... but they've already tried squeezing their loyal customers enough with.mac. What they should do is port these apps over to Windows and charge people $29.95 or so for each of them. I'd pay that for iTunes 3 in a heartbeat, and there's certainly nothing that comes close to iPhoto on Windows.
They might as well try and make back the money they spend developing or acquiring all of this technology, and they can still keep the choice fruit like Final Cut Pro and iDVD mac-only to attract hardware buyers.
Does PC video editing software that this site tested take advantage of Altivec on the mac or not? From my programming experience, the 10 minutes it takes to vectorize the critical section of your algorithm can really speed up your code to the point where it's noticeably faster than running it on an x86 machine.
It seems that Apple has put all their eggs in the Altivec basket, so it would be a big problem if major software vendors haven't taken advantage of it by now.
Funny, it wasn't too long ago that the rumour mill was churning out stories about Sun buying Apple. Times do change, don't they?
Sun and Apple probably don't have a whole lot to offer each other as long as Sun stays on the Sparc platform and Apple on PPC. Both have install bases that are far too big to change over. Sun's workstation market doesn't need pretty boxes or built-in screens, and apple's server maket doesn't need 64-way SMP systems.
So right now I don't think they really have much to contribute to each other's tech, since Apple wouldn't want to lose sales of their own workstations by giving sun Quartz, and Sun wouldn't want to lose any of their server sales by giving apple access to their interconnect technology.
To claim all unions are bad is just as ignorant as to claim all corporations are bad. There are always exceptions, and giving a voice to workers is better than allowing them to be pitted against each other. From that axiom, we can say taht a union of some sort will heolp workers. The next step is to figure out from past experience what works and what doesn't. It would be silly to say that since some unions haven't worked out in the past that it would be pointless to try and start one. By that logic, no one should invest in any companies because of past examples like Enron and Worldcom.
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Palladium is a very ominous prospect, and the fact that Microsoft's market share will force its acceptance is reason enough to be more suspicious of a product 'just because it's from Microsoft'. You are, of course, free to continue using every MS product that comes along and not thinking too hard about their business practices, but there's no need to discourage others from looking deper into the nature of the software market and the inner operations of their computer. Thanks.
Apparently one of the reasons Apple has delayed the release of their XServe RAID product is so that they can completely re-write HFS to include journalling and other such niceties. I don't care just as long as they don't take away the stuff that we all love about Mac file systems.
instead of abandoning IE, which is a decent web browser, be careful (not paranoid, but like anyone who's been on/. for more than...5 minutes won't click on a goatse.cx link) about where you actually browse.
Because downloading Phoenix takes all of five minute, and you've then got happy pop-up free browsing for as long as you want? Rather than, as you say, being 'careful about where you browse'. Shouldn't a browser be your friend, not your adversary?
It seemed that AMD couldn't make money even when the Athlon was the hottest thing going (literally and sales-wise), simply because the PC market is so driven by price. It takes far more R&D costs to come up with a processor that can compete with the latest from Intel, and the profit per unit is probably abysmal.
To compete with Intel, they were finding that they had to compete in every area, in order to please the OEMs it was courting. They had to make a mobile chip, they had to make a low-cost chip, and a multiprocessor-capable chip, and now they're hard at work on a 64-bit chip. All of which will sell a fraction of what Intel will sell but with similar R&D costs.
It's just another example showing that it's very hard to compete against an entrenched monopoly.
You obviously don't know the actual difference between the two platforms.
You obviously haven't used iPhoto:)
This has been around...
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remember this?
Colonel Homer's outfit when he became Lurlene Lumpkin's manager..
"Now this is made from a space-age fabric especially designed for Elvis. Sweat actually cleans this suit!"
That, of course, is the real answer. It is also no fun
The fun comes in watching every karma-whore wax technical about different characteristics of the underlying technology that make it easy / difficult to implement feature X on system Y, while missing the original point entirely. Just part of the fun of reading/., really.
So does this Time article also mention that workers will be more productive if you switch to chains instead of leather whips? Does it give any indication of the minimum amound of gruel and / or pizza necessary to kee an IT worker productive?
Man d oI ever love it when some idiot who stumbles over mod points sees a +5 funny and thinks "That's funny, but.. I don't know if it's wirth a 5.. I better fix that" and marks it overrated. I really think metamoderation should be expanded to include crap like that.
Bob and Doug MacKenzie setting up toll booths on top of some icebergs, to try and collect on this whole Earth-going-to-hell thing. At least it'll be good for Canada's economy:)
This kind ofstuff is great. Appletakes advantage of open protocols like webDAV to implement their services, and they'll still make lots of money off of.Mac. But for those who want to put in the time and have a spare machine lying around they can now get a lot of the advantages of.Mac, which might entice them to buy a new mac where they wouldn't have if it meant forking over for.Mac.
I'm sur eApple saw this coming, and if they really wanted to prevent it they would have just added an authentication mechanism or something to block unauthorized servers.
Not that they aren't the same ones made by a good many other companies in times of losses. Borrowing from the future will come back to burn them badly, I just hope they don't try to squeeze too much more out of the people who are left. I've heard some horror stories from Ottawa friends about working for them.
IMO, if somebody were to come in with a good amount of cash and try to take them private, they might be able to leverage it into a powerful software maker again, without having to worry about quarterly finances quite so much.
They should just pay this guy to go around to each of these doubters' houses and personally punch them in the face a la Jay and Silent Bob meets Buzz Aldron.
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... but they've already tried squeezing their loyal customers enough with .mac. What they should do is port these apps over to Windows and charge people $29.95 or so for each of them. I'd pay that for iTunes 3 in a heartbeat, and there's certainly nothing that comes close to iPhoto on Windows.
They might as well try and make back the money they spend developing or acquiring all of this technology, and they can still keep the choice fruit like Final Cut Pro and iDVD mac-only to attract hardware buyers.
What if we can do both? Everybdy's got to hvae a hoby after all.
.. inside my powermac ;)
Does PC video editing software that this site tested take advantage of Altivec on the mac or not? From my programming experience, the 10 minutes it takes to vectorize the critical section of your algorithm can really speed up your code to the point where it's noticeably faster than running it on an x86 machine.
It seems that Apple has put all their eggs in the Altivec basket, so it would be a big problem if major software vendors haven't taken advantage of it by now.
I hope this doesn't have anything to do with the Time Cube guy, he creeps me out.
Funny, it wasn't too long ago that the rumour mill was churning out stories about Sun buying Apple. Times do change, don't they?
Sun and Apple probably don't have a whole lot to offer each other as long as Sun stays on the Sparc platform and Apple on PPC. Both have install bases that are far too big to change over. Sun's workstation market doesn't need pretty boxes or built-in screens, and apple's server maket doesn't need 64-way SMP systems.
So right now I don't think they really have much to contribute to each other's tech, since Apple wouldn't want to lose sales of their own workstations by giving sun Quartz, and Sun wouldn't want to lose any of their server sales by giving apple access to their interconnect technology.
To claim all unions are bad is just as ignorant as to claim all corporations are bad. There are always exceptions, and giving a voice to workers is better than allowing them to be pitted against each other. From that axiom, we can say taht a union of some sort will heolp workers. The next step is to figure out from past experience what works and what doesn't. It would be silly to say that since some unions haven't worked out in the past that it would be pointless to try and start one. By that logic, no one should invest in any companies because of past examples like Enron and Worldcom.
Palladium is a very ominous prospect, and the fact that Microsoft's market share will force its acceptance is reason enough to be more suspicious of a product 'just because it's from Microsoft'. You are, of course, free to continue using every MS product that comes along and not thinking too hard about their business practices, but there's no need to discourage others from looking deper into the nature of the software market and the inner operations of their computer. Thanks.
Please don't ever come to fark.com, we don't want you.
Apparently one of the reasons Apple has delayed the release of their XServe RAID product is so that they can completely re-write HFS to include journalling and other such niceties. I don't care just as long as they don't take away the stuff that we all love about Mac file systems.
Oh dear, I'd better go get my shovel..
You forgot to mention that OS X runs BSD so it's obviously dying.
What exactly did Enix have to do with Chrono Trigger?
Quite a bit actually, according to this site.
It even takes you through some of the names you come across in the developers' ending and lists which people came from Enix and which from Square.
instead of abandoning IE, which is a decent web browser, be careful (not paranoid, but like anyone who's been on /. for more than ...5 minutes won't click on a goatse.cx link) about where you actually browse.
Because downloading Phoenix takes all of five minute, and you've then got happy pop-up free browsing for as long as you want? Rather than, as you say, being 'careful about where you browse'. Shouldn't a browser be your friend, not your adversary?
It seemed that AMD couldn't make money even when the Athlon was the hottest thing going (literally and sales-wise), simply because the PC market is so driven by price. It takes far more R&D costs to come up with a processor that can compete with the latest from Intel, and the profit per unit is probably abysmal.
To compete with Intel, they were finding that they had to compete in every area, in order to please the OEMs it was courting. They had to make a mobile chip, they had to make a low-cost chip, and a multiprocessor-capable chip, and now they're hard at work on a 64-bit chip. All of which will sell a fraction of what Intel will sell but with similar R&D costs.
It's just another example showing that it's very hard to compete against an entrenched monopoly.
You obviously don't know the actual difference between the two platforms.
:)
You obviously haven't used iPhoto
remember this?
Colonel Homer's outfit when he became Lurlene Lumpkin's manager..
"Now this is made from a space-age fabric especially designed for Elvis. Sweat actually cleans this suit!"
That, of course, is the real answer. It is also no fun
/., really.
The fun comes in watching every karma-whore wax technical about different characteristics of the underlying technology that make it easy / difficult to implement feature X on system Y, while missing the original point entirely. Just part of the fun of reading
So does this Time article also mention that workers will be more productive if you switch to chains instead of leather whips? Does it give any indication of the minimum amound of gruel and / or pizza necessary to kee an IT worker productive?
Man d oI ever love it when some idiot who stumbles over mod points sees a +5 funny and thinks "That's funny, but .. I don't know if it's wirth a 5.. I better fix that" and marks it overrated. I really think metamoderation should be expanded to include crap like that.
Bob and Doug MacKenzie setting up toll booths on top of some icebergs, to try and collect on this whole Earth-going-to-hell thing. At least it'll be good for Canada's economy :)
This kind ofstuff is great. Appletakes advantage of open protocols like webDAV to implement their services, and they'll still make lots of money off of .Mac. But for those who want to put in the time and have a spare machine lying around they can now get a lot of the advantages of .Mac, which might entice them to buy a new mac where they wouldn't have if it meant forking over for .Mac.
I'm sur eApple saw this coming, and if they really wanted to prevent it they would have just added an authentication mechanism or something to block unauthorized servers.
Not that they aren't the same ones made by a good many other companies in times of losses. Borrowing from the future will come back to burn them badly, I just hope they don't try to squeeze too much more out of the people who are left. I've heard some horror stories from Ottawa friends about working for them.
IMO, if somebody were to come in with a good amount of cash and try to take them private, they might be able to leverage it into a powerful software maker again, without having to worry about quarterly finances quite so much.
They should just pay this guy to go around to each of these doubters' houses and personally punch them in the face a la Jay and Silent Bob meets Buzz Aldron.
Now people can shut the hell up with the "but does it support ORG" posts..
Coach Z, are you a poser?