I bought a MP 2100 from an ebay auction a year ago. Still amazes the heck out of me. Full featured e-mail access over Ethernet (POP3/IMAP/SMTP), browsing the internet, playing MP3s , text to speech (Macintalk) support are quite amazing.
The incredibly well done data soup architecture, fantastic hand writing recognition, the intuitive interface are still unparalleled/unmatched. Hats off to the Newton visionaries!
Alex, talk to your neighbours -- a company called TechSuperPowers (who btw are providing free internet access on Newbury St) I think they are located at 221 Newbury.
They helped us manage the Mac transition. These guys are very knowledgeable on OS X
Store everything you need on one of these pocket drives. Including your OS and Home folders. This way you'll have everything you need in your pocket....
You can just boot of the drive and voilà your desktop!
Better yet buy the new 10 GB iPod and you can hop Macs like nobody's business!!!
Re:I bought one for my sister
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I just prefer to be a sharply dressed geek. Well it has to go with my Porsche:)
I bought one for my sister
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I got one for my sister when I was in Paris. Trés bien. Most guys will not appreciate it but women love this stuff..
BTW, if you are at Collette, they have some super cool laptop briefcases for the titanium one made by Alfred Dunhill and another by Ermenegildo Zegna. This will set you back by $1500-2000 (the price of an iBook), but IMHO it is well worth it in certain upper echelons. Some of us geeks are Consuls:-)
It is bloody fast on OS X. Beats the hell out of OS 9 as far as speed is concerned. And of course it toasts the XP version by a large margin. Expect Steve to do a OS 9/ OS X/ XP bake-off at MacWorld Tokyo.
Looks like the threading model and the new disk drivers have made a huge difference.. And of course better memory management
Here's a snippet from another BB.
Anyhow, I recently had made available to me a 'future copy' of PS running on X natively. The 'carbon' version that comes after 6.0. I have been using PS 6 on XP and thought things were slower so i did some testing. If you are interested in the results, here they are:
The systems:
The Mac- OSX 10.1.3 PowerMac G4 'Sawtooth' 533 Dual Proc. 768MB PC133, 40GB DiamondMax 7200rpm nVidia GF2 MX w/32mb
The PC Win XP Athlon XP 1800+ 512MB 266DDR, 40GB DiamondMax 7200rpm GF3 Ti200 w/64MB DDR (the GF3 is overclocked and runs @ Ti500 speeds)
Photoshop tests
MacAddict actions and 15mb Steve Jobs.tiff from the 03/98 Mag cd
Last year I was traveling across the Sahara (West to East), when we were in Libya (traveling sans papers), we saw these funny little cannisters in the desert. Our 4WD nearly hit one. We wondered what they were, we were later told that we were very lucky-- apparently there were anti-tank land mines lying around from the time of WWII (Rommel and Montgomery fought in the Jughbub region that we were traveling across.
The speculation is that this is Microsoft (a member of the license pool) trying to squelch competition, without leaving any fingerprints.
Dude do you do any research before posting drivel like this? Here's the list of the complete license pool and the patents relevant to MPEG-4. Microsoft is not involved in MPEG-4
If the internet has taught anyone anything over the last 20+ years it is that closed standards, or standards that require licencing do not work
What bull crap! Licensed standards have worked wonderfully in the Audio and Video industry in the past. Just look at a standard home theater. Everything is based upon licensed standards. For example the CD-ROM (Phillips), Dolby Soround Sound (Dolby), DVD (DVD Consortium), VHS and many many more licensed standards. If there is one thing history shows us, it is that multiple vendors can add value to licensed standards, and it makes the customers life much easier.
The same goes for Mobile networks (at least those in Europe and Asia) where the GSM standard again a licensed standard has won out.
The streaming media game is in its infancy. And MPEG-4 seems to be a step in the right direction. But the licensing structure definitely is f'ed up. Charging per stream is quite outrageous. I do agree with the per codec charge, since the companies that pooled their patents must make money.
The major coup for Apple has been the Ericsson-Sony and NTT-DoCoMo support for QT/MPEG-4 based streaming to next gen (3G) devices. But then, the baby maybe still born if the life supply is cut off thanks to a ridiculous license structure.
I see the obligatory Amiga posting every month or two on/. I'd like to know more about the user base. In what fields is the Amiga used and why is it a viable platform? What are the unique Amiga only features today.
This is not a troll. I'd like someone to enlighten me and possibly other readers.
The old NextStep API won't hurt either
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Having used the old Nextstep API (which I believe have been ported to OS X under the guise of CoCo) I can say that they are well suited for cluster computing.
I remember Richard Crandall and the mathematica guy (Wolfram) using Zilla (an old Next distributed computing program) to crack the world's largest prime in the mid nineties...
Anyone know if Zilla is back on OS X?
Also the Gigabit ethernet on motherboad and the large 2MB cache on the PowerPC chips will go a long way on making these machines a good cluster.
It's been a while since I've done distributed computing (hey, I am out of acedemia) but OS X will hopefully make the whole shebang easier...
Wow the OE is expensive for what it offers. Lets compare it to the $799 iMac.
Hardware: Comparable processors, RAM and Hard drive. OE has leg up on Display size. But iMac wins by having 2 FireWire ports, a better graphics card, VGA output and very decent speakers... And of course, cooler colors (Blue Dalmation;-)
Software: iMac by a large large large margin. Presumably iMac can even run the OE software since it can run Mozilla, is based on unix and can do X windows....
The iMac has a much better bundle. Quicken, AppleWorks, Mail, Quicktime, Explorer, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and three very nice games (Bugdom, Cromag rally and Otto-matic).
The OE is pretty expensive compared to an iMac without any positives over the older iMac. It doesn't even hold a candle to the new iMacs...
You want apple to remove the safety lock so that you can shoot yourself in the foot? Come on, you say you know about Fitt's law, so you know the best option.
I think it is a good design decision by the Apple team. Make the common case fast etc...
But then I've started seeing a lot more Mac projects of Sourceforge! Admittedly they are unix ports, but with a Mac twist, putting friendly face on arcane unix commands and making them integrate with Darwin/ OS X.
Looks like the Mac guys are learning from the Linux community. Isn't it time we learnt something from the Mac community?
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But each window gets it's own menus just like Windows. The widgets are IMHO, better than either Mac or Windows.
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This actually will slow you down due to fitt's law. There have been a lot of studies (yes people in HCI do emperical experiments) that show that menu's on a window (ala Windows and many UNIX GUIs) are 500% slower than a fixed menubar on the top of the screen. This is due to a function of psychomotor skills of your brain. It is commonly dubbed 'Fitt's law', and is the reason why Macs have a global menu. Show's that sticking with a top menubar in OS X is not continuing thee tradition, but keeping what is best for the user.
You may think it is faster to access your menus on a per window basis, but you are actually slowing yourself down (assuming you are a human being and not an alien with a completely different psychomotor skills...)
Yes you heard it right. This seems to be good news for Linux users. According to Frank Casanova, the head honcho of Quicktime, Quicktime 6 will de-emphasise Sorenson for MPEG-4. In an interview with Creative:Mac he says
CASANOVA: It's the center of our universe. The Sorenson video CODEC has been an integral part of QuickTime since we had QuickTime 3. Sorenson is exclusive to QuickTime, a proprietary format, that has just produced incredible quality both for download of movie trailers and real-time streaming over the Internet. They've done incredibly well. And we're going to continue working with the Sorenson guys. We're not shutting that off. And people will probably opt to use Sorenson in some cases. But certainly the center of the work we do is going to be around standards.
Everything Apple does--from the Unix bases of OS X, to FireWire being IEEE 1394, to USB to all the various facets of what we do, from AirPort being 802.11--we want to make sure that every piece of our architecture and infrastructure are based on industry standards. QuickTime is no different. Our streaming protocols are RTP/RTSP as defined by the IETS; and now... you'll see our file format of QuickTime is the file format for MPEG-4. As you may remember, [ISO has] selected the QuickTime format as the basis for MPEG-4. And then what we're doing is we're building our own audio and video CODEC, but based on the recipe as published by this standard body, by ISO, for... video and audio for music and speech. There's a few different CODECs in there. And that's what we're doing going forward. And you can expect to see incredible video quality using these new MPEG-4 CODECs.
MPEG-4 continues the lineage of the MPEG family. MPEG-1... was great for CD-ROM distribution. MPEG-2... was targeted at a much higher data rate, much higher quality, and it found its way into areas like DVD playback and for HDTV and for some of the satellite communications where bandwidth is really not constrained. But MPEG-4 is the MPEG for the Internet. It takes lower than MPEG-1 data rates and practically MPEG-2 quality and makes it available for people to stream over the Internet, which is high and to the right, exactly where you want to see this go.
And the AAC audio component for music will likely replace MP3 as the default and brand new audio standard on the Web because I'll tell you what,... you can do incredibly good jobs with audio at a much smaller file size and lower data rate and get even better sounding quality than MP3 is providing. I think, over time, we'll see AAC supplant MP3 as the digital audio standard. That's the direction we're headed.
Earlier [last] week, with Real Networks announcing their support for MPEG-4, we found that to be a sudden and abrupt change in direction for them, but nonetheless a welcome one. We're really happy here at Apple, and as members of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance--the ISMA--we're really happy that Real had decided to make this change in course. Real is a big company, at least from an Internet media streaming perspective, and their stamp of approval on MPEG-4 gives the whole space more momentum.
The rest of the interview can be found here...
http://www.creativemac.com/2001/12_dec/features/ ap plequicktimelive0112172.htm
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I bought a MP 2100 from an ebay auction a year ago. Still amazes the heck out of me. Full featured e-mail access over Ethernet (POP3/IMAP/SMTP), browsing the internet, playing MP3s , text to speech (Macintalk) support are quite amazing.
The incredibly well done data soup architecture, fantastic hand writing recognition, the intuitive interface are still unparalleled/unmatched. Hats off to the Newton visionaries!
You need this little marvel to keep your Ti clean. www.KlearScreen.com. Works like a champ and is recommended by Apple.
Alex, talk to your neighbours -- a company called TechSuperPowers (who btw are providing free internet access on Newbury St) I think they are located at 221 Newbury.
They helped us manage the Mac transition. These guys are very knowledgeable on OS X
Store everything you need on one of these pocket drives. Including your OS and Home folders. This way you'll have everything you need in your pocket....
You can just boot of the drive and voilà your desktop!
Better yet buy the new 10 GB iPod and you can hop Macs like nobody's business!!!
I just prefer to be a sharply dressed geek. Well it has to go with my Porsche :)
BTW, if you are at Collette, they have some super cool laptop briefcases for the titanium one made by Alfred Dunhill and another by Ermenegildo Zegna. This will set you back by $1500-2000 (the price of an iBook), but IMHO it is well worth it in certain upper echelons. Some of us geeks are Consuls
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They were profitable in the 1st qtr (a good achievement given the circumstances), 2nd qtr may be a different issue.
Also they have > $4 billion in the bank.
Easy thats filling out two dialog boxes and hitting OK using better finder rename...
Next news posting. How I uninstalled Windows in 24 exciting chapters...
Pssh!
Tried going to the link but no avail. Then I realized my .hosts file! Doubleclick is set to 127.0.0.1 :)
Can anyone mail the actual text?
Looks like the threading model and the new disk drivers have made a huge difference.. And of course better memory management
Here's a snippet from another BB.
Last year I was traveling across the Sahara (West to East), when we were in Libya (traveling sans papers), we saw these funny little cannisters in the desert. Our 4WD nearly hit one. We wondered what they were, we were later told that we were very lucky-- apparently there were anti-tank land mines lying around from the time of WWII (Rommel and Montgomery fought in the Jughbub region that we were traveling across.
We promptly hired a guide.
Dude do you do any research before posting drivel like this? Here's the list of the complete license pool and the patents relevant to MPEG-4. Microsoft is not involved in MPEG-4
http://www.mpegla.com/l_patentlist.html
What bull crap! Licensed standards have worked wonderfully in the Audio and Video industry in the past. Just look at a standard home theater. Everything is based upon licensed standards. For example the CD-ROM (Phillips), Dolby Soround Sound (Dolby), DVD (DVD Consortium), VHS and many many more licensed standards. If there is one thing history shows us, it is that multiple vendors can add value to licensed standards, and it makes the customers life much easier.
The same goes for Mobile networks (at least those in Europe and Asia) where the GSM standard again a licensed standard has won out.
The streaming media game is in its infancy. And MPEG-4 seems to be a step in the right direction. But the licensing structure definitely is f'ed up. Charging per stream is quite outrageous. I do agree with the per codec charge, since the companies that pooled their patents must make money.
The major coup for Apple has been the Ericsson-Sony and NTT-DoCoMo support for QT/MPEG-4 based streaming to next gen (3G) devices. But then, the baby maybe still born if the life supply is cut off thanks to a ridiculous license structure.
I see the obligatory Amiga posting every month or two on /. I'd like to know more about the user base. In what fields is the Amiga used and why is it a viable platform? What are the unique Amiga only features today.
This is not a troll. I'd like someone to enlighten me and possibly other readers.
Having used the old Nextstep API (which I believe have been ported to OS X under the guise of CoCo) I can say that they are well suited for cluster computing.
I remember Richard Crandall and the mathematica guy (Wolfram) using Zilla (an old Next distributed computing program) to crack the world's largest prime in the mid nineties...
Anyone know if Zilla is back on OS X?
Also the Gigabit ethernet on motherboad and the large 2MB cache on the PowerPC chips will go a long way on making these machines a good cluster.
It's been a while since I've done distributed computing (hey, I am out of acedemia) but OS X will hopefully make the whole shebang easier...
Wow the OE is expensive for what it offers. Lets compare it to the $799 iMac.
;-)
Hardware: Comparable processors, RAM and Hard drive. OE has leg up on Display size. But iMac wins by having 2 FireWire ports, a better graphics card, VGA output and very decent speakers... And of course, cooler colors (Blue Dalmation
Software: iMac by a large large large margin. Presumably iMac can even run the OE software since it can run Mozilla, is based on unix and can do X windows....
The iMac has a much better bundle. Quicken, AppleWorks, Mail, Quicktime, Explorer, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and three very nice games (Bugdom, Cromag rally and Otto-matic).
The OE is pretty expensive compared to an iMac without any positives over the older iMac. It doesn't even hold a candle to the new iMacs...
Roblimo's analysis sucks ass...
You want apple to remove the safety lock so that you can shoot yourself in the foot? Come on, you say you know about Fitt's law, so you know the best option.
I think it is a good design decision by the Apple team. Make the common case fast etc...
But then I've started seeing a lot more Mac projects of Sourceforge! Admittedly they are unix ports, but with a Mac twist, putting friendly face on arcane unix commands and making them integrate with Darwin/ OS X.
Looks like the Mac guys are learning from the Linux community. Isn't it time we learnt something from the Mac community?
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But each window gets it's own menus just like Windows. The widgets are IMHO, better than either Mac or Windows.
----
This actually will slow you down due to fitt's law. There have been a lot of studies (yes people in HCI do emperical experiments) that show that menu's on a window (ala Windows and many UNIX GUIs) are 500% slower than a fixed menubar on the top of the screen. This is due to a function of psychomotor skills of your brain. It is commonly dubbed 'Fitt's law', and is the reason why Macs have a global menu. Show's that sticking with a top menubar in OS X is not continuing thee tradition, but keeping what is best for the user.
You may think it is faster to access your menus on a per window basis, but you are actually slowing yourself down (assuming you are a human being and not an alien with a completely different psychomotor skills...)
$1700 is expensive? El cheapo like you are not our target base. Now if you had a real job and earned real money then you would be able to afford this.
;-)
Begging your parents to spend more money on you aint gonna help
Yes you heard it right. This seems to be good news for Linux users. According to Frank Casanova, the head honcho of Quicktime, Quicktime 6 will de-emphasise Sorenson for MPEG-4. In an interview with Creative:Mac he says
... you'll see our file format of QuickTime is the file format for MPEG-4. As you may remember, [ISO has] selected the QuickTime format as the basis for MPEG-4. And then what we're doing is we're building our own audio and video CODEC, but based on the recipe as published by this standard body, by ISO, for ... video and audio for music and speech. There's a few different CODECs in there. And that's what we're doing going forward. And you can expect to see incredible video quality using these new MPEG-4 CODECs.
... was great for CD-ROM distribution. MPEG-2 ... was targeted at a much higher data rate, much higher quality, and it found its way into areas like DVD playback and for HDTV and for some of the satellite communications where bandwidth is really not constrained. But MPEG-4 is the MPEG for the Internet. It takes lower than MPEG-1 data rates and practically MPEG-2 quality and makes it available for people to stream over the Internet, which is high and to the right, exactly where you want to see this go.
... you can do incredibly good jobs with audio at a much smaller file size and lower data rate and get even better sounding quality than MP3 is providing. I think, over time, we'll see AAC supplant MP3 as the digital audio standard. That's the direction we're headed.
/ ap plequicktimelive0112172.htm
CASANOVA: It's the center of our universe. The Sorenson video CODEC has been an integral part of QuickTime since we had QuickTime 3. Sorenson is exclusive to QuickTime, a proprietary format, that has just produced incredible quality both for download of movie trailers and real-time streaming over the Internet. They've done incredibly well. And we're going to continue working with the Sorenson guys. We're not shutting that off. And people will probably opt to use Sorenson in some cases. But certainly the center of the work we do is going to be around standards.
Everything Apple does--from the Unix bases of OS X, to FireWire being IEEE 1394, to USB to all the various facets of what we do, from AirPort being 802.11--we want to make sure that every piece of our architecture and infrastructure are based on industry standards. QuickTime is no different. Our streaming protocols are RTP/RTSP as defined by the IETS; and now
MPEG-4 continues the lineage of the MPEG family. MPEG-1
And the AAC audio component for music will likely replace MP3 as the default and brand new audio standard on the Web because I'll tell you what,
Earlier [last] week, with Real Networks announcing their support for MPEG-4, we found that to be a sudden and abrupt change in direction for them, but nonetheless a welcome one. We're really happy here at Apple, and as members of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance--the ISMA--we're really happy that Real had decided to make this change in course. Real is a big company, at least from an Internet media streaming perspective, and their stamp of approval on MPEG-4 gives the whole space more momentum.
The rest of the interview can be found here...
http://www.creativemac.com/2001/12_dec/features