Yes, I've been there. Unfortunately, the Subscribe links only seem to work in IE, or at least they didn't in OmniWeb and Mozilla. I already used the iCal Feedback link to let them know about it.
It would also help if there were more that I'd be interested in subscribing to, but that's a personal preference. US and Christian holidays were all I grabbed.
Well, my calendar wouldn't look so empty if I didn't lose my job last week...
One minor correction: there are some Mac games being released as MacOS X-only Cocoa releases, mainly the work of the Omni Group. These include updates of old games like Fallout 1 and 2, and the newly released Soldier of Fortune 2. Sometimes it's easier to rewrite from scratch in Cocoa than to port to Carbon. Though I have heard from a programmer at Westlake Interactive that Carbon can do certain things under X that Cocoa apps just can't do, and one shouldn't assume that Cocoa is always better.
"One could easily surmise that the true audiences for these more thoughtful shows has already largely abandoned TV for the internet and games. Therefore the delivery media is out of sync with the potential audience."
I can see that. When I got my own place, I didn't get cable, as I hardly watched it when I lived with my parents. Watched about an hour a week of broadcast TV, mainly episodes of Enterprise if I could catch them(the local station airs it on Saturdays at random times). Now, my house was broken into two weeks ago, with my TV and VCR stolen, and I've not bothered to replace them. Every new show I hear announced sounds worse than whatever was on before. I even thought "The Legend of the Rangers" was rather poorly done, and I've got every episode of B5 on tape. Crusade was pretty good, but TNT didn't give it a chance, and tried to dumb it down. They're driving intelligent people away from TV, and they've succeeded with me.
MacWorld had a MUCH shorter version of this article in their last print issue. Only about half a page. Perhaps they decided that the print subscribers wouldn't be interested in all of it? If so, that's a pretty goofy decision.
Well, double checking, they did post the URL of the rest of it. I guess it's like the newspapers who only put half-stories on the front page, with the second haves scattered though the rest of the paper.
"Newbie software install in Windows: double click on setup.exe, keep clicking OK. Done.
Newbie software install in GNU: Let's see, it's.tar.gz, so I have to untar it... can't remember how that works... man tar... OK, there it is. Now let's read the README. Configure, fine. GCC not found? What the hell is that?"
Newbie software install in MacOS X: StuffIt Expander opens any archives, including.tar, Disk Copy mounts the resulting disk image on the desktop. Both are automatic with current web browsers. User opens disk image, finds ready to use application, drags it to Application folder or wherever else he or she want it. Done.
Just thought I'd mention a third option.
Oh, and on the Windows install? Most user have no idea where the actual program files were placed. They can start it under the Start menu, or the aliases the fill up the desktop, but find the actual files? That's tough for newbies, or people like my brother who are strictly gamers.
Myself, I installed the Public Beta, then 10.0 final, but all I did was boot it up for a few hours every few weeks to play with it. I didn't have a real native app until Quicken 2002(which isn't that great), and didn't really start using it that often until 10.1. Heck, my iSub didn't work in X until 10.1(and didn't get its own volume control until 10.2), so I certainly wasn't using the early version of iTunes for X.
Sounds like the opposite of my experience tonight. With no Apple Store yet, the "Mac Store", an Apple reseller for over 10 years, put on a party of their own. There was about 50-60 people(plenty in a small building like this), with lots of door prizes(t-shirts, mouse pads and such), and all the soda, popcorn, and pizza rolls you could eat for free. On the other hand, as a small reseller, they were only sent 20 copies of Jaguar. They'll call me when they get their next shipment, about Tuesday or so.
New improved apps like Mail, Address Book, and Sherlock. Better speed and multithreading in the Finder. Support for new soon to be released free apps like iCal and iSync. A Find window at the top of each Finder window. Some other interface improvements. New technologies like Inkwell and Rendezvous that aren't useful right away, but will be soon. And Quartz Extreme video acceleration for Macs with modern video cards(not mine). I'm keeping my ears open for any special promotional first day sales here in St. Louis, since our Apple store won't open for another month or so.
One minor correction. 10.2 won't be shipping with 9.22 in the box. They rightly assumed that all Mac users have it already. It still comes preinstalled on new Macs, though it's no longer the default startup OS.
I know this my sound funny, but I've been a Mac user since '94(switched from pure DOS), and I've never used MS Office on a system that I've owned. I'm a home user. Aside from updating my resume, I've had little use for a word processor since my last college classes, most of my spreadsheet usage has been in classes ABOUT spreadsheets, and Powerpoint is likewise useless to someone who doesn't make presentations. Entourage doesn't sound bad, but it's far too expensive for what it'll do for me, and it sounds like 10.2 new address book, updated Mail app, and upcoming calendar should fit my needs.
Oh, and I do use WinNT 4 at my data entry job, but not Office apps. Just custom data entry apps and a couple of terminal emulators for older systems.
On my father's first Mac in '84, there was a golf game called MacGolf. Lots of buttons at the bottom to change the angle, a slider to set the swing power, a pull down menu for changing clubs, and a button marked Swing to swing. Easy, never needed a manual.
Fast forward to '98. I tried a 9 hole demo(and foolishly paid $9.99 for) of Links '98. No manual with a demo, of course. But it needed one. There were no buttons on screen, and the correct method of swinging the club with mouse clicks wasn't obvious. When I got to the hole, I couldn't figure out how to change clubs. I quit right there, and haven't gone back. Oh, and screen draws with all the trees were slower on my 200 MHz Performa 6400 than the black white trees were in MacGolf on a Mac Plus!
Once you port the OS, then you'd have to port all the applications, too. Or at least recompile them, in the case of native Cocoa apps. Heck, not every major application is OS X native yet(Quark). There'd be no way to run a Classic compatibility mode on Intel chips, either. Plus, tech support on Intel would be a much greater endeavor, even without a larger user base. All in all, it sounds like a nightmare to me to attempt, at least until most Mac users, and all the Mac developers, have moved to X. Later, it may be more doable.
Now, I do think that Apple has some contingency plans in place in case all of Motorola's chip factories burn, but I think it's a last resort plan.
Yes, that's why I don't even have IE for X on my system anymore. It's slow, and doesn't always finish the job, making me hit reload. It also blurred images on pages while using the scrollwheel, so I couldn't see them until I stopped scrolling. No, I'll stick with OmniWeb, with Mozilla as backup/alternative for troubling sites.
Another reminder that I do not ever want to enter politics. I'd have to prostitute myself far too much to get elected in the first place, then I'd have minority opinions that wouldn't get listened to anyway. Heck, I usually have a minority opinion HERE.
The problem with browsing by genre for me is that many of my songs don't have one chosen, and some artists have multiple genres, sometimes on the same album if I ripped songs from them at different times. Heck, my Rammstein collection would show up in 5 different categories: Rock, Metal, Industrial, Alternative, Electronic.
I had been using cddb.com to look up album names for some songs. Doing so again for genre would take a LONG time!
True. On the other hand, the FireWire ports and DVD drive were the reason I went with it, instead of spending an additional grand for a G3 tower with external monitor and the same features. I figured that PCI slots for upgradable video were not worth a thousand bucks.
My iMac DV is older than your G4, and my two FireWire ports never got a bit of use until I bought my iPod in June. Now, I just use one of them to sync it to iTunes; I recharge from the wall adapter so I don't clutter up my desk too much.
Lars Ulrich took a stand over Napster over a principle that he believed in. Whether or not you agree with it(I don't), at least he took a position. That earns him at least a little respect in my book.
I should clarify about Warcraft III: I'm slightly under the minimum specs, and while performance under 9 and X are similar, the mouse is a little less responsive in X, and I need everything I can get. Plus, most OpenGL games are less than stable for me, but it's likely a memory problem, something I'll take care of when I have a little more unneeded cash.
I will admit that everything I need to do, as a home user, works in X just fine. Even the non-Carbonized AppleWorks 5 does okay in Classic on the rare occasions I need it. But there's a lot of older games that'll never be updated, and it'd be a shame to leave them behind. Like some of the old Microprose games from my DOS days that require a 5 1/4" drive, every time they start. Nothing can run those games anymore. I just hate to see more games join them in oblivion.
Gee, it's so nice that someone has a hobby. Of posting the same message header in every Mac themed thread on Slashdot. It's getting old enough to be cliche, give it a rest.
This is a bit more than that. Right now, if I want to play even recent games like Diablo II or Warcraft III at decent speed and without freezes, that means booting directly into 9.22.(though the freezing part may be due to third party memory that doesn't totally get along with X) Unreal Tournament isn't properly Carbonized yet(preview release 3), and a ton of older games never will. (Deus Ex?) This includes old titles like X-Wing , TIE Fighter, or Terminus, since joystick support under Classic mode doesn't seem possible.(I'd prefer newer space combat sims from LucasArts, but that's as likely as Peace in the Middle East).
Of course, this is just from the viewpoint of a Mac Gamer, and this lockout won't affect currently shipping machines, but it sounds like a machine bought next year won't run any old game that isn't Classic compatible, which would likely include most 3D games.
Easy setup and rules for IMAP folders? Sounds a lot like Apple's Mail app that ships with every copy of OS X. In fact, I found them very similar in features, if not in interface. Mail's main advantages are a native look(obviously) and integrated spell checking, while Mozilla renders HTML mail a lot faster. Overall, I'd say they're about equal right now, but Mail reportedly has some major improvements coming in Jaguar.
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Actually, the Feedback link is built into the application. Just click on the iCal menu, and look three lines down. I've used it already.
Yes, I've been there. Unfortunately, the Subscribe links only seem to work in IE, or at least they didn't in OmniWeb and Mozilla. I already used the iCal Feedback link to let them know about it.
It would also help if there were more that I'd be interested in subscribing to, but that's a personal preference. US and Christian holidays were all I grabbed.
Well, my calendar wouldn't look so empty if I didn't lose my job last week...
One minor correction: there are some Mac games being released as MacOS X-only Cocoa releases, mainly the work of the Omni Group. These include updates of old games like Fallout 1 and 2, and the newly released Soldier of Fortune 2. Sometimes it's easier to rewrite from scratch in Cocoa than to port to Carbon. Though I have heard from a programmer at Westlake Interactive that Carbon can do certain things under X that Cocoa apps just can't do, and one shouldn't assume that Cocoa is always better.
"One could easily surmise that the true audiences for these more thoughtful shows has already largely abandoned TV for the internet and games. Therefore the delivery media is out of sync with the potential audience."
I can see that. When I got my own place, I didn't get cable, as I hardly watched it when I lived with my parents. Watched about an hour a week of broadcast TV, mainly episodes of Enterprise if I could catch them(the local station airs it on Saturdays at random times). Now, my house was broken into two weeks ago, with my TV and VCR stolen, and I've not bothered to replace them. Every new show I hear announced sounds worse than whatever was on before. I even thought "The Legend of the Rangers" was rather poorly done, and I've got every episode of B5 on tape. Crusade was pretty good, but TNT didn't give it a chance, and tried to dumb it down. They're driving intelligent people away from TV, and they've succeeded with me.
MacWorld had a MUCH shorter version of this article in their last print issue. Only about half a page. Perhaps they decided that the print subscribers wouldn't be interested in all of it? If so, that's a pretty goofy decision.
Well, double checking, they did post the URL of the rest of it. I guess it's like the newspapers who only put half-stories on the front page, with the second haves scattered though the rest of the paper.
"Newbie software install in Windows: double click on setup.exe, keep clicking OK. Done.
.tar.gz, so I have to untar it ... can't remember how that works ... man tar ... OK, there it is. Now let's read the README. Configure, fine. GCC not found? What the hell is that?"
.tar, Disk Copy mounts the resulting disk image on the desktop. Both are automatic with current web browsers. User opens disk image, finds ready to use application, drags it to Application folder or wherever else he or she want it. Done.
Newbie software install in GNU: Let's see, it's
Newbie software install in MacOS X: StuffIt Expander opens any archives, including
Just thought I'd mention a third option.
Oh, and on the Windows install? Most user have no idea where the actual program files were placed. They can start it under the Start menu, or the aliases the fill up the desktop, but find the actual files? That's tough for newbies, or people like my brother who are strictly gamers.
Myself, I installed the Public Beta, then 10.0 final, but all I did was boot it up for a few hours every few weeks to play with it. I didn't have a real native app until Quicken 2002(which isn't that great), and didn't really start using it that often until 10.1. Heck, my iSub didn't work in X until 10.1(and didn't get its own volume control until 10.2), so I certainly wasn't using the early version of iTunes for X.
Sounds like the opposite of my experience tonight. With no Apple Store yet, the "Mac Store", an Apple reseller for over 10 years, put on a party of their own. There was about 50-60 people(plenty in a small building like this), with lots of door prizes(t-shirts, mouse pads and such), and all the soda, popcorn, and pizza rolls you could eat for free. On the other hand, as a small reseller, they were only sent 20 copies of Jaguar. They'll call me when they get their next shipment, about Tuesday or so.
New improved apps like Mail, Address Book, and Sherlock. Better speed and multithreading in the Finder. Support for new soon to be released free apps like iCal and iSync. A Find window at the top of each Finder window. Some other interface improvements. New technologies like Inkwell and Rendezvous that aren't useful right away, but will be soon. And Quartz Extreme video acceleration for Macs with modern video cards(not mine). I'm keeping my ears open for any special promotional first day sales here in St. Louis, since our Apple store won't open for another month or so.
One minor correction. 10.2 won't be shipping with 9.22 in the box. They rightly assumed that all Mac users have it already. It still comes preinstalled on new Macs, though it's no longer the default startup OS.
I know this my sound funny, but I've been a Mac user since '94(switched from pure DOS), and I've never used MS Office on a system that I've owned. I'm a home user. Aside from updating my resume, I've had little use for a word processor since my last college classes, most of my spreadsheet usage has been in classes ABOUT spreadsheets, and Powerpoint is likewise useless to someone who doesn't make presentations. Entourage doesn't sound bad, but it's far too expensive for what it'll do for me, and it sounds like 10.2 new address book, updated Mail app, and upcoming calendar should fit my needs.
Oh, and I do use WinNT 4 at my data entry job, but not Office apps. Just custom data entry apps and a couple of terminal emulators for older systems.
Agreed, and let me give an example.
On my father's first Mac in '84, there was a golf game called MacGolf. Lots of buttons at the bottom to change the angle, a slider to set the swing power, a pull down menu for changing clubs, and a button marked Swing to swing. Easy, never needed a manual.
Fast forward to '98. I tried a 9 hole demo(and foolishly paid $9.99 for) of Links '98. No manual with a demo, of course. But it needed one. There were no buttons on screen, and the correct method of swinging the club with mouse clicks wasn't obvious. When I got to the hole, I couldn't figure out how to change clubs. I quit right there, and haven't gone back. Oh, and screen draws with all the trees were slower on my 200 MHz Performa 6400 than the black white trees were in MacGolf on a Mac Plus!
Once you port the OS, then you'd have to port all the applications, too. Or at least recompile them, in the case of native Cocoa apps. Heck, not every major application is OS X native yet(Quark). There'd be no way to run a Classic compatibility mode on Intel chips, either. Plus, tech support on Intel would be a much greater endeavor, even without a larger user base. All in all, it sounds like a nightmare to me to attempt, at least until most Mac users, and all the Mac developers, have moved to X. Later, it may be more doable.
Now, I do think that Apple has some contingency plans in place in case all of Motorola's chip factories burn, but I think it's a last resort plan.
Yes, that's why I don't even have IE for X on my system anymore. It's slow, and doesn't always finish the job, making me hit reload. It also blurred images on pages while using the scrollwheel, so I couldn't see them until I stopped scrolling. No, I'll stick with OmniWeb, with Mozilla as backup/alternative for troubling sites.
Another reminder that I do not ever want to enter politics. I'd have to prostitute myself far too much to get elected in the first place, then I'd have minority opinions that wouldn't get listened to anyway. Heck, I usually have a minority opinion HERE.
The problem with browsing by genre for me is that many of my songs don't have one chosen, and some artists have multiple genres, sometimes on the same album if I ripped songs from them at different times. Heck, my Rammstein collection would show up in 5 different categories: Rock, Metal, Industrial, Alternative, Electronic.
I had been using cddb.com to look up album names for some songs. Doing so again for genre would take a LONG time!
True. On the other hand, the FireWire ports and DVD drive were the reason I went with it, instead of spending an additional grand for a G3 tower with external monitor and the same features. I figured that PCI slots for upgradable video were not worth a thousand bucks.
My iMac DV is older than your G4, and my two FireWire ports never got a bit of use until I bought my iPod in June. Now, I just use one of them to sync it to iTunes; I recharge from the wall adapter so I don't clutter up my desk too much.
Lars Ulrich took a stand over Napster over a principle that he believed in. Whether or not you agree with it(I don't), at least he took a position. That earns him at least a little respect in my book.
I should clarify about Warcraft III: I'm slightly under the minimum specs, and while performance under 9 and X are similar, the mouse is a little less responsive in X, and I need everything I can get. Plus, most OpenGL games are less than stable for me, but it's likely a memory problem, something I'll take care of when I have a little more unneeded cash.
I will admit that everything I need to do, as a home user, works in X just fine. Even the non-Carbonized AppleWorks 5 does okay in Classic on the rare occasions I need it. But there's a lot of older games that'll never be updated, and it'd be a shame to leave them behind. Like some of the old Microprose games from my DOS days that require a 5 1/4" drive, every time they start. Nothing can run those games anymore. I just hate to see more games join them in oblivion.
I already did. You can check. ;-)
Gee, it's so nice that someone has a hobby. Of posting the same message header in every Mac themed thread on Slashdot. It's getting old enough to be cliche, give it a rest.
Besides, if OS X isn't a real OS, what is?
This is a bit more than that. Right now, if I want to play even recent games like Diablo II or Warcraft III at decent speed and without freezes, that means booting directly into 9.22.(though the freezing part may be due to third party memory that doesn't totally get along with X) Unreal Tournament isn't properly Carbonized yet(preview release 3), and a ton of older games never will. (Deus Ex?) This includes old titles like X-Wing , TIE Fighter, or Terminus, since joystick support under Classic mode doesn't seem possible.(I'd prefer newer space combat sims from LucasArts, but that's as likely as Peace in the Middle East).
Of course, this is just from the viewpoint of a Mac Gamer, and this lockout won't affect currently shipping machines, but it sounds like a machine bought next year won't run any old game that isn't Classic compatible, which would likely include most 3D games.
Glad to see that they came to their senses. Sueing people who let you know you have a problem instead of rewarding them is all wrong.
Easy setup and rules for IMAP folders? Sounds a lot like Apple's Mail app that ships with every copy of OS X. In fact, I found them very similar in features, if not in interface. Mail's main advantages are a native look(obviously) and integrated spell checking, while Mozilla renders HTML mail a lot faster. Overall, I'd say they're about equal right now, but Mail reportedly has some major improvements coming in Jaguar.