Logitech licensed the technology for the wheel to Microsoft and actually builds all Microsoft mice. HP made the optical sensor... note that Logitech and now Apple make devices around this.
Apple's entire site is 403 at this point, too. They started to upload the PowerMac Cube site, then killed the permissions so nobody could view it before it was done.
It's the same deal in Linux though... I believe that MacOS 9 will launch apps onto different processors, but unless your app is threaded, it won't take advantage of it.
Same goes for Linux - if your app isn't threaded... expect your other processer to have nothing to do with it. That's why I use BeOS with my dual machine...
Whoa... where can I get info on this? This would make my day!
Imagine... a KDE Open Source desktop with a KDE Open Source standards-compliant browser on a QT Open Source toolkit with a KDE Open Source Office Suite... and a native port of Java! Whoa...
Well, you mentioned BeOS - BeOS has a completely multithreaded architecture (if your program opens up two windows, it automatically gets another thread to open up the second!) and the media is great (millisecond latency, devices like the MidiOxygen 44, a USB to Midi 4 port in/4 port out controller).
In terms of media, BeOS has:
MidiOxygen 44, mentioned above
ObjektSynth, a real-time modular soft-synth that's really cool
Devil Studio, a Midi sequencer with audio functionality forthcoming
A definite port of Bias Peak is in the works
GrooveMaker, a cool app for writing techno or other beat-based music tunes
PersonalStudio, a real-time effects program comparable to iMovie (except better, because it applies the effects in real-time - no rendering!)
Pre-orders are being taken now for Maxon Cinema 4D XL, a 3D application
Shouldn't you be able to define areas where the different buttons work? I thought that MacOS X was going to have better support for multiple mouse buttons.
Oh well, I'm on BeOS anyway, so all I have to do is click-and-hold for a right button click. I might just get one...
DDJ is one of the magazines I still subscribe to - quite a lot of Linux focus these days, and still some good technical information! While they seem to be trying to attract attention from the non-specalist (like their X-Box article), the article itself (by X-Box guru Micael Abrash) was quite filled with technical details (like the juicy tidbit that it will be a 733 mHz PIII, not a 600 as previously indicated!) (I gotta get my hands on one of those programmible SIMD controllers... mmm... 9 instructions per pixel)
No way on the GTK port - the entire suite is done with their StarView toolkit, which would mean that millions of lines of code would have to be changed just to get a GTK version up and running. It won't happen anytime soon.
I will be helping with the BeOS and AtheOS ports, though - a GPL'ed suite like this, even though it's not the best - is a good foot in the door for a startup operating system!
I'm looking forward to the StarView technology itself - a cross platform porting toolkit for OS/2, Windows and X is a good thing!
Actually, that's been hard accelled for a while on other chips, but the hardware cursor has never had alpha blending. It's a chipset feature that's purely eyecandy (but it might be useful for games!).
Try XFree86 4.0 - if you're on the latest mandrake (7.1), it comes with the distro. XFree86 4.0 has had 810 support from the beginning.
However, Enlightenment itself just plain lags. Wait until they move the core to imlib2 if you want performance on that front.
I don't think BeOS has a 810 driver - if you're looking for a new card and are interested in true cross-platform support, buy a 3dfx. (That and FSAA is just plain cool).
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And of course, the show the SMP mac doing the ultamate benchmark... Seti@HOME!!! Pic here, reload a couple times if you geta 403 forbidden.
Logitech licensed the technology for the wheel to Microsoft and actually builds all Microsoft mice. HP made the optical sensor... note that Logitech and now Apple make devices around this.
Oops... make that $499. My mistake.
Letssee... a cube based computer with a monitor cable that carrys multiple connections? (NeXT monitor connections carried audio too).
Apple's entire site is 403 at this point, too. They started to upload the PowerMac Cube site, then killed the permissions so nobody could view it before it was done.
Apple is in the process of changing their site now... here is the (as-yet incomplete) link to the cube's website.
Time to get a new mouse... are these definitely PC compatible?
Entire site is now 403 forbidden.
It'll catch on... given enough time.
CUBE HAS BEEN CONFIRMED! Whoo-hoo!
I think you mean Logitech, not Microsoft.
There's another macjunkie page here, which reveals that there will be an 8"-on-a-side cube. Their product grid is now six-squared.
Whoo-hoo!
Same goes for Linux - if your app isn't threaded... expect your other processer to have nothing to do with it. That's why I use BeOS with my dual machine...
Imagine... a KDE Open Source desktop with a KDE Open Source standards-compliant browser on a QT Open Source toolkit with a KDE Open Source Office Suite... and a native port of Java! Whoa...
In terms of media, BeOS has:
- MidiOxygen 44, mentioned above
- ObjektSynth, a real-time modular soft-synth that's really cool
- Devil Studio, a Midi sequencer with audio functionality forthcoming
- A definite port of Bias Peak is in the works
- GrooveMaker, a cool app for writing techno or other beat-based music tunes
- PersonalStudio, a real-time effects program comparable to iMovie (except better, because it applies the effects in real-time - no rendering!)
- Pre-orders are being taken now for Maxon Cinema 4D XL, a 3D application
- Pixel32 is in the works
And, as always, much much more!Oh well, I'm on BeOS anyway, so all I have to do is click-and-hold for a right button click. I might just get one...
(I believe) he meant the credibility with regard to the buttonless optical "squeeze" (insert crude joke here) mouse.
You should always have been able to see it by inserting five %08's after my name - a %08 is a ^H, so my username was 11223^H^H^H^H^H.
Apple just introduced dual 450 and 500mhz G4's - available today! Sweeet!
When do we see GTK Java?
DDJ is one of the magazines I still subscribe to - quite a lot of Linux focus these days, and still some good technical information! While they seem to be trying to attract attention from the non-specalist (like their X-Box article), the article itself (by X-Box guru Micael Abrash) was quite filled with technical details (like the juicy tidbit that it will be a 733 mHz PIII, not a 600 as previously indicated!) (I gotta get my hands on one of those programmible SIMD controllers... mmm... 9 instructions per pixel)
I will be helping with the BeOS and AtheOS ports, though - a GPL'ed suite like this, even though it's not the best - is a good foot in the door for a startup operating system!
I'm looking forward to the StarView technology itself - a cross platform porting toolkit for OS/2, Windows and X is a good thing!
Wonder if XFree86 will take advantage of this...
However, Enlightenment itself just plain lags. Wait until they move the core to imlib2 if you want performance on that front.
I don't think BeOS has a 810 driver - if you're looking for a new card and are interested in true cross-platform support, buy a 3dfx. (That and FSAA is just plain cool).
Actually, I'm the same old troll, now with new and improved triple digit karma!