The PowerMac G5 will be announced at WWDC, based on the IBM PowerPC 970. The name of the machine will be "PowerMac G5" or "Power Macintosh G5", but Apple will also advertise the processor as the "IBM PowerPC 970 processor with Velocity Engine". It's 64-bit, and they'll hype that up as much as they can.
The low-end (1.4GHz?) model will be available immediately, or within two weeks and Apple will be taking pre-orders. The mid-range and high-end (dual 1.6 and dual 1.8?) models will be shipping within a month after that. Photoshop comparisons with the latest Compaq PC will be mind-blowing, for the types of people who get excited about Photoshop performance. USB2, Bluetooth, FireWire 800 and 400 and Gigabit Ethernet will be standard features, with a slot for an Airport Extreme card.
The Aluminum 15" PowerBook will be released. We will not see a PowerBook G5 before January '04 and maybe not until March '04.
The PowerMac G5 will ship with a hacked version of Mac OS X 10.2, which will not be fully optimized to take advantage of the new processor. However, the PPC970 is designed to run 32-bit code just as well as 64-bit code, so it will still be amazingly fast. Anyone who buys a G5 will be entitled to a "free" ($29 S&H) upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3, which will ship in September for $129.
The new OS will be 64-bit native, optimized for the PPC970, and compiled with gcc 3.3. Large chunks of the Finder will be rewritten for performance and better UI, and there will be a ton of little system-wide UI improvements (adding up to a significantly better experience). One convenient new feature will be support for multiple users being logged in locally at the same time, like Windows XP (go to a login screen without quitting all your apps, second person logs in, first person's apps stay running hidden in the background, can switch back and forth between users).
Mac OS X 10.3 will include WebCore, Apple's Aquafied version of KHTML, available for any application to use. Safari will be the default browser. I suspect Internet Explorer will not be included, although of course you can download it from Microsoft. Help Viewer will be replaced (thank god) with a version that uses WebCore. Now that WebCore is available, it'll be possible for Apple to support PAC and WPAD for automatic proxy server discovery, although I don't know whether these features will make it into 10.3.
Did I miss anything? We'll see how accurate my predictions are next month...
As the law stands right now, the FTC *is* required to give notification to anyone they're considering investigating.
So the concern here is that if FTC serves notice of an investigation, the spammers will actually STOP? This isn't as bad as throwing them in jail, but it might be good enough, and undoubtedly cheaper....
The overwhelming majority of Mac users downloading Mozilla at the time the decision was made were using OSX. Netscape had no interest in maintaining a classic Mac version of Netscape. The Mozilla team tried to find somebody to maintain a classic Mac OS port, and one guy was going to do it, then he bailed out, so it died.
This is one of the things that can happen with Free software. Sure, the source code is all there, but nobody's working on it, so it doesn't get maintained.
(Of course it's much worse with proprietary software, since the source code isn't there and nobody could work on it if they wanted to, and the binaries might get pulled as well. At least old Mozilla binaries are available.)
One idea that was being passed around was to have an access point on the aircraft that would broadcast a 'forbidden' command to all the wireless devices which would tell them to play nice.
Where can I get one of these "forbidden" transmitters? In addition to installing them in movie theaters, concert halls and restaurants, it'd be entertaining to carry a battery-powered one around with me.
I am afraid I must disagree. Forcing people, especially kids, to do things only makes them wish to do it even less.
So, you have a better suggestion to get kids to do it?
The teacher had to clearly state before every assignment that cursive was mandatory, or else no-one would bother to do it, because they could claim they didn't know, and thus points should not be taken off.
This is the kind of "forcing" I was thinking of, yes.
Do you know if it is actually respected? I wouldn't imagine spam email address harvesters respecting an unenforced point of etiquette.
By legitimate robots, it is; by spam harvesters it probably isn't. You can make a honeypot link, if you want to find out (make one hidden link to a page or CGI script that you have logs for, and disallow that page in robots.txt, and see if anything accesses it).
You mean the DRM features that allow me to rip my own CD's to AAC and copy the resultant files to any and all computers or players (that understand them) and play them back?
These files do not have DRM.
Or how about the DRM feature that allows me to export bought AAC's to aiff and then convert them to MP3/OGG/AAC/.wav/.au etc and do with them what I please?
These files DO have DRM. Apple currently allows you to do lots of stuff with them, so the restrictions won't bother most people, but the DRM is there. In theory, new versions of Mac OS X could impose additional restrictions on how you're allowed to use these files.
As someone else mentioned, re-encoding loses quality, which has nothing to do with DRM.
True, Apple's TMS is selling AAC's that have a DRM-like "inconvenience protection" on them but
It's DRM, it's not "DRM-like". Apple is just more lenient with their current DRM implementation than anyone else has been.
it's not _inherent_ to the AAC format, nor does it affect the sound quality vs. file size questions.
Very true.
(In any case, we _should_ be cheering for any company that's actually trying to give us quite reasonably limited freedom with copyrighted material, while satisfying the RIAA/MPAA etc.)
...he said that AAC was actually meant to be used at lower bitrates (96 max), where it sounds better. Now I don't know how it's possible for something to sound better at a lower bitrate...
Presumably he meant AAC at 64Kbps sounds much better than MP3 at 64Kbps, but AAC at 128Kbps isn't that much better than MP3 at 128Kbps. I'm sure he did not mean that AAC at 64Kbps sounds better than AAC at 128Kbps; that would be silly.
I'm thankful that a lot of spam subject lines begin with "Re:" because then if I don't recognize the sender's e-mail address or the rest of the subject line, I know it's spam and don't have to open it. It's the ones that don't begin with "Re:" or have any other identifying characteristics that bug me the most. "Hey!" I have to open, but "Re: Hey!" I don't.
SpamCop's filtering catches almost all of these, so when I look at them I'm just checking for false positives. SpamCop's preview option only shows the raw source, without HTML rendering or graphics.
Hell yes. Apple Mail on Mac OS X has these features too (Preferences/Viewing/Display images and embedded objects in HTML messages), although attached graphics are still displayed.
Any other mail clients with bayesian filtering and the option not to load remote images (while still rendering HTML)?
Very young children shouldn't be reading email unsupervised. Period.
Do you draw a line between "very young" and "kind of young"? 7-yr-olds should not be reading e-mail unsupervised; 17-yr-olds shouldn't need to be watched that closely.
WHY should children not be reading e-mail unsupervised? Because things like porn spam comes into their e-mail. That is a problem, and it's getting worse, not better.
That would imply that schools need Internet access more than additional teachers. NOT!
Yep, that pisses me off. Schools receive money earmarked for technology, that they have to spend or lose, so they spend it, and the stuff they buy sits unused collecting dust because they can't afford to pay anybody who can teach children to use it (or pay an existing teacher to learn it). Meanwhile the bureaucrats think they've just done a wonderful thing.
I heard something on the BBC about IM on mobile phones becoming so popular in the UK that the next generation will be using their thumbs to do things we would use our index finger for, like ringing a doorbell. I already don't write in cursive, although I did learn in school and could probably manage if I really wanted to try.
If you want kids to be able to write by hand, you just have to force them to do it in school. If you let them type everything, they will. Of course, this isn't likely to happen on a wide scale; educators don't get paid enough to care.
Try prepending http:// to the front of your link; if you don't slashdot apparently assumes the link is local.
That's not Slashdot, that's HTML. Links without the http:// are assumed to be relative to the URL of the current page; links with the http:// are absolute URLs. Compare submit.pl vs. http://submit.pl (the first example I could come up with that is both a web page on Slashdot and a web site in Poland). It's very convenient to be able to use relative filenames when you're writing a web page, so if you move your site, you don't have to go through and change all the links.
It's not like they take your driver's license number to fill out one of those stupid things; it's not like you can't lie.
Safeway has my real name and address. I've gotten one single piece of mail from them addressed to me. It was a coupon for $1 off any Safeway Select item (their store brand). I get other ads from them that they send to everybody, just like I did before I gave them my info.
What are they gonna do with my personal info, if not send me stuff?
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Wouldn't it be nice if webservers would timestamp a page and say when it was last modified, and the browser would show that date?
I believe the server sends a Last-modified header. In Netscape and related browsers, choose Page Info from the View menu.
The PowerMac G5 will be announced at WWDC, based on the IBM PowerPC 970. The name of the machine will be "PowerMac G5" or "Power Macintosh G5", but Apple will also advertise the processor as the "IBM PowerPC 970 processor with Velocity Engine". It's 64-bit, and they'll hype that up as much as they can.
The low-end (1.4GHz?) model will be available immediately, or within two weeks and Apple will be taking pre-orders. The mid-range and high-end (dual 1.6 and dual 1.8?) models will be shipping within a month after that. Photoshop comparisons with the latest Compaq PC will be mind-blowing, for the types of people who get excited about Photoshop performance. USB2, Bluetooth, FireWire 800 and 400 and Gigabit Ethernet will be standard features, with a slot for an Airport Extreme card.
The Aluminum 15" PowerBook will be released. We will not see a PowerBook G5 before January '04 and maybe not until March '04.
The PowerMac G5 will ship with a hacked version of Mac OS X 10.2, which will not be fully optimized to take advantage of the new processor. However, the PPC970 is designed to run 32-bit code just as well as 64-bit code, so it will still be amazingly fast. Anyone who buys a G5 will be entitled to a "free" ($29 S&H) upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3, which will ship in September for $129.
The new OS will be 64-bit native, optimized for the PPC970, and compiled with gcc 3.3. Large chunks of the Finder will be rewritten for performance and better UI, and there will be a ton of little system-wide UI improvements (adding up to a significantly better experience). One convenient new feature will be support for multiple users being logged in locally at the same time, like Windows XP (go to a login screen without quitting all your apps, second person logs in, first person's apps stay running hidden in the background, can switch back and forth between users).
Mac OS X 10.3 will include WebCore, Apple's Aquafied version of KHTML, available for any application to use. Safari will be the default browser. I suspect Internet Explorer will not be included, although of course you can download it from Microsoft. Help Viewer will be replaced (thank god) with a version that uses WebCore. Now that WebCore is available, it'll be possible for Apple to support PAC and WPAD for automatic proxy server discovery, although I don't know whether these features will make it into 10.3.
Did I miss anything? We'll see how accurate my predictions are next month...
Are you talking about the executives or the board of trustees?
Or the legal department?
As the law stands right now, the FTC *is* required to give notification to anyone they're considering investigating.
So the concern here is that if FTC serves notice of an investigation, the spammers will actually STOP? This isn't as bad as throwing them in jail, but it might be good enough, and undoubtedly cheaper....
I feel abandoned.
Yep, that's cuz you were abandoned.
The overwhelming majority of Mac users downloading Mozilla at the time the decision was made were using OSX. Netscape had no interest in maintaining a classic Mac version of Netscape. The Mozilla team tried to find somebody to maintain a classic Mac OS port, and one guy was going to do it, then he bailed out, so it died.
This is one of the things that can happen with Free software. Sure, the source code is all there, but nobody's working on it, so it doesn't get maintained.
(Of course it's much worse with proprietary software, since the source code isn't there and nobody could work on it if they wanted to, and the binaries might get pulled as well. At least old Mozilla binaries are available.)
One idea that was being passed around was to have an access point on the aircraft that would broadcast a 'forbidden' command to all the wireless devices which would tell them to play nice.
Where can I get one of these "forbidden" transmitters? In addition to installing them in movie theaters, concert halls and restaurants, it'd be entertaining to carry a battery-powered one around with me.
Based on the results we got when we raised salaries, logic dictates we need to start rolling back the pay.
Um, you live somewhere that they're actually paying teachers enough to live on these days? Guess I kinda assumed everywhere was like here.
Isn't Jabber just *another* IM standard?
Isn't Trillian just another multi-protocol IM client?
(unless monolopies are made....).
You just answered your own question. We already tried breaking Microsoft's monopoly and failed; it won't be possible to try again for many years.
I am afraid I must disagree. Forcing people, especially kids, to do things only makes them wish to do it even less.
So, you have a better suggestion to get kids to do it?
The teacher had to clearly state before every assignment that cursive was mandatory, or else no-one would bother to do it, because they could claim they didn't know, and thus points should not be taken off.
This is the kind of "forcing" I was thinking of, yes.
Got a link to more info about this issue?
Do you know if it is actually respected? I wouldn't imagine spam email address harvesters respecting an unenforced point of etiquette.
By legitimate robots, it is; by spam harvesters it probably isn't. You can make a honeypot link, if you want to find out (make one hidden link to a page or CGI script that you have logs for, and disallow that page in robots.txt, and see if anything accesses it).
You mean the DRM features that allow me to rip my own CD's to AAC and copy the resultant files to any and all computers or players (that understand them) and play them back?
These files do not have DRM.
Or how about the DRM feature that allows me to export bought AAC's to aiff and then convert them to MP3/OGG/AAC/.wav/.au etc and do with them what I please?
These files DO have DRM. Apple currently allows you to do lots of stuff with them, so the restrictions won't bother most people, but the DRM is there. In theory, new versions of Mac OS X could impose additional restrictions on how you're allowed to use these files.
As someone else mentioned, re-encoding loses quality, which has nothing to do with DRM.
True, Apple's TMS is selling AAC's that have a DRM-like "inconvenience protection" on them but
It's DRM, it's not "DRM-like". Apple is just more lenient with their current DRM implementation than anyone else has been.
it's not _inherent_ to the AAC format, nor does it affect the sound quality vs. file size questions.
Very true.
(In any case, we _should_ be cheering for any company that's actually trying to give us quite reasonably limited freedom with copyrighted material, while satisfying the RIAA/MPAA etc.)
Also agreed.
Patent encomberment is a serious deal. It means than a legal OSS player is nearly out of the questions.
There are legal OSS MP3 players, and MP3 is also restricted by patents. Are the patent restrictions on AAC worse than those on MP3?
...he said that AAC was actually meant to be used at lower bitrates (96 max), where it sounds better. Now I don't know how it's possible for something to sound better at a lower bitrate...
Presumably he meant AAC at 64Kbps sounds much better than MP3 at 64Kbps, but AAC at 128Kbps isn't that much better than MP3 at 128Kbps. I'm sure he did not mean that AAC at 64Kbps sounds better than AAC at 128Kbps; that would be silly.
Personally, I think...
Of course, this is another issue - parents need to be the ones to draw this line, not the government or anyone else.
You might also want to look into putting a "ROBOTS.TXT" file on the website. Google "robots.txt" for more information on how to do that.
:-)
robotstxt.org - no Googling required.
With titles like "re: what's up?" and stuff...
I'm thankful that a lot of spam subject lines begin with "Re:" because then if I don't recognize the sender's e-mail address or the rest of the subject line, I know it's spam and don't have to open it. It's the ones that don't begin with "Re:" or have any other identifying characteristics that bug me the most. "Hey!" I have to open, but "Re: Hey!" I don't.
SpamCop's filtering catches almost all of these, so when I look at them I'm just checking for false positives. SpamCop's preview option only shows the raw source, without HTML rendering or graphics.
Hell yes. Apple Mail on Mac OS X has these features too (Preferences/Viewing/Display images and embedded objects in HTML messages), although attached graphics are still displayed.
Any other mail clients with bayesian filtering and the option not to load remote images (while still rendering HTML)?
Very young children shouldn't be reading email unsupervised. Period.
Do you draw a line between "very young" and "kind of young"? 7-yr-olds should not be reading e-mail unsupervised; 17-yr-olds shouldn't need to be watched that closely.
WHY should children not be reading e-mail unsupervised? Because things like porn spam comes into their e-mail. That is a problem, and it's getting worse, not better.
That would imply that schools need Internet access more than additional teachers. NOT!
Yep, that pisses me off. Schools receive money earmarked for technology, that they have to spend or lose, so they spend it, and the stuff they buy sits unused collecting dust because they can't afford to pay anybody who can teach children to use it (or pay an existing teacher to learn it). Meanwhile the bureaucrats think they've just done a wonderful thing.
I heard something on the BBC about IM on mobile phones becoming so popular in the UK that the next generation will be using their thumbs to do things we would use our index finger for, like ringing a doorbell. I already don't write in cursive, although I did learn in school and could probably manage if I really wanted to try.
If you want kids to be able to write by hand, you just have to force them to do it in school. If you let them type everything, they will. Of course, this isn't likely to happen on a wide scale; educators don't get paid enough to care.
Whoopsie, I should also have used Preview. I meant, of course, submit.pl and submit.pl.
Try prepending http:// to the front of your link; if you don't slashdot apparently assumes the link is local.
That's not Slashdot, that's HTML. Links without the http:// are assumed to be relative to the URL of the current page; links with the http:// are absolute URLs. Compare submit.pl vs. http://submit.pl (the first example I could come up with that is both a web page on Slashdot and a web site in Poland). It's very convenient to be able to use relative filenames when you're writing a web page, so if you move your site, you don't have to go through and change all the links.
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It's not like they take your driver's license number to fill out one of those stupid things; it's not like you can't lie.
Safeway has my real name and address. I've gotten one single piece of mail from them addressed to me. It was a coupon for $1 off any Safeway Select item (their store brand). I get other ads from them that they send to everybody, just like I did before I gave them my info.
What are they gonna do with my personal info, if not send me stuff?