The reason Apple doesn't officially support Ogg Vorbis could also be the fact that nobody really knows if Ogg would be able to withstand a trail. Now that Ogg doesn't have any traction in the marketplace, nobody cares. But if Ogg would become a driving force I'm sure Fraunhofer (who has probably done their homework already) will sue.
Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you knew as "Quicktime 4", "Quicktime 5", "Quicktime 6", are really different distributions of compression formats. The codecs we support are mainly uncompressed.
Uhm, I would not qualify this as a complete QuickTime solution running in Linux. QuickTime is almost an OS in itself (it contains many Mac OS toolbox routines) and indeed needs tons of codecs to function properly with all the media created with it.
This discussion is years old and can be judged for the first time by Windows users, Mac users have known this for a long time.
It goes as follows: "Intel PCs with (or without) Windows gives you choice" (sort of.) You can choose between 10 different MP3 players, 15 word processors, 20 spreadsheets and so on. However, none of them seem to work really well and they all have their share of problems you need to work around.
Mac users don't have much choice, or so they are being told. But Mac users are usually given only one choice, the highest quality. The rest is weeded out by the Mac ecosystem. People don't buy it.
This time it's also visible for Windows users. Microsoft claims 40 different devices that will play Windows Media. However, none of these devices is an iPod and they don't even come close to the overall quality and easy of use of the iPod.
One could argue iTunes is not the best Windows MP3 player, well, remember this really is a 1.0 release on Windows. It will be improved and even for an 1.0 product, it's quite better than the 6 releases of the Windows Media Player before Microsoft got it sort of right.
The new Macs aren't great values either, as the top-of-the-line G5 ($3549 as configured) costs about $200 more than the similarly configured Alienware Aurora. (Prices do not include a monitor or speakers.)
Ah, the well known high quality brand Alienware, of course Apple doesn't have a fighting chance against a brandname like that. Alienware's years of service in the Fortune 500, the constant stream of quality awards in consumer magazines. Apple's crazy to ask 200 dollars more, the G5 should be half the price to even be considered.
And the speedtest, well, we all know everybody is still stuck on the Mac with Premiere as their main application running in Classic. Why didn't they test Netscape Navigator 3.0 as well? I mean, that's todays most popular webbrowser!
openDoc was such a phenomenal innovation that Bill gates made it part of Microsoft's contract forbidding ex MS employess to work on OpenDoc for 3 years after leaving MS.
Could it be that Apple had to kill OpenDoc as part of the 'agreement' with Microsoft to further develop Office for Mac? Jobs was fairly quick killing it, while OpenDoc was just starting to gain momentum, but was still severly hampered by the underlying Mac OS (7.5 IIRC) which was really, really bad.
Steve Jobs wins this year's silicon.com's annual Agenda Setters poll. Heh, Gates may be richer, and Jobs may be a bigger asshole, but in the end, Jobs has the coolest company.
I do not claim to have insider knowledge. It was however publicly known the Newton Business Unit was well on it's way to become profitable very fast with the Newton 2000 and the Newton 2100. These products were way beyond their time, with some PocketPCs and the newer Palms only now finally faster than these thingies.
The handwriting technology was finally working near flawlessly and the OS in itself was a masterpiece.
No, IMHO the Newton was not killed because it was a dead end. Just look at the applications that still come out for it. If it was deader than dead, no-one would have cared.
I do remember stories about the development environment, being a custom built PowerMac 9500 with some custom boards attached, not being the most scalable platform around.
...thought of in the 80s when they created the Knowledge Navigator clip. Scully's dream was to eventually create a computer that would act as an assistent that you could also ask questions. It would come back later when it found answers. Of course, the whole concept was a pipedream, but still, the Newton's 'Assist' button was one of the first steps towards that goal.
Too bad Jobs had to kill the Newton when he got back at Apple to finally do away with everything Scully.
Check out these pictures I took from an ATM of ABN-AMRO bank in Holland with the standard NT error message when it can't succesfully start all services.
Well, duh... As a dutchman it's also not possible for me to relocate to the USA. Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States.
I've been very happy with these machines. For $150-250 (the prices fluctuates based on the phases of the moon), I got hardware that feels essentially the same as my wife's $2000 new iMac.
Really?
I did have to buy an external modem for my home box because it apparently came with a Winmodem. Also, they seemed to have changed sound chips between the time when I bought the first machine and the time when I bought the second one, and I was never able to get sound working on the second one -- maybe someone with a little more savvy would've been able to solve that problem.
Aha. I see, just like the iMac. I couldn't get Mac OS X to recognize my audiocard in my new G4. Maybe I should recompile the kernel? No?
From what I've understood of this case and the case of AT&T against Berkeley University about UNIX(R) is that there are a lot of similarities. Or could be if you like.
At one point SCO has to come forward and show the world the beef. The hackers at Berkeley removed all remaining AT&T code and thus made their code completely free of any copyrights. Wouldn't people just work their ass off to clean any code out that might come from the System V codebase? And thus clear Linux once and for all from any of these silly actions?
I mean, at some point SCO has to substantiate their claim don't they?
Not standards compliant with anything
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Since this camcorder is not compliant with the regular MiniDV codec don't expect it to work with anything else but the included JVC software. Although specwise it's nice, this camcorder is has all kinds of new technology and uses it on a older standard.
Now you know why it takes so long to produce, although the goodies are available, a good infrastructure to support them is still not ready.
So, this is the Nth time I read there's competition coming up for the iPod.
While it's nice to know the iPod is being used as a standard everything else is measured against, it still isn't really passed over by any other MP3 player out there. Despite the roaring headlines for the last 18 months.
That's pretty sad for the whole industry isn't it? Or does it say something about Apple being 2 years ahead of everybody else?
When Apple came out with the iPod I really couldn't see why they would enter an industry already carved out. Now I believe they can enter a whole lot more industries if they have their house in order.
It seems the links to the store selling the goodies is already slashdotted.
The $40 a piece FC hostbus adapter
page now shows $800 adapters, or a 100 pack for just over $60000.
Beowulf anyone?
sgi has been caught up in the Intel fashion du jour by bringing out Intel workstations. Had they not done this, they would have fared much better, witness Sun and Apple.
Another great example of this is Intergraph, they bought the Intel crap as well...
btw, many Intel systems suffer from performance issues that are just there because of the 20+ years compatibility built in. Something 'proprietary' systems usually don't suffer from.
Windows NT was never based on DOS. It contained (and still does) the virtual machine, Windows on Windows (WOW.EXE) for running 16 bit DOS and Windows programs. WOW is a far family member of SoftPC, an early PC emulator from Insignia running on the Mac and some UNIX environments.
I presume 95% of the mac.com users are using only the e-mail address. It got costly and Apple decided to kill it off by charging this fee.
Didn't Apple promise a free for life mac.com e-mail adress? Reading this doesn't really comfort me...
The fee is US$99.95 per year, and as a thank you for being loyal customers, existing iTools members can reserve a first year special offer of $49.95. iTools members will have until September 30 to join.Mac. After this time, original iTools accounts will be deactivated.
Personally, I would recommend against using Ghost. Use RIS instead, that in combination with WINInstall of Veritas to create MSI's from the software you use at the enterprise and you've got a network that works for 100 or 10000 machines. Just add RIS servers...
Jef Raskin article describes internet in 1979!
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From the Making the Macintosh website is this paper where Raskin describes a proposal for an Apple owned dial up network (years later AOL originated from Apple's AppleLink Personal Edition). He basically describes the internet as it exists today while the article is from 1979!
Slashdot Mirror
The reason Apple doesn't officially support Ogg Vorbis could also be the fact that nobody really knows if Ogg would be able to withstand a trail. Now that Ogg doesn't have any traction in the marketplace, nobody cares. But if Ogg would become a driving force I'm sure Fraunhofer (who has probably done their homework already) will sue.
CODECS
Uhm, I would not qualify this as a complete QuickTime solution running in Linux. QuickTime is almost an OS in itself (it contains many Mac OS toolbox routines) and indeed needs tons of codecs to function properly with all the media created with it.
1 decibel louder can be twice as loud IIRC.
This discussion is years old and can be judged for the first time by Windows users, Mac users have known this for a long time.
It goes as follows: "Intel PCs with (or without) Windows gives you choice" (sort of.) You can choose between 10 different MP3 players, 15 word processors, 20 spreadsheets and so on. However, none of them seem to work really well and they all have their share of problems you need to work around.
Mac users don't have much choice, or so they are being told. But Mac users are usually given only one choice, the highest quality. The rest is weeded out by the Mac ecosystem. People don't buy it.
This time it's also visible for Windows users. Microsoft claims 40 different devices that will play Windows Media. However, none of these devices is an iPod and they don't even come close to the overall quality and easy of use of the iPod.
One could argue iTunes is not the best Windows MP3 player, well, remember this really is a 1.0 release on Windows. It will be improved and even for an 1.0 product, it's quite better than the 6 releases of the Windows Media Player before Microsoft got it sort of right.
The new Macs aren't great values either, as the top-of-the-line G5 ($3549 as configured) costs about $200 more than the similarly configured Alienware Aurora. (Prices do not include a monitor or speakers.)
Ah, the well known high quality brand Alienware, of course Apple doesn't have a fighting chance against a brandname like that. Alienware's years of service in the Fortune 500, the constant stream of quality awards in consumer magazines. Apple's crazy to ask 200 dollars more, the G5 should be half the price to even be considered.
And the speedtest, well, we all know everybody is still stuck on the Mac with Premiere as their main application running in Classic. Why didn't they test Netscape Navigator 3.0 as well? I mean, that's todays most popular webbrowser!
openDoc was such a phenomenal innovation that Bill gates made it part of Microsoft's contract forbidding ex MS employess to work on OpenDoc for 3 years after leaving MS. Could it be that Apple had to kill OpenDoc as part of the 'agreement' with Microsoft to further develop Office for Mac? Jobs was fairly quick killing it, while OpenDoc was just starting to gain momentum, but was still severly hampered by the underlying Mac OS (7.5 IIRC) which was really, really bad.
Innovation does.
Steve Jobs wins this year's silicon.com's annual Agenda Setters poll.
Heh, Gates may be richer, and Jobs may be a bigger asshole, but in the end, Jobs has the coolest company.
I'm sure Jobs can't be happier.
I do not claim to have insider knowledge. It was however publicly known the Newton Business Unit was well on it's way to become profitable very fast with the Newton 2000 and the Newton 2100. These products were way beyond their time, with some PocketPCs and the newer Palms only now finally faster than these thingies.
The handwriting technology was finally working near flawlessly and the OS in itself was a masterpiece.
No, IMHO the Newton was not killed because it was a dead end. Just look at the applications that still come out for it. If it was deader than dead, no-one would have cared.
Apple spins off Newton, early 97.
I do remember stories about the development environment, being a custom built PowerMac 9500 with some custom boards attached, not being the most scalable platform around.
...thought of in the 80s when they created the Knowledge Navigator clip. Scully's dream was to eventually create a computer that would act as an assistent that you could also ask questions. It would come back later when it found answers. Of course, the whole concept was a pipedream, but still, the Newton's 'Assist' button was one of the first steps towards that goal.
Too bad Jobs had to kill the Newton when he got back at Apple to finally do away with everything Scully.
Yup, that will help when submitting a story to Slashdot.
Check out these pictures I took from an ATM of ABN-AMRO bank in Holland with the standard NT error message when it can't succesfully start all services.
Pictures
Well, duh... As a dutchman it's also not possible for me to relocate to the USA. Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States.
I've been very happy with these machines. For $150-250 (the prices fluctuates based on the phases of the moon), I got hardware that feels essentially the same as my wife's $2000 new iMac.
Really?
I did have to buy an external modem for my home box because it apparently came with a Winmodem. Also, they seemed to have changed sound chips between the time when I bought the first machine and the time when I bought the second one, and I was never able to get sound working on the second one -- maybe someone with a little more savvy would've been able to solve that problem.
Aha. I see, just like the iMac. I couldn't get Mac OS X to recognize my audiocard in my new G4. Maybe I should recompile the kernel? No?
From what I've understood of this case and the case of AT&T against Berkeley University about UNIX(R) is that there are a lot of similarities. Or could be if you like.
At one point SCO has to come forward and show the world the beef. The hackers at Berkeley removed all remaining AT&T code and thus made their code completely free of any copyrights. Wouldn't people just work their ass off to clean any code out that might come from the System V codebase? And thus clear Linux once and for all from any of these silly actions?
I mean, at some point SCO has to substantiate their claim don't they?
Here
Since this camcorder is not compliant with the regular MiniDV codec don't expect it to work with anything else but the included JVC software. Although specwise it's nice, this camcorder is has all kinds of new technology and uses it on a older standard.
Now you know why it takes so long to produce, although the goodies are available, a good infrastructure to support them is still not ready.
So, this is the Nth time I read there's competition coming up for the iPod.
While it's nice to know the iPod is being used as a standard everything else is measured against, it still isn't really passed over by any other MP3 player out there. Despite the roaring headlines for the last 18 months.
That's pretty sad for the whole industry isn't it? Or does it say something about Apple being 2 years ahead of everybody else?
When Apple came out with the iPod I really couldn't see why they would enter an industry already carved out. Now I believe they can enter a whole lot more industries if they have their house in order.
In case the server craps out, here's a mirror.
It seems the links to the store selling the goodies is already slashdotted. The $40 a piece FC hostbus adapter page now shows $800 adapters, or a 100 pack for just over $60000. Beowulf anyone?
sgi has been caught up in the Intel fashion du jour by bringing out Intel workstations. Had they not done this, they would have fared much better, witness Sun and Apple.
Another great example of this is Intergraph, they bought the Intel crap as well...
btw, many Intel systems suffer from performance issues that are just there because of the 20+ years compatibility built in. Something 'proprietary' systems usually don't suffer from.
Remember, it's not just megahurtzen that counts!
Floppy drives aren't really meant for sawing, you know. Also, this may result in lost data.
Windows NT was never based on DOS. It contained (and still does) the virtual machine, Windows on Windows (WOW.EXE) for running 16 bit DOS and Windows programs. WOW is a far family member of SoftPC, an early PC emulator from Insignia running on the Mac and some UNIX environments.
I presume 95% of the mac.com users are using only the e-mail address. It got costly and Apple decided to kill it off by charging this fee.
.Mac. After this time, original iTools accounts will be deactivated.
Didn't Apple promise a free for life mac.com e-mail adress?
Reading this doesn't really comfort me...
The fee is US$99.95 per year, and as a thank you for being loyal customers, existing iTools members can reserve a first year special offer of $49.95. iTools members will have until September 30 to join
Personally, I would recommend against using Ghost. Use RIS instead, that in combination with WINInstall of Veritas to create MSI's from the software you use at the enterprise and you've got a network that works for 100 or 10000 machines. Just add RIS servers...
From the Making the Macintosh website is this paper where Raskin describes a proposal for an Apple owned dial up network (years later AOL originated from Apple's AppleLink Personal Edition). He basically describes the internet as it exists today while the article is from 1979!