And the nice thing is is that it comes with a Mac OS X (and also Linux among others) console binary. Which means you can run a nice little cron job that grabs a bunch of web pages and plops the.pdb files into your sync folder ready for the next time you sync up.
"Actually, Apple has had all-in-one Macs from the early 90's."
Um, try the first Mac ever released in 1984. Or perhaps even the Apple Lisa the year before. All Macs up until the Mac II and several other models afterwood were all in one (the Mac SE, SE/30, Classic, Colour Classic and a few others)
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"Government spies could give out addresses that the claim are Peek-A-Booty networks, then catch anyone who tries to connect to those. Worst of all, they could just offer some huge incentive to people for turning in their friends."
"Each 6"x9" piece would be "updated" via a wireless connection from a handheld device. The text on the paper instantly changed to a new price. Pretty good stuff all around."
Link that up to the store's closed circuit TV and some good facial recognition software and the store can set the prices of its stock based on your credit card spending profile - just like amazon was (is?) doing online
Unfortunately (or fortunately IMHO) it's already happening. Mac game porting companies are forced to implement their own D3D workalikes. I like the fact we have an OpenSource alternative though. Gives me something to play with.
"In fact it was Bungie's networking code for Myth II that was so good [macworld.com] it was originally a replacement for, and later became a new version of, Apple's net gaming library (NetSprockets)."
Actually that isn't quite true. Bungie and Apple worked on the networking library together (the legendary Uber project) but the library's history is rather mirky here. Apple later took Project Uber and released it under their Public Source license as the "OpenPlay" library.
Unfortunately the code was in such a bad way that it's taken a very long time for anyone to do anything useful on it. Some volunteers have wrappet NetSprocket on top of OpenPlay. And that is where most of it's usefulness lies.
The latest iMac (iLuxo) has a fan. All iMacs prior to that had no fans. The addition of the fan is the one thing that might prevent me upgrading my wife's indigo iMac.
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It may not look like much, but it's got it where it counts kid.
Carbon events that use the old 'classic' event model suffer from what you just described. If you use CarbonEvents you don't suffer from any of that. You are using CarbonEvents aren't you?
"and they did the whole Cocoa thing to deal with the OS 8/9 -> OS X transition". Uhuh. They did the whole Carbon thing. Carbon. Repeat after me. Carbon. Not Cocoa. Carbon. Cocoa is a whole different thing (a different language for a start). Carbon == refit. Cocoa == rewrite.
Actually as an Apple fanatic I think I'll be waiting for the price to drop. The general consensus around my office (half a dozen rabid Mac programmers) is that it's a nice device but too expensive.
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Or heck, just sell iMacs in Sears for $800 a pop... I'd like to see the profit margin on that one.
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It has 20 minutes of skip protection. Even if you do drop it and your HD does get scratched you've still got a fully working MP3 player... Um... For the next 20 minutes anyway.
No. Definately not lame. But very very overpriced. Take it down to $300 and it would be much more reasonable. Gotta love Cmdr Taco and those one liners.
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I have a LaCie 30GB PocketDrive. It has Firewire and USB interfaces and runs off the bus power if you're running it over Firewire (comes with a tiny adaptor if you have to run it over USB). I swear by it. It's one of the few devices that have changed the way I work (Airport being another).
The really cool is that I originally bought a 6GB version but had an accident with it (ahem). I sent it back to them and they sent me back a 30gigger in return. Sweet!
I must say, flying on Mars is a lot of fun and very very different. Even with rocket assisted take offs and a REALLLY long runway you're still struggling to get enough airspeed to get you airborn, even though the ground underneath your gear is racing by at 600kts. And just try navigating your way to another airstrip to land. No last minute 45 degree turns to line up with the tarmac, to turn 90 degrees with on Mars it takes a good 10 minutes and you've gone 100 miles in that time... Lotsa fun.
On every new Mac (and every time you install a fresh OS upto and included 10.1) the Web Browser's default home page is http://apple.excite.com/ will this mean there'll be a lot of machines with a lot of broken home pages in a month or so?
Excite is basically gone. A hell of a lot of the staff that worked on the portal (and all the staff that worked on stuff like clubs, message boards etc) have got the axe I dont think theres a heck of a lot to sell.
Slashdot Mirror
"Disappointing."
On the contrary. No Jar-Jar
And the nice thing is is that it comes with a Mac OS X (and also Linux among others) console binary. Which means you can run a nice little cron job that grabs a bunch of web pages and plops the .pdb files into your sync folder ready for the next time you sync up.
"Actually, Apple has had all-in-one Macs from the early 90's."
Um, try the first Mac ever released in 1984. Or perhaps even the Apple Lisa the year before. All Macs up until the Mac II and several other models afterwood were all in one (the Mac SE, SE/30, Classic, Colour Classic and a few others)
"Government spies could give out addresses that the claim are Peek-A-Booty networks, then catch anyone who tries to connect to those. Worst of all, they could just offer some huge incentive to people for turning in their friends."
So that would be a Peek-A-Booty-Bounty then?
I'm sure that after a hundred year trip the colonists will be dying to get off to take a piss and walk around for a bit.
"Each 6"x9" piece would be "updated" via a wireless connection from a handheld device. The text on the paper instantly changed to a new price. Pretty good stuff all around."
Link that up to the store's closed circuit TV and some good facial recognition software and the store can set the prices of its stock based on your credit card spending profile - just like amazon was (is?) doing online
Unfortunately (or fortunately IMHO) it's already happening. Mac game porting companies are forced to implement their own D3D workalikes. I like the fact we have an OpenSource alternative though. Gives me something to play with.
"In fact it was Bungie's networking code for Myth II that was so good [macworld.com] it was originally a replacement for, and later became a new version of, Apple's net gaming library (NetSprockets)."
Actually that isn't quite true. Bungie and Apple worked on the networking library together (the legendary Uber project) but the library's history is rather mirky here. Apple later took Project Uber and released it under their Public Source license as the "OpenPlay" library.
Unfortunately the code was in such a bad way that it's taken a very long time for anyone to do anything useful on it. Some volunteers have wrappet NetSprocket on top of OpenPlay. And that is where most of it's usefulness lies.
If you bought a mac for performance reasons then you probably need to keep taking your lithium. BTW I love the "for certain operations" bit.
The latest iMac (iLuxo) has a fan. All iMacs prior to that had no fans. The addition of the fan is the one thing that might prevent me upgrading my wife's indigo iMac.
It may not look like much, but it's got it where it counts kid.
Aren't you a little small for a Stormtrooper?
Well it's the Winter Olympics. Of course it's gone downhill. Boom boom.
Carbon events that use the old 'classic' event model suffer from what you just described. If you use CarbonEvents you don't suffer from any of that. You are using CarbonEvents aren't you?
"and they did the whole Cocoa thing to deal with the OS 8/9 -> OS X transition". Uhuh. They did the whole Carbon thing. Carbon. Repeat after me. Carbon. Not Cocoa. Carbon. Cocoa is a whole different thing (a different language for a start). Carbon == refit. Cocoa == rewrite.
Actually as an Apple fanatic I think I'll be waiting for the price to drop. The general consensus around my office (half a dozen rabid Mac programmers) is that it's a nice device but too expensive.
Or heck, just sell iMacs in Sears for $800 a pop... I'd like to see the profit margin on that one.
It has 20 minutes of skip protection. Even if you do drop it and your HD does get scratched you've still got a fully working MP3 player... Um... For the next 20 minutes anyway.
They have an MP3 player that runs OSX? Cool? What is the URL... Where do I order that?
No. Definately not lame. But very very overpriced. Take it down to $300 and it would be much more reasonable. Gotta love Cmdr Taco and those one liners.
I have a LaCie 30GB PocketDrive. It has Firewire and USB interfaces and runs off the bus power if you're running it over Firewire (comes with a tiny adaptor if you have to run it over USB). I swear by it. It's one of the few devices that have changed the way I work (Airport being another). The really cool is that I originally bought a 6GB version but had an accident with it (ahem). I sent it back to them and they sent me back a 30gigger in return. Sweet!
I must say, flying on Mars is a lot of fun and very very different. Even with rocket assisted take offs and a REALLLY long runway you're still struggling to get enough airspeed to get you airborn, even though the ground underneath your gear is racing by at 600kts. And just try navigating your way to another airstrip to land. No last minute 45 degree turns to line up with the tarmac, to turn 90 degrees with on Mars it takes a good 10 minutes and you've gone 100 miles in that time... Lotsa fun.
Can you imagine the beowulf cluster that would make?
On every new Mac (and every time you install a fresh OS upto and included 10.1) the Web Browser's default home page is http://apple.excite.com/ will this mean there'll be a lot of machines with a lot of broken home pages in a month or so?
Excite is basically gone. A hell of a lot of the staff that worked on the portal (and all the staff that worked on stuff like clubs, message boards etc) have got the axe I dont think theres a heck of a lot to sell.