If you were able use the ColorSync profile that the Apple display was using, and apply it to the Dell display, you'd probably find them far more closely matched.
The Cinema 30" has been out long enough now that I would place the odds of a product revision at MacWorld over 50%. Whether it's a bigger panel, or and increase in the DPI will be interesting to see. Tiger is already capable of going fully resolution-independent.
I'd love to have a 30" display that bumped the resolution up to 250 DPI or so.. That would be sweet.
SJ is why Apple became a business at all. Woz was a great engineer, but most people like him work 30 years for somebody else and retire. SJ got Markkula involved, he made the first sales, he beat up the parts vendors, and basically got the whole operation off the ground by sheer force of will.
I don't understand why MS just doesn't have the cajones to bring forth a new OS
Umm... They did. Three times. The first time, was Xenix. Nobody went for it. The second time, it was OS/2. Nobody went for it. The third time, it was Windows NT, and people went for it (gradually, over about a decade) because unlike the previous attempts, it let the lusers keep running nearly all of all their legacy shit, without running in an inconvenient penalty box. Every rev since NT was just another round of polishing the turd.
MS is very much a prisoner of their customer's inertia.
Let's not pretend that UNIX is "security focused". Let's face it, UNIX was a bitch to secure over the last twenty years, and it's still sorely lacking in many ways (die, setuid! die! die! die!). The reason that people think of UNIX as a secure OS is that it's usually compared to MS's train-wrecks.
You know, if a Linux company had half the focus of a Steve Jobs and had a clear vision they would sweep the market (k/ubuntu is getting getting better each day).
Dream on. Linux needs a hell of a lot more than better presentations, starting with a decent 2D drawing API. After that, you can try coming up with a GUI environment that isn't just trying to equal Microsoft.
The "Yellow Box", better known as "OpenStep Enterprise for Windows", was a shipping product for several years. However, it was 1) based on Display Postscript for 2D drawing, and Adobe has little if any interest in DPS anymore, and 2) it is now about seven years out of date w/r/t the current state of the Cocoa frameworks. Add to that, the fact that it predates Apple's support of OpenGL, and we're talking about a massive undertaking, and for what? To make life better for Windows developers?
Hope for it, but whatever you do, don't bet on it.
I think Apple should ("accidentally" or officially) let a Cocoa API slip out for Windows.
That "accident" would cost at least 30 or 40 man-years of work to make it happen. I'd love to see SJ take the bull by the horns like that, but as one who lobbied heavily for it, both from the inside and the outside of the company, I place the odds of it happening at slighly less than nil.
Not to mention the rather inept aping of the NeXTSTEP libraries in the.NET framework. (They're trying, they really are, but MS still doesn't even grasp model-view-controller yet.)
Macs with slots, Color Quickdraw, Quicktime: thank Gasee and other technical management, not Sculley. Newton: never came close to making back its development costs. Hypercard: developed single-handedly by Atkinson. Presented to Sculley as a fait accompli, shipping it was a no-brainer. PPC, powerbook, ADB: Again, thank the technical management that was left at Apple, not Sculley.
Here's an example of John Sculley's technical acumen.
What Sculley inherited at Apple was a commanding technical lead, which he managed to piss away over the following five years. Add to that his astronomical fuck-up with licensing the Mac UI to Microsoft, and you have the cause of Apple's near-death experience in the late 90's.
Sculley may have done allright as a minory functionary in Apple's marketing department. As CEO, he nearly caused the company's demise. By the time Spindler took over, the company was a basket case.
But was it obvious a decade ago when Burst developed this technology?
Yes, of course it was. You always transmit a file as quickly as your network allows.
Burst was so far ahead of the technology of the time that the patent award was definitely earned.
Nope. Ten years ago, TV networks were already trying various ways to send a show faster than real-time, like using multiple satellite channels and segmenting the show at the commercial breaks.
I disagree. The lawsuit is an attempt to get a patent thrown out, because it never should have been awarded in the first place. Sending video at a faster rate than is necessary for real-time streaming, and buffering it on the receiving end, is "obvious to one skilled in the art".
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But you do, don't you?
I have a few guesses. He's been a gay basher for many years. Talk about protesting too much.
-jcr
He also blows big chunks of money on diseases that mostly affect non-whites.
He spends money helping people who need help. What's it to you, adolf?
-jcr
besides, do i really want AIDS cured?
You bet you do! You don't know where Pat Robertson's cock has been.
Asshole.
-jcr
If you were able use the ColorSync profile that the Apple display was using, and apply it to the Dell display, you'd probably find them far more closely matched.
-jcr
The Cinema 30" has been out long enough now that I would place the odds of a product revision at MacWorld over 50%. Whether it's a bigger panel, or and increase in the DPI will be interesting to see. Tiger is already capable of going fully resolution-independent.
I'd love to have a 30" display that bumped the resolution up to 250 DPI or so.. That would be sweet.
-jcr
Actually, Phil jumped from a balcony on IL 3 into an airbag. Four stories, not 10 feet.
-jcr
Apple purges themselves of the legacy stuff every so often.
;-)
Moreso than most companies, but then again, they are still working on Carbon.
-jcr
Jobs isn't fit to polish Woz's shoes.
Woz would disagree with you.
SJ is why Apple became a business at all. Woz was a great engineer, but most people like him work 30 years for somebody else and retire. SJ got Markkula involved, he made the first sales, he beat up the parts vendors, and basically got the whole operation off the ground by sheer force of will.
-jcr
I don't understand why MS just doesn't have the cajones to bring forth a new OS
Umm... They did. Three times. The first time, was Xenix. Nobody went for it. The second time, it was OS/2. Nobody went for it. The third time, it was Windows NT, and people went for it (gradually, over about a decade) because unlike the previous attempts, it let the lusers keep running nearly all of all their legacy shit, without running in an inconvenient penalty box. Every rev since NT was just another round of polishing the turd.
MS is very much a prisoner of their customer's inertia.
-jcr
Unix-based, security-focused OS
Well..
Let's not pretend that UNIX is "security focused". Let's face it, UNIX was a bitch to secure over the last twenty years, and it's still sorely lacking in many ways (die, setuid! die! die! die!). The reason that people think of UNIX as a secure OS is that it's usually compared to MS's train-wrecks.
-jcr
iTunes isn't a Cocoa app. In fact, it's best described as a Quicktime app. (The Quicktime API includes a great deal of the old Mac Toolbox.)
-jcr
You know, if a Linux company had half the focus of a Steve Jobs and had a clear vision they would sweep the market (k/ubuntu is getting getting better each day).
Dream on. Linux needs a hell of a lot more than better presentations, starting with a decent 2D drawing API. After that, you can try coming up with a GUI environment that isn't just trying to equal Microsoft.
-jcr
the iPod is again an overprized gizmo
Nope.
Economics 101: If people are buying them in vast quantities, then they're not overpriced, by definition.
-jcr
Cocoa would make a beautiful cross platform GUI API.
;-)
Yes, it did.
Oh, well...
-jcr
The "Yellow Box", better known as "OpenStep Enterprise for Windows", was a shipping product for several years. However, it was 1) based on Display Postscript for 2D drawing, and Adobe has little if any interest in DPS anymore, and 2) it is now about seven years out of date w/r/t the current state of the Cocoa frameworks. Add to that, the fact that it predates Apple's support of OpenGL, and we're talking about a massive undertaking, and for what? To make life better for Windows developers?
Hope for it, but whatever you do, don't bet on it.
-jcr
I think Apple should ("accidentally" or officially) let a Cocoa API slip out for Windows.
That "accident" would cost at least 30 or 40 man-years of work to make it happen. I'd love to see SJ take the bull by the horns like that, but as one who lobbied heavily for it, both from the inside and the outside of the company, I place the odds of it happening at slighly less than nil.
-jcr
You think anything having to do with Cocoa, OS X, or Apple in general qualifies as a "premiere app development tool"?
Perhaps you have the term "premier" confused with "most popular".
Cocoa is the best development system that exists, with the possible exception of the later Smalltalk environments.
-jcr
NeXT lives on in every OSX machine.
.NET framework. (They're trying, they really are, but MS still doesn't even grasp model-view-controller yet.)
Not to mention the rather inept aping of the NeXTSTEP libraries in the
-jcr
Ok, in order:
Macs with slots, Color Quickdraw, Quicktime: thank Gasee and other technical management, not Sculley.
Newton: never came close to making back its development costs.
Hypercard: developed single-handedly by Atkinson. Presented to Sculley as a fait accompli, shipping it was a no-brainer.
PPC, powerbook, ADB: Again, thank the technical management that was left at Apple, not Sculley.
Here's an example of John Sculley's technical acumen.
What Sculley inherited at Apple was a commanding technical lead, which he managed to piss away over the following five years. Add to that his astronomical fuck-up with licensing the Mac UI to Microsoft, and you have the cause of Apple's near-death experience in the late 90's.
Sculley may have done allright as a minory functionary in Apple's marketing department. As CEO, he nearly caused the company's demise. By the time Spindler took over, the company was a basket case.
-jcr
Oh, that's funny. Touting Windows 95 as "the" game platform, using a game that was developed on NeXT machines.
-jcr
Well, for one thing...she's "hot".....
Dude, you really need to get away from the TV.
-jcr
But was it obvious a decade ago when Burst developed this technology?
Yes, of course it was. You always transmit a file as quickly as your network allows.
Burst was so far ahead of the technology of the time that the patent award was definitely earned.
Nope. Ten years ago, TV networks were already trying various ways to send a show faster than real-time, like using multiple satellite channels and segmenting the show at the commercial breaks.
-jcr
It's not the same shoe. Apple's DRM is based on patented technology that isn't obvious. That's what's called an invention.
-jcr
I disagree. The lawsuit is an attempt to get a patent thrown out, because it never should have been awarded in the first place. Sending video at a faster rate than is necessary for real-time streaming, and buffering it on the receiving end, is "obvious to one skilled in the art".
-jcr
Does this mean Microsoft can now go and sue Burst to get their money back?
Not likely. MS cut a deal, and I'm sure that the deal included an agreement not to re-open the matter if Burst lost their patent down the road.
-jcr