There has been wild speculation that I drove a "car". The wacky supporters of this so called "car" theory tell us that it is a machine with parts made all over the world & then assembled in Michigan. The "car" uses a complex internal combustion engine which is regulated with a microprocessor. The fuel for this "car" is pumped out of the ground, shipped to a refinery(which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build), and then shipped by truck hundreds of miles to my community. In that community millions of dollars are spent building and maintaining roads so I could drive this "car" And then there is the idea that I work so i can buy a car so i can drive it to work. Obviously the simpliest solution would be that I walked home.
took math that hadn't been invented in Egyptian times
How many times has claculus been invented? Eudoxus, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz ? Occam's razor refers to cutting away unnecessary assumptions. We don't know what the egyptians knew or their capabilities 6000 years ago. Maybe their important information was kept on magneto-optical media. We have to make assumptions about what the ancient egyptians knew.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
I have downloaded countless programs from the internet...who are these people that run untrusted executables?
Either you download all those programs from the internet and never run them or you are one of those people that run untrusted executables
You can't even necessarially trust "trusted" programs. Weren't you paying attention when MS posted a virus infected files or when HP distributed infected drivers
And just how, exactly, is a Mom&Pop supposed to compete fairly against Wal-Mart
apparently, you didn't read my footnote.
(1) specialize and become more service oriented
offer products walmart doesn't carry. Offer the knowledge of how the products work and how to use them. Offer parts to obscure products. Offer a repair service. Sell over the internet. Offer delivery. Make sure you have a noticable sign and your building doesn't look condemned. Advertise! People need to know your business exists and where it is. Specifically advertise products that walmart doesn't have and dont advertise products that you know walmart willl have for half your price.
Some mom & pop shops have a 'pay up and get outta my store' attitude because they've known that their customers have no where else to go. That will have to change when walmart comes.
It is also important that as many as possible downtown business adapt because a cluster of stores will increase walk in business. Many business owners who don't stick their head in the sand when walmart comes to town do succeed.
On the other hand, perhaps we are coming to an end of small businesses? Eventually even speciality businesses will, thanks to the internet, expand/consolidate in to franchises/ corporations in order to compete with other speciality businesses.
doesn't like intellectuals because they are harder to lie to, and harder to brainwash. How else could...
That's because most 'intellectuals' (on the left and right) are too busy lying to each other and trying to brainwash each other.
" How else could...(people disagree with _ME_!)"
-sigh- if people don't follow your ideas then they've been brainwashed and lied to? They couldn't POSSIBLY have come to a different legitimate conclusion.
I'll assume your numbers aren't bogus... and then ask : Does Walmart cause the unemployment or should the blame go to the Mom & Pop shops that were too slow to adapt their business(1) & too inefficient to succeed? Or do they have a right to prepetually exist without competition? Do you blame the new mom & pop shop for unemployment when it takes business from the old mom & pop shop?
...they are doing far more damage than the good done by their limited contributions to BSD...Core Unix can perpetuate itself....It's the application level bits where "assistance" is significant
so Linus is doing more damage than good because he isn't writing a user application? Because, y'know, kernal are self-perpetuating. You're just silly.
Yet, when you do you will still be unable to decode Apple format video media there
That'd be easy! write a virtual machine environment, run windows in it and installl quickTime, watch your porn/movie trailers!
Allowing xanim to decode sorenson videos does not constitute "giving away the family jewels"
It doeasn't? The Sorensen codec is probably the single biggest reason to use Quicktime. Apple wants people to use Quicktime. Letting Linux users use xanim to view sorenson QT (esp when many of those users would/could boot in to windows & use QT to view the movie) seems counterproductive. Life isn't fair.
If Apple let Sorenson license the codec to xanim would you then start whining about the QDesign audio codec? What about the QT movies with Quicktime sprites? 3dmf sprites? vector tracks? text tracks? qtvr? QT live effects? More whining. When will the whining stop?
What I've heard from the apple is "want sorenson? License & port quicktime." Apple takes an odd pride in their backward compatibility. movies made in 1992 can still be played. Apps written in 1992 to the QT api can take advantage of the features in the latest version of QT
no mention of BSD relations SunOS, Solaris and AIX. IBM's AIX started out as a BSD and then they grafted System V on to it.SunOS was based on BSD. I think Solaris 1 was bsd based while Solaris 2 was based on UNIX System V(R4?). I wonder how many unixes don't use anything from bsd ?
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OS X will be the first *NIX to run Photoshop native!
Nope. Adobe Photoshop 2.5 and 3.01 ran on sgi's IRIX. I think maybe version 2 did too?
I think there was a solaris version in the same deep historical abyss of 6 or 7 years ago.
The idea that Be just dropped PPC support out of...
No, I think Be dropped ppc support because it is additional work. Apple, by not helping, made a good object of blame.PPC BeOS users were screwed by both Apple and Be.
all the OS's that you quote that have been ported to the G3 are free
and what is the difference? Be couldn't read the Linux code? They couldn't use NetBSD's code? What do you think apple could do? Pretty much nothing.
accusing (x86 users) of 'flittering' between OS's is a cheap shot...some of managed to stumble on the BeOS, and that's where we stay.
I don't think it is a cheap shot. Few x86 users love their OS. It is a tool. A commodity. Many Be users love their OS but many of the people who have tried Be went back to whatever they used before(for a variaty or a combination of reasons). non x86 users are more locked into their platforms and making a change is more difficult than for x86 users
They didn't release the needed specs to fix it and no
and Be was developing for x86 at the time(and getting funding from intel). Be developing for ppc & x86 provides a platform to potentially move Mac users to x86. Do you really expect apple to help Be? Is there a reason why apple should help Be?
Be couldn't have reversed engineered the code anyway because they have a commercial product and Apple would have sued their asses off.
On what grounds could apple sue?!? Reverse engineering is legal!! Having a commercial product has nothing to do with it. mkLinux, LinuxPPC, NetBSD have been ported to the G3 macs(and i think QNX has been ported to the iMac). Be used Apple as a scapegoat for Be's own (arguablly) wise decision to try to focus itself.
As for the alleged lack of loyalty of the 'new user base'
and how much of the flamers would own a BeBox or a ppc machine with Be on it? The point is that many/some x86 users flitter from OS to OS and back again. It wasn't a bash against Be users rabidness(and I mean rabidness in the good way)
they could have sold hardware at a much higher margin than they are currently selling software.
designing and building hardware is expensive! Instead of a manager and a dozen programmers Be would have to get a factory, hire employees, more managers , parts, asembling equipment, warehouses, etc. Selling hardware has higher margins because it is a higher risk and requires a higher investment.
single high-performance platform (say 4 PPC chips) and bundled some powerful multimedia applications...vertical markets for lots of dough.
So you are suggesting that Be design and build hardware, the OS, and "some powerful multimedia apps" and then sell it cheap enough that the buyers won't go to Apple, Sun, Digital, IBM, or SGI. Oh yeah and then you want Be to not be a general purpose OS. And you want to take opportunities from potential Be developers .
I mostly agree but you have to wonder if Be could have done something. Make the drivers easier to write or hold the manufacturers' hands or offer to write the drivers for the manufacturers(which would probably be bad precedent for Be to set). I likewise wonder what Be could have done to woo more developers(if anything)
Be was not arrogant towards Apple
Yes they were. At least Gassee was. When apple was looking at buying Be Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian(sp) gave a detailed presentation and Gasse, instead of giving apple's board anything, he showed up asking for the money.
"I've got them by the balls, and I'm going to squeeze until it hurts."
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"A man in the desert doesn't bargain on the price of water" are two Gassee quotesfrom the time.
so, without support or help from Apple, Be had to let BeOS/PPC die
and Be was getting millions in funding from Intel. You can't blame apple for not helping to create a transition platform away from their platform.I think Be used Apple as a scapegoat so they wouldn't have to reverse engineer the G3 powermacs and make a smoother transition to intel.
btw my personal favorite Gassee quote is him describing the CEO that Apple needed "Right now the job is so difficult, it would require a bisexual, blond Japanese who is 25 years old and has 15 years' experience"
Apple's Quicktime certainly doesn't count to be "in the market", since you need to buy thier program to make and edit.mov's
apple's streaming server doesn't count because of your false claim that "you need to buy thier program to make and edit.mov's?(you don't need an apostrophe to pluralize) QT is an open API. You can write your own editor.(well you probably can't but somebody else can)
Isn't it interesting that Apple, Microsoft, and Real all give away some aspect of their software(streaming server, player, editor, & encoder-MS being the only one dumping everything- I mean 'integrating' everything) You expect it to be free so then you are shocked(!) that they dare try to charge for software!
you need a fucking supercomputer to play them... Celeron 300
*gasp* a celeron not performing well!!! Next time buy an AMD
not to mention a big FUCK YOU to every other OS user on the planet.
with mac and windows versions they cover the vast majority of the market. Do you really think the users they would gain from porting to Solaris or Linux would cover their investment in porting it? How many linux boxes are servers, how many linux users routinely boot into windows or use vmware?
Quicktime's scope is overbroad.The list of featuers mentioned aren't even directly related
maybe. Personally I disagree but I think it is quite subjective. qtvr & rtsp both relate information to display video - that is the sharing point. The capability to integrate flash, (downloaded)still images, streaming video, sprites, etc into a single movie imply that there is a common core(the integration can be very useful too).
GStreamer has focused itself on "streaming media" in an attempt to do it the best way possible
I'm not knocking gstreamer, icepick stated that "Gstreamer's scope is much larger than quicktime's." I disagree and cited quicktime's rich features as a counter point. I doubt you would agree with icepick.
comparing GStreamer and Quicktime is like comparing RealMedia Architecture to DirectX when it should be compared to DirectShow.
Yes but just because Quicktime is hard to define doesnt mean it should be looked at in a limited view. Especially with QT's "xyz is just another track" philosophy. Actually I think i might agree with you. People should refer to quicktime as the quicktime API, quicktime file format, quicktime streaming, quicktime codecs, etc rather than simply *QuickTime*.
Because, quicktime is not the only file format you find. You have AVI's, mpeg, etc.
Quicktime can read and write AVIs(no apostrophe dammit!) and read and write MPEG1(the heuris plugin). The other poster said "QuickTime API"
Gstreamer's scope is much larger than quicktime's Read more about it to understand why
Gstreamers's scope doesn't seem even as broad as QuickTime's. Read more about it to understand why(like qtvr, wired sprites, motion sprites, qd3d, rtp, rtsp, text tracks, vector tracks, live transitions, a varaity of codecs, reference movies, etc)
Along with a lot of others. stocks go up, stocks go down.
Processor speed is stuck at 500 MHz
please take the time to update your flame
There are legions of corporations and individuals who have been disrespected by Apple--from the BeOS community to the Apple clone industry, all of whom comprise a formidable enemies list.
ooooh "disrespected" I'm sure apple is shivering in fear! So do you need to know a secret handshake to get in to the "Apple enemy list clubhouse"? (now for a flame of my own : the Be community is only a formidable enemy if they start car bombing. A formidable enemy is Microsoft who despite wanting to be in bed with apple also wants to kill apple)
Motorola, is hurting and hopes to leave the desktop processor business. This week Motorola announced 2500 layoffs
okay explain how Motorola closing a factory in Harvard Illinois that makes cellphones means that Mot is leaving the desktop cpu biz? Let me repeat myself : a factory that makes cellphones. Designs cell phones? no. Designs processors? no. Design the cell phone's case? no. Design anything? no. And it isnt like Mot doesn't have other cell phone factories
The most reasonable solution would be for Apple to open up. Open up its hardware specs and software
If apple opens both the hardware and the software then what exactly would apple be selling? stickers with the Apple logo? This would make money for apple how? flame on baby
btw you do realize that you've posted this several times before?
There are legions of corporations and individuals who have been disrespected by Apple--from the BeOS community to the Apple clone industry, all of whom comprise a formidable enemies list.
ooooh "disrespected" I'm sure apple is shivering in fear! So do you need to know a secret handshake to get in to the "Apple enemy list clubhouse"?
Motorola, is hurting and hopes to leave the desktop processor business. This week Motorola announced 2500 layoffs
okay explain how Motorola closing a factory in Harvard Illinois that makes cellphones means that Mot is leaving the desktop cpu biz?
Let me repeat myself : a factory that makes cellphones. Designs cell phones? no. Designs processors? no. Design the cell phone's case? no. Design anything? no. And it isnt like Mot doesn't have other cell phone factories
The most reasonable solution would be for Apple to open up. Open up its hardware specs and software
and this would make money for apple how? flame on baby
They are very expensive per megabyte. They are incredibly slow. And they are fragile. I've had more 3.5 hardcased floppies go bad than 5.25 truely floppy floppies. the problem is that apple ditched the floppy in hopes of letting a new standard come about but without actually offering or choosing the new standard.
apple would have:...running on both PowerPC and Intel/AMD."
uh huh but with neXT apple could have macosx running on x86, ppc, parisc and sparq(&68k too). Apple choses not to play in the x86 space. Not to mention the fact that Be, iirc, was ported to x86 after apple went with next and intel invested in Be.
2.An OS which, at the same time, would put them in the middle of the consumer space for easy to use devices
To be honest i'm not clear about what you are trying to say...but next couldn't be put there?
Apple could very likely go belly up if the US falls into a recession. This could have all been avoided if they went with Be.
You are right! ! the US recession could have been avoided if apple went with Be. ifapple had bought Be there would be world peace, end to hunger and pixie stix for all. if apple had bought Be then Compaq would have renamed itself Digital and a yellow hippopotamus would rule the world. if! if! if!
Gassee's arrogance(remember the "a man in the desert doesnt argue about the price of water" comment ? Also be's presentation to apple's board or lack of), Steve Jobs history with apple, Next's mature api/dev tools, next's proven portability, webobjects and Next web history all played a part in apple choosing next instead of be
this company might have succeeded if nobody took advantage of them.
boo hoo. (i think i hear violins playing a sad song) Likewise a self service bank with out walls or a vault or guards(just a pile of money in an alley) might succeed if no one took advantage of them.
i can buy a a diesel engine from Caterpillar, add a chassis and a blade and resell it as a bulldozer competing directly against Cat's bulldozer. If Caterpillar sells the aforementioned engine at a loss then...well then maybe they're a little too stupid to stay in business. Netapliance simply should have known better
the moral : stupidity & short-sightedness deserve to be punished.
The corporate controlled media (GE owns NBC, Westinghouse owns CBS, etc.)
umm NBC and CBS are corporations so obviously they are corporate controlled media.
and ABC is owned by disney and FOX is owned by NewsCorp. Both are corporate controlled media controlled by media corporations! Gasp! How many TV networks are controlled by individuals? and if an individual had the 100 million in capital to start a network would you trust him/his network? or would you complain about it?
don't listen to politcal ads--they are DESIGNED to trick you.
gasp how nefarious! don't forget to tell people not to listen to soap commercials because they are DESIGNED to trick you.
d if Nader or some other 3rd party gets enough votes, maybe they WILL be in the debates then..
Probably not because if nader gets a lot of votes the other two parties will change in order to attract some of those voters. They wouldn't change enough to get every green party member to vote for them of course but many would jump ship. And if you think they wouldnt please remember that 8-12 years ago many green party members did vote for either of the two major parties.
If they aren't, the public will revolt and tear the media apart.
ummm right. a revolt. Please explain how some disenfranchised voters(or anyone) are going to "tear the media apart".
Just keep your fingers off the mouse button, and Photoshop in the foreground so that all of your CPU time isn't given to the mouse click or the Finder.:P
And that is what a lot of people do : open their mail or plan their next move as photoshop chugs on. It isnt a fatal flaw for many people.
MacOS X Server has absolutely nothing to do with MacOS X. It is a totally different operating system. MacOS X Server is based on NeXT, not BSD like MacOS X.
Um , "absolutely nothing" seems a bit harsh. NeXT, mac os x , and mac os x server are all based on both mach and BSD. The point of my bringing up macosxs was because you declared that mac os x and every other promised os was vapor.
RELEASE means that it is a FINAL PRODUCT
oh i thought release meant it was something that had been released. mac OS X Server has been released as a final product
On the contrary, your post is the one that reads like something written by a 15 year old. If you want to get particular, the only word that you capitalized correctly is multitasking - something that your precious Macs can't even perform!
my macs can TOO capitalize!;) (btw i don't proofread for punctuation either)
In retrospect questioning your maturity wasn't appropriate. But... to me both of your posts read as whiney and less than what i would expect from an adult. You reply by saying "oh yeah i'm rubber and you're glue...!" and then you procede to take out your computer list and wave it around.
MacOS is shit.
how eloquent. and the worst is that apple will probably screw up macosx
Only on Slashdot can your post be moderated down for stating facts.
welcome to slashdot! everywhere else you'd get flamed... : )
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There has been wild speculation that I drove a "car". The wacky supporters of this so called "car" theory tell us that it is a machine with parts made all over the world & then assembled in Michigan. The "car" uses a complex internal combustion engine which is regulated with a microprocessor. The fuel for this "car" is pumped out of the ground, shipped to a refinery(which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build), and then shipped by truck hundreds of miles to my community. In that community millions of dollars are spent building and maintaining roads so I could drive this "car" And then there is the idea that I work so i can buy a car so i can drive it to work. Obviously the simpliest solution would be that I walked home.
took math that hadn't been invented in Egyptian times
How many times has claculus been invented? Eudoxus, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz ? Occam's razor refers to cutting away unnecessary assumptions. We don't know what the egyptians knew or their capabilities 6000 years ago. Maybe their important information was kept on magneto-optical media. We have to make assumptions about what the ancient egyptians knew.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
I have downloaded countless programs from the internet...who are these people that run untrusted executables?
Either you download all those programs from the internet and never run them or you are one of those people that run untrusted executables
You can't even necessarially trust "trusted" programs. Weren't you paying attention when MS posted a virus infected files or when HP distributed infected drivers
So i guess this means that now Egyptians won't have to go to the British Museum to study their culture
apparently, you didn't read my footnote.
(1) specialize and become more service oriented
offer products walmart doesn't carry. Offer the knowledge of how the products work and how to use them. Offer parts to obscure products. Offer a repair service. Sell over the internet. Offer delivery. Make sure you have a noticable sign and your building doesn't look condemned. Advertise! People need to know your business exists and where it is. Specifically advertise products that walmart doesn't have and dont advertise products that you know walmart willl have for half your price.
Some mom & pop shops have a 'pay up and get outta my store' attitude because they've known that their customers have no where else to go. That will have to change when walmart comes.
It is also important that as many as possible downtown business adapt because a cluster of stores will increase walk in business. Many business owners who don't stick their head in the sand when walmart comes to town do succeed.
On the other hand, perhaps we are coming to an end of small businesses? Eventually even speciality businesses will, thanks to the internet, expand/consolidate in to franchises/ corporations in order to compete with other speciality businesses.
That's because most 'intellectuals' (on the left and right) are too busy lying to each other and trying to brainwash each other.
" How else could ...(people disagree with _ME_!)"
-sigh- if people don't follow your ideas then they've been brainwashed and lied to? They couldn't POSSIBLY have come to a different legitimate conclusion.
Natural selection. Get used to it
(1) specialize and become more service oriented
so Linus is doing more damage than good because he isn't writing a user application? Because, y'know, kernal are self-perpetuating. You're just silly.
Yet, when you do you will still be unable to decode Apple format video media there
That'd be easy! write a virtual machine environment, run windows in it and installl quickTime, watch your porn/movie trailers!
It doeasn't? The Sorensen codec is probably the single biggest reason to use Quicktime. Apple wants people to use Quicktime. Letting Linux users use xanim to view sorenson QT (esp when many of those users would/could boot in to windows & use QT to view the movie) seems counterproductive. Life isn't fair.
If Apple let Sorenson license the codec to xanim would you then start whining about the QDesign audio codec? What about the QT movies with Quicktime sprites? 3dmf sprites? vector tracks? text tracks? qtvr? QT live effects? More whining. When will the whining stop?
What I've heard from the apple is "want sorenson? License & port quicktime." Apple takes an odd pride in their backward compatibility. movies made in 1992 can still be played. Apps written in 1992 to the QT api can take advantage of the features in the latest version of QT
no mention of BSD relations SunOS, Solaris and AIX. IBM's AIX started out as a BSD and then they grafted System V on to it.SunOS was based on BSD. I think Solaris 1 was bsd based while Solaris 2 was based on UNIX System V(R4?). I wonder how many unixes don't use anything from bsd ?
Nope. Adobe Photoshop 2.5 and 3.01 ran on sgi's IRIX. I think maybe version 2 did too?
I think there was a solaris version in the same deep historical abyss of 6 or 7 years ago.
No, I think Be dropped ppc support because it is additional work. Apple, by not helping, made a good object of blame.PPC BeOS users were screwed by both Apple and Be.
all the OS's that you quote that have been ported to the G3 are free
and what is the difference? Be couldn't read the Linux code? They couldn't use NetBSD's code? What do you think apple could do? Pretty much nothing.
According to QNX's Dan Dodge, QNX has been mostly ported to the iMac.5 &number=10
http://www.ann.lu/cgi/comments2.cgi?show=95662666
accusing (x86 users) of 'flittering' between OS's is a cheap shot...some of managed to stumble on the BeOS, and that's where we stay.
I don't think it is a cheap shot. Few x86 users love their OS. It is a tool. A commodity. Many Be users love their OS but many of the people who have tried Be went back to whatever they used before(for a variaty or a combination of reasons). non x86 users are more locked into their platforms and making a change is more difficult than for x86 users
and Be was developing for x86 at the time(and getting funding from intel). Be developing for ppc & x86 provides a platform to potentially move Mac users to x86. Do you really expect apple to help Be? Is there a reason why apple should help Be?
Be couldn't have reversed engineered the code anyway because they have a commercial product and Apple would have sued their asses off.
On what grounds could apple sue?!? Reverse engineering is legal!! Having a commercial product has nothing to do with it. mkLinux, LinuxPPC, NetBSD have been ported to the G3 macs(and i think QNX has been ported to the iMac). Be used Apple as a scapegoat for Be's own (arguablly) wise decision to try to focus itself.
As for the alleged lack of loyalty of the 'new user base'
and how much of the flamers would own a BeBox or a ppc machine with Be on it? The point is that many/some x86 users flitter from OS to OS and back again. It wasn't a bash against Be users rabidness(and I mean rabidness in the good way)
designing and building hardware is expensive! Instead of a manager and a dozen programmers Be would have to get a factory, hire employees, more managers , parts, asembling equipment, warehouses, etc. Selling hardware has higher margins because it is a higher risk and requires a higher investment.
single high-performance platform (say 4 PPC chips) and bundled some powerful multimedia applications...vertical markets for lots of dough.
So you are suggesting that Be design and build hardware, the OS, and "some powerful multimedia apps" and then sell it cheap enough that the buyers won't go to Apple, Sun, Digital, IBM, or SGI. Oh yeah and then you want Be to not be a general purpose OS. And you want to take opportunities from potential Be developers .
life sucks doesn't it.
I mostly agree but you have to wonder if Be could have done something. Make the drivers easier to write or hold the manufacturers' hands or offer to write the drivers for the manufacturers(which would probably be bad precedent for Be to set). I likewise wonder what Be could have done to woo more developers(if anything)
Be was not arrogant towards Apple
Yes they were. At least Gassee was. When apple was looking at buying Be Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian(sp) gave a detailed presentation and Gasse, instead of giving apple's board anything, he showed up asking for the money.
"I've got them by the balls, and I'm going to squeeze until it hurts."
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"A man in the desert doesn't bargain on the price of water" are two Gassee quotesfrom the time.
so, without support or help from Apple, Be had to let BeOS/PPC die
and Be was getting millions in funding from Intel. You can't blame apple for not helping to create a transition platform away from their platform.I think Be used Apple as a scapegoat so they wouldn't have to reverse engineer the G3 powermacs and make a smoother transition to intel.
btw my personal favorite Gassee quote is him describing the CEO that Apple needed "Right now the job is so difficult, it would require a bisexual, blond Japanese who is 25 years old and has 15 years' experience"
http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/int-prop /heckel-debunking.html
apple's streaming server doesn't count because of your false claim that "you need to buy thier program to make and edit .mov's?(you don't need an apostrophe to pluralize) QT is an open API. You can write your own editor.(well you probably can't but somebody else can)
Isn't it interesting that Apple, Microsoft, and Real all give away some aspect of their software(streaming server, player, editor, & encoder-MS being the only one dumping everything- I mean 'integrating' everything) You expect it to be free so then you are shocked(!) that they dare try to charge for software!
you need a fucking supercomputer to play them ... Celeron 300
*gasp* a celeron not performing well!!! Next time buy an AMD
not to mention a big FUCK YOU to every other OS user on the planet.
with mac and windows versions they cover the vast majority of the market. Do you really think the users they would gain from porting to Solaris or Linux would cover their investment in porting it? How many linux boxes are servers, how many linux users routinely boot into windows or use vmware?
maybe. Personally I disagree but I think it is quite subjective. qtvr & rtsp both relate information to display video - that is the sharing point. The capability to integrate flash, (downloaded)still images, streaming video, sprites, etc into a single movie imply that there is a common core(the integration can be very useful too).
GStreamer has focused itself on "streaming media" in an attempt to do it the best way possible
I'm not knocking gstreamer, icepick stated that "Gstreamer's scope is much larger than quicktime's." I disagree and cited quicktime's rich features as a counter point. I doubt you would agree with icepick.
comparing GStreamer and Quicktime is like comparing RealMedia Architecture to DirectX when it should be compared to DirectShow.
Yes but just because Quicktime is hard to define doesnt mean it should be looked at in a limited view. Especially with QT's "xyz is just another track" philosophy. Actually I think i might agree with you. People should refer to quicktime as the quicktime API, quicktime file format, quicktime streaming, quicktime codecs, etc rather than simply *QuickTime*.
Quicktime can read and write AVIs(no apostrophe dammit!) and read and write MPEG1(the heuris plugin). The other poster said "QuickTime API"
Gstreamer's scope is much larger than quicktime's Read more about it to understand why
Gstreamers's scope doesn't seem even as broad as QuickTime's. Read more about it to understand why(like qtvr, wired sprites, motion sprites, qd3d, rtp, rtsp, text tracks, vector tracks, live transitions, a varaity of codecs, reference movies, etc)
Along with a lot of others. stocks go up, stocks go down.
Processor speed is stuck at 500 MHz
please take the time to update your flame
There are legions of corporations and individuals who have been disrespected by Apple--from the BeOS community to the Apple clone industry, all of whom comprise a formidable enemies list.
ooooh "disrespected" I'm sure apple is shivering in fear! So do you need to know a secret handshake to get in to the "Apple enemy list clubhouse"? (now for a flame of my own : the Be community is only a formidable enemy if they start car bombing. A formidable enemy is Microsoft who despite wanting to be in bed with apple also wants to kill apple)
Motorola, is hurting and hopes to leave the desktop processor business. This week Motorola announced 2500 layoffs
okay explain how Motorola closing a factory in Harvard Illinois that makes cellphones means that Mot is leaving the desktop cpu biz? Let me repeat myself : a factory that makes cellphones. Designs cell phones? no. Designs processors? no. Design the cell phone's case? no. Design anything? no. And it isnt like Mot doesn't have other cell phone factories
The most reasonable solution would be for Apple to open up. Open up its hardware specs and software
If apple opens both the hardware and the software then what exactly would apple be selling? stickers with the Apple logo? This would make money for apple how? flame on baby
btw you do realize that you've posted this several times before?
ooooh "disrespected" I'm sure apple is shivering in fear! So do you need to know a secret handshake to get in to the "Apple enemy list clubhouse"?
Motorola, is hurting and hopes to leave the desktop processor business. This week Motorola announced 2500 layoffs
okay explain how Motorola closing a factory in Harvard Illinois that makes cellphones means that Mot is leaving the desktop cpu biz? Let me repeat myself : a factory that makes cellphones. Designs cell phones? no. Designs processors? no. Design the cell phone's case? no. Design anything? no. And it isnt like Mot doesn't have other cell phone factories
The most reasonable solution would be for Apple to open up. Open up its hardware specs and software
and this would make money for apple how? flame on baby
They are very expensive per megabyte. They are incredibly slow. And they are fragile. I've had more 3.5 hardcased floppies go bad than 5.25 truely floppy floppies. the problem is that apple ditched the floppy in hopes of letting a new standard come about but without actually offering or choosing the new standard.
uh huh but with neXT apple could have macosx running on x86, ppc, parisc and sparq(&68k too). Apple choses not to play in the x86 space. Not to mention the fact that Be, iirc, was ported to x86 after apple went with next and intel invested in Be.
2.An OS which, at the same time, would put them in the middle of the consumer space for easy to use devices
To be honest i'm not clear about what you are trying to say...but next couldn't be put there?
Apple could very likely go belly up if the US falls into a recession. This could have all been avoided if they went with Be.
You are right! ! the US recession could have been avoided if apple went with Be. ifapple had bought Be there would be world peace, end to hunger and pixie stix for all. if apple had bought Be then Compaq would have renamed itself Digital and a yellow hippopotamus would rule the world. if! if! if!
Gassee's arrogance(remember the "a man in the desert doesnt argue about the price of water" comment ? Also be's presentation to apple's board or lack of), Steve Jobs history with apple, Next's mature api/dev tools, next's proven portability, webobjects and Next web history all played a part in apple choosing next instead of be
boo hoo. (i think i hear violins playing a sad song) Likewise a self service bank with out walls or a vault or guards(just a pile of money in an alley) might succeed if no one took advantage of them.
i can buy a a diesel engine from Caterpillar, add a chassis and a blade and resell it as a bulldozer competing directly against Cat's bulldozer. If Caterpillar sells the aforementioned engine at a loss then...well then maybe they're a little too stupid to stay in business. Netapliance simply should have known better
the moral : stupidity & short-sightedness deserve to be punished.
umm NBC and CBS are corporations so obviously they are corporate controlled media. and ABC is owned by disney and FOX is owned by NewsCorp. Both are corporate controlled media controlled by media corporations! Gasp! How many TV networks are controlled by individuals? and if an individual had the 100 million in capital to start a network would you trust him/his network? or would you complain about it?
don't listen to politcal ads--they are DESIGNED to trick you.
gasp how nefarious! don't forget to tell people not to listen to soap commercials because they are DESIGNED to trick you.
d if Nader or some other 3rd party gets enough votes, maybe they WILL be in the debates then. .
Probably not because if nader gets a lot of votes the other two parties will change in order to attract some of those voters. They wouldn't change enough to get every green party member to vote for them of course but many would jump ship. And if you think they wouldnt please remember that 8-12 years ago many green party members did vote for either of the two major parties.
If they aren't, the public will revolt and tear the media apart.
ummm right. a revolt. Please explain how some disenfranchised voters(or anyone) are going to "tear the media apart".
And that is what a lot of people do : open their mail or plan their next move as photoshop chugs on. It isnt a fatal flaw for many people.
MacOS X Server has absolutely nothing to do with MacOS X. It is a totally different operating system. MacOS X Server is based on NeXT, not BSD like MacOS X.
Um , "absolutely nothing" seems a bit harsh. NeXT, mac os x , and mac os x server are all based on both mach and BSD. The point of my bringing up macosxs was because you declared that mac os x and every other promised os was vapor.
RELEASE means that it is a FINAL PRODUCT
oh i thought release meant it was something that had been released. mac OS X Server has been released as a final product
On the contrary, your post is the one that reads like something written by a 15 year old. If you want to get particular, the only word that you capitalized correctly is multitasking - something that your precious Macs can't even perform!
my macs can TOO capitalize! ;) (btw i don't proofread for punctuation either)
In retrospect questioning your maturity wasn't appropriate. But... to me both of your posts read as whiney and less than what i would expect from an adult. You reply by saying "oh yeah i'm rubber and you're glue ...!" and then you procede to take out your computer list and wave it around.
MacOS is shit.
how eloquent. and the worst is that apple will probably screw up macosx
Only on Slashdot can your post be moderated down for stating facts.
welcome to slashdot! everywhere else you'd get flamed... : )