MSN Virtual Earth was just released. With a "Locate Me" button that is apparently quite accurate. Tie that with the "Scanning your copy of Windows" feature, and they can just send the feds right to your door. Or, perhaps, mail you a copy and bill your credit card...
It's in a box in the basement, but I have it. I fired it up a couple of years ago when I was reminiscing about the F/A-18 flight sim. I was remembering it as super-realistic, extremely responsive, and smooth to play. I fired it up, and got was looked like a 320x240 ascii art rendition of the Bay Area. Funny how your memory plays tricks on you.
Still, I remember spending/wasting hours/days flying around san francisco in a fully loaded F/A-18 - flying under the golden gate, buzzing the airport, carpet bombing alcatraz... those were the days...
They tend to value longer term thinking and relationships over flash-in-the-pan stuff... The downside, is they are likely still running VAX or something:-)
Guy's kid comes to him, and says "Dad, I really want a new iMac. They are teh shizzle. All the hot chicks will dig me if I have a new iMac!"
Guy thinks about this, and instead of forking over the cash for the iMac, decides it's more effective and cheaper to start a company, design a new computer, and hope to god he can convince his son that it's as cool as an iMac?
In order to prevent threats from time-detonated devices, Homeland Security has initiated a study into the creation of a technology to jam the progress of time in a specified area.
This will prevent timers on devices from reaching their trigger point, thus protecting high value targets.
Public safety is more important than public convenience.
Using the built-in speech recognition on MacOSX. Works great. Can speak bookmark titles and the page loads. Go back. Go home. Even, IIRC, speaking links on a page.
Apple has a publically stated policy of not making internal APIs public (i.e., not providing documentation or support) because the internal APIs are UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
They KNOW that the API can change without notice, and if they have to freeze the API so it doesn't break third party tools, that will basically tie their hands in developing the OS.
By keeping unfinised APIs internal, the only apps that need to be updated are the APPLE-provided apps, which they can update all they want.
Once the API is mature enough, and stable, etc... they document it support it. Until then, it's "Use at your own risk" and rightfully so.
I am completely sure that Apple will release an API for modifying the UI. When? Don't know. This year? Next year? Who really cares? It will be there when it's done and ready.
... come in handy when driving REALLY high resolutions. It's pretty easy to lose the standard cursor, so it would be nice to have a BIG cursor when using a fancy schmancy 48" Cinema Display or something like that.
Actually, the jets aren't decreasing the temperature. They are decreasing daily variance in temperature. For all I know, the mean temperature may have risen dramatically... But at least it's nice and evenly hot (none of the hot-during-day cold-during night crap)
The jet exhaust is _reducing_ daily temperature variations. Contrails --> Clouds. Clouds keep heat in at night, out during day. Reducing variation.
When North American air traffic was grounded after Sept. 11, daily temperature variation INCREASED (hotter during day, colder during night) by around 3 degrees Celsius. That's a big difference, globally speaking.
... is "Did they include the 8 scenes that should have been left out of the theatrical release?"
OK. There may well have been more than 8 scenes that should have been left on the cutting room floor, but the point remains. Crap movie + 8 scenes == crap movie (but longer).
Can't wait for the Special Edition... Hey! I just figured out how to properly render a rastafarian bunny and a flying midget arab trader! Let's rerelease the movie!
I've read all of the linked articles (most before seeing this on slashdot), and still have trouble seeing how these "rumor" sites got press passes in the first place. That was obviously a mistake, which was promptly rectified.
Even passes that are _paid for_ are not irrevokable. The host(s) _always_ reserve the right to revoke a pass (although for a paid pass, you'd get a refund).
I really don't see why this is a big deal... The sites that have been "banned" are not real press organizations.
So, can I just publish some.html files, and suddenly I'm eligible for special treatment as a member of the press? I don't think so, but that's what these sites are expecting. Nobody has told them they couldn't attend, only that they'd have to pay for admission like anybody else.
I completely agree with that decision. Also, nobody is trampling on anybody's right to free speech, as all of the "rumor" sites are free to continue publishing as normal. If they want to publish stuff from MacWorld, they have a few options:
1. Buy a pass like everyone else. 2. Watch it live via streaming video, like everyone else. 3. Throw a hissy fit and bitch and moan that they aren't being treated like they belong to the Wall Street Journal or some such thing.
Nobody here was talking about SERVERS. Hell, for all I know, the LOTR Two Towers trailer could be served from a Linux box (the quicktime streaming server runs JUST FINE on linux...)
But, who in their right mind would be trying to view a trailer on a linux server?
The point is, of the subset of all systems in use that are likely to be attempting to view this kind of thing, linux is definitely a minority/marginal/rare OS. That's NOT A BAD THING, but it has to be acknowledged.
Oh, and I think the Ferrari comparison is more than a little weak... You don't have to configure/make/install a Ferrari. Any schmoe with enough cash can drive away in one and be in bliss. To properly use (or enjoy) linux, you need to have much more time than money. Again, not a bad thing, but definitely NOT a Ferrari, either.
Wait a second... So I'm a troll because I describe Linux as a marginal OS? Good freakin' lord, people. This moderation stuff is bullshit, imposed by Linux zealots.
I'm all for Linux, and think its a Good Thing, but you people also need to be self-aware enough to know that it IS STILL A MARGINAL OS! It's technically superior to many of the alternatives, but there aren't enough real-world users for it to be described as anything but marginal. Not a judgement statement, but a market share reality.
I'm sure the real reason has NOTHING to do with the economy going down the shitter.
Nope. It's all about those damned internet file traders. Doesn't matter that a good lot of them have either lost jobs, are about to lose jobs, or narrowly escaped losing their jobs.
It's all of that internet file trading that dropped sales a staggering 10%. After rising by about that amount every year in recent memory.
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MSN Virtual Earth was just released. With a "Locate Me" button that is apparently quite accurate. Tie that with the "Scanning your copy of Windows" feature, and they can just send the feds right to your door. Or, perhaps, mail you a copy and bill your credit card...
Yeah. Psygnosis' golden age. I had the black tshirt that came with Shadow of the Beast for years - they just don't make games like that anymore.
Active panning stereo sound, in the mid-late 1980's - that system kicked some serious ass.
It's in a box in the basement, but I have it. I fired it up a couple of years ago when I was reminiscing about the F/A-18 flight sim. I was remembering it as super-realistic, extremely responsive, and smooth to play. I fired it up, and got was looked like a 320x240 ascii art rendition of the Bay Area. Funny how your memory plays tricks on you.
Still, I remember spending/wasting hours/days flying around san francisco in a fully loaded F/A-18 - flying under the golden gate, buzzing the airport, carpet bombing alcatraz... those were the days...
It is PDF, not Postscript.
e me /
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextr
Look near the bottom for the "consumer" description. From the dev. docs, and the WWDC sessions, it is definitely PDF at the core, not just Postscript.
They tend to value longer term thinking and relationships over flash-in-the-pan stuff... The downside, is they are likely still running VAX or something :-)
Guy's kid comes to him, and says "Dad, I really want a new iMac. They are teh shizzle. All the hot chicks will dig me if I have a new iMac!"
Guy thinks about this, and instead of forking over the cash for the iMac, decides it's more effective and cheaper to start a company, design a new computer, and hope to god he can convince his son that it's as cool as an iMac?
Not sure I follow the logic on that one...
In order to prevent threats from time-detonated devices, Homeland Security has initiated a study into the creation of a technology to jam the progress of time in a specified area.
This will prevent timers on devices from reaching their trigger point, thus protecting high value targets.
Public safety is more important than public convenience.
Lamiga?
Lommodore 64?
Lic20?
Using the built-in speech recognition on MacOSX. Works great. Can speak bookmark titles and the page loads. Go back. Go home. Even, IIRC, speaking links on a page.
a ll ery/index.html#speech
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/g
Very cool (potentially) although I don't really want to be yelling at my computer all day...
The alternative would be that the CA lawyer is just running a pirated copy of MSWord, which was obtained from sources in MPAA....
last year's buzzwords, all strung together in one convenient sentence...
Apple has a publically stated policy of not making internal APIs public (i.e., not providing documentation or support) because the internal APIs are UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
They KNOW that the API can change without notice, and if they have to freeze the API so it doesn't break third party tools, that will basically tie their hands in developing the OS.
By keeping unfinised APIs internal, the only apps that need to be updated are the APPLE-provided apps, which they can update all they want.
Once the API is mature enough, and stable, etc... they document it support it. Until then, it's "Use at your own risk" and rightfully so.
I am completely sure that Apple will release an API for modifying the UI. When? Don't know. This year? Next year? Who really cares? It will be there when it's done and ready.
... come in handy when driving REALLY high resolutions. It's pretty easy to lose the standard cursor, so it would be nice to have a BIG cursor when using a fancy schmancy 48" Cinema Display or something like that.
uh, does anyone know what rich vegans eat?
I'd guess anything they damn well want... Probably a nice, big, juicy steak or something...
Actually, the jets aren't decreasing the temperature. They are decreasing daily variance in temperature. For all I know, the mean temperature may have risen dramatically... But at least it's nice and evenly hot (none of the hot-during-day cold-during night crap)
The jet exhaust is _reducing_ daily temperature variations. Contrails --> Clouds. Clouds keep heat in at night, out during day. Reducing variation.
When North American air traffic was grounded after Sept. 11, daily temperature variation INCREASED (hotter during day, colder during night) by around 3 degrees Celsius. That's a big difference, globally speaking.
... is "Did they include the 8 scenes that should have been left out of the theatrical release?"
OK. There may well have been more than 8 scenes that should have been left on the cutting room floor, but the point remains. Crap movie + 8 scenes == crap movie (but longer).
Can't wait for the Special Edition... Hey! I just figured out how to properly render a rastafarian bunny and a flying midget arab trader! Let's rerelease the movie!
What are these "spare gigs" you speak of. I don't believe I've ever come across anything quite like that...
I've read all of the linked articles (most before seeing this on slashdot), and still have trouble seeing how these "rumor" sites got press passes in the first place. That was obviously a mistake, which was promptly rectified.
Even passes that are _paid for_ are not irrevokable. The host(s) _always_ reserve the right to revoke a pass (although for a paid pass, you'd get a refund).
I really don't see why this is a big deal... The sites that have been "banned" are not real press organizations.
.html files, and suddenly I'm eligible for special treatment as a member of the press? I don't think so, but that's what these sites are expecting. Nobody has told them they couldn't attend, only that they'd have to pay for admission like anybody else.
So, can I just publish some
I completely agree with that decision. Also, nobody is trampling on anybody's right to free speech, as all of the "rumor" sites are free to continue publishing as normal. If they want to publish stuff from MacWorld, they have a few options:
1. Buy a pass like everyone else.
2. Watch it live via streaming video, like everyone else.
3. Throw a hissy fit and bitch and moan that they aren't being treated like they belong to the Wall Street Journal or some such thing.
Nobody here was talking about SERVERS. Hell, for all I know, the LOTR Two Towers trailer could be served from a Linux box (the quicktime streaming server runs JUST FINE on linux...)
But, who in their right mind would be trying to view a trailer on a linux server?
The point is, of the subset of all systems in use that are likely to be attempting to view this kind of thing, linux is definitely a minority/marginal/rare OS. That's NOT A BAD THING, but it has to be acknowledged.
Oh, and I think the Ferrari comparison is more than a little weak... You don't have to configure/make/install a Ferrari. Any schmoe with enough cash can drive away in one and be in bliss. To properly use (or enjoy) linux, you need to have much more time than money. Again, not a bad thing, but definitely NOT a Ferrari, either.
Wait a second... So I'm a troll because I describe Linux as a marginal OS? Good freakin' lord, people. This moderation stuff is bullshit, imposed by Linux zealots.
I'm all for Linux, and think its a Good Thing, but you people also need to be self-aware enough to know that it IS STILL A MARGINAL OS! It's technically superior to many of the alternatives, but there aren't enough real-world users for it to be described as anything but marginal. Not a judgement statement, but a market share reality.
Yeesh.
OK... I might need a little clarification on that one... Apple is bad/evil, why?
I might have missed something, but I thought they were playing nicely with the Open Source community, with the *BSD stuff and all...
Or, are they evil simply because they haven't paid to port Quicktime to a marginal OS?
Thanks for the clarification.
Yeah. And don't forget Howard the Duck.
I'm sure the real reason has NOTHING to do with the economy going down the shitter.
Nope. It's all about those damned internet file traders. Doesn't matter that a good lot of them have either lost jobs, are about to lose jobs, or narrowly escaped losing their jobs.
It's all of that internet file trading that dropped sales a staggering 10%. After rising by about that amount every year in recent memory.