Quicktime has really always been a Mac format, and was brought over to windows for some reason or other, and while it has done fairly well, never really got quite big, despite the fact that it used compression tech that was way ahead of its time back in the day, but with divx, xvid and 3vix out, just cant really compete anymore.
Quicktime isn't a file format as such, and there's way more to it than the player which most end-users see. Quicktime is a full media API, the first one that I'm aware of (though I imagine someone will correct me there - perhaps an SGI user?).
An example of a Quicktime use. An old Mac freeware app I wrote, Startupfrills, set a startup picture to show as a Mac booted up. It could handle JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA...you name it. And I never wrote a single line of image format-handling code. Just told Quicktime that I had a media file and would like an image data structure please. The same can be done for movie file formats, sound...a full blown multimedia API.
A better analogy in the MS world would be DirectShow. Not that I've done any DirectX development, but as I understand it you can add support for new file formats to the existing MS APIs via DirectShow filters. From then on, your MS API-based media app can make use of the new file format without ever knowing what it is.
Now if we could persuade PS to be native on linux we would be getting somewhere, until then ill stick with XP and PS on my x86 and my Mac wont be going anywhere soon
But Photoshop won't appear on Linux until there is proven demand for it. And what better way to show demand than by actually running it under Linux, albeit in emulated form?
Cheers,
Ian
Re:Expanding thier OPEN SOURCE committment?
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"If all Novell will do is 'support GNU/Linux'...then they are not 'supporting Open Source', they are supporting GNU/Linux...Why use the inclusive language of Open Source when you are in fact not inclusive?"
You're getting ahead of yourself there. Novell's statement is that they'll "continue to expand their Open Source commitment", not that they'll only support Linux. Sun, for one, will be quite interested in having GNOME and associated apps supported under Solaris as they've chosen it for their next UI.
I'm dubious too, but give some time to see what happens. It's too early to see this is either good or bad - actions speak louder than words, and we would do well to sit back and allow some action to take place before writing people off.
There's a thread going on in comp.sys.mac.comm at the moment regarding this. Consensus seems to be either Thoth or MT-Newswatcher, with some fringe support for Halime. For binaries, Hogwasher seems to be the way to go.
Yes, and Microsoft has already polluted that. Or probably diluted, I should say.
There ought to be either a comp.sys.microsoft or perhaps a new sub-hierarchy comp.vendor.microsoft.*. Instead, you get all this top-level microsoft.* nonsense. And then, of course, every 'me too' sheep of a vendor follows suit, so there's now borland.*, symantec.*....ugh. You're computer or computer software vendors, you belong in the comp.* hierarchy, not at the top level.
Well, having looked at your website, and noting that despite totalling one Jag, you were able to buy another one, and that you also drive a Miata and a brand new Mini (that's 2 sports cars and a luxury car, by my count)
Website's a bit out of date. We currently have two cars - one Mini Cooper and a Subaru Impreza Turbo. The Miata referred to on the website is described as a "gorgeous Mark 1", in other words it was nearly ten years' old. Sadly it had to go, as we're having a second baby and there's no room in the Miata. The Impreza takes its place, having four doors at least. The Cooper is new, but the Impreza is a couple of years' old as well.
So not rich. If I moaned, people would laugh at me and rightly so - I accept that I'm doing ok. But certainly not as rich as these people were believing me to be - remember, a new XJR goes for 70k+GBP brand new in the spec we had it, and that's probably the figure they had in their mind. Its actual monetary value however was just 7k GBP after seven years, and we bought it when it was five years' old.
and figured you were a masochist who enjoyed paying large sums of money for unreliable objects.
Oh, you've driven one then...?:-)
Yep, you're right. Decided I must suffer for my art...
Well, you're right for the XJ40s and early X300s. Not with the later X300s and the new X350s though (all sold under the name of XJ6/XJ8) - they're as up to date and reliable as anything else.
For instance, a tow truck or taxi driver may charge a well-to-do suburban driver who breaks down in the inner city several times the going rate, just to get their rich butt to safety.
Until an unplanned meeting with some black ice and a nearby tree, I used to own a Jaguar XJR. Now, big luxury cars depreciate fast and this Jaguar was seven years' old at the time of its demise. In other words, most people's year-old hatchbacks cost more than this car's second-hand value.
Despite that, the majority of people I dealt with who saw the car decided that I was obviously stinking rich, available to be fleeced and took the opportunity to try and rip me off. This would include car mechanics to a small extent (it was main-dealer serviced most of the time, you get ripped off there anyway) but also to workman calling at the house. Prices quoted for the same job varied enormously depending on whether I left the Jaguar parked outside the front or whether we left the MX-5 (Eunos Roadster/Miata by another name) parked outside.
I saw an edition of Screensavers whilst visiting in Chicago a few months ago (I'm UK-based). It had Wozniak on it, and he was saying how much he liked his new 12" Powerbook.
The 12" Powerbook is OS X-based, so the answer to your question must be yes.
So how easy is it to get a refund for MacOS, if you want to run Linux on on your Powerbook instead of MacOS?
Well, my post was meant to be humorous. In answer to the question though, I believe it's impossible to get a refund for OS X. But then, the license it's supplied under never offered one. The Windows license does offer one.
This style is explicitly encouraged in the Stroustrup book. Now, what type is y? Easy because you're looking out for something, but in the middle of maintaining strange code it's easy to miss.
...but how do you hack scripts in Vi with a funky cell-phone kepad?
You don't. You use a bluetooth keyboard instead.
No experience using a bluetooth keyboard with this SSHe client. However, plenty of experience using bluetooth to send text between OS X and a phone. It's certainly possible, just don't know if it's been done yet.
Anyone else know if a bluetooth keyboard compatible with phones yet exists?
You know, I know people who like Clippy. That's good, because as you've guessed they're also the people who need it.
I know no-one who doesn't find "It looks like you're typing a letter..." annoying. But that's not all of what the assistants do. They provide hints, and they provide an on-screen place to click and ask for help, in more-or-less plain language. Pressing F1 wouldn't occur to the people I'm talking about, nor are they likely to hunt in the menus.
Now, these people aren't daft. All intelligent people, all done well in their own field. It's just that that field isn't computing, and they also don't have the interest to make it into a hobby.
Summary: don't knock Clippy too much. The excesses are annoying, but I don't rate the basic idea as a failure.
No coincidence, you're right. Ian McCall, at your service...
How much would Serkis be worth without CGI? For me, still less than one Peter Woodthorpe, who had no images at all to work with - just the sound of his voice on radio. Radio is by far the lower tech here, but it comes out better by virtue of quality acting. I believe the key where we (politely - this is not a flamefest...) disagree is your statement: "technology...matters and it can compensate for inferior story or acting. ". I agree that technology matters, but I don't accept that it can compensate for inferior story or acting.
Consider The Two Towers. Where would that movie be without Gollum...?
Err...Gollum was crucial to the plot of The Two Towers quite some time before CG animation become prevalent. Like the 1940s, for example, when the book was actually written.
Besides, as I've posted on this board before I think Peter Woodthorpe, from the BBC radio series, made a far better Gollum. Without any CG at all.
Hmm. Well, as a UK citizen I advise the government to provide me with free pizza for life. However, it seems unlikely that they'll listen to or act upon that advice. Why does this group believe its advice to carry any more weight?
Far back in the mists of time, I used to work for a now-defunct company called the Multimedia Corporation.
This place had a room you could go to when you needed a break. It had a comfy leather sofa and a few chairs, a satellite TV feed an an N64 (newish then) you could play on. Could go in whenever you liked - time wasn't really monitored as such in MMC, it was more "have you done what we needed you to do, within the time we needed it by?" than "how many hours have you put in today?".
A good place to work - enjoyed my time there. It went defunct for other reasons, but years later I still miss that comfy sofa...
Now this I like the sound of. From the article:
"With the brainstorming help of the Group Against Harmful Programs...".
The Group Against Harmful Programs. Wonderful. Sort of like the Fantastic Four, or the X-Men. Sounds like the sort of thing Tron would belong to. "That's Tron, he fights for the users under the banner of the Group Against Harmful Programs"...
Epitonic. I bought a Lemongrass CD from there - a band I'd never heard of before. Found them via their 'Radio' idea - you stream a playlist (MP3, unrestricted...) of artists that are related in musical style, then see if you like anything.
No commercial relationship, just a happy customer etc.
why can't we have an international group of policy makers for the computing world?
Because then the schoolchildren of 2103 would have to learn about The Great Vi/Emacs War of 2012, where a group of rogue nations steadfastly clung to their VIM. With Switzerland, of course, using pico and generally keeping well out of things.
You mean you can load arbitrary software in the 100k-byte range on your cellphone in europe/america and use/play the software you just loaded?
How do you transfer it to the phone? IRDA or cable of some kind?
Can load up what you want, yes. To transfer, I downloaded it on a Powerbook and then sent it over Bluetooth. A similarly equipped PC would be able to do the same thing.
Being in japan really sucks, the cellphone revolution is passing everyone by in here.
Now this I'm stunned at. It's completely the opposite to what everyone thinks in Europe - we all think that Europe's behind Japan. Is that not the case?
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Quicktime isn't a file format as such, and there's way more to it than the player which most end-users see. Quicktime is a full media API, the first one that I'm aware of (though I imagine someone will correct me there - perhaps an SGI user?).
An example of a Quicktime use. An old Mac freeware app I wrote, Startupfrills, set a startup picture to show as a Mac booted up. It could handle JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA...you name it. And I never wrote a single line of image format-handling code. Just told Quicktime that I had a media file and would like an image data structure please. The same can be done for movie file formats, sound...a full blown multimedia API.
A better analogy in the MS world would be DirectShow. Not that I've done any DirectX development, but as I understand it you can add support for new file formats to the existing MS APIs via DirectShow filters. From then on, your MS API-based media app can make use of the new file format without ever knowing what it is.
Cheers,
Ian
But Photoshop won't appear on Linux until there is proven demand for it. And what better way to show demand than by actually running it under Linux, albeit in emulated form?
Cheers,
Ian
You're getting ahead of yourself there. Novell's statement is that they'll "continue to expand their Open Source commitment", not that they'll only support Linux. Sun, for one, will be quite interested in having GNOME and associated apps supported under Solaris as they've chosen it for their next UI.
I'm dubious too, but give some time to see what happens. It's too early to see this is either good or bad - actions speak louder than words, and we would do well to sit back and allow some action to take place before writing people off.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, and Microsoft has already polluted that. Or probably diluted, I should say.
There ought to be either a comp.sys.microsoft or perhaps a new sub-hierarchy comp.vendor.microsoft.*. Instead, you get all this top-level microsoft.* nonsense. And then, of course, every 'me too' sheep of a vendor follows suit, so there's now borland.*, symantec.*....ugh. You're computer or computer software vendors, you belong in the comp.* hierarchy, not at the top level.
Cheers,
Ian
Website's a bit out of date. We currently have two cars - one Mini Cooper and a Subaru Impreza Turbo. The Miata referred to on the website is described as a "gorgeous Mark 1", in other words it was nearly ten years' old. Sadly it had to go, as we're having a second baby and there's no room in the Miata. The Impreza takes its place, having four doors at least. The Cooper is new, but the Impreza is a couple of years' old as well.
So not rich. If I moaned, people would laugh at me and rightly so - I accept that I'm doing ok. But certainly not as rich as these people were believing me to be - remember, a new XJR goes for 70k+GBP brand new in the spec we had it, and that's probably the figure they had in their mind. Its actual monetary value however was just 7k GBP after seven years, and we bought it when it was five years' old.
Cheers,
Ian
Oh, you've driven one then...? :-)
Yep, you're right. Decided I must suffer for my art...
Well, you're right for the XJ40s and early X300s. Not with the later X300s and the new X350s though (all sold under the name of XJ6/XJ8) - they're as up to date and reliable as anything else.
Cheers,
Ian
Until an unplanned meeting with some black ice and a nearby tree, I used to own a Jaguar XJR. Now, big luxury cars depreciate fast and this Jaguar was seven years' old at the time of its demise. In other words, most people's year-old hatchbacks cost more than this car's second-hand value.
Despite that, the majority of people I dealt with who saw the car decided that I was obviously stinking rich, available to be fleeced and took the opportunity to try and rip me off. This would include car mechanics to a small extent (it was main-dealer serviced most of the time, you get ripped off there anyway) but also to workman calling at the house. Prices quoted for the same job varied enormously depending on whether I left the Jaguar parked outside the front or whether we left the MX-5 (Eunos Roadster/Miata by another name) parked outside.
Price discrimination? Yep, know all about that.
Cheers,
Ian
Did anyone formally read the linked weblog that forms the basis of this article? It just might contain the answer. Imagine that.
Cheers,
Ian
The 12" Powerbook is OS X-based, so the answer to your question must be yes.
Cheers,
Ian
Well, my post was meant to be humorous. In answer to the question though, I believe it's impossible to get a refund for OS X. But then, the license it's supplied under never offered one. The Windows license does offer one.
Cheers,
Ian
Here.
(ducks, runs...)
Cheers,
Ian
char* x, y
This style is explicitly encouraged in the Stroustrup book. Now, what type is y? Easy because you're looking out for something, but in the middle of maintaining strange code it's easy to miss.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
You don't. You use a bluetooth keyboard instead.
No experience using a bluetooth keyboard with this SSHe client. However, plenty of experience using bluetooth to send text between OS X and a phone. It's certainly possible, just don't know if it's been done yet.
Anyone else know if a bluetooth keyboard compatible with phones yet exists?
Cheers,
Ian
I know no-one who doesn't find "It looks like you're typing a letter..." annoying. But that's not all of what the assistants do. They provide hints, and they provide an on-screen place to click and ask for help, in more-or-less plain language. Pressing F1 wouldn't occur to the people I'm talking about, nor are they likely to hunt in the menus.
Now, these people aren't daft. All intelligent people, all done well in their own field. It's just that that field isn't computing, and they also don't have the interest to make it into a hobby.
Summary: don't knock Clippy too much. The excesses are annoying, but I don't rate the basic idea as a failure.
Cheers,
Ian
No coincidence, you're right. Ian McCall, at your service...
How much would Serkis be worth without CGI? For me, still less than one Peter Woodthorpe, who had no images at all to work with - just the sound of his voice on radio. Radio is by far the lower tech here, but it comes out better by virtue of quality acting. I believe the key where we (politely - this is not a flamefest...) disagree is your statement: "technology...matters and it can compensate for inferior story or acting. ". I agree that technology matters, but I don't accept that it can compensate for inferior story or acting.
Cheers,
Ian
Err...Gollum was crucial to the plot of The Two Towers quite some time before CG animation become prevalent. Like the 1940s, for example, when the book was actually written.
Besides, as I've posted on this board before I think Peter Woodthorpe, from the BBC radio series, made a far better Gollum. Without any CG at all.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
This place had a room you could go to when you needed a break. It had a comfy leather sofa and a few chairs, a satellite TV feed an an N64 (newish then) you could play on. Could go in whenever you liked - time wasn't really monitored as such in MMC, it was more "have you done what we needed you to do, within the time we needed it by?" than "how many hours have you put in today?".
A good place to work - enjoyed my time there. It went defunct for other reasons, but years later I still miss that comfy sofa...
Cheers,
Ian
"With the brainstorming help of the Group Against Harmful Programs...".
The Group Against Harmful Programs. Wonderful. Sort of like the Fantastic Four, or the X-Men. Sounds like the sort of thing Tron would belong to. "That's Tron, he fights for the users under the banner of the Group Against Harmful Programs"...
Cheers,
Ian
No commercial relationship, just a happy customer etc.
Cheers,
Ian
Because then the schoolchildren of 2103 would have to learn about The Great Vi/Emacs War of 2012, where a group of rogue nations steadfastly clung to their VIM. With Switzerland, of course, using pico and generally keeping well out of things.
Cheers,
Ian
How do you transfer it to the phone? IRDA or cable of some kind?
Can load up what you want, yes. To transfer, I downloaded it on a Powerbook and then sent it over Bluetooth. A similarly equipped PC would be able to do the same thing.
Being in japan really sucks, the cellphone revolution is passing everyone by in here.
Now this I'm stunned at. It's completely the opposite to what everyone thinks in Europe - we all think that Europe's behind Japan. Is that not the case?
Cheers,
Ian
Got a Symbian Series 60 phone (Nokia 3650, 7650, Ericsson P800)? Well then, go here for a C64 emulator. Works well on my 3650.
Cheers,
Ian