As the title says, the site doesn't seem to render anything other than the search bar in safari. It works fine in firefox. Anyone on KDE care to comment on whether it works in konq?
You have been able to use a 2-button mouse with a mac for a long time. As long as the system DEFAULTS to a 1-button mouse, programmers will be forced to program to the 1-button interface. Even if the new mouse becomes standard, it has an option to operate in "1-button mode" which whill most likely be the default setting.
This, again, would be easy for apple to do in the case of itunes/podcasts. Look at all the uproar people had over apple adding their own extensions to RSS for the podcast support in itunes - I have a feeling they would have absolutely no qualms about locking down their itunes/bittorrent app to only work with their system.
I think it'd be cool to use a PDA-style touchscreen on those big wasted areas to the left and right of the trackpad, so you could have a user customizable touch button area. It'd suck for real typing, because of having no tactile feedback, but be pretty damn cool for other applications.
You're missing the point... by shipping computers without two buttons, apple is strongly encouraging good UI design. When a programmer KNOWS that a large part of his user base is likely to only have one button, he's more likely to design his UI to be able to be used fairly easily with a single button. The second button, then, will be programmed as an ADDITIONAL way to access frequently used functionality, and will be used as it should be - to supplement the interface for added efficiency, not to complicate it.
Well in the case of apple, you're not paying for the content - podcasts (for now at least) are free. I don't think it's so much sidestepping the question as proposing an alternate commercial use of the technology.
That would be all well and good, except for the fact that you're fucking wrong. Read the tech specs, it operates exactly how I described. I quoted the "fine" article as well, and your interpretation of the wording in the article was incorrect. Reading The Fucking Article does no good when you're unable to correctly interpret the fucking article.
From the Apple website... You'll Really Click Touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse's seamless top shell detect where you're clicking, transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn't end there. Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse that let you squeeze the mouse between your thumb and finger, activating Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard, Exposé or a whole host of other, customizable features -- instantly.
It sounds to me like the mouse will use the "whole-body" click method, and use the touch sensors to detect which side you pressed down on. I still think the design is kind of agains the apple philosophy, because by making two buttons that LOOK like one button, they are giving an avenue for confusion for the newbie user. Then again, this mouse will probably remain an optional upgrade for "advanced" users
And if the scientists made the announcement before properly analyzing the data, and it turned out to be a false positive, the backlash from the bad press could very well cause them to lose their funding.
There's a big difference between "withholding information" and "scientific rigor"
I gave credit for writing device drivers for the framebuffers and whatnot, so don't act like I didn't give any credit. I simply said it wasn't newsworthy. Writing device drivers is far from easy, and well beyond my sphere of knowledge, but we don't post every time BSD supports a new motherboard, which is essentially what this is. These kids are to be congratulated for a superb job, no doubt, but that doesn't make it news.
Hacking the xbox WAS news, the first time it was done. Now, it's old hat. It doesn't make the technical accomplishment any less, but it's still not news.
I really fail to see how this is news, they ported BSD to what amounts to a hacked up x86 pc. While it's certainly an accomplishment for a couple of young guys to get framebuffer drivers and whatnot working, I don't really consider this news, as the xbox is so close to a PC.
IBM went from hardware to enterprise support. They have huge contracts with huge businesses, and generally couldn't give a shit about a home user or an individual desktop. The home user and the single desktops are Apple's bread and butter.
That being said, they would be hard pressed to find worse actors to play the characters. Sean william scott and fucking johnny knoxville? I remember when I was a kid, my sister and her friends would drool all over bo and luke, they were supposed to be heart-throbs. Instead, we get stifler and a guy who got famous for stapling his scrotum to his leg. And jessica simpson as daisy duke? That airhead couldn't hold a CANDLE to that sly little fox with the cutoff shorts. The worst bit, however, is casting burt reynolds as boss hogg. WTF? He's supposed to be fucking FAT. That's like the whole basis for his character... he's a fat rich slob. Gah this movie pisses me off, and I don't even LIKE the original.
While I agree that xcode is an awesome development environment, there's nothing to stop the designers from using xcode on their desktops, then compiling and running the code on another *nix on the embedded computers in the robot. You can use xcode without using any apple-specific extensions, and because it's mostly a frontend to existing GNU tools, it's very easy to write console apps that work on both platforms without any tweaking. I do a similar thing on a daily basis - tweak my code in xcode, then upload it to a linux cluster to crunch numbers.
Fink isn't like BSD ports, it is in fact based on apt-get. Hell, just yesterday I wanted to plot something on my laptop and popped over to a terminal in my x client and typed apt-get install gnuplot.
(Actually, the only application that I use regularily that doesn't support it under OS X is WMP.:P)
It's good to note at this point that for any app not supporting drag-n-drop on os x, you always have the fallback of being able to drop on the dock icon, which for me has worked for every program i've tried it on, including wmp.
...if the vPod is as open as the iPod is (calm down, ogg users) then Apple stands to gain almost nothing in the way of being a new contect provider.
Wait a minute, you're implying that having the video ipod as open as the ipod, in other words capable of playing a few other common formats, will make apple unable to become a new content provider? Funny, I heard people say the same thing when they found out the ipod plays MP3's, and that didn't stop apple from selling a half billion songs via itunes. The quality of the experience and the integration between components has been where apple excels for a long time. People are willing to pay extra for convenience. And, as others have pointed out, the ringtone industry has proven people will play a lot for stupid shit.
You can get a 19" tv for under a hundred bucks. Just how "huge" of a display do you expect to get for an extra hundred bucks? My 23" display, far from "huge" in my eyes, cost me a ton of money and my firstborn male child. Granted, it's an Apple display, so overpriced, but still you aren't going to get much in the way of hugeness for the extra cost of a normal sized tv. You can get a 40+" tv to watch the game on for under a thousand dollars. Spend the same amount on a computer monitor and you'll get something half that size.
Plus, he requirements for a TV's resolution compared to a computer screen are much much different. As TV size goes up, the resolution stays constant, because the signal's resolution is fixed. For a computer monitor, as you get a bigger screen, you want more resolution, so you can get extra screen real estate. TV's and computer monitors serve very different purposes, and I think most people are quite happy keeping the two seperated. I know I certainly am.
More mods on crack. I'm seeing more and more crap posts modded up and more informative ones modded down. Metamod must be seriously broken or/. must be seriously overrun by jackasses. I've got shitloads of karma to burn so I don't care about that, but having insightful commentary consistently modded down is starting to drive me nuts.
Wow, way to jump overboard. The purpose of this technology is to prevent the display of "protected" content. I seriously doubt your start menu is going to be DRM'ed. I still think it's pretty shitty to implement something like this, but your knee-jerk reaction is nothing more than FUD. If you don't have the DRM-capable monitor, odds are the system will just refuse to play the protected content (most likely downloaded High Definition movies).
As far as Apple moving to intel processors because of built-in DRM... prove it. The DRM thing has been speculation, nothing more. Nowhere has anyone with any "insider knowledge" claimed that DRM was the primary reason to switch to intel. Better mobile processors, better price/performance, more frequent updates... these are reasonable reasons to switch to Intel. Do you honestly think Apple has been maintaining an Intel build of OS X for the last couple of years because they secretly knew Intel was going to add DRM to their chips?
I find it funny that the anti-MS people on slashdot cry foul every time their Redmond nemesis uses FUD, but have no problem at all using their own.
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As the title says, the site doesn't seem to render anything other than the search bar in safari. It works fine in firefox. Anyone on KDE care to comment on whether it works in konq?
You have been able to use a 2-button mouse with a mac for a long time. As long as the system DEFAULTS to a 1-button mouse, programmers will be forced to program to the 1-button interface. Even if the new mouse becomes standard, it has an option to operate in "1-button mode" which whill most likely be the default setting.
This, again, would be easy for apple to do in the case of itunes/podcasts. Look at all the uproar people had over apple adding their own extensions to RSS for the podcast support in itunes - I have a feeling they would have absolutely no qualms about locking down their itunes/bittorrent app to only work with their system.
I think it'd be cool to use a PDA-style touchscreen on those big wasted areas to the left and right of the trackpad, so you could have a user customizable touch button area. It'd suck for real typing, because of having no tactile feedback, but be pretty damn cool for other applications.
You're missing the point... by shipping computers without two buttons, apple is strongly encouraging good UI design. When a programmer KNOWS that a large part of his user base is likely to only have one button, he's more likely to design his UI to be able to be used fairly easily with a single button. The second button, then, will be programmed as an ADDITIONAL way to access frequently used functionality, and will be used as it should be - to supplement the interface for added efficiency, not to complicate it.
Are you sure about that? I've seen plenty of blog discussions where people where whining that apple SHOULD cache podcasts.
Well in the case of apple, you're not paying for the content - podcasts (for now at least) are free. I don't think it's so much sidestepping the question as proposing an alternate commercial use of the technology.
That would be all well and good, except for the fact that you're fucking wrong. Read the tech specs, it operates exactly how I described. I quoted the "fine" article as well, and your interpretation of the wording in the article was incorrect. Reading The Fucking Article does no good when you're unable to correctly interpret the fucking article.
From the Apple website...
You'll Really Click
Touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse's seamless top shell detect where you're clicking, transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn't end there. Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse that let you squeeze the mouse between your thumb and finger, activating Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard, Exposé or a whole host of other, customizable features -- instantly.
It sounds to me like the mouse will use the "whole-body" click method, and use the touch sensors to detect which side you pressed down on. I still think the design is kind of agains the apple philosophy, because by making two buttons that LOOK like one button, they are giving an avenue for confusion for the newbie user. Then again, this mouse will probably remain an optional upgrade for "advanced" users
And if the scientists made the announcement before properly analyzing the data, and it turned out to be a false positive, the backlash from the bad press could very well cause them to lose their funding.
There's a big difference between "withholding information" and "scientific rigor"
I gave credit for writing device drivers for the framebuffers and whatnot, so don't act like I didn't give any credit. I simply said it wasn't newsworthy. Writing device drivers is far from easy, and well beyond my sphere of knowledge, but we don't post every time BSD supports a new motherboard, which is essentially what this is. These kids are to be congratulated for a superb job, no doubt, but that doesn't make it news.
Hacking the xbox WAS news, the first time it was done. Now, it's old hat. It doesn't make the technical accomplishment any less, but it's still not news.
BSD ported to new Asus motherboard chipset.
I really fail to see how this is news, they ported BSD to what amounts to a hacked up x86 pc. While it's certainly an accomplishment for a couple of young guys to get framebuffer drivers and whatnot working, I don't really consider this news, as the xbox is so close to a PC.
Yeah that wording was kind of bothering me too...
The last time I grabbed my package in public I ended up getting the snot beat out of me by a couple of feminists.
IBM went from hardware to enterprise support. They have huge contracts with huge businesses, and generally couldn't give a shit about a home user or an individual desktop. The home user and the single desktops are Apple's bread and butter.
In all fairness, dukes of hazzard sucked.
That being said, they would be hard pressed to find worse actors to play the characters. Sean william scott and fucking johnny knoxville? I remember when I was a kid, my sister and her friends would drool all over bo and luke, they were supposed to be heart-throbs. Instead, we get stifler and a guy who got famous for stapling his scrotum to his leg. And jessica simpson as daisy duke? That airhead couldn't hold a CANDLE to that sly little fox with the cutoff shorts. The worst bit, however, is casting burt reynolds as boss hogg. WTF? He's supposed to be fucking FAT. That's like the whole basis for his character... he's a fat rich slob. Gah this movie pisses me off, and I don't even LIKE the original.
No no, the confusion is between stage right and house right
While I agree that xcode is an awesome development environment, there's nothing to stop the designers from using xcode on their desktops, then compiling and running the code on another *nix on the embedded computers in the robot. You can use xcode without using any apple-specific extensions, and because it's mostly a frontend to existing GNU tools, it's very easy to write console apps that work on both platforms without any tweaking. I do a similar thing on a daily basis - tweak my code in xcode, then upload it to a linux cluster to crunch numbers.
Everytime you mention Amiga in a Mac discussion, God kills a kitten.
Does that mean Amiga references amount to mental masturbation?
Maybe you meant to say debian LEGO? I'm personally a fan of the little debian castle with the horses and knights, but to each his own.
Fink isn't like BSD ports, it is in fact based on apt-get. Hell, just yesterday I wanted to plot something on my laptop and popped over to a terminal in my x client and typed apt-get install gnuplot.
(Actually, the only application that I use regularily that doesn't support it under OS X is WMP. :P)
It's good to note at this point that for any app not supporting drag-n-drop on os x, you always have the fallback of being able to drop on the dock icon, which for me has worked for every program i've tried it on, including wmp.
...if the vPod is as open as the iPod is (calm down, ogg users) then Apple stands to gain almost nothing in the way of being a new contect provider.
Wait a minute, you're implying that having the video ipod as open as the ipod, in other words capable of playing a few other common formats, will make apple unable to become a new content provider? Funny, I heard people say the same thing when they found out the ipod plays MP3's, and that didn't stop apple from selling a half billion songs via itunes. The quality of the experience and the integration between components has been where apple excels for a long time. People are willing to pay extra for convenience. And, as others have pointed out, the ringtone industry has proven people will play a lot for stupid shit.
You can get a 19" tv for under a hundred bucks. Just how "huge" of a display do you expect to get for an extra hundred bucks? My 23" display, far from "huge" in my eyes, cost me a ton of money and my firstborn male child. Granted, it's an Apple display, so overpriced, but still you aren't going to get much in the way of hugeness for the extra cost of a normal sized tv. You can get a 40+" tv to watch the game on for under a thousand dollars. Spend the same amount on a computer monitor and you'll get something half that size.
Plus, he requirements for a TV's resolution compared to a computer screen are much much different. As TV size goes up, the resolution stays constant, because the signal's resolution is fixed. For a computer monitor, as you get a bigger screen, you want more resolution, so you can get extra screen real estate. TV's and computer monitors serve very different purposes, and I think most people are quite happy keeping the two seperated. I know I certainly am.
More mods on crack. I'm seeing more and more crap posts modded up and more informative ones modded down. Metamod must be seriously broken or /. must be seriously overrun by jackasses. I've got shitloads of karma to burn so I don't care about that, but having insightful commentary consistently modded down is starting to drive me nuts.
Wow, way to jump overboard. The purpose of this technology is to prevent the display of "protected" content. I seriously doubt your start menu is going to be DRM'ed. I still think it's pretty shitty to implement something like this, but your knee-jerk reaction is nothing more than FUD. If you don't have the DRM-capable monitor, odds are the system will just refuse to play the protected content (most likely downloaded High Definition movies).
As far as Apple moving to intel processors because of built-in DRM... prove it. The DRM thing has been speculation, nothing more. Nowhere has anyone with any "insider knowledge" claimed that DRM was the primary reason to switch to intel. Better mobile processors, better price/performance, more frequent updates... these are reasonable reasons to switch to Intel. Do you honestly think Apple has been maintaining an Intel build of OS X for the last couple of years because they secretly knew Intel was going to add DRM to their chips?
I find it funny that the anti-MS people on slashdot cry foul every time their Redmond nemesis uses FUD, but have no problem at all using their own.