It's my understanding that the reason there is no Mac client is because the MS-designed codec/DRM is not available for OS X.
No, there's no mac client because Apple won't license fairplay to them. They found porting MS's drm over to OSX wasn't possible, so they are trying to find alternatives.
The web is a bad example.. mainly because it's a mess. The standards are convoluted and poorly documented. There is no reference implementation.
and all of our advancements were the result of 3rd party extensions of the standard.
AJAX was invented by MS, not by a standards body. The canvas tag was invented by Apple. Both are widely supported standards now that have a marked improvement over what the w3c is pushing.
One, it wasn't obvious which way CDs were supposed to go, and accidentally putting one in backwards required rebooting while holding down a key to eject the damn thing.
Two, the power button was touch sensitive.. no need to push it, just brush against it and your computer would immediately hibernate.
Here's my comparison: note, I bumped up the mini to meet the HP's minimums, i.e. you can't buy the HP with only 1 gig of ram, so I bumped the mini up to 2gigs. Still wasn't able to bump up the mini all the way to match the HP.
Here's the results: Mini: 2.0 ghz core 2 duo 2 gigs of ram 667mhz integrated intel gma 950 8x dvd burner 160 gb 5400 rpm drive $949
HP s3400t: 2.4 ghz core 2 duo 2 gigs of ram 800mhz dedicated 128 mb nvidia geforce 8400 16x dvd burner (with lightscribe) 320 gb 7200 rpm drive $589.99
Apple doesn't have anything that can compete with HP on price and performance.
"Just as clean of a design" is totally subjective.
I don't want "the world smallest desktop". The HP microtower takes up roughly the same space on my desk as a mini.
I'd be happy if Apple would spend less effort on making "the smallest" whatever and a little more effort on getting prices down. Stick the mini in a larger case, replace the anemic 4800 rpm drive with a decent desktop drive, and cut the price by $200.
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That scoping didn't exist in C until ISO of all people put it in C99.
No, there's no mac client because Apple won't license fairplay to them. They found porting MS's drm over to OSX wasn't possible, so they are trying to find alternatives.
The reason the iphone didn't land in those places yet is because it's not CDMA.
do people come up and start typing on your keyboard?
This is a move to a more private computer. Your screen isn't going to be propped up on your desk like it is now. It'll be laying flat like a notepad.
The Cintiq isn't multitouch.
It's obviously a right-click menu. He triggered it just like you trigger the context menu on windows mobile.. click and hold.
Nope, it was 13 years. People did stand in line to get windows 95.
not for long. They'll probably all be shut down in the next few years.
IBM has 2 people on the payroll who's sole purpose is to trash OOXML (Rob Weir and PJ). IBM definitely has a hidden agenda.
The web is a bad example.. mainly because it's a mess. The standards are convoluted and poorly documented. There is no reference implementation.
and all of our advancements were the result of 3rd party extensions of the standard.
AJAX was invented by MS, not by a standards body. The canvas tag was invented by Apple. Both are widely supported standards now that have a marked improvement over what the w3c is pushing.
Nonsense, ODF has it written in the spec to allow proprietary extensions. MS can add whatever they want and still call it ODF.
netflix's video quality depends entirely on your connection speed. Obviously your connection is crap.
If you can't send me $1000 for no reason, and you are "professional" then I think you're a jackass.
Vista runs just fine on my $400 machine. 2 gigs of ram and a faster core2 than the mini.
The PowerPC is nothing without the AltiVec vector unit, which is a decidely CISC concept.
blender devs rightly called her a troll.
It's amazing how far pj has fallen since SCO.
I'm thinking you need to delete your profile or something. My home button doesn't have any text on it.
I agree.
Here's a good example of how useless ACID3 is:
http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2008/03/26/webkit-nightly-not-smiling/
Webkit gets 100/100 on ACID3, which includes SVG tests, yet webkit only gets 5/116 on SVG animation compliance.
Implementing the bare minimum to pass acid3 is a disservice to everyone.
Eric Meyer also has a bunch to say on how acid3 is a "missed opportunity"
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/03/27/acid-redux/
It's a shame they don't add synths so you could do keytar hero.
Hell, I have a usb synth, they should add the ability.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HIMEYe5WLJ8
there's the bit.
I'm expecting it to be horrible dreck. Brought to you by the two people who brought you jar jar and replaced guns with flashlights.
I can point to two things:
One, it wasn't obvious which way CDs were supposed to go, and accidentally putting one in backwards required rebooting while holding down a key to eject the damn thing.
Two, the power button was touch sensitive.. no need to push it, just brush against it and your computer would immediately hibernate.
Go with HP for the mini.
Here's my comparison: note, I bumped up the mini to meet the HP's minimums, i.e. you can't buy the HP with only 1 gig of ram, so I bumped the mini up to 2gigs. Still wasn't able to bump up the mini all the way to match the HP.
Here's the results:
Mini:
2.0 ghz core 2 duo
2 gigs of ram 667mhz
integrated intel gma 950
8x dvd burner
160 gb 5400 rpm drive
$949
HP s3400t:
2.4 ghz core 2 duo
2 gigs of ram 800mhz
dedicated 128 mb nvidia geforce 8400
16x dvd burner (with lightscribe)
320 gb 7200 rpm drive
$589.99
Apple doesn't have anything that can compete with HP on price and performance.
"Just as clean of a design" is totally subjective.
I don't want "the world smallest desktop". The HP microtower takes up roughly the same space on my desk as a mini.
I'd be happy if Apple would spend less effort on making "the smallest" whatever and a little more effort on getting prices down. Stick the mini in a larger case, replace the anemic 4800 rpm drive with a decent desktop drive, and cut the price by $200.
hey I commented in that story! Apparently g5s were hot!