True story. Yesterday I was sitting at work, at my Linux box, and decided that I wanted to hear a particular song I had sitting on one of my OSX boxes at home. Scp the song from home to the office and I'm good to go, right?
Great, except that the song at home was encoded as Apple Lossless.
Support costs are far higher on the PC -- you have to test against different video cards, memory configfurations, soundcards, etc. Consoles provide a very small, fixed set of possible configs to test against.
In this case, though, what the non-Apple competition is going to be offering (at least in relation to Spotlight) is much less.
Disclaimer: I've used GDS beta on Windows, and I've used Spotlight on the Tiger WWDC preview. I'm sure what both companies will offer in sucessive versions will be more advanced.
GDS on Windows is a nice idea that's limited by the small number of data formats that it supports. The only file formats it understands are the ones specifically baked into it by Google. There is no way (at current) for a developer to add support for custom file formats, nor does it give you any way to exploit the metadata already present in many very common file formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, MP3, etc.) In other words, if I had a 1024x768 picture of a Porsche 911 called "Porsche 911.jpg" on my HD, I could find it with GDS by searching for "porsche" or "911" or ".jpg". On the plus side, the formats that Google already knows about (eg AIM logs, Outlook [gack] emails) are well-supported.
Spotlight, however, indexes the inbuilt metadata as well, so not only could I search on parts of the filename, as above, I could also search for "picture files that are 1024 x 768" or have "epson" in their EXIF tags. In addition, if I write a graphics app and use "marmoset's magnificent graphics format" (MMGF) as my native storage format, I can write a Spotlight plugin that tells the OS how to understand the "underpants gnome" tags I've embedded in the images.
I use SuSe 9.1 (downloaded) on an Inspiron 5160 here at work. Everything worked except the integrated Broadcom wireless (802.11g). I had to perform an unnatural act to get it working.
Home consoles were considered a "kid thing" until Sony demonstrated that you could (quite profitably) sell them to adults. I'll bet on the company that's sold 50 million consoles getting this bit right, again.
The PS1 and PS2 weren't targeted at that age range, they were aimed at 16-35 yr olds with disposable income. Why would you think Sony would be changing tactics with the PSP?
I got a similar phish yesterday, only pointing to www.stanford.edu/~joeio/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar. gz. I guess that was the earlier draft, before they secured the more impressive domain name.
I'm sitting two feet from my (oldschool) G5 1.8x2, and it is silent, SILENT, on a day when the ambient room temperature is 82F/28C. That is engineering.
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I always thought "Get Your Snack On" was more big beat than drum and bass, but to-may-to/to-mah-to, anyways... I'm partial to "Fast Eddie" myself.
And yeah, the 'Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory" soundtrack CD is quite good. I've been playing it nonstiop since I picked it up last month.
You might want to check for this issue.
True story. Yesterday I was sitting at work, at my Linux box, and decided that I wanted to hear a particular song I had sitting on one of my OSX boxes at home. Scp the song from home to the office and I'm good to go, right?
:)
Great, except that the song at home was encoded as Apple Lossless.
I could have actually used this tool yesterday.
Wha? I've been to at least half a dozen in this area (Southgate, Troy, Garden City, etc.) and all have had working free WiFi.
I've actually had better luck with QEMU than with Bochs. It seems a little easier to set up, at least.
A lot of el-cheapo decks have Google-able region hacks (like my $34 Cyberhome CH-300)...
(or, in case of porn, get a mare)
That costs extra.
Heh... I remember spending study hall in high school sketching out shape tables on graph paper in the cafeteria... good times.
Support costs are far higher on the PC -- you have to test against different video cards, memory configfurations, soundcards, etc. Consoles provide a very small, fixed set of possible configs to test against.
I would think that one goal would be to establish precedence and ensure accountability for 2008.
In this case, though, what the non-Apple competition is going to be offering (at least in relation to Spotlight) is much less.
Disclaimer: I've used GDS beta on Windows, and I've used Spotlight on the Tiger WWDC preview. I'm sure what both companies will offer in sucessive versions will be more advanced.
GDS on Windows is a nice idea that's limited by the small number of data formats that it supports. The only file formats it understands are the ones specifically baked into it by Google. There is no way (at current) for a developer to add support for custom file formats, nor does it give you any way to exploit the metadata already present in many very common file formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, MP3, etc.) In other words, if I had a 1024x768 picture of a Porsche 911 called "Porsche 911.jpg" on my HD, I could find it with GDS by searching for "porsche" or "911" or ".jpg". On the plus side, the formats that Google already knows about (eg AIM logs, Outlook [gack] emails) are well-supported.
Spotlight, however, indexes the inbuilt metadata as well, so not only could I search on parts of the filename, as above, I could also search for "picture files that are 1024 x 768" or have "epson" in their EXIF tags. In addition, if I write a graphics app and use "marmoset's magnificent graphics format" (MMGF) as my native storage format, I can write a Spotlight plugin that tells the OS how to understand the "underpants gnome" tags I've embedded in the images.
I use SuSe 9.1 (downloaded) on an Inspiron 5160 here at work. Everything worked except the integrated Broadcom wireless (802.11g). I had to perform an unnatural act to get it working.
Home consoles were considered a "kid thing" until Sony demonstrated that you could (quite profitably) sell them to adults. I'll bet on the company that's sold 50 million consoles getting this bit right, again.
The PS1 and PS2 weren't targeted at that age range, they were aimed at 16-35 yr olds with disposable income. Why would you think Sony would be changing tactics with the PSP?
I got a similar phish yesterday, only pointing to www.stanford.edu/~joeio/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar. gz. I guess that was the earlier draft, before they secured the more impressive domain name.
Best human-readable discussion of the techniques I've read is here.
I totally agree. Farking poker monkeys spam my blog comments at least a half-dozen times a day.
There are open sourced Vorbis & FLAC codecs for Quicktime if you're willing to look a little bit. I have both types in my in iTunes library.
The guys who implemented that functionality in BeOS work for Apple now.
Yep. Hypocrites.
"I plead the fizzith!" ;)
It would have been a cool trick to make that post with it powered off. :)
I'm sitting two feet from my (oldschool) G5 1.8x2, and it is silent, SILENT, on a day when the ambient room temperature is 82F/28C. That is engineering.
Thanks for making me feel better about buying my Dual .8 a couple of months ago. :)
I use SpamAssassin and Apple Mail's filter in series (SA on the server, Apple Mail on the client) and between them they catch, well, everything.
I think the selling point of Mail is that they ship it in a fairly "well-trained" state, so it's catching that 98% out of the box.