I agree. I like iTune's heirarchy, which was basically what I was using anyway. Searching is instantaneous, I can look for all songs whose name or ID3 tags contain a particular word. I don't see how using the heirarchical method is faster except on very slow computers. I've found it works pretty snappy on a PII 400MHz system, which is now about seven years old.
It would probably be easier to deal with solid state hard drives. Whether or not they are more reliable for heavy writes, I don't know, I thought hard drives could sustain several orders of magnitude more writes per sector than flash memory.
There are contrast problems, even with the default scheme. Hit shut down. You are given three options, but with the bad highlighting, it is hard to tell which option is the currently selected option.
I thought the new control panel layout is annoying, I don't always know what category a particular device falls under. I just switched to classic view of control panel too.
Other than this, I don't know.
Remote desktop is nice, though I use VNC because of Windows 2000. The "roll back" or checkpoint options are nice, but that assumes the file system didn't corrupt itself, and I don't think roll back always works. There are other nifty features, but they are mostly pretty minor.
I don't see what the problem is. They survived a hardware architecture transition like this before, but this time it is supposed to be easier.
As for the PPC emulation they ran the PPC version of Photoshop CS2 and it ran pretty well on the Mactel box. Not that it is a problem for Photoship, the Adobe CEO spoke at the Keynote commiting to supporting Mactel & Mac PPC in Universal Binary for many years with all their current Mac PPC product lines.
Apple said they will support PPC for years after they've stopped selling the machines. Any developer running Xcode right now has very minimal work to port, and once ported, they can keep the PPC compatibility by just making sure that little check box is checked.
There were 3.5 million Macs sold last year. Apple shipped 2 million copies of OS X Tiger in the last six weeks. I doubt that all of the Mac users buy four macs per year. I think the estimates of Mac users are about 10-15 million. So of course there are more than a million people that use Macs.
The first systems are more than a year away (not counting the dev system)
Less than a year. In the Keynote, Jobs said that they plan to have their first Mactel unit shipping June 2006 or before. As you alluded to, they said the first dev kits will ship in a couple weeks.
I think the point is to help prospective buyers know if they are buying a "hot" item or not. If it can't be authenticated, or the seller is unwilling to authenticate it, then it makes it harder to sell.
Actually, people seem to yell (or talk very loudly) into cell phones because the reception sucks on both ends, and repeating things too. I don't appreciate being yelled at, and I don't appreciate someone next to me yelling.
Then there's the irritating chirping of the two-way systems. I can try to blank out the talking, but the chirps are on a different order of hard to ignore.
Does anyone have a plausible theory why so many of what should be single quotes are double quotes? I can't really imagine someone that sloppy with a keyboard could code a good program easily. Coding with a malfunctioning shift key doesn't seem to work well.
DRM systems are usually broken in minutes, sometimes days. Rarely, months.
Didn't it take years to break the DVD encryption? And that it was a laughable encryption standard that a decent computer at the time could brute force crack it minutes? By Doctorow's standard it should have been broken three years earlier.
Yeah, Slashdot was stupid enough to link to a Business Week article. Said article also said that the numbers tracked were for the US only, not global sales.
AMD and VIA are just as commited to supporting DRM. They claim they will be less evil about it, like giving more options to shut it off, or whatever. Whether it makes any difference remains to be seen.
Normally, dual head isn't very expensive. And it is useful for heavy multitasking.
Most video cards now seem to support it, $100 will get an excellent dual head ATI or nVidia card new, you can buy Matrox G400s/G450s used for $20 or less now.
I had as much as triple head several years ago when I put multiple $10 Matrox Millennium I PCI cards in the same computer and put together a bunch of cast-off CRTs.
I wouild do dual head CRT right now, but my desk doesn't have space for two of the cast-off 21" screens, so one screen is an LCD, it works pretty nice, I can keep tabs on a lot more things now.
The question wasn't about space but actual capabilities, whether it can perform those functions. Sure, director's commentaries don't take much space, but if a person has to re-encode a movie twice to get normal audio and a director's commentary, then forget it, it is stupidly inconvenient.
The no highs, no lows, must be Bose is a much older adage than the Wave system.
A few years ago, my dad tried out a WaveRadio CD and compared it with a friend's 60 disc CD changer/tape/radio unit of about the same price, and the changer system won both on cost and sound quality.
How about network game play? Then you can have people that fly with you, and presumably, fly against you too. I think that would be more interesting than being able to design wingmen.
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Worse yet, his site is showing a page that says "403 Forbidden". Yeah, that's a great user interface.
I agree. I like iTune's heirarchy, which was basically what I was using anyway. Searching is instantaneous, I can look for all songs whose name or ID3 tags contain a particular word. I don't see how using the heirarchical method is faster except on very slow computers. I've found it works pretty snappy on a PII 400MHz system, which is now about seven years old.
That's not helpful either. Those classes are pretty limited.
It would probably be easier to deal with solid state hard drives. Whether or not they are more reliable for heavy writes, I don't know, I thought hard drives could sustain several orders of magnitude more writes per sector than flash memory.
Yeah, parts of it was overhyped.
Still, that doesn't mean that there wouldn't have been any problems had people not bothered checking.
There are contrast problems, even with the default scheme. Hit shut down. You are given three options, but with the bad highlighting, it is hard to tell which option is the currently selected option.
I thought the new control panel layout is annoying, I don't always know what category a particular device falls under. I just switched to classic view of control panel too.
Other than this, I don't know.
Remote desktop is nice, though I use VNC because of Windows 2000. The "roll back" or checkpoint options are nice, but that assumes the file system didn't corrupt itself, and I don't think roll back always works. There are other nifty features, but they are mostly pretty minor.
I don't see what the problem is. They survived a hardware architecture transition like this before, but this time it is supposed to be easier.
As for the PPC emulation they ran the PPC version of Photoshop CS2 and it ran pretty well on the Mactel box. Not that it is a problem for Photoship, the Adobe CEO spoke at the Keynote commiting to supporting Mactel & Mac PPC in Universal Binary for many years with all their current Mac PPC product lines.
Apple said they will support PPC for years after they've stopped selling the machines. Any developer running Xcode right now has very minimal work to port, and once ported, they can keep the PPC compatibility by just making sure that little check box is checked.
There were 3.5 million Macs sold last year. Apple shipped 2 million copies of OS X Tiger in the last six weeks. I doubt that all of the Mac users buy four macs per year. I think the estimates of Mac users are about 10-15 million. So of course there are more than a million people that use Macs.
If a software maker is too lazy to check the "Intel" checkbox, then they deserve to die.
If Wolfram Research can port Mathematica to Mactel in a few hours, then most app makers shouldn't have a problem.
This gettho will die out in... like... one generation ;)
Much like the gay culture will die in one generation?
Just because geeks might have a harder time reproducing, I don't think that's the end of their kind.
The first systems are more than a year away (not counting the dev system)
Less than a year. In the Keynote, Jobs said that they plan to have their first Mactel unit shipping June 2006 or before. As you alluded to, they said the first dev kits will ship in a couple weeks.
...predict that Apple was going to move to Itanium?
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System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Options -> Processor Performance. Select "highest".
I get full framerate on Serentity and Batman Returns trailer on a dual 2.5, w/ the ATI 9600.
I think the point is to help prospective buyers know if they are buying a "hot" item or not. If it can't be authenticated, or the seller is unwilling to authenticate it, then it makes it harder to sell.
Actually, people seem to yell (or talk very loudly) into cell phones because the reception sucks on both ends, and repeating things too. I don't appreciate being yelled at, and I don't appreciate someone next to me yelling.
Then there's the irritating chirping of the two-way systems. I can try to blank out the talking, but the chirps are on a different order of hard to ignore.
I think the difference being that the FAA is allowing them for US flights.
Does anyone have a plausible theory why so many of what should be single quotes are double quotes? I can't really imagine someone that sloppy with a keyboard could code a good program easily. Coding with a malfunctioning shift key doesn't seem to work well.
DRM systems are usually broken in minutes, sometimes days. Rarely, months.
Didn't it take years to break the DVD encryption? And that it was a laughable encryption standard that a decent computer at the time could brute force crack it minutes? By Doctorow's standard it should have been broken three years earlier.
Yeah, Slashdot was stupid enough to link to a Business Week article. Said article also said that the numbers tracked were for the US only, not global sales.
AMD and VIA are just as commited to supporting DRM. They claim they will be less evil about it, like giving more options to shut it off, or whatever. Whether it makes any difference remains to be seen.
Normally, dual head isn't very expensive. And it is useful for heavy multitasking.
Most video cards now seem to support it, $100 will get an excellent dual head ATI or nVidia card new, you can buy Matrox G400s/G450s used for $20 or less now.
I had as much as triple head several years ago when I put multiple $10 Matrox Millennium I PCI cards in the same computer and put together a bunch of cast-off CRTs.
I wouild do dual head CRT right now, but my desk doesn't have space for two of the cast-off 21" screens, so one screen is an LCD, it works pretty nice, I can keep tabs on a lot more things now.
The question wasn't about space but actual capabilities, whether it can perform those functions. Sure, director's commentaries don't take much space, but if a person has to re-encode a movie twice to get normal audio and a director's commentary, then forget it, it is stupidly inconvenient.
Sounds like an ad to me.
The no highs, no lows, must be Bose is a much older adage than the Wave system.
A few years ago, my dad tried out a WaveRadio CD and compared it with a friend's 60 disc CD changer/tape/radio unit of about the same price, and the changer system won both on cost and sound quality.
True. Also, full bitscream recording of ATSC is about 5GB per half hour, which is a lot of space even for a 100GB drive.
One thing that gives ATSC a benefit is the digital transmission, you don't get ghosts or snow.
How about network game play? Then you can have people that fly with you, and presumably, fly against you too. I think that would be more interesting than being able to design wingmen.