It is not possible to get an affordable Mac with PCI slots. Period. Yes, the Mac Minis are competitively priced (especially if you happen to get a good offer); yes, the PowerBooks are quite cheap compared to PC laptops. But for PowerMacs, it's all or nothing. I don't want all that stuff that comes with a PowerMac; I just want an upgradeable graphics card and a PCI slot for whatever I like.
You might argue that it's possible to find used PowerMac G4s on eBay, but that's nigh impossible too for people outside the US (those go for the price of new ones)...
It seems like this can be in OS X by rather clicking the "Duplicate" button in your network settings while having your Airport card selected. I don't have two wireless APs to test, but it sure works for connecting to two networks transmitting over the same ethernet wire.
Dumping is illegal. IMHO, rightly so, because it can easily be used as a means for a well-funded operation to stifle their competition.
"Selling under market price" OTOH is what the free market is all about: if Samsung can produce more cheaply, they should be allowed to sell for less, too. It wouldn't be their fault if their competitors where too expensive.
The thing here is, these articles about Samsungs competitors' complaining have been going round almost since the launch of the Nano. And never did they contain anything about "dumping", only about "Samsung selling at too low prices for us". This sounds like they a) sold their flash drives etc. at inflated prices and b) are now asking for help to continue doing that. If that's the case, I cannot find any sympathy for them.
Tell that to the Winamp guys.
A friend of mine wrote a very well-received plugin for Winamp which would use Quicktime to decrypt your bought and authenticated M4Ps. After a few months, this plugin was taken offline because of "legal concerns". After all, decrypting bought music using the official QT APIs[1] has to be illegal...
Pretty ridiculous, if you ask me.
[1] The mode of operation, via documented, official APIs, was even described in the blurb for the download.
The whole thing about the DMCA is that this is a violation. As long as the CDs are protected in any way, you're violating the DMCA by ripping them. Even if it's just some silly autorun feature. Whether you bought them or not.
While I appreciate it that we all come visit each other to buy stuff:-), you should know that there actually are levies on media in Germany (ten years ago, there were even special "audio CDRs", which cost ~5-10 more than regular ones). The current taxes are very low, though, and you really only notice them on hard disks.
We also have levies on MP3 players (2.74 on an iPod 60), but of course it's nothing like e.g. in France (there it's 51.44 on the bigger nano).
The German telecom already owns the T. They sued everybody who had a T in their trademark or web adress. That includes owners of domains such as "t-beutel.de" ("tea-bag.de"). They also have a trademark on the colour magenta (yes, the M in CMYK) and have been known to sue people using it in advertisements (a common practice for magazines where you pay per colour used).
Rumors? Just look at the documentation, specifically at the finalize method in NSObject.
May I quote:
"Called by the garbage collector when the receiver is not referenced by other objects.
Note: Garbage collection is not available for use in Mac OS X v10.4, nor in earlier versions.
The garbage collector invokes this method on the receiver before disposing of the memory it uses. When garbage collection is enabled, this method is invoked instead of dealloc."
There's already build options for turning garbage collection on in your own projects; however, it doesn't work yet. But you can be damn sure Apple is working on it (most of Foundation's objects already implement the finalize method, as do the more recent frameworks such as CoreData or CoreImage).
There's nothing about 16 megs of graphics RAM on the page you're linking to (or anywhere else, for that matter). Tiger runs nicely on late 2001 iBooks, for example (with 8 megs of VRAM).
It just doesn't use the GPU for compositing in that case (but that's not a function of the available RAM, rather than dependant on the availability of some rectangle texture extension on the GPU). Quartz (which would be akin to the new Windows graphics layer) still does all the heavy lifting, and stuff like blitting is still accelerated. The only thing you're missing out on are things like playing videos in transparent windows.
Another interesting fact: even though you can accelerate almost all of Quartz using pixel shaders, that is not currently viable on many Macs, since the lesser GPUs (such as the sucky FX 5200) are slower than computing everything in software. There's impressive charts out there though (200x more stuff drawn per time unit).
I had two of them; after taking the second one to the store, the guy there told me that he didn't even need to test if it was really broken; he already knew, because it was the tenth he got back on that day. Those things were just totally broken.
Already done. (link is in German, sorry)
By the same people who brought you MP3. There's even several companies who already market this: you call a number on your cellular, hum the tune, and get the artist/title as a text message.
Bull. Of course you can sell the software. Only after that you cannot make them pay for the source. From the GPL FAQ:
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
I started using WO last week, and I have to say, it's great. I was able to go from "I don't know what a database is" to deploying my own Java client for my web page interface in about two hours. Of course, knowing Cocoa, Cocoa Bindings and the corresponding patterns helped a lot.
BTW, according to the blurb on the (German) Apple home page, other large users of WO include the Deutsche Bank, O2, Consors, Bayer and T-Systems.
The tech has been used by the competition for a long time. According to heise, this move by HP is a reaction to significant losses of market share to Canon during the last months.
Experten sehen als eine Ursache dafür die bisherige Strategie HPs, die Druckköpfe in die Tintentanks zu integrieren und damit zu Wegwerfprodukten zu deklassieren.
"Experts see the reason in HP's previous strategy to integrate the ink jets into the ink tanks, thereby classifying the jets as throw-away products."
In höchster Qualität benötigt der PhotoSmart für ein 10×15-Foto 80 Sekunden. Das ist verglichen mit bisherigen HP-Modellen nur noch etwa ein Viertel [..], im Vergleich mit einem entsprechenden Canon-Drucker aber immer noch um zehn Sekunden hinterher.
"At maximum quality, the PhotoSmart takes 80 seconds for a 10×15 photo. That's a quarter compared to previous HP models [..], but ten seconds slower than corresponding models by Canon"
So what? That's still possible. What's not possible is to use your cross-platform Java code, draw a GUI in IB for it, and then extend it with post-Panther additions to Cocoa in Java. Big deal: if you did, your code would cease to be cross-platform anyway.
That stuff is totally incomprehensible because it was a load of gibberish to begin with. Posting it without line breaks didn't help.
Also, the examples for composite nouns you see posted all over the net are just ridiculous, as are the run-on sentences: no actual German would talk (or write) like that. Basically, I find German and English to be very much alike, much more than, say, German and French (which has its own set of genders, totally different from the German ones). Well, at least trees are female throughout middle Europe:-)
I have been a Miranda developer way before it became popular. It was basically a wrapper for icqlib back then (no multiprotocol or anything). Anyway, already in its infant stages, Miranda was _totally_ dependent on the Win32 API. That's why it's so nice: the Win32 APIs are "model citizens" in the Windows world. Too bad nobody uses them...
So, I think that about the only way to port Miranda to any other platform would be a total rewrite. And that would not be worth it, since it's just a (admittedly polished) wrapper to several cross-IM libraries at the end of the day.
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It is not possible to get an affordable Mac with PCI slots. Period. Yes, the Mac Minis are competitively priced (especially if you happen to get a good offer); yes, the PowerBooks are quite cheap compared to PC laptops. But for PowerMacs, it's all or nothing. I don't want all that stuff that comes with a PowerMac; I just want an upgradeable graphics card and a PCI slot for whatever I like. You might argue that it's possible to find used PowerMac G4s on eBay, but that's nigh impossible too for people outside the US (those go for the price of new ones)...
That's because Mail, Safari and Terminal are all part of the OS. iTunes, OTOH, is part of iLife. So it's quite natural they would be updated.
Come back to complain when your netherlandish is good enough to get his point across.
It seems like this can be in OS X by rather clicking the "Duplicate" button in your network settings while having your Airport card selected. I don't have two wireless APs to test, but it sure works for connecting to two networks transmitting over the same ethernet wire.
"Selling under market price" OTOH is what the free market is all about: if Samsung can produce more cheaply, they should be allowed to sell for less, too. It wouldn't be their fault if their competitors where too expensive.
The thing here is, these articles about Samsungs competitors' complaining have been going round almost since the launch of the Nano. And never did they contain anything about "dumping", only about "Samsung selling at too low prices for us". This sounds like they
a) sold their flash drives etc. at inflated prices and
b) are now asking for help to continue doing that.
If that's the case, I cannot find any sympathy for them.
Tell that to the Winamp guys. A friend of mine wrote a very well-received plugin for Winamp which would use Quicktime to decrypt your bought and authenticated M4Ps. After a few months, this plugin was taken offline because of "legal concerns". After all, decrypting bought music using the official QT APIs[1] has to be illegal... Pretty ridiculous, if you ask me. [1] The mode of operation, via documented, official APIs, was even described in the blurb for the download.
The whole thing about the DMCA is that this is a violation. As long as the CDs are protected in any way, you're violating the DMCA by ripping them. Even if it's just some silly autorun feature. Whether you bought them or not.
"blah blah blah" "laber laber" "schnatter" "rhabarber rhabarber"
in German. Or a mix of the above. Whatever floats your boat.
While I appreciate it that we all come visit each other to buy stuff :-), you should know that there actually are levies on media in Germany (ten years ago, there were even special "audio CDRs", which cost ~5-10 more than regular ones). The current taxes are very low, though, and you really only notice them on hard disks.
We also have levies on MP3 players (2.74 on an iPod 60), but of course it's nothing like e.g. in France (there it's 51.44 on the bigger nano).
The German telecom already owns the T. They sued everybody who had a T in their trademark or web adress. That includes owners of domains such as "t-beutel.de" ("tea-bag.de"). They also have a trademark on the colour magenta (yes, the M in CMYK) and have been known to sue people using it in advertisements (a common practice for magazines where you pay per colour used).
May I quote:
"Called by the garbage collector when the receiver is not referenced by other objects.
Note: Garbage collection is not available for use in Mac OS X v10.4, nor in earlier versions.
The garbage collector invokes this method on the receiver before disposing of the memory it uses. When garbage collection is enabled, this method is invoked instead of dealloc."
There's already build options for turning garbage collection on in your own projects; however, it doesn't work yet. But you can be damn sure Apple is working on it (most of Foundation's objects already implement the finalize method, as do the more recent frameworks such as CoreData or CoreImage).
There's a very nice article on data alignment on PPC here.
There's nothing about 16 megs of graphics RAM on the page you're linking to (or anywhere else, for that matter). Tiger runs nicely on late 2001 iBooks, for example (with 8 megs of VRAM).
It just doesn't use the GPU for compositing in that case (but that's not a function of the available RAM, rather than dependant on the availability of some rectangle texture extension on the GPU). Quartz (which would be akin to the new Windows graphics layer) still does all the heavy lifting, and stuff like blitting is still accelerated. The only thing you're missing out on are things like playing videos in transparent windows.
Another interesting fact: even though you can accelerate almost all of Quartz using pixel shaders, that is not currently viable on many Macs, since the lesser GPUs (such as the sucky FX 5200) are slower than computing everything in software. There's impressive charts out there though (200x more stuff drawn per time unit).
I had two of them; after taking the second one to the store, the guy there told me that he didn't even need to test if it was really broken; he already knew, because it was the tenth he got back on that day. Those things were just totally broken.
Already done. (link is in German, sorry)
By the same people who brought you MP3. There's even several companies who already market this: you call a number on your cellular, hum the tune, and get the artist/title as a text message.
Bull. Of course you can sell the software. Only after that you cannot make them pay for the source. From the GPL FAQ:
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
I started using WO last week, and I have to say, it's great. I was able to go from "I don't know what a database is" to deploying my own Java client for my web page interface in about two hours. Of course, knowing Cocoa, Cocoa Bindings and the corresponding patterns helped a lot.
BTW, according to the blurb on the (German) Apple home page, other large users of WO include the Deutsche Bank, O2, Consors, Bayer and T-Systems.
Fuck T-Systems!
The tech has been used by the competition for a long time. According to heise, this move by HP is a reaction to significant losses of market share to Canon during the last months.
Experten sehen als eine Ursache dafür die bisherige Strategie HPs, die Druckköpfe in die Tintentanks zu integrieren und damit zu Wegwerfprodukten zu deklassieren.
"Experts see the reason in HP's previous strategy to integrate the ink jets into the ink tanks, thereby classifying the jets as throw-away products."
In höchster Qualität benötigt der PhotoSmart für ein 10×15-Foto 80 Sekunden. Das ist verglichen mit bisherigen HP-Modellen nur noch etwa ein Viertel [..], im Vergleich mit einem entsprechenden Canon-Drucker aber immer noch um zehn Sekunden hinterher.
"At maximum quality, the PhotoSmart takes 80 seconds for a 10×15 photo. That's a quarter compared to previous HP models [..], but ten seconds slower than corresponding models by Canon"
So what?
That's still possible. What's not possible is to use your cross-platform Java code, draw a GUI in IB for it, and then extend it with post-Panther additions to Cocoa in Java. Big deal: if you did, your code would cease to be cross-platform anyway.
A company of that size doesn't sneakily use 3rd party software.
I see. That must be why they not only use zlib, but also remove the copyright strings.
(Search for "microsoft")
That stuff is totally incomprehensible because it was a load of gibberish to begin with. Posting it without line breaks didn't help. :-)
Also, the examples for composite nouns you see posted all over the net are just ridiculous, as are the run-on sentences: no actual German would talk (or write) like that. Basically, I find German and English to be very much alike, much more than, say, German and French (which has its own set of genders, totally different from the German ones).
Well, at least trees are female throughout middle Europe
I have been a Miranda developer way before it became popular. It was basically a wrapper for icqlib back then (no multiprotocol or anything). Anyway, already in its infant stages, Miranda was _totally_ dependent on the Win32 API. That's why it's so nice: the Win32 APIs are "model citizens" in the Windows world. Too bad nobody uses them...
So, I think that about the only way to port Miranda to any other platform would be a total rewrite. And that would not be worth it, since it's just a (admittedly polished) wrapper to several cross-IM libraries at the end of the day.
Just try using it on a non-Altivec CPU.
That's another 100-500x times.
Your sig's got a superfluous comma.
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
The article on thinksecret is from July 2004.