"We seem to be running away from the world, and much of the world hates us for it. Such forces make America not only the world's leading superpower, but probably its most feared and hated nation. As the U.S. evolved rapidly from an industrial to a data-based economy, much of the world hasn't come along, or doesn't want to."
Resistance is futile. We will add your own biological and technological advantages to our own.
Have you even looked at iMovie. It is definately a robust application. It supports multiple audio formats - multiple video codecs. Has oodles of wipes, fades, and effects. And supports multiple audio tracks.
I do not belive iMovie supports time code however. But I do know (after using both programs) that iMovie is a more fully featured program than Adobe Primier LE. & best of all, it's free!
Apple Relizes that this is a share of the market place that it is missing - and I believe Apple is making it there - slowly.
3D - Market: Maya ported to Mac OS X and with Pixar's Render Man already available for Linux I do not believe that Darwin will be far behind. RenderMan With the combination of Maya - Render Man - & Clusterable Darwin/ OS X machines (especially if thier low profile this puts Mac at the fore front of 3D rendering. I'm sure that Steve Jobs recognizes the demand for a setup such as this - as he is the CEO of PIXAR.
For the scientific field Apple has released Genentech BLAST and there a slew of other programs being ported from unix to OSX.
After observing Steve Jobs fro many years - you must realize that Jobs will not release a product until it is the most svelte & elegant thing in the market place.
When Apple does release low profile - Rack CPU's they will be *insane*. IT organizations & Science reasearch labs will drool all overthemselves.
But Jobs does not work on a normal time table: Recognize market - develop product for market - release.
Jobs works more like this: Recognize market. Target specific areas in Market where the Mac can dominate, Think about that for several years. Add ram & 50Mhz increase to iMac line. Release software developing lust & desire for product line. Begin engineering new product. Take a nap. Add ram & 50Mhz increase to iMac line Scrap new product start over - with same deadline. Release new product at Apple Dev WORLD Expo with the famous line "Oh, & one more thing...."
1. You may be *conveniently* too far away from the 'central office' [They make the restrictions tighter for 3rd-party service: like only up to 10,000 feet, when the real limit is several thousand feet more]
I've gotten DSL lines turned up & Stable at 18,000 feet (at only 128K). The limitation you speak of is probably the providers own limitaiton - to ensure customers get higher speed.
One issue I've noticed is - it doesn't matter how close you are to a central office - It matters which trunk group you are assigned. You could have a CO w/ in spitting distance - but if you are assigned to a trunk group running out of a CO 5 miles away - no DSL for you. I've never even seen an ilec reassign customers trunk groups to turn up a DSL line - not even for thier own customers.
"look at how Napster was abandoned in favor of Morpheus and Audiogalaxy. Now everyone knows about and is using them. So the RIAA sues them, and they've started to crack down. Now we'll have a bit of a "dead" period, but soon they'll be another wave coming out of the underground. "
Umm you missed the court injunction against napster & the discontinuation of thier service due to a COURT ORDER. I don't think there is going to ever be a court injunction against compiling a Linux Binary (wouldn't M$ love that?!).
You must consider this:
M$ is anti open standards - they don't like sharing. So in response linux - BSD & *nix open standards are being adopeted by an industry that needs interoperability - to compete - to function.
M$ is THE only company to use & prosletize Windows. Sure there are open hadware vendors such as Compaq - HP, IBM, Dell, & Gateway. Bu they have no loyalty to M$ & all offer *nix flavoured solutions.
M$ realizes it is one company - that the entire computing industry is moving against. (Hell even Mac jumped on the *nix bandwagon).
Yes it is cyclical - one company gaining crazy market share - that company being called the "evil empire". That once could also be said of Digital - or IBM.
This thread reads like any other apple thread on/. - Maccaddict - Or I Hate apple.
There are your uninformed PC enthusiasts who try to hammer thier point home with out evidence to back it up.
As well as the evangelistic Apple lovers - to who the company can do no wrong.
And lets not forget the majority of the posters in this thread who have no back bone & waffle between Apple bashing & loving.
I am seriously dissappointed with this thread - I was hoping for an intellignet discussion of Apple's future & past. Instead I got an argumentative thread chock full of the vastly unclued.
I'm just glad that none of these people actually work for Apple.
Also attitudes about hacking & script kiddie exploits have changed.
When I was 15 (not too long ago - about 8 years) We had a Mac network w/ at ease installed.
We needed finder acess to install & play Marathon (The orginal game - just released).
We broke into a room used for storage (storing new computers yet to be set up) & set up our own network (using the recently installed school's ethernet).
The once the admin found out we broke into the storage closet & set up the computers - he turned it into a lab. & Promptly lock us out of Finder access.
It took us two weeks to crack at ease (Teacher account had finder access - thier passwords were thier home phone #'s - thank you white pages) & we were back in business. A few days later we were caught playing the game by the admin. His response - "quit your game, I'll go downstairs & serve".
The admin would continuously lock us out & we'd find ways around the security he enabled. So what started as a bunch of 'black hat' script kiddies compromising network security - turned into a white hat effort that benefitted both parties. We got to play our game as the Admin improved network security.
Another kid purposefully installed NVir A on the network - we were frequently pulled out of classes for the month it to us to isolate each machine from the network - identify those infected - examine the resource forks of the infected computers for changes - & thourhg this we identified the source of infection & caught the kid who installed the virus. - He was only suspended.
It's 8 years later & kids now go directly to jail - do not pass go - do not collect $200. It's not that kids these days are any more intelligent - or rebellious. Our attitudes have changed.
No longer can a 15 year old compromise his schools network - to get his Quake on - with out being arrested. It is this extreme reaction - and a huge failing of the system to recognize that the kid's interests can be used to benefit the institution. It amazes me that suddenly all cracking is considered bad - or evil - and that all hackers (especially in an instance such as this)are now considred evil.
Now I admit that the kid who installed NVir A was not just curious - but instead probably pulling a prank - probably for attention. He probably did not realize the destructive power of the virus - or the amount of effort necessary to iradicate it from the network. And I believe that his punishment (a one week suspension from school) was sufficient.
It's just that we teach our kids to be curious for eight years & when they get to high school & finally begin to learn how to teach themselves new information we treat them like criminals - not dumb kids who don't have the foresight to realize that what they are doing is wrong - or IF they know it's wrong they don't realize amount of damage they can cause.
It is a part of human nature for kids to be curious & to try things we tell them they can't do. It was my high school expirience that opened my mind to computers - I now work for a telco company fixing DSL & T's (last mile - woo hoo!).
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"We seem to be running away from the world, and much of the world hates us for it. Such forces make America not only the world's leading superpower, but probably its most feared and hated nation. As the U.S. evolved rapidly from an industrial to a data-based economy, much of the world hasn't come along, or doesn't want to."
Resistance is futile.
We will add your own biological and technological advantages to our own.
Have you even looked at iMovie. It is definately a robust application. It supports multiple audio formats - multiple video codecs. Has oodles of wipes, fades, and effects. And supports multiple audio tracks.
I do not belive iMovie supports time code however. But I do know (after using both programs) that iMovie is a more fully featured program than Adobe Primier LE. & best of all, it's free!
Apple Relizes that this is a share of the market place that it is missing - and I believe Apple is making it there - slowly.
3D - Market: Maya ported to Mac OS X
and with Pixar's Render Man already available for Linux I do not believe that Darwin will be far behind.
RenderMan
With the combination of Maya - Render Man - & Clusterable Darwin/ OS X machines (especially if thier low profile this puts Mac at the fore front of 3D rendering. I'm sure that Steve Jobs recognizes the demand for a setup such as this - as he is the CEO of PIXAR.
For the scientific field Apple has released Genentech BLAST and there a slew of other programs being ported from unix to OSX.
After observing Steve Jobs fro many years - you must realize that Jobs will not release a product until it is the most svelte & elegant thing in the market place.
When Apple does release low profile - Rack CPU's they will be *insane*. IT organizations & Science reasearch labs will drool all overthemselves.
But Jobs does not work on a normal time table:
Recognize market - develop product for market - release.
Jobs works more like this:
Recognize market.
Target specific areas in Market where the Mac can dominate, Think about that for several years.
Add ram & 50Mhz increase to iMac line.
Release software developing lust & desire for product line.
Begin engineering new product.
Take a nap.
Add ram & 50Mhz increase to iMac line
Scrap new product start over - with same deadline.
Release new product at Apple Dev WORLD Expo with the famous line "Oh, & one more thing...."
But what happens if you like Guiness?
Not mine - but on tipic & still cool
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http://www.chickshardware.com/html/mods/cases/k
Slick G4 Cube w/ 2 processors
http://homepage.mac.com/kmaa/cube.html
1. You may be *conveniently* too far away from the 'central office' [They make the restrictions tighter for 3rd-party service: like only up to 10,000 feet, when the real limit is several thousand feet more]
I've gotten DSL lines turned up & Stable at 18,000 feet (at only 128K). The limitation you speak of is probably the providers own limitaiton - to ensure customers get higher speed.
One issue I've noticed is - it doesn't matter how close you are to a central office - It matters which trunk group you are assigned. You could have a CO w/ in spitting distance - but if you are assigned to a trunk group running out of a CO 5 miles away - no DSL for you. I've never even seen an ilec reassign customers trunk groups to turn up a DSL line - not even for thier own customers.
"look at how Napster was abandoned in favor of Morpheus and Audiogalaxy. Now everyone knows about and is using them. So the RIAA sues them, and they've started to crack down. Now we'll have a bit of a "dead" period, but soon they'll be another wave coming out of the underground. "
Umm you missed the court injunction against napster & the discontinuation of thier service due to a COURT ORDER. I don't think there is going to ever be a court injunction against compiling a Linux Binary (wouldn't M$ love that?!).
You must consider this:
M$ is anti open standards - they don't like sharing. So in response linux - BSD & *nix open standards are being adopeted by an industry that needs interoperability - to compete - to function.
M$ is THE only company to use & prosletize Windows. Sure there are open hadware vendors such as Compaq - HP, IBM, Dell, & Gateway. Bu they have no loyalty to M$ & all offer *nix flavoured solutions.
M$ realizes it is one company - that the entire computing industry is moving against. (Hell even Mac jumped on the *nix bandwagon).
Yes it is cyclical - one company gaining crazy market share - that company being called the "evil empire". That once could also be said of Digital - or IBM.
I like the way the cycle is heading.
yeah & it'll run Bind, Apache, The Gimp, & Send mail fater too. (OS X ports baby)
http://www.gms4vme.com/v191.html
Non Apple G4 based hardware - what what
This thread reads like any other apple thread on /. - Maccaddict - Or I Hate apple.
There are your uninformed PC enthusiasts who try to hammer thier point home with out evidence to back it up.
As well as the evangelistic Apple lovers - to who the company can do no wrong.
And lets not forget the majority of the posters in this thread who have no back bone & waffle between Apple bashing & loving.
I am seriously dissappointed with this thread - I was hoping for an intellignet discussion of Apple's future & past. Instead I got an argumentative thread chock full of the vastly unclued.
I'm just glad that none of these people actually work for Apple.
Also attitudes about hacking & script kiddie exploits have changed.
When I was 15 (not too long ago - about 8 years) We had a Mac network w/ at ease installed.
We needed finder acess to install & play Marathon (The orginal game - just released).
We broke into a room used for storage (storing new computers yet to be set up) & set up our own network (using the recently installed school's ethernet).
The once the admin found out we broke into the storage closet & set up the computers - he turned it into a lab. & Promptly lock us out of Finder access.
It took us two weeks to crack at ease (Teacher account had finder access - thier passwords were thier home phone #'s - thank you white pages) & we were back in business. A few days later we were caught playing the game by the admin. His response - "quit your game, I'll go downstairs & serve".
The admin would continuously lock us out & we'd find ways around the security he enabled. So what started as a bunch of 'black hat' script kiddies compromising network security - turned into a white hat effort that benefitted both parties. We got to play our game as the Admin improved network security.
Another kid purposefully installed NVir A on the network - we were frequently pulled out of classes for the month it to us to isolate each machine from the network - identify those infected - examine the resource forks of the infected computers for changes - & thourhg this we identified the source of infection & caught the kid who installed the virus. - He was only suspended.
It's 8 years later & kids now go directly to jail - do not pass go - do not collect $200. It's not that kids these days are any more intelligent - or rebellious. Our attitudes have changed.
No longer can a 15 year old compromise his schools network - to get his Quake on - with out being arrested. It is this extreme reaction - and a huge failing of the system to recognize that the kid's interests can be used to benefit the institution. It amazes me that suddenly all cracking is considered bad - or evil - and that all hackers (especially in an instance such as this)are now considred evil.
Now I admit that the kid who installed NVir A was not just curious - but instead probably pulling a prank - probably for attention. He probably did not realize the destructive power of the virus - or the amount of effort necessary to iradicate it from the network. And I believe that his punishment (a one week suspension from school) was sufficient.
It's just that we teach our kids to be curious for eight years & when they get to high school & finally begin to learn how to teach themselves new information we treat them like criminals - not dumb kids who don't have the foresight to realize that what they are doing is wrong - or IF they know it's wrong they don't realize amount of damage they can cause.
It is a part of human nature for kids to be curious & to try things we tell them they can't do. It was my high school expirience that opened my mind to computers - I now work for a telco company fixing DSL & T's (last mile - woo hoo!).
I have never been arrested for cracking At Ease