Do you mean the GEOS-64/128/Apple II GUIs from Berkeley Softworks, and the later PC-GEOS GUI from the same company, then named GeoWorks? PC-GEOS didn't have a GUI of its own; it had a flexible interface model (pretty advanced for PC stuff at that point) that used a system library (SPUI class, I think - specific UI) to apply look and feel. It shipped with a MOTIF SPUI by default, but there was some school-targeted version that had an OS/2-like (CUA?) SPUI as well.
Interestingly, the PC-GEOS SDK called GOC (GEOS Objective C; Objective-C with a set of frameworks) for development... much like MacOS X does now with Cocoa!
-Dan (used to be a big GEOS user, then went Linux, then OS X)
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Indeed, it is. But if you want a copy of OS X Server for development purposes (gotta make sure your great new game runs on servers;) paying $500 for membership and getting a bunch of other goodies too sure beats paying $499 just for the software.
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You've got to charge for something like this. Otherwise non-developers will sign up just to play with the pre-release OS, and get the hardware discount.
Let's see... Tiger is probably going to be $129, and the hardware discount is $400+ on any 15" or larger Powerbook, any Xserve or any 2x2GHz Power Mac (maybe the dual 1.8, as well).
So if you're in the market for a pro machine, and are planning to buy Tiger when it comes out, you can probably save money overall by being an ADC Select member -- even if you don't take advantage of *any* of the other benefits.
(Like the free copy of OS X Server, which would cost $499 otherwise...)
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And here's a little blurb about them on FTC.gov... which isn't the sort of place companies want linking to them, at least, not this way...
Here (~19.5N 155W) I think I've seen one contrail in the last 2.5 years. It was quite a surprise. By way of comparison, I've seen Hubble go over at least 3-5 times this year alone...
Ah, a dualie. And 266 * 2 is... 533? I don't suppose that PowerMac has a 66MHz bus, does it?
XP itself (My Computer > Properties) claims 294MHz on the 1.5GHz G4 w/167MHz bus. Hurm.
According to "BGINFO" from SysInternals (a nice little freeware app that puts up various information about a windows system on the desktop background):
VirtualPC on my iBook 500 with 640MB RAM emulated a 266MHz PC. (That's better than 50% of native speed.)
VirtualPC on my wife's iBook G4 800 with 640MB RAM emulated a 290-300MHz PC.
VirtualPC on my Powerbook G4 1.5GHz with 512MB RAM emulates a 290-300MHz PC.
Now...I am starting to suspect that something isn't right with those numbers, since it feels faster on the Powerbook (as one would expect it to). It may be thaht VirtualPC 6 simply won't report an emulated PC speed above 300MHz to things under Windows... and I don't think it'll report an emulated speed in excess of 4x the bus (my iBook 500's bus is 66MHz * 4 = 266).
That said, I wonder what someone running it on an iBook G3-900 with a 100MHz bus would get... 300? Or 400?
Atmospheric distortion (exacerbated by humidity, wind shear, temperature differences, how much "airmass" you're looking through, etc.) has nasty effects on "seeing," yes.
But... remember Reagan's "Star Wars" space defense progam? One of the very few useful things we got for all that money was a technology called "adaptive optics." Basically, technology that takes the "twinkle" and the "wobble" out of stars.
Just about everything optical (and maybe even infrared) on Mauna Kea has some AO ability nowadays, using tertiary mirrors that can be adjusted ("tip-tilt") or deformed many times per second by computer-controlled actuators, and/or Orthogonal Transfer CCD's co-developed by University of Hawaii and MIT.
I work a few nights a month on Mauna Kea, and have seen an OTCCD instrument (OPTIC) in use on UH's 88-inch telescope (which also has a simple tip-tilt system available, I think), and it's pretty neat technology. I'm hoping the technology will lead to better image-stabilization technology for photography and videography... and I'd also like to see it "trickle down" to amateur telescopes.:)
WinNT wasn't so much "ported" to PPC as PPC was one of the architectures it originally supported. (Along with x86, of course, Alpha - the world's first 64-bit PC was in 1993, not 2003! - and, if my memory serves without looking at my NT4WKS CD, MIPS?)
They may have already "started" - I know I was seeing more shooting stars than usual a few days ago. Wednesday night should be best, though, and specifically early Thursday morning.
I'm planning to watch the show from 9000' or so elevation. Anyone who wants to go along should get a ticket to ITO post haste.;)
At 128kbps you're looking at what, 1 meg a minute, roughly? So a CD gives you 600-700 minutes of music, or between 10 and 12 hours. My days are longer than that.:(
Also, does that D-NE300 fit in your pocket? Just wondering.
I had to RTFblurb to realize that no, the GCC compiler hadn't been ported to yet another processor architecture. Pity, that, I was just about to imagine a beo... oh, nevermind.
Apple makes far more money selling iPods than selling songs. If Real wants so badly to create even more of a market for iPods, Apple should let them go right ahead, and just laugh all the way to the proverbial bank.
I don't really think Id is being unreasonable, since the specs are well below the Macintosh I bought last year.
A 3.16GHz x86 is only a smidge (if that) faster than a 64-bit 2GHz PPC970. And I've got dual...
1.6GB of RAM... well, I've only got 1.5GB right now - but I've got space for 8GB.
3GB of disk... I think I've still got 50GB or so free on my main 250GB SATA drive... and then there's the second 250GB SATA drive...
I wonder how many FPS I can get on it running at 1920x1200.:)
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Amtrak's Auto Train from the D.C. suburbs to near Orlando does something kinda like your idea, but it goes for a longer distance, overnight, and you have your choice of nice comfy seats or sleeping cars, plus dining cars, lounges, movies and stuff like that, instead of sitting in your car the whole time. They've been running it for oh, twenty plus years now.
Nextel has been touting GPS features built into some of its latest phone handsets. You might look at those. I'm not sure whether they can connect to PC mapping software like a standalone GPS handset or not.
Is that symbol used by "The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince)" in Unicode? Something that isn't in Unicode might be even better. Vanquish the bureaucrats and their computers...
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Do you mean the GEOS-64/128/Apple II GUIs from Berkeley Softworks, and the later PC-GEOS GUI from the same company, then named GeoWorks? PC-GEOS didn't have a GUI of its own; it had a flexible interface model (pretty advanced for PC stuff at that point) that used a system library (SPUI class, I think - specific UI) to apply look and feel. It shipped with a MOTIF SPUI by default, but there was some school-targeted version that had an OS/2-like (CUA?) SPUI as well. Interestingly, the PC-GEOS SDK called GOC (GEOS Objective C; Objective-C with a set of frameworks) for development... much like MacOS X does now with Cocoa! -Dan (used to be a big GEOS user, then went Linux, then OS X)
Indeed, it is. But if you want a copy of OS X Server for development purposes (gotta make sure your great new game runs on servers ;) paying $500 for membership and getting a bunch of other goodies too sure beats paying $499 just for the software.
Let's see... Tiger is probably going to be $129, and the hardware discount is $400+ on any 15" or larger Powerbook, any Xserve or any 2x2GHz Power Mac (maybe the dual 1.8, as well). So if you're in the market for a pro machine, and are planning to buy Tiger when it comes out, you can probably save money overall by being an ADC Select member -- even if you don't take advantage of *any* of the other benefits. (Like the free copy of OS X Server, which would cost $499 otherwise...)
And here's a little blurb about them on FTC.gov... which isn't the sort of place companies want linking to them, at least, not this way...
Here (~19.5N 155W) I think I've seen one contrail in the last 2.5 years. It was quite a surprise. By way of comparison, I've seen Hubble go over at least 3-5 times this year alone...
Ah, a dualie. And 266 * 2 is... 533? I don't suppose that PowerMac has a 66MHz bus, does it? XP itself (My Computer > Properties) claims 294MHz on the 1.5GHz G4 w/167MHz bus. Hurm.
VirtualPC on my iBook 500 with 640MB RAM emulated a 266MHz PC. (That's better than 50% of native speed.)
VirtualPC on my wife's iBook G4 800 with 640MB RAM emulated a 290-300MHz PC.
VirtualPC on my Powerbook G4 1.5GHz with 512MB RAM emulates a 290-300MHz PC.
Now...I am starting to suspect that something isn't right with those numbers, since it feels faster on the Powerbook (as one would expect it to). It may be thaht VirtualPC 6 simply won't report an emulated PC speed above 300MHz to things under Windows... and I don't think it'll report an emulated speed in excess of 4x the bus (my iBook 500's bus is 66MHz * 4 = 266).
That said, I wonder what someone running it on an iBook G3-900 with a 100MHz bus would get... 300? Or 400?
(The site surveys are going on right now, and I work at one of the sites being surveyed.)
If you can put one of something in orbit, you can probably put a whole lot more of something on the ground for a whole lot less money. ;)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of 4" telescopes.
HTH.
But... remember Reagan's "Star Wars" space defense progam? One of the very few useful things we got for all that money was a technology called "adaptive optics." Basically, technology that takes the "twinkle" and the "wobble" out of stars.
Just about everything optical (and maybe even infrared) on Mauna Kea has some AO ability nowadays, using tertiary mirrors that can be adjusted ("tip-tilt") or deformed many times per second by computer-controlled actuators, and/or Orthogonal Transfer CCD's co-developed by University of Hawaii and MIT.
I work a few nights a month on Mauna Kea, and have seen an OTCCD instrument (OPTIC) in use on UH's 88-inch telescope (which also has a simple tip-tilt system available, I think), and it's pretty neat technology. I'm hoping the technology will lead to better image-stabilization technology for photography and videography... and I'd also like to see it "trickle down" to amateur telescopes. :)
WinNT wasn't so much "ported" to PPC as PPC was one of the architectures it originally supported. (Along with x86, of course, Alpha - the world's first 64-bit PC was in 1993, not 2003! - and, if my memory serves without looking at my NT4WKS CD, MIPS?)
They may have already "started" - I know I was seeing more shooting stars than usual a few days ago. Wednesday night should be best, though, and specifically early Thursday morning. I'm planning to watch the show from 9000' or so elevation. Anyone who wants to go along should get a ticket to ITO post haste. ;)
That chain has locations in Honolulu, or did when I was there a couple years ago. They should release an English version.
:)
(Or better yet, an "Engrish" version.
At 128kbps you're looking at what, 1 meg a minute, roughly? So a CD gives you 600-700 minutes of music, or between 10 and 12 hours. My days are longer than that. :(
Also, does that D-NE300 fit in your pocket? Just wondering.
I had to RTFblurb to realize that no, the GCC compiler hadn't been ported to yet another processor architecture. Pity, that, I was just about to imagine a beo... oh, nevermind.
Apple makes far more money selling iPods than selling songs. If Real wants so badly to create even more of a market for iPods, Apple should let them go right ahead, and just laugh all the way to the proverbial bank.
I don't really think Id is being unreasonable, since the specs are well below the Macintosh I bought last year.
:)
A 3.16GHz x86 is only a smidge (if that) faster than a 64-bit 2GHz PPC970. And I've got dual...
1.6GB of RAM... well, I've only got 1.5GB right now - but I've got space for 8GB.
3GB of disk... I think I've still got 50GB or so free on my main 250GB SATA drive... and then there's the second 250GB SATA drive...
I wonder how many FPS I can get on it running at 1920x1200.
Amtrak's Auto Train from the D.C. suburbs to near Orlando does something kinda like your idea, but it goes for a longer distance, overnight, and you have your choice of nice comfy seats or sleeping cars, plus dining cars, lounges, movies and stuff like that, instead of sitting in your car the whole time. They've been running it for oh, twenty plus years now.
I remember when they were something new... that was a good 15-20 years ago.
Nextel has been touting GPS features built into some of its latest phone handsets. You might look at those. I'm not sure whether they can connect to PC mapping software like a standalone GPS handset or not.
Is that symbol used by "The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince)" in Unicode? Something that isn't in Unicode might be even better. Vanquish the bureaucrats and their computers...
Hopefully this thing can also handle 720p and all that?
Yellow elf needs VPC 7 badly!