Apple didn't. Someone else registered it, but used Apple's contact and name server info. You can tell because the domain wasn't registered until after the rumors became public; all of Apple's domains are registered though networksolutions.com, not bulkregisters.com; Apple's own name servers (the one's listed) have no entry for the domain; and also the domain now lists one Mr. "Hahahah!!! Tricked You!!!" of "Tricked You!, HA HA HA HAHAHA" as the owner. It's obviously just some guys idea of a joke.
> Website: http://www.spymac.com > Source: SpyMac > Author: JACK CAMPBELL
Erm, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that SpyMac is one of the least reputable Mac rumor sites there is. It's right down there with MacOSRumors. (iWalk anyone?) What's more, he doesn't cite his sources. While I don't doubt that that Apple's share is significantly more than 1.9%, it's unlikely to be anywhere near Jack's 11.6%.
That (Geordi hacing eyes in "All Good Things...") doesn't count though, as it was in an "alternate future". First Contact was where he got eyes for the first time, for real. Not that it really matters...
You're impression of things could very well be entirely accurate, but what of all of Apple's online documentation? It certainly implies that Cocoa for Java is not only possible, but supported and encouraged. I know of a few Cocoa/Java apps that work very well - Fern (a gnutella app) for instance. What's missing to make Java a first class citizen?
Well, holding the command key down and clicking the link works pretty well - much faster than pulling up a context-menu. I'll not argue that middle-clicking is faster still, but that's not the point. You never need to open a link in a new window. One can surf the web just fine in a single window - and, in fact, most people do just that. (As an aside, Mozilla allows you drag a link to an empty spot on the tab bar to create a new tab. I find this approach very appealing from a UI standpoint. But maybe that's just me...)
I think we're arguing two different things here. Contextual menus and multi-button mice are not bad ideas. Apple isn't ignoring them, either. If you plug a multi-button mouse into an OS X box, you'll find that the scroll wheel scrolls, the middle button opens a link in a new window, and the right button brings up context-menus all over the place.
The only different is that multi-button mice are not required, or even expected. This forces the application and os designers to consider single-button access first and foremost. I would argue that this approach almost always leads to a better overall user interface. Of course, my "better" isn't necessarily the same as yours. But, you're more than welcome to use any mouse you like, and open a link in a new window any way you choose.
I've been a student at two state schools (OSU and Kent), and both do exactly the same thing: your student ID is your social security number, and password is your birthday. Alternately, your username is first initial + last name, and your password is your social security number.
Maybe if the schools treated your ssn as something even remotely private, it wouldn't be so unnerving. However, your ssn is your sid, and your sid is _everything_. "I'm not a man, I'm a number!" They might as well tatoo it to our foreheads. It's printed on our school id/debit cards, which we casually hand to local stores/restaurants. Any of them could be discretely copying them down for their own nefarious purposes.
I once even recieved a letter from the school (financial aid info, I think) that had my social security number printed right on the envelope's address label - in plain sight for all to see! At least it wasn't identified as such, but that's not a huge comfort.
Point is, school's really need to stop using our ssn's as a personal identifier. How hard is it to generate a new random number for each student?
Apple has apparently resolved the potentially serious.Mac security hole we first reported yesterday.
Entering the URL of an e-mail message generated by.Mac's Webmail function on another computer now results in redirection to the.Mac home page; rather than displaying the private message.
I think you, and others, are making a inaccurate assumption here. Unlike Unix or Windows, in a properly designed Mac application there should never be a time where an operation is accessable only through a context-menu. This is, you should never have to ctrl-click (or right-click) on anything.
One of the core interface elements to the Mac environment is the unified menu bar. In many ways, it behaves like an omnipresent contextual menu. Switch from one app to another, it changes to reflect the new context. Within an application, items will enable/disable as they pertain to the currently selected object.
For instance, in Windows it is very common to have a window without menu bar - like in an installer perhaps. If that window contains a text input element, and you want to access Copy and Paste commands (ignoring ctrl-key shortcuts) you have to get them from the context-menu. On a Mac, there will always be an Edit menu in the top menu bar, with those commands ready and waiting.
The fact that Shake requires a 3 button mouse says to me that it is not a properly designed Mac app. That can be okay in some instances. Here, time to market was obviously an issue. And these types of professional apps tend to be an environment unto itself. You'll start the app at the beginning of the day and quit it when you go home, rarely switching between other programs. In such a case, having its own set of rules isn't quite as unforgivable. But I expect Apple to clean it up in time.
Yes, but it only went to version 1.0, perhaps even a couple 1.n's. Certainly not 4.0 though, so this is definately made on a PC. Not that it matters in the slightest.
Unless I misunderstood, the XServe has two 64bit PCI slots, and only one is used (by an ethernet card). The other ethernet port is onboard. This leaves one slot free, or two if you don't need to ethernet ports.
Well, you see, when slashdot introduced apple.slashdot.org they also created a whole slew of Mac-specific icons. The idea being, I presume, that if you have a whole sub-site dedicated to Apple, it will be more interesting to look at if every story isn't stuck with the same generic icon. Hence, OS X icons, OS 9 icons, iMac icons, iPod icons, etc. Of course, in practice they seem to only be using either the generic Apple icon or the standard slashdot icons used on the rest of the site.
If you're refering to this arcticle, it's worth noting (yet again) that 1.3.1 has been out for OS X for nearly six months now. That was just a bug fix update, and therefore it was hardly -just- released. Which isn't to say that Apple isn't at all behind the Java curve, but it's not as bad as some make out. It has also been stated that Apple will preview 1.4 in May at the WWDC, and that they hope to be in sync with Sun by the release of 1.5.
I don't think Apple has any official involvement in the MacPerl development. They certainly don't have enough influence the halt its development on a whim. It's a third party effort, open souce and all that.
Of course, all this ignores the reality that there are a handfull of OggVorbis developers working very hard on creating an Ogg QuickTime plugin. It's just taking quite a bit of effort on their part to get something that's actually functional. Apparently there are some issues inherent with the QuickTime architecture that makes Vorbis on QuickTime non-trivial. Search though the vorbis mail lists for more information: http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/masterinde x.html.
Ok, the iPod just went a few notches in my coolness book. Hold down the center button for a few seconds and up pops a game of Breakout. Pictcures are at: http://www.macitynet.it/macity/archivio/ipodpresen tation.shtml
Acually, the original comment is accurate. From the XonX
page:
A free version of XFree86 running side by side with Mac OS X's Aqua GUI is now here! Gregory Robert Parker did the original implementation of this for the Darwin port of XFree86 4.0. I have incorporated his code into XFree86 4.0.2 and cleaned it up a bit. It is still in rough form, but it works and is reasonably fast. This code will eventually find its way into the XFree86 CVS repository, but for now it is available here.
and then:
Before you launch the X server from Mac OS X, you must make sure that your startup script is correct. If you have an.xserverrc file, make sure it specifies the option "-quartz", which directs the X server to run in parallel with the CoreGraphics window server. To start the X server, launch the Xmaster application. You will see the screen flash and then you will be returned to the Aqua GUI. Clicking on the big button with a small "X" in it will switch you to the X window desktop. Holding down Command-Option-Control-Shift-A will switch you back to the Aqua GUI. Have fun!
There are now two ways to run X on OS X, either booting into command line mode (essentially the same as Darwin) and running straight XFree from there, or from Aqua through the Quartz display system.
What I would _really_ like to see is an MST3K audio commentary track on all of my DVDs. I doubt that idea would really fly - unlikely that the studios would enjoy paying someone to make fun of their movie for 90+ minutes. Still, it'd be hella fun to see what the guys can come up with for good movie like the Matrix or Fight Club. At least, I think so.
Just thought I'd point out that not only are those pictures bogus (as others have said), but there's no such thing as a "G5", nor will there be for a while.
Well, the source for all of the ones I checked was available. A few weren't exactly Open Source TM, in that the programs themselves were shareware - like bochs used to be. I think the large amount of "Unknown" licenses is simply due to the web site being incomplete - it does say it's a beta on the front page Oh, and the IC source is at ftp://ftp.stairways.com/stairways/source/.
The New York Times recently conducted a study of about 100 rampage killers and found that most killers were not the product of loud music and video games, but in fact over half of them were known to be mentally ill.
It starts out: >They are not drunk or high on drugs. They >are not racists or Satanists, or addicted to >violent video games, movies or music.
Okay, I gave another shot at converting it, used little different settings this time. Anyway, both Windows Media Player and RealPlaer G2 can play it without any errors. Sound is still very out of sync, but you know what they says about beggers and choosers and all that. It's still at http://home.jbic.com/~ben/x-men_320.mpg .
Okay, apparently the file is corrupt, so it may or may not work for you. QT 4.1 on my Mac will play it, but not QT on my PC, and not Windows Media Player. I guess the real question is will xanim or the like play it? I can't try that out here (our linux boxen are strictly CLI only). I'll give another shot at converting the thing, maybe I screwed something up. *shrug*
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Apple didn't. Someone else registered it, but used Apple's contact and name server info. You can tell because the domain wasn't registered until after the rumors became public; all of Apple's domains are registered though networksolutions.com, not bulkregisters.com; Apple's own name servers (the one's listed) have no entry for the domain; and also the domain now lists one Mr. "Hahahah!!! Tricked You!!!" of "Tricked You!, HA HA HA HAHAHA" as the owner. It's obviously just some guys idea of a joke.
> Website: http://www.spymac.com
> Source: SpyMac
> Author: JACK CAMPBELL
Erm, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that SpyMac is one of the least reputable Mac rumor sites there is. It's right down there with MacOSRumors. (iWalk anyone?) What's more, he doesn't cite his sources. While I don't doubt that that Apple's share is significantly more than 1.9%, it's unlikely to be anywhere near Jack's 11.6%.
That (Geordi hacing eyes in "All Good Things...") doesn't count though, as it was in an "alternate future". First Contact was where he got eyes for the first time, for real. Not that it really matters...
You're impression of things could very well be entirely accurate, but what of all of Apple's online documentation? It certainly implies that Cocoa for Java is not only possible, but supported and encouraged. I know of a few Cocoa/Java apps that work very well - Fern (a gnutella app) for instance. What's missing to make Java a first class citizen?
I think we're arguing two different things here. Contextual menus and multi-button mice are not bad ideas. Apple isn't ignoring them, either. If you plug a multi-button mouse into an OS X box, you'll find that the scroll wheel scrolls, the middle button opens a link in a new window, and the right button brings up context-menus all over the place.
The only different is that multi-button mice are not required, or even expected. This forces the application and os designers to consider single-button access first and foremost. I would argue that this approach almost always leads to a better overall user interface. Of course, my "better" isn't necessarily the same as yours. But, you're more than welcome to use any mouse you like, and open a link in a new window any way you choose.
I've been a student at two state schools (OSU and Kent), and both do exactly the same thing: your student ID is your social security number, and password is your birthday. Alternately, your username is first initial + last name, and your password is your social security number.
Maybe if the schools treated your ssn as something even remotely private, it wouldn't be so unnerving. However, your ssn is your sid, and your sid is _everything_. "I'm not a man, I'm a number!" They might as well tatoo it to our foreheads. It's printed on our school id/debit cards, which we casually hand to local stores/restaurants. Any of them could be discretely copying them down for their own nefarious purposes.
I once even recieved a letter from the school (financial aid info, I think) that had my social security number printed right on the envelope's address label - in plain sight for all to see! At least it wasn't identified as such, but that's not a huge comfort.
Point is, school's really need to stop using our ssn's as a personal identifier. How hard is it to generate a new random number for each student?
Here's MacFixIt's summary:
I think you, and others, are making a inaccurate assumption here. Unlike Unix or Windows, in a properly designed Mac application there should never be a time where an operation is accessable only through a context-menu. This is, you should never have to ctrl-click (or right-click) on anything.
One of the core interface elements to the Mac environment is the unified menu bar. In many ways, it behaves like an omnipresent contextual menu. Switch from one app to another, it changes to reflect the new context. Within an application, items will enable/disable as they pertain to the currently selected object.
For instance, in Windows it is very common to have a window without menu bar - like in an installer perhaps. If that window contains a text input element, and you want to access Copy and Paste commands (ignoring ctrl-key shortcuts) you have to get them from the context-menu. On a Mac, there will always be an Edit menu in the top menu bar, with those commands ready and waiting.
The fact that Shake requires a 3 button mouse says to me that it is not a properly designed Mac app. That can be okay in some instances. Here, time to market was obviously an issue. And these types of professional apps tend to be an environment unto itself. You'll start the app at the beginning of the day and quit it when you go home, rarely switching between other programs. In such a case, having its own set of rules isn't quite as unforgivable. But I expect Apple to clean it up in time.
Yes, but it only went to version 1.0, perhaps even a couple 1.n's. Certainly not 4.0 though, so this is definately made on a PC. Not that it matters in the slightest.
Unless I misunderstood, the XServe has two 64bit PCI slots, and only one is used (by an ethernet card). The other ethernet port is onboard. This leaves one slot free, or two if you don't need to ethernet ports.
Well, you see, when slashdot introduced apple.slashdot.org they also created a whole slew of Mac-specific icons. The idea being, I presume, that if you have a whole sub-site dedicated to Apple, it will be more interesting to look at if every story isn't stuck with the same generic icon. Hence, OS X icons, OS 9 icons, iMac icons, iPod icons, etc. Of course, in practice they seem to only be using either the generic Apple icon or the standard slashdot icons used on the rest of the site.
If you're refering to this arcticle, it's worth noting (yet again) that 1.3.1 has been out for OS X for nearly six months now. That was just a bug fix update, and therefore it was hardly -just- released. Which isn't to say that Apple isn't at all behind the Java curve, but it's not as bad as some make out. It has also been stated that Apple will preview 1.4 in May at the WWDC, and that they hope to be in sync with Sun by the release of 1.5.
I don't think Apple has any official involvement in the MacPerl development. They certainly don't have enough influence the halt its development on a whim. It's a third party effort, open souce and all that.
Of course, all this ignores the reality that there are a handfull of OggVorbis developers working very hard on creating an Ogg QuickTime plugin. It's just taking quite a bit of effort on their part to get something that's actually functional. Apparently there are some issues inherent with the QuickTime architecture that makes Vorbis on QuickTime non-trivial. Search though the vorbis mail lists for more information: http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/masterinde x.html.
Ok, the iPod just went a few notches in my coolness book. Hold down the center button for a few seconds and up pops a game of Breakout. Pictcures are at: http://www.macitynet.it/macity/archivio/ipodpresen tation.shtml
ESR was one of the keynote speakers at last year's MacHack.
That's a different movie entirely - a straight to video cartoon. These talks are about a live action Batman Beyond movie.
damn, K8Fan suggested it before i did. and i really thought i was being clever too...
What I would _really_ like to see is an MST3K audio commentary track on all of my DVDs. I doubt that idea would really fly - unlikely that the studios would enjoy paying someone to make fun of their movie for 90+ minutes. Still, it'd be hella fun to see what the guys can come up with for good movie like the Matrix or Fight Club. At least, I think so.
Just thought I'd point out that not only are those pictures bogus (as others have said), but there's no such thing as a "G5", nor will there be for a while.
Well, the source for all of the ones I checked was available. A few weren't exactly Open Source TM, in that the programs themselves were shareware - like bochs used to be. I think the large amount of "Unknown" licenses is simply due to the web site being incomplete - it does say it's a beta on the front page
Oh, and the IC source is at ftp://ftp.stairways.com/stairways/source/.
It starts out:
>They are not drunk or high on drugs. They
>are not racists or Satanists, or addicted to
>violent video games, movies or music.
You can read the series of articles here: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/040900ramp age-killers.html
Okay, I gave another shot at converting it, used little different settings this time. Anyway, both Windows Media Player and RealPlaer G2 can play it without any errors. Sound is still very out of sync, but you know what they says about beggers and choosers and all that.
It's still at http://home.jbic.com/~ben/x-men_320.mpg .
Okay, apparently the file is corrupt, so it may or may not work for you. QT 4.1 on my Mac will play it, but not QT on my PC, and not Windows Media Player. I guess the real question is will xanim or the like play it? I can't try that out here (our linux boxen are strictly CLI only). I'll give another shot at converting the thing, maybe I screwed something up. *shrug*