If iTunes is "based on UNIXy HTML-rendering libraries" why was it OS9 only up to about version 2?
As for "People who still run OS 9 are almost all people who don't spend money on their computers", I wonder how these people ended up with Apple computers, I thought apple has been continually criticised for it's high prices? Isn't it more likely that they bought Apples for OS9's legendary simplicity?
Did you miss the part of my earlier post where I pointed out that my favourite apps hadn't been ported and will face a 15-25% performance hit when they are? Maybe I could run an early buggy version of OSX, but why should I pay for that when I can run a stable mature version of OS9 that I already know well?
I take your point, but I'm not whining about something that makes much/any use of the new features of OSX, I'm whining about Apple choosing to give better support to Microsoft's OSes than their own.
The decision not to offer the iTunes store to 50% of Mac users has nothing to do with technical issues and a lot to do with trying to force people to pay for a new OS they don't all need.
Oh, and to add in a reply to another post, I have a pre-usb G3/333 as my home machine, which can't run any OSX releases after ADB support was dropped (which seems to means the stable ones!)
Well, in common with about 50% of mac users, at least 1 of my machines isn't up to spec for OSX, I don't fancy taking a 15-25% performance hit, repurchasing half my favourite software and doing without the other half that hasn't being ported yet, and I don't want to learn a whole new OS when I already have one that I know very well and is practically 100% stable.
Actually, I've found the threat of the law to be quite effective in cutting down the spam that I get. I have quite often I've mailed the head of legitimate organisations that have spammed me because some random 3rd party has mistakenly signed up an address in my domain to their lists, and got some pretty grovelling replies.
I'm just about to send of my first dozen forms to the OIC, and as with any UK government department, all you need to do to get action is threaten them with their own regulatory body to get action.
Also, I've picked my targets carefully, some big names that have ignored written warnings.
Top of my hit list are:
xmr3.com (uk bulk mailer that pretends it's legitimate)
Yahoo.co.uk (those adverts at the top and bottom of yahoogroups mails are illegal, but Yahoo think they are above the law)
Ticketweb.co.uk (claim that every time you buy from them they have thr right to start samming you again)
The clock speed stuff is just a tiny introductory bit, just 1 sentence long, and it really sells the article short to focus on that.
It's actually about opening up and optimising the power PC architecture - there is some fascinating stuff in there about dynamically reconfiguring the chip on the fly to optimise calculations and solve heat dissipation problems, opening up (in a very open-source like way) the chip design process to user feedback, and getting the Power chip into new markets by allowing the end user to add custom facilities to it.
Dell's customers have the expectation that they would get a properly set up computer when they paid their money. If Dell use a dodgy software supplier with lots of known problems and a legal record as long as your arm, isn;t Dell the place to put the blame?
Given the way the US justice system works, the only way to get patent reform is if a really big company puts a lot of money into it, otherwise we'll be stuck using 17 year-old (or is it 20 in the US now?) technology from now on, so MS getting mixed up in this is a good thing
I suspect we see a lot of this kind of story because once the police have caught a supplier of paid porn, it's a trivial task to get a list of their customers from the credit card companies.
Catching 100s of people at once like this makes headlines, catching a few traders at a time probably doesn't.
While I sympathise with your position, your logic there is deeply flawed.
Why would "Exchange = greater demand"?
Here on/. there has been a huge amount of links to 1 particular gaping man ass porn image, but I've not seen any evidence of greater demand, or supply of this kind of image.
You missed the part where I mentioned that you would be closer to the fax than the tv then?
You also missed that this isn't a cinema screen we are discussing, it's a TV with a diagonal measurement of 450 inches, so you won't see much detail if you are planning on "sitting 60-100 feet from the screen"!
Arcseconds is a useless method of comparing screen resolutions, precisely *because* distance to the screen is variable, otherwise we would be turning our regular TVs into HDTVs just be sitting further away.
If you really insist on using arcseconds (and also ignoring the 10-25 arcsecond sensitivty to vibration), you'd need to specify the total viewing angle before you can say anything meaningful about the resolution, which means you also need to specify if the eye can rotate or not.
Do the maths any way you like, in whatever units you like, and you still won't be able to get away from the fixed number of 250 million photoreceptors that a normal human has. If a display has less than 250 million pixels, it's lower resolution than the eyes. This is true if it's an IMAX or a wristwatch.
For your homework, I suggest you RTFA, and the whole of the comment you are replying to.
It's nowhere near the resolution of your eyes - it's not even 1/4 the resolution of a fax machine.
Fax at normal quality = 144 dpi. This screen = 7,680 pixels over about 300 inches = about 25dpi. Of course, you would expect to be a lot closer to a fax than to this screen.
The human eyes have about 250 million photoreceptors per pair, and they are not evenly distributed, so the resolution is much higher around area you are looking directly at, this screen has 33 million pixels which are evenly distributed.
Bump the resolution up by a factor of 100 and it should be getting there.
The problem for Microsoft is that their desktop OS market share has only 1 way to go from here, and that's downwards, which is going to freak out stock analysts, and give them a lot of bad press. They can't compete with Linux on price, and the days of competing in usability are numbered. All they will soon have to compete on is public opinios, and in this arena, they have the benefit of a practically infinite publicity budget vs Linux's zero budget.
This anti-piracy move is going to force at least *some* of the people who won't pay for an OS to switch platform away from pirated XP straight into the arms of Linux - of course people in the know realise this won't be a large number, because codes 21 onwards will take 99% of the switchers, but it's enough for their FUD PR purposes.
I'm guessing MS are doing this as a preemptive move so that when analysts point to their declinig share of the market and Linux's rise, they can blame it *all* on pirates switching platforms and claim that it's not going to translate to a loss of revenue. They will probably be branding Linux as 'the pirate's OS' pretty soon.
So jokes are only amusing if they are factually correct? I think I missed that meeting.
Well if you insist... given that recent Gran Turismo games can be set to simulate tyre degradation from new to unusable in around 50 miles, simulating the complete discharge of the battery power systems and therefore making Prius to unable to race competitively because only 1 of it's 2 power systems are able to run after 2 minutes is in fact an internally consistent scenario and a valid comparison. You may laugh now.
If Sony does come up with all this wonderful technology, it won't be 'powered by' a cell chip, it will be powered by electricity, probably from a wall socket.
Someone needs to buy their marketing department a dictionary.
Actually, come to think of it, everyone needs to buy their marketing department a dictionary.
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Thanks for your insults Mr Troll.
If iTunes is "based on UNIXy HTML-rendering libraries" why was it OS9 only up to about version 2?
As for "People who still run OS 9 are almost all people who don't spend money on their computers", I wonder how these people ended up with Apple computers, I thought apple has been continually criticised for it's high prices? Isn't it more likely that they bought Apples for OS9's legendary simplicity?
Did you miss the part of my earlier post where I pointed out that my favourite apps hadn't been ported and will face a 15-25% performance hit when they are? Maybe I could run an early buggy version of OSX, but why should I pay for that when I can run a stable mature version of OS9 that I already know well?
I take your point, but I'm not whining about something that makes much/any use of the new features of OSX, I'm whining about Apple choosing to give better support to Microsoft's OSes than their own.
The decision not to offer the iTunes store to 50% of Mac users has nothing to do with technical issues and a lot to do with trying to force people to pay for a new OS they don't all need.
Oh, and to add in a reply to another post, I have a pre-usb G3/333 as my home machine, which can't run any OSX releases after ADB support was dropped (which seems to means the stable ones!)
Yes, it's a complete rip-off.
Why would I buy a virtual CD for 7.99 when I can get the real thing for 8.99 including postage?
Well, in common with about 50% of mac users, at least 1 of my machines isn't up to spec for OSX, I don't fancy taking a 15-25% performance hit, repurchasing half my favourite software and doing without the other half that hasn't being ported yet, and I don't want to learn a whole new OS when I already have one that I know very well and is practically 100% stable.
I can't use it with my Apple operating system, and I'm expected to pay nearly 50% more than Americans?
Seems like a huge own-goal to me, and I'm a Mac fanatic.
LEO wins if you count their own machine as the first commercial installation.
Actually, I've found the threat of the law to be quite effective in cutting down the spam that I get. I have quite often I've mailed the head of legitimate organisations that have spammed me because some random 3rd party has mistakenly signed up an address in my domain to their lists, and got some pretty grovelling replies.
I'm just about to send of my first dozen forms to the OIC, and as with any UK government department, all you need to do to get action is threaten them with their own regulatory body to get action.
Also, I've picked my targets carefully, some big names that have ignored written warnings.
Top of my hit list are:
xmr3.com (uk bulk mailer that pretends it's legitimate)
Yahoo.co.uk (those adverts at the top and bottom of yahoogroups mails are illegal, but Yahoo think they are above the law)
Ticketweb.co.uk (claim that every time you buy from them they have thr right to start samming you again)
- Andy_R
The clock speed stuff is just a tiny introductory bit, just 1 sentence long, and it really sells the article short to focus on that.
It's actually about opening up and optimising the power PC architecture - there is some fascinating stuff in there about dynamically reconfiguring the chip on the fly to optimise calculations and solve heat dissipation problems, opening up (in a very open-source like way) the chip design process to user feedback, and getting the Power chip into new markets by allowing the end user to add custom facilities to it.
Lucky for these guys that they are not in the USA, otherwise they would be breaking the DMCA.
Dell's customers have the expectation that they would get a properly set up computer when they paid their money. If Dell use a dodgy software supplier with lots of known problems and a legal record as long as your arm, isn;t Dell the place to put the blame?
that it's very simlilar to non-digital photography?
Given the way the US justice system works, the only way to get patent reform is if a really big company puts a lot of money into it, otherwise we'll be stuck using 17 year-old (or is it 20 in the US now?) technology from now on, so MS getting mixed up in this is a good thing
Of course Microsoft innovate! Don't you remember Bob?
I tried to make one, but the damn graphic software wouldn't let me!
I suspect we see a lot of this kind of story because once the police have caught a supplier of paid porn, it's a trivial task to get a list of their customers from the credit card companies.
Catching 100s of people at once like this makes headlines, catching a few traders at a time probably doesn't.
While I sympathise with your position, your logic there is deeply flawed.
/. there has been a huge amount of links to 1 particular gaping man ass porn image, but I've not seen any evidence of greater demand, or supply of this kind of image.
Why would "Exchange = greater demand"?
Here on
You missed the part where I mentioned that you would be closer to the fax than the tv then?
You also missed that this isn't a cinema screen we are discussing, it's a TV with a diagonal measurement of 450 inches, so you won't see much detail if you are planning on "sitting 60-100 feet from the screen"!
Arcseconds is a useless method of comparing screen resolutions, precisely *because* distance to the screen is variable, otherwise we would be turning our regular TVs into HDTVs just be sitting further away.
If you really insist on using arcseconds (and also ignoring the 10-25 arcsecond sensitivty to vibration), you'd need to specify the total viewing angle before you can say anything meaningful about the resolution, which means you also need to specify if the eye can rotate or not.
Do the maths any way you like, in whatever units you like, and you still won't be able to get away from the fixed number of 250 million photoreceptors that a normal human has. If a display has less than 250 million pixels, it's lower resolution than the eyes. This is true if it's an IMAX or a wristwatch.
For your homework, I suggest you RTFA, and the whole of the comment you are replying to.
It's nowhere near the resolution of your eyes - it's not even 1/4 the resolution of a fax machine.
Fax at normal quality = 144 dpi. This screen = 7,680 pixels over about 300 inches = about 25dpi. Of course, you would expect to be a lot closer to a fax than to this screen.
The human eyes have about 250 million photoreceptors per pair, and they are not evenly distributed, so the resolution is much higher around area you are looking directly at, this screen has 33 million pixels which are evenly distributed.
Bump the resolution up by a factor of 100 and it should be getting there.
The problem for Microsoft is that their desktop OS market share has only 1 way to go from here, and that's downwards, which is going to freak out stock analysts, and give them a lot of bad press. They can't compete with Linux on price, and the days of competing in usability are numbered. All they will soon have to compete on is public opinios, and in this arena, they have the benefit of a practically infinite publicity budget vs Linux's zero budget.
This anti-piracy move is going to force at least *some* of the people who won't pay for an OS to switch platform away from pirated XP straight into the arms of Linux - of course people in the know realise this won't be a large number, because codes 21 onwards will take 99% of the switchers, but it's enough for their FUD PR purposes.
I'm guessing MS are doing this as a preemptive move so that when analysts point to their declinig share of the market and Linux's rise, they can blame it *all* on pirates switching platforms and claim that it's not going to translate to a loss of revenue. They will probably be branding Linux as 'the pirate's OS' pretty soon.
So jokes are only amusing if they are factually correct? I think I missed that meeting.
Well if you insist... given that recent Gran Turismo games can be set to simulate tyre degradation from new to unusable in around 50 miles, simulating the complete discharge of the battery power systems and therefore making Prius to unable to race competitively because only 1 of it's 2 power systems are able to run after 2 minutes is in fact an internally consistent scenario and a valid comparison. You may laugh now.
You don't know much about humour, do you?
Why pay the Russians when you've got Scaled Composites going up there anyway?
Seriously, this sort of thing looks like a better revenue stream than prizes and 'space tourism' for Scaled to be aiming at, long term.
The demo is limited to 2 minutes of drive time, then the race ends.
so they simulated the electric battery life too then?
IBM trys to overthrow MS with a technically superior OS
I wonder what lessons both sides learned from the previous round, OS/2 vs Windows?
If Sony does come up with all this wonderful technology, it won't be 'powered by' a cell chip, it will be powered by electricity, probably from a wall socket.
Someone needs to buy their marketing department a dictionary.
Actually, come to think of it, everyone needs to buy their marketing department a dictionary.