If they are locking the source down, I for one would hope that it might indicate making a move to solaris. Especially after the recent news that they were porting some of Solaris' file system over to MacOS, moving over to full solaris may leverage the best of unix and the mac os GUI system.
Try Basilisk. It's a GPL'd 68k Mac emulator, so should be able to run all of your classic Mac OS programs (up to a point), and should be able to work on the new intel macs. PearPC does PowerPC emulation but not sure how fast it will be for classic games. I'm not so sure how fast Basilisk will run as my last experience of a Classic Mac was a 68k performa which most systems should be able to emulate without any problems at all.
Having a look at the Wikipedia Monopoly article, you can easily see that the London edition was the 2nd edition made, and came out the year after the Atlantic City edition. The London edition (which is also apparently the standard UK and Commonwealth edition) is the one the BBC uses so the street names are correct. Forgetting the localised editions, the 'London" edition would probably be competing with the Atlantic City version in worldwide numbers.
Check your caps lock button. I have found that I have this same problem but only when I have hit the caps button by accident. Switching it off fixes it.
I looked at it and it seems like a Star Wars/Trek fan's wet dream. Some of the choices are obvious, but Star Wars V? Not that great. First Contact? Not sure where that's from. And contact itself - the link to space seems a bit tenuous, leading to the point that other films could easily be shoved into the list. The list seems very biased. I mean even Spaceballs could easily make this list. And the GNAA could easily put their favourite film into there as well.
Of course it is a stable format. The specifications for it are written down. On the other hand changes will eventually be made, but these will be written down in a new specifcation e.g. OpenDocument 2.0. Every file format will have the same evolution where things are eventually added. The base file format will be the same. In fact the MS formats seem to be currently worse for this sort of format creep.
Sorry, what version of NeoOfficeJ are you using? I have the 1.1 version here, and there is no default start up in the background. Starting up NeoOffice J for the first time in a session might take 10-20 seconds, but each additional time to start up after that is quick (prob due to the java runtime needed).
Besides NeoOffice isn't a mac port per se. Its just re-implementing the X11 version of OpenOffice.org for the mac as a java application.
If you can start up all those programs before NeoOffice you either have something wrong with your setup or are a troll. Which one are you?
No problems with my 1.5 beta - in fact I visited the site with the Deer Park alphas and there was no problem at that time as well (I remember distinctly trying to open the page in various different ways).
Check that some extension e.g. AdBlock isn't stripping out the flash in one the pages. It sometimes does things like that depending on how you've configured it.
The sequel to Chrono Trigger (amazing game) was never released in Europe to the sadness of many. Even then I don't think the playstation remake of chrono trigger was released either, despite all the please to Square at the time. They need to get this sorted first before any further sequels.
I have to say this as a European. Europe in itself is quite lazy, and only makes these kind of noises once they figure out they are being left behind. Google is innovative enough to start all different kinds of projects. It was the Google Library which triggered this off, and this particularly upset the French as they are always trying to dominate Europe with their politics and language, and they saw that America (companies) had a new project which could effectively increase the access of the world to English language text.
The French had a long time to build up such a similar library with the state funding. However they just made re-actionary moves by persuading the EU to fund what (seems to me) a French dominated European library project.
I actually am fed up of helping to fund projects where the main beneficiaries are the French. Even the new EU countries can see this imbalance.
The thing is in that America seems to support innovation to a greater extent - or at least they 'cheerlead' it more than in Europe. Skype could be an exception in that it is (apparently) from Luxembourg.
And if people have such strong feelings about MS tell them to use Linux and KDE - strong European cores.
Intel seems to be jumping on the VOIP bandwagon a bit late. Service over IP seems like just an attempt to re-frame the work already done so that consumers think of it as an Intel-developed product. The applications mentioned such as VOIP and teleconferencing have been in use for years. The only thing holding them back (which skype solved) was poor-UI. If people can work on that the applications of this type of technology can spread throughout society.
I think part of it is the convenience of using digital cameras. No mucking about wasting time loading film. See a good shot? Take the camera switch it on and you have it in a couple of seconds. It lends itself to getting better pictures for amateur photographers, as you can review, and with computers you can sort it out and print only the best pictures, rather than hope that your prints came out good.
On top of this is the competition for mobile phones with cameras. As a lot of people will have phones with them it makes it even more convenient if you see a good shot (see all those pictures from the London Bombing as an example of the 'new photojournalist'). I've seen a friends SonyEricsson K750 - a middle of the range phone I think. However the phone has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus - perfect for on-the-spot pictures. The pictures it takes look pretty good. This is why old style film is out the door. It just isn't a convenient proposition for most people.
I would suggest finding some windows porters that can use a cross-platform toolkit of some sort e..g Trolltech's QT or WXWidgets. Even better if you can do it yourself, although it would need a C++ background which might be difficult if you are used to objective C.
I think it also depends on what you are porting. The above might be better for non-game programs. QT only if you can absorb the cost of getting yourself or other devs the licence for the toolkit, or wxwidgets if you can handle the fact that people consider it less mature. Both toolkits are fairly good at mac, windows and linux so would prob. need minor platform specific adaptations depending on what you need.
Just to be complete some people like GTK as a toolkit but the windows and mac support (IMHO) is pretty god awful.
These should help getting a cross-platform app, and if you transfer your original app to the platform of choice you can maintain one codebase. Just to note that you might lose some of the nice Cocoa goodness in that case, but the programs should 'fit' into the OS.
I have to disagree with people here. The Memory Sticks are not that bad. OK its a different standard to SD, but SD is equally proprietory. The MS and MSD actually work fairly well if you buy Sony equipment so it is quite interchangeable. In response to another poster the Duos should work with normal MS ports with the adaptor that comes with them.
The SD standard in itself if maybe a bit better as it does come slightly cheaper and is supported by more manufacturers. But the deriviatives are a joke - the miniSD and the b*stardised offsrpring the TransFlash. Especially for mobile phones it makes buying this haphazard as there is no guarantee that a standard will be in operation in the near future, especially with added 'convenience' of Nokia's reduced MMC.
In this way Sony's MS and MSD (with the increasing concentration on the Duo) seem more sane. It just works across the product lines esp with the PSP and the PS3 coming out. I'm sure someone will make an adaptor to convert the old cards anyway (the PS2 one being essentially a different form factor memory stick).
I think this writer still hasn't got it. OSX has supported multi button mice for ages - I have a 5 button Microsoft bluetooth mouse working perfectly with 10.3, making expose easy to use.
The whole point of the one button mouse is to make it easy to use for beginners, and to prevent developers being lazy when designing programs. And using expose with a single mouse button only needs for the screen corners to be set up to trigger the actions.
While some of the points seem relevant, others are completely off the mark.
Genesis controller better than the SNES? Even a tie? No way. The three button layout on the Genesis controller was a dog and made if hard to reach buttons. The SNES two button layout was much more comfortable, and it was only in the rare games (e.g. SFII) that it was a bit of a pain trying to re-configure buttons (but easy enough).
In the end it was the SNES controller which has influenced modern controllers, with the button layout and the shoulder buttons. I personally think that the author has too much of a false romance for the genesis style three layout (or 2x3 layout in other sega controllers).
They also have a strange fixation on the Dual Shock - they even miss out that the original PS controllers were not even dual shock. Overall a so-so article.
You so need to sit down and take a chill-pill. Being x86 will not make it easier to make viruses. That whole aspect will depend on the OS, and it is still OSX. And your friends computer is suddenly not going to stop working. The transition is not happening for a wee while yet, and so Apple will still support his system. They're even going to allow the production of dual platform binaries. You're just getting worked up over nothing. I just think you and your friend are zealots - mac on x86 may be good. They might even have the rights to licence altivec over to intel processors. Just chill...
The BBC have got a lot of complaints about this. They recently had to tilt the map some more as the angle was such that northern England and Scotland were too small. The shadows and falling rain are quite difficult to exactly pin point, and apparently can't be distinguished by the colour blind. And the fishermen are complaining that the old wind directions and what not aren't replicated on this. So while it looks good it hasn't replicated the functionality of the old 2D maps, which IMHO are better.
Having an application as a directory is not really an apple innovation, but has existed before in RISC OS and the related ROX. Look up this page and search for 'application directory'.
Why can't it all be XML based where you just design your GUI elements in document form and load it in.
That is one suggestion which needs to be sent to the team working on the new Java. This would make things sensible. It would be even better if they used an XML syntax similar to Mozilla's XUL or even the stuff WxWidgets uses - this would (hopefully) make porting a breeze.
I use MoneyDance. Although its pay for, its Java so cross-platform to an extent, and is good for basic money management. I wish the Gnucash people would at least make some steps to become cross-platform, but nobody seems to be interested in taking the challenge.
You haven't even factored in the cost of additional software here. I don't know what the Dell has (assuming MS works), but the apple has an equivalent, and even has the full iLife suite, which would set you back a fair bit on the PC side even for just photo software, movie software, and garageband equivalent.
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If they are locking the source down, I for one would hope that it might indicate making a move to solaris. Especially after the recent news that they were porting some of Solaris' file system over to MacOS, moving over to full solaris may leverage the best of unix and the mac os GUI system.
Try Basilisk. It's a GPL'd 68k Mac emulator, so should be able to run all of your classic Mac OS programs (up to a point), and should be able to work on the new intel macs. PearPC does PowerPC emulation but not sure how fast it will be for classic games. I'm not so sure how fast Basilisk will run as my last experience of a Classic Mac was a 68k performa which most systems should be able to emulate without any problems at all.
Having a look at the Wikipedia Monopoly article, you can easily see that the London edition was the 2nd edition made, and came out the year after the Atlantic City edition. The London edition (which is also apparently the standard UK and Commonwealth edition) is the one the BBC uses so the street names are correct. Forgetting the localised editions, the 'London" edition would probably be competing with the Atlantic City version in worldwide numbers.
Check your caps lock button. I have found that I have this same problem but only when I have hit the caps button by accident. Switching it off fixes it.
I looked at it and it seems like a Star Wars/Trek fan's wet dream. Some of the choices are obvious, but Star Wars V? Not that great. First Contact? Not sure where that's from. And contact itself - the link to space seems a bit tenuous, leading to the point that other films could easily be shoved into the list. The list seems very biased. I mean even Spaceballs could easily make this list. And the GNAA could easily put their favourite film into there as well.
Of course it is a stable format. The specifications for it are written down. On the other hand changes will eventually be made, but these will be written down in a new specifcation e.g. OpenDocument 2.0. Every file format will have the same evolution where things are eventually added. The base file format will be the same. In fact the MS formats seem to be currently worse for this sort of format creep.
Sorry, what version of NeoOfficeJ are you using? I have the 1.1 version here, and there is no default start up in the background. Starting up NeoOffice J for the first time in a session might take 10-20 seconds, but each additional time to start up after that is quick (prob due to the java runtime needed).
Besides NeoOffice isn't a mac port per se. Its just re-implementing the X11 version of OpenOffice.org for the mac as a java application.
If you can start up all those programs before NeoOffice you either have something wrong with your setup or are a troll. Which one are you?
Someone is already making an MSO filter for ODF. See here: OpenOffice.org Newsletter story
This guy actually works for Microsoft as acknowledged by ZDNet themselves. You should take some of this with a pinch of salt then.
No problems with my 1.5 beta - in fact I visited the site with the Deer Park alphas and there was no problem at that time as well (I remember distinctly trying to open the page in various different ways).
Check that some extension e.g. AdBlock isn't stripping out the flash in one the pages. It sometimes does things like that depending on how you've configured it.
The sequel to Chrono Trigger (amazing game) was never released in Europe to the sadness of many. Even then I don't think the playstation remake of chrono trigger was released either, despite all the please to Square at the time. They need to get this sorted first before any further sequels.
I have to say this as a European. Europe in itself is quite lazy, and only makes these kind of noises once they figure out they are being left behind. Google is innovative enough to start all different kinds of projects. It was the Google Library which triggered this off, and this particularly upset the French as they are always trying to dominate Europe with their politics and language, and they saw that America (companies) had a new project which could effectively increase the access of the world to English language text.
The French had a long time to build up such a similar library with the state funding. However they just made re-actionary moves by persuading the EU to fund what (seems to me) a French dominated European library project.
I actually am fed up of helping to fund projects where the main beneficiaries are the French. Even the new EU countries can see this imbalance.
The thing is in that America seems to support innovation to a greater extent - or at least they 'cheerlead' it more than in Europe. Skype could be an exception in that it is (apparently) from Luxembourg.
And if people have such strong feelings about MS tell them to use Linux and KDE - strong European cores.
Intel seems to be jumping on the VOIP bandwagon a bit late. Service over IP seems like just an attempt to re-frame the work already done so that consumers think of it as an Intel-developed product. The applications mentioned such as VOIP and teleconferencing have been in use for years. The only thing holding them back (which skype solved) was poor-UI. If people can work on that the applications of this type of technology can spread throughout society.
I think part of it is the convenience of using digital cameras. No mucking about wasting time loading film. See a good shot? Take the camera switch it on and you have it in a couple of seconds. It lends itself to getting better pictures for amateur photographers, as you can review, and with computers you can sort it out and print only the best pictures, rather than hope that your prints came out good.
On top of this is the competition for mobile phones with cameras. As a lot of people will have phones with them it makes it even more convenient if you see a good shot (see all those pictures from the London Bombing as an example of the 'new photojournalist'). I've seen a friends SonyEricsson K750 - a middle of the range phone I think. However the phone has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus - perfect for on-the-spot pictures. The pictures it takes look pretty good. This is why old style film is out the door. It just isn't a convenient proposition for most people.
I would suggest finding some windows porters that can use a cross-platform toolkit of some sort e..g Trolltech's QT or WXWidgets. Even better if you can do it yourself, although it would need a C++ background which might be difficult if you are used to objective C.
I think it also depends on what you are porting. The above might be better for non-game programs. QT only if you can absorb the cost of getting yourself or other devs the licence for the toolkit, or wxwidgets if you can handle the fact that people consider it less mature. Both toolkits are fairly good at mac, windows and linux so would prob. need minor platform specific adaptations depending on what you need.
Just to be complete some people like GTK as a toolkit but the windows and mac support (IMHO) is pretty god awful.
These should help getting a cross-platform app, and if you transfer your original app to the platform of choice you can maintain one codebase. Just to note that you might lose some of the nice Cocoa goodness in that case, but the programs should 'fit' into the OS.
I have to disagree with people here. The Memory Sticks are not that bad. OK its a different standard to SD, but SD is equally proprietory. The MS and MSD actually work fairly well if you buy Sony equipment so it is quite interchangeable. In response to another poster the Duos should work with normal MS ports with the adaptor that comes with them.
The SD standard in itself if maybe a bit better as it does come slightly cheaper and is supported by more manufacturers. But the deriviatives are a joke - the miniSD and the b*stardised offsrpring the TransFlash. Especially for mobile phones it makes buying this haphazard as there is no guarantee that a standard will be in operation in the near future, especially with added 'convenience' of Nokia's reduced MMC.
In this way Sony's MS and MSD (with the increasing concentration on the Duo) seem more sane. It just works across the product lines esp with the PSP and the PS3 coming out. I'm sure someone will make an adaptor to convert the old cards anyway (the PS2 one being essentially a different form factor memory stick).
I think this writer still hasn't got it. OSX has supported multi button mice for ages - I have a 5 button Microsoft bluetooth mouse working perfectly with 10.3, making expose easy to use.
The whole point of the one button mouse is to make it easy to use for beginners, and to prevent developers being lazy when designing programs. And using expose with a single mouse button only needs for the screen corners to be set up to trigger the actions.
While some of the points seem relevant, others are completely off the mark.
Genesis controller better than the SNES? Even a tie? No way. The three button layout on the Genesis controller was a dog and made if hard to reach buttons. The SNES two button layout was much more comfortable, and it was only in the rare games (e.g. SFII) that it was a bit of a pain trying to re-configure buttons (but easy enough).
In the end it was the SNES controller which has influenced modern controllers, with the button layout and the shoulder buttons. I personally think that the author has too much of a false romance for the genesis style three layout (or 2x3 layout in other sega controllers).
They also have a strange fixation on the Dual Shock - they even miss out that the original PS controllers were not even dual shock. Overall a so-so article.
You so need to sit down and take a chill-pill. Being x86 will not make it easier to make viruses. That whole aspect will depend on the OS, and it is still OSX. And your friends computer is suddenly not going to stop working. The transition is not happening for a wee while yet, and so Apple will still support his system. They're even going to allow the production of dual platform binaries. You're just getting worked up over nothing. I just think you and your friend are zealots - mac on x86 may be good. They might even have the rights to licence altivec over to intel processors. Just chill...
See here on the BBC News site for more comments.
(PS - Go Liverpool for the cup)
Having an application as a directory is not really an apple innovation, but has existed before in RISC OS and the related ROX. Look up this page and search for 'application directory'.
Why can't it all be XML based where you just design your GUI elements in document form and load it in.
That is one suggestion which needs to be sent to the team working on the new Java. This would make things sensible. It would be even better if they used an XML syntax similar to Mozilla's XUL or even the stuff WxWidgets uses - this would (hopefully) make porting a breeze.
I use MoneyDance. Although its pay for, its Java so cross-platform to an extent, and is good for basic money management. I wish the Gnucash people would at least make some steps to become cross-platform, but nobody seems to be interested in taking the challenge.
You haven't even factored in the cost of additional software here. I don't know what the Dell has (assuming MS works), but the apple has an equivalent, and even has the full iLife suite, which would set you back a fair bit on the PC side even for just photo software, movie software, and garageband equivalent.
Go down to the bottom of the iPod shuffle page here
Have a look at (2): "Do not eat iPod shuffle". Hilarious