Andreesen is wrong about a few things. MS can be combated successfully. The trick is to not play their game of proprietary software on a platform they control. No one can succeed in that territory. The trick is not to succumb to their tactics, and to stay agile and ahead of them
Well, MS does not really have a way of combating Mozilla. How are they going to undermine a free product. As long as we keep fighting the battles we can beat the Beast. It's going to take patience and a few good victories to gain momentum.
It's already happening, Wal-Mart's loading Linux on their dirt-cheap PCs for the masses, Apple's making thier systems ever more Linux frindly, IBM has given Linux their papal blessing. Peru and a few other enlightened Nation-states are considering Linux. ILM and the CG market is shifting to Linux.
Mozilla already boast features that IE does not have: Tab browsing, ad disabling, cleaner javascript, multiple platform support. Let's build on this take the browser even further. By constantly improving the user experience Mozilla can win back users.
Ultimately, Linux and Mozilla will win the mindshare battle one step at a time. Let's continue to build kick ass, peer reviewed software one line at a time, and we will succeed in time. Give this time, in 3-5 years time, more victories will come.
it is primarily to be used if you are running a web server. Apache is better tuned for UFS than HFS+.
Use HFS+ if you are going to use it as a desktop. Many apps including Office will have problems because they expect a HFS+ system supporting Type/Creator info.
What rot. Shake and Rayz are compositors not video editors. These are similar to Adobe After Effects (but far more powerful) not like Premier or FinalCut Pro.
Laplace, I know it sounds like heresy, but perhaps you should just fork out some cash and buy Tenons Xtools X Server for X. It integrates very well with the OS, windows dock, and yes you can even double-click X applications. Very seamless.
You are wrong. Microsoft is not committed to porting Outlook to OS X. Only a very buggy OS 9 version is available. There is no plan to port Exchange to OS X, their suggestion is to run Outlook in classic
To the first good, cocoa based exchange compatible client. I can easily see 100k-500k licenses. I bet, Ximian can make more money on a OS X native exchange client than anything else.
But these guys seem to be blinded by the GNU cause and don't want to make money.
Think about it Entourage is priced at $150. And lacks Exchange or group scheduling functionality. Make a cocoa based PIM with group scheduling and exchange support. You can sell it for $100-$150. Even at a modest 50,000-100,000 units sold that is $5-10 million dollars. This is not improbable given that the number of OS X customers by year end is ~3 million.
Ximian should get off their ass, hire a Cocoa programmer and develop such a product.
Not! A lot of the action in Jaguar is going to be behind the scenes. the Reg article only focuses on the Finder/Dock because these guys are classic (OS 9) freaks who are more concerned about form (looks) than function.
Here's a better preview of Jaguar http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/
To summarize here are some of the big changes in Jaguar
Quartz Extreme: Full OpenGL compositing of movies and pix and text.
Apps: Upgraded Mail (exchange support), semantics based Mail filtering. iChat, Systemwide Database, new AddressBook, Sherlock 3
Inkwell: The best handwriting recognition in the world (from Newton) comes to OS X
User Interface improvements: Integrated find in the Finder. Find by name and find by text in a finder window. This is huge! Quickdraw text over Quartz. Many, many finder tweaks bringing it on par with OS 9 experience and imho way beyond. And of course, a speed boost through and through.
Also, I am sure Steve is going to demo some more new features at Macworld NY. I am sure there is going to be a lot of surprises at that show.
Winner: Toon Boom Studio 1.1, Toon Boom An animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.
Runner Up: Marketcircle DayLite 1.0.1, Marketcircle Inc. A comprehensive customer relationship management tool.
Most Innovative Mac OS X Product:
Winner: Watson 1.5, Karelia Software, LLC An innovative tool for viewing Internet-based information, with an auto-updating feature.
Runner Up: Toon Boom Studio v1.1, Toon Boom. An animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.
Best Mac OS X User Experience:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc. An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Runner Up: STX 1.0, Salon Transcripts A powerful, integrated business management tool with timesheets, payroll, inventory, billing, and accounting capabilities.
Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc. An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Runner Up: Vektor 3 3.1.3, Manfred Schubert A full-featured chess program with an innovative use of Quartz, Speech, and other Mac OS X technologies.
Best Mac OS X Open Source Port:
Winner: TeXShop 1.19, Richard Koch, Mathematics Department, University of Oregon The ultimate tool for formatting scientific and technical documents.
Runner Up: SIDekick 1.1, Axel Wefers A tool for salvaging legacy sound files stored on Commodore64 SID file players.
Best Mac OS X Student Product:
Winner: MacJournal 2.1, Dan Schimpf A tool for keeping and organizing logs, diaries, journals, notes, and ideas.
Runner Up: CanCombineIcons 2.1.0, David Remahl This tool helps you easily create icons for your applications.
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Open GL does not directly support 2d manipulations. but there is a way of doing it, pioneered by the guys at Raycer Graphics Corp. Look up their patents on large matrix and 2d manipulations.
Here is a quiz for you: 1. which company bought. Raycer Graphics? 2 Who was the Head of 3d engineering at Apple
Caused a lot of the reception problems in earlier Powerbooks. Have it checked if your machine is still under warranty. My signal improved dramatically after my TiBook came back from Apple. I can use it very comfortably even on the throne (which I assume is the main attraction of Wireless:)
Apple always made edu models, well before Mr Jobs anyways. The last model specifically targeted at the edu market was the G3 AIO (All in one) a precursor of the iMac. Hell they even made a Newton OS based batmanesque edu only model and sold a boat load of them, before Jobs came in and stopped supporting those...
Quote: ----- It's a shame that the Mac developers who put out stuff like Office:Mac are working for such an ethically bankrupt company. They do really good work. ------
I think these guys are among the most staunch Mac people. Willing to even work for the Beast to make sure we have a good version of Office.
I know some of these guys and trust me they are staunch Apple supporters.
For one this allows film users to use Final Cut without jumping through hoops. Go ahead and use 16mm or 35 mm. Cinematools is more of a tracking database that captures the relationship between the original film and the final edited movie. Much like a "codebook" for those familiar with that. This makes the whole telecining nightmare quite manageable.
Also this allows you to mix 29.97 fps NTSC with 24fps film capture! This is an enabling product for Apple and will open many doors in the movie industry.
1. Simple refreshing design. Does one thing and does it well. Simple enough for Mom and complex enough to handle a deluge of Mail.
2. Security-- Built in support for using ssh for communication. No virus threat.
3. Superb search functions. All e-mail is auto indexed using AIAT (Sherlock) for rapid search. You have to try it to believe it...
4. Open design to allow add-ins/services. My favorites include Word Service for formatting, SpamCop service for reporting Spam, GPGP support for encryption.
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Does this have a rechargeable Li-Polymoer battery like the iPod or do I have to buy AAs and a clunky charger that I'll have to carry around.
One of the beauty of Firewire is that the iPod or any device can charge off it. No need for an adapter.
Anyone know the battery life of the Gigabeat ?
Andreesen is wrong about a few things. MS can be combated successfully. The trick is to not play their game of proprietary software on a platform they control. No one can succeed in that territory. The trick is not to succumb to their tactics, and to stay agile and ahead of them
Well, MS does not really have a way of combating Mozilla. How are they going to undermine a free product. As long as we keep fighting the battles we can beat the Beast. It's going to take patience and a few good victories to gain momentum.
It's already happening, Wal-Mart's loading Linux on their dirt-cheap PCs for the masses, Apple's making thier systems ever more Linux frindly, IBM has given Linux their papal blessing. Peru and a few other enlightened Nation-states are considering Linux. ILM and the CG market is shifting to Linux.
Mozilla already boast features that IE does not have: Tab browsing, ad disabling, cleaner javascript, multiple platform support. Let's build on this take the browser even further. By constantly improving the user experience Mozilla can win back users.
Ultimately, Linux and Mozilla will win the mindshare battle one step at a time. Let's continue to build kick ass, peer reviewed software one line at a time, and we will succeed in time. Give this time, in 3-5 years time, more victories will come.
Remember it is darkest before sun rise.
it is primarily to be used if you are running a web server. Apache is better tuned for UFS than HFS+.
Use HFS+ if you are going to use it as a desktop. Many apps including Office will have problems because they expect a HFS+ system supporting Type/Creator info.
What rot. Shake and Rayz are compositors not video editors. These are similar to Adobe After Effects (but far more powerful) not like Premier or FinalCut Pro.
Laplace, I know it sounds like heresy, but perhaps you should just fork out some cash and buy Tenons Xtools X Server for X. It integrates very well with the OS, windows dock, and yes you can even double-click X applications. Very seamless.
You are wrong. Microsoft is not committed to porting Outlook to OS X. Only a very buggy OS 9 version is available. There is no plan to port Exchange to OS X, their suggestion is to run Outlook in classic
To the first good, cocoa based exchange compatible client. I can easily see 100k-500k licenses. I bet, Ximian can make more money on a OS X native exchange client than anything else.
But these guys seem to be blinded by the GNU cause and don't want to make money.
Think about it Entourage is priced at $150. And lacks Exchange or group scheduling functionality.
Make a cocoa based PIM with group scheduling and exchange support. You can sell it for $100-$150. Even at a modest 50,000-100,000 units sold that is $5-10 million dollars. This is not improbable given that the number of OS X customers by year end is ~3 million.
Ximian should get off their ass, hire a Cocoa programmer and develop such a product.
Not! A lot of the action in Jaguar is going to be behind the scenes. the Reg article only focuses on the Finder/Dock because these guys are classic (OS 9) freaks who are more concerned about form (looks) than function.
Here's a better preview of Jaguar
http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/
To summarize here are some of the big changes in Jaguar
Architecture: BSD 4.4, CUPS, PAM, POSIX additions, GCC 3
Networking: Rendezvous (ZeroConf), IPSEC, IPv6, Exchange Support (this is a biggie)
FileSystem: Active Directory, Open Directory, seamless SMB support (client/server)
Media: Full MPEG-4 support, AAC audio, 5.1 support. ISMA 1.0 support.
Universal Access: Boatload of innovation here.
Quartz Extreme: Full OpenGL compositing of movies and pix and text.
Apps: Upgraded Mail (exchange support), semantics based Mail filtering. iChat, Systemwide Database, new AddressBook, Sherlock 3
Inkwell: The best handwriting recognition in the world (from Newton) comes to OS X
User Interface improvements: Integrated find in the Finder. Find by name and find by text in a finder window. This is huge! Quickdraw text over Quartz. Many, many finder tweaks bringing it on par with OS 9 experience and imho way beyond.
And of course, a speed boost through and through.
Also, I am sure Steve is going to demo some more new features at Macworld NY. I am sure there is going to be a lot of surprises at that show.
Best New Mac OS X Product:
Winner: Toon Boom Studio 1.1, Toon Boom
An animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.
Runner Up: Marketcircle DayLite 1.0.1, Marketcircle Inc.
A comprehensive customer relationship management tool.
Most Innovative Mac OS X Product:
Winner: Watson 1.5, Karelia Software, LLC
An innovative tool for viewing Internet-based information, with an auto-updating feature.
Runner Up: Toon Boom Studio v1.1, Toon Boom.
An animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.
Best Mac OS X User Experience:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc.
An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Runner Up: STX 1.0, Salon Transcripts
A powerful, integrated business management tool with timesheets, payroll, inventory, billing, and accounting capabilities.
Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc.
An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Runner Up: Vektor 3 3.1.3, Manfred Schubert
A full-featured chess program with an innovative use of Quartz, Speech, and other Mac OS X technologies.
Best Mac OS X Open Source Port:
Winner: TeXShop 1.19, Richard Koch, Mathematics Department, University of Oregon
The ultimate tool for formatting scientific and technical documents.
Runner Up: SIDekick 1.1, Axel Wefers
A tool for salvaging legacy sound files stored on Commodore64 SID file players.
Best Mac OS X Student Product:
Winner: MacJournal 2.1, Dan Schimpf
A tool for keeping and organizing logs, diaries, journals, notes, and ideas.
Runner Up: CanCombineIcons 2.1.0, David Remahl
This tool helps you easily create icons for your applications.
Forget Finderpop. There is a superior tool in OS X. Beats the crap out of Finderpop.
It is called LAUNCHBAR. Search for it on Version Tracker and buy it.
Kick a lot of ass. Yes even Finderpop's. I am saying that as a OS 9 FinderPop addict!
This is hilarious!!!
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A wonderful eulogy to a dead OS. Classic Jobs. Very very funny!
Warning: Real/WinMP only...
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-899914.html?tag=f
Open GL does not directly support 2d manipulations. but there is a way of doing it, pioneered by the guys at Raycer Graphics Corp. Look up their patents on large matrix and 2d manipulations.
Here is a quiz for you:
1. which company bought. Raycer Graphics?
2 Who was the Head of 3d engineering at Apple
(Answers: Apple, ex-CTO of Raycer)
Caused a lot of the reception problems in earlier Powerbooks. Have it checked if your machine is still under warranty. My signal improved dramatically after my TiBook came back from Apple. :)
I can use it very comfortably even on the throne (which I assume is the main attraction of Wireless
June/July are big edu/k12 purchasing months. Apple wants to be ready for the market. Smart move and smart timing on this one...
Apple always made edu models, well before Mr Jobs anyways. The last model specifically targeted at the edu market was the G3 AIO (All in one) a precursor of the iMac. Hell they even made a Newton OS based batmanesque edu only model and sold a boat load of them, before Jobs came in and stopped supporting those...
No the font is Myriad, which is similar to Frutiger but different. I tried both fonts and Myriad is the exact match!
Adobe also seems to love this font...
There is one reason for continuing AppleWorks. Is the de facto standard in K-12. What with AW documents being created since pre Mac, Apple ][ days!
This is one of the most used Apps in schools...
I thought the 53% of the CPU was a nice jab at the Mozilla project. It does much more on my Linux box..
This has to be first rate trolling. OS X on a PowerBook is a very stable development and 3d graphics platform. Assuming you have ample RAM.
It is maha-stable. To say the least...
... powered by the Love-matic Grandpa! Anyone willing to donate a Grandpa?
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It's a shame that the Mac developers who put out stuff like Office:Mac are working for such an ethically bankrupt company. They do really good work.
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I think these guys are among the most staunch Mac people. Willing to even work for the Beast to make sure we have a good version of Office.
I know some of these guys and trust me they are staunch Apple supporters.
I assume cat's ass is slang for the dog's bollocks. You know-- the pups parts, the mutt's nuts and so on.
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Hope this helps
Just download the Bluetooth software from Apple and viola! Palm Desktop will automagically sync with your Palm!
Apple's done a wonderful job with their software, I even got it to pair with my SonyEricsson! No third party drivers required! Cool stuff...
For one this allows film users to use Final Cut without jumping through hoops. Go ahead and use 16mm or 35 mm. Cinematools is more of a tracking database that captures the relationship between the original film and the final edited movie. Much like a "codebook" for those familiar with that. This makes the whole telecining nightmare quite manageable.
Also this allows you to mix 29.97 fps NTSC with 24fps film capture! This is an enabling product for Apple and will open many doors in the movie industry.
Comes pretty close to my ideal.
1. Simple refreshing design. Does one thing and does it well. Simple enough for Mom and complex enough to handle a deluge of Mail.
2. Security-- Built in support for using ssh for communication. No virus threat.
3. Superb search functions. All e-mail is auto indexed using AIAT (Sherlock) for rapid search. You have to try it to believe it...
4. Open design to allow add-ins/services. My favorites include Word Service for formatting, SpamCop service for reporting Spam, GPGP support for encryption.
5. Easy organization. Multiple signatures, templates, accounts, mailboxes.
6. Internet standards compliant. No proprietary stuff.
7. Anti bloat. At 3.5 MB it is small by today's standards...