Well there was a wireless LCD monitor demonstrated at last years CES (don't recall the company though) and bluetooth already has A2DP, how limited exactly is the spectrum?
The Dvorak keyboard was designed to improve typing speed not the ergonomics of your standard QWERTY keyboard, as they are identical except for the key arrangement. I think the only people who would buy something like this are those that are already suffering RSI, few would use one in a precautionary manner.
Hot on the heels of the bitchin' MacBook Pro is this little gem:
In response, Jobs noted that the Sierra Club recently voted Apple one of its top 10 environmentally friendly companies. "So there is some kind of disconnect with your numbers," he said. Jobs also noted that Apple's new recycling program takes any computer, not just Macs, "because we like switchers, too."
"I think there are a lot of PCs that should be recycled" Schiller added.
Most of your problems seem to stem from trying to work with SMB shares under Linux. Now imagine a Linux user switching to Windows and trying to get the apps to work smoothly with NFS shares from Windows using only built-in features of the OS. The Linux user would naturally conclude that Windows sucks or is unuseable.
This is a red herring. OS X also uses samba for SMB shares and there are never any issues reading/writing from any application (that i have encountered)
How do I switch playback from an iPod to a device connected to the audio input port?
If you have an iPod connected to the dock connector port and a different audio device connected to the audio input port you can select between the playback of these two devices by press and holding the Menu button on the remote.
Sadly, I see some traits like this in iTunes. Recently, I had wanted to download JUST QUICKTIME. I was rudely surprised that I can't do that anymore. I HAVE TO download iTunes+quicktime-- whether I want iTunes or not. Screw that. It looks like iTunes has failed to learn the hard lessons of Real Player.
You're right, but actually the term "eating our own dogfood" was used in reference to Carbon, not Cocoa.
They built the Finder from scratch in Carbon, using no code from OS 9 to show that it was possible to write good apps with it and to encourage software vendors to port things from OS 9 to OS X. Ironically the Finder is probably one of the worst OS X apps to come from Apple at the moment, and desperately needs updating (although iTunes is an example of an excellent Carbon port.)
It's not a scan converter, there is a dedicated composite/svideo signal coming from the video card, the adaptor just connects to certain pins and signals the card to output those analog signals instead of the usual DVI signal.
Polishing? a polished turd more like. I've come to expect crap interfaces on linux and sometimes windows software but when it's ported over to the mac and doesn't have sensible keyboard shortcuts every other browser on the face of the earth does, or doesn't have a native UI, only skins which clash with the OS it's running on, doesn't seem to have an option to rearrange toolbars (Opera software seems to think their tabs should be above the address bar and toolbar buttons, not directly above the web content), doesn't use standard OS controls causing strange address bar behavior, doesn't use ATSUI text rendering (ugly fonts)...I could open it up and rattle off about 50 other issues if i hadn't deleted it after fighting with it for a few hours. Maybe it's fine on windows or linux, but it just doesn't feel like a web browser to me. The last version i tried was the first free one they released, maybe it's gotten better since then but the issues are far from skin deep. This sort of thing rarely flies in the mac community, which is probably why I've never heard of anyone using it. It's free, we appreciate the effort guys but try and make it a little more mac like? It feels REALLY cheap and nasty. Also check out the preferences dialog boxes - the UI bitmaps aren't even aligned half the time, and i won't even go into the layout.
It's got nothing to do with the DMCA, there is a clause in the license agreement for Mac OS X (and all non-crossplatform Apple products) that states you can only use the software on a piece of Apple branded hardware. So you'd break an EULA, which as we knows validity hasn't really been tested.
I hate the flash video thing they do. Flash video is Sorenson Spark which is basically Sorenson 3, which came with QuickTime 5 (!!!). This means the quality is garbage, the filesizes are too high and the files are hard to manipulate, save and generally work with.
I can understand them wanting to use a proprietary solution for the DRM stuff but it sucks that they didn't use something more open for the free ones. MP4, theora or anything would have been better (and compress better too). I guess it has to "just work" for windows users which means flash or wmv... *grumble* What a stupid, crippled OS...
Mandating unskippable bits is part of the deal in getting a license and the CSS keys to manufacture a player (or don't you think all mainstream players would let you skip them?) - as is enforcing stupid (and easily circumvented) no-screenshot-while-dvd-is-playing situations. One trick with DVD Player tho, you can't skip those bits using the normal controller, but if you open up the navigator window, you can skip past them easily using that. Just select the chapter/track you want and it will go right to it.
Wow, could it be any uglier? Let's see, blatant overuse of dropshadows - tick, shadows all from different light sources and directions - tick, minor versions numbers in large lettering on the top requiring a new splash screen for every damn update - tick, really ugly antialiasing on the gimp logo - tick, not to mention all the other issues everyone has already pointed out. And let's not go into the size of it, what is it with some programs acting like they're the only thing you'll ever run on your computer?
I'm not surprised this won, it's par for the course really.
and it was a piece of shit. I installed it on a 7100/80 a couple of years ago and if it managed to start up at all, it would crash within a few minutes. Half the menu items were missing, and the HFS driver was buggy so it would eventually render itself totally unbootable anyway, requiring a reformat/reinstall. Yes i'm sure NuKernel was going to be revolutionary but they were right to axe it.
Or maybe i just had a really old build (D11E4 IIRC)...
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Well there was a wireless LCD monitor demonstrated at last years CES (don't recall the company though) and bluetooth already has A2DP, how limited exactly is the spectrum?
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This banner at WWDC currently would seem to indicate 64 bit support is coming in 10.5. I am curious as to how they've done it as well...
The Dvorak keyboard was designed to improve typing speed not the ergonomics of your standard QWERTY keyboard, as they are identical except for the key arrangement. I think the only people who would buy something like this are those that are already suffering RSI, few would use one in a precautionary manner.
I don't know if that's true, virtual pc manages not beachballing just not fine and it's just as big of an app as paralells is.
A Møøse once bit my sister...
The iPod can already do this for audiobooks, i assume it could be done for mp3 as well.
Safari 2 is not beta, it's currently at version 2.0.3 and passes the Acid2 test fine.
Hot on the heels of the bitchin' MacBook Pro is this little gem:
In response, Jobs noted that the Sierra Club recently voted Apple one of its top 10 environmentally friendly companies. "So there is some kind of disconnect with your numbers," he said. Jobs also noted that Apple's new recycling program takes any computer, not just Macs, "because we like switchers, too."
"I think there are a lot of PCs that should be recycled" Schiller added.
teehee
This is a red herring. OS X also uses samba for SMB shares and there are never any issues reading/writing from any application (that i have encountered)
If you have an iPod connected to the dock connector port and a different audio device connected to the audio input port you can select between the playback of these two devices by press and holding the Menu button on the remote.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303 333#faq11
Actually that machine was running UNIX. IIRC it was a Quadra 700 running A/UX 3.
It is for this one ;)
Aren't the Word documents already indexed by spotlight? There's an importer for them...
Ogg Vorbis uses more power and shortens battery life on DAP's worse than both WMA, WMA-DRM, AAC and FairPlay AAC.
What?
They built the Finder from scratch in Carbon, using no code from OS 9 to show that it was possible to write good apps with it and to encourage software vendors to port things from OS 9 to OS X. Ironically the Finder is probably one of the worst OS X apps to come from Apple at the moment, and desperately needs updating (although iTunes is an example of an excellent Carbon port.)
It's not a scan converter, there is a dedicated composite/svideo signal coming from the video card, the adaptor just connects to certain pins and signals the card to output those analog signals instead of the usual DVI signal.
Polishing? a polished turd more like. I've come to expect crap interfaces on linux and sometimes windows software but when it's ported over to the mac and doesn't have sensible keyboard shortcuts every other browser on the face of the earth does, or doesn't have a native UI, only skins which clash with the OS it's running on, doesn't seem to have an option to rearrange toolbars (Opera software seems to think their tabs should be above the address bar and toolbar buttons, not directly above the web content), doesn't use standard OS controls causing strange address bar behavior, doesn't use ATSUI text rendering (ugly fonts)...I could open it up and rattle off about 50 other issues if i hadn't deleted it after fighting with it for a few hours. Maybe it's fine on windows or linux, but it just doesn't feel like a web browser to me. The last version i tried was the first free one they released, maybe it's gotten better since then but the issues are far from skin deep. This sort of thing rarely flies in the mac community, which is probably why I've never heard of anyone using it. It's free, we appreciate the effort guys but try and make it a little more mac like? It feels REALLY cheap and nasty. Also check out the preferences dialog boxes - the UI bitmaps aren't even aligned half the time, and i won't even go into the layout.
Does this affect Safari?
It's got nothing to do with the DMCA, there is a clause in the license agreement for Mac OS X (and all non-crossplatform Apple products) that states you can only use the software on a piece of Apple branded hardware. So you'd break an EULA, which as we knows validity hasn't really been tested.
I can understand them wanting to use a proprietary solution for the DRM stuff but it sucks that they didn't use something more open for the free ones. MP4, theora or anything would have been better (and compress better too). I guess it has to "just work" for windows users which means flash or wmv... *grumble* What a stupid, crippled OS...
I think you'll find you're mistaken.
Mandating unskippable bits is part of the deal in getting a license and the CSS keys to manufacture a player (or don't you think all mainstream players would let you skip them?) - as is enforcing stupid (and easily circumvented) no-screenshot-while-dvd-is-playing situations. One trick with DVD Player tho, you can't skip those bits using the normal controller, but if you open up the navigator window, you can skip past them easily using that. Just select the chapter/track you want and it will go right to it.
Wow, could it be any uglier? Let's see, blatant overuse of dropshadows - tick, shadows all from different light sources and directions - tick, minor versions numbers in large lettering on the top requiring a new splash screen for every damn update - tick, really ugly antialiasing on the gimp logo - tick, not to mention all the other issues everyone has already pointed out. And let's not go into the size of it, what is it with some programs acting like they're the only thing you'll ever run on your computer?
I'm not surprised this won, it's par for the course really.
and it was a piece of shit. I installed it on a 7100/80 a couple of years ago and if it managed to start up at all, it would crash within a few minutes. Half the menu items were missing, and the HFS driver was buggy so it would eventually render itself totally unbootable anyway, requiring a reformat/reinstall. Yes i'm sure NuKernel was going to be revolutionary but they were right to axe it.
Or maybe i just had a really old build (D11E4 IIRC)...