This is hardly a minor release; the real mistake is that Apple is calling it 10.2 which implies a free upgrade, instead of 10.5 or 11. This isn't a shortcoming fix release; that's what 10.1 was. 10.2 is about including all the features everyone has asked for and then some, and getting the GUI and Finder speed at least doubled. Quite a bit faster than WinXP, anyways, and I haven't been able to try a build more than 5 weeks old:)
The keynote starts a 7AM mountain time and 6AM pacific time (move back to Chicago, damnit;). Are the stores here going to open early or is the theater thing only on the east coast (I don't remember exactly when they open, but I know I was listening to the mall's muzak loop for the 35th time and freezing my ass off well after sunrise at the store opening). I guess they can show rebroadcasts all day.
I'm not gonna make it out to a store anyways; it's going to be hard enough to drag myself out of bed and over to my computer that early, let alone drive 20 mins to the Aspen Grove store!
It's up to Ogg to make a component for QuickTime if they want to, and obviously they don't.
Anyway, it includes AAC which produces noticebly better sound at smaller file sizes than Vorbis. (It's not free, but the point of QuickTime is that it provides affordable access to some great, commercial codecs; it's great technology, and it's licensed from Dolby, not those MPEG-4 patent owners.)
MacCentral's coverage included this comment from Phil Schiller; about time someone clues MS into the fact that their prices are rediculous. You are selling consumer-level software for professional-level prices!
" Browne's comments drew criticism from Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller. Schiller told the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft's concerns are 'very, very misplaced' and suggested that the $499 price tag of Office may be a reason why Microsoft's sales are sluggish."
Sequel? Why doesn't MS just let them go back and finish the game? Oh, right because they have to make more XBox exclusive titles now.
Stopping Oni short was a horrible management descision and pretty much cemented the community's stance that MS was going to hose Bungie over and have them cranking out XBox titles as fast as possible for all eternity.
It makes me shudder when I see computers advertised as e-mailing home vides. How many home users have enough mastery to understand that they'll need to import DV, edit it down, then compress it to a size halfway workable enough for e-mail, when in reality the file SHOULD be uploaded to a website/FTP server and a link e-mailed?
I've taught people who don't know how to install software how to publish a movie to their website and notify thier freinds using iMovie and iDisk; I mean the machine comes with a firewire cable, it opens iMovie in import mode when you plug in the camcorder, it has a preset for a web movie, and after HomePage makes the frame page for the movie it offers to send iCards to your friends.
To have an OS X machine turn back on after a power failure, go to System Preferences, go to the Energy Saver tab, go to the options tab, and check, "Restart automatically after a power failure." All G4 machines (and most G3s) have this feature.
I don't know how to do this in pure Darwin, but I assume you can since all power management is handled by Darwin.
The only thing I can hope is that New Line will release a good version of their trailer now that this has been leaked. That piece of trash looks like they converted it from RealMedia:(
I don't want to be down on Vorbis, it's much better than MP3 and it's patent free, but it certainly doesn't kick AAC's ass; AAC can go around 30% smaller than a Vorbis file with the same quality. (based on qualatitive evaluation of things I've encoded; I can get a 128k Vorbis to sound as good as a 196k MP3, whereas I can get a 96k AAC to sound as good as the 196k MP3, if not better.)
Since this article is only getting replies about how you should be using an alternate browser, we should have a shameless plug for Chimera, which gives you the great rendering engine and standards complicance of the Gecko engine in a real Cocoa application (with a Mach-O backend for great speed). It's only at version 0.3, but is already usable as an everyday browser, and the download size is down to 6747 KB.
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As long as you use your brain and don't do everything as root (as about every guide warns you against anyway), you'd be rather safe. Can't mess up stuff without the rights to do so.
This is true of a server or a system with files stored remotely (and backed up), but on a desktop the files you own are far more important than the files owned by the system. I could reinstall the system partition on my desktop in 20 minutes, but if I didn't have backups of my files it wouldn't be of much use to me. It is nice to know that a virus won't erase my system or take out a critical machine in the UNIX world, but users must always remember that they are not invulnerable and the best way to feel safe from viruses is to have a current backup.
Most Windows viruses that damage files go after random files that belong to the user, although of course many will just take out everything since they can, but I would say the myriad security holes in Windows, Explorer, and Outlook are more to blame than Windows' privelages sytem.
I guess Ximian GNOME is out for you...
Better delete "/usr/bin/install" while you're at it...
No need to delete it, just never run it with root privelages. I use OS X and only tolerate apps with drag-and-drop install. All my X11 apps are installed through fink, so they can only mess up the/sw directory if they want to fight amongst themselves, and as I said I don't authenticate any Mac OS X installer unless it is from an extremely reputable company and it is obvious why it needs permission to access system files (e.g. NAV, Logitech mouse drivers).
why applications shouldn't need installers, and a demonstration of the need for a more stringent permissions system in windows (why do your apps need the right to delete each other?). Anytime I see an app that has an installer and it's not a driver, I assume it is going to try and destroy my system somehow (and I don't even use Windows).
I really need your help about who designed the logo, the story behind it, the meaning of the logo, how the logo work with the company and all the employee, and maybe you could help me how to contact the designer.
Woz:
We ran a small partnership 'out of the garage' for a year, selling about 150 Apple I's. The closest thing to a 'logo' that we had was an etching of Newton under an Apple tree. We then developed a great product, the Apple ][. It looked like we could sell thousands of them, but we needed a lot of money. When we secured the money, from Mike Markkula who joined us as a third and equal partner, we hired an agency to help us with public related marketing concerns. On topic was a logo. We had a great company name, Apple, and wanted to leverage our company off the ideas that this healthful word represented.
The Regis McKenna agency came back with some proposals, many based on the Apple shape. One of the most notable things about the Apple ][ was that the display was in color, with patents too. No other low cost computers were near such a feature. So the multicolored logo made sense. The McKenna version had the colors in rainbow order. Steve Jobs rearranged them to get the darker (heavier) colors toward the bottom, and the logo was born.
I said the PS1 is outselling the XBox, not that the PS1 has outsold the XBox, although that is also true depending on the timeframe; the statement you are making is that since the beginning of 2002, more XBoxes than PS1s have been sold, which has a very different meaning. The rate at which PS1s are being sold in Japan right now is much higher than the rate at which XBoxes are (is refers to the present tense).
If they're willing to go that low in Australia, I wonder what they have in store for Japan, where they have yet to institute a preice drop and where the XBox is being outsold by the PS1!
Week 4/8-4/14, Japan Hardware Sales
* PS2: 55,000 units (total this year: 1,323,000)
* GBA: 31,000 units (total this year: 969,000)
* GameCube: 10,000 units (total this year: 510,000)
* PS1: 3,000 units (total this year: 74,000)
* WonderSwan: 2,000 units (total this year: 11,330)
* Xbox: 1,800 units (total this year: 169,000)
* Dreamcast: 1,500 units (total this year: 12,000)
OmniWeb lets you disable all kinds of popping windows or just any window that tries to pop-up anytime other than in response to a link being clicked. Not as fine-tunable, but why would you want, for instance, pop-ups and not pop-unders?
Also, make sure to pick up Chimera 0.2.1 if you haven't already done so. Not ready to be used daily by any means, but very encouraging progress.
Mac OS X has built-in spell checking, but Mozilla does not implement it, as it largely refuses to implement any platform-specific features (except for Linux ones).
Okay, I will followup. I know this means I am clueless, but on the website I see no place to order a G4 with a 4Ti board. How do you do it?
Go to store.apple.com, click on Power Mac G4, click on a model, and in the Graphics support pop-up menu, select NVIDIA GeForce 4 Titanium.
As for the extensions, if you're talking about the proprietary extensions that we have now, you'll have to find them somewhere in the bowels of ati.com and nvidia.com; once there is a standard for extensions (OpenGL 2.0), the documentation will be on Apple's OpenGL developer page.
Also, do the G4s have an upgrade path to become G5s when the time comes?
I would assume that Apple would continue it's practice of placing the CPU's in their Power Macs on daughtercards, although I can't guarantee that anyone will make a G5 upgrade card. CPU upgrades for Macs aren't very popular since the kind of people who need a high-end CPU will also need to upgrade to the new motherboard.
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Shareholders wouldn't look too fondly on it if SJ got on the call at the end of the quarter and said, "Hey folks, we lost a few million, but we've got $4B in the bank, so we can keep losing millions every quarter for years!" (That's more of an Amelio statement, isn't it;) Corporations have money in the bank to finance buyouts and provide stability for the stockholders (the price of the companies stock shouldn't go below the value of their cash minus their debt), it is not for allowing them to sell products at little profit or even a loss (although that strategy can be used to gain market share, it is often considered rather predatory; you certainly don't like it when MS does that).
People who have ordered a G4 with a 4Ti are expected to get them in a few weeks. There was some soft of shipping delay (just like the one that happened with the GeForce 3) and Apple gave everyone who ordered one their computer now with a 2MX and will send them their 4Ti when it gets there (and maybe they can get $15 for the 2MX on eBay:)
Developer documentation for 3D on the Mac is here; Many developers have already shipped products using the special features of the GeForce 3/4 and the new Radeons. As for extensions, Apple is expected to support the standard extensions that wil be introduced in OpenGL 2.0 rather than go with some proprietary scheme, although an interim solution is not out of the question if that proves to be too long of a wait.
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This is hardly a minor release; the real mistake is that Apple is calling it 10.2 which implies a free upgrade, instead of 10.5 or 11. This isn't a shortcoming fix release; that's what 10.1 was. 10.2 is about including all the features everyone has asked for and then some, and getting the GUI and Finder speed at least doubled. Quite a bit faster than WinXP, anyways, and I haven't been able to try a build more than 5 weeks old :)
If you qualify for student discounts, OS upgrades should only be $69.
The keynote starts a 7AM mountain time and 6AM pacific time (move back to Chicago, damnit ;). Are the stores here going to open early or is the theater thing only on the east coast (I don't remember exactly when they open, but I know I was listening to the mall's muzak loop for the 35th time and freezing my ass off well after sunrise at the store opening). I guess they can show rebroadcasts all day.
I'm not gonna make it out to a store anyways; it's going to be hard enough to drag myself out of bed and over to my computer that early, let alone drive 20 mins to the Aspen Grove store!
Anyway, it includes AAC which produces noticebly better sound at smaller file sizes than Vorbis. (It's not free, but the point of QuickTime is that it provides affordable access to some great, commercial codecs; it's great technology, and it's licensed from Dolby, not those MPEG-4 patent owners.)
MacCentral's coverage included this comment from Phil Schiller; about time someone clues MS into the fact that their prices are rediculous. You are selling consumer-level software for professional-level prices! " Browne's comments drew criticism from Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller. Schiller told the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft's concerns are 'very, very misplaced' and suggested that the $499 price tag of Office may be a reason why Microsoft's sales are sluggish."
Sequel? Why doesn't MS just let them go back and finish the game? Oh, right because they have to make more XBox exclusive titles now. Stopping Oni short was a horrible management descision and pretty much cemented the community's stance that MS was going to hose Bungie over and have them cranking out XBox titles as fast as possible for all eternity.
I've taught people who don't know how to install software how to publish a movie to their website and notify thier freinds using iMovie and iDisk; I mean the machine comes with a firewire cable, it opens iMovie in import mode when you plug in the camcorder, it has a preset for a web movie, and after HomePage makes the frame page for the movie it offers to send iCards to your friends.
I don't know how to do this in pure Darwin, but I assume you can since all power management is handled by Darwin.
The only thing I can hope is that New Line will release a good version of their trailer now that this has been leaked. That piece of trash looks like they converted it from RealMedia :(
I don't want to be down on Vorbis, it's much better than MP3 and it's patent free, but it certainly doesn't kick AAC's ass; AAC can go around 30% smaller than a Vorbis file with the same quality. (based on qualatitive evaluation of things I've encoded; I can get a 128k Vorbis to sound as good as a 196k MP3, whereas I can get a 96k AAC to sound as good as the 196k MP3, if not better.)
Mac OS X requires Darwin. Darwin does not require Mac OS X. Darwin is completely independent and can be run alone on PPC and x86 machines.
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This is true of a server or a system with files stored remotely (and backed up), but on a desktop the files you own are far more important than the files owned by the system. I could reinstall the system partition on my desktop in 20 minutes, but if I didn't have backups of my files it wouldn't be of much use to me. It is nice to know that a virus won't erase my system or take out a critical machine in the UNIX world, but users must always remember that they are not invulnerable and the best way to feel safe from viruses is to have a current backup.
Most Windows viruses that damage files go after random files that belong to the user, although of course many will just take out everything since they can, but I would say the myriad security holes in Windows, Explorer, and Outlook are more to blame than Windows' privelages sytem.
No need to delete it, just never run it with root privelages. I use OS X and only tolerate apps with drag-and-drop install. All my X11 apps are installed through fink, so they can only mess up the /sw directory if they want to fight amongst themselves, and as I said I don't authenticate any Mac OS X installer unless it is from an extremely reputable company and it is obvious why it needs permission to access system files (e.g. NAV, Logitech mouse drivers).
why applications shouldn't need installers, and a demonstration of the need for a more stringent permissions system in windows (why do your apps need the right to delete each other?). Anytime I see an app that has an installer and it's not a driver, I assume it is going to try and destroy my system somehow (and I don't even use Windows).
I said the PS1 is outselling the XBox, not that the PS1 has outsold the XBox, although that is also true depending on the timeframe; the statement you are making is that since the beginning of 2002, more XBoxes than PS1s have been sold, which has a very different meaning. The rate at which PS1s are being sold in Japan right now is much higher than the rate at which XBoxes are (is refers to the present tense).
Week 4/8-4/14, Japan Hardware Sales
* PS2: 55,000 units (total this year: 1,323,000)
* GBA: 31,000 units (total this year: 969,000)
* GameCube: 10,000 units (total this year: 510,000)
* PS1: 3,000 units (total this year: 74,000)
* WonderSwan: 2,000 units (total this year: 11,330)
* Xbox: 1,800 units (total this year: 169,000)
* Dreamcast: 1,500 units (total this year: 12,000)
(from IGN)
Also, make sure to pick up Chimera 0.2.1 if you haven't already done so. Not ready to be used daily by any means, but very encouraging progress.
Mac OS X has built-in spell checking, but Mozilla does not implement it, as it largely refuses to implement any platform-specific features (except for Linux ones).
Go to store.apple.com, click on Power Mac G4, click on a model, and in the Graphics support pop-up menu, select NVIDIA GeForce 4 Titanium.
As for the extensions, if you're talking about the proprietary extensions that we have now, you'll have to find them somewhere in the bowels of ati.com and nvidia.com; once there is a standard for extensions (OpenGL 2.0), the documentation will be on Apple's OpenGL developer page.
Also, do the G4s have an upgrade path to become G5s when the time comes?
I would assume that Apple would continue it's practice of placing the CPU's in their Power Macs on daughtercards, although I can't guarantee that anyone will make a G5 upgrade card. CPU upgrades for Macs aren't very popular since the kind of people who need a high-end CPU will also need to upgrade to the new motherboard.
Shareholders wouldn't look too fondly on it if SJ got on the call at the end of the quarter and said, "Hey folks, we lost a few million, but we've got $4B in the bank, so we can keep losing millions every quarter for years!" (That's more of an Amelio statement, isn't it ;) Corporations have money in the bank to finance buyouts and provide stability for the stockholders (the price of the companies stock shouldn't go below the value of their cash minus their debt), it is not for allowing them to sell products at little profit or even a loss (although that strategy can be used to gain market share, it is often considered rather predatory; you certainly don't like it when MS does that).
People who have ordered a G4 with a 4Ti are expected to get them in a few weeks. There was some soft of shipping delay (just like the one that happened with the GeForce 3) and Apple gave everyone who ordered one their computer now with a 2MX and will send them their 4Ti when it gets there (and maybe they can get $15 for the 2MX on eBay :)
Developer documentation for 3D on the Mac is here; Many developers have already shipped products using the special features of the GeForce 3/4 and the new Radeons. As for extensions, Apple is expected to support the standard extensions that wil be introduced in OpenGL 2.0 rather than go with some proprietary scheme, although an interim solution is not out of the question if that proves to be too long of a wait.
Mac OS X’s has a built-in Summarize Service that works much better than the one in Word, IMO. Sorry I can't think of any open source ones.