sorry, did I just see the words "New York City" and "professional drivers" in the same sentence?
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1. Analogue freq dial thingies. Those radioshack 20$ FM transmitters are useless to get on an odd frequency [recall FM is on odd freqs, e.g 93.9, 94.1, etc...].
True, but I've become a big fan of the Griffen iTrip (mentioned here elsewhere, as well, i believe) - the thing can transmit on any public FM frequency, so it's easy to find an odd-numbered station that isn't already covered (or whose coverage is weak).
They're about to ship the new iTrip with support for the new iPods. They're sleek, they use negligable power, and they run off the internal battery instead of AA's like a "radioshack 20$ FM transmitter".
FM transmitting is underrated. The quality's not the best, but it's stereo sound, and near the middle of the frequency range sounds quite excellent.
past-its-prime technology company files frivilous patent infringement lawsuit against mega-corporation, seeks billions.
story at 11.
When you have what people would call nuisance cases then you usually go in and try and knock those out with a summary judgement motion, or something to cause them to be dismissed. IBM has actually done none of that.
sorry, but that's NO basis for a solid claim. this case will ultimately set a precedent and i believe IBM is acting wisely in taking its time to address the lawsuit. i hope SCO falls HARD and gives the industry pause. all this patent nonsense lately has been just silly.
Sega's great, don't get me wrong. I have nhl2k2 for my dreamcast and still play it every day with my roommate. (playoffs, man.) But what I really meant concerning EA was moving a product. Sega has produced few winners over the past year; EA has Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Madden NFL 2003. EA has sold more copies of their games worldwide and MS would really benefit from that kind of popularity for a budding online service.
EA currently runs their own online gaming experience, and I'm told it does indeed suck. That's not really the point, though; EA was looking to have its games snatched up by a bigger retailer's online gaming infrastructure in an exclusive deal. Microsoft blew a huge opportunity here IMHO by not going all-out for a commitment from EA for the next generation of online console games.
Too bad the real news here is that EA has declined to sign with Microsoft, signing instead with Sony. MMORPGs are great, and Microsoft does have Sega for some above-average sports titles, but nothing beats EA when it comes to turning out hit sports games.
A conference was recently held in Japan by Sega to discuss areas where EA didn't dominate the sports market. One conclusion: swimming.
You get the idea. Xbox Live won't fail on the lack of an offering from EA, but it certainly doesn't help their chances, either.
my point was, it's easier to back up CDs than DVDs, especially since i am minus a DVD burner. i'm sorry if you've had no success copying your games; it's no reason to denounce me as a warez pirate. i was only trying to help.
i have copied vanishing point, TER, and test drive le mans using DiscJuggler. should add that even on my relatively old DVD/CD-RW drive, it reads the data track as well as the session info without issue.
check out DCEmu, I promise, there's a lot of documentation on doing this.
False. I dunno what games you're talking about, but of the ones I own (GD-ROMs), the copy sometimes IS as easy as copying the files. Often a header or special session mastering will be necessary, but this is well documented. And you can roll your own CD's from flat files (I've done it) - it's necessary if you wish to use the emulators on DCEmu or run LinuxDC, etc.
I am a student, and wanted to get this thing based solely on the fact that I'd be able to get it cheap and buy second-hand games for next to nothing. I see my buddies with Playstations and Gamecubes and I like most of the games they play, but my roommate and I have gotten literally HUNDREDS of hours out of my $14 NHL 2K2 - and I know my friend put Zelda Wind Waker down inside of three days (as soon as he beat it).
The games are easy to back up (which, yes, makes them easy to pirate, too) so I don't have to worry about $60 going to waste on a PS2 DVD because of an errant fall or a little carelessness in loading the disc. The one concern I have with the DC is the laser motor - sites like DCEmu seem to indicate this is a legitimate fear, as there are tools available on their site making backups a little easier on the DC's laser.
I got my DC with a dozen games, two controllers and a memory pack for under $50. I bought more games but I still play the nucleus of old games and get at least a couple hours' use out of them every night. Needless to say, I am very happy with this purchase.:)
Apple made use of NeXT's Fast Elliptical Encryption in their "personal security" element of OS 9, allowing basically any document to be encrypted and decrypted by the OS. Apparently they planned this for OS X as well, but I see no mention of it except as a future feature on their scientific papers page. I wonder if this will force them to reconsider such a relatively insecure approach to OS security?
I *think* the Quicktime DivX codec from divx.com supports more formats, including backward compatibility with older DivX standards - whereas actual MPEG4 files aren't as proliferant. DivX makes the codec for all us movie traders:)
...easy to whip up a simply parallel port device of some sort...
...start with a simply interface box
...a number of simplysimply on/off out/input channels
Hopefully Couch has gone on to do bigger and better things before Apple courted him again - maybe Jobs is just trying to assemble a group of old-timers with low Employee ID's. The Lisa, as mentioned in just about every "History of Apple" book, website, etc, was a tremendous flop, horrendously overpriced (pricetag ~$10k anyone?), and eventually eclipsed in value and raw power by the Macintosh. I equate the Lisa to Apple's failed "Apple///", a too-little, too-late addition to their CPU family at a time when Apple and Education were synonymous.
I'm glad Couch has a legacy within the corporation, but does it really have to be for the Lisa? That's not saying much for his managerial prowess.:)
i don't see all-encompassing quartz anti-aliasing support as some sort of OSX holy grail. some applications look nice with antialiasing, others look downright ugly. it's nice that this hack lets you specify which programs you don't want it to apply antialiasing to, but i'd much rather it worked in reverse. allowing me to try out the look of an app with antialiasing would be useful in determining if it's feasible to keep it activated.
as it stands, there are a plethora of available apps built with ATSUI text rendering (understand that they take a significant speed hit in doing so), and more productivity apps are being updated daily. i LOVE chimera's option to disable "text smoothing" as it really does give credence to their claims that Apple needs to get on the ball with speeding up quartz antialiasing. and 10.1.5 DOES help this problem somewhat - i had downloaded an early (also hackish) version of Mozilla linked with ATSUI text rendering and it seemed much slower than my vanilla Mozilla install performed under this hack.
this is a very cool thing indeed, but antialiasing isn't the be-all end-all of the OS X user experience.
the discrepancy here seems to be that they're trying to market ATSUI quartz rendering versus ATSUI quickdraw rendering. Also important to note that ATSUI != "antialiasing", though that is the most visible result. ATSUI is necessary for OS X to display international characters, which Apple may or may not (i'm not sure) have been rendering with quickdraw prior to this update.
Apple has been heavily updating its international language support with each subsequent release; it is reasonable to assume that this is more relevant for internationalized versions of OS X.
This update lets Carbon apps use Quartz text antialiasing, which everybody knows is the very best thing about Quartz.
errrr... I assume you're referring to ATSUI text rendering, which has been available in the Carbon API for quite some time. Apps like Chimera, a Cocoa version of Navigator that uses Gecko, compile with ATSUI rendering, but apparently not before taking a healthy speed hit.
So while this has been available to developers for quite a while, not all apps enable it, and from what i've seen, that's chiefly because of speed concerns. Hopefully Apple has gotten on the ball and sped up the ATSUI rendering code, but until Jaguar, when Quartz Extreme offloads everything to a graphics card, we probably won't see any serious speed improvements in antialiased text rendering.
Sorry, but slashdot is doing what it always does - playing link-zilla to the mainstream press, which is doing ITS job by reporting consumer issues like this. This was on news.com, so that means it hit the Associated Press, and other mainstream press outlets will pick it up from the wires in the same fashion.
But yeah, troll slashdot, and blame Malda and Co. for making it like 1% more widely known now.
This great OS is the foundation on which Apple and the Mac will be built on for years to come
oh, for chrissakes. the mac survived for over 15 years without a hint of heritage from NeXT - in fact, it was quite the opposite, NeXT was founded by Jobs after his ousting from Apple. NeXT was hampered by typically "Steve" problems that were possibly ahead of their time, like a network-booted OS and lack of a disk drive in their NeXT cubes.
regardless, only in OS X's "yellow box" or "cocoa" or whatever the hell you want to call it does Apple show some sign of latter-day NeXT inheritance. WebObjects is still largely proprietary, and is only used as a medium-sized in house business solution. Objective-C is nice, but only in writing "Cocoa" apps that can take advantage of OS X-specific features like antialiased text and the Services menu and so forth.
Java is well-supported on the platform and the majority of the OS X native apps being produced today are using the Carbon APIs, not Cocoa. The mach microkernel, darwin, Java, Classic support and Carbon... there's more to the OS than NeXT legacy, and there's more to Apple than OS X.
I'm all for cleanly-written slick Objective-C apps like OmniWeb, but this is by no means the future of the Mac.
no, i think what the author meant to say is that the plug-in discretely redirects you to an affiliate of said search sites, which in turn sends you to the site you requested. the affiliate gets paid commission for referral links.
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sorry, did I just see the words "New York City" and "professional drivers" in the same sentence?
1. Analogue freq dial thingies. Those radioshack 20$ FM transmitters are useless to get on an odd frequency [recall FM is on odd freqs, e.g 93.9, 94.1, etc...].
True, but I've become a big fan of the Griffen iTrip (mentioned here elsewhere, as well, i believe) - the thing can transmit on any public FM frequency, so it's easy to find an odd-numbered station that isn't already covered (or whose coverage is weak).
They're about to ship the new iTrip with support for the new iPods. They're sleek, they use negligable power, and they run off the internal battery instead of AA's like a "radioshack 20$ FM transmitter".
FM transmitting is underrated. The quality's not the best, but it's stereo sound, and near the middle of the frequency range sounds quite excellent.
where 'recompiling the kernel' is a dirty word.
you have a very interesting workplace...
editor for slashdot, you say?
past-its-prime technology company files frivilous patent infringement lawsuit against mega-corporation, seeks billions.
story at 11.
When you have what people would call nuisance cases then you usually go in and try and knock those out with a summary judgement motion, or something to cause them to be dismissed. IBM has actually done none of that.
sorry, but that's NO basis for a solid claim. this case will ultimately set a precedent and i believe IBM is acting wisely in taking its time to address the lawsuit. i hope SCO falls HARD and gives the industry pause. all this patent nonsense lately has been just silly.
Sega's great, don't get me wrong. I have nhl2k2 for my dreamcast and still play it every day with my roommate. (playoffs, man.) But what I really meant concerning EA was moving a product. Sega has produced few winners over the past year; EA has Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Madden NFL 2003. EA has sold more copies of their games worldwide and MS would really benefit from that kind of popularity for a budding online service.
EA currently runs their own online gaming experience, and I'm told it does indeed suck. That's not really the point, though; EA was looking to have its games snatched up by a bigger retailer's online gaming infrastructure in an exclusive deal. Microsoft blew a huge opportunity here IMHO by not going all-out for a commitment from EA for the next generation of online console games.
Too bad the real news here is that EA has declined to sign with Microsoft, signing instead with Sony. MMORPGs are great, and Microsoft does have Sega for some above-average sports titles, but nothing beats EA when it comes to turning out hit sports games.
A conference was recently held in Japan by Sega to discuss areas where EA didn't dominate the sports market. One conclusion: swimming.
You get the idea. Xbox Live won't fail on the lack of an offering from EA, but it certainly doesn't help their chances, either.
my point was, it's easier to back up CDs than DVDs, especially since i am minus a DVD burner. i'm sorry if you've had no success copying your games; it's no reason to denounce me as a warez pirate. i was only trying to help.
i have copied vanishing point, TER, and test drive le mans using DiscJuggler. should add that even on my relatively old DVD/CD-RW drive, it reads the data track as well as the session info without issue.
check out DCEmu, I promise, there's a lot of documentation on doing this.
False. I dunno what games you're talking about, but of the ones I own (GD-ROMs), the copy sometimes IS as easy as copying the files. Often a header or special session mastering will be necessary, but this is well documented. And you can roll your own CD's from flat files (I've done it) - it's necessary if you wish to use the emulators on DCEmu or run LinuxDC, etc.
I am a student, and wanted to get this thing based solely on the fact that I'd be able to get it cheap and buy second-hand games for next to nothing. I see my buddies with Playstations and Gamecubes and I like most of the games they play, but my roommate and I have gotten literally HUNDREDS of hours out of my $14 NHL 2K2 - and I know my friend put Zelda Wind Waker down inside of three days (as soon as he beat it).
:)
The games are easy to back up (which, yes, makes them easy to pirate, too) so I don't have to worry about $60 going to waste on a PS2 DVD because of an errant fall or a little carelessness in loading the disc. The one concern I have with the DC is the laser motor - sites like DCEmu seem to indicate this is a legitimate fear, as there are tools available on their site making backups a little easier on the DC's laser.
I got my DC with a dozen games, two controllers and a memory pack for under $50. I bought more games but I still play the nucleus of old games and get at least a couple hours' use out of them every night. Needless to say, I am very happy with this purchase.
Apple made use of NeXT's Fast Elliptical Encryption in their "personal security" element of OS 9, allowing basically any document to be encrypted and decrypted by the OS. Apparently they planned this for OS X as well, but I see no mention of it except as a future feature on their scientific papers page. I wonder if this will force them to reconsider such a relatively insecure approach to OS security?
I thought of this a few years ago. Then Handspring went and did it.
:)
That's okay man! I'll always remember how those corporate FASCISTS stole your original idea!
I *think* the Quicktime DivX codec from divx.com supports more formats, including backward compatibility with older DivX standards - whereas actual MPEG4 files aren't as proliferant. DivX makes the codec for all us movie traders :)
...start with a simply interface box
...a number of simplysimply on/off out/input channels
DUDE.
the word is SIMPLE!
Hopefully Couch has gone on to do bigger and better things before Apple courted him again - maybe Jobs is just trying to assemble a group of old-timers with low Employee ID's. The Lisa, as mentioned in just about every "History of Apple" book, website, etc, was a tremendous flop, horrendously overpriced (pricetag ~$10k anyone?), and eventually eclipsed in value and raw power by the Macintosh. I equate the Lisa to Apple's failed "Apple ///", a too-little, too-late addition to their CPU family at a time when Apple and Education were synonymous.
:)
I'm glad Couch has a legacy within the corporation, but does it really have to be for the Lisa? That's not saying much for his managerial prowess.
i don't see all-encompassing quartz anti-aliasing support as some sort of OSX holy grail. some applications look nice with antialiasing, others look downright ugly. it's nice that this hack lets you specify which programs you don't want it to apply antialiasing to, but i'd much rather it worked in reverse. allowing me to try out the look of an app with antialiasing would be useful in determining if it's feasible to keep it activated.
as it stands, there are a plethora of available apps built with ATSUI text rendering (understand that they take a significant speed hit in doing so), and more productivity apps are being updated daily. i LOVE chimera's option to disable "text smoothing" as it really does give credence to their claims that Apple needs to get on the ball with speeding up quartz antialiasing. and 10.1.5 DOES help this problem somewhat - i had downloaded an early (also hackish) version of Mozilla linked with ATSUI text rendering and it seemed much slower than my vanilla Mozilla install performed under this hack.
this is a very cool thing indeed, but antialiasing isn't the be-all end-all of the OS X user experience.
the discrepancy here seems to be that they're trying to market ATSUI quartz rendering versus ATSUI quickdraw rendering. Also important to note that ATSUI != "antialiasing", though that is the most visible result. ATSUI is necessary for OS X to display international characters, which Apple may or may not (i'm not sure) have been rendering with quickdraw prior to this update.
Apple has been heavily updating its international language support with each subsequent release; it is reasonable to assume that this is more relevant for internationalized versions of OS X.
This update lets Carbon apps use Quartz text antialiasing, which everybody knows is the very best thing about Quartz.
errrr... I assume you're referring to ATSUI text rendering, which has been available in the Carbon API for quite some time. Apps like Chimera, a Cocoa version of Navigator that uses Gecko, compile with ATSUI rendering, but apparently not before taking a healthy speed hit.
So while this has been available to developers for quite a while, not all apps enable it, and from what i've seen, that's chiefly because of speed concerns. Hopefully Apple has gotten on the ball and sped up the ATSUI rendering code, but until Jaguar, when Quartz Extreme offloads everything to a graphics card, we probably won't see any serious speed improvements in antialiased text rendering.
One way to kill a freebie: post it on /.
Sorry, but slashdot is doing what it always does - playing link-zilla to the mainstream press, which is doing ITS job by reporting consumer issues like this. This was on news.com, so that means it hit the Associated Press, and other mainstream press outlets will pick it up from the wires in the same fashion.
But yeah, troll slashdot, and blame Malda and Co. for making it like 1% more widely known now.
hey, anyone know what he just said? :)
It's much like installing Windows 3.11.
You mean it comes on floppy disks and makes you use an ugly GUI?
:)
This great OS is the foundation on which Apple and the Mac will be built on for years to come
oh, for chrissakes. the mac survived for over 15 years without a hint of heritage from NeXT - in fact, it was quite the opposite, NeXT was founded by Jobs after his ousting from Apple. NeXT was hampered by typically "Steve" problems that were possibly ahead of their time, like a network-booted OS and lack of a disk drive in their NeXT cubes.
regardless, only in OS X's "yellow box" or "cocoa" or whatever the hell you want to call it does Apple show some sign of latter-day NeXT inheritance. WebObjects is still largely proprietary, and is only used as a medium-sized in house business solution. Objective-C is nice, but only in writing "Cocoa" apps that can take advantage of OS X-specific features like antialiased text and the Services menu and so forth.
Java is well-supported on the platform and the majority of the OS X native apps being produced today are using the Carbon APIs, not Cocoa. The mach microkernel, darwin, Java, Classic support and Carbon... there's more to the OS than NeXT legacy, and there's more to Apple than OS X.
I'm all for cleanly-written slick Objective-C apps like OmniWeb, but this is by no means the future of the Mac.
well?
:)
get on with it
no, i think what the author meant to say is that the plug-in discretely redirects you to an affiliate of said search sites, which in turn sends you to the site you requested. the affiliate gets paid commission for referral links.
I'm glad Harry Potter got press at Comdex. Sorta gives new meaning to the term "automagically," doesn't it?