It occured to me a while ago that the ability of a peer-to-peer's network to provide a particular file would go up dramatically if less emphasis was put on "real-time" searching and instead in a sort-of subscription model -- the user would request a file, and the request could propagate overnight from client to client while the network itself decided the best/most reliable way to provide that particular file to that particular user... beyond privacy concerns and TTL spoofing on requests (which are probably both non-trivial problems with this idea) I'd certainly be willing to wait a couple days to get a particular file or set of files as long as I didn't have to "babysit" the client and as long as I could be assured that the file would be full and complete when it finally arrived.
"iAudio" would come free on every Mac and would allow pimply teenage wannabes pretend they're DJ's
I wholeheartedly agree with the content of your post but not entirely with the sentiment -- that's an awfully dismissive statement. Not everybody wants to be overwhelmed by options (as I am whenever I fire up a digital audio app) and I would bet there's a large sub-population of musicians that would really appreciate a relatively simple 4-track audio recording/editing/mixing app. Creative people often want to get right into the creating, not knob-twiddling -- not that there's anything inherently wrong with knob-twiddling!
It's possible to get really, really good results from the iApps suite; with these programs Apple has taken the burden of much of the "process" away and let people focus much more on "content". This tactic can only be a good thing -- when people get comfortable enough with editing and arranging "content" and want to focus more on "process", they move themselves up to the Pro level application programs. It's a brilliant, empowering strategy and I'm extremely pleased with the results so far.
So how long before we see Open Source and/or windows clones of iPhoto?
My guess? Never. "One-click" simplicity? From the open-source folks? It'll never happen. Every multi-tiered step of any OSS creative process has to have at least twelve options. Again and again, OSS developers confuse "complexity" with "power" and create ponderously complicated software for geeks, by geeks.
Prove me wrong, kids; prove me wrong.
~jeff
Re:And why would this be a good thing?
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"I lost 5 karma points over mentioning I had a gf. Lesson learned: envy = troll.", NanoG
It seems that the Installer is buggy and a lot of people have reported that it crashes on launch!
...yep, that happened to me too, but interestingly enough, one top -u in the terminal will show you that the actual install continues on. The installer crashed my iBook, but apparently only the Cocoa front end to the install was actually affected. The actual software install went ok, and the requisite update_prebinding post-install "optimization" automatically fired up afterwards as well.
...as I'm going to be hearing it as background music in all the shiny new television commercials for the next year or so anyhow. Right, Moby... you corporate whore, you?
Actually, the album "18" is, in my opinion, pretty poor -- perhaps that's why it's not selling. People interested in the type of music Moby "represents" are on to other, more interesting acts like Boards of Canada or DJ Shadow.
Actually, it's an overview with four separate articles...
It's interesting to note that articles about holography can be broken/cut into multiple pieces, and each piece will retain a full and exact copy of the original article.
...looks very interesting and innovative, in both a gameplay and a graphics sense. No idea how downloadable NES games integrate into the "Animal Crossing" world though -- maybe the Animals all play old-school NES?
Funny, my palm Vx is working as an alarm clock right now, because if its "reliabity"
I know you don't mean it that way, but I would say that is actually pretty much the highest complement you could give an ostensibly "reliable" electronic device. I can't think of a single other piece of electronics that I depend on to function properly, day after day, with no configuration or upkeep, more than an alarm clock.
Office X.1 does in fact seem to take advantage of the new text smoothing in Carbon -- but it appears to me that there's still two separate text smoothing functions going on. To demonstrate, try setting Entourage's "list view" and "email text" to the same font. The "list view" version of the font seems smooth and Cocoa-text like, whereas the email body text is better than before but distinctly different looking.
But hey, who cares -- I use Mail.app anyway and what a great update! My iBook/300 feels much, *much* faster. And love that new eject button/F12 translucent effect!
Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions directly from CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n]
I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
cvs -z3 update -d -P cvs update: could not open/Users/jeff/.cvspass: No such file or directory cvs [update aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first ### cvs failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. [hobbsg4:~] jeff%
Does anyone know how to get fink running again? Reinstalling from.pkg doesn't seem to work (and is not recommended). I love fink, but it seems like I'm stuck.
After trying it out, I can't really imagine this game would gain anything being ported to the PS2 - not that it would lose anything, either, but wouldn't it be better if some more interesting game concepts came out of the open source community, rather than just shoddy knock offs of existing puzzle games?
I'm sorry, but compared to OS X, KDE is just soooo ugly and out of place. I appreciate that there might... possibly... be... functionality one could get with KDE ported apps, but X11-based apps still look like they took second place in an ugly contest.
Bullshit. It could have played DVDs without a remote, by just using the controller as a makeshift remote -- like the PS2 does. No, it's been crippled...
How many though will say they were wrong to shut down bnetd as they hand them $50?
Not me; I'll simply be handing them 50$.
I'm not generally apathetic, but over this particular issue, I couldn't care less. If it turned out that Blizzard executives needed to drink the blood of open source programmers daily to ensure the continued high quality of their excellent titles, I would consider it blood well drank.
Just kidding with the subject line -- overall, I thought it was better than the first one, but there was simply too much CGI. It didn't even look convincing when there was just two people sitting in a room, talking (which happened a lot during the first hour and a half!). There's still a lot to be said for conventional filmmaking, George...
And Artoo can fly? Since when? That would have probably helped Luke out in the swamp...
The install process has an "archive and install" option which presumably backs up your old "System" folder and puts a nice new fresh one in there. That's nice.
The "optimization" phase of the install has a percentage meter now instead of vague indeterminate values.
First impression after install: It's f-a-s-t. Very, very fast.
The dock is missing the stripes, and it looks much better that way.
The Eject key now pops up a translucent eject key icon like brightness and volume.
Flurry is a standard "Screen Effect" now. Not a screen saver, mind you; a "Screen Effect".
The new Address Book is very nice looking, works well. In a thoughtful nod to outside the US, there's lots of different ways to display address info depending on what your country's conventions are.
The "BlackLight-esque" reverse gamma effect is greyscale, very creepy in a "Tales From The Darkside" way, but cooler than "Blacklight", as all the blue doesn't have it's gamma values reverse to ugly orange.
It's not as creepy as "ZoomView" which lets you zoom the screen way, way big. It's a neat effect though. I thought it was going to be more vector scaling, but it's a raster scale.
Speaking of smooth raster scaling, the Finder? Sm-o-o-o-th. The new window scaling open/close animation is awesome -- it makes me feel like I live in the future.
"Enable Access For Assistive Devices"? What's that?Sounds interesting.
They have finally admitted that AppleTalk can only be used on one network port at a time, i.e. if you've set it to AirPort, your machine won't show up on the Ethernet AppleTalk network.
Icon scaling now shows what the pixel count of the scaling value you've set is (32x32, 48x48, 128x128, etc.); very nice, this was one of my complaints from the public beta. The idea that my icons might be 49x49 was keeping me up at night.
"Snap to Grid" gently glides any dropped icons into grid position.
Software Update keeps a tidy list of what you've installed.
There's a forward button in the Finder.
Finder spring loaded folders' icon pop "open" when you hover a file over them.
Mail.app (1.2v517) is very, very nice. It's got the rules of Eudora and the junk mail filters of Entourage plus it's neatly integrated with iChat. This is the Mail.app version that I hope will win your heart, like it's won mine.
iChat looks ok to me, I dunno, I don't use IM that much. Maybe this will change that. It's sure got a nice icon and lots of options.
Disc Copy now mounts images concurrently.
Apple System Profiler and Print Center are now pretty lil' Cocoa things.
The Bad (glaring problems that remain from 10.1.x):
The built-in spell check dictionary is still fairly inadequate. There's lots of words missing.
The system boots from a cold start faster than 10.1.4, but still not what I'd call "fast".
The Ugly (problems specific to 10.2 preview that seem likely be fixed upon actual release):
There are some odd junk graphics and redraw problems that appear when you wiggle windows around or drag parts of them offscreen. No doubt this is the "EXTREME!!!" part of Quartz Extreme. I kid Quartz Extreme, I really do.
Energy Saver powers down the monitor but won't power it up so much.
Some 3rd party apps just refuse to work.
In short: "Awesome work Apple!" This is going to be a kick ass release.
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It occured to me a while ago that the ability of a peer-to-peer's network to provide a particular file would go up dramatically if less emphasis was put on "real-time" searching and instead in a sort-of subscription model -- the user would request a file, and the request could propagate overnight from client to client while the network itself decided the best/most reliable way to provide that particular file to that particular user... beyond privacy concerns and TTL spoofing on requests (which are probably both non-trivial problems with this idea) I'd certainly be willing to wait a couple days to get a particular file or set of files as long as I didn't have to "babysit" the client and as long as I could be assured that the file would be full and complete when it finally arrived.
~jeff
"iAudio" would come free on every Mac and would allow pimply teenage wannabes pretend they're DJ's
I wholeheartedly agree with the content of your post but not entirely with the sentiment -- that's an awfully dismissive statement. Not everybody wants to be overwhelmed by options (as I am whenever I fire up a digital audio app) and I would bet there's a large sub-population of musicians that would really appreciate a relatively simple 4-track audio recording/editing/mixing app. Creative people often want to get right into the creating, not knob-twiddling -- not that there's anything inherently wrong with knob-twiddling!
It's possible to get really, really good results from the iApps suite; with these programs Apple has taken the burden of much of the "process" away and let people focus much more on "content". This tactic can only be a good thing -- when people get comfortable enough with editing and arranging "content" and want to focus more on "process", they move themselves up to the Pro level application programs. It's a brilliant, empowering strategy and I'm extremely pleased with the results so far.
~jeff
So how long before we see Open Source and/or windows clones of iPhoto?
My guess? Never. "One-click" simplicity? From the open-source folks? It'll never happen. Every multi-tiered step of any OSS creative process has to have at least twelve options. Again and again, OSS developers confuse "complexity" with "power" and create ponderously complicated software for geeks, by geeks.
Prove me wrong, kids; prove me wrong.
~jeff
"I lost 5 karma points over mentioning I had a gf. Lesson learned: envy = troll.", NanoG
Are you quoting yourself in your
Maybe that's where the karma points went...
~jeff
It seems that the Installer is buggy and a lot of people have reported that it crashes on launch!
...yep, that happened to me too, but interestingly enough, one top -u in the terminal will show you that the actual install continues on. The installer crashed my iBook, but apparently only the Cocoa front end to the install was actually affected. The actual software install went ok, and the requisite update_prebinding post-install "optimization" automatically fired up afterwards as well.
Odd.
~jeff
...as I'm going to be hearing it as background music in all the shiny new television commercials for the next year or so anyhow. Right, Moby... you corporate whore, you?
Actually, the album "18" is, in my opinion, pretty poor -- perhaps that's why it's not selling. People interested in the type of music Moby "represents" are on to other, more interesting acts like Boards of Canada or DJ Shadow.
~jeff
Actually, it's an overview with four separate articles...
It's interesting to note that articles about holography can be broken/cut into multiple pieces, and each piece will retain a full and exact copy of the original article.
~jeff
The game mentioned in the article:
http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_m
...looks very interesting and innovative, in both a gameplay and a graphics sense. No idea how downloadable NES games integrate into the "Animal Crossing" world though -- maybe the Animals all play old-school NES?
~jeff
To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows
Could you be more condescending?
~jeff
"they'll never catch me... 'cuz I'm fucking innocent "
~jeff
Funny, my palm Vx is working as an alarm clock right now, because if its "reliabity"
I know you don't mean it that way, but I would say that is actually pretty much the highest complement you could give an ostensibly "reliable" electronic device. I can't think of a single other piece of electronics that I depend on to function properly, day after day, with no configuration or upkeep, more than an alarm clock.
~jeff
...doesn't have the same ring.
~jeff
Office X.1 does in fact seem to take advantage of the new text smoothing in Carbon -- but it appears to me that there's still two separate text smoothing functions going on. To demonstrate, try setting Entourage's "list view" and "email text" to the same font. The "list view" version of the font seems smooth and Cocoa-text like, whereas the email body text is better than before but distinctly different looking.
But hey, who cares -- I use Mail.app anyway and what a great update! My iBook/300 feels much, *much* faster. And love that new eject button/F12 translucent effect!
~jeff
wE hAVe YoUR UniX. PlaCE tWEnty
THOusaNd DolLarS IN UnMArkeD
hUNdreD DollaR BiLLs in OuR
PaypAL AccouNT By JuNE 1St
or wE WiLL kiLL -9 IT.
~jeff
Thanks very much to all that replied! I appreciate it!
~jeff
Like an idiot, I accidentally deleted the
[hobbsg4:~] jeff% fink selfupdate
sudo
Password:
Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions directly from
CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n]
I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then
update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.
cvs -z3 update -d -P
cvs update: could not open
cvs [update aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first
### cvs failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
[hobbsg4:~] jeff%
Does anyone know how to get fink running again? Reinstalling from
~jeff
courtesy of Something Awful:
e ndo/controller.jpg
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/8-28-2000/nint
~jeff
Watch out, X-Box! VEXED is coming your way!
After trying it out, I can't really imagine this game would gain anything being ported to the PS2 - not that it would lose anything, either, but wouldn't it be better if some more interesting game concepts came out of the open source community, rather than just shoddy knock offs of existing puzzle games?
~jeff
Aaaah! My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
I'm sorry, but compared to OS X, KDE is just soooo ugly and out of place. I appreciate that there might... possibly... be... functionality one could get with KDE ported apps, but X11-based apps still look like they took second place in an ugly contest.
~jeff
Ok, good point, I hadn't thought of that.
Bullshit. It could have played DVDs without a remote, by just using the controller as a makeshift remote -- like the PS2 does. No, it's been crippled...
~jeff
Not quite out yet, but watch this space.
~jeff
How many though will say they were wrong to shut down bnetd as they hand them $50?
Not me; I'll simply be handing them 50$.
I'm not generally apathetic, but over this particular issue, I couldn't care less. If it turned out that Blizzard executives needed to drink the blood of open source programmers daily to ensure the continued high quality of their excellent titles, I would consider it blood well drank.
~jeff
Just kidding with the subject line -- overall, I thought it was better than the first one, but there was simply too much CGI. It didn't even look convincing when there was just two people sitting in a room, talking (which happened a lot during the first hour and a half!). There's still a lot to be said for conventional filmmaking, George...
And Artoo can fly? Since when? That would have probably helped Luke out in the swamp...
~jeff
The Good:
Hey, those are some nice cursors!
The install process has an "archive and install" option which presumably backs up your old "System" folder and puts a nice new fresh one in there. That's nice.
The "optimization" phase of the install has a percentage meter now instead of vague indeterminate values.
First impression after install: It's f-a-s-t. Very, very fast.
The dock is missing the stripes, and it looks much better that way.
The Eject key now pops up a translucent eject key icon like brightness and volume.
Flurry is a standard "Screen Effect" now. Not a screen saver, mind you; a "Screen Effect".
The new Address Book is very nice looking, works well. In a thoughtful nod to outside the US, there's lots of different ways to display address info depending on what your country's conventions are.
The "BlackLight-esque" reverse gamma effect is greyscale, very creepy in a "Tales From The Darkside" way, but cooler than "Blacklight", as all the blue doesn't have it's gamma values reverse to ugly orange.
It's not as creepy as "ZoomView" which lets you zoom the screen way, way big. It's a neat effect though. I thought it was going to be more vector scaling, but it's a raster scale.
Speaking of smooth raster scaling, the Finder? Sm-o-o-o-th. The new window scaling open/close animation is awesome -- it makes me feel like I live in the future.
"Enable Access For Assistive Devices"? What's that?Sounds interesting.
They have finally admitted that AppleTalk can only be used on one network port at a time, i.e. if you've set it to AirPort, your machine won't show up on the Ethernet AppleTalk network.
Icon scaling now shows what the pixel count of the scaling value you've set is (32x32, 48x48, 128x128, etc.); very nice, this was one of my complaints from the public beta. The idea that my icons might be 49x49 was keeping me up at night.
"Snap to Grid" gently glides any dropped icons into grid position.
Software Update keeps a tidy list of what you've installed.
There's a forward button in the Finder.
Finder spring loaded folders' icon pop "open" when you hover a file over them.
Mail.app (1.2v517) is very, very nice. It's got the rules of Eudora and the junk mail filters of Entourage plus it's neatly integrated with iChat. This is the Mail.app version that I hope will win your heart, like it's won mine.
iChat looks ok to me, I dunno, I don't use IM that much. Maybe this will change that. It's sure got a nice icon and lots of options.
Disc Copy now mounts images concurrently.
Apple System Profiler and Print Center are now pretty lil' Cocoa things.
The Bad (glaring problems that remain from 10.1.x):
The built-in spell check dictionary is still fairly inadequate. There's lots of words missing.
The system boots from a cold start faster than 10.1.4, but still not what I'd call "fast".
The Ugly (problems specific to 10.2 preview that seem likely be fixed upon actual release):
There are some odd junk graphics and redraw problems that appear when you wiggle windows around or drag parts of them offscreen. No doubt this is the "EXTREME!!!" part of Quartz Extreme. I kid Quartz Extreme, I really do.
Energy Saver powers down the monitor but won't power it up so much.
Some 3rd party apps just refuse to work.
In short: "Awesome work Apple!" This is going to be a kick ass release.
~jeff