unicode well.
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I can't compile any QuickTime sample codes due to the problem. ( not really. )
But there are more problems in addition to it.
The ASCII table of the Windows platform is not so good or well organized as that
of Apple's. The umlaut characters conflict with the Korean characters.
Not only it makes the characters displayed broken, but also it makes real problem when
the C++ compiler tries compiling codes containing the chars. ( ref. http://soback.kornet21.net/~tomahawk/QuickTime/Qu
It's not only due to the Unicode.
MS uses their own code for Korean. ( maybe similar situation with the Chinese, Japanese )
For example, the MS assumes that the encoding/decoding format of Korean is ISO
22something. It's not the standard for Korean. The standard code is KSC 5601 (old)
and the unicode, EUC-KR, So, when you write e-mail with the outlook express, or make
html page using the MS front page, you will sometimes have problem. There is no problem
with the Netscape. You can read any e-mail/webpage with any Unix e-mail/web client
if the message is written using the Netscape products. The Netscape even can read
characters encoded with the MS standard.
MS even can't handle the Unicode in standard way. I suffered it when I wrote
a Java program due to the problem. Only MS IE, and MS products caused problem.
The stability of the web browser? I don't think the IE is more stable than the NS.
The IE is even worse. It is more probable that one crash of the IE make my PC crashes.
The only drawback of the NS Communicator is that it tries reaccess - although it
accesses the cache - the network when the window is resized. So, the IE is faster in
drawing the web page when the window is resized.
It's very good news tha the NS supports the GIME. ( I submitted it to the Mozilla team.
They just replied "Why use the GIME instead of the system input method?", though. )
But, be careful! The GIME can be corrupted easily.
Although there is "recovery" button in the installer, it doesn't be recovered well, when
it is corrupted. To recover it, uninstall it, "restart your computer" ( if not, it's not recovered. ), and reinstall it.
The IE has similar "recovery" problem with encoding method. I can't recover Korean
encoding option.
I think the NS is much easier to maintain and troubleshoot.
Cheers!!!
Well, things are changed very, very rapidly for past 2~3 years. Now you can't differentiate personal workstations from PCs, due to rapid speed-up with PC processors.
PowerPC technology, and Pentium technology have had some problems in them. Although the RAMBUS technology is not specifict to the Pentium processors, it shows that things should be changed less rapidly.
I personally think that PC industry makes lots of wastes. Unlike TVs we have, it's very hard to use PCs more than 10 years. ( Well, you can, but you will be tempted by new S/Ws, faster graphics, larger S/Ws.. ) Sometimes, people may need not-so-powerful machines, but people buy them. PC companies always makes faster machines, instead of lowering the prices of existing machines.
For example, Pentium 133 Mhz machines are still usuable for many games, wordprocessing, etc.
But you can't buy new Pentium 133Mhz machines with prices under $300.
Hmm..
Am I too pessimistic?
The article of the MS reminds me of that of Apple when Apple had some problem. Well.. anyway, the MS misses one. ( intentionally? ) YOU CAN'T SAY ONLY WITH THE MARKET SHARE. Although most web sites may run on the Windows family, serious management on network, systems are done with Unix machines. You can't compare it with the fact that how many OS the MS sell. And.. it's ridiculous to say that NT system is more reliable than Unix systems. I can show the MS how often the NT causes the blue screen. And.. management with NT system is not easy although it has GUI. UNIX system, on the other hand, is reliable, compared to the NT system. When it works nice, it's nice. ( But it went something wrong, you may waste much time to fix it. ) ( I wish a system which has Unix reliability and Mac convenient management. Probably the MacOS X family? ) Anyway.. the MS people are liar as they used to be. In addition to it, I don't want to buy an OS with 65000 bugs in it. :)