They already have; if you go to getthefacts.com and if you fill out a form there, they'll Airborne Express a rather expensive-looking packet filled with facts about Windows and Linux, including:
Linux was invented by Adolf Hitler in 1934.
The name "Linux" comes from a Native American phrase meaning "Outrageous TCO Going Forward".
Windows 2003 Server was first mentioned in the New Testament, to glowing reviews.
Exposure to Linux makes one out of every fifteen people break out in itchy yellow-greenish sores.
At night Linux servers often grow robot arms and robot legs, trash your office, and leave beer cans around.
It doesn't sound nearly as elegant as the ElGato solution -- they make good stuff -- but for a quick n' dirty geek HDTV recording hack, the example code Apple provides actually does work.
I've been waiting for searchable bookmarks for about a decade now and it is yet to appear in any web browser.
Your decade is at a close! As of version 5, available today, Omniweb has both searchable bookmarks and history, Launchbar (also available now) can search across all browser bookmarks simultaneouslt, and Safari 2.0 will have this kind of functionality as well next year in Mac OS X "Tiger".
~jeff
Apple provides free HDTV recording tools at ADC
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HDTV Comes to the Mac
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...as outlined in this excellent hint right here from MacOSXHints.com.
This presupposes you can get the hardware HDTV box from your cable company, but that's usually only a nominal fee (+$10 a month).
I (heart) what Apple does as much as and probably more than the next guy, but you have to admit the simularities are suspicious. Apple had/has "desk accessories" in 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, but the implementation of those desk accessories were always application level. "Dashboard Widgets" are sub-application level desktop citizens, written in Javascript -- just like "Konfabulator Widgets".
Backing up a bit, what I guess I'm trying to say is that Apple gets a lot of milage out of being the "Good Cop" to a good portion of the computer industries' "Bad Cop", and has reaped the generous benefit of this good karma over the past few years with an outpouring of support from Mac users, the open source community, the press, etc. "Borrowing" these ideas and then ingenuously pretending that competing products never truly existed (Watson, Konfabulator, LaunchBar) is simply Bad Karma, and if there's any company that should be mindful of the Karma Index, it should be Apple.
Those banners have taken on a newer, more conflicted meaning for me, as I can't help but to notice two of Tiger's biggest features, "Dashboard" and "Spotlight" are carbon copies of some of the nicest third-party apps available for Mac OS X today, "Konfabulator" and "LaunchBar", respectively.
I'm of the opinion that UI advancements like LaunchBar and Konfabulator are of such high-quality that everyone should be able to take advantage of them, which means to break them out of their niche market (third party mac apps are by definition a fraction of a fraction of a market) they need to be rolled into the OS. So I'm happy about that. I'm happy that my Mom will be using "Widgets".
And "Dashboard" and "Spotlight" or whatever seem to be at least high-quality implementations of said UI advances; as they should be, as they are carbon copies of already thoroughly refined products.
But if Steve doesn't personally show up to Arlo's house with a cartoonishly overflowing wheelbarrow of cash, I'll be pretty fucking disappointed. Konfabulator was clearly Arlo's labor of love for several years, and overnight Apple has relegated it to second-ran status by slavishly copying it.
...which is kind of bullshit for existing owners, because oddly enough I had purchased it before today and there's no even slightly discounted upgrade path whatsoever. It looks like I have to fork out $500 again, which seems to be a reoccurring theme from the New Apple.
Even $50-100 off for existing owners would have been a nice bone to throw.
I went looking for a "linux PVR distribution" this weekend and couldn't find it. Basically, I was looking for a linux distribution which could be easily installed, work out of the box with standard TV tuner/video out (and ideally, maybe even some sort of IR device) and give me the ability to watch DVDs, stream divx, listen to mp3s, etc.
Does this exist? It should. It could really work as a sneaky way to get people interested in linux in the home.
How exactly can the iPod encode mp3 in realtime? The audio it captures via the various 3rd party add-ons is low bitrate.wav files, not.mp3s. All of the various compression and encoding is done by iTunes, then the already encoded files are shuttled to the iPod.
This algorithm completely transforms the feel of Safari over DSL and modem connections. Page content usually comes screaming in at the 250ms mark, and if the page isn't quite ready at the 250ms, it's usually ready shortly after (at the 300-500ms mark). In the rare cases where you have nothing to display, you wait until the 1 second mark still. This algorithm makes "white flashing" quite rare (you'll typically only see it on a very slow site that is taking a long time to give you data), and it makes Safari feel orders of magnitude faster on slower network connections.
Because Safari waits for a minimum threshold (and waits to schedule until the threshold is exceeded, benchmarks won't be adversely affected as long as you typically beat the minimum threshold. Otherwise the overall page load speed will degrade slightly in real-world usage, but I believe that to be well-worth the decrease in the time required to show displayable content.
If you have an Exchange 2000 server (with Service Pack 2 or later) then it's as close as it gets. If you're running an earlier Exchange server, then you're still in the same boat as you were with Entourage 2001. In either case, there's still no real MAPI support.
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They already have; if you go to getthefacts.com and if you fill out a form there, they'll Airborne Express a rather expensive-looking packet filled with facts about Windows and Linux, including:
~jeff
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Here's a link to the torrent.
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(link to previous critically acclaimed post).
It doesn't sound nearly as elegant as the ElGato solution -- they make good stuff -- but for a quick n' dirty geek HDTV recording hack, the example code Apple provides actually does work.
~jeff
(Even though I'm just proving your point for you)
It's because Apple is developing for their user base of esthetically correct,
That's aesthetically correct, you insensitive clod.
~jeff
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I've been waiting for searchable bookmarks for about a decade now and it is yet to appear in any web browser.
Your decade is at a close! As of version 5, available today, Omniweb has both searchable bookmarks and history, Launchbar (also available now) can search across all browser bookmarks simultaneouslt, and Safari 2.0 will have this kind of functionality as well next year in Mac OS X "Tiger".
~jeff
This presupposes you can get the hardware HDTV box from your cable company, but that's usually only a nominal fee (+$10 a month).
~jeff
MONO = ONE
RAIL = RAIL
~jeff
Personally, I blame Spider-man's dancing.
~jeff
I (heart) what Apple does as much as and probably more than the next guy, but you have to admit the simularities are suspicious. Apple had/has "desk accessories" in 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, but the implementation of those desk accessories were always application level. "Dashboard Widgets" are sub-application level desktop citizens, written in Javascript -- just like "Konfabulator Widgets".
Backing up a bit, what I guess I'm trying to say is that Apple gets a lot of milage out of being the "Good Cop" to a good portion of the computer industries' "Bad Cop", and has reaped the generous benefit of this good karma over the past few years with an outpouring of support from Mac users, the open source community, the press, etc. "Borrowing" these ideas and then ingenuously pretending that competing products never truly existed (Watson, Konfabulator, LaunchBar) is simply Bad Karma, and if there's any company that should be mindful of the Karma Index, it should be Apple.
And, practically speaking, it's not like Steve doesn't have a wheelbarrow of cash handy.
~jeff
It's not.
Wheelbarrow of money could make this all better, Steve. Wheelbarrow of money.
~jeff
Those banners have taken on a newer, more conflicted meaning for me, as I can't help but to notice two of Tiger's biggest features, "Dashboard" and "Spotlight" are carbon copies of some of the nicest third-party apps available for Mac OS X today, "Konfabulator" and "LaunchBar", respectively.
I'm of the opinion that UI advancements like LaunchBar and Konfabulator are of such high-quality that everyone should be able to take advantage of them, which means to break them out of their niche market (third party mac apps are by definition a fraction of a fraction of a market) they need to be rolled into the OS. So I'm happy about that. I'm happy that my Mom will be using "Widgets".
And "Dashboard" and "Spotlight" or whatever seem to be at least high-quality implementations of said UI advances; as they should be, as they are carbon copies of already thoroughly refined products.
But if Steve doesn't personally show up to Arlo's house with a cartoonishly overflowing wheelbarrow of cash, I'll be pretty fucking disappointed. Konfabulator was clearly Arlo's labor of love for several years, and overnight Apple has relegated it to second-ran status by slavishly copying it.
~jeff
~jeff
Even $50-100 off for existing owners would have been a nice bone to throw.
Boo Apple thumbs down hiss boo.
~jeff
Thanks!
~jeff
I went looking for a "linux PVR distribution" this weekend and couldn't find it. Basically, I was looking for a linux distribution which could be easily installed, work out of the box with standard TV tuner/video out (and ideally, maybe even some sort of IR device) and give me the ability to watch DVDs, stream divx, listen to mp3s, etc.
Does this exist? It should. It could really work as a sneaky way to get people interested in linux in the home.
~jeff
How exactly can the iPod encode mp3 in realtime? The audio it captures via the various 3rd party add-ons is low bitrate
~jeff
the master does not approve...
~jeff
and I bet it's a result of this.
This algorithm completely transforms the feel of Safari over DSL and modem connections. Page content usually comes screaming in at the 250ms mark, and if the page isn't quite ready at the 250ms, it's usually ready shortly after (at the 300-500ms mark). In the rare cases where you have nothing to display, you wait until the 1 second mark still. This algorithm makes "white flashing" quite rare (you'll typically only see it on a very slow site that is taking a long time to give you data), and it makes Safari feel orders of magnitude faster on slower network connections.
Because Safari waits for a minimum threshold (and waits to schedule until the threshold is exceeded, benchmarks won't be adversely affected as long as you typically beat the minimum threshold. Otherwise the overall page load speed will degrade slightly in real-world usage, but I believe that to be well-worth the decrease in the time required to show displayable content.
short answer yes with an if, long answer no with a but...
If you have an Exchange 2000 server (with Service Pack 2 or later) then it's as close as it gets. If you're running an earlier Exchange server, then you're still in the same boat as you were with Entourage 2001. In either case, there's still no real MAPI support.
~jeff
dimes to dollars the mouse will have more rpecision then the controller.
yes, obviously in your hands keyboard + mouse is a devastatingly exact combination.
~jeff
Are you a game developer or a pimp?
~jeff
If it can't guess the song, then your next call is free.
In a related announcement, AT&T today announced their new Your Next Call is Free promotion.
~jeff
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