USB 2.0 has no purpose. USB 1.0 is good enough for low performance peripherals (mouse, keyboard). FireWire should be used for everything else (harddrives, digital audio, digital video, printers).
I wish Apple would give me a firmware update to enable playing Ogg files on my iPod as well.
Hopefully, we'll get that on January 7th along with official Ogg support and Rendezvous streaming in iTunes. I have a feeling the AAC codec is more likely, though.
I think he was talking about the general trend of Apple using (*and creating) standards where possible nowadays: Java, USB, FireWire*, IP, 802.11, ZeroConf*, IDE, ADC*, MPEG4*, WebDAV, FiberChannel. I'm sure there are many more examples of Apple's support of standards, those are simply off the top of my head.
So.... just like the iPod then, which works on other platforms only due to 3rd parties reverse engineering parts of the on disk format?
No. The iPod for Windows is distributed by Apple. It comes with MusicMatch software that Apple helped bring iPod functionality to. Linux isn't a big enough market for the iPod for Apple to worry about it, so of course it is going to be up to 3rd parties.
Except OS X isn't tinkerable at all. Practically all the code Apple has written is closed source, and the Mac parts of MacOS are generally only capable of doing things one way. Unlike every Linux and Windows, MacOS is still not capable of being themed by 3rd parties (unless you consider a grey version of the default a "theme").
You can tinker with the interface of most OS X applications with Apple's Developer Tools. You can change icons of files and folders with a copy & paste operation. There are third party theme managers for OS X.
Windows XP doesn't support 3rd party themeing. I thought that it did until I messed around on my brother's XP eMachine over Christmas. Themes must be digitally signed by Microsoft.
As a switcher for over a year now, I can say that I definitely prefer the global menubar. It is easy to target with a mouse and it keeps the windows less cluttered.
The article wants MS not to donate any machine or Windows to poor schools for competitive issues, to protect Apple's interests, but yet at the same time it critizes MS because it donates old technology.
The article accuses MS of bribing, yet there is no known evidence of such a criminal conduct. If the bribe means here a settlement, it is a legal move. There is nothing to talk about here.
That was part of one of Microsoft proposal's for their punishment for using their monopoly illegally. Donating used computers to schools isn't much of a punishment, especially when one of your strongest competitors currently holds a majority of that market.
Basically, that is being allowed to illegally dump product in an effort to conquer a market as a supposed form of punishment.
Mail 1.2 is my favorite mail tool of all time. Having said that, I wish Apple would fix a very annoying bug in it. Sometimes it refuses to quit cleanly. I'll log out and Mail will cancel the logout. So, I have to force quite Mail before I can log out. This bug was introduced in Mail 1.2 or OS X 10.2.
I never said they were exempt from negative press. It just seems like Microsoft donated a large sum of money to their astroturfers this week to spread a bunch of negative press about Apple.
Normally you might get one negative Apple related article in a week, but this week it seems to be a blitzkrieg.
I forgot the whole "I'm going to act like.Mac is still having availability issues even thought they were fixed months ago when Apple replaced some of their network appliances" post.
Is this Negative Apple Press Week on Slashdot? First there was the whole NTT thing where commenters refused to admit that NTT was actually using Apple technology. Then there was the stupid GNU Darwin post, and now this.
When did the e-mail announcing NAPWeek go out? I missed it.
The.Mac servers that I need to contact have better availability than my own ISPs. I'll frequently have trouble with Roadrunner's SMTP and POP servers being unavailable (I couldn't use either last night). I've only have a few instances of Apple's SMTP and IMAP servers being unavailable in over a year of use.
If more people would support one of these projects it could easily grow into an easy to use package that anybody can setup in a realatively short time and we can circumvent DRM. "You wanna stick DRM on all the PVR's? Fine, my PC is DRM-less.. do something about it."
Intel, AMD, and Microsoft are doing something about it.
It is a shame Be never open sourced BeOS before they went out of business and left that sort of thing up to the investors. Sony and Matsushita would be much better off with BeOS than Linux for any media related activities.
Does anyone know if they're going to be using Rendezvous for the MP3 and photo viewing features? If so, that's another reason for me to possibly get cable and a Tivo.
You wouldn't need a refund because if Apple allocates any money from hardware sales to OS development, you are still giving to the OSS movement because Apple gives back.
Real Player actually isn't that bad on Mac OS X. I've had it installed for a while now and have noticed any bad things. I refuse to ever install it again on a Windows machine because of all of the evil vile instrusive things it does.
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USB 2.0 has no purpose. USB 1.0 is good enough for low performance peripherals (mouse, keyboard). FireWire should be used for everything else (harddrives, digital audio, digital video, printers).
I wish Apple would give me a firmware update to enable playing Ogg files on my iPod as well.
Hopefully, we'll get that on January 7th along with official Ogg support and Rendezvous streaming in iTunes. I have a feeling the AAC codec is more likely, though.
I think he was talking about the general trend of Apple using (*and creating) standards where possible nowadays: Java, USB, FireWire*, IP, 802.11, ZeroConf*, IDE, ADC*, MPEG4*, WebDAV, FiberChannel. I'm sure there are many more examples of Apple's support of standards, those are simply off the top of my head.
No. The iPod for Windows is distributed by Apple. It comes with MusicMatch software that Apple helped bring iPod functionality to. Linux isn't a big enough market for the iPod for Apple to worry about it, so of course it is going to be up to 3rd parties.
You can tinker with the interface of most OS X applications with Apple's Developer Tools. You can change icons of files and folders with a copy & paste operation. There are third party theme managers for OS X.
Windows XP doesn't support 3rd party themeing. I thought that it did until I messed around on my brother's XP eMachine over Christmas. Themes must be digitally signed by Microsoft.
Obviously for the Linux application(s). The iPod's GUI is slick.
As a switcher for over a year now, I can say that I definitely prefer the global menubar. It is easy to target with a mouse and it keeps the windows less cluttered.
Quit being cheap and buy a Mac! It's cheaper than a Sun box.
That was part of one of Microsoft proposal's for their punishment for using their monopoly illegally. Donating used computers to schools isn't much of a punishment, especially when one of your strongest competitors currently holds a majority of that market.
Basically, that is being allowed to illegally dump product in an effort to conquer a market as a supposed form of punishment.
The same thing you find funny as a non-American, I find tragic as an American.
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Mail 1.2 is my favorite mail tool of all time. Having said that, I wish Apple would fix a very annoying bug in it. Sometimes it refuses to quit cleanly. I'll log out and Mail will cancel the logout. So, I have to force quite Mail before I can log out. This bug was introduced in Mail 1.2 or OS X 10.2.
I never said they were exempt from negative press. It just seems like Microsoft donated a large sum of money to their astroturfers this week to spread a bunch of negative press about Apple.
Normally you might get one negative Apple related article in a week, but this week it seems to be a blitzkrieg.
Microsoft doesn't sue people, they whack them.
I forgot the whole "I'm going to act like .Mac is still having availability issues even thought they were fixed months ago when Apple replaced some of their network appliances" post.
Is this Negative Apple Press Week on Slashdot? First there was the whole NTT thing where commenters refused to admit that NTT was actually using Apple technology. Then there was the stupid GNU Darwin post, and now this.
When did the e-mail announcing NAPWeek go out? I missed it.
The .Mac servers that I need to contact have better availability than my own ISPs. I'll frequently have trouble with Roadrunner's SMTP and POP servers being unavailable (I couldn't use either last night). I've only have a few instances of Apple's SMTP and IMAP servers being unavailable in over a year of use.
There's QuickTime for unix. It's QuickTime for Mac OS X.
It is a shame Be never open sourced BeOS before they went out of business and left that sort of thing up to the investors. Sony and Matsushita would be much better off with BeOS than Linux for any media related activities.
Does anyone know if they're going to be using Rendezvous for the MP3 and photo viewing features? If so, that's another reason for me to possibly get cable and a Tivo.
You wouldn't need a refund because if Apple allocates any money from hardware sales to OS development, you are still giving to the OSS movement because Apple gives back.
Then you wouldn't need a refund.
Real Player actually isn't that bad on Mac OS X. I've had it installed for a while now and have noticed any bad things. I refuse to ever install it again on a Windows machine because of all of the evil vile instrusive things it does.
Maybe because tabbed browsing is a bad UI.
Newer nightly builds fixed this. 0.6 has the problem.