I don't really think they ported it to OS X. They probably ported it using Carbon, which runs on OS X. I'm sure we'll see the myriad of problems that we usually do with casually programmed (read: shitty) Carbon ports including:
- Broken on UFS (just like Maya and about 33% of the 'OS X Compatable' games on the market)
- Broken color support (won't integrate with the new, proper OS X workflow)
- Messed up font display. Carbon apps generally have crappy font handling.
- Inability to use the unified OS X font system.
- Tendency to eat as much CPU as possible, even when idle.
- Always-on-top modal dialog boxen. I don't know why the FUCK Apple provides the ability to put your dialog box on top of everything on the screen INCLUDING OTHER APPS, but this is a broken, messed up feature that I catch Carbon programmers using far too often.
I'm sure I missed some points, but I bet this product will be so fucking beta it'll make your rectum bleed to use it. I can just imagine that the whole 'team' (probably outsourced to half of the Eastern Hemisphere for $.12 per hour) being under so much pressure to just compile SOMETHING that RUNS on OS X that making a DTP app was probably like 12th on their list of things to do right there under 'make it Web enabled.'
God help you all, and save you from this horrible program.
It'll be a cold day in hell before Steve markets another version of Openstep that will run on anything but an Apple.
Besides, why the fuck would he choose an inferior processor 'family' with a shaky, fragmented and besotten pat to the future when he can choose a viable, existing, kick-ass binary compatable processor that isn't in alpha?
At my middle school (5th-8th grades) we had four sx-64s at the library that you could check out (along with innumerable other cool shit) and take home. Since myself and only two buddies were the sole interested parties, the library lady let us keep 'em indefinately.
THe 4" monitor was actually pretty nice with a Brazil-style frensel lens in front.
More than anything I recall dealing out throwing stars like cards at an endless parade of ninjas. Ever since I played Shinobi on 'free' mode at Alladin's in SoCal when I was a lad, I have been sharp in dealing cards.
It's not the artists that are bribing our public officials into eroding our freedoms, it is the RIAA / MPAA / etc. Don't use the word 'artists' when you really mean 'publishing houses.'
1. The sound enhancer bug was serious. Turning on the feature basically made your shiny, new AAC's sound like hammered shit. And leaving it off was bad for people with average or below-average speakers.
Actually, comparing waveforms of pre-iTunes 4.0.1 AACs and 4.0 AAC from the same source material prove that the encoder is identical, when recorded at 96, stereo, velocity enabled.
As you are busy shining up your pile of percieved freedoms, Europe is bending over backwards to pass laws that make the USA Patriot act look weak. You are already signatory to our copyright treaties, so the *AA CAN come to your little, beautiful countries and smack you down same as here in the USA. Remember that poor kid Jon Johanssen? It was a body based in the USA that brought the hammer down on him.
I thought Europe was progressive, too, until I heard about all the horrible laws that the EU is passing. They are doing a better job than Congress when it comes to eroding freedoms away!
Your situation is pretty much the same as ours, but without Montana to go build a mountain shack to hide in when they are coming after you.
To take it to another level, they should go to AMD and use their "Clawhammer" for the Xserve.
Not unless Motorola and IBM both go out of business suddenly. The 970 and obviously the Moto are both PowerPCs, and the 970 is a 64 bit machine that runs existing 32 bit PPC code natively also. There is no way that Apple is going to involve another architecture unless it is their only course of action.
Binary compatibility of software is essential for Apple. Additionally, the PowerPC is a beautiful, proven design, unlike the 64 bit Intel and AMD chips.
It's ironic that this move, which saved Apple from certain doom, has come back to bite them. Motorola has truly been just ignoring their G3 / G4 business for too long, and it shows.
Steve knows that Moto is just fuckin' with him this time. With much lower estimated cost re: the 970 vs the G4, IBM knows it is the apple of Apple's eye.
We may see these G4's, if they ever really DO come out, in iBooks and iMacs.
Just like I said when I heard that Sony was making a video game console. "I'll belive it when I see it."
The majority of safe firearms users that I have known have used used weapons since the single digit years. I started when I was five. I would consider myself anal retentive in the first degree about gun safety. Most of the unsafe gun users I have seen are not lifelong shooters.
Not to say that there aren't exceptions, but early training and the beating / dressing down I got when I accidentally pointed my pellet gun at my Grandfather's leg were the best things I could have gotten.
In the same year I was a junior. I was taking Pascal on the Macs, and went from Pascal class to English, which was held that day in the computer lab for "paper writing time." The teacher made an announcement to the class, that we had the District Technology Liason or some such shit who wanted to make an announcement to us. I listened in horror as she said that the computers featured a new, unbreakable, security system. Since I used lab time to do my programming homework, as I did my own word processing at home, I thought I was doomed. She then, to my exquisite delight, challenged any 'hackers' to break the security. So, I simply opened the binary of the security program, extension, preferences file, and everything else 'suspicious,' zeroed them out, saved, and was ready to go when my clueless English teacher saw my pascal disk just sitting on the desk. He flipped his lid, saying he 'knew I was a hacker,' and sent me to the principal's office. I waited in the waiting room for like 15 minutes, and in comes Mom and my principal (whom I used to play handball with at the club regularly, so he was my buddy), along with the English teacher and the IT drone. The teacher and the IT lady then proceed to tell the principal that I had done 'thousands of dollars' of damage, and that they wanted to ban me from the lab. I responded directly to my mom and principal that the IT lady had challenged the class to hack the new security, and I simply took her up on that challenge. She admitted as much, and the principal dismissed me and laid into the IT lady. Mom and I had a good laugh about that one.
I consider Seattle to be close, and that's about 200 miles away from Portland. I regularly drive from here to Minnesota or Iowa in just 2 days. Having traveled in Europe, I saw the mark of civilization in a way I never had before. We have big cities here, but there is so much freakin open space in the USA it is incredible.
I actually can read quite a bit faster with my eyes than with TTS. I absorb whole sentences at a glance usually, but TTS is nice if I want to do something else while 'reading'.
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I don't really think they ported it to OS X. They probably ported it using Carbon, which runs on OS X. I'm sure we'll see the myriad of problems that we usually do with casually programmed (read: shitty) Carbon ports including:
- Broken on UFS (just like Maya and about 33% of the 'OS X Compatable' games on the market)
- Broken color support (won't integrate with the new, proper OS X workflow)
- Messed up font display. Carbon apps generally have crappy font handling.
- Inability to use the unified OS X font system.
- Tendency to eat as much CPU as possible, even when idle.
- Always-on-top modal dialog boxen. I don't know why the FUCK Apple provides the ability to put your dialog box on top of everything on the screen INCLUDING OTHER APPS, but this is a broken, messed up feature that I catch Carbon programmers using far too often.
I'm sure I missed some points, but I bet this product will be so fucking beta it'll make your rectum bleed to use it. I can just imagine that the whole 'team' (probably outsourced to half of the Eastern Hemisphere for $.12 per hour) being under so much pressure to just compile SOMETHING that RUNS on OS X that making a DTP app was probably like 12th on their list of things to do right there under 'make it Web enabled.'
God help you all, and save you from this horrible program.
Apple doesn't advertise this, but there is about a 5k file size limit for notes.
I was hoping to put the Apache manual in there, but it won't fit.
Well, maybe in the next firmware update...
Audible.com works, WAV works, and you'd have to be a blithering idiot to archive music in WMP format.
Not too exctiting, that is, unless you are a Mac user.
It'll be a cold day in hell before Steve markets another version of Openstep that will run on anything but an Apple.
Besides, why the fuck would he choose an inferior processor 'family' with a shaky, fragmented and besotten pat to the future when he can choose a viable, existing, kick-ass binary compatable processor that isn't in alpha?
Maybe, in this, the 'Year of the Laptop', Steve will sell us powerbooks with a 970 in them.
You know what this means...
Everyone, grab a broom and meet at CmdrTaco's place.
At my middle school (5th-8th grades) we had four sx-64s at the library that you could check out (along with innumerable other cool shit) and take home. Since myself and only two buddies were the sole interested parties, the library lady let us keep 'em indefinately.
THe 4" monitor was actually pretty nice with a Brazil-style frensel lens in front.
The EMU10K1 is a wonderful chip. Too bad the sloped-brow cave persons at Creative can't seem to do anything better than hobble great technology...
Ah well, at least you drive on the right side of the road...
Which, in a treaty recently ratified by Jehova, Krishna, Buddah, and Lao Tse, is also now officially the CORRECT side of the road as well.
Not automatic, but addressable clock throttling. You can change the thresholds in the bios to off.
More than anything I recall dealing out throwing stars like cards at an endless parade of ninjas. Ever since I played Shinobi on 'free' mode at Alladin's in SoCal when I was a lad, I have been sharp in dealing cards.
And death stars.
For such a huge monitor, the optimal display size sucks.
It's more like a tv monitor than a computer monitor.
It's not the artists that are bribing our public officials into eroding our freedoms, it is the RIAA / MPAA / etc. Don't use the word 'artists' when you really mean 'publishing houses.'
1. The sound enhancer bug was serious. Turning on the feature basically made your shiny, new AAC's sound like hammered shit. And leaving it off was bad for people with average or below-average speakers.
Actually, comparing waveforms of pre-iTunes 4.0.1 AACs and 4.0 AAC from the same source material prove that the encoder is identical, when recorded at 96, stereo, velocity enabled.
Go home troll!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
As you are busy shining up your pile of percieved freedoms, Europe is bending over backwards to pass laws that make the USA Patriot act look weak. You are already signatory to our copyright treaties, so the *AA CAN come to your little, beautiful countries and smack you down same as here in the USA. Remember that poor kid Jon Johanssen? It was a body based in the USA that brought the hammer down on him.
I thought Europe was progressive, too, until I heard about all the horrible laws that the EU is passing. They are doing a better job than Congress when it comes to eroding freedoms away!
Your situation is pretty much the same as ours, but without Montana to go build a mountain shack to hide in when they are coming after you.
To take it to another level, they should go to AMD and use their "Clawhammer" for the Xserve.
Not unless Motorola and IBM both go out of business suddenly. The 970 and obviously the Moto are both PowerPCs, and the 970 is a 64 bit machine that runs existing 32 bit PPC code natively also. There is no way that Apple is going to involve another architecture unless it is their only course of action.
Binary compatibility of software is essential for Apple. Additionally, the PowerPC is a beautiful, proven design, unlike the 64 bit Intel and AMD chips.
That is probably with no cooling. A P4 with no cooling / heat sink can ruin close to FOUR HUNDRED DEGREES farenheit. That makes this chip seem cool.
With a fan + heat sink / fan + heat pipes in laptops / etc, the surface temperature of the chip would never get even close to this hot.
It's ironic that this move, which saved Apple from certain doom, has come back to bite them. Motorola has truly been just ignoring their G3 / G4 business for too long, and it shows.
Steve knows that Moto is just fuckin' with him this time. With much lower estimated cost re: the 970 vs the G4, IBM knows it is the apple of Apple's eye.
We may see these G4's, if they ever really DO come out, in iBooks and iMacs.
Just like I said when I heard that Sony was making a video game console. "I'll belive it when I see it."
The majority of safe firearms users that I have known have used used weapons since the single digit years. I started when I was five. I would consider myself anal retentive in the first degree about gun safety. Most of the unsafe gun users I have seen are not lifelong shooters.
Not to say that there aren't exceptions, but early training and the beating / dressing down I got when I accidentally pointed my pellet gun at my Grandfather's leg were the best things I could have gotten.
In the same year I was a junior. I was taking Pascal on the Macs, and went from Pascal class to English, which was held that day in the computer lab for "paper writing time." The teacher made an announcement to the class, that we had the District Technology Liason or some such shit who wanted to make an announcement to us. I listened in horror as she said that the computers featured a new, unbreakable, security system. Since I used lab time to do my programming homework, as I did my own word processing at home, I thought I was doomed. She then, to my exquisite delight, challenged any 'hackers' to break the security. So, I simply opened the binary of the security program, extension, preferences file, and everything else 'suspicious,' zeroed them out, saved, and was ready to go when my clueless English teacher saw my pascal disk just sitting on the desk. He flipped his lid, saying he 'knew I was a hacker,' and sent me to the principal's office. I waited in the waiting room for like 15 minutes, and in comes Mom and my principal (whom I used to play handball with at the club regularly, so he was my buddy), along with the English teacher and the IT drone. The teacher and the IT lady then proceed to tell the principal that I had done 'thousands of dollars' of damage, and that they wanted to ban me from the lab. I responded directly to my mom and principal that the IT lady had challenged the class to hack the new security, and I simply took her up on that challenge. She admitted as much, and the principal dismissed me and laid into the IT lady. Mom and I had a good laugh about that one.
Only woodwind players fear a tromboner.
Feel the crushing weight of my tuba and be afraid!
THAC0 is for the tots. Real gamers use the old AD&D, 1st ed. rules and EASE OF PLAY BE DAMNED!
Even more effective would be the idea of hiring some patent officers who know at least SOMETHING about technology.
Oh, and eliminate the legal bribery of our public officials.
I consider Seattle to be close, and that's about 200 miles away from Portland. I regularly drive from here to Minnesota or Iowa in just 2 days. Having traveled in Europe, I saw the mark of civilization in a way I never had before. We have big cities here, but there is so much freakin open space in the USA it is incredible.
I can appreciate both.
I actually can read quite a bit faster with my eyes than with TTS. I absorb whole sentences at a glance usually, but TTS is nice if I want to do something else while 'reading'.