I think the press was important back in the day because they help "report the truth" (hopefully). It was a means of getting to the bottom of things and reporting the truth to the people.
Good point! Nowadays we can trust government and large corporations to always give us the straight goods. I say fuck the press!
That's not "the big leak". Asteroid is just one of the trade secrets named in the suit. The "big leak" IMHO is details of the Mac Mini right down to price points and processor speeds.
I agree BTW: Asteroid, *yawn*... unbalanced stereo in/out via firewire. Might be intersting if they add MIDI and sell it for 50 bucks. (As if)
I tried to download the full zip via torrent all day. No seed. Just now I tried downloading the big zip from two of the mirrors, but neither match the MD5 on the torrent, so I can't seed.
Somebody dropped the ball on the torrent links for sure. No seed. FWIW the full download links on the right side of the page seem to work.
The problem is that you can't read an "electronic reference" on the toilet - a sacred place where I have learned about 80% of everything I know that's technical.
To clarify: Core Image / Core Video is a set of APIs for image processing/enhancement. It will work on all Macs that will run the OS regardless of what video hardware it has.
It will only be accelerated by a GPU that meets certain criteria however. Eventually if enough software vendors take advantage, it will likely give Macs a tremendous performance edge for photo and video work.
In this regard it is similar to Quartz / Quartz Extreme, which accelerates all on-screen drawing by giving that task to the video card. But on-screen drawing still happens when you don't have a supported card, albeit handled by the CPU.
So, the Mac Mini will continue to run Core Image/Core Video-enabled apps, just not with GPU-based acceleration. The machine is not intended for people who require super-fast image processing. It's not as though the Mini loses anything, it just doesn't gain any speed from these new OS technologies.
I suspect this is why Apple continues to insist on packaging the consumer products (iMac, eMac, Mini, iBook) with inferior video hardware that can't be upgraded. It prevents them from being able to hit the performance levels that Core Image / Core Video will make possible, so users who will benefit most from this technology will be forced to buy the more expensive Power Macs/PowerBooks.
Spotlight has its hooks into the OS. Any app that saves a document automatically updates the spotlight metadata store. Every app gets access to search this database via a spotlight API. It seems to use Apple's own high-performance v-twin search algorithm.
Also, software developers are welcome to develop their own data types which will automatically be indexed by Spotlight.
From a UI and functionality perspective it seems Beagle is trying to do something similar. But under the hood they are very different. Check out Apple's developer info for this at http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight. html.
I'm finding myself becoming more and more frustrated with/. because while it's a pretty intelligent community, nobody has a clue about usability. GIMP is not yet a viable alternative to Photoshop. You can't just put translucency and shiny rounded buttons on KDE or XP and say that you're achieving the UI of OS X. Ogg is great but only as useful as its acceptance. You can't piece together a $500 Dell system and achieve the elegance and functionality of the Mac Mini. openoffice sucks on os x not just because it's ugly, but because it is practically a platform unto itself with its own UI and fonts. OS X is usable with a 1-button mouse. iPod is great because it's small and sexy, so even if it doesn't play format x, it actually fits in my pocket! In the real world intangibles like productivity outweigh tangible specs like processing power.
Until geeks can wrap their heads around these concepts, people like you will continue to post links to 'version 0.0.5' open source projects (which depend on other packages to do stuff like indexing) and say that it's going to be just like something that Apple will put out in a few months.
I'm not knocking Open Source. But let's call a spade a spade here. When it comes to underlying OS features and UI enhamcements, Apple these days is innovating at a pace that OSS (and even Microsoft) is having trouble keeping up with.
I would like to see a hardware hack involving a two-button upgrade for Apple laptops, but it should come from the bitch'n'moan crowd, not from Apple.
I'm not going to debate about 1-button vs. 2-button mice. But, if you would like a 2-button trackpad "upgrade", consider SideTrack, 1 $15 software package which is actually replacement trackpad driver software. It lets you map trackpad taps to right-clicks. It also lets you map regions of the trackpad for scrolling.
I personally couldn't imagine ever using it, but it's there!
You miss the point. The newton defined the PDA as we know it. Whether Apple's product is a success or not, Newton shaped the industry. It's for that reason Newton doesn't belong in the list.
Kinda like the QuickTake camera line. Eventually it was discontinued, and technology later caught up to a point where digital cameras could actually be useful and cost-effective.
That's not $125, but it's still way cheaper than Apple's upgrade.
BTW one interesting thing about the Mini is that while the average user does not need a full gig of RAM, it is still wise to get it in this machine since it only has one slot. Upgrading later will just leave you with spare memory laying around.
Yeah I know about that, and I know I can methodically reorganize my Start menu too, but the point is that this type of stuff interrupts the creative flow.
Aqua is nice, but it is admittedly ahead of its time, and is sluggish. 10.3.7 seems to have improved scrolling across the board, which is nice.
But I really believe it is a next-generation UI, and is slow just like the classic Mac UI was never really snappy until the 68040 machines came out. (I'm not counting pre-System 7, because it didn't multitask).
Despite Aqua's shortcomings, it really doesn't seem to bog down the machine when it comes to raw processing. Instead, when the processor gets busy, everything still hums along at full tilt, but Aqua gets choppy.
In the meantime I still am really liking the direction that Apple is forging with OS X and the consistency of its UI across apps. Despite its sluggishness it continues to get faster with these incremental updates, and in a few years when a base system is a 3 GHz G5 with video on par with a GF6800, we'll forget about its little annoyances, just like nowadays we forget about trying to run System 7.1 on a Mac LC. Then the fruits of Apple's labour will really pay off, while we enjoy our little search boxes, cool zooming effects and drop shadows. Mac OS X will make Longhorn look clumsy, much the same way System 7's UI wiped the floor with WFW 3.11, and using OS 8 made Win 95/98 feel like a toy.
In my opinion, right now XP and Linux interfaces are nice and quick, but once I now that I've been using OS X for a few years I find other interfaces primitive, despite Aqua's sluggishness.
I know I'm rambling, but hey - since we're sharing, do you want to know what annoys the hell out of me with Windows these days? The taskbar. If you have an Office app open with multiple documents, each document gets a tile in the taskbar - even though the documents are in daughter windows (don't even get me started on that). You only need to have about 6 open windows on your screen before the taskbar becomes useless. The System Tray is never big enough to show you everything it contains (oh if only things just shrunk to fit their available space like OS X), and the Start menu which causes you to do mouse gymnastics through what is usually 3 hierarchal menus just to launch any app. (click Start, move up and to the right for "all programs", hover there for a moment, move into the list that appears on the right - but not too far or the whole thing will disappear on you, then move up or down to your app's folder, then move down past uninstall, help, readme, and click on the app! now what was i going to do with it again?) Oh, and it's also really cool when it starts hiding items from you when you haevn't used them for a little while.
Anyway -- happy computing, regardless of which platform's fruits you choose to pick.:)
Why does Mac Os X Update for clients do not update Apache and stuff like that?
My guess would be that it's because Apache is not Apple software, and they won't include an update until they're 100% sure it's not going to break anything.
It might not be such a big deal on the desktop OS, but remember that the open-source tools are in sync with Mac OS X Server.
I just came across this comment in M2 and felt I had to respond.
I wanted to confirm that she was interested in being a makeup artist, as opposed to production or legal staff. If you actually had the nerve to chastise her for not capitalizing properly in email, then I'm afraid your company is not as "hip" as you suggest.
She was probably running through Craig's List and quickly putting her feelers out for the plethora of stuff on there. Craig's List is a very casual forum. Besides - maybe if you had called her she would have offered you a very attractive resume.
To me, I'm afraid, it sounds as though you have contracted Filmmakers' Ego, and your immediate rejection of this woman without any knowledge of her skills as a makeup artist is consistent with this. You sound like the type who would fire the hard-working assistant for forgetting to cut the crusts off your sandwiches.
I hope your films are really, really good, because it won't be your attitude that earns you respect.
I hope you accept this advice in the spirit in which it was given: not to put you down, but as an eye-opener of sorts, so that you will realize that there is much, much more to the intensely artistic institution that is film than capitalization.
As much as I love Apple I think their actions here are indeed immoral, and possibly illegal.
Simply put, the legal action against M$ over the years has been based on the premise that the company leveraged a monopoly in one market (desktop operating systems) to gain a monopoly in another market (web browsers, media players, word processing).
Here, we see Apple leveraging their monopoly in personal MP3 players to gain a monopoly in online music downloads. They do this by deliberately and unnecessarily changing firmware in the iPod to make it unable to play protected music downloaded from another source.
Um, it doesn't fail "quite often", and only affects models within a certain serial number range.
I got my 'Book in October 2001 and it has been flawless. Besides, a problem is only really a problem if there is no fix, and the link you posted details a quick, free fix.
Seriously, Apple's white iBooks have been rock-solid for everybody I know who has one. Because of its value and durability it's one of the best-selling laptops of all time. Just because a batch has been identified with a specific (potential) fault hardly means it's plagued with problems.
It's a troll. The "iPods are only cool because they're trendy" comment is posted, in one form or another, in EVERY iPod topic.
It always illicits the same responses: "I got it because it's the best, not because it's cool", "I hide my iPod to not get mugged for it", and "you slashdot geeks just don't get it". Then the comparisons come up between the iPod and less "hip" players.
It is absolutely a troll, because it sets out to offend iPod owners and get them to defend their gadget. And what do you mean, "when I posted"... when you posted what?
oops, you are right... but for spotlight to index new file types, it needs a plug-in to know how to extract metadata from the file. so, in a way, spotlight may need to be made aware of your app.
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That's not "the big leak". Asteroid is just one of the trade secrets named in the suit. The "big leak" IMHO is details of the Mac Mini right down to price points and processor speeds.
... unbalanced stereo in/out via firewire. Might be intersting if they add MIDI and sell it for 50 bucks. (As if)
I agree BTW: Asteroid, *yawn*
I tried to download the full zip via torrent all day. No seed. Just now I tried downloading the big zip from two of the mirrors, but neither match the MD5 on the torrent, so I can't seed.
Somebody dropped the ball on the torrent links for sure. No seed. FWIW the full download links on the right side of the page seem to work.
The problem is that you can't read an "electronic reference" on the toilet - a sacred place where I have learned about 80% of everything I know that's technical.
To clarify: Core Image / Core Video is a set of APIs for image processing/enhancement. It will work on all Macs that will run the OS regardless of what video hardware it has.
It will only be accelerated by a GPU that meets certain criteria however. Eventually if enough software vendors take advantage, it will likely give Macs a tremendous performance edge for photo and video work.
In this regard it is similar to Quartz / Quartz Extreme, which accelerates all on-screen drawing by giving that task to the video card. But on-screen drawing still happens when you don't have a supported card, albeit handled by the CPU.
So, the Mac Mini will continue to run Core Image/Core Video-enabled apps, just not with GPU-based acceleration. The machine is not intended for people who require super-fast image processing. It's not as though the Mini loses anything, it just doesn't gain any speed from these new OS technologies.
I suspect this is why Apple continues to insist on packaging the consumer products (iMac, eMac, Mini, iBook) with inferior video hardware that can't be upgraded. It prevents them from being able to hit the performance levels that Core Image / Core Video will make possible, so users who will benefit most from this technology will be forced to buy the more expensive Power Macs/PowerBooks.
Spotlight has its hooks into the OS. Any app that saves a document automatically updates the spotlight metadata store. Every app gets access to search this database via a spotlight API. It seems to use Apple's own high-performance v-twin search algorithm.
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/. because while it's a pretty intelligent community, nobody has a clue about usability. GIMP is not yet a viable alternative to Photoshop. You can't just put translucency and shiny rounded buttons on KDE or XP and say that you're achieving the UI of OS X. Ogg is great but only as useful as its acceptance. You can't piece together a $500 Dell system and achieve the elegance and functionality of the Mac Mini. openoffice sucks on os x not just because it's ugly, but because it is practically a platform unto itself with its own UI and fonts. OS X is usable with a 1-button mouse. iPod is great because it's small and sexy, so even if it doesn't play format x, it actually fits in my pocket! In the real world intangibles like productivity outweigh tangible specs like processing power.
Also, software developers are welcome to develop their own data types which will automatically be indexed by Spotlight.
From a UI and functionality perspective it seems Beagle is trying to do something similar. But under the hood they are very different. Check out Apple's developer info for this at http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight
I'm finding myself becoming more and more frustrated with
Until geeks can wrap their heads around these concepts, people like you will continue to post links to 'version 0.0.5' open source projects (which depend on other packages to do stuff like indexing) and say that it's going to be just like something that Apple will put out in a few months.
I'm not knocking Open Source. But let's call a spade a spade here. When it comes to underlying OS features and UI enhamcements, Apple these days is innovating at a pace that OSS (and even Microsoft) is having trouble keeping up with.
Are you saying the newton failed to inspire an industry-wide trend?
I personally couldn't imagine ever using it, but it's there!
You miss the point. The newton defined the PDA as we know it. Whether Apple's product is a success or not, Newton shaped the industry. It's for that reason Newton doesn't belong in the list.
Kinda like the QuickTake camera line. Eventually it was discontinued, and technology later caught up to a point where digital cameras could actually be useful and cost-effective.
Cheapest price on deal-ram.com for a gig is $192.
A shop I deal with frequently in Toronto sells 1 gig modules for $234.99 Cdn, or about $190.55 USD.
That's not $125, but it's still way cheaper than Apple's upgrade.
BTW one interesting thing about the Mini is that while the average user does not need a full gig of RAM, it is still wise to get it in this machine since it only has one slot. Upgrading later will just leave you with spare memory laying around.
Yeah I know about that, and I know I can methodically reorganize my Start menu too, but the point is that this type of stuff interrupts the creative flow.
Aqua is nice, but it is admittedly ahead of its time, and is sluggish. 10.3.7 seems to have improved scrolling across the board, which is nice.
:)
But I really believe it is a next-generation UI, and is slow just like the classic Mac UI was never really snappy until the 68040 machines came out. (I'm not counting pre-System 7, because it didn't multitask).
Despite Aqua's shortcomings, it really doesn't seem to bog down the machine when it comes to raw processing. Instead, when the processor gets busy, everything still hums along at full tilt, but Aqua gets choppy.
In the meantime I still am really liking the direction that Apple is forging with OS X and the consistency of its UI across apps. Despite its sluggishness it continues to get faster with these incremental updates, and in a few years when a base system is a 3 GHz G5 with video on par with a GF6800, we'll forget about its little annoyances, just like nowadays we forget about trying to run System 7.1 on a Mac LC. Then the fruits of Apple's labour will really pay off, while we enjoy our little search boxes, cool zooming effects and drop shadows. Mac OS X will make Longhorn look clumsy, much the same way System 7's UI wiped the floor with WFW 3.11, and using OS 8 made Win 95/98 feel like a toy.
In my opinion, right now XP and Linux interfaces are nice and quick, but once I now that I've been using OS X for a few years I find other interfaces primitive, despite Aqua's sluggishness.
I know I'm rambling, but hey - since we're sharing, do you want to know what annoys the hell out of me with Windows these days? The taskbar. If you have an Office app open with multiple documents, each document gets a tile in the taskbar - even though the documents are in daughter windows (don't even get me started on that). You only need to have about 6 open windows on your screen before the taskbar becomes useless. The System Tray is never big enough to show you everything it contains (oh if only things just shrunk to fit their available space like OS X), and the Start menu which causes you to do mouse gymnastics through what is usually 3 hierarchal menus just to launch any app. (click Start, move up and to the right for "all programs", hover there for a moment, move into the list that appears on the right - but not too far or the whole thing will disappear on you, then move up or down to your app's folder, then move down past uninstall, help, readme, and click on the app! now what was i going to do with it again?) Oh, and it's also really cool when it starts hiding items from you when you haevn't used them for a little while.
Anyway -- happy computing, regardless of which platform's fruits you choose to pick.
My guess would be that it's because Apache is not Apple software, and they won't include an update until they're 100% sure it's not going to break anything.
It might not be such a big deal on the desktop OS, but remember that the open-source tools are in sync with Mac OS X Server.
Linux kernal updates, revisions of distributions, and Windows Service Packs make the front page too.
I agree. Since I installed 10.3.7, my mouse now has a second button!
That's strange, Apple never packaged an 8 MB Rage card with any tower that OS X is supported on. Are you on an iMac?
I just came across this comment in M2 and felt I had to respond.
I wanted to confirm that she was interested in being a makeup artist, as opposed to production or legal staff. If you actually had the nerve to chastise her for not capitalizing properly in email, then I'm afraid your company is not as "hip" as you suggest.
She was probably running through Craig's List and quickly putting her feelers out for the plethora of stuff on there. Craig's List is a very casual forum. Besides - maybe if you had called her she would have offered you a very attractive resume.
To me, I'm afraid, it sounds as though you have contracted Filmmakers' Ego, and your immediate rejection of this woman without any knowledge of her skills as a makeup artist is consistent with this. You sound like the type who would fire the hard-working assistant for forgetting to cut the crusts off your sandwiches.
I hope your films are really, really good, because it won't be your attitude that earns you respect.
I hope you accept this advice in the spirit in which it was given: not to put you down, but as an eye-opener of sorts, so that you will realize that there is much, much more to the intensely artistic institution that is film than capitalization.
As much as I love Apple I think their actions here are indeed immoral, and possibly illegal.
Simply put, the legal action against M$ over the years has been based on the premise that the company leveraged a monopoly in one market (desktop operating systems) to gain a monopoly in another market (web browsers, media players, word processing).
Here, we see Apple leveraging their monopoly in personal MP3 players to gain a monopoly in online music downloads. They do this by deliberately and unnecessarily changing firmware in the iPod to make it unable to play protected music downloaded from another source.
Hey, great idea! I've got a business proposition: You do the recompile, I'll install it on the Toshiba!
Um, it doesn't fail "quite often", and only affects models within a certain serial number range.
I got my 'Book in October 2001 and it has been flawless. Besides, a problem is only really a problem if there is no fix, and the link you posted details a quick, free fix.
Seriously, Apple's white iBooks have been rock-solid for everybody I know who has one. Because of its value and durability it's one of the best-selling laptops of all time. Just because a batch has been identified with a specific (potential) fault hardly means it's plagued with problems.
It's a troll. The "iPods are only cool because they're trendy" comment is posted, in one form or another, in EVERY iPod topic.
It always illicits the same responses: "I got it because it's the best, not because it's cool", "I hide my iPod to not get mugged for it", and "you slashdot geeks just don't get it". Then the comparisons come up between the iPod and less "hip" players.
It is absolutely a troll, because it sets out to offend iPod owners and get them to defend their gadget. And what do you mean, "when I posted"... when you posted what?
Merger or not, imagine IBM Power5/Power6/whatever servers running OS X. Wow -- IBM pumping R&D money into OS X.
Or high-end Macs being sold through IBM, just like iPods are now being sold through HP.
This doesn't seem like such an absurd reality to me.
oops, you are right... but for spotlight to index new file types, it needs a plug-in to know how to extract metadata from the file. so, in a way, spotlight may need to be made aware of your app.
Documents are indexed as files are saved. The performance hit is during document saving. There is no need for "background indexing".
Apps need to be made "Spotlight-aware" in order to invoke the Spotlight indexing on save.