Re:video DRM is more tolerable than music DRM
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But I'd really like to pay a buck or two to see an NFL game every Sunday. And given that Google's already got the NBA, I bet they'll have the NFL by the start of next season. If I can pay $5 - $10 a month to watch my football, that'll save me tons of money over either getting cable or over going to a bar to watch the game.
Google's NBA offering promises full videos of games 24 hours after they have been played. While this might be good for some people, I have to wonder how many people are going to shell out to watch games that have already been played and where the outcome is already known. Sure there are going to be instances where, say, a fight breaks out between players from opposing teams and spills into the stands (although I am sure David Stern would find a way to keep that from being purchased), but nobody will want to buy most of the NBA games. Even if I am say, a diehard Celtics fan, am I going to pay money to see them the next day when I know the outcome, especially if it looks like a lopsided victory from the box score?
As for the NFL, the same rule as above applies. 24 hours after the game is finished? Find a friend with Sunday Ticket (I think it is convenient speculation on your part suggesting that DirecTV or the NFL would be happy with the game son Google - if Comcast can't get the NFL to let them show all the games, what does Google have to offer?), and I think you'll be able to enjoy those games much more.
I have to agree that Rachel Bilson is plenty reason to watch the show, but all of the subplots this year suck and we now basically have a show about kids in High School that almost nobody would want to hang out with, let alone watch them on TV.
I have seen some suggestions on what is wrong and how to fix it. The best one is here, but others, have chimed in with analysis.
From my experience, the RJ Tech RJ3600 is going to be the best for your needs. It will play anything, and and has all of the other bells and whistles that you need. I think you can pick them up from some Good Guys outlets. And if you find a local place that will do special orders, they should be able to get them bo problem as well.
I don't think Apple has tried to market Rendezvous for many of the applications you were objecting to in your original post. If somebody is running something that depends on a static IP, they won't use rendezvous. just because a device or peripheral says it works with rendezvous doesn't mean it won't work if a network uses a another method of assigning IP addresses. Programs and services that depend on rendezvous will have to be aware of those security lapses and adjust accordingly. With or without rendezvous, allowing guest access to your comptuer or sending information over plain text is dangerous.
Rendezvous isn't the end all of comptuer networking, but it certainly has its applications.
If only I had waited a few weeks for the 512 MB DIMMs! I also hop Apple configures the Kernel for many more processors, may not be of interest for OS X users, but OS X Server people might be able to find uses for it.
OS X doesn't have to emulate OS 9 either if the users stick to carbon and cocoa apps. I think by the time OS X is preloaded on Macs, which is probably going to be at least 3-6 months after initial release, there will be enough carbonized apps to prevent the need to even use classic that often.
This public beta will help all those small developers who haven't had a chance or can't afford to get seeded copies of OS X an opportunity to port their apps and utilities over.
If Apple were smart, they would supply AppleWorks 6 to people who buy OS X because the more people that have to boot classic because they need to use old versions of Word or AppleWorks, the more problems there will be. Also, as soon as Office works well under Carbon along with IE and OE, having to boot into classic will be a thing of the past for many people. Apple needs to work on Adobe, Macromedia, Quark et. al, because as many people have said before, graphics users will stick to OS 9 if they have to boot into classic anyway.
Do you prefer to watch your titles dubbed, or in Japanese with the English subtitles? Sometimes I prefer one, sometimes I prefer the other.
Also, as others have said, I would support an Anime Network spinoff. I definitely would want the Macross, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Escaflowne to be played though. They are my favorites.
Apple has had some difficulty in their GUI strategy, but I don't think that you have your terms correct or I am grossly misunderstanding what you are trying to say.
Aqua, Quartz, Carbon and Cocoa all stand on different layers in the overall scheme of Mac OS X.
Carbon and Cocoa(AKA YellowBox) are APIs, and your decision to use those APIs in programming probably doesn't have a lot to do with what GUI you have decided on.
Quartz is not a GUI. It is an imaging/graphics model for displaying things on th screen.
Aqua is the GUI, and the you have really no choice except to use it when you are building your apps. However, since Aqua sits on top of everything else, you can theoretically swap it out with another type of GUI, at least when you are talking about widgets and their functionality.
The problem, as I understand it, is with X apps, because they require a certain level of interaction with hardware(because of X), that makes it difficult to implement because Apple has Quartz. That, however, is all being worked on and you should be able to port your X apps to OS X with some minor difficulties.
That being said, I don't think many people are more interested in the "server side" stuff and any admin tools, etc., will be new projects considering what is involved.
If you think you hate netscape, check out the code bitch articles over at macedition.com
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Re:iMovie's lack of features
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A lot of the stuff you want to do is available by using Quick Time pro, I think. You can exctract audio tracks from video footage, or vise versa. It will take lots of time(and extra work) and lots of free disk space(DV eats it up as you know), but it should give you more flexibility
"but the real expanding market is in embedded devices, with the solid constant of server machines on the side. where is apple in this market? "
think quicktime. how long will it be before somebody writes something for Linux that matches the QT capability? Don't hold your breath. Linux users should be begging for Apple to bring it to Linux and make life a lot easier.
A little utility that helps out with error codes and gives some possible solutions.
You should also try the Apple tech exchange on their website or other mailing lists devoted to MacOS.
Just like Linux, the answers don't always come from a voice on the phone. The first step is always Sherlock. Look for "Apple Error Codes" and see what if gives you...
Apple's core markets are publishing and education. They have always been a favortie of artists and intellectuals. Both started using macintoshes becuase it didn't require them to learn a computer to be creative. Artists and intellectuals have always been some of the biggest rebels in history. Think Different embraces that idea, so what?
A lot of people are rebels by using a Macintosh computer. Why? because they don't want to sacrifice their computing experience in order to get work done. I suppose that you think that using Linux makes you a bigger rebel? Is it because Linux users like to think they actually know what is goin on inside the computer and that knowledge makes them superior?
I think it is really funny when the comments of Linux users towards Apple sound like the comments of Windows users towards Apple. It continues to preplex me why people who hate Apple so much let it invade their minds and their thoughts to such an extent.
While Sony may lag behind in MP3, I have to disagree with your comments about the minidisc.
The whole purpose of the Minidisc, IMHO, is not rebuying your CDs, but taking your CD music anywhere with the ability to mix, etc with no worries. Most MiniDiscs players are also recorders(that's why they are expensive), so people can record tracks directly from their stereo/computer right to their MiniDisc. MiniDiscs are rerecordable too. Most MP3 players only allow you to play 40-80 minutes of music. A MiniDisc is 74 minutes multiplied by whatever number of discs you want to carry with you. If I have MP3s, I take the extra 15 minutes to expand them to AIFF and let them record to MiniDisc.
And although Sony may not like MP3, you can be sure that if people start making money off of players, they will start making MP3 players/recorders or make another music standard that they have control of. That's the way Sony likes to do it. They'll probably get away with it too, because they're Sony.
$370 really doesn't matter. I will pay it to be the first person at my school to be able to play the FF IX on it. I can just imagine what Tekken will look like. Grand Tourismo will be ridiculous and Madden 2001 will probably make me cry.
My point? The games that Sony and others are able to offer are what keep people true to Playstation. Playstation2 will be the same. I'm predicting $249 or less US for the Christmas(2000) season.
remy
PS This is offtopic, but 2000 is the last year of the millenium.
I don't see the webpage choking, half of the "slowness" of the page is probably because of the crappy HTML code they are writing. People should be complaining about that.
Remember, Apple was the last big OS vendor to fix the ping-o-death problem (took 'em until MacOS 8)
actually, I think it was the version of OpenTransport that shipped with 8.0 that fixed it, you don't need 8 to fix the ping of death. On a second note, the MacOS doesn't fall to the hole of the week like NT.
Actually, the MacOS is a very secure platform for a WebServer and even ftp. Because it isn't based on what people know (*NIX, NT), it makes them very hard to hack/crack. The problem is the performance. ALthough Webstar is pretty fast on a G3, it isn't going to come close to the performance that you would get when using Apache/MacOS X Server on the same hardware. CGI performance also can't match the Apache/MacOS X Server combo. There are third party tools to help, but I don't know if the army will take advantage.
The heavily trafficked MacIntouch uses Webstar. So, I would say that MacOS is a stable platform for a webserver, but no barn burner by any means.
I'm also going to throw in support for running Linux on PPC laptops. I know MkLinux runs on anything from your old PB1400 to the PowerBook G3 series. The latest kernel also installs on the "Bronze" Powerbooks. As you've heard above, LinuxPPC is also a solid performer on Apple laptops. Why? Basically because Apple(for all the crap you want to say about them) builds their computers with solid components. Since they change the specs once every 3-6 months, their is usually a good number of laptops with the same specs/hardware from video to ethernet to sound to scsi. I think they have used basically the same 56k modem since the first PowerBook G3s came out about 18 months ago.
They start about $2249 education and $2499 retail.
I'd also like to add that Apple has to compete. Unlike intel, which sells it's own set of upgrades for older computers, Apple has to fight for money from the hardware upgrade vendors.
This is just more bitching and moaning by a bunch of immature people. The upgrade companies were able to find a way to upgrade "unupgradeable" Macintoshes that didn't have a ZIF slot and required the upgrade in the L2 cahce slot or a PDS slot. If they can figure that out, I'm sure that they can figrue out a simple ROM fix. However, like somebody said before, this will probably change.
1. The/. folk may have taken scomputer science, but they didn't take statistics. The stats that are posted are probably wrong, but not for most of the reasons that have been posted here. I'm guessing that the shoddy numbers are because of a poor sample. Go ahead and flame me, I'm ready.
2. The Japanese, as consumers are very different than the American consumer. If anything, I would say they are more teckie than the average American, but in a different way. They value form as well as function. Most ultralight nitebooks are designed by and/or created for the Japanese market. Just because they had pokemon and that kind of stuff means nothing. The Japanese love technology. That's one reason why all game consoles and lot of games come out in Japan first. They have a greater market presenece in Japan(sony, sega, and nintendo).
3. One poster was correct when he said that retail sales do mean a lot. If more people are upgrading to TurboLinux than upgrading to Windows98 on their computers, then they are doing something correctly. That means good things for the future.
Has anybody actually taken a look at all the formats that QT supports? It's right here. If you take away the Apple codecs, quicktime still compresses in about 15 different flavors for video, about 10 for audio and about 20 for pictures. It can input another 10 or so more formats.
Why should Apple be forced to give up the Sorenson codec when it paid for it? Why don't you whine about any of the other formats that QuickTime supports and Apple has no control of? A better course of action would be to develop a good codec and persuade Apple to incorpoarate it into QuickTime so it can be used on the "mainstram" OSes.
Lastly, if I was management at Apple I would not port QuickTime to Linux either. Why? The Linux community always seems to bite the hand that feeds them, esp. from commercial companies and even more so from Apple.
"Whoops" is right. They got it all backwards. What good is a free server if there aren't any free clients out there?
Actually, no. RTP and RTSP are IETF standards. Somebody needs to make a Linux viewer that is aware of these standards and then you can watch anything streamed from QTSS provided it is using a codec that you have. I don't think anybody is going to stream sorenson because it takes up too much CPU power. Most likely it will use MPEG1 or cinepak compression and those codecs can already be had.
Another point is that a lot of the people that will use QTSS probably won't care about watching it, or only care if Windows and Mac clinets can. They love having a streaming server based on open standards(RTP and RTSP) and not something fed from Real or MS. These sites are porn sites, and since we know no Linux users look at porn, then people at slashdot shouldn't worry, right?
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But I'd really like to pay a buck or two to see an NFL game every Sunday. And given that Google's already got the NBA, I bet they'll have the NFL by the start of next season. If I can pay $5 - $10 a month to watch my football, that'll save me tons of money over either getting cable or over going to a bar to watch the game.
Google's NBA offering promises full videos of games 24 hours after they have been played. While this might be good for some people, I have to wonder how many people are going to shell out to watch games that have already been played and where the outcome is already known. Sure there are going to be instances where, say, a fight breaks out between players from opposing teams and spills into the stands (although I am sure David Stern would find a way to keep that from being purchased), but nobody will want to buy most of the NBA games. Even if I am say, a diehard Celtics fan, am I going to pay money to see them the next day when I know the outcome, especially if it looks like a lopsided victory from the box score?
As for the NFL, the same rule as above applies. 24 hours after the game is finished? Find a friend with Sunday Ticket (I think it is convenient speculation on your part suggesting that DirecTV or the NFL would be happy with the game son Google - if Comcast can't get the NFL to let them show all the games, what does Google have to offer?), and I think you'll be able to enjoy those games much more.
I have to agree that Rachel Bilson is plenty reason to watch the show, but all of the subplots this year suck and we now basically have a show about kids in High School that almost nobody would want to hang out with, let alone watch them on TV.
I have seen some suggestions on what is wrong and how to fix it. The best one is here, but others, have chimed in with analysis.
From my experience, the RJ Tech RJ3600 is going to be the best for your needs. It will play anything, and and has all of the other bells and whistles that you need. I think you can pick them up from some Good Guys outlets. And if you find a local place that will do special orders, they should be able to get them bo problem as well.
Need webDAV on Mac OS 9?
Try Goliath.
It's not native, but it's fast and stable.
I don't think Apple has tried to market Rendezvous for many of the applications you were objecting to in your original post. If somebody is running something that depends on a static IP, they won't use rendezvous. just because a device or peripheral says it works with rendezvous doesn't mean it won't work if a network uses a another method of assigning IP addresses. Programs and services that depend on rendezvous will have to be aware of those security lapses and adjust accordingly. With or without rendezvous, allowing guest access to your comptuer or sending information over plain text is dangerous.
Rendezvous isn't the end all of comptuer networking, but it certainly has its applications.
Mach kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 1.3:
Thu Mar 1 06:56:40 PST 2001; root:xnu/xnu-123.5.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
Kernel configured for up to 2 processors.
2 processors are physically available.
Processor type: ppc7400 (PowerPC 7400)
Processors active: 0 1
Primary memory available: 768.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 35 tasks, 84 threads, 2 processors
Load average: 0.00, Mach factor: 1.99
If only I had waited a few weeks for the 512 MB DIMMs! I also hop Apple configures the Kernel for many more processors, may not be of interest for OS X users, but OS X Server people might be able to find uses for it.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
http://www.dartmouth.edu
This public beta will help all those small developers who haven't had a chance or can't afford to get seeded copies of OS X an opportunity to port their apps and utilities over.
If Apple were smart, they would supply AppleWorks 6 to people who buy OS X because the more people that have to boot classic because they need to use old versions of Word or AppleWorks, the more problems there will be. Also, as soon as Office works well under Carbon along with IE and OE, having to boot into classic will be a thing of the past for many people. Apple needs to work on Adobe, Macromedia, Quark et. al, because as many people have said before, graphics users will stick to OS 9 if they have to boot into classic anyway.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
http://www.dartmouth.edu
Also, as others have said, I would support an Anime Network spinoff. I definitely would want the Macross, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Escaflowne to be played though. They are my favorites.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
http://www.dartmouth.edu
Aqua, Quartz, Carbon and Cocoa all stand on different layers in the overall scheme of Mac OS X.
Carbon and Cocoa(AKA YellowBox) are APIs, and your decision to use those APIs in programming probably doesn't have a lot to do with what GUI you have decided on.
Quartz is not a GUI. It is an imaging/graphics model for displaying things on th screen.
Aqua is the GUI, and the you have really no choice except to use it when you are building your apps. However, since Aqua sits on top of everything else, you can theoretically swap it out with another type of GUI, at least when you are talking about widgets and their functionality.
The problem, as I understand it, is with X apps, because they require a certain level of interaction with hardware(because of X), that makes it difficult to implement because Apple has Quartz. That, however, is all being worked on and you should be able to port your X apps to OS X with some minor difficulties.
That being said, I don't think many people are more interested in the "server side" stuff and any admin tools, etc., will be new projects considering what is involved.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
http://www.dartmouth.edu
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think quicktime. how long will it be before somebody writes something for Linux that matches the QT capability? Don't hold your breath. Linux users should be begging for Apple to bring it to Linux and make life a lot easier.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
you have to know where to look.
A little utility that helps out with error codes and gives some possible solutions.
You should also try the Apple tech exchange on their website or other mailing lists devoted to MacOS.
Just like Linux, the answers don't always come from a voice on the phone. The first step is always Sherlock. Look for "Apple Error Codes" and see what if gives you...
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
Apple's core markets are publishing and education. They have always been a favortie of artists and intellectuals. Both started using macintoshes becuase it didn't require them to learn a computer to be creative. Artists and intellectuals have always been some of the biggest rebels in history. Think Different embraces that idea, so what?
A lot of people are rebels by using a Macintosh computer. Why? because they don't want to sacrifice their computing experience in order to get work done. I suppose that you think that using Linux makes you a bigger rebel? Is it because Linux users like to think they actually know what is goin on inside the computer and that knowledge makes them superior?
I think it is really funny when the comments of Linux users towards Apple sound like the comments of Windows users towards Apple. It continues to preplex me why people who hate Apple so much let it invade their minds and their thoughts to such an extent.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
The whole purpose of the Minidisc, IMHO, is not rebuying your CDs, but taking your CD music anywhere with the ability to mix, etc with no worries. Most MiniDiscs players are also recorders(that's why they are expensive), so people can record tracks directly from their stereo/computer right to their MiniDisc. MiniDiscs are rerecordable too. Most MP3 players only allow you to play 40-80 minutes of music. A MiniDisc is 74 minutes multiplied by whatever number of discs you want to carry with you. If I have MP3s, I take the extra 15 minutes to expand them to AIFF and let them record to MiniDisc.
And although Sony may not like MP3, you can be sure that if people start making money off of players, they will start making MP3 players/recorders or make another music standard that they have control of. That's the way Sony likes to do it. They'll probably get away with it too, because they're Sony.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
My point? The games that Sony and others are able to offer are what keep people true to Playstation. Playstation2 will be the same. I'm predicting $249 or less US for the Christmas(2000) season.
remy
PS This is offtopic, but 2000 is the last year of the millenium.
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The heavily trafficked MacIntouch uses Webstar. So, I would say that MacOS is a stable platform for a webserver, but no barn burner by any means.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
They start about $2249 education and $2499 retail.
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This is just more bitching and moaning by a bunch of immature people. The upgrade companies were able to find a way to upgrade "unupgradeable" Macintoshes that didn't have a ZIF slot and required the upgrade in the L2 cahce slot or a PDS slot. If they can figure that out, I'm sure that they can figrue out a simple ROM fix. However, like somebody said before, this will probably change.
I wish this soap opera would end sometime.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
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2. The Japanese, as consumers are very different than the American consumer. If anything, I would say they are more teckie than the average American, but in a different way. They value form as well as function. Most ultralight nitebooks are designed by and/or created for the Japanese market. Just because they had pokemon and that kind of stuff means nothing. The Japanese love technology. That's one reason why all game consoles and lot of games come out in Japan first. They have a greater market presenece in Japan(sony, sega, and nintendo).
3. One poster was correct when he said that retail sales do mean a lot. If more people are upgrading to TurboLinux than upgrading to Windows98 on their computers, then they are doing something correctly. That means good things for the future.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
Why should Apple be forced to give up the Sorenson codec when it paid for it? Why don't you whine about any of the other formats that QuickTime supports and Apple has no control of? A better course of action would be to develop a good codec and persuade Apple to incorpoarate it into QuickTime so it can be used on the "mainstram" OSes.
Lastly, if I was management at Apple I would not port QuickTime to Linux either. Why? The Linux community always seems to bite the hand that feeds them, esp. from commercial companies and even more so from Apple.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org
Actually, no. RTP and RTSP are IETF standards. Somebody needs to make a Linux viewer that is aware of these standards and then you can watch anything streamed from QTSS provided it is using a codec that you have. I don't think anybody is going to stream sorenson because it takes up too much CPU power. Most likely it will use MPEG1 or cinepak compression and those codecs can already be had.
Another point is that a lot of the people that will use QTSS probably won't care about watching it, or only care if Windows and Mac clinets can. They love having a streaming server based on open standards(RTP and RTSP) and not something fed from Real or MS. These sites are porn sites, and since we know no Linux users look at porn, then people at slashdot shouldn't worry, right?
Oh, and some news sites might like them too.
remy
http://www.mklinux.org