I like Macromedia products and they released a new one today called Central.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/
The problem is, their "new" application was released by Apple 3 years ago. It's called Sherlock. http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/sher lock.html . It was perfected by Watson http://www.karelia.com/watson/.
Expect a hard to use Microsoft knockoff of this technology in about 6-8 months.
As white people it's sometimes hard to understand this, but as humans we do look at skin color. If you deny that and say you are "color blind", you're not being completely honest with yourself and you are not acknowledging that people you know base things on race. Things like where they live (Chinatown), what shows they watch (on UPN), who they date, etc. So if you admit that race is a factor in society (black people certainly didn't invent the concept of race) and people are visual beings, what we see on TV affects how we think about things.
There are kids out there that watch the show but never see anyone that looks like themselves or their dad and could possibly think, I guess this show is not for me...how could I ever do this?
The show makers are saying, let's make a better country and have the most amount of engineers possible one way we can try is by putting people that look like our viewers on the screen. I don't see what is so threatening about this. Diversity is not a zero-sum game. Including more people doesn't mean we have to exclude others. OMG, maybe we could even have a team with white and black people on it. Instead of people seeing it as the show makers looking for a "black team" or a "gay team". People that are suggesting these situations are the end result, obviously take race into account when they think about things, whether they admit it or not.
Why don't they just write the processor code to emulate a PPC? Please. They say this can be done. What is the point of having code morphing if you only write for 1 instruction set?
The article (blurb) leads you to think everything will remain the same for input. But the thing is, input for desktops will remain the same (surprise, Inkwell or TabletPCs won't catch on) keyboard will not be the input method of choice for devices. These devices (PDA, refrigerators, iPods, etc.) will far, far outnumber the amount of desktop machines.
So, yes, old technology will stay the same. Shocker.
There has been a Disani add like this in the Subway (PATCO) for a while. It's pretty impressive and definately gets your attention. Basically its like a flipbook animation.
They usually fail to mention that this and 99% of all other virii affect only Windows machines. When will users learn that they should upgrade to MacOS X or Linux for safer systems?
The OS X you saw, or probably read about, was PRE-BETA. Are you kidding me? You are judging Alpha software for speed? I read that the beta is nuch faster than DP4 and I ran DP4 and the speed was fine. The reason why Apple is push dual-processor Macs to get a 1GHz machine out there. But regardless a 500MHz G4 runs as fast as a 700-800MHz PIII.
He talked about how they had Akamai webcasting the keynote at 4Gb/sec. I still had to give up after before he got to the new iMacs, I just wasn't getting any frames from broadcast. Apple always has their site backed up by Akamai, maybe they can't handle it either.
As someone mentioned, what's with the one-button mouse? The notion of TWO is not that hard to grasp,
Not for you, but it is for you mom. Besides Macs (especially) OS X support two button mice.
The whole UI with the top menu bar and Desk Accessory and Finder menus is strictly single-task oriented.
This is how it is designed. Humans can't multitask, we can only deal with one app at a time. Seeing File, Edit, etc. on every window is inherently confusing for a mere human like myself. This was an intentional UI feature.
Regarding multitasking, I believe we're still talking cooperative there. Even if they grafted some preemptive capabilities in, the vast majority of apps live in me-only-me land.
Wait are you talking about MacOS or Win98? They both are subject to this shortcoming. That is why MacOS X is Unix.
-the Mac is still a happy crashbox, as any heavy Photoshop user must oblige. Which I am, and I just don't see it. All I know is that I reboot maybe once or twice a day as opposed to Win9x when I was rebooting 4 or 5 times. This argument goes totally out the window when OS X(UNIX) is involved.
All fine and well, except X is an admission of failure of sorts, because it pretty much throws everything old out. Not really, but, this is the same situation for Win9x going to Win NT. This happens.
And the apps written for X can be counted on all the fingers required for a Mac mouse. Well you can use the other 9 for counting all the apps CURRENTLY written for Win2K. Win2K will have more apps and so will MacOS X. But you are forgetting the thousands of UNIX apps that will compile and run on OS X already.
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I like Macromedia products and they released a new one today called Central.
r lock.html . It was perfected by Watson http://www.karelia.com/watson/ .
http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/
The problem is, their "new" application was released by Apple 3 years ago. It's called Sherlock.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/she
Expect a hard to use Microsoft knockoff of this technology in about 6-8 months.
When that's the burden you have to bear as being one of the most powerful demographics in history. Boo-hoo
As white people it's sometimes hard to understand this, but as humans we do look at skin color. If you deny that and say you are "color blind", you're not being completely honest with yourself and you are not acknowledging that people you know base things on race. Things like where they live (Chinatown), what shows they watch (on UPN), who they date, etc. So if you admit that race is a factor in society (black people certainly didn't invent the concept of race) and people are visual beings, what we see on TV affects how we think about things.
There are kids out there that watch the show but never see anyone that looks like themselves or their dad and could possibly think, I guess this show is not for me...how could I ever do this?
The show makers are saying, let's make a better country and have the most amount of engineers possible one way we can try is by putting people that look like our viewers on the screen.
I don't see what is so threatening about this. Diversity is not a zero-sum game. Including more people doesn't mean we have to exclude others. OMG, maybe we could even have a team with white and black people on it. Instead of people seeing it as the show makers looking for a "black team" or a "gay team". People that are suggesting these situations are the end result, obviously take race into account when they think about things, whether they admit it or not.
Why are we paying to have the government fix Microsoft's bugs?
Why don't they just write the processor code to emulate a PPC? Please. They say this can be done. What is the point of having code morphing if you only write for 1 instruction set?
The article (blurb) leads you to think everything will remain the same for input. But the thing is, input for desktops will remain the same (surprise, Inkwell or TabletPCs won't catch on) keyboard will not be the input method of choice for devices. These devices (PDA, refrigerators, iPods, etc.) will far, far outnumber the amount of desktop machines.
So, yes, old technology will stay the same. Shocker.
There has been a Disani add like this in the Subway (PATCO) for a while. It's pretty impressive and definately gets your attention. Basically its like a flipbook animation.
They usually fail to mention that this and 99% of all other virii affect only Windows machines. When will users learn that they should upgrade to MacOS X or Linux for safer systems?
Does anyone know of any 802.11 ISPs currently in New York. When Ricochet went down I thought that was the only option. Thanks
The OS X you saw, or probably read about, was PRE-BETA. Are you kidding me? You are judging Alpha software for speed? I read that the beta is nuch faster than DP4 and I ran DP4 and the speed was fine. The reason why Apple is push dual-processor Macs to get a 1GHz machine out there. But regardless a 500MHz G4 runs as fast as a 700-800MHz PIII.
He talked about how they had Akamai webcasting the keynote at 4Gb/sec. I still had to give up after before he got to the new iMacs, I just wasn't getting any frames from broadcast. Apple always has their site backed up by Akamai, maybe they can't handle it either.
As someone mentioned, what's with the one-button mouse? The notion of TWO is not that hard to grasp,
Not for you, but it is for you mom. Besides Macs (especially) OS X support two button mice.
The whole UI with the top menu bar and Desk Accessory and Finder menus is strictly single-task oriented.
This is how it is designed. Humans can't multitask, we can only deal with one app at a time. Seeing File, Edit, etc. on every window is inherently confusing for a mere human like myself. This was an intentional UI feature.
Regarding multitasking, I believe we're still talking cooperative there. Even if they grafted some preemptive capabilities in, the vast majority of apps live in me-only-me land.
Wait are you talking about MacOS or Win98? They both are subject to this shortcoming. That is why MacOS X is Unix.
-the Mac is still a happy crashbox, as any heavy Photoshop user must oblige.
Which I am, and I just don't see it. All I know is that I reboot maybe once or twice a day as opposed to Win9x when I was rebooting 4 or 5 times. This argument goes totally out the window when OS X(UNIX) is involved.
All fine and well, except X is an admission of failure of sorts, because it pretty much throws everything old out.
Not really, but, this is the same situation for Win9x going to Win NT. This happens.
And the apps written for X can be counted on all the fingers required for a Mac mouse.
Well you can use the other 9 for counting all the apps CURRENTLY written for Win2K. Win2K will have more apps and so will MacOS X. But you are forgetting the thousands of UNIX apps that will compile and run on OS X already.