Microsoft was caught with QuickTime CODE in Windows Media Player. Microsoft got it when they bought a company Apple was paying to write QuickTime plugins and had given the code to them to help do it. Where Apple got the Code to Microsoft Media player from I have no idea.
Incidentally this infringement lawsuit was the reason QuickTime 2.5 for Mac and Windows was released free.
You'll have to Google real hard for this as all the press-releases on it where removed from Apple's site when the Microsoft's investment where announced, but I assume some courthouse somewhere has documents on it.
1: For each one minute lengthening in average support call times, Apple Computer needs to pay something like US $1 Million in wages, phone bills, electricity, rent, infrastructure and the like to accommodate the extra staff that needs to be employed to handle the calls.
2: The people calling for support are the most unskilled and computer illiterate users. Apple's support are already lower then the industry average as they target the less skilled users to begin with (When you tell a user to "Buy a Mac" because you can't be bothered to deal with them anymore, amazingly they do). Exactly the type of people that will have issues using a 2 button mouse.
No matter how many people wont buy a Mac as it has "only one button", no matter how much you will spend in your life, it is peanuts compared to the millions of dollars Apple would need to spend in support costs if it did it. If you have ever spent any time in support explaining the difference to someone between "left-click" and "right-click" multiply that by thousands of times a day, 7 days a week for years and years at a dollar or two in support costs. It all adds up, it all adds up very fast for a company with nearly a dozen support centres around the world taking hundreds of thousands of calls a week.
Besides, I thought all you people wanted cheaper Macs? 2 button mice cost more then 1 button mice to make, especially if there IS no button like the current Macs mice are (the whole top of the Mouse is a single piece of plastic, very cheap to make). Just buy the 3rd party USB 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel and grab the good karma from the service you are doing your fellow techs by NOT submitting them to the luser calls about right-clicking.:)
Yes, that's what I said. they ship classic. This is NOT Mac OS 9 as the computers can't be run from it, but it IS all that is necessary for running Mac OS 9 applications inside the classic compatibility environment.
To explain this, the computers are not able to boot Mac OS 9, so there is a cut down version of the Mac OS 9 System folder installed that has all that is necessary for classic support, but a lot removed from it (things that are needed when using as an OS, but not when using for a compatibility environment).
Actually, I have to agree. Making Windows emulated apps sort of behave like Mac OS X ones wold be counter productive. Windows apps need the visual identification so that you know that they are something special and need to be treated differently.
For example, windows dialogues. People used to the mac dialogues know that they are well written, with simple precise wording and trivial button selections and usually the non-destructive choice as the default. ie "Would you like to cancel? No cancel". In the windows world dialogue boxes are often much harder to understand with complex wordage, double negatives and non-trivial buttons, ie "Would you like to cancel? Cancel Yes" (last one is a real dialogue box, google for it).
There are other things in the Windows world (for example where preferences settings are selected in Menus, no Application menu, etc) which are all different to the way Macs do things and a different interface (like classic is different to Aqua) give the user a learnable visual identification so that they can easily parragram shift to the correct UI guidelines for the correct program quickly and easily (most probably sub-consciously).
Shake for Linux is still supported and updated, Current Specs list following Linux requirements
Linux
550MHz Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor
Red Hat Linux 9
256MB of RAM or more
1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files
NVIDIA workstation-class graphics card such as Quadro2 or Quadro4
Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color
Three-button mouse
These Specs are for Shake 3.5, the current version.
1) Get over the fact that separation between Church and State is not enshrined in the constitutions of all nations in the world. I would be VERY surprised if the opposite was not the case (church IS state outnumbering church SEPARATE from state considering the number of European countries with official religions). Stay home in the United States of America if you do not like this.
2) Regardless of what US citizens thinks, its constitution and laws are only legal in the United States of America and conquered protectorates*. If you are in another country, and not in specifically treatied zones such as Embassies, YOU are directly responsible for making sure you obey all laws and statutes of the country your are in. When these are broken you are subject to the charges and punishments of said laws.
Even in the USA ignorance of a law is no protection from the consequences of breaking the law, further ignorance of a transgression of the law is no protection from the consequence of said transgression.
Companies have two choices, release a product in a country and follow their laws, or don't release a product in that country. The 3rd option, release a product in a country and break their laws means that the country is allowed (if not morally required) to enforce the sanctions available to them according to the laws broken.
*Offtopic, US companies, and especially the US government need to learn this reality if they do not wish to continuously get into messes like Iraq. Might is NOT right, otherwise the Nazi's would not have been fought. Like the German Nazi's the US should be aware that a united coalition of the rest of the world is perfectly able to walk in a conquer you, no matter how powerful you believe you are.
Nobody wants to support terrorism, terror tactics as means of control, the slaughter of citizens as a way of forcing others to behave as you wish, or the destruction of a culture because you do not wish it to exist. The rest of the world will only watch the US do this for so long before again forming a coalition to oppose them. the US government had a prime opportunity to lead an alliance of all states in the opposition to terorism, it lost that chance when it decided to disregard its own rules, and the accepted conventions of civilised behaviour in seeking vengance, pure and simple.
iPods have a calendar and a clock, they NEVER shut off, they just go into a power saving mode where the screen is not used and the HD is spun down, most of the rest of the circuitry is still drawing power so that the clock can keep running.
Its a design issue not a battery issue. The iPod would still run 8 to 10 hours from recharge to stop playing music, it just does not run 8 hours, 3 days later.
Hence the various "it is fine" vs "battery is shocking" posts. If you leave your iPod plugged into the 6 pin FireWire port on your computer (constantly charging) you have no battery problem, never have, never will as you are using the iPod as designed. If on the other hand you have a 4 pin FireWire port on your computer or a USB port on your computer (both cannot charge the iPod) you better remember to plug the iPods charger in frequently, or your iPod will always have "no charge" and a "battery problem".
Sorry about any personal slurs on your actions. I just get fed up with this shading? of the history, and you repeated it when I finally had enough time to respond. Some of my frustration at earlier statements was directed unfortunately at you. Again I'm sorry.
Not trying to be negative, but is the base system & kernel open sourced from Apple or didn't Apple take somebody else's work and lock it down? In other words I have the understanding that Apple took FreeBSD which is somebodyelses hard work and added their own stuff on top without releasing the stuff on top or how it interacts with the stuff provided by FreeBSD, or any changes they might have made to FreeBSD to make it better.
Apple bought a company called NeXT that had a proprietary BSD386 based OS running on the Mach Micro-Kernal. In the company was an employee who had done a large amount of the original work creating the Mach Micro-kernal. Apple took the NeXTStep / OpenStep operating system as the basis for its Mac OS X operating system. Apple ported it to the PowerPC Chip sets, fused it with knowledge gained from Apple's earlier Unix OSes A/UX and MkLinux and then re-synced the userland with FreeBSD 4.x (now they sync the userland to FreeBSD 5.x).
This might need more explaining. Unlike Linux where all each distribution has the same Linix kernal (sometimes compiled in different ways, but still the same kernal code), BSD branches do NOT have the same kernal. NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD and Darwin(Mac OS X) are each different kernal code bases. Sometimes they share components / code, but mostly they do not. The different branches are designed to provide the same working userland to users and applications. By "re-synced the userland to FreeBSD" Apple did little more then confirm their OS is compatible with FreeBSD and either updated their own/bin and/usr/bin applications to feature / function compatibility with FreeBSD or ported the FreeBSD apps over, whichever made the most sense. Again all work was done by Apple Engineers.
So what Apple did was not "take somebody else's work and lock it down" but rather take the work Apple Engineers and the Engineers of a second company Apple bought (and retained the employees of) and release the code for no cost onto the internet. OpenDarwin.org
While this is certainly valid given the license of FreeBSD, strictly speaking that's just being a thief as far as I'm concerned.(Yes I know MS has done this too with it's Unix Services layer).
If someone gives something to you for free, it is not stealing. The only people who are allowed a moral objection to how you use the freely given object are the ones who gave it to you. Far from being upset at it, BSD users "shouted for joy" that Apple choose to base their new OS on BSD. Daemon News: Apple -- What's in it for BSD?
I also understand however, that Apple has given some changes back to the KDE community for the web browser, locking up other changes however behind a proprietary license. In other words it looks to me like Apple is trying to garner some favor while stealing the "open source" community blind.
In/Library/Scripts/ Apple has a folder full of Mail AppleScripts, one of which allows you to manage SMTP servers, "Manage SMTP Servers.scpt". It basically allows you to delete any SMTP server from the list that is not currently connected to a Mail Account.
You can easily add them to the Menu Bar by going to the/Applications/AppleScript/ folder and draging the AppleScript menu onto the menu bar. This will give you a menu with all the folders in/Library/Scripts/ and ~/Library/Scripts/ in it, allowing you to easily run any AppleScripts you put in these folders. Under Panther,/Applications/ApplScript/ now has AppleScripts to add and remove this menu.
You can move the right side menu items around by command-clicking and dragging the items into the order you wish.
There is no difference as far as the iPod is concerned, except that the only Apple supported way of getting music onto the iPod (MusicMatch) only supports MP3 and WAV. If you use some other way f putting the files onto the iPod you could use all the same formats as on the Mac.
AAC to MP3 in iTunes 4 already, just set your compresson in preferences to what you wnat, (MP3, WAV, AAC or AIF) and then choose the song(s) in the other formats and select "Convert to ?" from the Advanced menu.
Step 1:
Set iTunes 4 compression to MP3 (anywhere upto 360Kbps) Step 2:
Select all tracks you wold like to convert to MP3 (any QuickTime track can be gotten into iTunes using the "Import" option). Step 3:
Go to the "Advanced menu" and select "Convert to MP3" Step 4:
Wait for iTunes to finish the conversion!
I can't find a way to have a mixture of AND and OR statements in iTunes Smart Playlists, but as a way to save screen size, you can add multiple genres to the same line by putting a coma between them.
"Genre" "is not" "Techno, music hall, drum and base, etc"
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Microsoft was caught with QuickTime CODE in Windows Media Player. Microsoft got it when they bought a company Apple was paying to write QuickTime plugins and had given the code to them to help do it. Where Apple got the Code to Microsoft Media player from I have no idea.
Incidentally this infringement lawsuit was the reason QuickTime 2.5 for Mac and Windows was released free.
You'll have to Google real hard for this as all the press-releases on it where removed from Apple's site when the Microsoft's investment where announced, but I assume some courthouse somewhere has documents on it.
Some facts:
1: For each one minute lengthening in average support call times, Apple Computer needs to pay something like US $1 Million in wages, phone bills, electricity, rent, infrastructure and the like to accommodate the extra staff that needs to be employed to handle the calls.
2: The people calling for support are the most unskilled and computer illiterate users. Apple's support are already lower then the industry average as they target the less skilled users to begin with (When you tell a user to "Buy a Mac" because you can't be bothered to deal with them anymore, amazingly they do). Exactly the type of people that will have issues using a 2 button mouse.
No matter how many people wont buy a Mac as it has "only one button", no matter how much you will spend in your life, it is peanuts compared to the millions of dollars Apple would need to spend in support costs if it did it. If you have ever spent any time in support explaining the difference to someone between "left-click" and "right-click" multiply that by thousands of times a day, 7 days a week for years and years at a dollar or two in support costs. It all adds up, it all adds up very fast for a company with nearly a dozen support centres around the world taking hundreds of thousands of calls a week.
Besides, I thought all you people wanted cheaper Macs? 2 button mice cost more then 1 button mice to make, especially if there IS no button like the current Macs mice are (the whole top of the Mouse is a single piece of plastic, very cheap to make). Just buy the 3rd party USB 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel and grab the good karma from the service you are doing your fellow techs by NOT submitting them to the luser calls about right-clicking. :)
Couple of sites to look at to see if what you want exists.
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
Macintosh Products Guide
Apple's Mac OS X page
Yes, that's what I said. they ship classic. This is NOT Mac OS 9 as the computers can't be run from it, but it IS all that is necessary for running Mac OS 9 applications inside the classic compatibility environment.
To explain this, the computers are not able to boot Mac OS 9, so there is a cut down version of the Mac OS 9 System folder installed that has all that is necessary for classic support, but a lot removed from it (things that are needed when using as an OS, but not when using for a compatibility environment).
Apple do SHIP Classic (its an installer on one of the Disks that came with the computer) but they don't INSTALL it anymore.
Actually, I have to agree. Making Windows emulated apps sort of behave like Mac OS X ones wold be counter productive. Windows apps need the visual identification so that you know that they are something special and need to be treated differently.
For example, windows dialogues. People used to the mac dialogues know that they are well written, with simple precise wording and trivial button selections and usually the non-destructive choice as the default. ie "Would you like to cancel? No cancel". In the windows world dialogue boxes are often much harder to understand with complex wordage, double negatives and non-trivial buttons, ie "Would you like to cancel? Cancel Yes" (last one is a real dialogue box, google for it).
There are other things in the Windows world (for example where preferences settings are selected in Menus, no Application menu, etc) which are all different to the way Macs do things and a different interface (like classic is different to Aqua) give the user a learnable visual identification so that they can easily parragram shift to the correct UI guidelines for the correct program quickly and easily (most probably sub-consciously).
Shake for Linux is still supported and updated, Current Specs list following Linux requirements
Linux
550MHz Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor
Red Hat Linux 9
256MB of RAM or more
1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files
NVIDIA workstation-class graphics card such as Quadro2 or Quadro4
Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color
Three-button mouse
These Specs are for Shake 3.5, the current version.
1) Get over the fact that separation between Church and State is not enshrined in the constitutions of all nations in the world. I would be VERY surprised if the opposite was not the case (church IS state outnumbering church SEPARATE from state considering the number of European countries with official religions). Stay home in the United States of America if you do not like this.
2) Regardless of what US citizens thinks, its constitution and laws are only legal in the United States of America and conquered protectorates*. If you are in another country, and not in specifically treatied zones such as Embassies, YOU are directly responsible for making sure you obey all laws and statutes of the country your are in. When these are broken you are subject to the charges and punishments of said laws.
Even in the USA ignorance of a law is no protection from the consequences of breaking the law, further ignorance of a transgression of the law is no protection from the consequence of said transgression.
Companies have two choices, release a product in a country and follow their laws, or don't release a product in that country. The 3rd option, release a product in a country and break their laws means that the country is allowed (if not morally required) to enforce the sanctions available to them according to the laws broken.
*Offtopic, US companies, and especially the US government need to learn this reality if they do not wish to continuously get into messes like Iraq. Might is NOT right, otherwise the Nazi's would not have been fought. Like the German Nazi's the US should be aware that a united coalition of the rest of the world is perfectly able to walk in a conquer you, no matter how powerful you believe you are.
Nobody wants to support terrorism, terror tactics as means of control, the slaughter of citizens as a way of forcing others to behave as you wish, or the destruction of a culture because you do not wish it to exist. The rest of the world will only watch the US do this for so long before again forming a coalition to oppose them. the US government had a prime opportunity to lead an alliance of all states in the opposition to terorism, it lost that chance when it decided to disregard its own rules, and the accepted conventions of civilised behaviour in seeking vengance, pure and simple.
iPods have a calendar and a clock, they NEVER shut off, they just go into a power saving mode where the screen is not used and the HD is spun down, most of the rest of the circuitry is still drawing power so that the clock can keep running.
Its a design issue not a battery issue. The iPod would still run 8 to 10 hours from recharge to stop playing music, it just does not run 8 hours, 3 days later.
Hence the various "it is fine" vs "battery is shocking" posts. If you leave your iPod plugged into the 6 pin FireWire port on your computer (constantly charging) you have no battery problem, never have, never will as you are using the iPod as designed. If on the other hand you have a 4 pin FireWire port on your computer or a USB port on your computer (both cannot charge the iPod) you better remember to plug the iPods charger in frequently, or your iPod will always have "no charge" and a "battery problem".
Its not Apple's problem people can't read the manual , its not as if they aren't trying to get the word out .
Sorry about any personal slurs on your actions. I just get fed up with this shading? of the history, and you repeated it when I finally had enough time to respond. Some of my frustration at earlier statements was directed unfortunately at you. Again I'm sorry.
Not trying to be negative, but is the base system & kernel open sourced from Apple or didn't Apple take somebody else's work and lock it down? In other words I have the understanding that Apple took FreeBSD which is somebodyelses hard work and added their own stuff on top without releasing the stuff on top or how it interacts with the stuff provided by FreeBSD, or any changes they might have made to FreeBSD to make it better.
Apple bought a company called NeXT that had a proprietary BSD386 based OS running on the Mach Micro-Kernal. In the company was an employee who had done a large amount of the original work creating the Mach Micro-kernal. Apple took the NeXTStep / OpenStep operating system as the basis for its Mac OS X operating system. Apple ported it to the PowerPC Chip sets, fused it with knowledge gained from Apple's earlier Unix OSes A/UX and MkLinux and then re-synced the userland with FreeBSD 4.x (now they sync the userland to FreeBSD 5.x).
This might need more explaining. Unlike Linux where all each distribution has the same Linix kernal (sometimes compiled in different ways, but still the same kernal code), BSD branches do NOT have the same kernal. NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD and Darwin(Mac OS X) are each different kernal code bases. Sometimes they share components / code, but mostly they do not. The different branches are designed to provide the same working userland to users and applications. By "re-synced the userland to FreeBSD" Apple did little more then confirm their OS is compatible with FreeBSD and either updated their own /bin and/usr/bin applications to feature / function compatibility with FreeBSD or ported the FreeBSD apps over, whichever made the most sense. Again all work was done by Apple Engineers.
So what Apple did was not "take somebody else's work and lock it down" but rather take the work Apple Engineers and the Engineers of a second company Apple bought (and retained the employees of) and release the code for no cost onto the internet.
OpenDarwin.org
While this is certainly valid given the license of FreeBSD, strictly speaking that's just being a thief as far as I'm concerned.(Yes I know MS has done this too with it's Unix Services layer).
If someone gives something to you for free, it is not stealing. The only people who are allowed a moral objection to how you use the freely given object are the ones who gave it to you. Far from being upset at it, BSD users "shouted for joy" that Apple choose to base their new OS on BSD. Daemon News: Apple -- What's in it for BSD?
I also understand however, that Apple has given some changes back to the KDE community for the web browser, locking up other changes however behind a proprietary license. In other words it looks to me like Apple is trying to garner some favor while stealing the "open source" community blind.
Every single piece of OpenSource software Apple has used (irrespective of the license it was released under and the requirement, or NOT, to release the code) they have release the code to. The code is available either through the Darwin OS , one of the other Apple Open Source Projects, or by giving the code back to the original developers. In addition to that Apple has also released code that was never before opensource, with projects such as OpenPlay , Darwin Streaming Server and
Well that explains the difference between Australia and Kenya at track and field.
The only things Australian's have to outrun are snakes, Kenyan's have lions.
"Hardware" System Prefs is part of Developer tools I think.
Yes, you just need to download Apple's Windows iPod software and reformat the drive. You'll also need a FireWire Port on your Windows PC.
They do, it is called QMaster.
Is in Shake already and used as well by Maya . Interestingly enough, installing Final Cut Pro installes the QMaster client, but not the monitoring software. It is needed by Compressor to operate.
Actually, the iPod plays AAC, MP3, WAV and AIFF, so that's 4 formats.
In /Library/Scripts/ Apple has a folder full of Mail AppleScripts, one of which allows you to manage SMTP servers, "Manage SMTP Servers.scpt". It basically allows you to delete any SMTP server from the list that is not currently connected to a Mail Account.
You can easily add them to the Menu Bar by going to the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and draging the AppleScript menu onto the menu bar. This will give you a menu with all the folders in /Library/Scripts/ and ~/Library/Scripts/ in it, allowing you to easily run any AppleScripts you put in these folders. Under Panther, /Applications/ApplScript/ now has AppleScripts to add and remove this menu.
You can move the right side menu items around by command-clicking and dragging the items into the order you wish.
Turning off a processor does not give the other one any performance increase at all.
There is no difference as far as the iPod is concerned, except that the only Apple supported way of getting music onto the iPod (MusicMatch) only supports MP3 and WAV. If you use some other way f putting the files onto the iPod you could use all the same formats as on the Mac.
Mac OS 7.6
Are you using the Store bough AAC files? I can't test them as I live in Australia and don't have any.
AAC to MP3 in iTunes 4 already, just set your compresson in preferences to what you wnat, (MP3, WAV, AAC or AIF) and then choose the song(s) in the other formats and select "Convert to ?" from the Advanced menu.
itunes 4 can do this for you.
Set iTunes 4 compression to MP3 (anywhere upto 360Kbps)
Step 2:
Select all tracks you wold like to convert to MP3 (any QuickTime track can be gotten into iTunes using the "Import" option).
Step 3:
Go to the "Advanced menu" and select "Convert to MP3"
Step 4:
Wait for iTunes to finish the conversion!
Problems anyone?
I can't find a way to have a mixture of AND and OR statements in iTunes Smart Playlists, but as a way to save screen size, you can add multiple genres to the same line by putting a coma between them.
"Genre" "is not" "Techno, music hall, drum and base, etc"