It reads like a hoax. Sure it was not written on April 1.
I just love a web page from a "web-based" magazine without a $&*%&&)&) DATE. Get with it. Put a date on the damn thing.
Hey, put some dates in the Article, too, while you are at it.
How about a nice like to a few articles other than WIRED, and other atilces.
PEER REVIEW. There is a reason for this. They make sure that you follow some standards. The original artilces got published. The reports are not peer reviewed. The original reports have errors. The peer reviewers caught the errors, and they were corrected before they got published. This is not a conspiracy. This is science.
I guarentee that's the way it works. In reports you write things that you really cannot back up with evidence. When confronted with your own facts, you generally back off, and say somewhat less grandious claims in an article.
Then there are those who got he way of belief. "Believe me," becasue I failed statistics. Run a lot of things you are bound to find some anomalies. Life is a bell curve, Things will occasionally fall outside of the expected norm, becasue that is the norm. The real question is "is it real, or is it statistics" If you run an experient at the 95 % confidence interval, and 5% of your results fall outside of the expected, then it's not unexpected. If 25% of your results are outisde the unexpected, then you've got a phemonemnon.
RPN is great for when you are doing real work. You get intermedite answers along the way without having to hit the = key all the time.
(2+4)-((5+9)/(7+3)
2 enter 4 + displays 6 (write down intermedite answer) 5 enter 9 + display 14 (write down intermedite answer) 7 enter 3 + diplays 10 (write down intermedite answer) / diplays 1.4 - displays 4.6 (answer looks reasonable, keep it) If it looks wrong, start with the intermediate answers, and see which one was wrong.
Basic example but with a damn TI you make mistakes with all those brackets
No, QT for Java just lets use use QT from Java applications.
As has been said many times, you need the codecs for linux. The file format has not changed for several years, but the available codecs, the tools and the API's have changed.
If it's not broken, don't fix it. (I wish MS would stick with this motto for their web site, how many redirects could a redirect direct if a redirect could direct redirect).
People use what is needed and available, when they set it up. They do not change on the whim of benchmark, or a new version.
Addict: Hint they are running 2.0 on Solaris. Old system.
Apple: Stability and support, SMP. Unlike slashdot, they have an income stream to keep up. Change does not come fast.
It would still play DVD's. Just not the collection of $4.49 coasters.
Now if they had stuck with the original, did not play dvd player, then they would be in deep %&*$. Of course this is probably why it has DVD compatibility. Can you imagine all those people with DIVX players and long term extended warrenties returning dvix ony players to CC when divx went belly up.
"It no longer works, repair it. Can't digital video express is no longer in bussiness. Well make it work.... Well give me a new one!" DVD compatibility saves them for when the venture goes ass up.
More variety, better features, and better pricing across the waters.
The sets in Europe and other locations are reasonably priced, usually less than $1200 for a 28 inch multiformat (PAL/NTSC/SECAM) widescreen, with sizes 20-37 inches (This is from looking at the british site, dixons (http://www.dixons.co.uk:80/). Cheapest widescreen in US about 2k.
DVD are recorded in 480p: 480 line, progressive, non-interlaced scan. An accepted digital TV standard.
Downconversion happens in the player.
Some DVD's are anamorphic ("widesceen" enhanced), and use all 480 lines for information. Other are just widescreen with black bars at the top and the bottom.
Which is why bugnet exists. Someone with enough contacts to check up on things, post the information to a site, and have an audience that actually reads the site.
For major problems, slashdot and other news outlets embarrass MS enough to get something done. But for the little ones, Bugnet does the job.
Ok. pricing is in line with other products, if not cheaper. But that is not the problem. MS acts like a monopoly which does not benefit consumers. They charge too much. And stifle competition.
MS sells tens of millions of copies. Solaris, tens of thousands.
MS makes money off of nearly every intel computer whether or not you use it's software. In fact people buy MS windows emulators, so makes money off off solaris and irix and macintosh OS computers.
MS makes it's OS most desirable by using it's monopoly in office applications, which are truely overpriced. $799 my @$$.
They have been caught, and they are trying to figure out how to handle it, without admitting it.
2) The demo of OS X Server was very quick but impressive....but booting 50 iMac's off the stock PowerMac running the server stands as one of the better demo's I've seen.
I think that there was a Partial error of ommission. Fast well designed network for the demo. Catch the mention of four 100-baseT ports, all slots filled. Probably on a switched fabric, too. Raid array.
Love that menubar. I keep on selecting the wrong one, and bringing a window forward.
The one thing about the mac is not the interface, it's the finder ( the thing windows tries to emulate, so poorly).
On windows, a file has an extension and is asssociated with a program with an extension. This means files of certains types, eg tif, jpg, gif can only be associated with one program. I can not double click on a gif file created in photoshop and have it open in photoshop after IE has clobbered the file extention associations. you need the damn mouse, and hand to hold down the shift key, and get "open with" command in menu (unless you do some more custom configuration).
Now the mac is killer. The OS is resposible for file associations. A file created in an application, opens in that application.
on windows, you find the application, and tell the os about the application.
on a mac, the OS finds the application, and discovers the applications capabilities (reads file types gif, tif, etc)
This is why macs work so well when the OS is reinstalled, the os finds the applications.
And why you need to reinstall the apps or the registry after windows is reinstalled.
Slashdot Mirror
It reads like a hoax. Sure it was not written on April 1.
I just love a web page from a "web-based" magazine without a $&*%&&)&) DATE. Get with it. Put a date on the damn thing.
Hey, put some dates in the Article, too, while you are at it.
How about a nice like to a few articles other than WIRED, and other atilces.
PEER REVIEW. There is a reason for this. They make sure that you follow some standards. The original artilces got published. The reports are not peer reviewed. The original reports have errors. The peer reviewers caught the errors, and they were corrected before they got published. This is not a conspiracy. This is science.
I guarentee that's the way it works. In reports you write things that you really cannot back up with evidence. When confronted with your own facts, you generally back off, and say somewhat less grandious claims in an article.
Then there are those who got he way of belief. "Believe me," becasue I failed statistics. Run a lot of things you are bound to find some anomalies. Life is a bell curve, Things will occasionally fall outside of the expected norm, becasue that is the norm. The real question is "is it real, or is it statistics" If you run an experient at the 95 % confidence interval, and 5% of your results fall outside of the expected, then it's not unexpected. If 25% of your results are outisde the unexpected, then you've got a phemonemnon.
RPN is great for when you are doing real work. You get intermedite answers along the way without having to hit the = key all the time.
(2+4)-((5+9)/(7+3)
2 enter
4 + displays 6 (write down intermedite answer)
5 enter
9 + display 14 (write down intermedite answer)
7 enter
3 + diplays 10 (write down intermedite answer)
/ diplays 1.4
- displays 4.6 (answer looks reasonable, keep it)
If it looks wrong, start with the intermediate answers, and see which one was wrong.
Basic example but with a damn TI you make mistakes with all those brackets
No, QT for Java just lets use use QT from Java applications.
As has been said many times, you need the codecs for linux. The file format has not changed for several years, but the available codecs, the tools and the API's have changed.
RTSP/RTP Proxy
. html
The RTSP proxy is an application-specific proxy which would normally be run in a border zone or perimeter network.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/developers/tools
Platforms
The RTSP Proxy has been built for a variety of platforms, including
IRIX 6.x
Solaris 2.x
RedHat Linux 5.0 x86
Cobalt Linux mips
And also a couple of notes by users at:
http://www.macintouch.com/nab1999qt4reader.html
If it's not broken, don't fix it. (I wish MS would stick with this motto for their web site, how many redirects could a redirect direct if a redirect could direct redirect).
People use what is needed and available, when they set it up. They do not change on the whim of benchmark, or a new version.
Addict: Hint they are running 2.0 on Solaris. Old system.
Apple: Stability and support, SMP. Unlike slashdot, they have an income stream to keep up. Change does not come fast.
It would still play DVD's. Just not the collection of $4.49 coasters.
Now if they had stuck with the original, did not play dvd player, then they would be in deep %&*$. Of course this is probably why it has DVD compatibility. Can you imagine all those people with DIVX players and long term extended warrenties returning dvix ony players to CC when divx went belly up.
"It no longer works, repair it. Can't digital video express is no longer in bussiness. Well make it work.... Well give me a new one!"
DVD compatibility saves them for when the venture goes ass up.
DVD is different that a VCR, and even VCD. Similar to laser disks.
DVD has random access to the information on the disk. VTR's do not.
Addtional content, like trailers
How many video tapes have more than one language soundtrack.
How many VCR's can do digital dolby 5.1 sound?
(The real reason to get a dvd).
How many Laserdisks come on more than 2 (or 4) 12 inch disks? Laserdisks were way to big for me to want to create a collection. DVD and video, got em.
DVD will be the furby of xmas 1999. Everyone will want one, but there will not be enough players to go around.
One could say that not available at Wallmart/Sears is not really available at all.
What the are you going to record? TV signal?
Sat Signal is the only thing with enough quality. And if one wants a recording gadget, there are newer toys, tivo (ok bad idea).
More variety, better features, and better pricing across the waters.
The sets in Europe and other locations are reasonably priced, usually less than $1200 for a 28 inch multiformat (PAL/NTSC/SECAM) widescreen, with sizes 20-37 inches (This is from looking at the british site, dixons (http://www.dixons.co.uk:80/). Cheapest widescreen in US about 2k.
DVD are recorded in 480p: 480 line, progressive, non-interlaced scan. An accepted digital TV standard.
Downconversion happens in the player.
Some DVD's are anamorphic ("widesceen" enhanced), and use all 480 lines for information. Other are just widescreen with black bars at the top and the bottom.
> they get developers to make a *.mov file that > only the new quicktime can decompress
1) it's the codecs, silly. Problem works both ways, avi's can't be viewed if the proper codec ain't around.
OPEN Free. In next's case, Open == Multiplatform
2) Openstep ran on multiple systems, NextOS on 68k and intel, Windows NT, HP-UX and SunOS.
Personally, Next/Apple should have opened it driver development kit, a long time ago.
Which is why bugnet exists. Someone with enough contacts to check up on things, post the information to a site, and have an audience that actually reads the site.
For major problems, slashdot and other news outlets embarrass MS enough to get something done. But for the little ones, Bugnet does the job.
Then tell the lazy admin to add quicktime, shockwave, flash, and cosmoplayer to the standard setups.
Change for which car?
Did his un-crash tested Lamborghini (or whatever it was) ever make it out of customs?
Not nearly as good as why MS could be charging 2 grand for windows.
And translation into english, please. Why Does Microsoft Charge so Little for Windows?
I guess that is what this graphic is for
Would explain the $399, PC.
Hey, that's with works, too.
Wonder how much the PC's with word on them are?
It's hot pluggable.
It does not need a computer: camera to computer works as well as camera to storage.
And Digital VCR to TV ;) Hey maybe we will use ieee1394 hard drives for weekly taping, instead of tapes. It's easier to zap commerials that way.
Choose one that support the Macintosh.
Don't forget on itel you get FP or MMX, but not both without a large performance penalty.
It will be interesting when the next generation PPC "G4" processors come out. Matrix math and FP without the performance penalty.
I think the SGI's are great. Just like apple, they are a break with the old, no ISA, firewire, usb. But, just like MS, they ship late.
If you have a player, and play a title, can you swap with someone for a different title?
This way, one person pays for the title, and then you trade it to someone who has not seen that movie on that player, so they can play it once.
Since the disks are mass produced, the serial numbers are probably the same for each title.
If divix has to pay for each time a movie is watched, then it can't make any money since the movie has been paid for once.
So who's starting the divix disk exchange. Pay 50 cents, swap a movie.
Ok. pricing is in line with other products, if not cheaper. But that is not the problem. MS acts like a monopoly which does not benefit consumers. They charge too much. And stifle competition.
MS sells tens of millions of copies.
Solaris, tens of thousands.
MS makes money off of nearly every intel computer whether or not you use it's software. In fact people buy MS windows emulators, so makes money off off solaris and irix and macintosh OS computers.
MS makes it's OS most desirable by using it's monopoly in office applications, which are truely overpriced. $799 my @$$.
They have been caught, and they are trying to figure out how to handle it, without admitting it.
2) The demo of OS X Server was very quick but impressive. ...but booting 50 iMac's off the stock PowerMac running the server stands as one of the better demo's I've seen.
I think that there was a Partial error of ommission. Fast well designed network for the demo. Catch the mention of four 100-baseT ports, all slots filled. Probably on a switched fabric, too. Raid array.
Love that menubar. I keep on selecting the wrong one, and bringing a window forward.
The one thing about the mac is not the interface, it's the finder ( the thing windows tries to emulate, so poorly).
On windows, a file has an extension and is asssociated with a program with an extension. This means files of certains types, eg tif, jpg, gif can only be associated with one program. I can not double click on a gif file created in photoshop and have it open in photoshop after IE has clobbered the file extention associations. you need the damn mouse, and hand to hold down the shift key, and get "open with" command in menu (unless you do some more custom configuration).
Now the mac is killer. The OS is resposible for file associations. A file created in an application, opens in that application.
on windows, you find the application, and tell the os about the application.
on a mac, the OS finds the application, and discovers the applications capabilities (reads file types gif, tif, etc)
This is why macs work so well when the OS is reinstalled, the os finds the applications.
And why you need to reinstall the apps or the registry after windows is reinstalled.
The pc is used for Finite Element Modeling (nt unfortunately)
Funny that's what I thought UNIX was for.