This is going to sound crazy, but bear me out. So here's what Microsoft does. They take the OS and develop a Windows GUI for it. They pour a billion dollars or so into WINE development and research (while providing WINE's coders with full access to existing Windows APIs) and they bring WINE's performance and compatibility to dizzying heights. And then they sell it. Call it Windows, sell it as Windows and do what Apple's done with Darwin. Keep the proprietary stuff proprietary and the OSS stuff OSS. You'd wind up with a rock-solid OS, and your users could run their old software until their apps received an update to the new system. Eventually WINE would no longer be needed.
This all sounds a lot like Apple, MacOS X and Classic, doesn't it?
Anyway, there we go. I'm sure there are a thousand valid reasons why this couldn't/wouldn't work and naturally it will never happen. I understand that. I can dream though, can't I?
It tells me that a lot more people liked the soundtrack than anything else. It's not a commentary on the quality of the music; it's a commentary on peoples' tastes in music. That's purely arbitrary. You clearly have a low opinion of the Dreamgirls soundtrack. Whether you've HEARD it in order to form your opinion or not, that's YOUR opinion. It would appear there are plenty of people who disagree. YOU don't get to decide for everyone else what's good music and what's bad music.
I was looking at it between 98 and 2001 or so. I don't know why, but I have a memory of it being more accurate than other rumour sites (not that there were many back then). Of course I remember going to see MacArthur (a film that came out in 1977) for my fifth birthday. Which was a few years (five) earlier. The old grey matter just ain't what it used to be, so anything I recall about anything before, say, last Tuesday can be considered to be suspect at best.:)
I don't really know what else needs to be said. If the guy who runs MacOS rumors told me the sky is blue, I'd check. What's sad is he used to be reliable. Now he's just a washed up has-been who fabricates stories to drive traffic to his site. He's as reliable as Hussein's old minister of information, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
This is utter nonsense. Anyone under forty in Japan can say, "We". Slashdot won't display Japanese characters for some reason, but it's written with the kana u and i and is pronounced "we".
I don't expect everyone to know this, but if you're aiming for accuracy and respectability, maybe a little fact-checking wouldn't hurt, hm?
Well, those bugs are dated from early October, and b2 was supposed to contain the fixes. No matter what they said, b2 most definitely did NOT contain the fixes.
I'll give RC1 a go. It's been OK on my PC at work so far (though the PC itself is having other problems) so maybe the Mac version will be similarly stable.
I stopped using 1.5b2 because it seemed like the tab focus issue was getting WORSE as time progressed. I'd be working and suddenly the current tab wouldn't respond to keypresses or clicks. Then I'd switch to another tab and see that IT had been getting the input.
I was assured this had been fixed in b2, but it clearly had not. I'm not about to trust RC1 until someone can tell me for SURE this problem has been fixed, once and for all.
After all, cars can be used to help steal things. I could drive to the store, steal a bunch of CDs, and then drive off.
Plus cars can be used for other, more lethal purposes. Property damage, assault & battery, murder...the list goes on! I think it's time congress passed a new law restricting the use of cars to only those who can PROVE they won't use one to commit a crime.
See here's the thing: everyone dies eventually of something. If the price of being one of the first men on Mars is terminal cancer, well, so what? I'm 100% likely to die ANYWAY. What difference does it make if I die from cancer (SPACE cancer, at that) or if I die from a stroke or heart attack? I'm just as dead, right?
So sign me up. I'm ready to go to Mars.
Besides, this trip isn't for a few years yet. I'm sure they'll devise ways of minimising the danger. Heck, TFA mentions several, and they're all ones I was thinking of myself, and I am NOT a physicist or rocket scientist by anyone's definition.
I've been transcoding all the boots I download from EasyTree to ALE just because it's easier to use than FLAC or SHN with iTunes. I'm glad to see this, because it means I can start sharing stuff in this format.
But like other posters, I'm wondering how long it will be before this project gets lawyered on. Apple hasn't exactly been user friendly lately, so it seems like it's only a matter of time. Guess we'd better get it while the getting's good!
Well, people have been plotting Apple's doom or assimilation for many moons now. I have an old MacWorld or Mac User (can't remember which) from the Taligent days wherein John Dvorak predicted that (because of the whole IBM partnership) Apple would be eaten alive by IBM and by 2000 no-one would remember them.
And if I hear one more person repeat that, "Microsoft bought Apple for $150 million a ten years ago" urban legend I'm gonna scream. As if a company which (at the time) had $2 billion in cash reserves could be purchased for so little!
Well my theory is-and mind you, this is just a stab in the dark here, but here it is: Most TV/entertainment stuff happens here in LA. Paramount is here, along with pretty much everyone else.
The ad is targetting them, so the fans go to the hometown "news" paper.
Frankly though I think they'd be better off with an ad in Variety or the Hollywood Reporter, but I'm not going to tell the otaku how to spend their money. They might mock me on an obscure message board, and my life might be ruined.
I don't necessarily disagree with your criticisms of the music stores, but (as Napster will soon learn), calling people stupid is no way to get your point across too them.
Well, how about this: it's FOOLISH to buy digital music.
Seriously. If you bought music from iTunes or Napster or any of the other services out there, you wasted your money. The only thing you bought was permission to use a bundle of bits on your hard drive, and that's it. Not only that, but you paid FULL price for a song encoded with a LOSSY compression scheme! Sure, if you're just looking for one or two tracks, I can see the attraction, but for buying an entire album? STUPID! You paid full price but do you get a CD? Do you get album art you can hold in your hand? Do you get to listen to it whereever and whenever you want?
No?
Shoulda bought a CD.
Napster's all-you-can-eat service seems like it's a pretty good deal, but you have to keep paying them to keep listening. $15 a month isn't awful, and it's probably a good way to hear new music, but you can't burn it (without extra cost or, if you're trying to avoid paying the piper, without a lot of extra work) and you can't take it with you. You're tied to Napster just as surely as you'd be tied to Apple if you were buying tracks from the iTunes Music Store.
The only way to avoid this "vendor lock-in" is to BUY CDS. They're cheap if you get them at used stores, and if you really want to do things on the cheap, check your local libraries.
My iPod is full of tracks I've ripped from CDs I bought and borrowed. They work just fine. Any MP3 player will work as long as you avoid "special" formats like AAC and WMP.
I'll eat GM foods. We've been eating them for decades.
I'd love to see grass like that, or plants which give off some sort of mosquito repellent...these are things I would love to have. But a maple tree that doesn't turn in the fall and then drop its leaves...no thanks. Part of the maple's charm is its autumnal transformation.
So the point here is that we can't take what scientists say at face value, because the chances are good they may have been co-opted.
So all that stuff about evolution and global warming and everything else we're told is the gospel truth could be little more than a load of cow patties.
I can't tell you how many times I've been handed a map printed from Yahoo or Mpaquest only to find out the directions are an outright lie.
Just yesterday I got a map from MQ and it told me to drive down Wilshire to La Brea and turn right, then go a mile or two. Wrong! I quickly realised I'd been decieved and got turned around, but I'd been lied to!
Another thing I'd like to see from Google is the ability to tell it to leave freeways and highways out of its driving directions. This is LA, and the freeways are worthless and certain times of the day. I'd like to avoid them if I can most of the time...
I'm all for people disposing of their computers in a responsible manner, but do we really need the government involved? It's going to wind up costing people more money and even then, most people won't bother with their program anyway-their old computers will still sit, unused and gathering dust in basements, garages and bedroom closets until someone gets tired of them and puts them out with the garbage.
Or are we going to make it a federal offence to do that?
Do we NEED this, or is it just a fine sounding idea designed to make us feel better but which won't wind up helping much (if at all)?
The real question is: how much government intereference in our daily lives is too much?
Thank you for the clarification, Dr Freud. I figured the CPU would pick up the GPU's slack, but that's only implied and never explicitly stated. I still feel the same though...every Mac shipped from 1 January 2005 on should have 64mb VRAM at a minimum. It might be nice to see the high-end iMac sport 128mb, come to think of it. 8^)
This is something which bugs me...Tiger's core video will require 64mb to operate but Apple's releasing systems with a paltry 32mb of vram. Seems like every system they release should have AT LEAST 64mb now, in preparation for Tiger (which Steve talked up but good at Macworld. People will expect the mini to be able to take full advantage of Tiger, and they're going to be a little unhappy that it can't.
It's put me off buying a mini (though I'll gladly take one if anyone has a spare!).
Yeah, yeah...we've heard all this shit before. In the 1970s it was global cooling and we were all looking at a future as ice cubes. Now it's global warming. Whatever. Call me when it's the end of the world. I want to take pictures.
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I've seen a few places where security guards have them to patrol parking lots, which seems like a really good application.
As for the "killer" moniker, I'm so tired of hearing it that I think it needs to be forcibly retired.
This is going to sound crazy, but bear me out. So here's what Microsoft does. They take the OS and develop a Windows GUI for it. They pour a billion dollars or so into WINE development and research (while providing WINE's coders with full access to existing Windows APIs) and they bring WINE's performance and compatibility to dizzying heights. And then they sell it. Call it Windows, sell it as Windows and do what Apple's done with Darwin. Keep the proprietary stuff proprietary and the OSS stuff OSS. You'd wind up with a rock-solid OS, and your users could run their old software until their apps received an update to the new system. Eventually WINE would no longer be needed.
This all sounds a lot like Apple, MacOS X and Classic, doesn't it?
Anyway, there we go. I'm sure there are a thousand valid reasons why this couldn't/wouldn't work and naturally it will never happen. I understand that. I can dream though, can't I?
"What does that tell you?"
It tells me that a lot more people liked the soundtrack than anything else. It's not a commentary on the quality of the music; it's a commentary on peoples' tastes in music. That's purely arbitrary. You clearly have a low opinion of the Dreamgirls soundtrack. Whether you've HEARD it in order to form your opinion or not, that's YOUR opinion. It would appear there are plenty of people who disagree. YOU don't get to decide for everyone else what's good music and what's bad music.
I was looking at it between 98 and 2001 or so. I don't know why, but I have a memory of it being more accurate than other rumour sites (not that there were many back then). Of course I remember going to see MacArthur (a film that came out in 1977) for my fifth birthday. Which was a few years (five) earlier. The old grey matter just ain't what it used to be, so anything I recall about anything before, say, last Tuesday can be considered to be suspect at best. :)
I don't really know what else needs to be said. If the guy who runs MacOS rumors told me the sky is blue, I'd check. What's sad is he used to be reliable. Now he's just a washed up has-been who fabricates stories to drive traffic to his site. He's as reliable as Hussein's old minister of information, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
This is utter nonsense. Anyone under forty in Japan can say, "We". Slashdot won't display Japanese characters for some reason, but it's written with the kana u and i and is pronounced "we".
I don't expect everyone to know this, but if you're aiming for accuracy and respectability, maybe a little fact-checking wouldn't hurt, hm?
Well, those bugs are dated from early October, and b2 was supposed to contain the fixes. No matter what they said, b2 most definitely did NOT contain the fixes.
I'll give RC1 a go. It's been OK on my PC at work so far (though the PC itself is having other problems) so maybe the Mac version will be similarly stable.
I stopped using 1.5b2 because it seemed like the tab focus issue was getting WORSE as time progressed. I'd be working and suddenly the current tab wouldn't respond to keypresses or clicks. Then I'd switch to another tab and see that IT had been getting the input.
I was assured this had been fixed in b2, but it clearly had not. I'm not about to trust RC1 until someone can tell me for SURE this problem has been fixed, once and for all.
After all, cars can be used to help steal things. I could drive to the store, steal a bunch of CDs, and then drive off.
Plus cars can be used for other, more lethal purposes. Property damage, assault & battery, murder...the list goes on! I think it's time congress passed a new law restricting the use of cars to only those who can PROVE they won't use one to commit a crime.
See here's the thing: everyone dies eventually of something. If the price of being one of the first men on Mars is terminal cancer, well, so what? I'm 100% likely to die ANYWAY. What difference does it make if I die from cancer (SPACE cancer, at that) or if I die from a stroke or heart attack? I'm just as dead, right?
So sign me up. I'm ready to go to Mars.
Besides, this trip isn't for a few years yet. I'm sure they'll devise ways of minimising the danger. Heck, TFA mentions several, and they're all ones I was thinking of myself, and I am NOT a physicist or rocket scientist by anyone's definition.
Yep. Sign me up. I'm ready to go.
I've been transcoding all the boots I download from EasyTree to ALE just because it's easier to use than FLAC or SHN with iTunes. I'm glad to see this, because it means I can start sharing stuff in this format.
But like other posters, I'm wondering how long it will be before this project gets lawyered on. Apple hasn't exactly been user friendly lately, so it seems like it's only a matter of time. Guess we'd better get it while the getting's good!
That they did. In fact, they bought NON-VOTING stock. But I hear the MSFT bought AAPL lie every now and then, and from people who should know better.
Well, people have been plotting Apple's doom or assimilation for many moons now. I have an old MacWorld or Mac User (can't remember which) from the Taligent days wherein John Dvorak predicted that (because of the whole IBM partnership) Apple would be eaten alive by IBM and by 2000 no-one would remember them.
And if I hear one more person repeat that, "Microsoft bought Apple for $150 million a ten years ago" urban legend I'm gonna scream. As if a company which (at the time) had $2 billion in cash reserves could be purchased for so little!
Well my theory is-and mind you, this is just a stab in the dark here, but here it is: Most TV/entertainment stuff happens here in LA. Paramount is here, along with pretty much everyone else.
The ad is targetting them, so the fans go to the hometown "news" paper.
Frankly though I think they'd be better off with an ad in Variety or the Hollywood Reporter, but I'm not going to tell the otaku how to spend their money. They might mock me on an obscure message board, and my life might be ruined.
I don't necessarily disagree with your criticisms of the music stores, but (as Napster will soon learn), calling people stupid is no way to get your point across too them.
Well, how about this: it's FOOLISH to buy digital music.
Better?
Seriously. If you bought music from iTunes or Napster or any of the other services out there, you wasted your money. The only thing you bought was permission to use a bundle of bits on your hard drive, and that's it. Not only that, but you paid FULL price for a song encoded with a LOSSY compression scheme! Sure, if you're just looking for one or two tracks, I can see the attraction, but for buying an entire album? STUPID! You paid full price but do you get a CD? Do you get album art you can hold in your hand? Do you get to listen to it whereever and whenever you want?
No?
Shoulda bought a CD.
Napster's all-you-can-eat service seems like it's a pretty good deal, but you have to keep paying them to keep listening. $15 a month isn't awful, and it's probably a good way to hear new music, but you can't burn it (without extra cost or, if you're trying to avoid paying the piper, without a lot of extra work) and you can't take it with you. You're tied to Napster just as surely as you'd be tied to Apple if you were buying tracks from the iTunes Music Store.
The only way to avoid this "vendor lock-in" is to BUY CDS. They're cheap if you get them at used stores, and if you really want to do things on the cheap, check your local libraries.
My iPod is full of tracks I've ripped from CDs I bought and borrowed. They work just fine. Any MP3 player will work as long as you avoid "special" formats like AAC and WMP.
I'll eat GM foods. We've been eating them for decades.
I'd love to see grass like that, or plants which give off some sort of mosquito repellent...these are things I would love to have. But a maple tree that doesn't turn in the fall and then drop its leaves...no thanks. Part of the maple's charm is its autumnal transformation.
So the point here is that we can't take what scientists say at face value, because the chances are good they may have been co-opted.
So all that stuff about evolution and global warming and everything else we're told is the gospel truth could be little more than a load of cow patties.
Right?
I can't tell you how many times I've been handed a map printed from Yahoo or Mpaquest only to find out the directions are an outright lie.
Just yesterday I got a map from MQ and it told me to drive down Wilshire to La Brea and turn right, then go a mile or two. Wrong! I quickly realised I'd been decieved and got turned around, but I'd been lied to!
Another thing I'd like to see from Google is the ability to tell it to leave freeways and highways out of its driving directions. This is LA, and the freeways are worthless and certain times of the day. I'd like to avoid them if I can most of the time...
Hope they're listening...
Don't forget-these dire predictions come from AV software makers, who have an interest in keeping you scared.
I'm all for people disposing of their computers in a responsible manner, but do we really need the government involved? It's going to wind up costing people more money and even then, most people won't bother with their program anyway-their old computers will still sit, unused and gathering dust in basements, garages and bedroom closets until someone gets tired of them and puts them out with the garbage.
Or are we going to make it a federal offence to do that?
Do we NEED this, or is it just a fine sounding idea designed to make us feel better but which won't wind up helping much (if at all)?
The real question is: how much government intereference in our daily lives is too much?
Thank you for the clarification, Dr Freud. I figured the CPU would pick up the GPU's slack, but that's only implied and never explicitly stated. I still feel the same though...every Mac shipped from 1 January 2005 on should have 64mb VRAM at a minimum. It might be nice to see the high-end iMac sport 128mb, come to think of it. 8^)
This is something which bugs me...Tiger's core video will require 64mb to operate but Apple's releasing systems with a paltry 32mb of vram. Seems like every system they release should have AT LEAST 64mb now, in preparation for Tiger (which Steve talked up but good at Macworld. People will expect the mini to be able to take full advantage of Tiger, and they're going to be a little unhappy that it can't.
It's put me off buying a mini (though I'll gladly take one if anyone has a spare!).
Yeah, yeah...we've heard all this shit before. In the 1970s it was global cooling and we were all looking at a future as ice cubes. Now it's global warming. Whatever. Call me when it's the end of the world. I want to take pictures.
I think the subject line says it all.
Well?