If you have a single-button mouse, then you probably can't run Windows on your Mac anyway. All Intel Core based Macs ship with the Mighty Mouse a two (well four) button mouse, that works quite well in Windows. Also, with BootCamp, you get a whole heap of Apple specific drivers that help things along, but from memory there was nothing special installed to deal with the mouse - it's a standard USB Human Interface Device.
But, it's a hack. This is a good thing. Where would we be today if people didn't get technology that was originally developed for one purpose and make it do things that the original creators never envisaged...
That burrito you just whacked in the microwave to heat up? We wouldn't have microwave ovens if it wasn't for someone hacking military radar technology to heat food.
This intraweb thing you're reading at the moment - tell me you're not really glad that it's not another boring scientific document you're reading. That's why you're here at/.
There's nothing wrong with taking one technology, or in the case of AJAX, a combination of technologies and taking them places that we never dreamed possible.
Apparently UMD movies are encoded at DVD resolution (720x480), 16x9 if appropriate, and the PSP re-sizes the image down to 480x272 for display on the LCD.
Now, why do sony waste the space on the UMD, and processing power to scale video, if they don't have to.
I would have expected to see, by about now, a set-top UMD player. Sony's stated design goals are to reduce the size of a media player device to the size of the carry case for the media. See MiniDisc players for an example.
How cool would it to be to have an iPod sized DVD player that plugs into a TV?
Why on earth is someone writing this software for the purposes of malware - why aren't they gainfully employed earning decent money.
Seriously, whipping up your own VM that will run $HOST_OS is nowhere near in the same league as, say, hacking together a VBS macro in MS Word or similar...
Does this mean that, as you're paying to burn copyrighted music, that you are now allowed to buy all the blank media you can, and burn all the copyrighted music that you can?
If you're paying for the privilege then they can't turn around and say that it's illegal - they've legitimised it by making you pay for it...
Using Sun's QFS - which is a SAN optimised file system, it's great for storing large and small files - for instance disc images and readmes. You can have a variable cluster size, where the first n blocks of a file are a small number of blocks, like say 1k, and then the rest of the file is stored in clusters of up to 64M.
Oh, you wanted something free?
Then give ZFS a go - it's free and is available in Solaris and OpenSolaris - which you can run on both SPARC and x86.
Look, the lack of CMYK isn't the show stopper that it once was. Many modern workflows use RGB images throughout and have a colour-managed approach to conversion to CMYK that only happens just before the final output stage (be that to PDF or to an image/platesetter)
There are many advantages to an RGB workflow - smaller image sizes and easier for software to work with is one, less RAM and disk space used, less data to crunch etc.
Using a fully ICC profiled workflow, from capture/acquisition through retouching and editing and finally to output means that the one source image can be retargeted at a number of different output devices and keep the highest possible quality. The days of using pre-separated CMYK images are drawing to a close, as once you've converted to CMYK you don't want to go flipping back and forth between that and RGB. Also, once you've got CMYK, you will find it very hard to use the same source image for, say, printing on newsprint at 75lpi and printing the same image in a glossy magazine on high-brightness stock at 175lpi, or using stochastic screening...
Anyway, having said all that, I totally agree with you that the GIMP is totally unsuited to a professional workflow.
Time is money, and the time you waste with GIMP over a couple of weeks will easily cover the purchase price for the entire Adobe Creative Suite where you have a heap of apps that all work together and, more importantly, are recognised in the industry as having proven themselves to work...
Apple paid $BIGNUM for NeXT.
Who's calling the shots at Apple now?
I'll give you a clue - if you do any development on NeXTSTE^H^H^H Mac OS X, there's sure a lot of things named NSThis and NSThat...
How about an old classic like Tetris? You can jump in, have a quick game or two in a few minutes, or you can really get stuck in tying to beat your high scores. Multiplayer adds another twist to it as well, and you don't need to devote hours upon hours to it to get satisfaction.
Answers? Here are a few reasons that spring to mind. I don't think they warrant the responses that the duplicate stories get, however some people get fired up a whole lot easier than I do =)
Lots of people here pay for subscriptions [I don't, however] If you're paying for a subscription, it removes the ads from a certain number of articles you read. If you hit a dupe, and actually click on it, as anyone would have to in order to post, then you've paid twice to remove the ads from one story.
Number of Stories. Vast numbers of people post stories to be submitted. If a dupe is accepted for the front page, that means that someone missed out on their submission being accepted.
Quality of Editing The editors of/. (whether they like it or not) wield quite a significant amount of influence and (probably) get paid pretty well for what they do. Some people see dupes as the editors not doing their jobs properly.
What I'm _far_ more interested in is: rather than booting Windows on an Intel Mac, running Windows (or Linux, or Solaris, or...) in a VMWare style environment. This will be far more versatile as I don't have to quit my OS X apps, yet I can run Windows (etc) apps at pretty much full speed.
You just don't get it, do you? Apple aren't selling you an OS that will potentially run on a PC. They are selling you a turn-key solution. They are selling you something that works out-of-the-box. They are selling you the end-user experience.
A Mac is not a Mac because of the chips inside it, a Mac is the whole shebang - the _quality_ of the hardware, the integration of the software, the whole user experience.
There is no way known it will be as simple as entering a serial number to run it on your whitebox PC. This just ain't gonna happen. Apple aren't at all interested in supporting your BogoComm WinModem and your SuperWin ATA to PS/2 bridge adapter. They support OS X on a known hardware base platform and it makes everyone's life easier. Apple are happy as they have a known target to develop for. Users are happy because they know it will Just Work (tm) and Techs/Developers are happy because it's easier to support a known configuration.
If you're likely to become irate that you can't install OS X on your PC then you're not the target market for Apple's product anyway.
Well, I'm really busy at the moment, but maybe I'll just check slashdot one more time, just for a quick breather... I'm sure I won't be surfing for too long and will get straight back to work as soon as I've caught up on the news...
At these prices, you can sign up for a subscription with allopmp3.com or mp3search.ru or any of these other "quasi-legal" sites and download full albums for $1.00-$1.50
If you're conducting a Unix Desktop Usability Study, then you owe it to yourself to check out other GUIs that may not necessarily run on Linux.
Have a look at Mac OS X with it's very good-looking and usable
Have a look at a GUI designed for optimum usability, by recognised leaders in the field of Human Computer Interactions.
While you're at it, look at Apple's documentation on User Experience
I think you've been huffing a bit too much Xenon yourself - if you even read the Wikipedia article you linked to, you will see that the physical characteristics of Xenon, in particular it's density, is 5.9g/L - water weighing in at pretty much spot on 1000g/L.
Now, I'd like to see a gas that's heavier than a liquid, but it's just not going to happen.
What would be cool would be a huge tank full of Perfluorocarbon which is the fluid used in Liquid Breathing systems
Ah, the ever-present prima-donna ballerina^H^H^H programmer.
Yes, you can act like a diva because you are absolutely, without a doubt irreplaceable.
Dressing up will help _other_ people take you seriously, thereby easing your progress through life. Yep, it's all a game, and you can get cheap and comfortable button-up shirts, or even polo shirts. A nice pair of soft cotton slacks is no less comfortable than that old pair of stinky, torn and faded jeans you wear. Get over it.
NZ - Ring of Fire?
I thought that the Ring of Fire was from the Vindaloo and four Lagers I had for dinner last night...
Plenty of geothermal energy going on right at the moment, I might add...
Whoops. I'm on Mac OS X. I went into the System Preferences -> Security pref pane. I clicked on the button that said "Turn On FileVault" I waited a minute or two while the hard drive churned and voila!
Unfortunately, for law enforcement etc, my entire home folder is now encrypted with AES128 encryption. Yep, all my email, all my documents, all my application preferences, even my entire MP3 music library (except that I went to lengths to not have this encrypted by symlinking it to somewhere else) is now AES128 encrypted. With a strong passphrase. It's really that easy.
I then have a file, also in my home folder, called my keychain. This is where I put stuff I really want to keep safe. All my passwords, all my bank a/c details, secure notes, login details, slashdot login etc. This is also encrypted. Yep, AES128. Even if my home folder was decrypted, there's still the keychain if they want to get to any secure notes or login details I might have.
90 days? You're not going to be able to do jack against this in 90 days. And this is just using simple stuff that's built into the OS.
k
Totally OT, but this is a site for geeks, and geeks like facts, figures and statistics... so...
VW were actually the first manufacturer to utilise EFI and have, in fact, had EFI in cars (thereby doing away with the carbie) for over 30 years now...
A link to the Type 3 tells us that "Originally a dual carburetted engine, the Type 3 engine was modified in 1968 to include fuel injection, reputedly the first mass production consumer car with such a feature."
Anyway...
Slashdot Mirror
If you have a single-button mouse, then you probably can't run Windows on your Mac anyway.
All Intel Core based Macs ship with the Mighty Mouse a two (well four) button mouse, that works quite well in Windows. Also, with BootCamp, you get a whole heap of Apple specific drivers that help things along, but from memory there was nothing special installed to deal with the mouse - it's a standard USB Human Interface Device.
But, it's a hack.
/.
This is a good thing. Where would we be today if people didn't get technology that was originally developed for one purpose and make it do things that the original creators never envisaged...
That burrito you just whacked in the microwave to heat up? We wouldn't have microwave ovens if it wasn't for someone hacking military radar technology to heat food.
This intraweb thing you're reading at the moment - tell me you're not really glad that it's not another boring scientific document you're reading. That's why you're here at
There's nothing wrong with taking one technology, or in the case of AJAX, a combination of technologies and taking them places that we never dreamed possible.
Apparently UMD movies are encoded at DVD resolution (720x480), 16x9 if appropriate, and the PSP re-sizes the image down to 480x272 for display on the LCD.
Now, why do sony waste the space on the UMD, and processing power to scale video, if they don't have to.
I would have expected to see, by about now, a set-top UMD player. Sony's stated design goals are to reduce the size of a media player device to the size of the carry case for the media. See MiniDisc players for an example.
How cool would it to be to have an iPod sized DVD player that plugs into a TV?
Anyone who uses Comic Sans as a positive design choice deserves everything they get...
Hard to find the word Dell on their site?
It's there over 130 times!
Just check Google
Why on earth is someone writing this software for the purposes of malware - why aren't they gainfully employed earning decent money.
Seriously, whipping up your own VM that will run $HOST_OS is nowhere near in the same league as, say, hacking together a VBS macro in MS Word or similar...
Does this mean that, as you're paying to burn copyrighted music, that you are now allowed to buy all the blank media you can, and burn all the copyrighted music that you can?
If you're paying for the privilege then they can't turn around and say that it's illegal - they've legitimised it by making you pay for it...
Using Sun's QFS - which is a SAN optimised file system, it's great for storing large and small files - for instance disc images and readmes. You can have a variable cluster size, where the first n blocks of a file are a small number of blocks, like say 1k, and then the rest of the file is stored in clusters of up to 64M.
Oh, you wanted something free?
Then give ZFS a go - it's free and is available in Solaris and OpenSolaris - which you can run on both SPARC and x86.
Look, the lack of CMYK isn't the show stopper that it once was. Many modern workflows use RGB images throughout and have a colour-managed approach to conversion to CMYK that only happens just before the final output stage (be that to PDF or to an image/platesetter)
There are many advantages to an RGB workflow - smaller image sizes and easier for software to work with is one, less RAM and disk space used, less data to crunch etc.
Using a fully ICC profiled workflow, from capture/acquisition through retouching and editing and finally to output means that the one source image can be retargeted at a number of different output devices and keep the highest possible quality. The days of using pre-separated CMYK images are drawing to a close, as once you've converted to CMYK you don't want to go flipping back and forth between that and RGB. Also, once you've got CMYK, you will find it very hard to use the same source image for, say, printing on newsprint at 75lpi and printing the same image in a glossy magazine on high-brightness stock at 175lpi, or using stochastic screening...
Anyway, having said all that, I totally agree with you that the GIMP is totally unsuited to a professional workflow.
Time is money, and the time you waste with GIMP over a couple of weeks will easily cover the purchase price for the entire Adobe Creative Suite where you have a heap of apps that all work together and, more importantly, are recognised in the industry as having proven themselves to work...
It's not a MacBook Pro, it's not a PowerBook as there's no PPC in it, so it's a CentrinoBook
Apple paid $BIGNUM for NeXT.
Who's calling the shots at Apple now?
I'll give you a clue - if you do any development on NeXTSTE^H^H^H Mac OS X, there's sure a lot of things named NSThis and NSThat...
How about an old classic like Tetris?
You can jump in, have a quick game or two in a few minutes, or you can really get stuck in tying to beat your high scores. Multiplayer adds another twist to it as well, and you don't need to devote hours upon hours to it to get satisfaction.
Answers?
/. (whether they like it or not) wield quite a significant amount of influence and (probably) get paid pretty well for what they do. Some people see dupes as the editors not doing their jobs properly.
Here are a few reasons that spring to mind. I don't think they warrant the responses that the duplicate stories get, however some people get fired up a whole lot easier than I do =)
Lots of people here pay for subscriptions [I don't, however]
If you're paying for a subscription, it removes the ads from a certain number of articles you read.
If you hit a dupe, and actually click on it, as anyone would have to in order to post, then you've paid twice to remove the ads from one story.
Number of Stories.
Vast numbers of people post stories to be submitted. If a dupe is accepted for the front page, that means that someone missed out on their submission being accepted.
Quality of Editing
The editors of
And so on...
What I'm _far_ more interested in is: rather than booting Windows on an Intel Mac, running Windows (or Linux, or Solaris, or...) in a VMWare style environment. This will be far more versatile as I don't have to quit my OS X apps, yet I can run Windows (etc) apps at pretty much full speed.
You just don't get it, do you?
Apple aren't selling you an OS that will potentially run on a PC.
They are selling you a turn-key solution. They are selling you something that works out-of-the-box.
They are selling you the end-user experience.
A Mac is not a Mac because of the chips inside it, a Mac is the whole shebang - the _quality_ of the hardware, the integration of the software, the whole user experience.
There is no way known it will be as simple as entering a serial number to run it on your whitebox PC. This just ain't gonna happen. Apple aren't at all interested in supporting your BogoComm WinModem and your SuperWin ATA to PS/2 bridge adapter. They support OS X on a known hardware base platform and it makes everyone's life easier. Apple are happy as they have a known target to develop for. Users are happy because they know it will Just Work (tm) and Techs/Developers are happy because it's easier to support a known configuration.
If you're likely to become irate that you can't install OS X on your PC then you're not the target market for Apple's product anyway.
Yeah, but on a 1440 x 990 15" screen, I can actually read the text easily and make out toolbar icons...
What's wrong with cloning clams?
I, for one, welcome our new, cloned mollusc overloar...
Oh, wait, I didn't read that title properly. Never mind...
Well, I'm really busy at the moment, but maybe I'll just check slashdot one more time, just for a quick breather... I'm sure I won't be surfing for too long and will get straight back to work as soon as I've caught up on the news...
At these prices, you can sign up for a subscription with allopmp3.com or mp3search.ru or any of these other "quasi-legal" sites and download full albums for $1.00-$1.50
If you're conducting a Unix Desktop Usability Study, then you owe it to yourself to check out other GUIs that may not necessarily run on Linux.
Have a look at Mac OS X with it's very good-looking and usable
Have a look at a GUI designed for optimum usability, by recognised leaders in the field of Human Computer Interactions.
While you're at it, look at Apple's documentation on User Experience
I think you've been huffing a bit too much Xenon yourself - if you even read the Wikipedia article you linked to, you will see that the physical characteristics of Xenon, in particular it's density, is 5.9g/L - water weighing in at pretty much spot on 1000g/L. Now, I'd like to see a gas that's heavier than a liquid, but it's just not going to happen.
What would be cool would be a huge tank full of Perfluorocarbon which is the fluid used in Liquid Breathing systems
Ah, the ever-present prima-donna ballerina^H^H^H programmer.
Yes, you can act like a diva because you are absolutely, without a doubt irreplaceable.
Dressing up will help _other_ people take you seriously, thereby easing your progress through life. Yep, it's all a game, and you can get cheap and comfortable button-up shirts, or even polo shirts. A nice pair of soft cotton slacks is no less comfortable than that old pair of stinky, torn and faded jeans you wear. Get over it.
NZ - Ring of Fire? I thought that the Ring of Fire was from the Vindaloo and four Lagers I had for dinner last night... Plenty of geothermal energy going on right at the moment, I might add...
Whoops. I'm on Mac OS X. I went into the System Preferences -> Security pref pane. I clicked on the button that said "Turn On FileVault" I waited a minute or two while the hard drive churned and voila!
Unfortunately, for law enforcement etc, my entire home folder is now encrypted with AES128 encryption. Yep, all my email, all my documents, all my application preferences, even my entire MP3 music library (except that I went to lengths to not have this encrypted by symlinking it to somewhere else) is now AES128 encrypted. With a strong passphrase. It's really that easy.
I then have a file, also in my home folder, called my keychain. This is where I put stuff I really want to keep safe. All my passwords, all my bank a/c details, secure notes, login details, slashdot login etc. This is also encrypted. Yep, AES128. Even if my home folder was decrypted, there's still the keychain if they want to get to any secure notes or login details I might have.
90 days? You're not going to be able to do jack against this in 90 days. And this is just using simple stuff that's built into the OS.
k
Totally OT, but this is a site for geeks, and geeks like facts, figures and statistics... so... VW were actually the first manufacturer to utilise EFI and have, in fact, had EFI in cars (thereby doing away with the carbie) for over 30 years now...
A link to the Type 3 tells us that "Originally a dual carburetted engine, the Type 3 engine was modified in 1968 to include fuel injection, reputedly the first mass production consumer car with such a feature."
Anyway...