More than that, writers need to sell stories, and Apple has interesting things to write about. How many people give a shit if Dell brings out a new product?
Most importantly the development tools MS is providing are awesome!
The trouble is, their frameworks still suck. They still don't even understand the basics of OO development. (It's model-view-controller, not model-view-"view model"). Take a look at some of the examples they've posted of (say), how to implement an animated button with Avalon: hundreds of lines of XML, for Christ's sake.
Those guys are lifetime members of the Golden Hammer-of-the-Week club. Let me know when MS has an answer to Cocoa or Quartz Composer, and I'll take another look.
But, here is why apple should be scared. MS is taking away every reason you should use OSX, with the exception "I hate MS", which Linux can cover.
Nope. They're not making a dent in the main reason for abandoning Windows, which is that it is simply not trustworthy. Exposing a Windows machine to the internet is just begging for pain. We've had well over a decade of MS putting out press releases insisting that they've gotten their act together (this time, for sure!), and it's just not true. The only way I can see Windows overcoming its basic design flaws w/r/t security is to run it in an emulator under Linux, one virtual machine per app.
I predict OSX won't survive this round with MS and Apple becomes a premium hardware supplier. Say bubye to OSX, I don't see it making it past this decade.
Apple will be selling Mac OS Eleven within three years, so you're right in a sense. However, if you want to bet that the Mac OS will be gone by the end of the decade, I'll take that bet.
That depends on your definition of "flop". MS is going to arm-twist the Dells and HPs of the world to include it with all new machines whenever it ships, so there will be many millions of copies of it inflicted on the public in any case. Sometime four or five years from now, it will be 30% or more of their installed base.
Somehow, Apple manages to get their users to take up each new version of OS X at a pretty good clip.
The simple reason Apple won't release a Finale competitor is that Sibelius always does a pretty good job.
It's even simpler than that. There aren't enough people who need a music notation app to make it worth Apple's time to enter that market. There may be money in it, but not nearly enough. For Apple, music notation is a feature of Logic Pro, not an app unto itself.
Remember, we're talking about a company that typically sells consumer products by the millions, and pro products by tens of thousands. Each copy of FCP that Apple sells is typically accompanied by around $25K worth of hardware, and that's the low end. An FCP sale can easily reach into six figures, when people buy the Xserves, the RAIDs, and the cinema displays for three or four users.
They've obviously talked to a lot pf photographers
As it happens, the lead developer of the app is very talented photographer himself. I gather that he made a living as a pro photographer some years ago.
Tiger shipped with support for resolution-independent UIs, Apple is just waiting for application developers to update their apps to support it before "turning it on" in 10.5.
Actually, you can turn it on right now if you want. If you install the developer tools, you can use Quartz Debug to enable it.
It will preserve the layers in PSD files, but its own editing doesn't really fit that description. Aperture keeps a list of operations to apply to the original image.
b) does Aperture have a clone tool/healing brush/patch tool? These are the tools I use most often for actual retouching.
Yes.
c) does Aperture support 16 bit images? (My guess is it would pretty much have to in order to truly support RAW, but I don't think they specifically say it does anywhere.)
Even better: Aperture uses Core Image, so it works in floating point.
D.C. is my home town. I've looked very close at the Ruling Party, and come to a different conclusion than you.
I know its cool to take the "everyone is corrupt, the same, and life is hopeless" stance here at slashdot and pretend libertarianism works, so enjoy your mod points.
Who said it's hopeless? All I said was that the Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable.
I further wager that the judge concerned was appointed/nominated by a Republican.
I see that you subscribe to the popular fantasy that there's some practical difference between the wings of the Ruling Party.
For the record, both Democrats and Republicans tax and tax, spend and spend, get us into wars, commit felonies, and engage in cronyism. They are interchangable.
Then they'll raise prices slowly and make it exceedingly difficult for anyone to enter it.
They might like to, but in practice they have to contend with the free flow of capital, which makes them vulnerable to a new competitor who doesn't have their initial losses to make up.
Nobody's ever succeeded in creating the theoretical "coercive monopoly" which can charge whatever it wants for its product, unless the monopoly was created by a government.
Jack Thompson lost a child and blames video games.
Are you sure that he lost a kid? The Wikipedia article mentions that he represented the parents of the Paducah schoolhouse shootings in a fishing-expedtion lawsuit against a bunch of entertainment companies, but there's nothing there about any kids of his own.
Actually, it might be an enforceable contract. If you post a public offer, and somebody goes ahead and fulfills the terms of your offer, that person might very we able to hold you to your word in court.
This is why advertisers have to meet the promises they make.
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I prefer to charge this way to reduce wear on the HDD
The biggest factor for wear and tear for disk drives is how many times they start and stop, not how many hours the motor runs.
-jcr
More than that, writers need to sell stories, and Apple has interesting things to write about. How many people give a shit if Dell brings out a new product?
-jcr
Most importantly the development tools MS is providing are awesome!
The trouble is, their frameworks still suck. They still don't even understand the basics of OO development. (It's model-view-controller, not model-view-"view model"). Take a look at some of the examples they've posted of (say), how to implement an animated button with Avalon: hundreds of lines of XML, for Christ's sake.
Those guys are lifetime members of the Golden Hammer-of-the-Week club. Let me know when MS has an answer to Cocoa or Quartz Composer, and I'll take another look.
But, here is why apple should be scared. MS is taking away every reason you should use OSX, with the exception "I hate MS", which Linux can cover.
Nope. They're not making a dent in the main reason for abandoning Windows, which is that it is simply not trustworthy. Exposing a Windows machine to the internet is just begging for pain. We've had well over a decade of MS putting out press releases insisting that they've gotten their act together (this time, for sure!), and it's just not true. The only way I can see Windows overcoming its basic design flaws w/r/t security is to run it in an emulator under Linux, one virtual machine per app.
I predict OSX won't survive this round with MS and Apple becomes a premium hardware supplier. Say bubye to OSX, I don't see it making it past this decade.
Apple will be selling Mac OS Eleven within three years, so you're right in a sense. However, if you want to bet that the Mac OS will be gone by the end of the decade, I'll take that bet.
-jcr
Microsoft again proves it knows how to sell a product.
I'm not so sure of that. The only "sale" MS had to do was to IBM, and it's just been a matter of arm-twisting and per-machine licensing ever since.
-jcr
Vista is going to flop,
That depends on your definition of "flop". MS is going to arm-twist the Dells and HPs of the world to include it with all new machines whenever it ships, so there will be many millions of copies of it inflicted on the public in any case. Sometime four or five years from now, it will be 30% or more of their installed base.
Somehow, Apple manages to get their users to take up each new version of OS X at a pretty good clip.
-jcr
iTunes also realizes the media is more important than the player. When will Microsoft and Real catch up?
If you must use Windows at all, at least you can use iTunes there. So, who cares if MS and Real ever buy a clue?
-jcr
Link /.'d already?? I get timeout errors.
;-)
Slashdotted, or just an XP server?
-jcr
I have thousands of dollars worth of PowerPC software. It does exactly what I need it to do and will continue to do so.
It will do so on an Intel Mac, as well. Rosetta is really fast.
-jcr
The simple reason Apple won't release a Finale competitor is that Sibelius always does a pretty good job.
It's even simpler than that. There aren't enough people who need a music notation app to make it worth Apple's time to enter that market. There may be money in it, but not nearly enough. For Apple, music notation is a feature of Logic Pro, not an app unto itself.
Remember, we're talking about a company that typically sells consumer products by the millions, and pro products by tens of thousands. Each copy of FCP that Apple sells is typically accompanied by around $25K worth of hardware, and that's the low end. An FCP sale can easily reach into six figures, when people buy the Xserves, the RAIDs, and the cinema displays for three or four users.
-jcr
They've obviously talked to a lot pf photographers
As it happens, the lead developer of the app is very talented photographer himself. I gather that he made a living as a pro photographer some years ago.
-jcr
Tiger shipped with support for resolution-independent UIs, Apple is just waiting for application developers to update their apps to support it before "turning it on" in 10.5.
Actually, you can turn it on right now if you want. If you install the developer tools, you can use Quartz Debug to enable it.
-jcr
it can't serve as a substitute for Photoshop
That's not what it's for. Think more along the lines of "iPhoto Pro".
If Apple were to build a Photoshop competitor, I'd expect it to be based on Shake.
-jcr
What in the world would cause an LCD to emit any sound at all? Did they botch the power supply design somehow?
-jcr
a) does Aperture support layers?
It will preserve the layers in PSD files, but its own editing doesn't really fit that description. Aperture keeps a list of operations to apply to the original image.
b) does Aperture have a clone tool/healing brush/patch tool? These are the tools I use most often for actual retouching.
Yes.
c) does Aperture support 16 bit images? (My guess is it would pretty much have to in order to truly support RAW, but I don't think they specifically say it does anywhere.)
Even better: Aperture uses Core Image, so it works in floating point.
-jcr
Why is it that every time I see a story about this processor, I keep thinking about the Star Trek Nazi episode?
-jcr
Look closer, you'll notice a real difference.
D.C. is my home town. I've looked very close at the Ruling Party, and come to a different conclusion than you.
I know its cool to take the "everyone is corrupt, the same, and life is hopeless" stance here at slashdot and pretend libertarianism works, so enjoy your mod points.
Who said it's hopeless? All I said was that the Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable.
-jcr
Democrats tax and spend. Republicans just spend.
I see that you've forgotten why GWB senior lost to Clinton. Do you recall the phrase: "read my lips"?
Democrats commit felonies by lying about their extramarital relations
Ever heard of Dan Rostenkowski?
-jcr
Well gee, thanks for that germane and on-point correction.
You said "not available at any price". You were mistaken.
I suppose I could get that with a pretty pretty pink pony to ride to Lollipop Land.
Whatever floats your boat.
Back in the real world, however, fibre is not available to mere mortals.
Why would you imagine that rich people are immortal?
-jcr
I further wager that the judge concerned was appointed/nominated by a Republican.
I see that you subscribe to the popular fantasy that there's some practical difference between the wings of the Ruling Party.
For the record, both Democrats and Republicans tax and tax, spend and spend, get us into wars, commit felonies, and engage in cronyism. They are interchangable.
-jcr
Fiber is not available to me for any price.
Sure it is. It's just that the price in your location may run into seven figures for installation.
-jcr
Then they'll raise prices slowly and make it exceedingly difficult for anyone to enter it.
They might like to, but in practice they have to contend with the free flow of capital, which makes them vulnerable to a new competitor who doesn't have their initial losses to make up.
Nobody's ever succeeded in creating the theoretical "coercive monopoly" which can charge whatever it wants for its product, unless the monopoly was created by a government.
-jcr
Are you sure they didn't donate it to the ESA Foundation? They're not the same thing, you know.
-jcr
Wow... Shredded by a 14 year-old. No wonder he's in such a snit.
-jcr
Jack Thompson lost a child and blames video games.
Are you sure that he lost a kid? The Wikipedia article mentions that he represented the parents of the Paducah schoolhouse shootings in a fishing-expedtion lawsuit against a bunch of entertainment companies, but there's nothing there about any kids of his own.
-jcr
Actually, it might be an enforceable contract. If you post a public offer, and somebody goes ahead and fulfills the terms of your offer, that person might very we able to hold you to your word in court.
This is why advertisers have to meet the promises they make.
-jcr