That's interesting as it requires a high level of interaction between Apple and BMW to get it all to work. If Apple can get other automakers to agree to such high level integration, and judging by this page, they can and are, they will further strengthen their stranglehold on the mp3 player business. I don't generally like it when companies have strangleholds on markets but in this case, it makes me happy. Apple saw that mp3 players were ugly both in design and user interface so they invented a better mousetrap and the world has beaten a path to their door. Now they're reaping the rewards. Good for them.
Thanks for the info.
Now is the perfect time to partner with Ford! Seriously though, it's good news and I look forward to such a feature being available on all cars. Using an FM transmitter isn't viable in a metropolitan center with a clogged FM band and a cassette adaptor is becoming less and less useful as many new cars lack cassette players. While a simple input jack that connects to the output jack of any electronic device (rather than just iPods) may be cheaper and more flexible, it doesn't allow for integration with the iPod's interface. The day is approaching when all cars will have LCD displays built into the dashboard/console and being able to browse through songs on your iPod as well as display information about the current song would be ideal.
I started out using Fink but it never felt quite right. Then I tried DarwinPorts and I've been happy ever since. As a result, when I saw this story my first thought was, "What will happen to DarinPorts?" I checked the Darwinports Mailing List Archive and found this comforting post. To summarize, DarwinPorts is alive and well and will continue. Time to start using www.darwinports.org rather than www.opendarwin.org.
People like you are the reason that most retailers give the rest of us a hard time about returning things. Do you actually think that returning month old produce or electronics that you broke is honest or even fair?
Have you tried Coca-Cola Zero? In response to people like myself who hate the metalic flavour of Diet Coke, Coca-Cola responded with Zero which tastes exactly like Coke only without the calories. You can find a press release about the product here. It's fantastic stuff and if they ever come out with a Cherry variation on Coca-Cola Zero, I'll be ecstatic.
Give it a try. It may be the solution to your problem.
One of these (which may only be available in Canada but I'm sure you can find an equivalant somewhere near you), one of these and a bunch of these and I'm good to go. The Carry-All has pockets for pens, passports and even one that fits every PDA I've ever tried. You can open a zipper to double its capacity and they're built like brick sh^h^h, uh, outhouses.
America's reticence to hand over the source code has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with embarrassment. Why? The plane's control software in Visual Basic.
I use to have an apartment filled with computers (I had a bit of a Sun fetish) and one day I just got fed up with the clutter so I decided to simplify my life. Now all I have is an Apple iBook and a Linksys WRT54GS and you know, I get a lot more done and I'm way happier.
The GP2X has a USB port so I imagine that getting a mouse or even a keyboard to work with it would be trivial. Again, the beauty of hardware running an open operating system.
I compiled VICE 1.18 for OS X and I find it runs just fine although it does require X. Can you define "poorly"? A native OS X version of VICE is being worked on but the developers are tight lipped about it. Search comp.emulators.cbm and you'll find more information. Regardless, VICE is a very impressive piece of work.
I suspect that 1024 x 768 is the most commonly used resolution out there especially if you factor in the millions of notebooks that are locked to that resolution. I agree with the suggestions of others that one shouldn't hardcode webpages to any specific resolution though.Let the user decide (or have the decision forced upon them by their hardware).
I hope nobody will mind if I go off on a semi-related mini-rant about 1280 x 1024. It drives me nuts that so many LCDs use it as their native resolution because to me it looks, well, wrong. 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864, 1600 x 1200 etc. etc. all share the 1:1.33 aspect ratio that we've all become accustomed to looking at but 1280 x 1024 is 1:1.25 and it just doesn't look right to me. Am I all alone on this one?
If you're really interested in this particular phase of Apple's history you can get the story directly from the horse's mouth (so to speak) by reading Gil, pardon me, Dr. Gil Amelio's book On the Firing Line which details his 500 days at Apple. I've read just about every book out there on Apple's history and On the Firing Line along with John Sculley's Odyssey are two of the more interesting ones as they were written by former CEOs. You'll get the story directly from an insider (you can't get much more inside than the guy running the company) but sadly, there is quite a bit of historical revision going on.
My conclusions? Sculley was star-struck and too button-down to run a 'geek' company and Gil Amelio was overrated and near to the most arrogant person on Earth. Of course, BIG personalities like theirs fit right into Apple's history along with guys like Mark Markkula, Mike Scott and Mr. Reality Distortion himself.
The hacks writing As the World Turns could never come with anything half as interesting or dramatic as the history of Apple. If there was ever a subject for a movie, this is it.
Some of us old-timers remember ATDP or, and how is this for an indignity, having to dial manually with your rotary phone a few hundred times before you got a carrier and popped your handset into your coupler only to have your idiot sister pick up the phone forcing you to later, rinse and repeat.
Clearly I have some unsettled issues here. I'll be quiet now.
Okay, it isn't exactly what you were asking for but I just read about it the other day and thought it was worth mentioning because it's pretty cool. Check out the Yellow Machine(TM) Terabyte Storage Appliance P400T.
You can compliment your original Q-Link mug and support the Q-Link Reloaded project by ordering a new mug. Then you can fill up your mugs with coffee and stay up all night soaking in the retro goodness.
Ever heard of the BriQ? (Picture) It's an entire PowerPC computer in a 5.25" drive form factor. Very cool. I'm not entirely sure if it is still available though as the link I have bookmarked isn't coming up. Either way, I figured it warranted mentioning.
Here's confirming your hopes. There was a story about the controller with its integrated trackball at Gizmodo. There's a closeup picture of the trackball if you're interested.
If you hate Aqua, don't use it. Apple includes x11 with the OS so take a few seconds to install your window manager of choice and you'll feel right at home.
Other than the obligatory references to climbing mountains because they're there, why would anyone want to run Linux on a G5? OS X is just as UNIX-like as Linux and with projects like Fink and DarwinPorts most software familiar to Linux users is available under OS X. Case in point, last night I read a story about BZFlag so I downloaded it and had it running in under 5 minutes. And please, don't dismiss the question (or me) by saying I'm anti-Linux because I'm not. My old but beloved Sparc LX running Solaris was headed for the scrap heap so I installed Linux and now I have a machine to use when someone takes over my iBook to play BZFlag.
If you're going to pay the premium for a G5, why not enjoy the complete hardware integration and plethora of available software offered by OS X?
While I'm thinking of these things, if anyone wants to meet Jeri Ellsworth in person, try the C64DTV, have a chance to win one in a raffle and enjoy a blast from the past, come to the World of Commdore. Yes, the most important event on any Commodore geek's social calender is back after an unfortunate hiatus. December 4, 2004 in Toronto.
Yes, she's a very attractive and intelligent woman. So is her girlfriend (not that there's anything wrong with that) who sports an Amiga bouncing ball tattoo.
I'm sure you can fashion some kind of fantasy out of all that.
Ever heard of the SX-64? I have one. It wasn't portable in the take-it-with-you-everywhere sense but it was mobile. I mostly took mine to friend's homes and to the occasional user group meeting.
I do have a more portable Commodore 64, in a sense, in that I run Frodo for Palm on my handheld. As for why? Nostalgic gaming mostly.
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That's interesting as it requires a high level of interaction between Apple and BMW to get it all to work. If Apple can get other automakers to agree to such high level integration, and judging by this page, they can and are, they will further strengthen their stranglehold on the mp3 player business. I don't generally like it when companies have strangleholds on markets but in this case, it makes me happy. Apple saw that mp3 players were ugly both in design and user interface so they invented a better mousetrap and the world has beaten a path to their door. Now they're reaping the rewards. Good for them. Thanks for the info.
Now is the perfect time to partner with Ford! Seriously though, it's good news and I look forward to such a feature being available on all cars. Using an FM transmitter isn't viable in a metropolitan center with a clogged FM band and a cassette adaptor is becoming less and less useful as many new cars lack cassette players. While a simple input jack that connects to the output jack of any electronic device (rather than just iPods) may be cheaper and more flexible, it doesn't allow for integration with the iPod's interface. The day is approaching when all cars will have LCD displays built into the dashboard/console and being able to browse through songs on your iPod as well as display information about the current song would be ideal.
I started out using Fink but it never felt quite right. Then I tried DarwinPorts and I've been happy ever since. As a result, when I saw this story my first thought was, "What will happen to DarinPorts?" I checked the Darwinports Mailing List Archive and found this comforting post. To summarize, DarwinPorts is alive and well and will continue. Time to start using www.darwinports.org rather than www.opendarwin.org.
People like you are the reason that most retailers give the rest of us a hard time about returning things. Do you actually think that returning month old produce or electronics that you broke is honest or even fair?
Have you tried Coca-Cola Zero? In response to people like myself who hate the metalic flavour of Diet Coke, Coca-Cola responded with Zero which tastes exactly like Coke only without the calories. You can find a press release about the product here. It's fantastic stuff and if they ever come out with a Cherry variation on Coca-Cola Zero, I'll be ecstatic. Give it a try. It may be the solution to your problem.
One of these (which may only be available in Canada but I'm sure you can find an equivalant somewhere near you), one of these and a bunch of these and I'm good to go. The Carry-All has pockets for pens, passports and even one that fits every PDA I've ever tried. You can open a zipper to double its capacity and they're built like brick sh^h^h, uh, outhouses.
America's reticence to hand over the source code has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with embarrassment. Why? The plane's control software in Visual Basic.
I use to have an apartment filled with computers (I had a bit of a Sun fetish) and one day I just got fed up with the clutter so I decided to simplify my life. Now all I have is an Apple iBook and a Linksys WRT54GS and you know, I get a lot more done and I'm way happier.
The GP2X has a USB port so I imagine that getting a mouse or even a keyboard to work with it would be trivial. Again, the beauty of hardware running an open operating system.
I compiled VICE 1.18 for OS X and I find it runs just fine although it does require X. Can you define "poorly"? A native OS X version of VICE is being worked on but the developers are tight lipped about it. Search comp.emulators.cbm and you'll find more information. Regardless, VICE is a very impressive piece of work.
I hope nobody will mind if I go off on a semi-related mini-rant about 1280 x 1024. It drives me nuts that so many LCDs use it as their native resolution because to me it looks, well, wrong. 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864, 1600 x 1200 etc. etc. all share the 1:1.33 aspect ratio that we've all become accustomed to looking at but 1280 x 1024 is 1:1.25 and it just doesn't look right to me. Am I all alone on this one?
My conclusions? Sculley was star-struck and too button-down to run a 'geek' company and Gil Amelio was overrated and near to the most arrogant person on Earth. Of course, BIG personalities like theirs fit right into Apple's history along with guys like Mark Markkula, Mike Scott and Mr. Reality Distortion himself.
The hacks writing As the World Turns could never come with anything half as interesting or dramatic as the history of Apple. If there was ever a subject for a movie, this is it.
Clearly I have some unsettled issues here. I'll be quiet now.
Okay, it isn't exactly what you were asking for but I just read about it the other day and thought it was worth mentioning because it's pretty cool. Check out the Yellow Machine(TM) Terabyte Storage Appliance P400T.
You can compliment your original Q-Link mug and support the Q-Link Reloaded project by ordering a new mug. Then you can fill up your mugs with coffee and stay up all night soaking in the retro goodness.
Ever heard of the BriQ? (Picture) It's an entire PowerPC computer in a 5.25" drive form factor. Very cool. I'm not entirely sure if it is still available though as the link I have bookmarked isn't coming up. Either way, I figured it warranted mentioning.
Where there's smoke, there's fire. A refinery perhaps?
Check it out.
Oops. Forgot some quotation marks there so if you're too lazy to check Google, you can find Fink here.
If you hate Aqua, don't use it. Apple includes x11 with the OS so take a few seconds to install your window manager of choice and you'll feel right at home.
If you're going to pay the premium for a G5, why not enjoy the complete hardware integration and plethora of available software offered by OS X?
While I'm thinking of these things, if anyone wants to meet Jeri Ellsworth in person, try the C64DTV, have a chance to win one in a raffle and enjoy a blast from the past, come to the World of Commdore. Yes, the most important event on any Commodore geek's social calender is back after an unfortunate hiatus. December 4, 2004 in Toronto.
I'm sure you can fashion some kind of fantasy out of all that.
No, animals were harmed in the making of this post.
Ever heard of the SX-64? I have one. It wasn't portable in the take-it-with-you-everywhere sense but it was mobile. I mostly took mine to friend's homes and to the occasional user group meeting. I do have a more portable Commodore 64, in a sense, in that I run Frodo for Palm on my handheld. As for why? Nostalgic gaming mostly.