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If anyone is interested in Mac OS X screen savers, I just made a few of all 44 pictures. I am in the process of uploading it to here: http://144.92.10.251/download/SlideSaver/
I think that the best canadate for the next mouse is a optical system that can detect where you are looking. Like those cameras that you see advertised. Ideas?
I still don't get it (sorry). Is this "crippling" of the first DVD player just baised on the lack of support in OS X? I think that it is a bit more realisitc to say that they just ran out of time.
After all, would the company that freely distributes the means (and a great one at that) to play and burn MP3s really be bowing to industry pressure?
After reading your post, I couldn't help but a few comments on your gun issue (I had to read it several times to realize you were not being sarcastic):
It seems as if you have been caught up in the (pro gun control) American media like the rest of the sheeple here. If you look at stats, countries that have imposed huge gun gontrol laws undergo a slight drop in crime, then it blossems to 2 to 3 times its origional levels. (case in point jamaca and soon england from what I hear)
I recently read a article on BBC news online about how the author had to move to America (from Britan) just to feel safe.
Or think about Sweden, its been a while since I did the research, but I think it is something like a required one gun per household and very little crime.
Oh, and for those paranoids on/., the first things a govenment does before supressing its people is to take away thire guns (Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao).
I am desperatly trying not to turn this into a rant, but please do not assume that a increased restriction on guns will result in a lower crime rate, just better targets for criminals.
I am still border line on the main issue at hand, but I have never heard any one ask this question...
If people had the knowlege that they have XX% chance of being killed in XX years from XX genetic desiese, would they make the effort to improve thier life quality with the knowlege that thier clock is ticking? A potental benafit of this is maybe all of us (including all the idiots, (comon' I bet you can think of 1 or two)) will start running around like thier life actually has a purpose.
I vote that a sense of life and death may bring some reality into people that most need it.
Yes, hydrogen burns and yes, it is quite a bit more clear than your average flame. Case in point: look at the Space Shuttle. The 3 main engines (which burn hydrogen) produce just as much thrust as those Solid Rocket Boosters (big white things that don't burn hydrogen), but I think that we can all agree that we see a bit more flame coming out of the boosters than the main engines.
...... so then I can surf/. and bake cookies inside my box at the same time. Unknown to most, the 10 GHz Intel is acctually aimed for the common home owner.
Ahhh.... I belive you just perdicted what many are expecting to come out during the MacWorld expo in jan.
a) they just bought company which sold DVD authoring software, which leads many to believe that you will soon be authoring dvd movies on an iMac (iDVD?)
b) They are planning on selling CD-R drives as a build to order option in the iMac in jan also. I have heard much speculation that they may provide software to burn your own cds also. Voice onto cd would be easy from there (i believe this is your pt.)
About the hand writing recognition, apple did that a while ago, it was called the Newton (PDA). I am sure that they still have that technology there somewhere and you never know when they might reintreoduce it into the market.
I have heard it said (sorry I cannot cite sources) that this is just the second logical step in human evolution.
The first step was to wear clothes. This got us out of the Congo. It kept our bodies warm in hostile enviroments. Think about it, we wouldn't be living anywhere that it snows.
Space is just the next logical step into a hostile inviroment. I can imagine in the future a suit that can survive space, while still blending into the backround without notice. Think animal skins vs. t shirt.
Ive been using it for exactly two weeks now and I have made some discoveries:
OS X shows the most promise of any system out there. Ya, you can have *nix, but can your grandma use it? Or you can have Mac OS 9 (I taught it to my little brother who was seven and he had no problem with it) but it lacks features wanted by us slashdotters (like SMP or protected memory). It's two diffrent worlds almost, and OS X comes the closest to each that I have seen.
The OS X beta is very incomplete. There are many unoptimized areas, just try resizing a window and you'll see what I mean (or QT 4 in os x, or minimizing a window on a 233 G3, or running it on 96 MB of RAM, ect...). Hopefully the final release will run at warp 1 X 10^999999.
At the moment, the beta seems to be too intuative. This doesn't make sense at first, but how intuative was the apple menu? A small picture of an apple with great power and effecincy? Try explaining that to your grandma. The OS X GUI hasn't taken that extra step of complexety that appeals to the pro users, but can remain hidden to novice users. This would be like hiding the dock like I have on my iMac. I get the extra screen space back and the dock works fine, but it just isn't as intuative anymore.
Other options I think would improve OS X that would appeal to pro users would be to have a control strip in the unused upper right in the menu bar. To have an option for the file names permenently under the icons in the dock (no cursor rollover needed). The clickable area in the dock should extend to the base of the screen and not just the icon (easy to hit). Anchor the dock on the left of the base so commenly used apps would always be in the same place on the screen. And yes, I have sent them about 40 suggestions so far, including these
I have heard of ideas like implanting a flexable watch under your skin on your wrist or a suit that can monitor body functions and stress levels and respond to doctors accordingly.
Without extra people and dogs playing with the beta they will get plenty of feedback. in the first couple days they had 80,000 copies ordered.
And, out of curiosity, are you implying that you think that novice should use Linux/BSD? I know people that have a hard enough time on Mac.
And I am in no way trying to argue that Windoze dosen't have bugs, or is worth strange unpoastable things for that matter, but I have almost been running OS X on my system for a week and I have never had to reboot the system.
The reason the Mac community in particular likes this release is that it is the OS X release. UT isn't going to be ported to OS X, but the Quake port suposedly has a huge perfomance boost (to the tune of +10 fps at least) due ot the native OpenGL support in OS X.
Seth
The $30 for osx isnt a marketing ploy, the money is to assure that everyone and thier dog isn't out there playing with the beta. They want to have money to sort through the feedback, and they need to make sure that there will be no novice users installing it on their system. (and screwing it up royaly). Main point: they want only serious beta testers.
I have been using OS X for about 3 days now and I have made several imprtant discoveries.
1) There is an auto hide feature for the dock. Bam. Its gone till the cursor is at the bottom of the screen.
2) Aqua is as intrusive as the dust mites sneezing behind my computer. I think that the only people that are bugged by aqua are those who want to be. How much time do you spend looking at your scroll bar? If you said more than.1 sec, aqua is the least of your worries. If it truely disturbing you, then turn on graphite, it's that easy.
Seth
I am sure most people reading this know of the SETI@home project (setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu). The ovious solution to the "huge amount of data" produced is the same type of distributed computing project as SETI@home operates except funded by the gov. The program would probally be much faster and simpler than the SETI@home screen saver, because it is just looking for gaussians (and not the pulse that the ssaver that is coming out son is examining. Each user could even have his/her own portion of the sky that s/he updates dayly to see if the images change day to day. (kind of like adopt a highway:-)
Its a wonder that all those concirned arn't doing this right now.
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If anyone is interested in Mac OS X screen savers, I just made a few of all 44 pictures. I am in the process of uploading it to here:
http://144.92.10.251/download/SlideSaver/
I think that the best canadate for the next mouse is a optical system that can detect where you are looking. Like those cameras that you see advertised. Ideas?
Then why can you get IE updates via Software Update?
For some more interesting benchmarks and discussion on gcc 3.1, this discussion has been going on at ArsTechnica.com for a while:
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http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a
i was going to put a little disclamer after the message. what sites do you recommend?
last week i bleieve there were a few articles on macosrumors.com saying that the g5 will have 4 cores in the near future
After all, would the company that freely distributes the means (and a great one at that) to play and burn MP3s really be bowing to industry pressure?
From the looks of it, iTunes will be avalible when mac OS X v1.0 comes out, no prob.
We are going to have to take out this chunk of the galixy before this could happen.
SETI@home is an ongoing science experiment, so all the data needs to be treated equally.
And, the SETI@home project is reportedly using %35 of Berkeley's backbone (for free).
Anyway, I misspoke, in jamaca the entire crime rate went up a bit, but it was the murder rate (specificly) that tripled.
It seems as if you have been caught up in the (pro gun control) American media like the rest of the sheeple here. If you look at stats, countries that have imposed huge gun gontrol laws undergo a slight drop in crime, then it blossems to 2 to 3 times its origional levels. (case in point jamaca and soon england from what I hear)
I recently read a article on BBC news online about how the author had to move to America (from Britan) just to feel safe.
Or think about Sweden, its been a while since I did the research, but I think it is something like a required one gun per household and very little crime.
Oh, and for those paranoids on /., the first things a govenment does before supressing its people is to take away thire guns (Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao).
I am desperatly trying not to turn this into a rant, but please do not assume that a increased restriction on guns will result in a lower crime rate, just better targets for criminals.
If people had the knowlege that they have XX% chance of being killed in XX years from XX genetic desiese, would they make the effort to improve thier life quality with the knowlege that thier clock is ticking? A potental benafit of this is maybe all of us (including all the idiots, (comon' I bet you can think of 1 or two)) will start running around like thier life actually has a purpose.
I vote that a sense of life and death may bring some reality into people that most need it.
Care for any opinions on this?
FYI, I still don't know what side I am on.
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/ST S53/100653 90.jpg
...... so then I can surf /. and bake cookies inside my box at the same time. Unknown to most, the 10 GHz Intel is acctually aimed for the common home owner.
a) they just bought company which sold DVD authoring software, which leads many to believe that you will soon be authoring dvd movies on an iMac (iDVD?)
b) They are planning on selling CD-R drives as a build to order option in the iMac in jan also. I have heard much speculation that they may provide software to burn your own cds also. Voice onto cd would be easy from there (i believe this is your pt.)
About the hand writing recognition, apple did that a while ago, it was called the Newton (PDA). I am sure that they still have that technology there somewhere and you never know when they might reintreoduce it into the market.
The first step was to wear clothes. This got us out of the Congo. It kept our bodies warm in hostile enviroments. Think about it, we wouldn't be living anywhere that it snows.
Space is just the next logical step into a hostile inviroment. I can imagine in the future a suit that can survive space, while still blending into the backround without notice. Think animal skins vs. t shirt.
OS X shows the most promise of any system out there. Ya, you can have *nix, but can your grandma use it? Or you can have Mac OS 9 (I taught it to my little brother who was seven and he had no problem with it) but it lacks features wanted by us slashdotters (like SMP or protected memory). It's two diffrent worlds almost, and OS X comes the closest to each that I have seen.
The OS X beta is very incomplete. There are many unoptimized areas, just try resizing a window and you'll see what I mean (or QT 4 in os x, or minimizing a window on a 233 G3, or running it on 96 MB of RAM, ect...). Hopefully the final release will run at warp 1 X 10^999999.
At the moment, the beta seems to be too intuative. This doesn't make sense at first, but how intuative was the apple menu? A small picture of an apple with great power and effecincy? Try explaining that to your grandma. The OS X GUI hasn't taken that extra step of complexety that appeals to the pro users, but can remain hidden to novice users. This would be like hiding the dock like I have on my iMac. I get the extra screen space back and the dock works fine, but it just isn't as intuative anymore.
Other options I think would improve OS X that would appeal to pro users would be to have a control strip in the unused upper right in the menu bar. To have an option for the file names permenently under the icons in the dock (no cursor rollover needed). The clickable area in the dock should extend to the base of the screen and not just the icon (easy to hit). Anchor the dock on the left of the base so commenly used apps would always be in the same place on the screen. And yes, I have sent them about 40 suggestions so far, including these
My $2 X 10^ -2
I have heard of ideas like implanting a flexable watch under your skin on your wrist or a suit that can monitor body functions and stress levels and respond to doctors accordingly.
What if you got one million people to sign up for PayPal? Even better at $5.00 each.
They will make a total of about $10mil max on the beta, that in no way pays back the 400 mil spent on NeXT.
And, out of curiosity, are you implying that you think that novice should use Linux/BSD? I know people that have a hard enough time on Mac.
And I am in no way trying to argue that Windoze dosen't have bugs, or is worth strange unpoastable things for that matter, but I have almost been running OS X on my system for a week and I have never had to reboot the system.
seth
The reason the Mac community in particular likes this release is that it is the OS X release. UT isn't going to be ported to OS X, but the Quake port suposedly has a huge perfomance boost (to the tune of +10 fps at least) due ot the native OpenGL support in OS X. Seth
Seth
I have been using OS X for about 3 days now and I have made several imprtant discoveries. 1) There is an auto hide feature for the dock. Bam. Its gone till the cursor is at the bottom of the screen. 2) Aqua is as intrusive as the dust mites sneezing behind my computer. I think that the only people that are bugged by aqua are those who want to be. How much time do you spend looking at your scroll bar? If you said more than .1 sec, aqua is the least of your worries. If it truely disturbing you, then turn on graphite, it's that easy.
Seth
I am sure most people reading this know of the SETI@home project (setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu). The ovious solution to the "huge amount of data" produced is the same type of distributed computing project as SETI@home operates except funded by the gov. The program would probally be much faster and simpler than the SETI@home screen saver, because it is just looking for gaussians (and not the pulse that the ssaver that is coming out son is examining. Each user could even have his/her own portion of the sky that s/he updates dayly to see if the images change day to day. (kind of like adopt a highway :-)
Its a wonder that all those concirned arn't doing this right now.