I'm not alone on that, many other have found that Quicktime is the only simple videoplayer software that can bring a beefy gaming rig to its knees trying to play a 30 second low-res clip with no apparent explaination.
sounds like you're really on a Mac and installed this (scroll past Flip4Mac - that actually works)
it was also aired (pro bono) by every freaking local news station on the planet as part of a news segment.. and just like the car and coke ads you see today, it was played before the previews at the cinema.
read all about 1984 (the ad, not the book or movie) here
The first few macs actually had 72 dpi screens. This was resolution chosen (among other reasons*) because the ImageWriter printer just happened to print at 72 dpi. It's also not a coincidence that the LaserWriter outputted 72 dpi. It made for some true WYSIWYG!
*let's face it, with only 128 Kibibytes of system RAM shared with the bitmapped display, you really don't want to push the resolution;)
yes, but in the carpenter era (read: Donkey Kong) he was named "Jumpman" only later, when he stared in his own game (Marion Bros. - not to be confused with the later Super Mario Bros.) did he become a plumber named Mario.
they were a set of generic computer speakers at a place i used to work... the wall wart was just sitting on the floor, so they were obviously not powered up. i could be crazy, but that's how i remember it... i'm not about to go over and see what those speakers were though.:P
So...you suggest I hold off on a new PC till EFI comes out?
you don't have to hold off any longer, you can just buy an ICBM... those have EFI in them.:)
ICBM = Intel Chip Based Macintosh
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My point was why would Apple throw in a DirectX card into a Mac, when its(DirectX's) sole use will be on Windows.
- cyberjessy
this statement is wrong in so many ways. A "DirectX version Y compatible" G{U is simply a GPU that meets a certain threshold for image processing APIs. The marketing departments at ATi and nVidia have turned around and made it a big selling point that the card in your hands will be able to run with all the features enabled by DirectX version Y.
I submit to you cyberjessy, that Core Image has minimum compatible GPU's that all just also happen to be DirectX 9 compatible. (example 1, example 2) Why? Because the GPU is programable. Core Image needs a programable GPU, and DX9 needs a programable GPU.
Even when negotiating with card vendors, wouldn't it be cheaper to get a custom graphics card with all the DirectX circuitry taken out? Why waste transistors on capability you will never use.
-cyberjessy
there isn't any DirectX circuitry. The GPU tells the host "hi, i'm capable of A, B, C etc" If the host is windows, and all these capabilities meet the minimum requirements for DirectX 9, than DirectX 9 will run, otherwise, i believe it falls back onto DX 8, or some sort of compatibility mode. If the host is a Mac, and these capabilities meet the minimum requirements for Core Image (or even Quartz2D Extreme) than said technology is enabled, otherwise, it falls back on a CPU driven code path that has fewer special effects. Once again, the main GPU capability that Core Image, and DX 9 are looking for are a programable GPU.
I hope that i have at least partially removed that fishing rod from your throat....
1. Microsoft buys Apple, and takes Mac OS X under it's wings. (Read: Hostile Takeover) 2. Microsoft integrates Wine (or VirtualPC+XP) into Mac OS X (possibly butchering the GUI in the process) 3. Release the new OS as Windows Vista - Apple (with the help of the hacker community) have already gotten OS X running on commodity hardware, so there is very little work on Microsoft's part here 4. Spin off the rest of the Apple that they just bought (aside from maybe the media portions) into 2 companies - Apple Computer, Just another OEM (though with good taste in industrial design) and Apple Software, a nice high quality shell for all those pro apps (Microsoft just doesn't have the right to keep those under it's wings) alternate 4. Kill the Macintosh hardware business (why would Microsoft want to compete with all those OEMs?) and integrate all of Apple's other resources into Microsoft products (see Adobe with Macromedia software)
IT'd be a sad day when it happens, but once MS gets desperate, this is something that they just might pull...
Or maybe Billy G might go insane and buy Apple, Merge it into Microsoft, and rename the new megacompany "Apple"
Part of the reason Notepad doesn't get updated like it should is because it is written entirely in assembly. It's a wonder that the NT version has Unicode support added in.
The fact that the NT version has Unicode support has nothing to do with the fact that Notepad was written in assembly... Notepad is just a Windows Edit control. Windows NT added Unicode support for the Edit control. Notepad got Unicode support for free because NT added Unicode support to the Edit control. Am I being clear enough?;)
Yes, and it's unusable from 10 feet away. People are buying the minis (like me) to try to make them into home theater PCs. They're not.
Disclamer: This comment is posted from my 1st gen mac mini hooked up to my 27" NTSC TV. I'm sitting in a lounge chair about 8 feet away. Reading slashdot.
VLC works just fine 10 feet away, all you need is a wireless keyboard and know what keyboard shortcuts do what. As far as the rest of the OS, Screen Zoom does wonders.:)
quoth the great grand parent (the post that both you and i were refering to)
I've seen applications crash, and explorer to crash - but those can be restarted.
i countered that anticdote with one of my own... i've seen applications cause windows to crash. then i added my frustation that my job is being hindered by the sysadmin who won't listen to my suggestions on how to streamline the system.
you should see the place i work. The windows 2000 box (the shipping machine with a label printer attached to it) constantly blue screens because of the UPS shipping software. when this shipping machine crashes while printing labels, whatever was in the queue vanishes, causing a longer downtime than nessessary. meanwhile the linux box sitting next to the windows box driving the laser scanners hums quietly to itself. the system administrator says that linux won't support usb printers so he won't make it act as a print server. uhg.
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sounds like you're really on a Mac and installed this (scroll past Flip4Mac - that actually works)
it was also aired (pro bono) by every freaking local news station on the planet as part of a news segment.. and just like the car and coke ads you see today, it was played before the previews at the cinema.
read all about 1984 (the ad, not the book or movie) here
holy shit! you can walk 105 miles per hour?!
n ute+in+miles+per+hour
http://www.google.com/search?q=7%2F4+miles+per+mi
yes MacDude, i already ate my words. i posted it after giving up on checking my facts. my bad.
i don't know why i didn't look here or here... must have been tired...
The first few macs actually had 72 dpi screens. This was resolution chosen (among other reasons*) because the ImageWriter printer just happened to print at 72 dpi. It's also not a coincidence that the LaserWriter outputted 72 dpi. It made for some true WYSIWYG!
;)
*let's face it, with only 128 Kibibytes of system RAM shared with the bitmapped display, you really don't want to push the resolution
translation: release Yellow Box for Windows into the wild.
i'm sure we'll see something along your lines here soon enough :)
Or if you DO clone the finder, clone the Mac OS 9 finder! That was a good finder!
yes, but in the carpenter era (read: Donkey Kong) he was named "Jumpman" only later, when he stared in his own game (Marion Bros. - not to be confused with the later Super Mario Bros.) did he become a plumber named Mario.
they were a set of generic computer speakers at a place i used to work... the wall wart was just sitting on the floor, so they were obviously not powered up. i could be crazy, but that's how i remember it... i'm not about to go over and see what those speakers were though. :P
that doesn't work, my cell phone will drive speakers that are off, unpowered, and unplugged... try again next time!
or they run out of Large Cats
Technically, the Cheetah isn't a big cat - it may be big, but it belongs in the small cat family. why? they don't roar, they purr.
I dunno, my OnDemand is pretty damn Comcastic.
see, theres that brand recognition thing again.. I see the Comcast brand, and run the other direction. screeming even.
you don't have to hold off any longer, you can just buy an ICBM... those have EFI in them.
ICBM = Intel Chip Based Macintosh
this statement is wrong in so many ways. A "DirectX version Y compatible" G{U is simply a GPU that meets a certain threshold for image processing APIs. The marketing departments at ATi and nVidia have turned around and made it a big selling point that the card in your hands will be able to run with all the features enabled by DirectX version Y.
I submit to you cyberjessy, that Core Image has minimum compatible GPU's that all just also happen to be DirectX 9 compatible. (example 1, example 2) Why? Because the GPU is programable. Core Image needs a programable GPU, and DX9 needs a programable GPU.
-cyberjessy
there isn't any DirectX circuitry. The GPU tells the host "hi, i'm capable of A, B, C etc" If the host is windows, and all these capabilities meet the minimum requirements for DirectX 9, than DirectX 9 will run, otherwise, i believe it falls back onto DX 8, or some sort of compatibility mode. If the host is a Mac, and these capabilities meet the minimum requirements for Core Image (or even Quartz2D Extreme) than said technology is enabled, otherwise, it falls back on a CPU driven code path that has fewer special effects. Once again, the main GPU capability that Core Image, and DX 9 are looking for are a programable GPU.
I hope that i have at least partially removed that fishing rod from your throat....
don't forget about Portage for Mac OS X! :)
Here's an interesting idea:
1. Microsoft buys Apple, and takes Mac OS X under it's wings. (Read: Hostile Takeover)
2. Microsoft integrates Wine (or VirtualPC+XP) into Mac OS X (possibly butchering the GUI in the process)
3. Release the new OS as Windows Vista - Apple (with the help of the hacker community) have already gotten OS X running on commodity hardware, so there is very little work on Microsoft's part here
4. Spin off the rest of the Apple that they just bought (aside from maybe the media portions) into 2 companies - Apple Computer, Just another OEM (though with good taste in industrial design) and Apple Software, a nice high quality shell for all those pro apps (Microsoft just doesn't have the right to keep those under it's wings)
alternate 4. Kill the Macintosh hardware business (why would Microsoft want to compete with all those OEMs?) and integrate all of Apple's other resources into Microsoft products (see Adobe with Macromedia software)
IT'd be a sad day when it happens, but once MS gets desperate, this is something that they just might pull...
Or maybe Billy G might go insane and buy Apple, Merge it into Microsoft, and rename the new megacompany "Apple"
Part of the reason Notepad doesn't get updated like it should is because it is written entirely in assembly. It's a wonder that the NT version has Unicode support added in.
;)
The fact that the NT version has Unicode support has nothing to do with the fact that Notepad was written in assembly... Notepad is just a Windows Edit control. Windows NT added Unicode support for the Edit control. Notepad got Unicode support for free because NT added Unicode support to the Edit control. Am I being clear enough?
Yes, and it's unusable from 10 feet away. People are buying the minis (like me) to try to make them into home theater PCs. They're not.
:)
Disclamer: This comment is posted from my 1st gen mac mini hooked up to my 27" NTSC TV. I'm sitting in a lounge chair about 8 feet away. Reading slashdot.
VLC works just fine 10 feet away, all you need is a wireless keyboard and know what keyboard shortcuts do what. As far as the rest of the OS, Screen Zoom does wonders.
anything on a computer will have to be straight Red, Blue or Yellow
in that case, i pattent Green! ha!
quoth the great grand parent (the post that both you and i were refering to)
I've seen applications crash, and explorer to crash - but those can be restarted.
i countered that anticdote with one of my own... i've seen applications cause windows to crash. then i added my frustation that my job is being hindered by the sysadmin who won't listen to my suggestions on how to streamline the system.
you should see the place i work. The windows 2000 box (the shipping machine with a label printer attached to it) constantly blue screens because of the UPS shipping software. when this shipping machine crashes while printing labels, whatever was in the queue vanishes, causing a longer downtime than nessessary. meanwhile the linux box sitting next to the windows box driving the laser scanners hums quietly to itself. the system administrator says that linux won't support usb printers so he won't make it act as a print server. uhg.