My old Performa 6200 (75 MHz 603) from '94 (I think) played Mp3s in the background while playing WarCraft 2 or DOOM II in the foreground. It was also acting as an LPD printserver and a fileserver at the time -- albeit on a low traffic in-home lan.
I have no idea why you say that the 7300, a much more powerful machine, would have problems doing the same thing.
I'm sorry. I live in Miami and when we say "Miami" we mean greater Miami or (sometimes) Miami-Dade County. Come to think of it, I don't live in the city of Miami. I live in unincorporated Miami-Dade. I don't really care as my address just says Miami and I'm fine with that. The main diference is that I vote for community council members rather than for a city council or city mayor.
So let's try that again: There are more people in Miami-Dade than there are in Wyoming.
See, the whole point of TAKING NOTES is to summarize, and only write down what you need. Scanning/taking pictures of whole pages? What an incredible waste of time. Take a notetaking class and quit making things hard on yourself.
Often my schedule and that of the library don't match up. I may want to grab some data and analyze it a little bit at a time between classes, etc. Not to mention, the library here has strict rules against food. Not having to lug around a ton of books is also plus.
I'd rather take notes (on my computer) from a scan or other digital media at my leisure than waste time in the library copying info from one dead tree to another only to input it to my machine at home.
Many people actually choose to do business with Microsoft.
Except for the clued-in few, most people consider doing business with Microsoft about as optional as obeying the law of gravity. That's the funny thing about monopolies.
When I heard Parents I immediately thought of people that are not technically inclined.... If they are truly marketing towards Parents and Children, they are making a huge error.
Because geeks never have kids, right? Geeks never have parents for that matter either.
Here's a hint: We are all our parents' offspring and many of us will (or already do) have kids.
My stepfather uses a palm for his real estate business.
Just because it is interesting technology doesn't mean that it is dificult to use either. Dead tree organizers sell well and there are themed ones targeted towards children. I saw a Harry Potter one a few days ago. Now tell me again why someone wouldn't want an inexpensive pda?
RIAA wants DRM precisely so they can shut out John Q. Garage band.
So?
So, that's a combination in restraint of trade and therefore illegal, and a detriment to the public good.
No. Wanting something is not a combination in restraint of trade. I want DRM so I can shut out the RIAA. That doesn't mean I'm breaking the law.
However, making DRM mandatory in players and preventing non RIAA bands from creating DRM signed media is restraint of trade.
Unsigned bands != give their music away for free. I like a lot of unsigned bands, but the ones I like happen to want you to pay for their CDs.
I don't need someone to pick bands for me now that I can hear music from anyone who feels like recording something just by clicking a mouse. I don't need them (and neither do you) to decide what bands I'm going to select from in the first place.
I can't hear music from anyone who feels like recording something just by clicking a mouse. Good artists, whether with a record company or not, tend to not release their music for free on the internet. And the people who do buy CDs from unsigned artists tend to not want to undercut the artist by releasing their work for free on the internet. 'Cause let's face it, the unsigned artist is going to make sales locally, from people they see in person, not some anonymous napster user on the other side of the country.
DRM has the potential to change all that.
The point (that we say you've missed) is that if players only play DRM signed media, whoever controls the signing system decides who can distribute music. If your new ultra-cd player only plays DRM signed music, your favorite non-signed band won't be able to make cds compatible with it.
In order for DRM to work, players must only play DRM signed content. Otherwise, you could burn the music to a traditional easy-to-copy CD and rip it back into a non-DRM format.
The RIAA won't let you do that for two reasons. A) they actually don't want people copying their music. B) they do want to make it difficult for non-RIAA bands to distribute music. If you think that the DRM laws will be fair to non RIAA bands, ask a local musician if he ever recieved a penny from the piracy compensation tax on CD-Rs. He didn't, but the RIAA did.
September 11 (1973) US-backed coup overturns democratically elected government in Chile, leading to thousands of deaths, tortures and "disappearances"
My father was there. He was listening to the radio as democratically elected Aliende prepared to defend his country with his life. Even knowing that he had no chance, he armed himself and stood in front of the seat of the govenrment to fend off the coup with his own hands.
Would Bush have done the same? Would any recent U.S.president?
If some foreign force invaded DC, would any recent president -- knowing it would be certain death -- have the cojones to deffend his nation? Or would he run and hide?
My parents were both in Brazil durring the U.S.-backed military dictatorship there. My father got a first-hand look at just how involved the U.S. was in that affair.
My father and I now work to change U.S. policy so that maybe someday the rest of the world won't have a reason to hate us. Patriotism is loving your country enough to see its faults -- and try and fix them.
I think the Tablet PC will fall flat on its face because consumers won't see the increase in price over a regular desktop computer to be worth the added benefit (whatever that is). If you think I'm wrong, please enlighten me! I desperately want to know what the big deal is. If I'm right, though, why would Apple want to get into this market?
I have a tablet PC (Fujitsu Stylistic 1200). It's a greate little machine that I picked up for $150. I'd love to see an Apple based one, but only for selfish reasons -- I want one. I don't think they'd sell very well.
I'd like a touchscreen (or better: magnetic!) laptop with a fold-away keyboard. It's only a tablet when you want it to be. I think Toshiba and Panasonic sells touchscreen laptops.
Why do I get the impression your main reason for disliking USB is the fact that it's mainly a "Windows Only" standard... ?
Don't forget that Apple brought USB into the mainstream. Do you recall when most USB devices in stores were translucent blue? That was because of the original iMac. USB is by no means a Windows only thing.
I use a Dr. Bott USB kvm for switching between my Mac and my Linux box. I've never had any problems with using a USB KVM (except for some minor bugs in early OS X). The KVM has an odd effect on my video, though. Sometimes it turns everything slightly green. Sometimes it makes my monitor make a high pitched squeal. Both can be solved by tinkering with the switch.
I would gladly try Postgres as it has some features that are currently missing from MySQL. But I don't feel like dealing with it.....
I've installed PostgreSQL five or six times. IIRC it involves seting a pair of environment variables, creating a user, and using configure and make. I was able to do it right after completing my first Linux instalation. I didn't find it difficult or even mildly challenging. The documentation is really good.
The web shop I work for was once based on a house boad. We had two iMacs, a Motorolla StarMax, and a laptop running with no problems. The idea is to keep the computers dry.
My friend had a graphic design setup on her boat (which was moored in the bay) complete with scanner, and two or three printers. Again, the idea is to keep your hardware dry. She used to cover her equipment with canvas when not in use. Her machines were on shelves in a storage locker, so she also closed the locker doors when she wasn't using them.
I cannot imagine Java being of much use for StarOffice on OSX, given that the visual side of Java, AWT and Swing are very slow under OSX compared to Linux and XP.
Actually, MacOS X is probably the best platform for Java development and use. MacOS X has great, fast java support. I use jEdit as my main gui text editor on my Mac.
In any case, I think the article got it wrong. I doubt that the StarOffice gui would be done in Java.
Actually, I learned perl with "Perl 5 for Dummies." It's a terrible book, but it let me (with mostly C and Pascal experience) fix a client's webstore.
I also recomend:
Oh! Pascal by Doug Cooper -- sure it's Pascal, but it has lots of general programming info that I use to this day. It's available in many flavors, including my favorite, the platform neutral one.
Structured Computer Organization by Andrew S. Tanenbaum will teach you how to build a processor that understands Java byte code (integer instructions only) out of transistors. It's really that good.
Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics by Paul Hoffman is a wonderful book that covers everything from encryption to Turring machines to number theory. This book is a fun read that, altough somewhat dated, is still very relevant today.
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy provides an interesting look at the history of the first personal computer with a gui. The edition I have is from pre PowerPC times, so I assume that this one (featuring an iMac rather than one of the boxy 9"screen Macs on the cover) is more current.
Why would he go for a different IM when it' unlikely it would ever integrate as well as Apple's one?
I'll stick with Fire for IMs. It is AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber compatible and it supports logging. Not to mention, iChat looks like it takes up too much space with those speech balloons.
a new mouse is a lot pricier to many Slashdotters than it would be to a Shake user.
I can drive for 20 minutes and buy a 4 button optical mouse for $7. $5 if I don't need it to be optical. $6 can get you a three button mouse and a keyboard. All of the above have scroll wheels.
Mice are cheap! If you buy ten or more, you can even get a bulk discount. Some people can be so cheap.
In the spirit of Civil Disobediance, he should go willingly if arrested -- he knows he is commiting a crime. Once arrested, he can try to get the DMCA overturned and we can support him financially.
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I hate to sound like I'm defending MS, but IE runs on my Mac (I replaced it w/ Moz) and I believe there is/was a Solaris version as well.
I've never purchased an MS os and I don't use them willingly. However, claiming that IE only runs on Windows when the Mac version is more standards compliant than the Windows version is just silly.
In the past Fall and Spring semesters, I workded on an independant study project studying the x86-64 and Itanium architectures. Saying that Itanum has no x86 compatibility is ridiculous. It isn't as goot as AMD's compatibility, but it is there, though likely slower.
Apparently, they still want it to be exclusive. If not, they wouldn't be suing soreson, right? Also, I must point out that QT was not the best codec (for my taste at least). So 1) is arguable and 2) is false.
That would seem true if Apple hadn't chosen to use the MPEG4 codec as the new default. Why? Because it's better than Sorenson. That's right, they didn't choose the codec to be evil, they chose it because it was the best.
Now, I like Apple a lot. But Quicktime is not one of the things in "thanks" list (which is quite long). I like to give credit where it is, and.mov files a real problem and have always been for me.
I wonder where multimedia would be today if it weren't for Quicktime. If you look into the history of Quicktime, you'll find that it is one of the key technologies that lead to the development of modern computer multimedia.
Realplayer and their constant updating of their file formats, Quicktime and the same...
Actually, Quicktime is an open format. Some codecs that have been written for Quicktime are proprietary, however. Since Quicktime is an open framework, anyone can write codecs that work with it.
As Apple has stated repeatedly and Steve mentioned in is keynote, Apple is the first company that AOL allowed under the hood of AIM. This is 100% AOL sanctioned.
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My old Performa 6200 (75 MHz 603) from '94 (I think) played Mp3s in the background while playing WarCraft 2 or DOOM II in the foreground. It was also acting as an LPD printserver and a fileserver at the time -- albeit on a low traffic in-home lan.
I have no idea why you say that the 7300, a much more powerful machine, would have problems doing the same thing.
Ugh! I just agreed with Jesse Helms. I feel dirty.
I'm sorry. I live in Miami and when we say "Miami" we mean greater Miami or (sometimes) Miami-Dade County. Come to think of it, I don't live in the city of Miami. I live in unincorporated Miami-Dade. I don't really care as my address just says Miami and I'm fine with that. The main diference is that I vote for community council members rather than for a city council or city mayor.
So let's try that again: There are more people in Miami-Dade than there are in Wyoming.
IIRC, Wyoming's population is less than that of Miami.
See, the whole point of TAKING NOTES is to summarize, and only write down what you need. Scanning/taking pictures of whole pages? What an incredible waste of time. Take a notetaking class and quit making things hard on yourself.
Often my schedule and that of the library don't match up. I may want to grab some data and analyze it a little bit at a time between classes, etc. Not to mention, the library here has strict rules against food. Not having to lug around a ton of books is also plus.
I'd rather take notes (on my computer) from a scan or other digital media at my leisure than waste time in the library copying info from one dead tree to another only to input it to my machine at home.
Many people actually choose to do business with Microsoft.
Except for the clued-in few, most people consider doing business with Microsoft about as optional as obeying the law of gravity. That's the funny thing about monopolies.
When I heard Parents I immediately thought of people that are not technically inclined. ...
If they are truly marketing towards Parents and Children, they are making a huge error.
Because geeks never have kids, right? Geeks never have parents for that matter either.
Here's a hint: We are all our parents' offspring and many of us will (or already do) have kids.
My stepfather uses a palm for his real estate business.
Just because it is interesting technology doesn't mean that it is dificult to use either. Dead tree organizers sell well and there are themed ones targeted towards children. I saw a Harry Potter one a few days ago. Now tell me again why someone wouldn't want an inexpensive pda?
However, making DRM mandatory in players and preventing non RIAA bands from creating DRM signed media is restraint of trade.
The point (that we say you've missed) is that if players only play DRM signed media, whoever controls the signing system decides who can distribute music. If your new ultra-cd player only plays DRM signed music, your favorite non-signed band won't be able to make cds compatible with it.
In order for DRM to work, players must only play DRM signed content. Otherwise, you could burn the music to a traditional easy-to-copy CD and rip it back into a non-DRM format.
The RIAA won't let you do that for two reasons. A) they actually don't want people copying their music. B) they do want to make it difficult for non-RIAA bands to distribute music. If you think that the DRM laws will be fair to non RIAA bands, ask a local musician if he ever recieved a penny from the piracy compensation tax on CD-Rs. He didn't, but the RIAA did.
September 11 (1973) US-backed coup overturns democratically elected government in Chile, leading to thousands of deaths, tortures and "disappearances"
My father was there. He was listening to the radio as democratically elected Aliende prepared to defend his country with his life. Even knowing that he had no chance, he armed himself and stood in front of the seat of the govenrment to fend off the coup with his own hands.
Would Bush have done the same? Would any recent U.S.president?
If some foreign force invaded DC, would any recent president -- knowing it would be certain death -- have the cojones to deffend his nation? Or would he run and hide?
My parents were both in Brazil durring the U.S.-backed military dictatorship there. My father got a first-hand look at just how involved the U.S. was in that affair.
My father and I now work to change U.S. policy so that maybe someday the rest of the world won't have a reason to hate us. Patriotism is loving your country enough to see its faults -- and try and fix them.
IE3 was a better browser than NS4.
It sure was, except for JavaScript, font sizes, cross platform uniformity, etc.
IE3 was nothing but Mosaic with some window dressing.
NS4 was a powerful (albeit buggy) browser.
I think the Tablet PC will fall flat on its face because consumers won't see the increase in price over a regular desktop computer to be worth the added benefit (whatever that is). If you think I'm wrong, please enlighten me! I desperately want to know what the big deal is. If I'm right, though, why would Apple want to get into this market?
I have a tablet PC (Fujitsu Stylistic 1200). It's a greate little machine that I picked up for $150. I'd love to see an Apple based one, but only for selfish reasons -- I want one. I don't think they'd sell very well.
I'd like a touchscreen (or better: magnetic!) laptop with a fold-away keyboard. It's only a tablet when you want it to be. I think Toshiba and Panasonic sells touchscreen laptops.
Why do I get the impression your main reason for disliking USB is the fact that it's mainly a "Windows Only" standard... ?
Don't forget that Apple brought USB into the mainstream. Do you recall when most USB devices in stores were translucent blue? That was because of the original iMac. USB is by no means a Windows only thing.
I use a Dr. Bott USB kvm for switching between my Mac and my Linux box. I've never had any problems with using a USB KVM (except for some minor bugs in early OS X). The KVM has an odd effect on my video, though. Sometimes it turns everything slightly green. Sometimes it makes my monitor make a high pitched squeal. Both can be solved by tinkering with the switch.
I would gladly try Postgres as it has some features that are currently missing from MySQL. But I don't feel like dealing with it.....
I've installed PostgreSQL five or six times. IIRC it involves seting a pair of environment variables, creating a user, and using configure and make. I was able to do it right after completing my first Linux instalation. I didn't find it difficult or even mildly challenging. The documentation is really good.
The web shop I work for was once based on a house boad. We had two iMacs, a Motorolla StarMax, and a laptop running with no problems. The idea is to keep the computers dry.
My friend had a graphic design setup on her boat (which was moored in the bay) complete with scanner, and two or three printers. Again, the idea is to keep your hardware dry. She used to cover her equipment with canvas when not in use. Her machines were on shelves in a storage locker, so she also closed the locker doors when she wasn't using them.
I cannot imagine Java being of much use for StarOffice on OSX, given that the visual side of Java, AWT and Swing are very slow under OSX compared to Linux and XP.
Actually, MacOS X is probably the best platform for Java development and use. MacOS X has great, fast java support. I use jEdit as my main gui text editor on my Mac.
In any case, I think the article got it wrong. I doubt that the StarOffice gui would be done in Java.
Actually, I learned perl with "Perl 5 for Dummies." It's a terrible book, but it let me (with mostly C and Pascal experience) fix a client's webstore.
I also recomend:
Oh! Pascal by Doug Cooper -- sure it's Pascal, but it has lots of general programming info that I use to this day. It's available in many flavors, including my favorite, the platform neutral one.
Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers by Kip Irvine. It gets into all kinds of details about the x86 architecture.
Structured Computer Organization by Andrew S. Tanenbaum will teach you how to build a processor that understands Java byte code (integer instructions only) out of transistors. It's really that good.
Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics by Paul Hoffman is a wonderful book that covers everything from encryption to Turring machines to number theory. This book is a fun read that, altough somewhat dated, is still very relevant today.
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy provides an interesting look at the history of the first personal computer with a gui. The edition I have is from pre PowerPC times, so I assume that this one (featuring an iMac rather than one of the boxy 9"screen Macs on the cover) is more current.
Why would he go for a different IM when it' unlikely it would ever integrate as well as Apple's one?
I'll stick with Fire for IMs. It is AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber compatible and it supports logging. Not to mention, iChat looks like it takes up too much space with those speech balloons.
People use the software that works for them.
a new mouse is a lot pricier to many Slashdotters than it would be to a Shake user.
I can drive for 20 minutes and buy a 4 button optical mouse for $7. $5 if I don't need it to be optical. $6 can get you a three button mouse and a keyboard. All of the above have scroll wheels.
Mice are cheap! If you buy ten or more, you can even get a bulk discount. Some people can be so cheap.
In the spirit of Civil Disobediance, he should go willingly if arrested -- he knows he is commiting a crime. Once arrested, he can try to get the DMCA overturned and we can support him financially.
B=A+B
A=B-A
B=B-A
B=B-A
I hate to sound like I'm defending MS, but IE runs on my Mac (I replaced it w/ Moz) and I believe there is/was a Solaris version as well.
I've never purchased an MS os and I don't use them willingly. However, claiming that IE only runs on Windows when the Mac version is more standards compliant than the Windows version is just silly.
In the past Fall and Spring semesters, I workded on an independant study project studying the x86-64 and Itanium architectures. Saying that Itanum has no x86 compatibility is ridiculous. It isn't as goot as AMD's compatibility, but it is there, though likely slower.
Apparently, they still want it to be exclusive. If not, they wouldn't be suing soreson, right? Also, I must point out that QT was not the best codec (for my taste at least). So 1) is arguable and 2) is false.
.mov files a real problem and have always been for me.
That would seem true if Apple hadn't chosen to use the MPEG4 codec as the new default. Why? Because it's better than Sorenson. That's right, they didn't choose the codec to be evil, they chose it because it was the best.
Now, I like Apple a lot. But Quicktime is not one of the things in "thanks" list (which is quite long). I like to give credit where it is, and
I wonder where multimedia would be today if it weren't for Quicktime. If you look into the history of Quicktime, you'll find that it is one of the key technologies that lead to the development of modern computer multimedia.
Realplayer and their constant updating of their file formats, Quicktime and the same ...
Actually, Quicktime is an open format. Some codecs that have been written for Quicktime are proprietary, however. Since Quicktime is an open framework, anyone can write codecs that work with it.
As Apple has stated repeatedly and Steve mentioned in is keynote, Apple is the first company that AOL allowed under the hood of AIM. This is 100% AOL sanctioned.