I don't know what all this stylized presentation garbage is all about
You mean like in Win 98 where they put a pretty sky-with-clouds scene in your window? What a bunch of crap!
Anyway, I've always hated the way Win treats each disk and partition as a separate entity. It is much more flexible to use the directory mount point model, like UNIX uses. When I saw the full screen Nautilus shot, I see they're putting a CDROM disk as a separate entity, rather than seeing it as a directory. Not my favorite
I also noticed Nautilus copies the ugly, lame way of presenting the title bar, with the underlined key letter nonsense File Edit, etc. I think it sucks, and points to the folly of having to force the user to do two keyboard equivalent strokes to perform one menu selection. The ancient Macintosh method always uses one keystroke to perform one menu selection. And it has always been a faster because of this.
On the same image, it shows a 'view as icons' drop down. This should be put up, out of the way in the regular menus. Clutter sucks in interface design. Same thing with the 'view magnification' entity. Put it in the menus, and have it pop up with an alt-RightClick combination for those Advanced Users who have had more than a 1/2 hour's experience with Nautilis.
I still think NeXTStep (GnuStep) is the cleanest, most productive interface design.
Right. If you're going to be working in-house, make sure that your future computer and equipment is up to your expectations. If they say, "we're going to be getting better computers real soon." don't believe them.
Check out your future desk and workplace. If you're going to be put in as noisy or otherwise f*cked-up area, you may never be able to write decent code for them.
Apple was the one who did PR on their own lawsuit. I guess they filed at 4:30 pm and sent out the press release at 5:00 so nobody could get a copy of the lawsuit from the courthouse before it closed for the day.
Not naming names was a weenie play. It is a cheap, crass stunt.
I'd hate to be working at Apple these days. It must be like working in the bowels of NSA. I wonder if the thumbheads at Apple still think they're 'changing the world?'
The noncommercial sharing of copyrighted works is NOT illegal.
This one should be moderated up. It is the cornerstone of Napster's defense. And despite the lack of constitutional understanding exhibited by the trial judge, the appellate court understands the implications.
I think if Napster can take it to the Supremes, they'll win. Copyright law in internet land is the source of way too much FUD. Since internet copyright suits are usually leveled at unwealthy organizations, unconstitutional rulings and cave-ins have been the trend.
The Digital Copyright & Control Law (or whatever that crap law is called) isn't gonna pass the Supremes muster, but until somebody has deep enough pockets, the Corporate Copyright Cartel will keep trampling on our rights.
AnandTech got their 1.13 to work in a variety of mboards. Too bad the Intel new vapochip story gets so much mindshare.
The real purpose of Intel introducing a factory overclocked chip is the publicity factor. Now that we've all read about Intel Pentium, fast! crashes! we can go order one from Dell or IBM.
Are there any numbers on performance versus Intel Linux based systems?
This page should help you compare the different platforms... it doesn't come from Apple, though. So it might shock a bit.
The Linux to avoid is MkLinux, since it uses an older Mach kernel that serves to slow everything down. You don't need Mach to run Linux. It's the only one that does support the older ppc 601 nubus machines.
does not give them the right to rob artists blind?
You don't know what theft is, sonny! Record industry is trying to force the government to create a false scarcity of recorded music, when there IS NO SCARCITY anymore. The value of recorded music MUST DROP because manufactured CDs are no longer are the only game in town.
If the government printed money with a xerox machine, their currency would be WORTHLESS. Napster is the same situation.
Now that vinyl is dead, and CDs are cheap to reproduce, the era of the glamourous, few, super-rich pop stars is OVER.
I've heard several times that the original Macintosh development team used lots of ecstasy. On the job. Being that is wasn't illegal at the time, can you say yeah or nay to this 15 year-old rumor?
I was big time into NeXT. Early on, I ported Pcomm, which was a System V curses-based app. NeXT had the curses library, but it was pretty rudimentary. I had to use 'flush' after just about every string. But it worked, and it was quite a while before any decent NeXTStep communications app appeared.
I also ported XBBS (not X-window) to NeXT so that my friend could run a pirate BBS. That one came from the Xenix world.
But NeXTStep and OSX are tied heavily into Objective C and Java. It isn't trivial to move an X-window api app into the OSX environment. Much more to deal with than just the Aqua api.
Actually OS X will run on the iMac with ease. I was simply comparing prices of UNIX workstations. The iMac is cheaper than most hardware you'd want to run *NIX on, and a lot better looking to boot.
A lot better looking but miserable to look at. NeXT sold a minimum of 17" monitors back in their ancient days. How in the world could you manage the dock and drag 'n frag with an itty bitty 15" picture tube iMac?
FUD!!! No way is Apple going to sell osx for $99. Where in the world did you get THAT idea? Do you think Steve Jobs would undercut Micros**t Windows 2000 on price?
Look at what they're selling OSX 'Server' for... $439.95. The desktop version maybe might be a bit cheaper, but it sure as hell won't be $99. Sheesh....
Don't give in to Juno. They block all outgoing smtp (email) except through their own crappy email software to their own crappy servers. You'll never get Linux to work with them and if you use Windows, you'll be stuck with their crappy policies.
It is the commodification of conscience... It is people that solve problems, not money, not technology, not clicking on banners.
Well, on some level I agree with you. I've been going there for more than a year and a half, and there STILL somebody dies of starvation every 3.6 seconds.
But I have a link to it from my website and what it does is raise consciousness a bit about 'them'.
Speaking of 'them', this world is a collection of overgrown primate colonies called 'nations' that pretty much are in a state of anarchy amongst each other. This hunger problem, and wealth problem isn't going to be solved until the borders come down and there no longer is 'them'.
The end of nationalism isn't going to come soon, people around the world still get thrown in jail for burning the flag of their nation, etc.
We've been indoctrinated since we were little children about Our Country and how great it is and how we should be Thankful we live here, etc. etc. You can really get down to observing this brainwashing by watching how people get weird about their favorite sports teams. How those low-life Brits beat up people who aren't fans of their 'team'. Pure monkey stuff.
I think that's not such a bad idea. Or even banner ads. Steven King's Shareware concept is silly. Why should I pay for his book if I don't have to?
And downloading a pdf isn't slick either. pdfs are too hard to read on a computer screen. Simulated sheets of paper suck on a monitor with a horizontal aspect ratio. If he could get somebody to put the book into a php'ed html, the reader could choose the fonts, size, width, etc. to their own comfort. Top that off with a couple of 'slap the bitch' and 'spank the monkey' ads and he's scoring maybe 1,000,000 hits a day. Not too shabby.
By the way, it looks like some amateur designed and produced his pdf download book. On page 11, there are three widows out of 5 paragraphs. And the aesthetic of those rules at the top and bottom sucks. Maybe Stevie designed the book himself with one of those Micros**t Publisher template Wizards.
An e-book shouldn't try to look like a paper book.
Right you are. I did a compile of M16 a couple of days ago and the configure options are telling of a project that isn't being managed. I didn't use the --compile-for-QT (or whatever it is called) option, but I can imagine what a mess that one is!
Somebody at Netscape needs to say "no" to feature creep, trim off a lot of messy excess and actually work on those standards.
11. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had a pair of spectacles like a nerd, but spoke like a dragon.
12. And he exercisith all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship Microsoft, whose deadly wound was healed.
13. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh profits come down from heaven and earth in the sight of men.
14. And he deceiveth them that dwell on earth, by the means of those Microsoft products which he had the power to do so in the sight of Microsoft, which had the wound by the DOJ, and did live.
15. And he had power to give life unto the image of Microsoft that the image of Microsoft should both speak, and cause that as many as would not use Microsoft products to be financially ruined.
16. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to recieve a Microsoft serial number in their registry or on their foreheads.
17. And that no man might buy or sell, save that he had the mark, or serial number, of the beast, or the number of his name.
18. Here is wisdom. Let him that have understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
I just hope sharky, ars, and anandtech don't sell out.
Sharky the Shill loves their free Intel(TM) products...
The best part of the i820/RDRAM experience as relayed to us through the VC820 mainboard are the parts of the new architecture that you aren't able to realize consciously at all. We found that there's much less cursing and frustration voiced at our silent ATX cases when they were propelled by i820/RDRAM combos, which is because the platform is trying, and succeeding, in providing a better PC experience no matter what the current situation demands.
I think the point that he was trying to make is that Unix was designed in such a way that code reuse is hindered more than with more sophisticated OSs like NT and BeOS which were designed and developed with OO concepts in mind.
But when you actually get around to using those oo pre-fab components, you find that you always have to subclass everything, because the original isn't quite what you need. Open Source allows you to cut-and-paste code. Not the most elegant, but the leanest way to advance on what's already there.
I recall reading a few reviews about the ATI video playback in those days when the card was the top of the ATI line.
That's why I bought a Hollywood card. ATI's dvd playback implementation is only partial, the rest of the playback being done with the CPU running a very crappy set of DLLs.
And haven't you heard of Apple's troubles with the dvd playback?
Anyway, I originally had a lowly $79 K6-2 350mhz zipper in a super 7, trailing-edge-technology cheapo motherboard. Of course, DVD movies play perfectly (I'm not kidding). Never any problems, except when I try and playback movies on Linux. Now that I'm skating with a whizzy 550mhz K6-2, I can also do internet gambling while Leaving Las Vegas plays along without a blip.
We're insanely pissed off at your indescretion about our valuable trade secrets. Please remove all news articles referring to our fabulous new product. Steve Jobs is yelling and screaming so much, that these little white spit foams are appearing at the corners of his mouth.
I'm very happy to be a corporate lawyer, but will be sad if you don't remove the story.
Please be afraid, because all of Apple's lawyers are adults over 21!
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I don't know what all this stylized presentation garbage is all about
You mean like in Win 98 where they put a pretty sky-with-clouds scene in your window? What a bunch of crap!
Anyway, I've always hated the way Win treats each disk and partition as a separate entity. It is much more flexible to use the directory mount point model, like UNIX uses. When I saw the full screen Nautilus shot, I see they're putting a CDROM disk as a separate entity, rather than seeing it as a directory. Not my favorite
I also noticed Nautilus copies the ugly, lame way of presenting the title bar, with the underlined key letter nonsense File Edit, etc. I think it sucks, and points to the folly of having to force the user to do two keyboard equivalent strokes to perform one menu selection. The ancient Macintosh method always uses one keystroke to perform one menu selection. And it has always been a faster because of this.
On the same image, it shows a 'view as icons' drop down. This should be put up, out of the way in the regular menus. Clutter sucks in interface design. Same thing with the 'view magnification' entity. Put it in the menus, and have it pop up with an alt-RightClick combination for those Advanced Users who have had more than a 1/2 hour's experience with Nautilis.
I still think NeXTStep (GnuStep) is the cleanest, most productive interface design.
blessings,
Check out your future desk and workplace. If you're going to be put in as noisy or otherwise f*cked-up area, you may never be able to write decent code for them.
blessings,
Not naming names was a weenie play. It is a cheap, crass stunt.
I'd hate to be working at Apple these days. It must be like working in the bowels of NSA. I wonder if the thumbheads at Apple still think they're 'changing the world?'
blessings,
This one should be moderated up. It is the cornerstone of Napster's defense. And despite the lack of constitutional understanding exhibited by the trial judge, the appellate court understands the implications.
I think if Napster can take it to the Supremes, they'll win. Copyright law in internet land is the source of way too much FUD. Since internet copyright suits are usually leveled at unwealthy organizations, unconstitutional rulings and cave-ins have been the trend.
The Digital Copyright & Control Law (or whatever that crap law is called) isn't gonna pass the Supremes muster, but until somebody has deep enough pockets, the Corporate Copyright Cartel will keep trampling on our rights.
blessings,
The real purpose of Intel introducing a factory overclocked chip is the publicity factor. Now that we've all read about Intel Pentium, fast! crashes! we can go order one from Dell or IBM.
blessings,
This page should help you compare the different platforms... it doesn't come from Apple, though. So it might shock a bit.
The Linux to avoid is MkLinux, since it uses an older Mach kernel that serves to slow everything down. You don't need Mach to run Linux. It's the only one that does support the older ppc 601 nubus machines.
blessings,
This one's easy and cheap! Just sue Apple, get free publicity, then drop the suit before it comes to trial!
blessings,
You don't know what theft is, sonny! Record industry is trying to force the government to create a false scarcity of recorded music, when there IS NO SCARCITY anymore. The value of recorded music MUST DROP because manufactured CDs are no longer are the only game in town.
If the government printed money with a xerox machine, their currency would be WORTHLESS. Napster is the same situation.
Now that vinyl is dead, and CDs are cheap to reproduce, the era of the glamourous, few, super-rich pop stars is OVER.
Pop music is dead. Long live pop music!
blessings,
Is the web a better place for info and opinion? If not when will it be?
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
I think Apple's long-term success will depend on its ability to sell niche-market computers... as if they don't that already!
Seriously, if they intro this handwriting laptop, do they have the manufacturing savvy to make a profit on a less-than-large amount of sales?
blessings,
I also ported XBBS (not X-window) to NeXT so that my friend could run a pirate BBS. That one came from the Xenix world.
But NeXTStep and OSX are tied heavily into Objective C and Java. It isn't trivial to move an X-window api app into the OSX environment. Much more to deal with than just the Aqua api.
blessings,
A lot better looking but miserable to look at. NeXT sold a minimum of 17" monitors back in their ancient days. How in the world could you manage the dock and drag 'n frag with an itty bitty 15" picture tube iMac?
blessings,
FUD!!! No way is Apple going to sell osx for $99. Where in the world did you get THAT idea? Do you think Steve Jobs would undercut Micros**t Windows 2000 on price?
Look at what they're selling OSX 'Server' for... $439.95. The desktop version maybe might be a bit cheaper, but it sure as hell won't be $99. Sheesh....
blessings,
blessings,
Well, on some level I agree with you. I've been going there for more than a year and a half, and there STILL somebody dies of starvation every 3.6 seconds.
But I have a link to it from my website and what it does is raise consciousness a bit about 'them'.
Speaking of 'them', this world is a collection of overgrown primate colonies called 'nations' that pretty much are in a state of anarchy amongst each other. This hunger problem, and wealth problem isn't going to be solved until the borders come down and there no longer is 'them'.
The end of nationalism isn't going to come soon, people around the world still get thrown in jail for burning the flag of their nation, etc.
We've been indoctrinated since we were little children about Our Country and how great it is and how we should be Thankful we live here, etc. etc. You can really get down to observing this brainwashing by watching how people get weird about their favorite sports teams. How those low-life Brits beat up people who aren't fans of their 'team'. Pure monkey stuff.
blessings,
And downloading a pdf isn't slick either. pdfs are too hard to read on a computer screen. Simulated sheets of paper suck on a monitor with a horizontal aspect ratio. If he could get somebody to put the book into a php'ed html, the reader could choose the fonts, size, width, etc. to their own comfort. Top that off with a couple of 'slap the bitch' and 'spank the monkey' ads and he's scoring maybe 1,000,000 hits a day. Not too shabby.
By the way, it looks like some amateur designed and produced his pdf download book. On page 11, there are three widows out of 5 paragraphs. And the aesthetic of those rules at the top and bottom sucks. Maybe Stevie designed the book himself with one of those Micros**t Publisher template Wizards.
An e-book shouldn't try to look like a paper book.
blessings,
Somebody at Netscape needs to say "no" to feature creep, trim off a lot of messy excess and actually work on those standards.
blessings,
blessings,
Sharky the Shill loves their free Intel(TM) products...
blessings,
But when you actually get around to using those oo pre-fab components, you find that you always have to subclass everything, because the original isn't quite what you need. Open Source allows you to cut-and-paste code. Not the most elegant, but the leanest way to advance on what's already there.
blessings,
I recall reading a few reviews about the ATI video playback in those days when the card was the top of the ATI line.
That's why I bought a Hollywood card. ATI's dvd playback implementation is only partial, the rest of the playback being done with the CPU running a very crappy set of DLLs.
And haven't you heard of Apple's troubles with the dvd playback?
Anyway, I originally had a lowly $79 K6-2 350mhz zipper in a super 7, trailing-edge-technology cheapo motherboard. Of course, DVD movies play perfectly (I'm not kidding). Never any problems, except when I try and playback movies on Linux. Now that I'm skating with a whizzy 550mhz K6-2, I can also do internet gambling while Leaving Las Vegas plays along without a blip.
blessings,
I'm very happy to be a corporate lawyer, but will be sad if you don't remove the story.
Please be afraid, because all of Apple's lawyers are adults over 21!
blessings,