You have you history of the Web browser a little confused. Spyglass made IE, yes. Mosaic didn't make Netscape. Netscape was started by a group of people that left NCSA's Mosaic team.
Yeah, I never understood that. Ford develops a vehicle (Explorer) with poor stability. To resist against rollovers, Ford recommends their customers under-inflate their tires rather than fix the design. Tires weaken (obviously) and vechicles wreck. For some reason the mass public and press believe Ford that the problem is with the tires and not the shoddy vehicle.
I'm highly doubtful that there is any technical reason for this; it seems to be a flimsy marketing tactic.
The technical reason for this is that you're using more of their bandwidth with the large movies than you are with the smaller movies. Since you aren't paying for your use of their bandwidth, the least you can do is pay a paltry $29.99 for QuickTime Pro.
Open Source Versatility
While QuickTime Streaming Server is designed for Mac OS X Server, it's also available as an open source server called Darwin Streaming Server. Versions are available for Linux, Solaris and Windows NT/2000. And because it's an open source technology, Darwin Streaming Server can be ported to other platforms by modifying a few platform-specific source files.
However, hopefully Apple's licensing difficulties with MPEG4 LA will persuade them to pay more attention to the various Ogg codecs.
This has nothing to do with Apple porting QuickTime to Linux. Apple was reliant on Sorensen for that. Apple's contract with Sorensen wouldn't preclude Sorensen from letting their CODEC be used on Linux as long as it was QuickTime for Linux that using it. Apple gains nothing by refusing to release QuickTime for Linux. Linux users seem to think that Apple is out to spite them for some unknown reason.
I use a technology called BookShelf. Since all books have an identifying mechanism on their spine, it is relatively easy to optically scan the books for their unique identifier and select it based off of that.
You're right. Best Buy is the store of choice for "hardcore audiophiles." That's why I see a majority of DVD players there with DVD Audio and SACD capabilities and that's probably why there is a good supply of DVD Audio discs thrown in with the DVD Video music discs.
Unfortunately, avoiding these new content-protected mediums has made shopping for a new DVD Video player annoying. I don't care much about movies, they're strictly entertainment. But, I won't accept business getting between me and my music. Music is a part of life.
"And Sun really has a double standard there: when Apple exposes all their native platform APIs to Java, that's fine. It's just not fine when Microsoft does it. Who's going to get sued next? What can open source developers do with Java before Sun is going to try and sue them?"
Apple doesn't have a monopoly, Microsoft does. Apple allowing you to code native applications for the Mac in Java doesn't hurt Java in the same way that Microsoft was trying to change Java.
I think you're missing out on the fact that not all blank media is used to pirate RIAA titles. Therefore, a healthy percentage of the taxes are pure profit for the RIAA.
The reason RIAA gave upi their rights to prosecution on grounds of piracy is because you Canadians pay taxes to the RIAA on every piece of blank media you purchase. This will soon extend to devices like MP3 players.
It also replaces a lot of the financial company's NeXT systems. Porting applications from the NextStep API to Cocoa isn't that difficult (witness OmniWeb).
Yes, one of the banks of America uses NeXT systems for their traders. However I believe NeXT has been put on a 'sell' list, and Windows 2000 has replaced it as a 'buy' technology.
Personally, I think they should upgrade to the latest version of NeXT: Mac OS X. The ports would be very easy (see OmniWeb) and they would retain the benefits that the NeXT API gave them.
I'm not talking about Word or Excel here because those exist for the Mac today - but plenty of other apps (like Microsoft Money for example) exist only for Windows. It's not real likely Microsoft is going to develop any desktop applications in Java (the only real alternative when it comes to cross platform binaries) but it seems like a given they will for.NET.
Money uses Jet as its datastore. Until Jet is ported to another platform (including.Net), Money will never appear anywhere but Windows.
OK, gobe are the people that have been developing for BeOS (created by a splinter-group from Apple), and evidently Productive is developed by some former Claris employees (Claris was acquired by Apple). So, where is the Mac OS X version of this application?!?
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What happened to the "XPod" name? Why did it change? Apple Computer, a company with which Mediafour has always had an amicable relationship, expressed concern over our use of the name "XPod", due to its similarity to the "iPod" name. We chose to change the name to XPlay early on in the project.
Apple didn't ask them to cease and desist, they merely requested that it undergo a name change.
Demand is already outstripping supply on these things. It's not like they need a bigger market.
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Apple has given MediaFour their blessings to work on the application. Apple merely requested that they not call it XPod as they had intended, MediaFour complied and now calls it XPlay.
"only one mouse button (I won't be buying a Mac Laptop without this getting fixed), and they keyboard seems a little bit flimsy."
Dude, you're going to be hitting keys on the keyboard of a laptop for any mouse-clicking anyway; why do you care if the functionality comes from a chord (command+click) or from a different button (secondary-click)?
Laptops of all flavors should only have one button for the "mouse." That way you don't have to bother with fumbling for where the secondary button is on every laptop, just use the one you were given.
Also, on Apple laptop's you _can_ double click on the actual trackpad.
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Apple doesn't preach using Apple hardware for mission critical server operations.
I've never used wi-fi on a PC, but when my brother brings his Windows laptop to my house he has to ask what the name of my access point is.
Only lusers need to know the SSID to connect to the network anyway. Those of us with Macs needn't worry about such trivial things.
You have you history of the Web browser a little confused. Spyglass made IE, yes. Mosaic didn't make Netscape. Netscape was started by a group of people that left NCSA's Mosaic team.
Yeah, I never understood that. Ford develops a vehicle (Explorer) with poor stability. To resist against rollovers, Ford recommends their customers under-inflate their tires rather than fix the design. Tires weaken (obviously) and vechicles wreck. For some reason the mass public and press believe Ford that the problem is with the tires and not the shoddy vehicle.
Additionally, Apple provides Darwin Streaming Server as an open source project.
However, hopefully Apple's licensing difficulties with MPEG4 LA will persuade them to pay more attention to the various Ogg codecs.
Hear, hear.
This has nothing to do with Apple porting QuickTime to Linux. Apple was reliant on Sorensen for that. Apple's contract with Sorensen wouldn't preclude Sorensen from letting their CODEC be used on Linux as long as it was QuickTime for Linux that using it. Apple gains nothing by refusing to release QuickTime for Linux. Linux users seem to think that Apple is out to spite them for some unknown reason.
This has been happening for a while now in Cary, NC.
I use a technology called BookShelf. Since all books have an identifying mechanism on their spine, it is relatively easy to optically scan the books for their unique identifier and select it based off of that.
You're right. Best Buy is the store of choice for "hardcore audiophiles." That's why I see a majority of DVD players there with DVD Audio and SACD capabilities and that's probably why there is a good supply of DVD Audio discs thrown in with the DVD Video music discs.
I avoid them like the plague.
What do you think DVD Audio and Super Audio CD are?
Unfortunately, avoiding these new content-protected mediums has made shopping for a new DVD Video player annoying. I don't care much about movies, they're strictly entertainment. But, I won't accept business getting between me and my music. Music is a part of life.
"And Sun really has a double standard there: when Apple exposes all their native platform APIs to Java, that's fine. It's just not fine when Microsoft does it. Who's going to get sued next? What can open source developers do with Java before Sun is going to try and sue them?"
Apple doesn't have a monopoly, Microsoft does. Apple allowing you to code native applications for the Mac in Java doesn't hurt Java in the same way that Microsoft was trying to change Java.
I think you're missing out on the fact that not all blank media is used to pirate RIAA titles. Therefore, a healthy percentage of the taxes are pure profit for the RIAA.
The reason RIAA gave upi their rights to prosecution on grounds of piracy is because you Canadians pay taxes to the RIAA on every piece of blank media you purchase. This will soon extend to devices like MP3 players.
These apps are going to have a lot of proprietary logic. The community isn't going to be asked to help in porting.
It also replaces a lot of the financial company's NeXT systems. Porting applications from the NextStep API to Cocoa isn't that difficult (witness OmniWeb).
Does anyone know what the article means by company-wide? It doesn't go into much detail. Exactly what sort of systems are being replaced by Linux?
Yes, one of the banks of America uses NeXT systems for their traders. However I believe NeXT has been put on a 'sell' list, and Windows 2000 has replaced it as a 'buy' technology.
Personally, I think they should upgrade to the latest version of NeXT: Mac OS X. The ports would be very easy (see OmniWeb) and they would retain the benefits that the NeXT API gave them.
OK, gobe are the people that have been developing for BeOS (created by a splinter-group from Apple), and evidently Productive is developed by some former Claris employees (Claris was acquired by Apple). So, where is the Mac OS X version of this application?!?
Demand is already outstripping supply on these things. It's not like they need a bigger market.
Apple has given MediaFour their blessings to work on the application. Apple merely requested that they not call it XPod as they had intended, MediaFour complied and now calls it XPlay.
"only one mouse button (I won't be buying a Mac Laptop without this getting fixed), and they keyboard seems a little bit flimsy."
Dude, you're going to be hitting keys on the keyboard of a laptop for any mouse-clicking anyway; why do you care if the functionality comes from a chord (command+click) or from a different button (secondary-click)?
Laptops of all flavors should only have one button for the "mouse." That way you don't have to bother with fumbling for where the secondary button is on every laptop, just use the one you were given.
Also, on Apple laptop's you _can_ double click on the actual trackpad.