Re:Why Apple Will Stay Away From PDAs
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Apple PDA?
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The only problem I see with your logic is that Apples PDA technlogy is soooooo much better then anyone elses. Have you ever used a Newton with OS 2.x? It blows away anything currently on the market. The only problem with the old Newtons is their size. which could be dealt with now.
It would also retail for much more than $400, I would guess $750-$900 (yep as much as an iMac). The PDA market is stagnant, but if you could make a PDA with the 5gig iPod HD, the interface of a Newton, and an excellent battery life then you would have plenty of users upgreade(remember, people don't need to buy them often, and once they are locked into Apple's iWalk / iPod, what are they going to buy next?), they could even take a lose on the iWalk and make it up on the Macintoshs(They deffinately aren't making much with the iPod, the micro 5 gig drive retails for more than the iPod). http://www.toshiba.com/taecdpd/products/features/M K5002mpl-Over.shtml
I think an insanely great PDA(proprietarily liked to MacOSX) would sell a lot of G4s.
Honestly you would only have to soup up the iPods CPU and put a bigger screen to get the hardware for such a device. The iPod currently runs some embeded OS which Apple contracted out.
http://www.dailymac.com/content/editorials/ipod_fu ture.html
Actually the ability to encode Dolby 5.1 Audio is useful. True 3d audio in games will be very cool and you will need to CREATE the signal inside of the console somehow. I'm guessing most games are not going to use this though, instead opting to put the power on the eye candy.
Well, I guess I'm wrong, Apple deserves to get bashed on this one.
I didn't realize that Sorenson was licensed differently then most codecs Quicktime comes with.
kill-1 makes a good point that a widespread open codec plugin format needs to arise.
I don't know much about programming Quicktime codec plugins, but I know the information is available. So what would be stopping people from making a player for X86 and PPC OSs?
Apple has released the specs for almost every aspect of the Quicktime (.mov) standard. They rarely write their own codecs though.
The Sorenson codec is owned by Sorenson and Apple pays for it. If you want to get a legal player for a non-Win/Mac platform someone will either have to
1. reverse engineer the codec(legally questionable and hard)
2. write a wrapper that uses another OSs Code (crossover does this)
3. legally licence the code and release a player (anyone?)
4. actually get sorsen to let people have their source(or detailed specs) somehow.
the best thing to do is just start using a codec that already lets people have their source and is on par with the best VP3
My current fave is VP3. It was showcased a while back on Slashdot and the source is free. It fits all of my needs well (Small size, Small CPU usage(comparatively)).
The source is free but you are not allowed to change it's ability to play VP3 files and a few other pretty restrictive things, but hey, they are good enough to let anyone have the source to port the codec to any system.
my prior fave was 3ivx. still a great codec but it is less open source. (although you can get it for almost any system and they are open to new ports)
From what I understand they didn't. I know at http://www.rahul.net/jeffrey/ovs/ they state that Intel didn't tell him anything was wrong. While cracking a password file at your employer for no reason is stupid, I could maybe see doing it for a legit reason.
Any way you look at it I think this should be a misdemeaner and definately not a felony.
I setup Macs in labs at my school and I don't believe there is a way to disable external booting. I've never seen a mac with external booting disabled and I've worked with a lot of macs locked down in a variety of ways. The only real way to stop external booting is block access to the ports needed to hook up a drive(SCSI and firewire) but that obviously isn't what you were saying and again, I've rarely seen a setup where you couldn't reach the back of the computer.
Well, you can generally not move backwards in OS numbers. When Apple ships a mac with MacOS 9.0 on it, that is the minimum it can boot, however all old PowerMacs can boot MacOS up to 9.1, booting OSX on old (pre-1999) macs just isn't that easy, but we are only talking about Macs with built in firewire.
I've never had a problem when I swap HDs when going up in OS version, and I've swapped them out at least 6 times and created ASR images(like Norton's Ghost, but much better and free) for Macs in our school labs(mix of AIO G3s and G4s with a couple 6500s for good measure).
Putting MacOS X or 9.22 on a drive and not having it boot off any Mac with a firewire port would be very odd.
According to This Site the xbox doesn't support CD-R disks but does support CD-RW. I would really like to see one of these take-apart articles see if the DVD drive is standard and see where MS tried to put in this no CDR policy
Memory can be mapped to an area without being in the same bank and. Hell you could map you HD(or any device's ROM,RAM,EEPROM,etc) to Memory locations if you had a 128bit CPU to address it with and a hackable BIOS.
Originally(I'm not sure now) video memmory was mapped after the first meg of ram and that was that. I guess it is probably that way still when you boot into DOS.
Memmory speed is a factor of the memmory spped/latency along with the main bus speed/latency. Different memmory standards don't make that much difference since few want to use old memmory modules.
Re:mirror requested
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Gamecube Guts
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Flash is open source, you can download a nice C++ tar file that compiles on win32 and every linux I've tried. They have downloadable native players for Windows, Macintosh,Pocket PC, OS/2, Sun Solaris,Linux x86, andSGI IRIX. at
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alter nates/
I must also wonder why people are down on flash? Don't confuse it with Shockwave(Macromedia's huge monster app), Flash movies are small, streaming and let you create almost anything without having all the overhead a virtual machine creates.
If you want a free way of making them check out open source JGenerator( http://www.flashgap.com/ ) which even lets you dynamically create flash on your site. Oh and JGenerator runs on almost every OS too.
I looked through the page and this TINI stuff looks awesome, but where can I get one for $50-$60. please mail me at majestic@ghearing.com if you know where I could actually buy something like this.
I have a Power Macintosh 6500 which is the perfect case to do this with. An exact replica of the plastics in wood would look so sweet.
Basically Apple first built a metal case that houses the computer. Then(for looks) put curvy plastic panels that slide on/off with little knobs that stick out of the plastic. by just making wooden panels with the same knobs you could keep the sheilding/grounding of a metal case and have a permanent( no adhesive) wood finish that you can still take off easily.
The CD drive wouldn't be that wuch of a problem since it is covered except for the door the the CD-Rom tray which would be easy to make.
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The only problem I see with your logic is that Apples PDA technlogy is soooooo much better then anyone elses. Have you ever used a Newton with OS 2.x? It blows away anything currently on the market. The only problem with the old Newtons is their size. which could be dealt with now.
M K5002mpl-Over.shtml
u ture.html
It would also retail for much more than $400, I would guess $750-$900 (yep as much as an iMac). The PDA market is stagnant, but if you could make a PDA with the 5gig iPod HD, the interface of a Newton, and an excellent battery life then you would have plenty of users upgreade(remember, people don't need to buy them often, and once they are locked into Apple's iWalk / iPod, what are they going to buy next?), they could even take a lose on the iWalk and make it up on the Macintoshs(They deffinately aren't making much with the iPod, the micro 5 gig drive retails for more than the iPod). http://www.toshiba.com/taecdpd/products/features/
I think an insanely great PDA(proprietarily liked to MacOSX) would sell a lot of G4s.
Honestly you would only have to soup up the iPods CPU and put a bigger screen to get the hardware for such a device. The iPod currently runs some embeded OS which Apple contracted out.
http://www.dailymac.com/content/editorials/ipod_f
Actually the ability to encode Dolby 5.1 Audio is useful. True 3d audio in games will be very cool and you will need to CREATE the signal inside of the console somehow. I'm guessing most games are not going to use this though, instead opting to put the power on the eye candy.
Well, I guess I'm wrong, Apple deserves to get bashed on this one.
I didn't realize that Sorenson was licensed differently then most codecs Quicktime comes with.
kill-1 makes a good point that a widespread open codec plugin format needs to arise.
I don't know much about programming Quicktime codec plugins, but I know the information is available. So what would be stopping people from making a player for X86 and PPC OSs?
I've noticed www.theregister.co.uk has been down for awhile to.
Does anybody no what is happening?
Apple has released the specs for almost every aspect of the Quicktime (.mov) standard. They rarely write their own codecs though.
The Sorenson codec is owned by Sorenson and Apple pays for it.
Apple has released the specs for almost every aspect of the Quicktime (.mov) standard. They rarely write their own codecs though.
The Sorenson codec is owned by Sorenson and Apple pays for it. If you want to get a legal player for a non-Win/Mac platform someone will either have to
1. reverse engineer the codec(legally questionable and hard)
2. write a wrapper that uses another OSs Code (crossover does this)
3. legally licence the code and release a player (anyone?)
4. actually get sorsen to let people have their source(or detailed specs) somehow.
the best thing to do is just start using a codec that already lets people have their source and is on par with the best VP3
My current fave is VP3. It was showcased a while back on Slashdot and the source is free. It fits all of my needs well (Small size, Small CPU usage(comparatively)).
http://www.vp3.com/
The source is free but you are not allowed to change it's ability to play VP3 files and a few other pretty restrictive things, but hey, they are good enough to let anyone have the source to port the codec to any system.
my prior fave was 3ivx. still a great codec but it is less open source. (although you can get it for almost any system and they are open to new ports)
From what I understand they didn't. I know at http://www.rahul.net/jeffrey/ovs/ they state that Intel didn't tell him anything was wrong. While cracking a password file at your employer for no reason is stupid, I could maybe see doing it for a legit reason.
Any way you look at it I think this should be a misdemeaner and definately not a felony.
I setup Macs in labs at my school and I don't believe there is a way to disable external booting. I've never seen a mac with external booting disabled and I've worked with a lot of macs locked down in a variety of ways. The only real way to stop external booting is block access to the ports needed to hook up a drive(SCSI and firewire) but that obviously isn't what you were saying and again, I've rarely seen a setup where you couldn't reach the back of the computer.
Well, you can generally not move backwards in OS numbers. When Apple ships a mac with MacOS 9.0 on it, that is the minimum it can boot, however all old PowerMacs can boot MacOS up to 9.1, booting OSX on old (pre-1999) macs just isn't that easy, but we are only talking about Macs with built in firewire.
I've never had a problem when I swap HDs when going up in OS version, and I've swapped them out at least 6 times and created ASR images(like Norton's Ghost, but much better and free) for Macs in our school labs(mix of AIO G3s and G4s with a couple 6500s for good measure).
Putting MacOS X or 9.22 on a drive and not having it boot off any Mac with a firewire port would be very odd.
According to This Site the xbox doesn't support CD-R disks but does support CD-RW. I would really like to see one of these take-apart articles see if the DVD drive is standard and see where MS tried to put in this no CDR policy
Memory can be mapped to an area without being in the same bank and. Hell you could map you HD(or any device's ROM,RAM,EEPROM,etc) to Memory locations if you had a 128bit CPU to address it with and a hackable BIOS.
Originally(I'm not sure now) video memmory was mapped after the first meg of ram and that was that. I guess it is probably that way still when you boot into DOS.
Memmory speed is a factor of the memmory spped/latency along with the main bus speed/latency. Different memmory standards don't make that much difference since few want to use old memmory modules.
someone already posted this but messed up the URL. Google's text cache is at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:UPJqyYJnstg:w ww.gamesx.com/misctech/gamecube.htm+&hl=en
Flash is open source, you can download a nice C++ tar file that compiles on win32 and every linux I've tried. They have downloadable native players for Windows, Macintosh,Pocket PC, OS/2, Sun Solaris,Linux x86, andSGI IRIX. atr nates/
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alte
I must also wonder why people are down on flash? Don't confuse it with Shockwave(Macromedia's huge monster app), Flash movies are small, streaming and let you create almost anything without having all the overhead a virtual machine creates.
If you want a free way of making them check out open source JGenerator( http://www.flashgap.com/ ) which even lets you dynamically create flash on your site. Oh and JGenerator runs on almost every OS too.
I found it. go to:
e cM acro/IB_allproducts.d2w/report
https://store.ibutton.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/Ex
and they have a number of them.
I looked through the page and this TINI stuff looks awesome, but where can I get one for $50-$60. please mail me at majestic@ghearing.com if you know where I could actually buy something like this.
I have a Power Macintosh 6500 which is the perfect case to do this with. An exact replica of the plastics in wood would look so sweet. Basically Apple first built a metal case that houses the computer. Then(for looks) put curvy plastic panels that slide on/off with little knobs that stick out of the plastic. by just making wooden panels with the same knobs you could keep the sheilding/grounding of a metal case and have a permanent( no adhesive) wood finish that you can still take off easily. The CD drive wouldn't be that wuch of a problem since it is covered except for the door the the CD-Rom tray which would be easy to make.