The creators of these applications will now upgrade them to support Panther. Unfortunately, this will now break many of them with OSX 10.2 and older. I hadn't intended to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2, but was forced to for this very reason.
I think the breakage transition between 10.1 and 10.2 was a one-time problem due to Apple's shortsightedness in how application software binds with system libraries and frameworks. In Mac OS 9 and earlier, it was possible to make PEF applications which could "weak link" to system functionality that was only available in newer versions of the OS.
The Mach-O code system used by many OS X apps didn't support a similar concept until 10.2. (I think Apple expected developers to use the package folder system to provided separate executables for 10.1 and 10.2 within the bundle.) With weak linking again availble, I don't think there will be as severe a cutoff between 10.2/10.3 apps as there was between 10.1/10.2.
The larger pattern this fits into is one that's seen lots of research recently: we don't like other people getting what we perceive to be "better" deals, even if their deals come at no marginal cost to us.
Research nothing... This has been know for millennia. Read the story that Jesus, son of Joseph, told in Matthew 20 of the Christian Bible sometime.
What is Kerbango? And why would I want to use it? And why does 3Com (associated with Kerbango) feel it necessary to specifically disclaim liability for "loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning"?
The Kerbango was a standalone radio (i.e. consumer appliance) that could play Internet radio stations via a phone jack. 3Com backed out of the project when initial sales interest failed to hold up and the 'Net radio scene was crushed by licensing fees.
In developing the product, they had some central servers deployed that the radios dialed into. Apple expected 3Com to have more success on the project, so they licenced the Kerbango protocols for the Radio Tuner in iTunes early on. For the most part, the functionality is mostly forgotten by both Apple and 3Com, with most of the stations simply linking to Live365.
The window does not expand to fill the whole screen. Am I missing something here?
The Mac OS and the QuickTime APIs have no concept of a "Multiple Document Interface" as Microsoft calls it. MDI is a Microsoft Windows exclusive concept that how MS originally got around some of Apple's early "look and feel" litigation. There is also some historical reasons for why Apple never adopted this kind of interface.
When Multifinder was introduced to an earlier Mac OS, it was considered desirable for a user to see content from windows between applications. Macs previously used "desk accessories" to approximate multitasking before, and this UI decision helped smooth the transition. Letting applications only have window scale control, rather than the full screen, eventually allowed Apple to discontinue the DA concept in favor of microapplications.
In addition, as the Mac OS developed, Apple started advocating drag-and-drop data manipulation. This requires that both the source window and destination window be visible for a drag operation to occur; this continued emphasis is why OS X now has the trash can in the Dock and Panther includes an "Expose" feature to make all windows visible at once.
Mac users are accustomed to bouncing between applications readily while most Windows apps seem to be designed for exclusive, one at a time use. Other interface quirks, like floating verses anchored toolbars and the global menubar, are extensions of this differing emphasis in multitasking.
Auto-running CDs is a security problem waiting to happen.
As a Mac user, let me just say that my "virus immune" platform has already been bitten by this. One of the few pieces of malware in the wild that was Mac-compatible was exploiting the equivalent functionality on the platform; it was known as the Autostart Worm. It was an embarassment for Apple and some publishing houses, and eventally showed up on some shipping commercial CDs. Since then, Mac users have disabled the functionality using the QuickTime control panel/system pref pane.
It's only since the 32 bit era that the average jock you'd find living in a dorm room would spend any significant amount of time gaming.
Uh, no. As an undergrad, I remember every third or fourth apartment in my dorm having an NES or Genesis. I remember Tecmo Bowl being especially popular. Even further back, I remember there being board games, TV cartoons, and breakfast cereal related to video games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
There seems to be this misconception that geeks were the original audience for video games. This is far from the truth. The first marketed video games were intended as add-ons for public places like bars and pool halls. "Geek" gaming genres like FPS and RPGs are more recent inventions, but sports sims existed (with various levels of fidelity) all the way back to the Atari 2600 days. (Heck, Pong's considered to be a tennis sim.)
The notion of video games having originated as part of geek culture first came about after the great Gaming Crash of the early 80's. Prior to the crash, 2 and 4 player video games were common; it avoided the need to develop AI. However, oversaturation of games and game companies caused most people to be driven away from gaming, killing off most of the social aspects with it. As such, many of the games made in the following period were mostly solitary affairs: shemups, RPGs, adventures, and exploration games. It was only when networking and dial-up mutated the FPS game style into a multiplayer affair, along with the reintroduction of head-to-head play via fighting games, that video games became part of popular culture again.
There will always be orginal thought as long as there are individuals being born that are orginal.
I think the problem that scares some people is the possibility that individuals being born now-a-days aren't original. I remember a TV commerical that stated that, if you are one in a million, there are a thousand people just like you in China.
I'm a Mac developer, so I have a love of the platform. But using XServes just to run Linux seems kind of strange at this time. The only systems Apple currently sells with decent performance with full exploitation of DDR are the recently released G5 towers.
I would think that Apple would need to update the XServer line before such Linux use would make sense, since that OS currently runs better on Intel/AMD iron.
Uhhh... The Atari 10-in-1 is shaped like the original stick...
As for the Intellivision controllers, they were way too thin. There would have been no way hold the electronics needed for a complete system in such a form factor.
They also made some pretty decent pinball games including Star Wars, Simpsons and Rocky and Bullwinkle themes.
The pinball divison still lives... kind of... It changed hands several times, from Sega and now to a re-branded Stern.
IMHO, DE/Sega/Stern's tables were the lowest quality verses others like those of Williams', but that lower quality meant lower cost, which allowed them to survive as the only still operating pinball manufacturer. (That and some bar friendly licences like South Park also helped.)
One of the stats mentioned in the article was that if the compressed garbage output of the entire U.S. for the next millenium was dumped into a single landfill 100 yards deep, the space required would be about 250 (I think) square miles.
I've seen these stats before, and while I believe them to be true, there's one major problem that makes that 250 square miles a hassle.
That waste space, to be properly accessable (read: economical) to our transportation infrastructure, must be evenly distributed across the US. And who wants to live next to a garbage dump?
I'm an arcade junkie and... to an arcade junkie, Archon just looks like fancy chess.
Then you missed out on a game you may have liked... When two pieces meet on the game board, the players engage in an arcade/action sequence to see who wins the square. Archon was not like the later Battle Chess where the animations were pre-scripted. Each of the pieces had a distinct fighting style, involving differing missile, melee, or area-affect attacks.
I'm surprised that there was never a later version of this game that used a Soul Calibur-style combat resolution system...
I don't know if these things exist elsewhere. Have other people seen them in other places?
I have; there's some in Northwest Ohio. (Findlay has one that I've been to.) There, they are usually run as an extension or "kid-friendly" version of the adult-focused mega-arcades (like Dave & Buster's) that are in vogue currently.
Can someone tell me why this is happening? Seems counter productive - streaming is bad for network if it can be avoided. And this is not premium/paid content we are talking about! This is trailers... as in the stuff that studios should be happy to let us watch for free!
It's all about content control. They don't want people out on the 'Net to easily redistribute the trailer via unapproved sites or to edit/modify them into derivative works.
Despite the paranoia of the ex-Napster crowd, this isn't about curtailing free use rights per se. Many corporations view unauthorized distribution as compromising of the PR campaigns they run and worry about "Guilt By Association" if a third party gets publicly identified with the distribution of their work.
Where can my wife take a memory card and have someone extract 36 of the pictures and print them out for 8 bucks in one hour? It's not going to happen soon.
This is already happening. In Wal-Marts and drug stores for the last couple of years, I've noticed that Kodak and others have been placing "edit your photo" kiosks next to the photo lab departments. These kiosks (which look like glorified ATMs) can read CDs and floppies; some even have slide, negative and page scanners. These machines have a touchscreen that allows printout options with basic editing.
The only thing that these machines are missinge is the ability to read memory cards directly. However, now that multi-format card readers for PCs are down to under $50 in places, I don't doubt that the 2.0 version of these kiosks will have readers as well.
Homosexuals will sometimes call themselves "f-g" or "d-k-" amongst themselves; blacks sometimes will call themselves "n-gg-r" as well.
I think the recent popularization of "geek" as a term for us(?) is an attempt to defuse the negative connotation the word has. A term of endearment, of sorts... At least "geek" isn't considered a vulgarism by the populace at large like my "censored" terms above are.
I thought Snapz Pro could already do this... I used the OS 9 version to sample some video game music a couple times.
This new audio app's more novel use is to do real-time sound processing for audio (like making your Mac sound like it's in a cathedral.) Kind of like those high end surround sound systems for home entertainment centers.
Apple had something similar with the Newton (now part of OS X's Ink system)... I'm sure Xerox and others experimented with this earlier as well.
The reason for sterility...
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...given in the article has to do with if the hybrid creature has an even number of chromosomes. I was under the impression that sterility of offspring was one of the determinations of speciation used by biologists. (And one of the frequent "disproofs" of evolution by creationists.) If a hybrid offspring had an even number of chromosomes, could it be fertile?
Are there known hybrids/half-breeds can have normal fertility, as opposed to requiring a "miracle" to occur? This is a sincere question, even though I know full well the trolls that are going to be attracted to this post.
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I think the breakage transition between 10.1 and 10.2 was a one-time problem due to Apple's shortsightedness in how application software binds with system libraries and frameworks. In Mac OS 9 and earlier, it was possible to make PEF applications which could "weak link" to system functionality that was only available in newer versions of the OS.
The Mach-O code system used by many OS X apps didn't support a similar concept until 10.2. (I think Apple expected developers to use the package folder system to provided separate executables for 10.1 and 10.2 within the bundle.) With weak linking again availble, I don't think there will be as severe a cutoff between 10.2/10.3 apps as there was between 10.1/10.2.
Research nothing... This has been know for millennia. Read the story that Jesus, son of Joseph, told in Matthew 20 of the Christian Bible sometime.
The Kerbango was a standalone radio (i.e. consumer appliance) that could play Internet radio stations via a phone jack. 3Com backed out of the project when initial sales interest failed to hold up and the 'Net radio scene was crushed by licensing fees.
In developing the product, they had some central servers deployed that the radios dialed into. Apple expected 3Com to have more success on the project, so they licenced the Kerbango protocols for the Radio Tuner in iTunes early on. For the most part, the functionality is mostly forgotten by both Apple and 3Com, with most of the stations simply linking to Live365.
The Mac OS and the QuickTime APIs have no concept of a "Multiple Document Interface" as Microsoft calls it. MDI is a Microsoft Windows exclusive concept that how MS originally got around some of Apple's early "look and feel" litigation. There is also some historical reasons for why Apple never adopted this kind of interface.
When Multifinder was introduced to an earlier Mac OS, it was considered desirable for a user to see content from windows between applications. Macs previously used "desk accessories" to approximate multitasking before, and this UI decision helped smooth the transition. Letting applications only have window scale control, rather than the full screen, eventually allowed Apple to discontinue the DA concept in favor of microapplications.
In addition, as the Mac OS developed, Apple started advocating drag-and-drop data manipulation. This requires that both the source window and destination window be visible for a drag operation to occur; this continued emphasis is why OS X now has the trash can in the Dock and Panther includes an "Expose" feature to make all windows visible at once.
Mac users are accustomed to bouncing between applications readily while most Windows apps seem to be designed for exclusive, one at a time use. Other interface quirks, like floating verses anchored toolbars and the global menubar, are extensions of this differing emphasis in multitasking.
As a Mac user, let me just say that my "virus immune" platform has already been bitten by this. One of the few pieces of malware in the wild that was Mac-compatible was exploiting the equivalent functionality on the platform; it was known as the Autostart Worm. It was an embarassment for Apple and some publishing houses, and eventally showed up on some shipping commercial CDs. Since then, Mac users have disabled the functionality using the QuickTime control panel/system pref pane.
Uh, no. As an undergrad, I remember every third or fourth apartment in my dorm having an NES or Genesis. I remember Tecmo Bowl being especially popular. Even further back, I remember there being board games, TV cartoons, and breakfast cereal related to video games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
There seems to be this misconception that geeks were the original audience for video games. This is far from the truth. The first marketed video games were intended as add-ons for public places like bars and pool halls. "Geek" gaming genres like FPS and RPGs are more recent inventions, but sports sims existed (with various levels of fidelity) all the way back to the Atari 2600 days. (Heck, Pong's considered to be a tennis sim.)
The notion of video games having originated as part of geek culture first came about after the great Gaming Crash of the early 80's. Prior to the crash, 2 and 4 player video games were common; it avoided the need to develop AI. However, oversaturation of games and game companies caused most people to be driven away from gaming, killing off most of the social aspects with it. As such, many of the games made in the following period were mostly solitary affairs: shemups, RPGs, adventures, and exploration games. It was only when networking and dial-up mutated the FPS game style into a multiplayer affair, along with the reintroduction of head-to-head play via fighting games, that video games became part of popular culture again.
I think the problem that scares some people is the possibility that individuals being born now-a-days aren't original. I remember a TV commerical that stated that, if you are one in a million, there are a thousand people just like you in China.
I'm a Mac developer, so I have a love of the platform. But using XServes just to run Linux seems kind of strange at this time. The only systems Apple currently sells with decent performance with full exploitation of DDR are the recently released G5 towers. I would think that Apple would need to update the XServer line before such Linux use would make sense, since that OS currently runs better on Intel/AMD iron.
Uhhh... The Atari 10-in-1 is shaped like the original stick...
As for the Intellivision controllers, they were way too thin. There would have been no way hold the electronics needed for a complete system in such a form factor.
The pinball divison still lives... kind of... It changed hands several times, from Sega and now to a re-branded Stern.
IMHO, DE/Sega/Stern's tables were the lowest quality verses others like those of Williams', but that lower quality meant lower cost, which allowed them to survive as the only still operating pinball manufacturer. (That and some bar friendly licences like South Park also helped.)
I've seen these stats before, and while I believe them to be true, there's one major problem that makes that 250 square miles a hassle.
NIMBY
That waste space, to be properly accessable (read: economical) to our transportation infrastructure, must be evenly distributed across the US. And who wants to live next to a garbage dump?
Then you missed out on a game you may have liked... When two pieces meet on the game board, the players engage in an arcade/action sequence to see who wins the square. Archon was not like the later Battle Chess where the animations were pre-scripted. Each of the pieces had a distinct fighting style, involving differing missile, melee, or area-affect attacks.
I'm surprised that there was never a later version of this game that used a Soul Calibur-style combat resolution system...
Appropriate joke for the Mac platform, since PowerPC processors have an eieio instruction...
I have; there's some in Northwest Ohio. (Findlay has one that I've been to.) There, they are usually run as an extension or "kid-friendly" version of the adult-focused mega-arcades (like Dave & Buster's) that are in vogue currently.
It's all about content control. They don't want people out on the 'Net to easily redistribute the trailer via unapproved sites or to edit/modify them into derivative works.
Despite the paranoia of the ex-Napster crowd, this isn't about curtailing free use rights per se. Many corporations view unauthorized distribution as compromising of the PR campaigns they run and worry about "Guilt By Association" if a third party gets publicly identified with the distribution of their work.
I had to look it up too when I first saw that word. I don't think I've seen any other magazine visibly use the term in bold print like that.
Reality Distortion Field? You're soaking in it!
...as Penn and Teller would say.
This is already happening. In Wal-Marts and drug stores for the last couple of years, I've noticed that Kodak and others have been placing "edit your photo" kiosks next to the photo lab departments. These kiosks (which look like glorified ATMs) can read CDs and floppies; some even have slide, negative and page scanners. These machines have a touchscreen that allows printout options with basic editing.
The only thing that these machines are missinge is the ability to read memory cards directly. However, now that multi-format card readers for PCs are down to under $50 in places, I don't doubt that the 2.0 version of these kiosks will have readers as well.
I think the recent popularization of "geek" as a term for us(?) is an attempt to defuse the negative connotation the word has. A term of endearment, of sorts... At least "geek" isn't considered a vulgarism by the populace at large like my "censored" terms above are.
SNAUSAGES!
Egad, you know /. has fallen when readers can't even spell made-up words correctly...
I can see how this would make it hard to sequence; how do you know if the strand fragment you are messing with is upside down or not? (-;
This new audio app's more novel use is to do real-time sound processing for audio (like making your Mac sound like it's in a cathedral.) Kind of like those high end surround sound systems for home entertainment centers.
Apple had something similar with the Newton (now part of OS X's Ink system)... I'm sure Xerox and others experimented with this earlier as well.
Are there known hybrids/half-breeds can have normal fertility, as opposed to requiring a "miracle" to occur? This is a sincere question, even though I know full well the trolls that are going to be attracted to this post.