When you're adding technology such as photocasting into an existing product, and such functionality it isn't necessary covered by the standard, you may have no choice but to create a standards-incompatible product.
Except that pheed and flickr have both extended RSS to add photo gallery options without violating the standard.
Try opening a photocast RSS in firefox, you actually get *redirected* to a page that says to use safari or iphoto. That is an unacceptable practice.
RSS is extensible... however, there are proper ways to extend RSS so that readers that don't support those extensions can fail gracefully.
I can plug a pheed or a flickr photofeed into My.Yahoo and they both work rather well. Yahoo didn't need to rewrite their general RSS XSLTs in order to display them.
If you strip out all the extensions, you should be left with a valid RSS file. That's not the case with the photocast format. Several *required* tags are missing, and they're missing because Apple basically renamed them for no reason.
iTunes isn't the only business in town, it's just apparently the most successful.
The same point could be made about Windows. It was never the only business in town. Ever.
I really am beginning to think that MS was never a monopoly. Are they a monopoly now? The government didn't exactly break them up.. they should still be a monopoly if they ever were one. Is OSX not a viable competitor to Windows?
While the performance of Photoshop is not gonna be strong enough in Rosetta for a professional that spends hours per day in photoshop, it's gonna be great for most of us who use photoshop occasionally.
That's an odd quote. Do most mac users spend $600 on software they only use "occasionally"? Steve seems to think so.
I'm boggled at the idea of anyone expecting to be promoted to the top of a company.
The newspaper I work for is now on it's 3rd publisher in as many years. Not a single one of them worked for this newspaper before. They are usually "Director of News" coming from other papers or other companies. No one here ever expects to become Publisher.
I mean, who's going to pay the "Cadillac Tax" just to get a glorified Chevrolet?
As a previous owner of a 1990 Lexus.. I can say that it is indeed a glorified Toyota.
Plenty of high-end car manufacturers are feeling the burn as the low-end cars become better and better. Take a look at a Mazda3 for example. It has all the perks of high-end cars (things like tire-pressure monitors, steering wheel control, zoned temperature control, GPS, etc) at a quarter of the price. There's even a factory option for an integrated 40 gig mp3 player.
Really, what this article is saying is that Apple is only making $450 per low-end iMac sold, based on their own estimates, which are most likely wrong.
Interestingly enough, both myths you talked about were tested by the B team (Kari, Grant, et al). The B team sucks. They don't seem to have much critical thinking power.
For example, they talk about lighting a fire with a gun. It would've been much easier if they used a shotgun without any buckshot in the cartridge. You are guarranteed to get not only a very large flame out the barrel, but a good chunk of burning wad as well.
The B team also spends about 5 minutes on each myth.
Completely lost on you, and any number of readers who chose to contribute to this discussion by commenting on the minutia of the english language and not the substance of the article itself.
I understand the point you're trying to make. However, glaring grammar and spelling mistakes will always distract people from the content. Instead of telling people that they're wrong to be distracted, wouldn't it be easier to just hire a copy editor?
Please point us to ONE SINGLE virus, keylogger, adware, or any type of malware at all before making ridiculous claims like the old and completely bogus "it's just because of low market share".
Adware and spyware are prefectly possible on OSX.. is there something inherent to OSX that prevents people from writing software to get on the internet or display an ad?
The fact that there isn't any spyware for OSX indicates that, indeed, it is a matter of popularity. (Although, Limewire has spyware and it runs on OSX)
As far as more malicious things. The default user on OSX (usually the end-user), can overwrite everything in the Applications directory, without needing a password or any user-interaction.
This makes real viruses (not internet worms, but actual attach-to-executable viruses) a real threat on OSX. They could attach themselves to Safari and iTunes and spread every time you run them. The fact is, a real virus is possible on OSX right now.
The fact that no one bothers to put up an infected executable for people to spread is luck, not security.
A platform which doesn't have Active-X, doesn't have services running out of the box, doesnt' have autorun for CDs with Sony Malware, and doesn't have an unfortunate legacy meaning almost all apps require continual admin access, is more secure in my book.
Except that OSX has equivilents. Dashboard is running by default, can run arbitrary code, and can't be easily removed or turned off.
I love how people say "well, OSX doesn't have ActiveX so it's secure". ActiveX was a "good idea at the time". OSX has applescript and dashboard and every release of OSX has more and more shit running by default. It's only a matter of time before OSX's "good ideas" become security vectors.
it seems a little deceptive if you can't actually download the files for viewing, only stream them.
That's up to the content provider. When you submit a video to google video you can choose whether or not it can be downloaded, as well as the price, etc.
Granted iTunes is an application, but when you're just browsing the music store, most of what it does is rendering that any browser could do.
To a point. I actually wrote a GTK version of iTMS a while ago. My first attempt was to translate their XML into HTML. It didn't work out too well. They have a View element which allows you to have multiple elements in the same physical space. Browsers don't really support that. Also their MatrixView (which is their version of a table) handles requisition and allocation in a really strange way.
Who remembers how bleeding edge DVD was when the PS2 came out. Seriously the PS2 was a lot of peoples FIRST DVD player, when most where 400-500 dollars at the time.
I'm sick of hearing this argument from people who aparently have foggy memories.
DVD was not bleeding edge. PS2 came out in the US in October 2000, the first DVD player from Sony came out in the US in January 1997. That's well over 3.5 years later. If the PS3 doesn't come out until 2009, then you'd have a parallel.
When the PS2 came out, DVD players were dropping in price heavily. I personally bought a Philips DVD 825 for my parents for christmas in 1999. I think I paid about $250 for it. MSRP is $349. Again, this is a year *before* the PS2.
The PS2 was roughly the same price, or a little more expensive, than stand-alone DVD players at the time.
That won't be the case here. We literally have a $1000 price discrepancy between standalone Blu-Ray players releasing this year and the target price of the PS3. The PS3 will either be very delayed, or be very expensive, or both.
What you mean in view of operating systems that are very limited in scaling UI object sizes, which is, all of the current major operating systems.
Linux is a major operating system, and both Gnome and KDE use a box model to handle layout. They also SVG for icons. Plus, Gnome knows what DPI your monitor is at, and scales accordingly.
However, you're right about OSX and Windows both being pixel-based layouts that don't scale at all.
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How does a person make money while being employed by a corporation ?
Oooh! Ooh! I know this! They put money into my account every two weeks.
You can't. The limit is 63 characters, and they're at 63 characters exactly.
When you're adding technology such as photocasting into an existing product, and such functionality it isn't necessary covered by the standard, you may have no choice but to create a standards-incompatible product.
Except that pheed and flickr have both extended RSS to add photo gallery options without violating the standard.
Try opening a photocast RSS in firefox, you actually get *redirected* to a page that says to use safari or iphoto. That is an unacceptable practice.
See for yourself
RSS is extensible... however, there are proper ways to extend RSS so that readers that don't support those extensions can fail gracefully.
I can plug a pheed or a flickr photofeed into My.Yahoo and they both work rather well. Yahoo didn't need to rewrite their general RSS XSLTs in order to display them.
If you strip out all the extensions, you should be left with a valid RSS file. That's not the case with the photocast format. Several *required* tags are missing, and they're missing because Apple basically renamed them for no reason.
iTunes isn't the only business in town, it's just apparently the most successful.
The same point could be made about Windows. It was never the only business in town. Ever.
I really am beginning to think that MS was never a monopoly. Are they a monopoly now? The government didn't exactly break them up.. they should still be a monopoly if they ever were one. Is OSX not a viable competitor to Windows?
While the performance of Photoshop is not gonna be strong enough in Rosetta for a professional that spends hours per day in photoshop, it's gonna be great for most of us who use photoshop occasionally.
That's an odd quote. Do most mac users spend $600 on software they only use "occasionally"? Steve seems to think so.
I'm boggled at the idea of anyone expecting to be promoted to the top of a company.
The newspaper I work for is now on it's 3rd publisher in as many years. Not a single one of them worked for this newspaper before. They are usually "Director of News" coming from other papers or other companies. No one here ever expects to become Publisher.
I mean, who's going to pay the "Cadillac Tax" just to get a glorified Chevrolet?
As a previous owner of a 1990 Lexus.. I can say that it is indeed a glorified Toyota.
Plenty of high-end car manufacturers are feeling the burn as the low-end cars become better and better. Take a look at a Mazda3 for example. It has all the perks of high-end cars (things like tire-pressure monitors, steering wheel control, zoned temperature control, GPS, etc) at a quarter of the price. There's even a factory option for an integrated 40 gig mp3 player.
Car analogies never work.
The wads in modern mass-produced shotgun shells are plastic, just like the shells themselves.
Um, since you're going to be removing the buckshot, I'm assuming you pack them yourself. DIYers tend to use cotton.
Really, what this article is saying is that Apple is only making $450 per low-end iMac sold, based on their own estimates, which are most likely wrong.
Woah, Apple is "only" making a 33% margin?
Interestingly enough, both myths you talked about were tested by the B team (Kari, Grant, et al). The B team sucks. They don't seem to have much critical thinking power.
For example, they talk about lighting a fire with a gun. It would've been much easier if they used a shotgun without any buckshot in the cartridge. You are guarranteed to get not only a very large flame out the barrel, but a good chunk of burning wad as well.
The B team also spends about 5 minutes on each myth.
I'll be left with the History Channel. If they follow suit, I will abandon my T.V. forever.
I don't think you need to worry. The History Channel will be showing "The Last Days of Hilter" from now until the end of time.
Completely lost on you, and any number of readers who chose to contribute to this discussion by commenting on the minutia of the english language and not the substance of the article itself.
I understand the point you're trying to make. However, glaring grammar and spelling mistakes will always distract people from the content. Instead of telling people that they're wrong to be distracted, wouldn't it be easier to just hire a copy editor?
Oddly enough I have yet to see a vulnerability in a major Apple implemented library.
.doc file could result in arbitrary code execution.
That's because your rose colored mac-glasses filter them out.
There are a bunch of vulnerabilities listed there that are from Apple implemented libraries.
Some of the really bad ones ("arbitrary code execution"):
CoreFoundation: Resolving a maliciously-crafted URL may result in crashes or arbitrary code execution
Quicktime: A heap buffer overflow could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code
QuickDraw Manager: Viewing a maliciously-crafted PICT image may result in arbitrary code execution.
AppKit: Opening a malicious, rich text file could lead to arbitrary code execution.
AppKit: Opening a maliciously crafted Microsoft Word
The JavaScript engine in Safari uses a version of the PCRE library that is vulnerable to a potentially exploitable heap overflow.
WebKit contains a heap overflow that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Clicking on a link in a maliciously-crafted PDF file in Safari could lead to arbitrary command execution.
And those are just from the past 4 months!
Look at the "1 more," "8 more," &c. on the left column. Firefox doesn't antialias it for some reason.
It is anti-aliased. The problem is that it's bold. Camino doesn't seem to bold that text.
If you drop your default fontsize in firefox to be the same as camino, they look nearly identical.
Please point us to ONE SINGLE virus, keylogger, adware, or any type of malware at all before making ridiculous claims like the old and completely bogus "it's just because of low market share".
Adware and spyware are prefectly possible on OSX.. is there something inherent to OSX that prevents people from writing software to get on the internet or display an ad?
The fact that there isn't any spyware for OSX indicates that, indeed, it is a matter of popularity. (Although, Limewire has spyware and it runs on OSX)
As far as more malicious things. The default user on OSX (usually the end-user), can overwrite everything in the Applications directory, without needing a password or any user-interaction.
This makes real viruses (not internet worms, but actual attach-to-executable viruses) a real threat on OSX. They could attach themselves to Safari and iTunes and spread every time you run them. The fact is, a real virus is possible on OSX right now.
The fact that no one bothers to put up an infected executable for people to spread is luck, not security.
A platform which doesn't have Active-X, doesn't have services running out of the box, doesnt' have autorun for CDs with Sony Malware, and doesn't have an unfortunate legacy meaning almost all apps require continual admin access, is more secure in my book.
Except that OSX has equivilents. Dashboard is running by default, can run arbitrary code, and can't be easily removed or turned off.
I love how people say "well, OSX doesn't have ActiveX so it's secure". ActiveX was a "good idea at the time". OSX has applescript and dashboard and every release of OSX has more and more shit running by default. It's only a matter of time before OSX's "good ideas" become security vectors.
Camino doesn't suffer from these problems. Somehow it even overcomes Gecko's text problems.
I gotta wonder how much text rendering is placebo. Since Camino and Firefox both use Quickdraw to do text rendering on the mac.
Q: What is the future of Apple Computer?
A: Silicon Graphics.
You know, that was actually incredibly accurate. SGI switched to x86 processors to stay competitive.
it seems a little deceptive if you can't actually download the files for viewing, only stream them.
That's up to the content provider. When you submit a video to google video you can choose whether or not it can be downloaded, as well as the price, etc.
Granted iTunes is an application, but when you're just browsing the music store, most of what it does is rendering that any browser could do.
To a point. I actually wrote a GTK version of iTMS a while ago. My first attempt was to translate their XML into HTML. It didn't work out too well. They have a View element which allows you to have multiple elements in the same physical space. Browsers don't really support that. Also their MatrixView (which is their version of a table) handles requisition and allocation in a really strange way.
After using iTunes, who wants to sift through a bunch of songs of questionable quality, infectiousness, and organization.
Maybe we like infectiousness, and are annoyed that iTMS only has one partial Infectious Grooves album.
The point is that Numbers are meaningless now
It's been that way for a while. One of the best games for the PS2 is Rez. A game that could've been a PS1 launch game.
Who remembers how bleeding edge DVD was when the PS2 came out. Seriously the PS2 was a lot of peoples FIRST DVD player, when most where 400-500 dollars at the time.
I'm sick of hearing this argument from people who aparently have foggy memories.
DVD was not bleeding edge. PS2 came out in the US in October 2000, the first DVD player from Sony came out in the US in January 1997. That's well over 3.5 years later. If the PS3 doesn't come out until 2009, then you'd have a parallel.
When the PS2 came out, DVD players were dropping in price heavily. I personally bought a Philips DVD 825 for my parents for christmas in 1999. I think I paid about $250 for it. MSRP is $349. Again, this is a year *before* the PS2.
The PS2 was roughly the same price, or a little more expensive, than stand-alone DVD players at the time.
That won't be the case here. We literally have a $1000 price discrepancy between standalone Blu-Ray players releasing this year and the target price of the PS3. The PS3 will either be very delayed, or be very expensive, or both.
What you mean in view of operating systems that are very limited in scaling UI object sizes, which is, all of the current major operating systems.
Linux is a major operating system, and both Gnome and KDE use a box model to handle layout. They also SVG for icons. Plus, Gnome knows what DPI your monitor is at, and scales accordingly.
However, you're right about OSX and Windows both being pixel-based layouts that don't scale at all.