Jonathan, what is the best way for us to show support for BBC streaming Ogg? I can see two obvious ways: actually listening to the Ogg streams so that you can shows your logs to management or voicing support through the Ogg feedback e-mail address you have set up.
Which method would be best? Do you know of any other ways to show support?
Does anyone know of a streaming Ogg capable player for MacOS X? I've had trouble finding one in between trying to get Apple to realize they should include Ogg support in iTunes.
I have an Ogg plugin for QuickTime, but I just can't get streaming Ogg to work.
"All of the eye candy in the world doesn't do any good if the software you want is not available for your computer, if you can't read the floppy disk your boss just handed you."
If your boss hands you a floppy disk, it's time to get a new boss!
"MPEG4 is (supposed) to be the new standard file format for QuickTime. How long that will take (people are still using RealAudio and Windows Media standards from 3 years ago) is anyone's guess."
Other way around. QuickTime's file format is what MPEG4's file format is based on. Google's #1 result
I believe (and he can correct me if I am wrong) that John Carmack developed Quake on a NeXT system. Mac OS X is essentially NeXT, so I see no reason for you to slight it as a development platform based on Quake's extensive success. Grame Devine (also of id Software) also uses a Mac for all of his work.
Bullshit. I work for a large Bank. Anyone with an administrative assistant assigned to them has a PDA that the administrative assistant is supposed to keep synced for them. This is NOT in a tech department. Out of the other workers, I'd say about 10-25% have them.
I have one that I bought many years ago, but never use.
Man, you're not good at following conversations. I brought up the ADC to pre-emptively answer any arguments you may have about it.
I know what the dongle fucking does, I have one. What it does is allow Apple to make a small form-factor notebook while not using proprietary connectors.
I hope you realize that the new iMac implements a Faraday Cage, and the PowerMac towers do have metal casing underneath the plastic -- they're also ultra-easy to open and work on.
Now you're just being obtuse. For that port to be truely proprietary in you guys' sense of the word, Apple would have to not include the dongle nor sell it. You's just have to have a monitor with that style of connector that only Apple would sell. That isn't the case.
Apple's monitors are proprietary (because they use the far superior ADC which carries video, data, and USB), but the monitor connections on the PCs are not (you can hook a standard VGA monitor up to them). Hopefully the x86 clones will decide to license this connector from Apple.
The main goal of the iBook is to be small. This is why having a non-standard VGA port is good, it keeps the iBook's form-factor in check. I know, I have one, and I love the truely portable size of it.
Well, I was speaking about proprietariness from an interoperability/interchangability point-of-view.
But, in your meaning of the word there is really only one solution that isn't proprietary, and that's x86. x86 is far from being the de facto superior platform. And every other solution would match your definition of proprietary (Sun for instance).
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Hey, I'm not an Aussie dammit! I'm an American. :)
Jonathan, what is the best way for us to show support for BBC streaming Ogg? I can see two obvious ways: actually listening to the Ogg streams so that you can shows your logs to management or voicing support through the Ogg feedback e-mail address you have set up.
Which method would be best? Do you know of any other ways to show support?
"What I really, really want to do is get my revenge by leeching some taxpayers money back from America or Australia."
;)
Still bitter about the weakening of the Empire, huh?
Does anyone know of a streaming Ogg capable player for MacOS X? I've had trouble finding one in between trying to get Apple to realize they should include Ogg support in iTunes.
I have an Ogg plugin for QuickTime, but I just can't get streaming Ogg to work.
Don't try to play the game with a winmodem piece of shit.
Also, drop another 2GHz Pentium 4 in there and that computer might be up to competing with the dual 1GHz G4.
Where the hell is your FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet?
"All of the eye candy in the world doesn't do any good if the software you want is not available for your computer, if you can't read the floppy disk your boss just handed you."
If your boss hands you a floppy disk, it's time to get a new boss!
They would have modeled it after the iBook. Apple may have told them that the iBook was the future of Apple design.
"MPEG4 is (supposed) to be the new standard file format for QuickTime. How long that will take (people are still using RealAudio and Windows Media standards from 3 years ago) is anyone's guess."
Other way around. QuickTime's file format is what MPEG4's file format is based on. Google's #1 result
It appears that Palm designed the new PDA to match Apple's line of hardware.
I believe (and he can correct me if I am wrong) that John Carmack developed Quake on a NeXT system. Mac OS X is essentially NeXT, so I see no reason for you to slight it as a development platform based on Quake's extensive success. Grame Devine (also of id Software) also uses a Mac for all of his work.
You know, Apple does make towers. And Mac users got the GeForce3 at least one day before the x86 crowd.
Quit complaining about problems with Apple's product line that DON'T EXIST.
Ummmm... QuickTime is the new standard file format for MPEG4. How is that proprietary?
Oh, you must have been talking about one of QuickTime's codecs. Remember QuickTime is much more than a codec.
...Slashdotters that always point out their favorite OS isn't vulnerable to a particular bug.
My Macintosh isn't affected by this bug due to its PowerPC processor.
It usually isn't. :) But, at least it is a reponse.
I'd never get an e-mail response from my boss if he didn't have a Blackberry.
In the large Bank that I work for, Blackberries are very common in the investments side of the Banc.
Ever heard of Blackberries? Of course professionals need to have instant messaging on their PDAs.
Bullshit. I work for a large Bank. Anyone with an administrative assistant assigned to them has a PDA that the administrative assistant is supposed to keep synced for them. This is NOT in a tech department. Out of the other workers, I'd say about 10-25% have them.
I have one that I bought many years ago, but never use.
Bob Cringley says it is a Challenger 604.
Not at all... the license on PowerPC processors isn't even owned by Apple. Anyone can (and many do) make PowerPC hardware.
The GameCube uses a PowerPC chip, as do many other embedded systems.
Man, you're not good at following conversations. I brought up the ADC to pre-emptively answer any arguments you may have about it.
I know what the dongle fucking does, I have one. What it does is allow Apple to make a small form-factor notebook while not using proprietary connectors.
I hope you realize that the new iMac implements a Faraday Cage, and the PowerMac towers do have metal casing underneath the plastic -- they're also ultra-easy to open and work on.
Apple's monitors are proprietary (because they use the far superior ADC which carries video, data, and USB), but the monitor connections on the PCs are not (you can hook a standard VGA monitor up to them). Hopefully the x86 clones will decide to license this connector from Apple.
The main goal of the iBook is to be small. This is why having a non-standard VGA port is good, it keeps the iBook's form-factor in check. I know, I have one, and I love the truely portable size of it.
D'oh!
Well, I was speaking about proprietariness from an interoperability/interchangability point-of-view.
But, in your meaning of the word there is really only one solution that isn't proprietary, and that's x86. x86 is far from being the de facto superior platform. And every other solution would match your definition of proprietary (Sun for instance).