"..So the Word team organized a special dev team that focused entirely on WordPerfect document import, "reverse-engineering" the WordPerfect file format (documentation for which was jealously guarded, as was the norm back then). Their goal was to make any WordPerfect doc open flawlessly in Word, but in particular their goal was to have no errors at all on printer.tst."
I wonder which company is jealously guarding their file formats now... I wonder how MS Word would have grown if the DMCA existed then.
would you be able to check what version of linux that is run on it? although i see that it would be pretty expensive (hardware wise) to run PPC linux (which is most likely indicating a mac setup, just not Mac-OS on Mac), it would indicate whether or not they are running it on mac or x86
yes those silly buttons for everything are rather pressing. Or like how there will be 3 sets of keys for volume control.
The biggest thing i don't like about PC laptops is that with all the cost cutting, unless you buy top of the spec, the laptop is usually littered with little plastic panels, advertising 'I was too cheap to get DVI out') or similar. Also someone needs to sit and think about what is actually plugging into your laptop, 4 USB slots vertically mounted flush side by side (on a dell for example) is useless, especially when using a thumb drive or similar.
The other thing is those unusually high resolution screens. Personally i'd perfer a lower resolution screen (such as 1280x854) over much higher resolution screens. I don't want my icons to be the size of eraser shavings, and i don't want to have to compromise total display quality just to put on a resolution that doesn't require me to squint at the screen just to read a text box.
Settle down sunshine, 4 proc companies that make one excessively outdated standard, pushing the old x86 horse to new performance levels while heating your living area, is not an example of choice, but the market result of a monopoly. Apple however produce their own product, and are inherently not a 'monopoly of apple products' one motherboard maker is an obvious extention of this, many chip makers however come from this, so i guess even there there is more variants. The choice is consumer level, no one needs to purchase a mac over any other platform. So having apple exist along with those is not an offensive as you might put it. However creators of convicted illegal monopolistic technologies is a completely different argument, and evidently a big bite for any company convicted of such 'innovative' crimes to be speaking about products that only have 31% market share(not 90%+), work with numerous open standards -only-(not proprietry ones such as WMA), is obviously the pot calling the kettle black. or in this case, the pot calling the very shiny and definitely not marked kettle black.
MS merely moved up the date to kill 98, as it was a cheaper option than producing a patch to make it a legal product.
As for being hooked on an OS, the attitude of everyone does it, so it must be right is neither an excuse, nor is it true. Having to use a platform to use a product is not locking someone in. It's a choice. Additionally close to all products on both the platforms you listed are available on a windows based system.
One Platform: x86
One OS: Windows
One Version: whatever they haven't killed updates and support for, today.
Where do you want to go today? are you sure it wasn't msn.com, oh well, i'll take you there anyway.
I think MS are just upset because apple found a way around media player(albeit all MS applications) stealing default types, regardless of the user's chosen options. My favourite however is when two MS apps fight over an extension, like word and internet explorer with the.html extension.
WMA Pro is just under AAC in tested quality ratings (see numerous previous/. posts for proofs). Original(and current) WMA however is 'inferior' even to a LAME encoded MP3.
As OS X was slowly rebuilt to include previous OS 9 features. It was obvious that this was going to be reintroduced. It would be as unfortunate to suggest that LabelsX a 3rd party application to reintroduce labels to 10.2 systems. Was being -squashed- by apple with 10.3 bringing labels from OS 9.
Unlike the sherlock/watson affair which was an obvious extension at the time, but in retrospect seems a little contrived. Writing software that you know will be cannon balled is heroic, but don't whine when it does finally happen.
Since the introduction of 10 there have been a variety of 3rd party app switchers, this particular one happened however to have the apple style. When you emulate the apple style, then you should expect when apple finally program it, it will also look like the apple style.
A more complicated application would have my sympathy and a distaste for apple, but this is truly nonsense.
Although I agree that it's going to be significantly faster, you only need to look at apple to see that specialised software keeps people on platforms.
The SPARC chipset has alot of historical software that PC manufacturers are yet to replace, such as those in the fields of the communications industry.
Windows based solutions look certain for the hard-to-change comms industry. Yet at the same time comes windows famous stability and security.
My guess is that anyone still on SPARC, isn't moving anywhere.
P.S. Seen the G5 recently? It seems everyone these days can put out a fast chip with the right connections.
in the lifetime of the TiBook I saw two replacement keyboards.
one was a touch pad style keyboard, so you tapped on letters instead of clicked on keys, the other was a keyboard modification service, that would install a number of leds under your keyboard effectively backlighting it (the keys have always been transparent in the lifetime of the TiBook)
depends what you call faster. during the war on iraq a 15" powerbook was shipped in as the intel based note books couldn't handle opening the massive satellite recon images.
Plus Apple laptops currently make up 30% of new laptops, the closest competitor is dell at 24%.
the new design allows for a more rigid feeling laptop, as well as cheaper production costs.
the down is that the keyboard isn't removable (for those that liked swapping it out for a touch sensitive board), it's to allow for the backlit keys which are fed light from the built in display.
A new panther feature lets you increase the contrast of the entire screen any desired amount (until you basically get everything, 100% white, black, RGB, CMY)
Also current versions support a nifty zoom in feature.
Powerpoint - Keynote
Word & Excel - Apple Works
Access - Filemaker Pro Next V
Exchange - 10.3 + iCal + Mail.app
i think someone else is getting the bases covered..
i would be concerned.. if i used such silly security.. but if you are concerned: the 10.3 developer version rips up how users enter passwords for screen savers, awoken systems and so on. Chances are it's already been out-coded in the next version.
I suspect they may, there is a tactic in preventing macintosh computes from running windows programs. Mac switchers are often sold on the idea that if they still need to run a windows program, they can.
I used a powerbook g4 1ghz with superdrive, running 512mb ram, and 10.2.3.
So far I've noticed iMovie is faster than before, transitions seem quicker(full screen seemed to have issues with audio, and multitasking in general, hence why it was probably made as a full screen app.)
The previews for effects are a bit misleading to when I apply them (thinking Rain effect here). Generally all over it's faster for me, it (or previous versions) are yet to crash, or act in an unusual manner.
I find it easier to edit clips than in previous versions. I'm pleased with how quickly the transitions are applied to the DV res footage I import. My athlon 1.4ghz couldn't do it anywhere near as fast.
I also use final cut pro, which I believe is infinitely better than iMovie, but with a respectable extra level of difficulty.
the original test that found pc's to be more graphically applicable was rather contrived anyway, and this was before taking into account the tests were completed on recent pc hardware, and then against 6+ month old apple hardware.
Now that the powermac's were just updated, it would be interesting to see how the results would differ.
(I argue that the original tasks were particularly x86 friendly with focus on sse etc, and then no focus on the comparable altivec, basically a set of tasks chosen that would favour PC's all along, and not accurately reflect graphic designers actual work habits.)
I'm still finding chimera useful. Safari isn't going to get tabs or bugs flattened soon enough for chimera to just disappear. Phoenix is out there too, less recognised, but I don't see them dropping a port either.
Really if anything is going to happen chimera should turn into a plug in pack to the standard mozilla distro for osx.
when digging through an old work hard drive other than finding the usual outdated business documents and porn. I also found someone's personal stash of sort of secret info files they were keeping tabs on everyone in the office, *cuts and pastes*:
"Tuesday 8th of February 1997, Tony is pissing me off today, he's already taken 4 coffee breaks, sticking me with the rest of the work, note to self report to boss. Julie is looking rather sexy today, comment to her at lunch about lovely blouse."
It got spicy here and there and read like a badly written journal, still it was great to read about the daily intricate moments that one of my ex collegues had felt.
this is an excellent point. apple are pretty tired of being forced directions because of software makers.
So think of it all this way, now we have two mature open source browser projects, instead of one really advanced one, and a bunch of others with no chance of catching up.
looking through the demonstration, it's pretty clear that it's contrived. First they start with the fastest PC laptop available, which isn't really a laptop, but a desktop cpu crammed into a laptop. (note high battery usage and heat production, no comparitive specs on screen quality, drives, ports, etc)
now come over to some outdated apple hardware, that is more than 6 months old and already updated by apple.
Now we'll run a bunch of tests which aren't really graphic design, but more just heavy processor benchmarking. Mix this with totally ignoring real world creation speeds in sight for things like continual rapid disc access.
Then look at what you are really getting, it's no suprise than a single 3.06GHz chip is out performing 2x1.25GHz(and despite multithreading, 2x1.25 isn't 2.5GHz, and will perform much slower than that). Now I look at the differences in times. Despite picking tasks which are more cpu dependant, the apple still performs comparably despite being a lower clocked cpu, and running on an OS that will not allow photoshop to use 100% cpu when other background tasks are in use.
Your graphic designer will argue that the mac is faster in real world design creation. Or alternatively if you are willing to take serious contrived tests, try the apple photoshop test script, which will leave a 1GHz powerbook outperforming the fastest pentium 4M (2.25GHz) by up to 40% in some tests.
I needn't bring in other real world graphic design issues such as windows inability to colour sync or high speed access to firewire and other important graphic design orientated technologies. Or perhaps the fact that the powerbook in question is already a 2 year old design, and even back then it still had a digital screen.
So I apologise to the boffins that think throwing me a bunch of contrived numbers will disprove my real world experiences.
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I wonder which company is jealously guarding their file formats now... I wonder how MS Word would have grown if the DMCA existed then.
would you be able to check what version of linux that is run on it? although i see that it would be pretty expensive (hardware wise) to run PPC linux (which is most likely indicating a mac setup, just not Mac-OS on Mac), it would indicate whether or not they are running it on mac or x86
The biggest thing i don't like about PC laptops is that with all the cost cutting, unless you buy top of the spec, the laptop is usually littered with little plastic panels, advertising 'I was too cheap to get DVI out') or similar. Also someone needs to sit and think about what is actually plugging into your laptop, 4 USB slots vertically mounted flush side by side (on a dell for example) is useless, especially when using a thumb drive or similar.
The other thing is those unusually high resolution screens. Personally i'd perfer a lower resolution screen (such as 1280x854) over much higher resolution screens. I don't want my icons to be the size of eraser shavings, and i don't want to have to compromise total display quality just to put on a resolution that doesn't require me to squint at the screen just to read a text box.
Settle down sunshine, 4 proc companies that make one excessively outdated standard, pushing the old x86 horse to new performance levels while heating your living area, is not an example of choice, but the market result of a monopoly.
Apple however produce their own product, and are inherently not a 'monopoly of apple products' one motherboard maker is an obvious extention of this, many chip makers however come from this, so i guess even there there is more variants. The choice is consumer level, no one needs to purchase a mac over any other platform.
So having apple exist along with those is not an offensive as you might put it.
However creators of convicted illegal monopolistic technologies is a completely different argument, and evidently a big bite for any company convicted of such 'innovative' crimes to be speaking about products that only have 31% market share(not 90%+), work with numerous open standards -only-(not proprietry ones such as WMA), is obviously the pot calling the kettle black. or in this case, the pot calling the very shiny and definitely not marked kettle black.
MS merely moved up the date to kill 98, as it was a cheaper option than producing a patch to make it a legal product.
As for being hooked on an OS, the attitude of everyone does it, so it must be right is neither an excuse, nor is it true. Having to use a platform to use a product is not locking someone in. It's a choice. Additionally close to all products on both the platforms you listed are available on a windows based system.
One OS: Windows
One Version: whatever they haven't killed updates and support for, today.
Where do you want to go today? are you sure it wasn't msn.com, oh well, i'll take you there anyway.
I think MS are just upset because apple found a way around media player(albeit all MS applications) stealing default types, regardless of the user's chosen options. My favourite however is when two MS apps fight over an extension, like word and internet explorer with the .html extension.
WMA Pro is just under AAC in tested quality ratings (see numerous previous /. posts for proofs). Original(and current) WMA however is 'inferior' even to a LAME encoded MP3.
As OS X was slowly rebuilt to include previous OS 9 features. It was obvious that this was going to be reintroduced. It would be as unfortunate to suggest that LabelsX a 3rd party application to reintroduce labels to 10.2 systems. Was being -squashed- by apple with 10.3 bringing labels from OS 9.
Unlike the sherlock/watson affair which was an obvious extension at the time, but in retrospect seems a little contrived. Writing software that you know will be cannon balled is heroic, but don't whine when it does finally happen.
Since the introduction of 10 there have been a variety of 3rd party app switchers, this particular one happened however to have the apple style. When you emulate the apple style, then you should expect when apple finally program it, it will also look like the apple style.
A more complicated application would have my sympathy and a distaste for apple, but this is truly nonsense.
i think this thread is entirely written up from trolls pasted from other threads.
The SPARC chipset has alot of historical software that PC manufacturers are yet to replace, such as those in the fields of the communications industry.
Windows based solutions look certain for the hard-to-change comms industry. Yet at the same time comes windows famous stability and security.
My guess is that anyone still on SPARC, isn't moving anywhere.
P.S. Seen the G5 recently? It seems everyone these days can put out a fast chip with the right connections.
one was a touch pad style keyboard, so you tapped on letters instead of clicked on keys, the other was a keyboard modification service, that would install a number of leds under your keyboard effectively backlighting it (the keys have always been transparent in the lifetime of the TiBook)
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57961,00.html
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/03/08/2333238.s html?tid=180
next time do your own research
try the old 12" vs new 15" comparison it's what happens when you can't figureout where the spare parts go.. http://www.danamania.com/temp/1512.jpg
Plus Apple laptops currently make up 30% of new laptops, the closest competitor is dell at 24%.
the down is that the keyboard isn't removable (for those that liked swapping it out for a touch sensitive board), it's to allow for the backlit keys which are fed light from the built in display.
A new panther feature lets you increase the contrast of the entire screen any desired amount (until you basically get everything, 100% white, black, RGB, CMY)
Also current versions support a nifty zoom in feature.
Powerpoint - Keynote Word & Excel - Apple Works Access - Filemaker Pro Next V Exchange - 10.3 + iCal + Mail.app i think someone else is getting the bases covered..
i would be concerned.. if i used such silly security.. but if you are concerned: the 10.3 developer version rips up how users enter passwords for screen savers, awoken systems and so on. Chances are it's already been out-coded in the next version.
I suspect they may, there is a tactic in preventing macintosh computes from running windows programs. Mac switchers are often sold on the idea that if they still need to run a windows program, they can.
So far I've noticed iMovie is faster than before, transitions seem quicker(full screen seemed to have issues with audio, and multitasking in general, hence why it was probably made as a full screen app.)
The previews for effects are a bit misleading to when I apply them (thinking Rain effect here). Generally all over it's faster for me, it (or previous versions) are yet to crash, or act in an unusual manner.
I find it easier to edit clips than in previous versions. I'm pleased with how quickly the transitions are applied to the DV res footage I import. My athlon 1.4ghz couldn't do it anywhere near as fast.
I also use final cut pro, which I believe is infinitely better than iMovie, but with a respectable extra level of difficulty.
Now that the powermac's were just updated, it would be interesting to see how the results would differ.
(I argue that the original tasks were particularly x86 friendly with focus on sse etc, and then no focus on the comparable altivec, basically a set of tasks chosen that would favour PC's all along, and not accurately reflect graphic designers actual work habits.)
Really if anything is going to happen chimera should turn into a plug in pack to the standard mozilla distro for osx.
"Tuesday 8th of February 1997, Tony is pissing me off today, he's already taken 4 coffee breaks, sticking me with the rest of the work, note to self report to boss. Julie is looking rather sexy today, comment to her at lunch about lovely blouse."
It got spicy here and there and read like a badly written journal, still it was great to read about the daily intricate moments that one of my ex collegues had felt.
So think of it all this way, now we have two mature open source browser projects, instead of one really advanced one, and a bunch of others with no chance of catching up.
now come over to some outdated apple hardware, that is more than 6 months old and already updated by apple.
Now we'll run a bunch of tests which aren't really graphic design, but more just heavy processor benchmarking. Mix this with totally ignoring real world creation speeds in sight for things like continual rapid disc access.
Then look at what you are really getting, it's no suprise than a single 3.06GHz chip is out performing 2x1.25GHz(and despite multithreading, 2x1.25 isn't 2.5GHz, and will perform much slower than that). Now I look at the differences in times. Despite picking tasks which are more cpu dependant, the apple still performs comparably despite being a lower clocked cpu, and running on an OS that will not allow photoshop to use 100% cpu when other background tasks are in use.
Your graphic designer will argue that the mac is faster in real world design creation. Or alternatively if you are willing to take serious contrived tests, try the apple photoshop test script, which will leave a 1GHz powerbook outperforming the fastest pentium 4M (2.25GHz) by up to 40% in some tests.
I needn't bring in other real world graphic design issues such as windows inability to colour sync or high speed access to firewire and other important graphic design orientated technologies. Or perhaps the fact that the powerbook in question is already a 2 year old design, and even back then it still had a digital screen.
So I apologise to the boffins that think throwing me a bunch of contrived numbers will disprove my real world experiences.