It looks like Intel, et al, is really taking the Sony/Apple rival standard seriously as a source of ideas. With Apple still shipping systems that use only the 400-speed version (despite promises of eventual support for 800 and 1600-spped), FireWire may lose any chance of further market penetration.
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FW devices are rare enough as it is. My Mac has two open FW ports, but has about 5-6 USB 1.1 devices competing for ports on the computer and hubs...
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Why is it assumed that every article on/. pertains just to you?
The Big Dig is a massive highway tunneling and reconstruction project to solve some of the serious gridlock problems Boston has. Since Boston competes with New York for convention attendance, this is relevant to many business travelers. (And MacWorld was once held there, and my be held there again.)
I know this, and I'm not even from there! You see the Dig mentioned regularly on other news sites from time to time; been going on for years now.
For spreadsheets and word processors, I can't imagine that this will be better than color.
And yet every business PC I've seen uses color; the early Macintosh developers worked with the idea that B&W is all that's needed by businesses and were shown to be wrong.
Assuming this technology evolves to allow a wider viewing angle, I wonder what the PowerPoint presentations of the '10s are going to look like... (-;
You'll need to revisit your prefs page. Recently,/. added a collection of categories with titles of the pattern "Category (Apple)". There about a half-dozen; you'll need to check them all off. Even though I'm a Mac fan, this recent "explosion" of OS X banter on/. strikes me as out of character for the site.
But if Apple bundles the product wouldn't that give a distinct advantage to Adobe
This isn't "bundling" in the sense that Apple does with iTunes or M$ does with IE. It's a temporary sales promotion. You need to send in a coupon in the mail and wait two months for the free copy to be sent to you; this isn't something you can exploit to make a deadline or market window.
It would be timeless to line up for a great railgun shot on someone and the Bat comes along and carries off your Railgun.
You know, the bat was never a problem for me. I figured out that the single room in the gold castle wrapped the sides and top in such a way that the bat could be caged there, so long at it wasn't flying downwards. I just waited for it to grab something unneeded, like the magnet or a used key, so carried into the castle.
I'm still fuming to this day that I was this close to finding the secret room under my own power. (Found dot and greyed out the barrier, but I couldn't walk through it for some reason.) Pity that the Stella emulator doesn't allow the dot to be picked up. )-:
Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I was just surprised that no one was commenting on the silliness of showing science fiction in a science museum. Now, it would be way cool if people left the theatre and walked along a hallway explaining the scientific inaccuracies of Sci-Fi films (noise in space, etc.).
You may be on to something about a "Sci-Fi vs Sci-Reality" exhibit. However, you're forgetting that many Science museums are actually "Science And Industry" museums. Both the Chicago Museum of S & I and COSI in Columbus, Ohio will regularly do exhibits about popular culture. Over the years, I've have been to or heard about exhibits covering P. T. Barnum circuses, Cracker Jack trinkets, Commodore 64 computing, Jim Henson "Muppetry," and Lego Mindstorms.
As for contributors and sponsorship, the majority of funding to science museums comes from corporations. There was a recent exhibit at CMSI about computing which had obvious sponsorship by the likes of Sun, Cisco, and IBM; I also frequently see Apple hardware in obvious placement at many multimedia stations.
This particular kind of museum has been commercial for as long as they have existed; it's usually the Natural History type museums that have the more academic culture related to them. Even then, they are not immune; the Chicago Field Museum has an exhibit on chocolate, including a section on candy bar advertising. In this age of Disneyland and Six Flags, these attractions have to resort to flash to compete.
I totally agree with the file moving/deleting/using problem. Apple needs to include some sort of "sudo" or "su" - like functionality option in the finder for powerusers like me.
I haven't used it yet, but 10.2 supports changing file ownership via Get Info windows. Entering your admin password after clicking a lock button will activate pop-up menus in such windows that can change an errant file's owner or group so you can inherit permission to move or delete it. This seems backwards compared to escalating the user's permission level via sudo, but this may solve most of these problems.
I always hear that Apple's strongsuit is in color management. What part of it, exactly, is good at color management?
ColorSync is Apple's programming API and workflow system for color management. It's supposed to be the best in the industry, at least for desktop systems.
I believe you're thinking of Kids' Writes. It was an stage performance show where kids would write to the network with their suggestions for skits and even some short scripts.
It didn't have two states, on and off, yes and no, zero and 1... it had three states: 'yes', 'no', and 'stateless'.
Actually, at a hardware level, this is an accurate depiction of a "bit." If a logic gate is not powered, it can't be said to have either a low or high state since it can't be measured. Chips and circuitry that handle multiple input or output pins will usually support a "high impedance" state; this allows a manufacturer to leave individual pins unconnected in a complex chip housing. For example, a chip implementing a 4-way AND gate without supporting high impedance would require the fourth pin to be connected high if only 3 inputs are needed. (And connected low in the case of an OR gate.)
Now that the traditional resource fork has been discouraged by Apple for use under X, I guess this kind of stuff will take its place on sites like this one...
If by "Wired" you mean the magazine, I'd have to disagree on the historical perspective element. They've done articles comparing the wireless telegraph to the Internet, making comments about modern media via McLuhan's TV-era views, and examining decades old technology and infrastuctures, like oil tankers, to find lessons applicable to this decade. I do agree with you that the mag has a tendency to make anything seem exciting and revolutionary, but at least the style evolved away a bit from it's original excesses when it was up against mags like Mondo 2000.
I thought the rule was the market responded to the consumer
Technically, it responds to the customer. It's just a strange fact of USian culture that customers (people willing to run stores) and consumers (people who actually are "customers") have been separated into different constituencies. Our culture is suffering from a prolonged "man-in-the-middle" attack...
/.'s more like the entire "Ring Of Fire" that the San Andreas is part of, even international sites get flattened by the seismic shocks that are the voluntary DDoS by thousands of geeks everywhere.
I'm just not entirely sure what you have against lobbying groups. It's simply not possible to have a democracy with 150 million citizens. The closest we can get is the representative kind, which is what we have, and SIGs and their ilk HELP the little guy. (Environmentalists make up a pretty small percentage of the total population of the country, but because of big lobbying groups they often get their way.)
I'm not against lobbies per se, but the population as a whole is not equally represented by them. Demographic groups with less money, or who have a philosophical opposition to spending it on politics (like many in the OS movement), are at a disadvantage. This leads to the popular perception of lobbies no longer being the voice of "the little guy."
As a hypothetical example, a Bible Belter who thinks he can no longer take his camper to a national park due to environmental advocacy thinks his lifestyle is being looked down upon by "those rich, lazy, Gaia-worshiping Hollywood types." Unions also are suffering this problem. Originally organized to help labor to stand on equal footing with management, unionization didn't happen industrywide but only in certain sectors. As a result, unions are now widely perceived by non-unionmembers to be run by underworld interests and made to keep the paychecks of "lazy" workers unreasonably high.
It doesn't matter that much of the accusations are exaggerations and/or outright lies, organizations are susceptable to negative perceptions. Those in the Open Source movement are already accused of being "pirates" and "anti-capitalist"; going the lobby route will only convince their political enemies (and the politically apathetic, sadly) that Open Sourcers are discontent insurrectionists.
I wish I had a solution. All I can say is if the EFF or whomever is serious about being the Digital Rights Lobby, they will need to preemptively address and correct any negative perceptions before they will be accepted as a political force by politicians.
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Around about the time they finally wise up to our use of "male" and "female" for connector cables and plugs...
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FW devices are rare enough as it is. My Mac has two open FW ports, but has about 5-6 USB 1.1 devices competing for ports on the computer and hubs...
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The Big Dig is a massive highway tunneling and reconstruction project to solve some of the serious gridlock problems Boston has. Since Boston competes with New York for convention attendance, this is relevant to many business travelers. (And MacWorld was once held there, and my be held there again.)
I know this, and I'm not even from there! You see the Dig mentioned regularly on other news sites from time to time; been going on for years now.
MBA or law degree... where the big bucks are.
Which is true, sadly.
And yet every business PC I've seen uses color; the early Macintosh developers worked with the idea that B&W is all that's needed by businesses and were shown to be wrong.
Assuming this technology evolves to allow a wider viewing angle, I wonder what the PowerPoint presentations of the '10s are going to look like... (-;
Aren't most forms of advertising "published" in some form or another? Say newspapers, magazines, and anthologies?
You'll need to revisit your prefs page. Recently, /. added a collection of categories with titles of the pattern "Category (Apple)". There about a half-dozen; you'll need to check them all off. Even though I'm a Mac fan, this recent "explosion" of OS X banter on /. strikes me as out of character for the site.
I wonder if OSDN is trying to kill off MacSlash?
But if Apple bundles the product wouldn't that give a distinct advantage to Adobe
This isn't "bundling" in the sense that Apple does with iTunes or M$ does with IE. It's a temporary sales promotion. You need to send in a coupon in the mail and wait two months for the free copy to be sent to you; this isn't something you can exploit to make a deadline or market window.
I can pick up the dot just fine under stella.
Last time I tried it, it didn't work. But it may be a quirk of the emulator's port. (PowerPC version)
It would be timeless to line up for a great railgun shot on someone and the Bat comes along and carries off your Railgun.
You know, the bat was never a problem for me. I figured out that the single room in the gold castle wrapped the sides and top in such a way that the bat could be caged there, so long at it wasn't flying downwards. I just waited for it to grab something unneeded, like the magnet or a used key, so carried into the castle.
I'm still fuming to this day that I was this close to finding the secret room under my own power. (Found dot and greyed out the barrier, but I couldn't walk through it for some reason.) Pity that the Stella emulator doesn't allow the dot to be picked up. )-:
Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I was just surprised that no one was commenting on the silliness of showing science fiction in a science museum. Now, it would be way cool if people left the theatre and walked along a hallway explaining the scientific inaccuracies of Sci-Fi films (noise in space, etc.).
You may be on to something about a "Sci-Fi vs Sci-Reality" exhibit. However, you're forgetting that many Science museums are actually "Science And Industry" museums. Both the Chicago Museum of S & I and COSI in Columbus, Ohio will regularly do exhibits about popular culture. Over the years, I've have been to or heard about exhibits covering P. T. Barnum circuses, Cracker Jack trinkets, Commodore 64 computing, Jim Henson "Muppetry," and Lego Mindstorms.
As for contributors and sponsorship, the majority of funding to science museums comes from corporations. There was a recent exhibit at CMSI about computing which had obvious sponsorship by the likes of Sun, Cisco, and IBM; I also frequently see Apple hardware in obvious placement at many multimedia stations.
This particular kind of museum has been commercial for as long as they have existed; it's usually the Natural History type museums that have the more academic culture related to them. Even then, they are not immune; the Chicago Field Museum has an exhibit on chocolate, including a section on candy bar advertising. In this age of Disneyland and Six Flags, these attractions have to resort to flash to compete.
I totally agree with the file moving/deleting/using problem. Apple needs to include some sort of "sudo" or "su" - like functionality option in the finder for powerusers like me.
I haven't used it yet, but 10.2 supports changing file ownership via Get Info windows. Entering your admin password after clicking a lock button will activate pop-up menus in such windows that can change an errant file's owner or group so you can inherit permission to move or delete it. This seems backwards compared to escalating the user's permission level via sudo, but this may solve most of these problems.
I always hear that Apple's strongsuit is in color management. What part of it, exactly, is good at color management?
ColorSync is Apple's programming API and workflow system for color management. It's supposed to be the best in the industry, at least for desktop systems.
...will the 3rd space satelite be named Babbage, Chubb, or Tibbs? What's with the double-b anyway?
I believe you're thinking of Kids' Writes. It was an stage performance show where kids would write to the network with their suggestions for skits and even some short scripts.
It didn't have two states, on and off, yes and no, zero and 1... it had three states: 'yes', 'no', and 'stateless'.
Actually, at a hardware level, this is an accurate depiction of a "bit." If a logic gate is not powered, it can't be said to have either a low or high state since it can't be measured. Chips and circuitry that handle multiple input or output pins will usually support a "high impedance" state; this allows a manufacturer to leave individual pins unconnected in a complex chip housing. For example, a chip implementing a 4-way AND gate without supporting high impedance would require the fourth pin to be connected high if only 3 inputs are needed. (And connected low in the case of an OR gate.)
Now that the traditional resource fork has been discouraged by Apple for use under X, I guess this kind of stuff will take its place on sites like this one...
If by "Wired" you mean the magazine, I'd have to disagree on the historical perspective element. They've done articles comparing the wireless telegraph to the Internet, making comments about modern media via McLuhan's TV-era views, and examining decades old technology and infrastuctures, like oil tankers, to find lessons applicable to this decade. I do agree with you that the mag has a tendency to make anything seem exciting and revolutionary, but at least the style evolved away a bit from it's original excesses when it was up against mags like Mondo 2000.
Just checked, it appears to be only an updater, not the entire program.
But then again, Apple once shipped a version of OS X whole as an updater once...
I thought the rule was the market responded to the consumer
Technically, it responds to the customer. It's just a strange fact of USian culture that customers (people willing to run stores) and consumers (people who actually are "customers") have been separated into different constituencies. Our culture is suffering from a prolonged "man-in-the-middle" attack...
our networks are like geology
We've been calling ring, star, and tree arrangements of networks "topology" for years...
Nothing to see here, move along, move along...
/.'s more like the entire "Ring Of Fire" that the San Andreas is part of, even international sites get flattened by the seismic shocks that are the voluntary DDoS by thousands of geeks everywhere.
Maybe that should be "Token Ring Of Fire..."
Sony has reluctantly decided to cease production of its Memory Stick format.
Actually, this would be news. You can still find "Coke 2" is certain markets...
I'm just not entirely sure what you have against lobbying groups. It's simply not possible to have a democracy with 150 million citizens. The closest we can get is the representative kind, which is what we have, and SIGs and their ilk HELP the little guy. (Environmentalists make up a pretty small percentage of the total population of the country, but because of big lobbying groups they often get their way.)
I'm not against lobbies per se, but the population as a whole is not equally represented by them. Demographic groups with less money, or who have a philosophical opposition to spending it on politics (like many in the OS movement), are at a disadvantage. This leads to the popular perception of lobbies no longer being the voice of "the little guy."
As a hypothetical example, a Bible Belter who thinks he can no longer take his camper to a national park due to environmental advocacy thinks his lifestyle is being looked down upon by "those rich, lazy, Gaia-worshiping Hollywood types." Unions also are suffering this problem. Originally organized to help labor to stand on equal footing with management, unionization didn't happen industrywide but only in certain sectors. As a result, unions are now widely perceived by non-unionmembers to be run by underworld interests and made to keep the paychecks of "lazy" workers unreasonably high.
It doesn't matter that much of the accusations are exaggerations and/or outright lies, organizations are susceptable to negative perceptions. Those in the Open Source movement are already accused of being "pirates" and "anti-capitalist"; going the lobby route will only convince their political enemies (and the politically apathetic, sadly) that Open Sourcers are discontent insurrectionists.
I wish I had a solution. All I can say is if the EFF or whomever is serious about being the Digital Rights Lobby, they will need to preemptively address and correct any negative perceptions before they will be accepted as a political force by politicians.