Well, not related exactly to your specific problem... I put an ATI Rage 128 Orion card into an old beige Mac G3 (along with a memory upgrade) and started having some real wierd texture problems -- the coolest was playing Quake II with no textures on any of the characters -- the background/environment looked normal, but all characters were just white (with lines for the vertexes). It looked pretty damn cool, actually. I figured the card was fucked, but it turned out to be the RAM. Not sure why -- I would think that with bad RAM it either wouldn't play at all, or would just crash at some point -- I don't think system RAM is used for textures -- but replacing it fixed the problem (and some others as well...)
What is that supposed to mean? Is the idea that morality is somehow inate, and any examination of it demonstrates that you are somehow lacking, or is the statement supposed to be ironic or something?
Right, but under classic Mac OS there are no open ports as long as you don't have IP-based filesharing enabled and you're not running some actual server software. Also, unlike UNIX or WinNT (or Mac OS X for that matter) there is no shell that you can get into to do any damage once you've found a buffer overflow in a server app. That's not to say that damage is impossible -- beyond DOS attacks, there have been a few vulnerabilities in some web-server apps, but they've always exploited weaknesses in the actual app and used the app's services in some way to manipulate files, never underlying OS vulnerabilities.
Interestingly enough, the superdrive actually is a rewritable drive. I believe that the first ones had firmware that prevented their use as such, but I have heard of people successfully using them more recently. I'm at a loss as to why Apple doesn't market them as rewritable -- probably because their software doesn't yet support it -- apparently DVD-Studio Pro won't rewrite a disc, but if you use it to create an image you can successfully burn it with Toast Titanium.
Yeah -- with Quartz on OSX it's pretty easy. I've got 2 translucent terminal windows up right now -- it's surprisingly convenient -- for instance I use it sometimes to keep a dump of a database schema in a term behind my main terminal, and slashdot open behind that!
Yeah, so has the Mac. But there wasn't a system-wide graphical subsystem with a good API for doing anti-aliasing and transparency on everything -- not just fonts.
Generally considered to supercede analog film? Please. 2K resolution is really just marginally passable. High quality work is generally done at 4K with some even at 8K, which is what it really takes to match 35mm at its best.
I'd be thrilled if they used this as an opportunity to transition from PalmOS to Linux, with the emulator running PalmOS of course. If they did a good job on the SDK, people should be able to recompile PalmOS apps to run under the new Linux. I don't have a feel for how likely this is, but it would give Palm more control over their destiny, and save them paying licensing fees.
Let's see... they would gain control over their destiny and stop paying licensing fees... because they would no longer be using their own OS??? Forgive me, but I fail to comprehend the logic here.
It could be done, but it would be expensive as hell if you wanted it to work perfectly. The viewing screens in movie cameras (you know, the kind that they actually make movies with;-) are actually bundles of tightly-packed fiber-optic cables. They are quite expensive, and most of them have at least one broken fiber in them, resulting in a tiny dark spot. I imaging that doing something like this on a large scale would cost tens of thousands of dollars for just one monitor. Probably cheaper to just use LCDs.
My favorite: A friend of mine bought one of those glass drinking birds -- you know, the kind with liquid on the inside that when it gets warm makes the head bob up and down?
Well, the name of the product is written )in big letters) as "Non Toxic Drinking Bird". Then in little letters on the side it says "Warning: contents toxic".
I hope they improved the TV out on the iBooks.. I have a Pismo Powerbook G3, it also has TV out, but even on my 27" Sony Wega TV with S-Video you can't see text at all above 800x600.
Of course not. It has nothing to do with the quality of your powerbook or the size of your screen, and everything to do with the inherant limitations of NTSC video, which quite frankly, sucks. The video out of any computer is going to be either 640x480 (with square pixels) or 720x486 (with rectangular pixels). There's nothing you can do to improve on that.
If you have the resolution set higher on your machine, pixels are being blended before they go out to NTSC.
"Rather than settling for outdated, unsupported Mac versions of the leading PC accounting software..."
While I share your desire for another alternative to Quicken, I believe that the product that they are referring to is Quickbooks, which Intuit continues to sell (I think -- at least they did recently) despite the fact that it hasn't been updated in, what 5 years now?
Worse, the pests typically evolve defenses and move right along, creating a need for more, newer and better pesticides.
This will happen with GM plants as well. One of the more worrying aspects of this is that it has effects that extend beyond the farms planting GM crops. One of the few pesticides that is (sparingly) used by many organic farmers is called BT. Well, a gene to produce this chemical is one of the common genes that is commonly inserted into GM plants. The biotech companies doing this estimate that there will be insects that have become tolerant of this chemical within 20 years. This is not seen as a big deal to the biotech companies because they plan on introducing new varieties that will kill the new tolerant insects. But in the mean time they will have eliminated one of the only pesticides available to organic farmers.
Just because they brought in the most revenue doesn't mean they were the most profitable. In fact, they never made a profit at all, which means that cutting the division will cut expenditures even more than it cuts revenue, therefor benefiting the bottom line.
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No it doesn't. Ever read the documentation?
Is that supposed to be ironic? (BTW -- it's spelled tolerance.)
... or will it simply be a cheap grab for more boxoffice bucks?
BINGO!
A link.
(This is just some text to I can get through the compression filter...)
Well, not related exactly to your specific problem... I put an ATI Rage 128 Orion card into an old beige Mac G3 (along with a memory upgrade) and started having some real wierd texture problems -- the coolest was playing Quake II with no textures on any of the characters -- the background/environment looked normal, but all characters were just white (with lines for the vertexes). It looked pretty damn cool, actually. I figured the card was fucked, but it turned out to be the RAM. Not sure why -- I would think that with bad RAM it either wouldn't play at all, or would just crash at some point -- I don't think system RAM is used for textures -- but replacing it fixed the problem (and some others as well...)
Hmmm... is that LinuX (with X-Windows), or is it Mac OS X? (I guess it couldn't be Windows XP)...
However the primary has been postponed here in light of the situation...
What is that supposed to mean? Is the idea that morality is somehow inate, and any examination of it demonstrates that you are somehow lacking, or is the statement supposed to be ironic or something?
Right, but under classic Mac OS there are no open ports as long as you don't have IP-based filesharing enabled and you're not running some actual server software. Also, unlike UNIX or WinNT (or Mac OS X for that matter) there is no shell that you can get into to do any damage once you've found a buffer overflow in a server app. That's not to say that damage is impossible -- beyond DOS attacks, there have been a few vulnerabilities in some web-server apps, but they've always exploited weaknesses in the actual app and used the app's services in some way to manipulate files, never underlying OS vulnerabilities.
1) It's not just for quicktime -- it's works with lots of different plugins.
2) Quicktime is open. That's why xanim works. What isn't open is some of the codecs (like Sorenson).
Interestingly enough, the superdrive actually is a rewritable drive. I believe that the first ones had firmware that prevented their use as such, but I have heard of people successfully using them more recently. I'm at a loss as to why Apple doesn't market them as rewritable -- probably because their software doesn't yet support it -- apparently DVD-Studio Pro won't rewrite a disc, but if you use it to create an image you can successfully burn it with Toast Titanium.
Yeah -- with Quartz on OSX it's pretty easy. I've got 2 translucent terminal windows up right now -- it's surprisingly convenient -- for instance I use it sometimes to keep a dump of a database schema in a term behind my main terminal, and slashdot open behind that!
Yeah, so has the Mac. But there wasn't a system-wide graphical subsystem with a good API for doing anti-aliasing and transparency on everything -- not just fonts.
Actually, now it's just GU -- Gu is Unix!
Generally considered to supercede analog film? Please. 2K resolution is really just marginally passable. High quality work is generally done at 4K with some even at 8K, which is what it really takes to match 35mm at its best.
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Let's see... they would gain control over their destiny and stop paying licensing fees... because they would no longer be using their own OS??? Forgive me, but I fail to comprehend the logic here.
It's expensive because there are low yields in manufacture.
It could be done, but it would be expensive as hell if you wanted it to work perfectly. The viewing screens in movie cameras (you know, the kind that they actually make movies with ;-) are actually bundles of tightly-packed fiber-optic cables. They are quite expensive, and most of them have at least one broken fiber in them, resulting in a tiny dark spot. I imaging that doing something like this on a large scale would cost tens of thousands of dollars for just one monitor. Probably cheaper to just use LCDs.
My favorite: A friend of mine bought one of those glass drinking birds -- you know, the kind with liquid on the inside that when it gets warm makes the head bob up and down?
Well, the name of the product is written )in big letters) as "Non Toxic Drinking Bird". Then in little letters on the side it says "Warning: contents toxic".
Go to here and filter away!
Of course not. It has nothing to do with the quality of your powerbook or the size of your screen, and everything to do with the inherant limitations of NTSC video, which quite frankly, sucks. The video out of any computer is going to be either 640x480 (with square pixels) or 720x486 (with rectangular pixels). There's nothing you can do to improve on that.
If you have the resolution set higher on your machine, pixels are being blended before they go out to NTSC.
While I share your desire for another alternative to Quicken, I believe that the product that they are referring to is Quickbooks, which Intuit continues to sell (I think -- at least they did recently) despite the fact that it hasn't been updated in, what 5 years now?
This will happen with GM plants as well. One of the more worrying aspects of this is that it has effects that extend beyond the farms planting GM crops. One of the few pesticides that is (sparingly) used by many organic farmers is called BT. Well, a gene to produce this chemical is one of the common genes that is commonly inserted into GM plants. The biotech companies doing this estimate that there will be insects that have become tolerant of this chemical within 20 years. This is not seen as a big deal to the biotech companies because they plan on introducing new varieties that will kill the new tolerant insects. But in the mean time they will have eliminated one of the only pesticides available to organic farmers.
Just because they brought in the most revenue doesn't mean they were the most profitable. In fact, they never made a profit at all, which means that cutting the division will cut expenditures even more than it cuts revenue, therefor benefiting the bottom line.