This [online anonymity] is nothing more than the digital equivalent of putting on a ski mask when you rob a bank.
_When_ I rob a bank? When _I_ rob a bank? I prefer to use black BeOS T-shirts wrapped around my head ninja-style whenever _I_ rob banks, and frankly, I'm a little offended by this guy talking about me in such a familiar tone.
Just a quick note about pop-up folders: Yes, they were indeed a third-party development that was afterwards re-implemented by Apple. I don't recall the name of the utility, but I do distinctly remember installing it from a CD that came with either MacUser or MacWorld. The tabs were customizable in size and appearance, and I remember including my modified tabs in an OS 7.6.1 screenshot I sent to one of the old-school customized Mac screenshot galleries. (I believe it was webintosh.com, circa 1996, now macobserver...)
This is off-topic. I hope all these W95 threads are moderated as such, and yet here I go...
Whee!
I know there will be lots of flames here saying that the taskbar is not revolutionary, but I agree with you.
Mistake #1. =)
EVERY other system before W95 turned miniaturized/hidden windows into an "icon" that had to be placed on the desktop by the user. This "icon" also tended to put a lot of prominance on an image and very little (or none) on the text identifier. W95 realized that these "icons" could be arranged automatically, that a long horizontal shape is more efficient than a rectangle, and that the picture could be deleted (they actually shrank it so small as to be indecipherable, but it proves the idea).
You mean, "square," right?
The Application menu in traditional Mac OS (the menu to the far right of the menu bar) accomplished this first and best, IMO. Since the menu contains and hides the names of running applications, the full names of running programs (unencumbered by shrinking taskbar space) can be displayed and selected via this menu, without wasting permanent screen real estate. Personally, I really don't care to see ten horizontal buttons on a taskbar that _ALL_ say "Website name goes here - Microsoft Internet Explorer" whenever I open that many IE windows in Win9x. (Even then, it ends up looking like, "Websi...") That's akin to having the output of ps as part of my bash prompt. On Mac OS, "Internet Explorer" appears (once =) in the Application menu.
When I want to know what's running, I'll check for myself. I think many Windows users agree, which is why MS was forced to implement auto-hide for the one region of the screen that should be universally obvious on that OS: the taskbar. So typically silly of them.
The "start" menu did have precedence with the Apple menu, but Apple did not put *all* programs on it, only "accessories".
The start menu does not list all available executable programs, nor should it. Only programs which their own installers or the user decides to place there are displayed there, same as in Mac OS (yep, pre-System 7 too). This says nothing of MS's deficient implementation of menuing, which forces one to maintain a synchronized set of "shortcuts" for actual working program directories, whereas Mac OS navigates and displays aliases to either files or folders within the menu.
The NeXT "dock" was somewhat like a taskbar + start menu, but missed two innovations: it put way too much importance on the picture (there was NO text), and iconized windows were put into the dock only if they were launched from the dock. The NeXT did have the innovation MSoft seems to have missed: when the program is launched the entry can be reused as the icon.
A lack of textual, erm, context is admittedly short-sighted. But I don't understand this last sentence. Are you referring to using the minimized window's icon as a drag&drop target? Windows can do that, although it forces you to drag the d&d object into the window proper after it is "restored."
I also think a W95 innovation was the simplification of window borders. Until then everybody drew an "inner edge" on the windows borders and they were much thicker and wasted screen space. I like to think I came up with this first (see the ViewKit I wrote for NeXT in 1987) but I doubt they saw my stuff and copied it.
The W9X window border is thicker on all sides to that of Mac OS < 8.0. Mac OS has since "caught up." =) Is this what you meant? I don't really want to see your ViewKit. =P
Another innovation is the use of Alt+Tab to switch windows. This was somewhat stolen from CDE, but CDE only used Alt+Tab to switch between uniconized windows. W95 came up with the pop-up box to allow you to switch to any window.
Alt-Tab-switching itself was not also a feature in pre-9X Windows?
With Intel's investments in Linux companies like Red Hat and TurboLinux, it was only a matter of time before these companies would have alpha-grade ports available, even if mainstream hardware isn't available.
If I'm not mistaken, TurboLinux was the first Linux distro ported to and released for IA-64, about two months ago.
Hole punches for converting VHS cassettes to SVHS cassettes have been available in the past. I don't know where to get them (I punch the holes with nails...carefully =), but there were plenty of ads for them in the back of Video magazine, back when that publication still existed (when I still read home theater a/v mags...shit, I was such a dork when I was 14).
And you may be thinking about those hole punches that made double-sided 5 1/4" floppies from single-sided disks. I had one of those things too...but scissors often worked better. =)
The holes to which [s]he is referring are holes in the cassette shell. SVHS users like me have been using high-grade VHS tapes to record SVHS signals on older SVHS decks for years. The price difference between VHS and SVHS cassettes differs tremendously, even now.
Of course, nowadays it is possible to purchase SVHS decks that can record SVHS signals directly to unmodified VHS cassettes.
FWIW, regular 8mm cassettes can be used to record Hi8 signals, with no difference in quality, in much the same way. Buy Sony MP tapes, compare the pre-punched-out holes in that tape with an Hi8 MP cassette (Metal Particle, not Metal Evaporated), and punch the hole out with a pushpin. Wiggle the tape a bit, and the plastic falls out of the hole without a hassle.
You're forgetting to mention Macross 7, the TV show about a group of musician pacifists (including Max and Miria's daughter) in control of customized Valkyries. It takes place on Max's ship. It had a pretty kick-ass intro song, "Seventh Moon."
...Unless you're only talking about shows available on DVD. Wouldn't know about that. =)
There were also a bunch of gaiden side-stories on console video games, like Macross 2036 and Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie. I've only played the latter, and the main boss isn't Zentoradi.
Nisshin and Maruchan are nice sometimes, Sapporo Ichiban is nice more often than that (because of the oiliness), but nothing will ever beat Nong Shim or Samyang.
Go to a Korean store and look for Nong Shim brand Shin Ramyun, or Samyang brand Ibaeknyang, for good starter ramens. (Write the names down, if you don't want to attempt the pronunciations. =) Korean dried noodles put American and Japanese dried noodles to shame.
The secret: They use less salt, and make it as spicy as hell. Downside: It's seven times as expensive as American-made Nisshin or Maruchan, if you don't buy in bulk like I do. Buy in bulk (24 per box) and you can get them for 35-40 cents each.
Top off the bowl with 2-3 thin slices of SPAM (reduced-salt, if you like), added to the cooking pot of ramen one minute before removing from heat. Add kimchi too, if you like it, or canned corn if you'd prefer to sweeten the dish. Don't combine both kimchi and corn, though...it tastes weird.
BTFW, rar-men is Chinese in origin, not Japanese. Soba and Udon are Korean in origin. The Japanese popularized all of these to the West by making them easy to store and prepare, and dulling the flavor of the broths down to suit Japanese and Western tastes.
:: Though I have not had an opprotunity to use it, just looking at the screenshot shows me a couple problems with the Aqua interface.
Not having used it, have you at least viewed the ### Though I have not had an opprotunity to use it, just looking at the screenshot shows me a couple problems with the Aqua interface.
Not having used it, have you at least viewed the QuickTime demo movies on Apple's site?
### * The buttons for min/max/close are not intuitive. I'm sorry, but yellow does not immediately say "minimize" to me.
When your mouse cursor hovers over any of the three window controls, all the buttons display the appropriate action icons:
The red button displays an "X" for close.
The yellow button displays a "-" for minimize. The green button displays a "+" for maximize.
Compared to traditional Mac OS Platinum window buttons, this is infinitely better. Whereas traditional Mac OS window buttons were differentiated only by placement and abstract iconic differences, these new widgets are differentiated by color, placement, and easily described icons.
(Imagine how a tech support guy currently has to explain the old Mac OS grow box to a newbie: "It's the second button from the right at the top of the window, with a smaller square in it. It switches between large and small, or you can option-click it and the window might fill the entire screen." Now it's, "Click the (yellow|second|`minus') button to make the window smaller; click the (green|third|`plus') button to make it bigger.")
### * The buttons are hard to differentiate for those of us who are color blind. To make it worse, they chose to use red and green, which is makes it a problem for the majority of people with color-blindness.
I understand why this would be of concern to someone who is unaware that the button icons are revealed when your cursor hovers over them. But to the non-colorblind world, I assume associating colors to window actions will serve very well both to explain their use, and to differentiate them from the rest of the window.
Besides, the stoplight metaphor will stick in many people's minds, even if it doesn't do much for me.
### * The close button is next to the rest of the buttons. This was one of the few aspects of the Mac interface I liked. They broke it.
I feel the same, although the Windows model has never been a problem for me either. I preferred Platinum's separation of the close box, but I don't mourn the loss.
### * The dynamically resizing toolbar and alpha channel transparency. I know some people like them, but they are a waste of my CPU cycles. If they can be turned on, this isn't much of an issue.
Hey! This is Mac OS! =P
### * The apple menu is stuck higeldy pigeldy in the middle part of the finder. This makes it a much harder target to aim for. Another thing changed from traditional Mac OS layout that decreases usability.
That's not the Apple menu. That's the Apple logo. =) The Mac OS icon to the far left of the menu bar serves approximatey the equivalent purpose as the traditional Apple menu. (Although I will miss calling it "the Apple menu.")
### I'm sure I could find more if I used the product, but that's enough for now.
Or maybe you'd have better things to say about it. =)
href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater.html">Qu ickTime demo movies on Apple's site?
:: * The buttons for min/max/close are not intuitive. I'm sorry, but yellow does not immediately say "minimize" to me.
When your mouse cursor hovers over any of the three window controls, all the buttons display the appropriate action icons:
The red button displays an "X" for close.
The yellow button displays a "-" for minimize. The green button displays a "+" for maximize.
Compared to traditional Mac OS Platinum window buttons, this is infinitely better. Whereas traditional Mac OS window buttons were differentiated only by placement and abstract iconic differences, these new widgets are differentiated by color, placement, and easily described icons.
(Imagine how a tech support guy currently has to explain the old Mac OS grow box to a newbie: "It's the second button from the right at the top of the window, with a smaller square in it. It switches between large and small, or you can option-click it and the window might fill the entire screen." Now it's, "Click the (yellow|second|`minus') button to make the window smaller; click the (green|third|`plus') button to make it bigger.")
:: * The buttons are hard to differentiate for those of us who are color blind. To make it worse, they chose to use red and green, which is makes it a problem for the majority of people with color-blindness.
I understand why this would be of concern to someone who is unaware that the button icons are revealed when your cursor hovers over them. But to the non-colorblind world, I assume associating colors to window actions will serve very well both to explain their use, and to differentiate them from the rest of the window.
Besides, the stoplight metaphor will stick in many people's minds, even if it doesn't do much for me.
:: * The close button is next to the rest of the buttons. This was one of the few aspects of the Mac interface I liked. They broke it.
I feel the same, although the Windows model has never been a problem for me either. I preferred Platinum's separation of the close box, but I don't mourn the loss.
:: * The dynamically resizing toolbar and alpha channel transparency. I know some people like them, but they are a waste of my CPU cycles. If they can be turned on, this isn't much of an issue.
This is Mac OS! >=P~
:: * The apple menu is stuck higeldy pigeldy in the middle part of the finder. This makes it a much harder target to aim for. Another thing changed from traditional Mac OS layout that decreases usability.
That's not the Apple menu. That's the Apple logo. =) The Mac OS icon to the far left of the menu bar serves approximatey the equivalent purpose as the traditional Apple menu. (Although I will miss calling it "the Apple menu.")
:: I'm sure I could find more if I used the product, but that's enough for now.
Or maybe you'd have better things to say about it. =)
QuickTime for Java only allows Java appl[ets|ications] running on Mac OS or Windows to use the QuickTime API. That is all. It is a closed-source solution for the closed-source community (of which I am also a member).
Read the General Overview, one click away from the page to which you linked.
Maybe those same riceboys could install some of those Clarion AutoPCs in their Civics; then they could also apply decals that say, "Powered by Windows Powered."
So what's your point? 2 out of 3 what? (I noticed that you neglected to cite exactly what the importance of calling the combination of China, Japan, and Korea, "CJK" is.) While these three nations may be considered three of the most economically relevant East Asian nations to the rest of the world, what does that have to do with anything?
I wonder, if Vietnam's or Malaysia's government were to adopt Linux, would you care less? Why?
Yes, high-bitrate, true stereo MP2 is still quality king when it comes to relatively small file sizes. But with very high bitrates, you can afford to use dual stereo.
You should use dual stereo to maintain the best channel separation; this is useful for preserving surround sound information. It also sounds better if your amp uses phase diffusion.
OTOH, it is the least efficient channel mode (it simply allocates exactly half of the total bitrate to each channel).
If you did post that with Lynx, you've answered your own question. If you didn't, then you could have simply labeled your post a test message and inserted some witty remark as an excuse. =) Either way: Yep. I'm posting with Lynx 2.8.1pre.11 right now. (It's not my machine, otherwise I'd use 2.8.2.)
The authors of SNES9X said it themselves once, that Silhouette was merely the most recent version of SNES9X at the time, ported and released by John Stiles on the Mac under a different name, so as to avoid entangling the SNES9X team with any legalities (since they had taken a break from releasing public versions, due to some kind of legal trouble or something). It was simply the Mac port of the most recent source that Gary (one of the authors) had on his hard drive.
I laughed aloud when I first read the Silhouette docs, and I even fell for it after a few days of surfing for more info about it, and finding so many people on usenet saying, "Oh yeah, this thing is the real thing!" Heck, Brad Oliver (author of MacMAME) even responded to me personally that he was 99.44% certain that it was not a hacked version of SNES9X. I guess he was right -- it was an actual version of SNES9X.
And magically, the very next version of MacSNES9X pretty much had all the features of Silhouette. ^_-
Agreed. I think someone dropped the ball on this one. According to the main sources, the linked articles, there is no implication that Apple now owns the standard, just that they licensed it. Will someone just shoot this one in the head already? =)
MP3 doesn't necessarily stand for MPEG-1 audio layer 3. MPEG-2 streams (uh-oh, conflicting terminology) can also include layer 3 audio. Hell, either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 can contain audio layer 1, 2, or 3 encoded streams, or no audio at all.
You are right, QuickTime for Java still requires a native installation of QuickTime on your system...and of course these are only available for Mac OS and Windows.
Maybe if Apple opens the MOSX[S] QT player code, someone can port it to Linux, but I won't hold my breath. Lots of third-party codecs will still be closed, unless Apple loosens up with them too. (Again, I'm not holding my breath...)
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This [online anonymity] is nothing more than the digital equivalent of putting on a ski mask when you rob a bank.
_When_ I rob a bank? When _I_ rob a bank? I prefer to use black BeOS T-shirts wrapped around my head ninja-style whenever _I_ rob banks, and frankly, I'm a little offended by this guy talking about me in such a familiar tone.
< tofuhead >
Just a quick note about pop-up folders: Yes, they were indeed a third-party development that was afterwards re-implemented by Apple. I don't recall the name of the utility, but I do distinctly remember installing it from a CD that came with either MacUser or MacWorld. The tabs were customizable in size and appearance, and I remember including my modified tabs in an OS 7.6.1 screenshot I sent to one of the old-school customized Mac screenshot galleries. (I believe it was webintosh.com, circa 1996, now macobserver...)
Whatever. =)
< tofuhead >
This is off-topic. I hope all these W95 threads are moderated as such, and yet here I go...
Whee!
I know there will be lots of flames here saying that the taskbar is not revolutionary, but I agree with you.
Mistake #1. =)
EVERY other system before W95 turned miniaturized/hidden windows into an "icon" that had to be placed on the desktop by the user. This "icon" also tended to put a lot of prominance on an image and very little (or none) on the text identifier. W95 realized that these "icons" could be arranged automatically, that a long horizontal shape is more efficient than a rectangle, and that the picture could be deleted (they actually shrank it so small as to be indecipherable, but it proves the idea).
You mean, "square," right?
The Application menu in traditional Mac OS (the menu to the far right of the menu bar) accomplished this first and best, IMO. Since the menu contains and hides the names of running applications, the full names of running programs (unencumbered by shrinking taskbar space) can be displayed and selected via this menu, without wasting permanent screen real estate. Personally, I really don't care to see ten horizontal buttons on a taskbar that _ALL_ say "Website name goes here - Microsoft Internet Explorer" whenever I open that many IE windows in Win9x. (Even then, it ends up looking like, "Websi...") That's akin to having the output of ps as part of my bash prompt. On Mac OS, "Internet Explorer" appears (once =) in the Application menu.
When I want to know what's running, I'll check for myself. I think many Windows users agree, which is why MS was forced to implement auto-hide for the one region of the screen that should be universally obvious on that OS: the taskbar. So typically silly of them.
The "start" menu did have precedence with the Apple menu, but Apple did not put *all* programs on it, only "accessories".
The start menu does not list all available executable programs, nor should it. Only programs which their own installers or the user decides to place there are displayed there, same as in Mac OS (yep, pre-System 7 too). This says nothing of MS's deficient implementation of menuing, which forces one to maintain a synchronized set of "shortcuts" for actual working program directories, whereas Mac OS navigates and displays aliases to either files or folders within the menu.
The NeXT "dock" was somewhat like a taskbar + start menu, but missed two innovations: it put way too much importance on the picture (there was NO text), and iconized windows were put into the dock only if they were launched from the dock. The NeXT did have the innovation MSoft seems to have missed: when the program is launched the entry can be reused as the icon.
A lack of textual, erm, context is admittedly short-sighted. But I don't understand this last sentence. Are you referring to using the minimized window's icon as a drag&drop target? Windows can do that, although it forces you to drag the d&d object into the window proper after it is "restored."
I also think a W95 innovation was the simplification of window borders. Until then everybody drew an "inner edge" on the windows borders and they were much thicker and wasted screen space. I like to think I came up with this first (see the ViewKit I wrote for NeXT in 1987) but I doubt they saw my stuff and copied it.
The W9X window border is thicker on all sides to that of Mac OS < 8.0. Mac OS has since "caught up." =) Is this what you meant? I don't really want to see your ViewKit. =P
Another innovation is the use of Alt+Tab to switch windows. This was somewhat stolen from CDE, but CDE only used Alt+Tab to switch between uniconized windows. W95 came up with the pop-up box to allow you to switch to any window.
Alt-Tab-switching itself was not also a feature in pre-9X Windows?
< tofuhead >
With Intel's investments in Linux companies like Red Hat and TurboLinux, it was only a matter of time before these companies would have alpha-grade ports available, even if mainstream hardware isn't available.
If I'm not mistaken, TurboLinux was the first Linux distro ported to and released for IA-64, about two months ago.
March 20 press release
< tofuhead >
I need to run emacs on my Macs, so that I can say to my friends, "I edited that file in emacs," and they could say, "You are an idiot."
Then I can say, "Aww, man, I thought it would make me cool." And then they'd say, "Shut up already."
Then I'd sit in my chair and just feel dumb until the Finder crashed, so I'd have something to do.
< tofuhead >
Hole punches for converting VHS cassettes to SVHS cassettes have been available in the past. I don't know where to get them (I punch the holes with nails...carefully =), but there were plenty of ads for them in the back of Video magazine, back when that publication still existed (when I still read home theater a/v mags...shit, I was such a dork when I was 14).
And you may be thinking about those hole punches that made double-sided 5 1/4" floppies from single-sided disks. I had one of those things too...but scissors often worked better. =)
< tofuhead >
The holes to which [s]he is referring are holes in the cassette shell. SVHS users like me have been using high-grade VHS tapes to record SVHS signals on older SVHS decks for years. The price difference between VHS and SVHS cassettes differs tremendously, even now.
Of course, nowadays it is possible to purchase SVHS decks that can record SVHS signals directly to unmodified VHS cassettes.
FWIW, regular 8mm cassettes can be used to record Hi8 signals, with no difference in quality, in much the same way. Buy Sony MP tapes, compare the pre-punched-out holes in that tape with an Hi8 MP cassette (Metal Particle, not Metal Evaporated), and punch the hole out with a pushpin. Wiggle the tape a bit, and the plastic falls out of the hole without a hassle.
< tofuhead >
You're forgetting to mention Macross 7, the TV show about a group of musician pacifists (including Max and Miria's daughter) in control of customized Valkyries. It takes place on Max's ship. It had a pretty kick-ass intro song, "Seventh Moon."
...Unless you're only talking about shows available on DVD. Wouldn't know about that. =)
There were also a bunch of gaiden side-stories on console video games, like Macross 2036 and Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie. I've only played the latter, and the main boss isn't Zentoradi.
Nisshin and Maruchan are nice sometimes, Sapporo Ichiban is nice more often than that (because of the oiliness), but nothing will ever beat Nong Shim or Samyang.
Go to a Korean store and look for Nong Shim brand Shin Ramyun, or Samyang brand Ibaeknyang, for good starter ramens. (Write the names down, if you don't want to attempt the pronunciations. =) Korean dried noodles put American and Japanese dried noodles to shame.
The secret: They use less salt, and make it as spicy as hell. Downside: It's seven times as expensive as American-made Nisshin or Maruchan, if you don't buy in bulk like I do. Buy in bulk (24 per box) and you can get them for 35-40 cents each.
Top off the bowl with 2-3 thin slices of SPAM (reduced-salt, if you like), added to the cooking pot of ramen one minute before removing from heat. Add kimchi too, if you like it, or canned corn if you'd prefer to sweeten the dish. Don't combine both kimchi and corn, though...it tastes weird.
BTFW, rar-men is Chinese in origin, not Japanese. Soba and Udon are Korean in origin. The Japanese popularized all of these to the West by making them easy to store and prepare, and dulling the flavor of the broths down to suit Japanese and Western tastes.
< tofuhead >
:: Though I have not had an opprotunity to use it, just looking at the screenshot shows me a couple problems with the Aqua interface.
Not having used it, have you at least viewed the ### Though I have not had an opprotunity to use it, just looking at the screenshot shows me a couple problems with the Aqua interface.
Not having used it, have you at least viewed the QuickTime demo movies on Apple's site?
### * The buttons for min/max/close are not intuitive. I'm sorry, but yellow does not immediately say "minimize" to me.
When your mouse cursor hovers over any of the three window controls, all the buttons display the appropriate action icons:
The yellow button displays a "-" for minimize.
The green button displays a "+" for maximize.
Compared to traditional Mac OS Platinum window buttons, this is infinitely better. Whereas traditional Mac OS window buttons were differentiated only by placement and abstract iconic differences, these new widgets are differentiated by color, placement, and easily described icons.
(Imagine how a tech support guy currently has to explain the old Mac OS grow box to a newbie: "It's the second button from the right at the top of the window, with a smaller square in it. It switches between large and small, or you can option-click it and the window might fill the entire screen." Now it's, "Click the (yellow|second|`minus') button to make the window smaller; click the (green|third|`plus') button to make it bigger.")
### * The buttons are hard to differentiate for those of us who are color blind. To make it worse, they chose to use red and green, which is makes it a problem for the majority of people with color-blindness.
I understand why this would be of concern to someone who is unaware that the button icons are revealed when your cursor hovers over them. But to the non-colorblind world, I assume associating colors to window actions will serve very well both to explain their use, and to differentiate them from the rest of the window.
Besides, the stoplight metaphor will stick in many people's minds, even if it doesn't do much for me.
### * The close button is next to the rest of the buttons. This was one of the few aspects of the Mac interface I liked. They broke it.
I feel the same, although the Windows model has never been a problem for me either. I preferred Platinum's separation of the close box, but I don't mourn the loss.
### * The dynamically resizing toolbar and alpha channel transparency. I know some people like them, but they are a waste of my CPU cycles. If they can be turned on, this isn't much of an issue.
Hey! This is Mac OS! =P
### * The apple menu is stuck higeldy pigeldy in the middle part of the finder. This makes it a much harder target to aim for. Another thing changed from traditional Mac OS layout that decreases usability.
That's not the Apple menu. That's the Apple logo. =) The Mac OS icon to the far left of the menu bar serves approximatey the equivalent purpose as the traditional Apple menu. (Although I will miss calling it "the Apple menu.")
### I'm sure I could find more if I used the product, but that's enough for now.
Or maybe you'd have better things to say about it. =)
href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater.html">Qu ickTime demo movies on Apple's site?
:: * The buttons for min/max/close are not intuitive. I'm sorry, but yellow does not immediately say "minimize" to me.
When your mouse cursor hovers over any of the three window controls, all the buttons display the appropriate action icons:
The yellow button displays a "-" for minimize.
The green button displays a "+" for maximize.
Compared to traditional Mac OS Platinum window buttons, this is infinitely better. Whereas traditional Mac OS window buttons were differentiated only by placement and abstract iconic differences, these new widgets are differentiated by color, placement, and easily described icons.
(Imagine how a tech support guy currently has to explain the old Mac OS grow box to a newbie: "It's the second button from the right at the top of the window, with a smaller square in it. It switches between large and small, or you can option-click it and the window might fill the entire screen." Now it's, "Click the (yellow|second|`minus') button to make the window smaller; click the (green|third|`plus') button to make it bigger.")
:: * The buttons are hard to differentiate for those of us who are color blind. To make it worse, they chose to use red and green, which is makes it a problem for the majority of people with color-blindness.
I understand why this would be of concern to someone who is unaware that the button icons are revealed when your cursor hovers over them. But to the non-colorblind world, I assume associating colors to window actions will serve very well both to explain their use, and to differentiate them from the rest of the window.
Besides, the stoplight metaphor will stick in many people's minds, even if it doesn't do much for me.
:: * The close button is next to the rest of the buttons. This was one of the few aspects of the Mac interface I liked. They broke it.
I feel the same, although the Windows model has never been a problem for me either. I preferred Platinum's separation of the close box, but I don't mourn the loss.
:: * The dynamically resizing toolbar and alpha channel transparency. I know some people like them, but they are a waste of my CPU cycles. If they can be turned on, this isn't much of an issue.
This is Mac OS! >=P~
:: * The apple menu is stuck higeldy pigeldy in the middle part of the finder. This makes it a much harder target to aim for. Another thing changed from traditional Mac OS layout that decreases usability.
That's not the Apple menu. That's the Apple logo. =) The Mac OS icon to the far left of the menu bar serves approximatey the equivalent purpose as the traditional Apple menu. (Although I will miss calling it "the Apple menu.")
:: I'm sure I could find more if I used the product, but that's enough for now.
Or maybe you'd have better things to say about it. =)
< tofuhead >
QuickTime for Java only allows Java appl[ets|ications] running on Mac OS or Windows to use the QuickTime API. That is all. It is a closed-source solution for the closed-source community (of which I am also a member).
Read the General Overview, one click away from the page to which you linked.
< tofuhead >
Hide your women! I am arrived!
And I didn't pay a single dime. Eat that.
< tofuhead >
Maybe those same riceboys could install some of those Clarion AutoPCs in their Civics; then they could also apply decals that say, "Powered by Windows Powered."
Ah yes, English at its best.
< tofuhead >
So what's your point? 2 out of 3 what? (I noticed that you neglected to cite exactly what the importance of calling the combination of China, Japan, and Korea, "CJK" is.) While these three nations may be considered three of the most economically relevant East Asian nations to the rest of the world, what does that have to do with anything?
I wonder, if Vietnam's or Malaysia's government were to adopt Linux, would you care less? Why?
Why stop there? Why not exclude Microsoft employees, the overweight, the ugly, and all overly-P.C. thugs?
Whoops. Then you might not be able to use your own software. ^_^ Just messin' with ya.
Yes, high-bitrate, true stereo MP2 is still quality king when it comes to relatively small file sizes. But with very high bitrates, you can afford to use dual stereo.
You should use dual stereo to maintain the best channel separation; this is useful for preserving surround sound information. It also sounds better if your amp uses phase diffusion.
OTOH, it is the least efficient channel mode (it simply allocates exactly half of the total bitrate to each channel).
If you did post that with Lynx, you've answered your own question.
If you didn't, then you could have simply labeled your post a test message and inserted some witty remark as an excuse. =)
Either way: Yep. I'm posting with Lynx 2.8.1pre.11 right now. (It's not my machine, otherwise I'd use 2.8.2.)
No, it's not "MacOS." It's "Mac OS." If you're going to be anal, be also correct.
All this consumer idiot vs. geek elitist shit is played out already. Don't want an iBook? Don't buy one.
"Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!?!"
< tofuhead >
HFS+ is Apple's third-generation FS. The Macintosh File System was the first Mac FS; HFS was Apple's second.
The authors of SNES9X said it themselves once, that Silhouette was merely the most recent version of SNES9X at the time, ported and released by John Stiles on the Mac under a different name, so as to avoid entangling the SNES9X team with any legalities (since they had taken a break from releasing public versions, due to some kind of legal trouble or something). It was simply the Mac port of the most recent source that Gary (one of the authors) had on his hard drive.
I laughed aloud when I first read the Silhouette docs, and I even fell for it after a few days of surfing for more info about it, and finding so many people on usenet saying, "Oh yeah, this thing is the real thing!" Heck, Brad Oliver (author of MacMAME) even responded to me personally that he was 99.44% certain that it was not a hacked version of SNES9X. I guess he was right -- it was an actual version of SNES9X.
And magically, the very next version of MacSNES9X pretty much had all the features of Silhouette. ^_-
I just did a search for my real name and came up with a ton of accurate links, more than any other engine in the past. Hot damn, ain't that fancy? =)
What can I say? I've bookmarked this engine.
Agreed. I think someone dropped the ball on this one. According to the main sources, the linked articles, there is no implication that Apple now owns the standard, just that they licensed it. Will someone just shoot this one in the head already? =)
GAAAAAAAAARGH.
MP3 doesn't necessarily stand for MPEG-1 audio layer 3. MPEG-2 streams (uh-oh, conflicting terminology) can also include layer 3 audio. Hell, either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 can contain audio layer 1, 2, or 3 encoded streams, or no audio at all.
You are right, QuickTime for Java still requires a native installation of QuickTime on your system...and of course these are only available for Mac OS and Windows.
Maybe if Apple opens the MOSX[S] QT player code, someone can port it to Linux, but I won't hold my breath. Lots of third-party codecs will still be closed, unless Apple loosens up with them too. (Again, I'm not holding my breath...)