It's not you guys. I was in an IRC channel which was covering the keynote earlier and it had 1876 users in it. (all hitting refresh on apple.com) I'm sure slashdot has something to do with it as well, but there are about 10 of these channels plus other sites doing live coverage. I wouldn't be suprised if there were about 50,000 - 100,000 people trying to access it at this point.
10.4 (well the betas at least) run on anything 10.3 runs on. Any apple machine with built in USB will be supported. Yes, that includes the 2MB ATI Rage IIc in the original iMac.
Why should it have to shut down just because it's on a laptop? is ACPI really that bad? I never shut down/restart my powerbook. I honestly can't remember the last time I actually shut it down, as opposed to just putting it to sleep.
You can easily stuff it into your portable player. iTunes has a mode where you put in the disk, it reads the CDDB information, rips the disk, and ejects it.
You don't even have to click anything. You don't have to type anything. You don't even have to look at the screen because it makes a "ding" noise when it's done. You just keep feeding it disks and it will keep ripping them.
Short of levitating the disk over the internet and inserting it into the drive via telekinesis I don't see how it could be any easier.
Why there needs to be standard is beyond me. Why can't software refer to paths as perhaps, $BIN or $DEV instead of using hardcoded paths. (I assume they use hardcoded paths, which must be the basis of your rant) The only thing you could fault OS X for is not having a case sensitive filesystem by default. If you want one, you can format your disk as case-sensitive HFS+, or as UFS.
I think this was probably a joke post? Cyberdog was like HTML 2.0...and I wonder whether it even supported javascript at all. It doesn't even render slashdot correctly (then again, if that's the yardstick - Firefox 1.0 doesn't even render slashdot correctly ).
Interestingly apple.co.uk also doesn't have anything to do with Apple, but it does still look at least like a legit site. The real UK Apple site is at http://www.apple.com/uk/
"The show's sexual content mainly consists of sexual innuendo and implied intercourse (much of it non-marital)." - "Women witches and demons in the show often wear scant clothing, resulting in an unsettling mixture of sex and violence." - "ass" is common, as are "suck" and "bitch," and euphemisms for "f--k."
Or, I had a laugh at some comments for Everybody Loves Raymond:
"Language on this series, used to be harsh, but since the first of 2004, has dropped to a record low number of just 8 uses of mild "hell," "crap," and "damn" in 6 episodes. Sexual references have been non-existent since January 2004."
Reading through other show "reviews", it sounds like these people have problems with entire plot, not so much the content. How do you make a Sex in the City that's acceptable to them, or a CSI without any graphic scenes? They also mentioned they have a problem with the occult theme in Charmed, but I can assure you they would have no issue with the Christian theme in 7th Heaven (technically both are just a religion, and probably just as offensive to members of the opposing group.
Because maybe you want to listen to a Mariah Carey song and not a J.S.Bach song?
If people will pay $1 for a Mariah Carey song (I know I wouldn't but, I would for a Britney song:P) then they will. iTunes isn't having trouble selling tracks.
The indexer OS X (and 9, and 8.6, and 8.5) ships with is a content indexer. catwh0re was just talking about searching for a filename, I can also say is painfully slow under windows and very fast under any HFS or HFS+ using Mac.
I don't know what windows is doing, searching every folder individually and hierarchically like it does...why can't they just look at the FAT to get the information they need (that's what HFS does - I just did a search for all files containing.mov of my entire hard disk, 6 seconds later and it has completed with 141 results, all scattered over random subfolders. This is 10.3.6, ie, no spotlight.)
I can honestly say I've seen OS X search faster over network shares (smb and nfs anyway) than Windows searches it's local drives...it's really really terrible.
Actually, apps do not need to be made spotlight aware - spotlight hooks into the filesystem and when a file has been modified/saved/created/copied, it will update the index appropriately.
Everyone always uses this "argument" but that doesn't take into account why linux on x86 can be perfectly stable with the exact same hardware. What gives, it's either the hardware or it isn't.
That's strange - I think there may be something wrong with your system. I installed 10.1 on a 604/120 (a 7300 with a 120mhz card in it) and the install only took about 90 minutes. From a 4x SCSI cd-rom drive at that, too. How much RAM did you have installed? mine had 96mb.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=862 86
It appears Apple does support running the computer with the lid closed, you just have to have a keyboard, power and screen connected.
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HQX is not a compression scheme, it's an encoding scheme. 7 bit binary, IIRC. It's called binhex. (I still don't know why they used it on a.TIFF file.)
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It's not you guys. I was in an IRC channel which was covering the keynote earlier and it had 1876 users in it. (all hitting refresh on apple.com) I'm sure slashdot has something to do with it as well, but there are about 10 of these channels plus other sites doing live coverage. I wouldn't be suprised if there were about 50,000 - 100,000 people trying to access it at this point.
I get a couple of those dialogs but then the page works fine (minus the exploits, of course) in Safari 2.0 on Tiger 8A294
Darwin 8.0b2 returns the same result...
10.4 (well the betas at least) run on anything 10.3 runs on. Any apple machine with built in USB will be supported. Yes, that includes the 2MB ATI Rage IIc in the original iMac.
Why should it have to shut down just because it's on a laptop? is ACPI really that bad? I never shut down/restart my powerbook. I honestly can't remember the last time I actually shut it down, as opposed to just putting it to sleep.
Yeah, that PCM is a real killer - all those aliasing artifacts...
You can easily stuff it into your portable player. iTunes has a mode where you put in the disk, it reads the CDDB information, rips the disk, and ejects it.
You don't even have to click anything. You don't have to type anything. You don't even have to look at the screen because it makes a "ding" noise when it's done. You just keep feeding it disks and it will keep ripping them.
Short of levitating the disk over the internet and inserting it into the drive via telekinesis I don't see how it could be any easier.
Why there needs to be standard is beyond me. Why can't software refer to paths as perhaps, $BIN or $DEV instead of using hardcoded paths. (I assume they use hardcoded paths, which must be the basis of your rant) The only thing you could fault OS X for is not having a case sensitive filesystem by default. If you want one, you can format your disk as case-sensitive HFS+, or as UFS.
I think this was probably a joke post? Cyberdog was like HTML 2.0...and I wonder whether it even supported javascript at all. It doesn't even render slashdot correctly (then again, if that's the yardstick - Firefox 1.0 doesn't even render slashdot correctly ).
Interestingly apple.co.uk also doesn't have anything to do with Apple, but it does still look at least like a legit site. The real UK Apple site is at http://www.apple.com/uk/
Charmed
"The show's sexual content mainly consists of sexual innuendo and implied intercourse (much of it non-marital)." - "Women witches and demons in the show often wear scant clothing, resulting in an unsettling mixture of sex and violence." - "ass" is common, as are "suck" and "bitch," and euphemisms for "f--k."
Or, I had a laugh at some comments for Everybody Loves Raymond: "Language on this series, used to be harsh, but since the first of 2004, has dropped to a record low number of just 8 uses of mild "hell," "crap," and "damn" in 6 episodes. Sexual references have been non-existent since January 2004."
Reading through other show "reviews", it sounds like these people have problems with entire plot, not so much the content. How do you make a Sex in the City that's acceptable to them, or a CSI without any graphic scenes? They also mentioned they have a problem with the occult theme in Charmed, but I can assure you they would have no issue with the Christian theme in 7th Heaven (technically both are just a religion, and probably just as offensive to members of the opposing group.
tcsh! you do-gooders, always trying to boost people's self esteem.
P.S. Keep off my damn lawn!
If people will pay $1 for a Mariah Carey song (I know I wouldn't but, I would for a Britney song :P) then they will. iTunes isn't having trouble selling tracks.
I don't know what windows is doing, searching every folder individually and hierarchically like it does...why can't they just look at the FAT to get the information they need (that's what HFS does - I just did a search for all files containing .mov of my entire hard disk, 6 seconds later and it has completed with 141 results, all scattered over random subfolders. This is 10.3.6, ie, no spotlight.)
I can honestly say I've seen OS X search faster over network shares (smb and nfs anyway) than Windows searches it's local drives...it's really really terrible.
Actually, apps do not need to be made spotlight aware - spotlight hooks into the filesystem and when a file has been modified/saved/created/copied, it will update the index appropriately.
According to http://www.stereophile.com/news/11323/ this article, XM Radio is AACplus (HE-AAC).
Everyone always uses this "argument" but that doesn't take into account why linux on x86 can be perfectly stable with the exact same hardware. What gives, it's either the hardware or it isn't.
purrrr
That's strange - I think there may be something wrong with your system. I installed 10.1 on a 604/120 (a 7300 with a 120mhz card in it) and the install only took about 90 minutes. From a 4x SCSI cd-rom drive at that, too. How much RAM did you have installed? mine had 96mb.
AFAIK the ipod os was developed my a company called pixo, but it's now done in house.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=862 86
It appears Apple does support running the computer with the lid closed, you just have to have a keyboard, power and screen connected.
note to self: preview post. 7 bit ASCII that should say.
HQX is not a compression scheme, it's an encoding scheme. 7 bit binary, IIRC. It's called binhex. (I still don't know why they used it on a .TIFF file.)
Yahoo messenger is also cross-platform.
That's especially hilarious (and probably apt) coming from somebody with the username pigbot ;)