According to Apple, the best way to increase performance is to lock the track which renders it to disk. It works with software instruments and real instruments that use complex effects.
I don't know that apple needs to release garageband for windows anyway, I was very happy using the Sonic Foundry (now Sony) audio suite on PC, and the rest of my favorite software like Reason and Reaktor were PC ports of mac versions anyway.
While I'm sure the developers of Garageband are flattered that you consider Garageband in the category of Reason and Reaktor, I would like to point out the Garageband is a consumer application.
That could be one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. It sounds like a good thing, but the trouble is someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it.
This is no different than a business, which has a "community" WiFi.
We have traffic lights which operate under the same principal as "someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it". So I suppose traffic lights sound like a good thing but are too much trouble, we should just have stop signs everywhere. Same with street lights; let people buy flashlights.
You know, while we're at it, screw sidewalks, there's a perfectly good street to walk in, people can just drive around you. And get rid of those damn public libraries, buy your own damn books. Take care of your own crime, fight your own damn fires.
What we have now in OS X, Cocoa, that's what it comes from. The problem wasn't anything to do with Rhapsody, it was with Adobe. Adobe refused to port their apps to what became Cocoa, forcing Apple to make this huge unweildy sidestep through Carbon that kept the abysmal OS 9 alive for years longer than it deserved
Except that there was no need for people with 2-3 year old machines to be left out of an upgrade cycle just because they didn't wait another year to get machines that were only partially supported with Mac OS X.
Carbon was a great step to deliver applications for Mac OS X while still maintaining compatibility with relatively current pre-G3 machines that could not run Mac OS X. With the Beige G3s Apple artificially locked out support for the serial port for printing and for floppies, making most consumer printers at that point useless under Mac OS X. There was not a compelling reason to switch to X until 10.2 Jaguar.
With the demise of the ability to run Mac OS 9 on shipping machines, now is the time to move Carbon applications to Cocoa since there is finally an advantage to it (the "Core" technologies).
I've worked in retail for 9 years and I can tell you how to get what you want. You go into a store, you tell them what happened, you tell them what they are going to do about it (be semi-reasonable). You do not ask them to do anything, you do not assume they are going to be helpful. No need to be angry or have an attitude, you just take the upper hand. If they tell you after they are done with paperwork, you inform them they will do the paperwork after they help you.
This always works.
The ATI card on my Dual 2GHz G5 failed. It was 4 months after I bought it. I knew it was the card because the AGP card from my Cube worked. I took my G5 to Apple, I told them the video card was bad and they needed to replace it. That's what they did. No charge.
So how is Microsoft's service "father reaching"? Is he including possible network indexing so you can find every file on the network as well (perhaps something for Windows Longhorn Server) - and is this ability to be used in OS X Tiger Server?
Searching the Network is actually part of Spotlight right now, well, the mounted part of the Network.
Apple has had the technology of Spotlight since the days of Copland. It's called V-Twin and it first shipped with Mac OS 8. It just finally got integrated with the file system instead of using Sherlock.
What about Automator? What about Core Image/Core Data? What about VoiceOver?
At this moment, the under-the-hood fabulosity of the "Core" technologies doesn't matter. Not even Apple's applications use them yet. Oh, but you just wait until they do. Real-time non-destructive transformations, available to every application developer.
I used to use AppleScript extensively and I still don't understand Automator (I have Tiger final). I will have to see some sample automations to see how it will be useful, also it seems to be hardcoded to only recognise applications in the/Applications folder, all of my third-party apps are in ~/Applications.
For the average user VoiceOver is more annoying than helpful. Apple had much better accessibility options under Mac OS 9. VoiceOver is just addressing this. Also there's no new voices and they seem to be getting worse and worse with the speech engine. Listen to the same voices under Mac OS 9, then each release of Mac OS X. They should have licensed or bought Cepstral.
that some of Apple's greatest critics are also it's biggest fans
The way I look at it, who cares what someone who doesn't use a product thinks about it? That's like commenting on German without being able to speak it, or the merits of a Mercedes when you don't drive one. It's basically irrelevant.
To be able to truly criticise a product effectively you need to actually use it. I can tell you right now what's wrong with Mac OS X and it doesn't have anything to do with needing Core Data or Image or Video or Automator or Dashboard or Safari RSS...because I use Mac OS X.
The Finder is a wreck and still needs more work, it's not spatial, it's not an effective "browser" I can't understand what their goal for it is supposed to be, it crashes when networking almost religiously. There's not enough support for meta-data. The file system should use mime types. The brushed metal interface is better than the pinstripe interface because it has borders around windows. There's inconsistency of brushed metal/pinstripe. Networking is slow.
I'd rather have all that fixed than any new feature of Tiger (OK, maybe Core Image).
the Senate is right now discussing removing the Estate Tax
Estate Tax needs to go. There should be no tax on death. You don't get taxed when someone gives you a birthday present. Why should you be taxed when you inherit something?
Waste all the mod points you want. I'll just keep reposting my opinion.
And estate taxes prevent riches from piling up ad infinitum in one family.
Show me where that is true. Show me how the Kennedys, Hiltons, Rockefellers et al don't have riches piling up in one family. Show me how an estate tax has limited their families' wealth. Tell me where in the Constitution it say that it's the governments job to limit wealth. Like so many other things (like tax breaks) this doesn't help the little guy or even the median American.
What it's designed to do is to make sure the little guy can't become a powerful family, it's to maintain that powerful, wealthy families stay that way. Put it through the motions.
If a guy with 100 apples and I want to give them to his heir, but the government says that it has to take 30% to make sure that his heir doesn't have an apple advantage, then he gets 70 apples. Then he amasses 100 apples of his own, and then leaves the 170 to his heir, but the government only lets him give 119 apples.
Now, the little guy has 10 apples and can only give 7 to his heir. Then his heir amasses 10 but can only give 12 out of those 17. Looks like the little guy isn't going to get a hoard of apples anytime soon but it doesn't really seem to be affecting the guy with all the apples.
Now tell me which family this is keeping from getting all the apples...
I wanted the PowerMac but the iMac was much more in my range (1300). The one thing I've noticed about it is that you never really notice lag from the processor... BUT... if you don't have like a gig of ram, you can get a lot of lag while multitasking
Hard drives are slow compared to RAM. When you run out of real RAM you have to use virtual memory which is on a hard drive. The iMac has a slow hard drive. This is an issue every system that uses virtual memory has, it's unrelated to whether it's Apple or Microsoft or Linux, whether it's a PowerMac an iMac or an SGI O3. You either need more RAM or a faster hard drive.
Granted, I'm a non-Mac person so I'm not very familiar with the ins-and-outs of MacOS file management.
Familiarise yourself. If you're at all interested in technical abilities of computers it's pretty interesting what the HFS+ and HFSX file systems are capable of doing.
It's pretty insignificant in Mac OS X if you have one or seven drives, your whole world revolves around your user space (REAL user space, not a file system littered with user space here and there). I have all third party applications, extensions, fonts and the like all in my user folder because the system never touches it. Which means my world is not thrown askew whenever I have to upgrade the OS.
At this point with the introduction of the Mac mini, the iMac G5 is a high end machine. It is not what the original iMac was. If you can skip the display you can get a PowerMac G5 tower for only $200 more. Apple needs to address the issue and put better components into it. I think they need to go one step beyond and put a Radeon 9800 with 128MB in the new iMacs instead of a 9600 with 64MB.
The Mac mini is the new Mac LC. It's for people who want a Mac but can't really afford one, or who want an extra one for the kids. Although in 2005 it's also great for media.
The mini was never designed to be a great performer. If you look at Apple's history of using components, you will see that the "low end" consumer models get the components that were in the last generation "high end".
My Dual 2GHz G5 came with a Radeon 9600 64MB card. That was the best you could get from Apple in 2003. Having upgraded the G5 line to include better cards, I am sure Apple has an abundance of these components laying around. Hence the usage in the next-gen low-end.
The Mac mini is quite clearly based on the eMac. There have been no upgrades to the eMac. When the eMac gets upgraded, you'll see it in the Mac mini. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if what you saw when you opened an eMac was basically a Mac mini (possibly that's why the extra connectors are there).
the Senate is right now discussing removing the Estate Tax
Estate Tax needs to go. There should be no tax on death. You don't get taxed when someone gives you a birthday present. Why should you be taxed when you inherit something?
Oh yeah, I've never personally been able to understand the whole hooplah over the Ipod shuffle, or even the Ipod mini? 1 gigabyte? 5 gigabytes? Do you have ANY idea how old the songs get on your mp3 player if you keep hearing stuff over and over again like a radio station?
When an iPod shuffle is attached iTunes has an autofill feature that changes the songs on the shuffle every time you attach it.
All iPods can use smart playlists that randomly choose a selection based on whatever criteria you select, or only based on size. This helps if, like me, your music collection finally outgrows your iPod disk space.
Yes, using an iPod with a small HD space is like listening to the best radio station ever where the songs that are in heavy rotation are all picked by you. I fail to see how a couple thousand songs is inferior to a 6-disk CD changer in a car, which seems to me a prime target for an iPod mini.
If you are an active person the iPod shuffle is great because it's completely shock proof like all flash players. I also have a shuffle (with a wetsuit) because of this. If you want to get your kid a digital music player but do not went to spend a few hundred dollars on something they will most likely break, you can get a more durable device for $100.
Then submit unasshatted stuff yourself. You have the opportunity to fix something that annoys you, so do so.
Really? Because last time I checked, submitted stories had to be posted by Editors.
I've yet to see my submission about what's the best way to get a project started when you aren't a programmer but have an idea nor have I seen my submission about what's the state of KHTML compared to Gecko since Apple has been on board.
Even Tiger, which allows command line programs to be fully 64 bit won't allow applications utilizing graphics to be 64 bit.
That's only until Quartz is rewritten to be 64 bits and you can be sure that will be before 10.5. The main thing graphics and video apps need that 64-bit and Tiger support is crazy amounts of RAM as well as VM. I think the last I read the OS now supports 4 Terrabytes of real RAM as well as 16 Exabytes addressable space.
If Debian dies than it will either be remade in another Debian-influenced distrobution or the developers and users will migrate to other distrobutions... like Ubuntu. Don't be so arrogant, the world is not crashing. Free software doesn't die with its developer, remember.
That assumes the developers feel it's worthwhile to learn the idiosyncrasies of some forked version of Debian. Your statement is like saying that if Sendmail dies developers will just automatically move to Postfix. I doubt that's true.
How do you know that the largest chunk of Debain developers aren't non-x86? Even Linus has said:
"I felt like there were enough people testing the x86 side that it certainly didn't need me...I personally believe there are two main architectures out there: Power and x86-64 are what _I_ think are the two most relevant ones, and I decided that I had to at least check the other side of it out seriously if I really believed that,"
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According to Apple, the best way to increase performance is to lock the track which renders it to disk. It works with software instruments and real instruments that use complex effects.
While I'm sure the developers of Garageband are flattered that you consider Garageband in the category of Reason and Reaktor, I would like to point out the Garageband is a consumer application.
This is no different than a business, which has a "community" WiFi.
We have traffic lights which operate under the same principal as "someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it". So I suppose traffic lights sound like a good thing but are too much trouble, we should just have stop signs everywhere. Same with street lights; let people buy flashlights.
You know, while we're at it, screw sidewalks, there's a perfectly good street to walk in, people can just drive around you. And get rid of those damn public libraries, buy your own damn books. Take care of your own crime, fight your own damn fires.
All those public services are stupid ideas.
Yup, it goes:
1)Mac
2)Profit
There's no step three...
Except that there was no need for people with 2-3 year old machines to be left out of an upgrade cycle just because they didn't wait another year to get machines that were only partially supported with Mac OS X.
Carbon was a great step to deliver applications for Mac OS X while still maintaining compatibility with relatively current pre-G3 machines that could not run Mac OS X. With the Beige G3s Apple artificially locked out support for the serial port for printing and for floppies, making most consumer printers at that point useless under Mac OS X. There was not a compelling reason to switch to X until 10.2 Jaguar.
With the demise of the ability to run Mac OS 9 on shipping machines, now is the time to move Carbon applications to Cocoa since there is finally an advantage to it (the "Core" technologies).
Dahsboard is actually just Desk Accessories from System 1. They're just a more modern version.
This always works.
The ATI card on my Dual 2GHz G5 failed. It was 4 months after I bought it. I knew it was the card because the AGP card from my Cube worked. I took my G5 to Apple, I told them the video card was bad and they needed to replace it. That's what they did. No charge.
Searching the Network is actually part of Spotlight right now, well, the mounted part of the Network.
Apple has had the technology of Spotlight since the days of Copland. It's called V-Twin and it first shipped with Mac OS 8. It just finally got integrated with the file system instead of using Sherlock.
At this moment, the under-the-hood fabulosity of the "Core" technologies doesn't matter. Not even Apple's applications use them yet. Oh, but you just wait until they do. Real-time non-destructive transformations, available to every application developer.
I used to use AppleScript extensively and I still don't understand Automator (I have Tiger final). I will have to see some sample automations to see how it will be useful, also it seems to be hardcoded to only recognise applications in the /Applications folder, all of my third-party apps are in ~/Applications.
For the average user VoiceOver is more annoying than helpful. Apple had much better accessibility options under Mac OS 9. VoiceOver is just addressing this. Also there's no new voices and they seem to be getting worse and worse with the speech engine. Listen to the same voices under Mac OS 9, then each release of Mac OS X. They should have licensed or bought Cepstral.
The way I look at it, who cares what someone who doesn't use a product thinks about it? That's like commenting on German without being able to speak it, or the merits of a Mercedes when you don't drive one. It's basically irrelevant.
To be able to truly criticise a product effectively you need to actually use it. I can tell you right now what's wrong with Mac OS X and it doesn't have anything to do with needing Core Data or Image or Video or Automator or Dashboard or Safari RSS...because I use Mac OS X.
The Finder is a wreck and still needs more work, it's not spatial, it's not an effective "browser" I can't understand what their goal for it is supposed to be, it crashes when networking almost religiously. There's not enough support for meta-data. The file system should use mime types. The brushed metal interface is better than the pinstripe interface because it has borders around windows. There's inconsistency of brushed metal/pinstripe. Networking is slow.
I'd rather have all that fixed than any new feature of Tiger (OK, maybe Core Image).
Because Apple makes their money from hardware.
Estate Tax needs to go. There should be no tax on death. You don't get taxed when someone gives you a birthday present. Why should you be taxed when you inherit something?
Waste all the mod points you want. I'll just keep reposting my opinion.
Show me where that is true. Show me how the Kennedys, Hiltons, Rockefellers et al don't have riches piling up in one family. Show me how an estate tax has limited their families' wealth. Tell me where in the Constitution it say that it's the governments job to limit wealth. Like so many other things (like tax breaks) this doesn't help the little guy or even the median American.
What it's designed to do is to make sure the little guy can't become a powerful family, it's to maintain that powerful, wealthy families stay that way. Put it through the motions.
If a guy with 100 apples and I want to give them to his heir, but the government says that it has to take 30% to make sure that his heir doesn't have an apple advantage, then he gets 70 apples. Then he amasses 100 apples of his own, and then leaves the 170 to his heir, but the government only lets him give 119 apples.
Now, the little guy has 10 apples and can only give 7 to his heir. Then his heir amasses 10 but can only give 12 out of those 17. Looks like the little guy isn't going to get a hoard of apples anytime soon but it doesn't really seem to be affecting the guy with all the apples.
Now tell me which family this is keeping from getting all the apples...
Hard drives are slow compared to RAM. When you run out of real RAM you have to use virtual memory which is on a hard drive. The iMac has a slow hard drive. This is an issue every system that uses virtual memory has, it's unrelated to whether it's Apple or Microsoft or Linux, whether it's a PowerMac an iMac or an SGI O3. You either need more RAM or a faster hard drive.
Familiarise yourself. If you're at all interested in technical abilities of computers it's pretty interesting what the HFS+ and HFSX file systems are capable of doing.
It's pretty insignificant in Mac OS X if you have one or seven drives, your whole world revolves around your user space (REAL user space, not a file system littered with user space here and there). I have all third party applications, extensions, fonts and the like all in my user folder because the system never touches it. Which means my world is not thrown askew whenever I have to upgrade the OS.
At this point with the introduction of the Mac mini, the iMac G5 is a high end machine. It is not what the original iMac was. If you can skip the display you can get a PowerMac G5 tower for only $200 more. Apple needs to address the issue and put better components into it. I think they need to go one step beyond and put a Radeon 9800 with 128MB in the new iMacs instead of a 9600 with 64MB.
The mini was never designed to be a great performer. If you look at Apple's history of using components, you will see that the "low end" consumer models get the components that were in the last generation "high end".
My Dual 2GHz G5 came with a Radeon 9600 64MB card. That was the best you could get from Apple in 2003. Having upgraded the G5 line to include better cards, I am sure Apple has an abundance of these components laying around. Hence the usage in the next-gen low-end.
The Mac mini is quite clearly based on the eMac. There have been no upgrades to the eMac. When the eMac gets upgraded, you'll see it in the Mac mini. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if what you saw when you opened an eMac was basically a Mac mini (possibly that's why the extra connectors are there).
Most likely only in the greenhouse.
Everyone knows penguins live on Pluto.
Estate Tax needs to go. There should be no tax on death. You don't get taxed when someone gives you a birthday present. Why should you be taxed when you inherit something?
When an iPod shuffle is attached iTunes has an autofill feature that changes the songs on the shuffle every time you attach it.
All iPods can use smart playlists that randomly choose a selection based on whatever criteria you select, or only based on size. This helps if, like me, your music collection finally outgrows your iPod disk space.
Yes, using an iPod with a small HD space is like listening to the best radio station ever where the songs that are in heavy rotation are all picked by you. I fail to see how a couple thousand songs is inferior to a 6-disk CD changer in a car, which seems to me a prime target for an iPod mini.
If you are an active person the iPod shuffle is great because it's completely shock proof like all flash players. I also have a shuffle (with a wetsuit) because of this. If you want to get your kid a digital music player but do not went to spend a few hundred dollars on something they will most likely break, you can get a more durable device for $100.
Really? Because last time I checked, submitted stories had to be posted by Editors.
I've yet to see my submission about what's the best way to get a project started when you aren't a programmer but have an idea nor have I seen my submission about what's the state of KHTML compared to Gecko since Apple has been on board.
That's only until Quartz is rewritten to be 64 bits and you can be sure that will be before 10.5. The main thing graphics and video apps need that 64-bit and Tiger support is crazy amounts of RAM as well as VM. I think the last I read the OS now supports 4 Terrabytes of real RAM as well as 16 Exabytes addressable space.
That assumes the developers feel it's worthwhile to learn the idiosyncrasies of some forked version of Debian. Your statement is like saying that if Sendmail dies developers will just automatically move to Postfix. I doubt that's true.
How do you know that the largest chunk of Debain developers aren't non-x86? Even Linus has said:
Dude, if you have to ask why a prank between Caltech and MIT is being covered on Slashdot, why are you here?