Ehh... well it all boils down to Cydoor not being ported to MacOS, Linux, etc. It's wintel spyware.
Don't get me wrong, I can live without this software, but it is also a symptom of developers not making the effort to port their work to other platforms.
The LimeGroup should just query for banner ads via their Java Client. I see no real reason for a thrid party, and I do support their use of ads. The new "super node" beta is freek'n awesome... instant access to tons of files. No more long connects. Ads are a small price to pay to keep development going.
I can't stand when the RIAA talks about paying atists more. The RIAA's solution to low paided artists is to try and stop music piracy... that is not the solution.
The RIAA pays most artists jack squat. If your contract gives you 10% of album sales you are one lucky SOB. Mosts artists get under 5% of sales....and no production costs are not so huge that RIAA lables are forced to do this. It all comes down to greed.
God I hate the RIAA. I hate the greed and I hate the lies.
Well, MP3 players such as the RIO typically use ISO flash memory that can be read through a flash card reader or even the device itself (depends on OS and drivers though). Moreover, most devices (flash cameras and mp3 players) has -some- form of media directory on that card. This directory is my no means a standard, and it usually labled differently on every device...but it usually does exist in one form or another with ISO flash cards.
As for devices that use harddisks for storage. These are usually ISO as well. Who knows about the iPod though... It might be HFS+ (I think it is ISO though). I looked into this a bit, and devices like the iPod and Archos jukebox can be accessed as external harddisks. The iPod can go into a Firewire disk mode... I'm sure the jukebox could do the same but with USB (all depends on driver set up though).
All in all. Platform support can usually be a big freek'n myth with MP3 players and digital cameras. Specific platform support is usually the result of some company not wanting to print out a new manual or answer more tech calls.
Perhaps it is because I use a mac a lot, but I am fairly use to being able to gank just about any "digital device" and have it mount on my desktop as a storage device with a media folder. Hell I move code for work around on my digital camera;).
At lot of this has to do with device ROM, how the OS at hand reads that ROM, and if a manufacturer wants there device to be accessed through some sort of goofy interface (ie epson and compaq). But...i'll spare you the geeky details... I need to get back to work;).
This device probably works a lot like most digital cameras and MP3 players. Music is most likely stored in a folder located on the music player's harddisk. Anything in that folder can be played by the MP3 player's software.
It will be interesting to see what drive format apple picked for this device. If it is HFS+ or UFS some folks might need to install 3rd party software to see the device.
All in all, this thing is basically a harddisk with a firewire port and some mp3 software (wonder if it is burned into ROM or not). Just like a digital camera that is a flash card with USB... it should be able to be used on any machine with half ass device support.
At the very least on could drag and drop their music in this devices music directory.
First off Apple has been shipping macs with keyboard software controlled eject BUTTONS for quite some time now. You can buy one if you wish.
Second, all macs can eject disks via f-12, command-E, the system menu bar...and, or... drag to the trash. Moroever the OS notifies you of trash can ejects visually as soon as you start to move a mounted drive. If you cant eject a disk froma mac you could use a few extra brain cells. The OS comes with 5 different ways of doing it. Ease of use... and then some.
As for the global menu bar in MacOS. Honestly, you're not use to it. Combine this with MacOS's drag and drop abilities (which dwarf all other OS's) and you can use multiple apps as if they are all one. It's really quite awesome.
Moreover, now in OS X one can pull up individual app windows (if the app has been designed to do so) with out having to pull up a whole frek'n app. This really does rule... considering you have used the system for at least a whole day.
But then again, clicking an App'n icon in the dock will pull all of it's windows to the front, if they are hidden. It's also possible to pull forward an individual hidden window from an app via dock menus or an app's window menu.
Now, I use Win2k and XP everyday at work. Don't get me wrong...I know all the little ins and outs of the windows GUI. Even with OS X's variouse GUI bugs, I find general window navigation to be muuuch more sophisticated with X (and 9 too). Hell, even folks like adobe are trying to bring typically mac native windowing features into their Windows applications. (ie windows hovering and not needed to be constrained to a window with a menu bar).
Really, it is MacOS's GUI that has kept MacOS alive for sooo many dark years. It's better. Try to intermesh a few macromedia apps on both platforms and you'll understand why it is better. If I was in my office I would resort to a few quick visual aids.:)
I hate to sound like the token-mac-geek, however this guy should probably look into OS X in about 3 to 6 months.
Although there are not a lot of Audio toys for OS X, there will be in about 3 to 6 months. My buddy over at BIAS said they are shooting for November releases of X audio software, and the other big boys re planning the same.
OS X has support for DigiDesign plugins, VST plugins, 32bit audio(the bomb), etc etc...all built into the system. OS also has a sick MIDI manager and the ability to share out single ports to multiple devices.
All in all, these are just a few cool toys that are in X's audio "layer." This OS has really taken a HUGE leap over the competition when it comes to audio...however there will not be apps for a few months.
Look into this. MacOS and audio hve always gone hand in hand. and there is a reason for this. I have all of my hubs and cables pointed to my mac... not my win2k Athlon. Spend the extra money...you can't be cheep with tools like this.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2089968,00. html
This articall basically talks about that new 210 GHz transistor IBM announced back around June.
It's a ZDnet atical, so there's not much about who IBM will licence this technology to. Odds are Power and PowerPC chips will probably take use of this within the next year or so. Sound cool.
I'd advise a google search if you want more info;).
Well, this is simply just a stupid decoding bug. Within IE's prefs you can toggle off binhex and binary decoding. Something like stuffit expander can do the rest for you once you double click the downloaded file. Most people tend to "stuff" and then encode files anyway, so in reality your not really loosing a step. which do you prefer to double click... a sit or zip file? or a bin or hex file?
as for Apple and net standards. Well, as a web developer I can outright say that MacOS X and IE 5 are probably one of the most standards complient combos you are going to find. My rule of thumb is to develop pages on my mac and to tweek them on my 2k box. Typically, if a site works fine with IE 5 Mac it will work fine in every other browser that attempts to follow current web standards. Of course though, IE 5 and 6 for windows is typically a bug ridden POS... so tweeking is always needed. Developing for those browsers first always results in a world of problems for me. If I need to develop on windows I typically use mozilla.
And as for MS. Well, the MS MacBU is primarily a bunch or die hard mac geeks. they have one of the biggest mac labs in the world...second only to apple. The MS MacBU is full of old apple and claris developers...and then make fantastic products. Most people will agrue that Office 2k1 and Office X are much better then their office XP counter part. Moreover, IE 5 for classic MacOS was, and still is, an amazing peice of software. One of the best browsers that I have ever used... on any platform.
Nonetheless, IE 5.1 for OS X has bugs... even in it's "final" state. It was the MacBU's first OS X app... and it was made by carbonizing the older classic 5 browser. The classic 5.0 browser was very very dependant on the little nooks one could exploit in OS 8.5 or 9... I'm not surprized that porting it to X was a problem. However after seeing Office X for OS X I am very excited to see what the MS MacBU will pull out for IE 6 on OS X. I have no doubt that it will also be a great piece of software that folks on other platforms will learn a lot from. MS has a damn fine bunch of Mac developers now...they're the bomb.
Even though this is horable music, I feel as if I need to by a CD like this to see if i can crack it on my own. I have a feeling that i am going to be buying a lot of copy protected CDs just for the hell of it, copying them, and returning them to the store because they "don't work in my CD player." Kind of a big F-U to the RIAA. and no... I will not be ripping these with windows media player;)
Personally, I'm glad that the university system did not prep me for 10 years in a cubical. I'd much rather be "forced" to explore. If I find something I like, I will concentrate on it until I have had my fill...then I will move on. The same goes for my role in the work place. I hope to god that I never get stuck in one place for 10 year. Spare me that.
But, then again, you still need a major to graduate. I guess you have to have at least some concentration.
Apple wants interface builder, and it is possible.
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Apple wants developers to use interface builder. By doing this you help cut down on various GUI inconsistencies.
The Aqua mozilla project was attempting to build an Aqua GUI buy using GIFs and animated GIFs and whatnot. as most of us know, this was not working very well. The scrollbar didn't quite fit right, defualt buttons were not capable of throbbing without sync problems (since they are made up of multiple parts), yada yada yada, Aqua mozilla kind of looked like an OS X app, but the GUI didn't quite function like one. I imagine that was Apple's #1 problem.
Currently there is a project at Source Forge that is trying to slap a native Aqua UI on top of Mozilla builds. It is possible. http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbati2
Mozilla is actually quite dynamic, and system specific stuff like this is not really a big deal. It's being done all the time with platforms like the MacOS.
True, but not allowing developers to use the Aqua guideliness for OS X apps is simply moronic. Seriously.
Mozilla is an OpenSource project. This aqua skin could've very well made it into the nightly OS X builds as well as the final version of Netscape 6.x. But nooooooooo, Apple legal couldn't see that, could they. Idiots.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for Apple keeping the Aqua UI on OS X. It is one of the things that makes OS X what it is. However this was a dumb move that keeps the Aqua UI off of the very OS that it is intened to be used for. I sure as hell don't see Apple telling MS to stop using the genie effect within Office X pallets or white lines within Illustrator 10.
Apple legal has been going overboard for a little over a year now. I would advise all of you to complain.
All in all I think it is still more then possible to have a fun work environment while still understanding how to make money. I don't really want to explain how we do it (online store and online production agency), however there has to be a balance within your work force. You need geeks and you also need a few buisiness majors. Furthermore, those two groups need to be capable to face to face communication, which can be hard at times, so you have to be picky when you hire folks.
Good thing FrontPage is a pile of gabage that generates horable HTML and litters your site directories with random files and folders that you'll never use.
This is just another reason for me to advise people not to use this generator. It's a POS. Period.
Now, wouldn't MS have some REAL balls if they said I couldn't slander Microsoft with MS Word? hehe. That'll probably come in due time....bleh.
I want everyone and their mothers to support MPEG 4. As a web developer I am simply SICK of having to support 3 different media players and a bunch of different OSs. I want to be able to stream 1 format that can be played on every media player on every OS.
It's time we stopped tring to one up each other with new codecs and media players. We need to seriously PICK SOMETHING. This is the only way technology gets adopted by the masses.
I don't have to upgrade my CD player, DVD player, radio, or microwave every 6 months, why should I have to update my stupid computer's media players.
Consumers HATE adding plugins, codecs, and players...and I hate developing for 1 million different things.
MPEG4 is dynamic, auto-upgradable, and will make me a muuuuuch happier camper.
This is actually a great idea. Someone should donate some cheep'o laptops, some cards, and a few 802 routers. This would be fantastic. It'd be a lot easier to get info out if people had this ability. Heck, those old ugly clam shell iBooks would be perfect fo this kind of stuff. They have a huge antenna, a handle, they are strong, and no one will care if the get thrashed.
Slashdot is a geeknews sight and it should righfully stick to topic now that the word of the attack has been more the spred. Now more then ever people need outlets...outlets to normality.
As lame as it may sound.. it is comforting to read tech news stories like this. Even if they are about stupid video games. I honestly don't know if I can watch the regular news right now. I'm sick and moreover, scared.
Screw you for calling me a "Fucking wanker"... do you seriously know what it is even like to go through this now as a US citizen? We're talking about going to war with something that can not been seen ot touched.
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Ya. Cydor is wintel only spyware.
;)
I have LimeWire on both my Redhat 7 box and my OS X 10.1 box. It runs great. Quick & stable.
The new super node beta is the bomb. It connects as fast as napster now. Instant files.
Ehh... well it all boils down to Cydoor not being ported to MacOS, Linux, etc. It's wintel spyware.
Don't get me wrong, I can live without this software, but it is also a symptom of developers not making the effort to port their work to other platforms.
The LimeGroup should just query for banner ads via their Java Client. I see no real reason for a thrid party, and I do support their use of ads. The new "super node" beta is freek'n awesome... instant access to tons of files. No more long connects. Ads are a small price to pay to keep development going.
I can't stand when the RIAA talks about paying atists more. The RIAA's solution to low paided artists is to try and stop music piracy... that is not the solution.
...and no production costs are not so huge that RIAA lables are forced to do this. It all comes down to greed.
The RIAA pays most artists jack squat. If your contract gives you 10% of album sales you are one lucky SOB. Mosts artists get under 5% of sales.
God I hate the RIAA. I hate the greed and I hate the lies.
Well, MP3 players such as the RIO typically use ISO flash memory that can be read through a flash card reader or even the device itself (depends on OS and drivers though). Moreover, most devices (flash cameras and mp3 players) has -some- form of media directory on that card. This directory is my no means a standard, and it usually labled differently on every device...but it usually does exist in one form or another with ISO flash cards.
;).
;).
As for devices that use harddisks for storage. These are usually ISO as well. Who knows about the iPod though... It might be HFS+ (I think it is ISO though). I looked into this a bit, and devices like the iPod and Archos jukebox can be accessed as external harddisks. The iPod can go into a Firewire disk mode... I'm sure the jukebox could do the same but with USB (all depends on driver set up though).
All in all. Platform support can usually be a big freek'n myth with MP3 players and digital cameras. Specific platform support is usually the result of some company not wanting to print out a new manual or answer more tech calls.
Perhaps it is because I use a mac a lot, but I am fairly use to being able to gank just about any "digital device" and have it mount on my desktop as a storage device with a media folder. Hell I move code for work around on my digital camera
At lot of this has to do with device ROM, how the OS at hand reads that ROM, and if a manufacturer wants there device to be accessed through some sort of goofy interface (ie epson and compaq). But...i'll spare you the geeky details... I need to get back to work
This device probably works a lot like most digital cameras and MP3 players. Music is most likely stored in a folder located on the music player's harddisk. Anything in that folder can be played by the MP3 player's software.
It will be interesting to see what drive format apple picked for this device. If it is HFS+ or UFS some folks might need to install 3rd party software to see the device.
All in all, this thing is basically a harddisk with a firewire port and some mp3 software (wonder if it is burned into ROM or not). Just like a digital camera that is a flash card with USB... it should be able to be used on any machine with half ass device support.
At the very least on could drag and drop their music in this devices music directory.
damn typos
First off Apple has been shipping macs with keyboard software controlled eject BUTTONS for quite some time now. You can buy one if you wish.
...and, or... drag to the trash. Moroever the OS notifies you of trash can ejects visually as soon as you start to move a mounted drive. If you cant eject a disk froma mac you could use a few extra brain cells. The OS comes with 5 different ways of doing it. Ease of use... and then some.
... considering you have used the system for at least a whole day.
:)
Second, all macs can eject disks via f-12, command-E, the system menu bar
As for the global menu bar in MacOS. Honestly, you're not use to it. Combine this with MacOS's drag and drop abilities (which dwarf all other OS's) and you can use multiple apps as if they are all one. It's really quite awesome.
Moreover, now in OS X one can pull up individual app windows (if the app has been designed to do so) with out having to pull up a whole frek'n app. This really does rule
But then again, clicking an App'n icon in the dock will pull all of it's windows to the front, if they are hidden. It's also possible to pull forward an individual hidden window from an app via dock menus or an app's window menu.
Now, I use Win2k and XP everyday at work. Don't get me wrong...I know all the little ins and outs of the windows GUI. Even with OS X's variouse GUI bugs, I find general window navigation to be muuuch more sophisticated with X (and 9 too). Hell, even folks like adobe are trying to bring typically mac native windowing features into their Windows applications. (ie windows hovering and not needed to be constrained to a window with a menu bar).
Really, it is MacOS's GUI that has kept MacOS alive for sooo many dark years. It's better. Try to intermesh a few macromedia apps on both platforms and you'll understand why it is better. If I was in my office I would resort to a few quick visual aids.
I hate to sound like the token-mac-geek, however this guy should probably look into OS X in about 3 to 6 months.
...all built into the system. OS also has a sick MIDI manager and the ability to share out single ports to multiple devices.
Although there are not a lot of Audio toys for OS X, there will be in about 3 to 6 months. My buddy over at BIAS said they are shooting for November releases of X audio software, and the other big boys re planning the same.
OS X has support for DigiDesign plugins, VST plugins, 32bit audio(the bomb), etc etc
All in all, these are just a few cool toys that are in X's audio "layer." This OS has really taken a HUGE leap over the competition when it comes to audio...however there will not be apps for a few months.
Look into this. MacOS and audio hve always gone hand in hand. and there is a reason for this. I have all of my hubs and cables pointed to my mac... not my win2k Athlon. Spend the extra money...you can't be cheep with tools like this.
damn typos. errr
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2089968,00. html
;).
This articall basically talks about that new 210 GHz transistor IBM announced back around June.
It's a ZDnet atical, so there's not much about who IBM will licence this technology to. Odds are Power and PowerPC chips will probably take use of this within the next year or so. Sound cool.
I'd advise a google search if you want more info
Two bad IBM has Promised 100ghz within a year or two. Seriously.
Well, this is simply just a stupid decoding bug. Within IE's prefs you can toggle off binhex and binary decoding. Something like stuffit expander can do the rest for you once you double click the downloaded file. Most people tend to "stuff" and then encode files anyway, so in reality your not really loosing a step. which do you prefer to double click... a sit or zip file? or a bin or hex file?
as for Apple and net standards. Well, as a web developer I can outright say that MacOS X and IE 5 are probably one of the most standards complient combos you are going to find. My rule of thumb is to develop pages on my mac and to tweek them on my 2k box. Typically, if a site works fine with IE 5 Mac it will work fine in every other browser that attempts to follow current web standards. Of course though, IE 5 and 6 for windows is typically a bug ridden POS... so tweeking is always needed. Developing for those browsers first always results in a world of problems for me. If I need to develop on windows I typically use mozilla.
And as for MS. Well, the MS MacBU is primarily a bunch or die hard mac geeks. they have one of the biggest mac labs in the world...second only to apple. The MS MacBU is full of old apple and claris developers...and then make fantastic products. Most people will agrue that Office 2k1 and Office X are much better then their office XP counter part. Moreover, IE 5 for classic MacOS was, and still is, an amazing peice of software. One of the best browsers that I have ever used... on any platform.
Nonetheless, IE 5.1 for OS X has bugs... even in it's "final" state. It was the MacBU's first OS X app... and it was made by carbonizing the older classic 5 browser. The classic 5.0 browser was very very dependant on the little nooks one could exploit in OS 8.5 or 9... I'm not surprized that porting it to X was a problem. However after seeing Office X for OS X I am very excited to see what the MS MacBU will pull out for IE 6 on OS X. I have no doubt that it will also be a great piece of software that folks on other platforms will learn a lot from. MS has a damn fine bunch of Mac developers now...they're the bomb.
Even though this is horable music, I feel as if I need to by a CD like this to see if i can crack it on my own. I have a feeling that i am going to be buying a lot of copy protected CDs just for the hell of it, copying them, and returning them to the store because they "don't work in my CD player." Kind of a big F-U to the RIAA. and no... I will not be ripping these with windows media player ;)
Personally, I'm glad that the university system did not prep me for 10 years in a cubical. I'd much rather be "forced" to explore. If I find something I like, I will concentrate on it until I have had my fill...then I will move on. The same goes for my role in the work place. I hope to god that I never get stuck in one place for 10 year. Spare me that.
But, then again, you still need a major to graduate. I guess you have to have at least some concentration.
Apple wants developers to use interface builder. By doing this you help cut down on various GUI inconsistencies.
The Aqua mozilla project was attempting to build an Aqua GUI buy using GIFs and animated GIFs and whatnot. as most of us know, this was not working very well. The scrollbar didn't quite fit right, defualt buttons were not capable of throbbing without sync problems (since they are made up of multiple parts), yada yada yada, Aqua mozilla kind of looked like an OS X app, but the GUI didn't quite function like one. I imagine that was Apple's #1 problem.
Currently there is a project at Source Forge that is trying to slap a native Aqua UI on top of Mozilla builds. It is possible. http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbati2
Mozilla is actually quite dynamic, and system specific stuff like this is not really a big deal. It's being done all the time with platforms like the MacOS.
True, but not allowing developers to use the Aqua guideliness for OS X apps is simply moronic. Seriously.
Mozilla is an OpenSource project. This aqua skin could've very well made it into the nightly OS X builds as well as the final version of Netscape 6.x. But nooooooooo, Apple legal couldn't see that, could they. Idiots.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for Apple keeping the Aqua UI on OS X. It is one of the things that makes OS X what it is. However this was a dumb move that keeps the Aqua UI off of the very OS that it is intened to be used for. I sure as hell don't see Apple telling MS to stop using the genie effect within Office X pallets or white lines within Illustrator 10.
Apple legal has been going overboard for a little over a year now. I would advise all of you to complain.
It has potential. I'll give it that. I watched the whole thing... so that has to count for something. I guess.
Spare me the power balad theme song. I laughed soooo hard.
and, as for the tits. Wow. Those must have cost a lot. Honestly, those are some of TV's top ten. How far will cable TV go? hehe. I love it.
I still have my Dot-Fun job.
All in all I think it is still more then possible to have a fun work environment while still understanding how to make money. I don't really want to explain how we do it (online store and online production agency), however there has to be a balance within your work force. You need geeks and you also need a few buisiness majors. Furthermore, those two groups need to be capable to face to face communication, which can be hard at times, so you have to be picky when you hire folks.
Good thing FrontPage is a pile of gabage that generates horable HTML and litters your site directories with random files and folders that you'll never use.
This is just another reason for me to advise people not to use this generator. It's a POS. Period.
Now, wouldn't MS have some REAL balls if they said I couldn't slander Microsoft with MS Word? hehe. That'll probably come in due time....bleh.
I want everyone and their mothers to support MPEG 4. As a web developer I am simply SICK of having to support 3 different media players and a bunch of different OSs. I want to be able to stream 1 format that can be played on every media player on every OS.
It's time we stopped tring to one up each other with new codecs and media players. We need to seriously PICK SOMETHING. This is the only way technology gets adopted by the masses.
I don't have to upgrade my CD player, DVD player, radio, or microwave every 6 months, why should I have to update my stupid computer's media players.
Consumers HATE adding plugins, codecs, and players...and I hate developing for 1 million different things.
MPEG4 is dynamic, auto-upgradable, and will make me a muuuuuch happier camper.
I think it is still a bit too soon for a high energy SteveNote address right now. Good call.
This is actually a great idea. Someone should donate some cheep'o laptops, some cards, and a few 802 routers. This would be fantastic. It'd be a lot easier to get info out if people had this ability. Heck, those old ugly clam shell iBooks would be perfect fo this kind of stuff. They have a huge antenna, a handle, they are strong, and no one will care if the get thrashed.
Be interesting to see what OS's people end up cramming into one of these boxes.
Slashdot is a geeknews sight and it should righfully stick to topic now that the word of the attack has been more the spred. Now more then ever people need outlets...outlets to normality.
... do you seriously know what it is even like to go through this now as a US citizen? We're talking about going to war with something that can not been seen ot touched.
As lame as it may sound.. it is comforting to read tech news stories like this. Even if they are about stupid video games. I honestly don't know if I can watch the regular news right now. I'm sick and moreover, scared.
Screw you for calling me a "Fucking wanker"
shesss...damn Anonymous Coward
Paaaaalease. Grow up before you start to rant about "intelligence"...you seem to lack it.