They are referring to items on the iPhone desktop as "Widgets," and the thing does run WebKit. Perhaps porting Dashboard widgets to iPhone will be a trivial matter?
I would love for the FS to do snapshot saves with incrementals and checkpoints and rollback, instead of having each application do it. This provides unlimited undos potential with actual stored versions... a true 'history' of the file, available for review.
Which had me thinking (and you folks probably know more about this than I do) — could ZFS power elements of Time Machine? I mean, probably for 10.6 (Ocelot?), but still... If Time Machine was not only backup software but a way for the OS to automatically handle version control, holy crap.
Please, tell me if I have no idea what I'm talking about. Entirely possible.
I expect the Intel towers, if they ever appear, to be called the Mac, MacTower, MacPC, or the like.
Actually, I would expect the Intel towers to be called the "Mac Pro" to mirror the portable line. In fact, I expect the Xserve to change its name to Mac Serve or Mac Server.
Considering Apple would like to have their pro software -- Aperture, Final Cut, Logic, Shake -- and the pro software of others -- Photoshop, AfterEffects -- run blazingly fast for those of us who use Macs, have no doubt that Intel towers are coming, and they're most likely coming on August 7.
"In addition to hosted tiers that offer larger storage capacities, Joyent also offers the Accelerator, an easy-to-install server appliance that allows you to run your own private instance of the Joyent Connector suite of web applications."
FWIW, my 6GB iPod mini (I know, I'm positively retro at this point) syncs with three playlists:
Everything that's 5 stars
A random playlist of 600 songs rated three or four stars
A playlist of everything I've added in the last two months
A random playlist of 100 unrated songs.
That way, I always have what I like and what's new to me, and I can rate songs in chunks (downtime on the train, etc). The only problem is that I have to update the iPod twice to see changes; iTunes doesn't sync changes to ratings before it starts copying/replacing songs. But that's a small price to pay to keep my small amount of space useful with minimum effort.
And I don't even do cocaine. I just like the way it smells. (Thanks, I'll be here all week. Tip your waitress.)
The article is kind of a cop-out, ending the article with, "'The question that needs to be asked is, if you buy a DVD, are you allowed to put it onto an iPod?' Onigman says." Citizens not aware of DMCA regulations may be surprised by the answer. The extent of the article is, "Ooh, there may be some illegal activity here." This graduate of the Barnum & Bailey Clown College for Journalism can't take 10 minutes to call, I don't know, a LAWYER or a CONGRESSMAN and finding out? Can we call for a Slashdot moratorium on USA Today articles?
Another thought: I feel sorry for the person who buys that iPod and forgets to turn off the "automatically update this iPod" setting in iTunes, thus losing ALL of that content.
Or release it at Macworld, let Mac fanboys (like myself) buy it first and work out the bugs so that by Christmas 2006 the kinks are worked out and it's totally hyped up so everyone wants one.
If Microsoft will completely support all of the features of OpenType -- a font format that THEY HELPED TO INVENT -- then you may see ligatures in Word very soon.
While I agree that using a JavaScript object not available to everyone is in opposition to the cries of Jeffrey Zeldman and his disciples, those disciples also cry out to create websites that degrade gracefully so that content is accessible to anyone anywhere on any browser/device. So really, your complaint is with Google for not degrading GMail to your browser.
However, my girlfriend, who is still stuck with Netscape 4.7 under Mac OS 9 at her office (too many publishers scared to let go of Quark 4) -- she can still get to her GMail, albeit without all the bells and whistles. So maybe your problem isn't with Google. Your problem is with Opera, which is always the autistic stepbrother of web browsers -- brilliance undermined by social awkwardness.
Uh, no.
If you have a real digital camera and you want REAL control over your images, you use RAW. That TIFF file has been processed by the camera already. The RAW file is unprocessed -- working with RAW is the digital equivalent of working in a darkroom with a negative -- you have lots of choices in how to process the image.
Though I do agree with you that there needs to be a RAW standard. Check out OpenRAW.
I should point out that one piece of software that's incredibly similar to the Aperture is Bibble, which is also a non-distructive RAW workflow application. I find the interface to be kind of clunky, but Bibble works well. MUCH cheaper than Aperture, and also available for Windows and Linux in addition to Mac. (Full disclosure: the creator of Bibble is my girlfriend's brother-in-law.)
And Leonardo DaVinci's notebooks were nothing but pieces of parchment that he scribbled on, too.
For many artists, process is often more valuable than the finished product. As a graphic design student, I find seeing the sketches and previous versions of some of the designers I admire very illuminating. Paul Rand famously provided his clients with process books (including one client notable to/.). This isn't about eBay fodder -- this is about the process and development of an artist. Should future animators wish to learn from Nick Park's storyboards, they'll have to look at his later work. And that's very sad.
Most notably, the XServe Raid runs on an Intel processor. There are tons of reasons Apple would be meeting with Intel. One day, perhaps "the news" will actually be news and not gossip based on "a friend-of-a-friend told me..."
But the top-of-the-line PMG5 now comes with a video card out of the box that can run the 30". In essence, that's a savings of about $450 since you no longer have to buy the nVidia card as an upgrade.
And with this comment (unless you intended some sort of strange, imperceptible irony), your assertion that you work for Apple is blown to smithereens. Prices are NOT arbitrary. Prices are always based on market demand and profit margin. Lower priced items, like a Mac mini, have a lower profit margin because they are gateway Macs. Today's Mac mini buyer will hopefully be tomorrow's 20" iMac buyer (or better). The PMG5 is a more luxurious, more professional item, and Apple's research would indeed tell them that to a professional Mac user, PCI slots, faster FSB, and gigabit ethernet are worth the extra dough over a consumer-grade (though, IMHO, entirely kick-ass) machine like the iMac G5. Sure, Apple's made pricing mistakes (PMG4 Cube, anyone? Who exactly was the market for that thing?), and sure, Apple's prices are higher than other PC manufacturers, but Apple charges what the market will endure, and when it can't endure it, they cut prices. For you to espouse all of this insider knowledge about Apple and then to say that Apple chooses prices arbitrarily is ridiculous, and I call shenanigans on your ass. SHENANIGANS!
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They are referring to items on the iPhone desktop as "Widgets," and the thing does run WebKit. Perhaps porting Dashboard widgets to iPhone will be a trivial matter?
That's horrible what your Mac mini is doing. It must take you, like, 20 minutes to copy a 17MB file.
From this comment:Which had me thinking (and you folks probably know more about this than I do) — could ZFS power elements of Time Machine? I mean, probably for 10.6 (Ocelot?), but still... If Time Machine was not only backup software but a way for the OS to automatically handle version control, holy crap. Please, tell me if I have no idea what I'm talking about. Entirely possible.
I expect the Intel towers, if they ever appear, to be called the Mac, MacTower, MacPC, or the like.
Actually, I would expect the Intel towers to be called the "Mac Pro" to mirror the portable line. In fact, I expect the Xserve to change its name to Mac Serve or Mac Server.
Considering Apple would like to have their pro software -- Aperture, Final Cut, Logic, Shake -- and the pro software of others -- Photoshop, AfterEffects -- run blazingly fast for those of us who use Macs, have no doubt that Intel towers are coming, and they're most likely coming on August 7.
"In addition to hosted tiers that offer larger storage capacities, Joyent also offers the Accelerator, an easy-to-install server appliance that allows you to run your own private instance of the Joyent Connector suite of web applications."
It's exactly what he was talking about.
You mean something like this?
"When are you going to get married and move out, you ungrateful sack?"
"'Ungrateful'? I've been keeping your liver healthy for the past 20 years, Mom! Now shut up, Battlestar Galactica's on."
- Everything that's 5 stars
- A random playlist of 600 songs rated three or four stars
- A playlist of everything I've added in the last two months
- A random playlist of 100 unrated songs.
That way, I always have what I like and what's new to me, and I can rate songs in chunks (downtime on the train, etc). The only problem is that I have to update the iPod twice to see changes; iTunes doesn't sync changes to ratings before it starts copying/replacing songs. But that's a small price to pay to keep my small amount of space useful with minimum effort.But WoW for Intel will be available very soon. RTF...uh...FP.
And I don't even do cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
(Thanks, I'll be here all week. Tip your waitress.)
The article is kind of a cop-out, ending the article with, "'The question that needs to be asked is, if you buy a DVD, are you allowed to put it onto an iPod?' Onigman says." Citizens not aware of DMCA regulations may be surprised by the answer. The extent of the article is, "Ooh, there may be some illegal activity here." This graduate of the Barnum & Bailey Clown College for Journalism can't take 10 minutes to call, I don't know, a LAWYER or a CONGRESSMAN and finding out? Can we call for a Slashdot moratorium on USA Today articles?
Another thought: I feel sorry for the person who buys that iPod and forgets to turn off the "automatically update this iPod" setting in iTunes, thus losing ALL of that content.
All I know is that I've forwarded that email from Bill Gates at least 1,200 times, and I still haven't gotten a check. Bill Gates is a dirty liar.
Or release it at Macworld, let Mac fanboys (like myself) buy it first and work out the bugs so that by Christmas 2006 the kinks are worked out and it's totally hyped up so everyone wants one.
Instead of Flash having a unified palette column on the right, it'll have palettes littered all over the screen. Awesome.
(The property bar in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign changes [for the most part] with every tool.)
If Microsoft will completely support all of the features of OpenType -- a font format that THEY HELPED TO INVENT -- then you may see ligatures in Word very soon.
While I agree that using a JavaScript object not available to everyone is in opposition to the cries of Jeffrey Zeldman and his disciples, those disciples also cry out to create websites that degrade gracefully so that content is accessible to anyone anywhere on any browser/device. So really, your complaint is with Google for not degrading GMail to your browser.
However, my girlfriend, who is still stuck with Netscape 4.7 under Mac OS 9 at her office (too many publishers scared to let go of Quark 4) -- she can still get to her GMail, albeit without all the bells and whistles. So maybe your problem isn't with Google. Your problem is with Opera, which is always the autistic stepbrother of web browsers -- brilliance undermined by social awkwardness.
Uh, no. If you have a real digital camera and you want REAL control over your images, you use RAW. That TIFF file has been processed by the camera already. The RAW file is unprocessed -- working with RAW is the digital equivalent of working in a darkroom with a negative -- you have lots of choices in how to process the image. Though I do agree with you that there needs to be a RAW standard. Check out OpenRAW. I should point out that one piece of software that's incredibly similar to the Aperture is Bibble, which is also a non-distructive RAW workflow application. I find the interface to be kind of clunky, but Bibble works well. MUCH cheaper than Aperture, and also available for Windows and Linux in addition to Mac. (Full disclosure: the creator of Bibble is my girlfriend's brother-in-law.)
And Leonardo DaVinci's notebooks were nothing but pieces of parchment that he scribbled on, too.
/.). This isn't about eBay fodder -- this is about the process and development of an artist. Should future animators wish to learn from Nick Park's storyboards, they'll have to look at his later work. And that's very sad.
For many artists, process is often more valuable than the finished product. As a graphic design student, I find seeing the sketches and previous versions of some of the designers I admire very illuminating. Paul Rand famously provided his clients with process books (including one client notable to
I mean, it's got a floppy drive. We're talking about the FUTURE, people!
Hey, I just drilled a mesh of holes into this Red Bull can sitting next to me. It's the future of Red Bull cans!
I'm not sure how easy it is, but you can find instructions for a native installation here.
In case you aren't kidding:
1) Lead pipe to head
2) Take iPod photo.
There's a reason I don't use the white earbuds.
Most notably, the XServe Raid runs on an Intel processor. There are tons of reasons Apple would be meeting with Intel. One day, perhaps "the news" will actually be news and not gossip based on "a friend-of-a-friend told me..."
I'm sure if you march upstairs from the basement and empty the diswasher, your mother will feel a great deal of pleasure.
But the top-of-the-line PMG5 now comes with a video card out of the box that can run the 30". In essence, that's a savings of about $450 since you no longer have to buy the nVidia card as an upgrade.
And with this comment (unless you intended some sort of strange, imperceptible irony), your assertion that you work for Apple is blown to smithereens. Prices are NOT arbitrary. Prices are always based on market demand and profit margin. Lower priced items, like a Mac mini, have a lower profit margin because they are gateway Macs. Today's Mac mini buyer will hopefully be tomorrow's 20" iMac buyer (or better). The PMG5 is a more luxurious, more professional item, and Apple's research would indeed tell them that to a professional Mac user, PCI slots, faster FSB, and gigabit ethernet are worth the extra dough over a consumer-grade (though, IMHO, entirely kick-ass) machine like the iMac G5. Sure, Apple's made pricing mistakes (PMG4 Cube, anyone? Who exactly was the market for that thing?), and sure, Apple's prices are higher than other PC manufacturers, but Apple charges what the market will endure, and when it can't endure it, they cut prices. For you to espouse all of this insider knowledge about Apple and then to say that Apple chooses prices arbitrarily is ridiculous, and I call shenanigans on your ass. SHENANIGANS!
Actually, the G5 is a scaled-down Power4 .