Real lost my trust years ago, and it'll take a tarball of C code to restore it.
Personally I'd settle for being ablt to view Real files using VLC.
Real has completely blown it, and I see no reason to continue trying to keep the patient alive. Let them form an alliance with Microsoft.
The *real* story here (pun intended) is that Apple has a serious threat from Microsoft in both the audio and the video arenas, and their long history of corporate arrogance is doing nothing to help their position. Microsoft is a juggernaut and they're going to come flying into this vertical market the same way that they did when they discovered the INTARWEB.
Apple has survived so far, and I don't see them going away, but I don't see HP-branded iPods flying off of the shelves either.
Like it or not, when Micosoft decides they want market share, they play really nice and warm and fuzzy with everybody until they get their 80% market share. Then they start behaving like pricks. Apple starts out behaving like pricks.
[Disclaimer: this post is being sent from an Aluminum PowerBook G4, lest you think I'm just trolling]
"This is neither news for nerds (news for morbid voyeurs?) nor is the fact that a death has been photographed "stuff (snuff) that matters".
Let's put this thread (and the subject) to rest."
Sorry. I call bullshit.
The tagline also reads "Stuff that Matters".
Does this matter? Hell yes it does. The fact that it showed up on CJ first as opposed to rotten or stile project or orgrish is irrelevant.
Having said that...
[RANT]
We are so distanced from the realities of our existence on this planet that it's ridiculous. Case in point? Meat. You like eating meat? Cool. Seen any video on how it's processed (i.e. how cows are killed, skinned and cut up)?? Seen the video(s) of how dogs and cats are prepared in other countries? Dolphins being clubbed and left floating in the water by Japanese tuna fishermen?
Most important is some of the video of the end result of eating too much animal protein -- if you've never seen what arterial plaque looks like, I suggest hunting up some of the video. Preferably the surgical stuff (alive) as opposed to the forensic stuff (dead).
Horrible video. Probably could have gone my entire life without seeing it. Ultimately it's made me a hell of a lot more thoughtful about what I shove in my piehole.
I also have a very tasteful autopsy photo of a 26 year old who died of a heart attack as a result of morbid obesity next to my monitor at home. Reminds me to get up from my computer, go outside, and get some exercise...
[/RANT]
You don't want to watch it. Fine. Don't. You don't like the subject or the thread? Then go somewhere else. "Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online" is a pretty unambiguous tagline. There's plenty of relevant discussion here.
Try participating in it rather than trying to shut it down.Or you can pull some ad hominem crap and call me a morbid voyeur.
"like a large number of crossplatform programs..."
Hi. Some of us have to develop content for browsers. Not a blog, but content. Work. Jobs (if not careers) are involved.
Opera is the only browser right now that I'm aware of besides the Mozilla family of browsers( camino, firebird/fox/chicken/etc. ) that is being written for so many platforms. Personally I think Mozilla's becoming a bit of a clusterfuck, but if you like tinkering with 15 browsers, go nuts: I've got work to do.
I also notice you said "looking" at this release. Have you tried it? One of the developers I work with swears by it and so I've been using it for a couple of weeks now. While I'm not ready to make it my default browser just yet, it's a great product. Try it for a while. You might like it.
I was (un)fortunate enough to work for them for about 6 months in the end of 1993. They were having trouble with a couple of launch titles that were supposed to be bundled with Apple's then-revolutionary A/V Macs. I remember lots of problems with the DSPs. That and working on the worst game ever.
"HellCab"
I do have this really cool paperweight that they gave out to the execs that year: it's a big chunk of the Berlin wall with the following inscription:
"This is a remnant of the Berlin wall, which stood as a barrier against the free exchange of ideas, information, and culture. You helped bring this wall down"
Nice sentiments, but unfortunately the company was run by a bunch of asshats that had no concept of game development. I have no faith in the new group being any better: if they're anything like the last bunch, they'll be too busy trying to keep up with the Joneses to build good product -- the fact that Sony Digital has a couple of MMORPGs is not a good reason for Warner Brothers to have one.
"The Matrix" franchise is not going to age as well as the "Star Wars" franchise has. Nor the "Lord of the Rings" franchise for that matter. They should focus on the console market and getting a couple of good games on the market instead of cannibalizing their "IP" (emphasis on the "P" rather than on the "I").
Which reminds me of the cheesy "Comedy Central" CDs we did. Nothing like spending all day watching Rosie clips in QuickTime 2.0 to make you want to start drinking in the morning.
Oh yeah, and mod me down all you like, but the Game Industry could stand to at least attempt to adhere to some Software Engineering practices.
The Apache team recognised there was a problem though and set about improving their software. This is what Linux users have to do now."
Probably won't happen.
1. Most Penguinistas are not participating in the process: the extent of their involvement is making feature requests on sourceforge and hanging out here.
2. Desktop: Institutional arrogance and a complete lack of consideration for the people who are going to be using their applications/utilities. Learn and understand the concept of "usability". Menu driven application? First column on the left. Call it the "File" menu. Next column: "Edit", etc.
Gnome and KDE are still behind the usability curve: the Gnome Usability Project is still a Draft.
3. Server: Intellectual laziness. If the average Penguinista were to actually take the time to shut up and learn to read then they'd be running secure boxes. Since most of the ones here can't even read a linked article before jumping in and commenting on it, I have little faith in their ability to fire up a terminal window and read a man page. Fortunately the BSDs do not suffer from the same problem: you have to actually read, pay attention and be involved in the installation and configuration process.
The only material difference between Fedora's install wizard and XP's install wizard from a configuration standpoint is the number of restarts.
Me? OS X on my desktop. I'd rather spend my free time pimpin' hos instead of recompiling my kernel so that I can use a video card manufactured in this century.
[1] The SMTP is being used improperly... it's not supposed to be hauliing around attachments and HTML.
Until everyone's willing to properly configure their email clients to ONLY handle plain text and ONLY transfer files using the protocol designed for File Transfers, then we're going to continue to have this problem.
[2] Admins need to learn how to properly configure their email servers properly. Period.
I also think that everyone should be using encryption for their emails, and there is no reason why businesses can't employ challenge/response services and blacklists on the server.
For Example: if someone wants to do business with me then they must properly communicate their intent, whatever the communication medium is: it's no different than a phone proxy (i.e. administrative assistant/secretary) answering my phone and asking a caller to identify themselves before transferring me the call.
[RANT]
I worked in Tech Support for almost 10 years before moving over to software development and I'm so sick of intellectually lazy Network/System Adminstrators who seem to have the time going on and on and on and on and on about BCD Errors (Between the Chair and Desk) and I/O Errors (Idiot Operator), wanking away on/. or reading BOFH all day and complaining about their stupid users.
By the time the infected file has gotten to my inbox it's too fucking late, and if the admins can't keep it out of my inbox, no matter what operating system or email client I'm using THEY should be fired.
It's not the users who created the problem: we did by accepting default configurations and not coming up with more creative ways of meeting our users needs within the confines of the protocols we have to work with.
[/RANT]
P.S. -- while writing this, I checked your blog and pulled Clutter -- coolest application ever! Thanks.
The neuros is the only thing I've seen that is a compelling Alternative to the iPod.
On the 'Integration' tip: I like being able to use the iPod as a bootable (yes, bootable) drive: it was very nice being able to run 10.3 betas off of my iPod.
While I realize that's not necessarily a use for most people, it came in really handy for me on a couple of occasions.
I've got a 30 GB that I use for file storage, contacts, notes, etc. -- the cradle is hooked up to my home stereo and has replaced my CD player. I'm only about halfway through backing up my CD collection, but my MP3 hard drive is already at about 50GB.
I can't wait to get a mini so that I can use it when truly mobile: on my bike, hiking, at the gym. While the iPod's is a much better form factor than any of the other players in it's class, wearing it on my belt all the time is way too dilbert for me.
People tend to accuse Apple of form over function. Wrong. Apple is about form and function. That's why I like their stuff so much.
I really wish they'd come up with a two-button trackpad for the laptops, though...
There's a preference pane for that: for some reason Computer (root) is turned off by default. You can turn a number of folders on and off. Also cool is the ability to put all sorts of folder aliases in the sidebar: I've got remote server directories in there, which keeps me out of the new and "improved" Network Browser - I click the directory in the sidebar and get my login prompt.
Contextually I think it makes more sense to keep frequently used docs and directories in the... um... directory browser (i.e. window) then it is to keep them in the Dock.
Dock for apps. Finder window sidebar for directories.
I couldn't be happier with 10.3 -- I installed it on my iBook and it was night and day. I sold it (and my TiBook) Sunday and just got my new AlBook(!) -- very nice.
This is the first time that I can remember that Apple's really hit their stride with BOTH the hardware and the OS simultaneously -- one is usually about 6 months ahead of the other. I can't wait to go pick up iLife tomorrow and play around with Garage Band.
Sorry for the fanboi gush, but I'm really stoked on Apple's product right now -- we'll see how the laptop holds up:-)
If this is the case, then iPods will go the same way as Macs have - fantastic, innovative (where have I heard that before?), but with a small select user base.
1/3 of the current market for Hard Drive-based mp3 players.
I'm not going to waste time and space explaining it -- since you were able to use a browser to navigate here, please use it so that you can understand the difference.
How this got modded as insightful is beyond me, but I digress...
To summarize:
about as kind to random Unix software as cygwin...
I guess if you're into random Unix software. Personally, I've got specific Unix software that I'm interested in building on my boxen. No problems so far.
Your comparing OS X, with or without Fink, to cygwin indicates to me that you probably haven't built anything on OS X.
Or that you fell down a flight of stairs.
Your blathering about any free OS overtaking everyone else leads me to believe the latter.
My favorite "hole" in terms of easy to use Linux software is a refusal to adhere to any coherent User Interface Guidelines, which makes using most *free* GUI software a ride down some tweaker's quirky little thought process. At best.
If you think frustrating is fun, more power to you. I think solving problems is a great reward as well, but the problems I get paid to solve should not involve wrestling with my computer. My OS X box just works (tm) whether I'm interacting with Windows or *nix servers and does so much more elegantly than either my XP box or my OpenBSD box. Tracking Linux distros is good for a laugh.
RPMs are the third funniest example of Linux users trying to have their cake and eat it to.
X11R6 is the second funniest.
Whining about Apple's hardware prices and blathering about "commodity hardware" is the funniest.
I am interested hearing about your non-"closed source" CPU -- or does that not count as a "pretty part"?
Probably not... OS X for x86 wouldn't be free, so all the people who want to be able to compile a kernel that will run on the 8-Track player in their Mom's 1976 Pinto wouldn't have a computer.
On second thought, I think your question was probably a troll.
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The fact that it was August, 9,000 degrees out and smelled like hot buttered ass didn't help much either.
Now get back under the desk.
that was the point.
i5ao, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm, i5ao.Personally I'd settle for being ablt to view Real files using VLC.
Real has completely blown it, and I see no reason to continue trying to keep the patient alive. Let them form an alliance with Microsoft.
The *real* story here (pun intended) is that Apple has a serious threat from Microsoft in both the audio and the video arenas, and their long history of corporate arrogance is doing nothing to help their position. Microsoft is a juggernaut and they're going to come flying into this vertical market the same way that they did when they discovered the INTARWEB.
Apple has survived so far, and I don't see them going away, but I don't see HP-branded iPods flying off of the shelves either.
Like it or not, when Micosoft decides they want market share, they play really nice and warm and fuzzy with everybody until they get their 80% market share. Then they start behaving like pricks. Apple starts out behaving like pricks.
[Disclaimer: this post is being sent from an Aluminum PowerBook G4, lest you think I'm just trolling]
Nice to see you exercising that slashcode,though.
Is she single?
Nice job, brain surgeon. This is the video that the Feds went after stileproject for. Courtesy of PETA. Please mod parent down.
Anyone thought that he might have done this in the elevator lobbym knowing that the video camera is there, on purpose?
Let's put this thread (and the subject) to rest."
Sorry. I call bullshit.
The tagline also reads "Stuff that Matters".
Does this matter? Hell yes it does. The fact that it showed up on CJ first as opposed to rotten or stile project or orgrish is irrelevant.
Having said that...
[RANT]
We are so distanced from the realities of our existence on this planet that it's ridiculous. Case in point? Meat. You like eating meat? Cool. Seen any video on how it's processed (i.e. how cows are killed, skinned and cut up)?? Seen the video(s) of how dogs and cats are prepared in other countries? Dolphins being clubbed and left floating in the water by Japanese tuna fishermen? Most important is some of the video of the end result of eating too much animal protein -- if you've never seen what arterial plaque looks like, I suggest hunting up some of the video. Preferably the surgical stuff (alive) as opposed to the forensic stuff (dead).
Horrible video. Probably could have gone my entire life without seeing it. Ultimately it's made me a hell of a lot more thoughtful about what I shove in my piehole.
I also have a very tasteful autopsy photo of a 26 year old who died of a heart attack as a result of morbid obesity next to my monitor at home. Reminds me to get up from my computer, go outside, and get some exercise...
[/RANT]
You don't want to watch it. Fine. Don't. You don't like the subject or the thread? Then go somewhere else. "Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online" is a pretty unambiguous tagline. There's plenty of relevant discussion here.
Try participating in it rather than trying to shut it down.Or you can pull some ad hominem crap and call me a morbid voyeur.
"Googling" is another popular one.
"I was up all night Googling your mom."
Hi. Some of us have to develop content for browsers. Not a blog, but content. Work. Jobs (if not careers) are involved.
Opera is the only browser right now that I'm aware of besides the Mozilla family of browsers( camino, firebird/fox/chicken/etc. ) that is being written for so many platforms. Personally I think Mozilla's becoming a bit of a clusterfuck, but if you like tinkering with 15 browsers, go nuts: I've got work to do.
I also notice you said "looking" at this release. Have you tried it? One of the developers I work with swears by it and so I've been using it for a couple of weeks now. While I'm not ready to make it my default browser just yet, it's a great product. Try it for a while. You might like it.
I'd like a browser/spellcheck combo with fries, please.
Then Apple has nothing to worry about.
Like a pregnant crack-whore.
Next?
I was (un)fortunate enough to work for them for about 6 months in the end of 1993. They were having trouble with a couple of launch titles that were supposed to be bundled with Apple's then-revolutionary A/V Macs. I remember lots of problems with the DSPs. That and working on the worst game ever.
"HellCab"
I do have this really cool paperweight that they gave out to the execs that year: it's a big chunk of the Berlin wall with the following inscription: "This is a remnant of the Berlin wall, which stood as a barrier against the free exchange of ideas, information, and culture. You helped bring this wall down"
Nice sentiments, but unfortunately the company was run by a bunch of asshats that had no concept of game development. I have no faith in the new group being any better: if they're anything like the last bunch, they'll be too busy trying to keep up with the Joneses to build good product -- the fact that Sony Digital has a couple of MMORPGs is not a good reason for Warner Brothers to have one.
"The Matrix" franchise is not going to age as well as the "Star Wars" franchise has. Nor the "Lord of the Rings" franchise for that matter. They should focus on the console market and getting a couple of good games on the market instead of cannibalizing their "IP" (emphasis on the "P" rather than on the "I").
Which reminds me of the cheesy "Comedy Central" CDs we did. Nothing like spending all day watching Rosie clips in QuickTime 2.0 to make you want to start drinking in the morning.
Oh yeah, and mod me down all you like, but the Game Industry could stand to at least attempt to adhere to some Software Engineering practices.
Like Analysis and Design. Or milestone releases.
Probably won't happen.
1. Most Penguinistas are not participating in the process: the extent of their involvement is making feature requests on sourceforge and hanging out here.
2. Desktop: Institutional arrogance and a complete lack of consideration for the people who are going to be using their applications/utilities. Learn and understand the concept of "usability". Menu driven application? First column on the left. Call it the "File" menu. Next column: "Edit", etc.
Gnome and KDE are still behind the usability curve: the Gnome Usability Project is still a Draft.
3. Server: Intellectual laziness. If the average Penguinista were to actually take the time to shut up and learn to read then they'd be running secure boxes. Since most of the ones here can't even read a linked article before jumping in and commenting on it, I have little faith in their ability to fire up a terminal window and read a man page. Fortunately the BSDs do not suffer from the same problem: you have to actually read, pay attention and be involved in the installation and configuration process.
The only material difference between Fedora's install wizard and XP's install wizard from a configuration standpoint is the number of restarts.
Me? OS X on my desktop. I'd rather spend my free time pimpin' hos instead of recompiling my kernel so that I can use a video card manufactured in this century.
Server? OpenBSD.
The source of the problem is twofold:
[1] The SMTP is being used improperly... it's not supposed to be hauliing around attachments and HTML.
Until everyone's willing to properly configure their email clients to ONLY handle plain text and ONLY transfer files using the protocol designed for File Transfers, then we're going to continue to have this problem.
[2] Admins need to learn how to properly configure their email servers properly. Period.
I also think that everyone should be using encryption for their emails, and there is no reason why businesses can't employ challenge/response services and blacklists on the server.
For Example:
if someone wants to do business with me then they must properly communicate their intent, whatever the communication medium is: it's no different than a phone proxy (i.e. administrative assistant/secretary) answering my phone and asking a caller to identify themselves before transferring me the call.
[RANT]
I worked in Tech Support for almost 10 years before moving over to software development and I'm so sick of intellectually lazy Network/System Adminstrators who seem to have the time going on and on and on and on and on about BCD Errors (Between the Chair and Desk) and I/O Errors (Idiot Operator), wanking away on /. or reading BOFH all day and complaining about their stupid users.
By the time the infected file has gotten to my inbox it's too fucking late, and if the admins can't keep it out of my inbox, no matter what operating system or email client I'm using THEY should be fired.
It's not the users who created the problem: we did by accepting default configurations and not coming up with more creative ways of meeting our users needs within the confines of the protocols we have to work with. [/RANT]
P.S. -- while writing this, I checked your blog and pulled Clutter -- coolest application ever! Thanks.
This information is so well-known as to be generally accepted. Your failure to recognize this fact indicates one of the following:
1. You're delusional.
2. You're stupid.
3. You're Steve Ballmer.
4. All of the above.
Pick one.
On the 'Integration' tip: I like being able to use the iPod as a bootable (yes, bootable) drive: it was very nice being able to run 10.3 betas off of my iPod.
While I realize that's not necessarily a use for most people, it came in really handy for me on a couple of occasions.
I can't wait to get a mini so that I can use it when truly mobile: on my bike, hiking, at the gym. While the iPod's is a much better form factor than any of the other players in it's class, wearing it on my belt all the time is way too dilbert for me.
People tend to accuse Apple of form over function. Wrong. Apple is about form and function. That's why I like their stuff so much.
I really wish they'd come up with a two-button trackpad for the laptops, though...
Contextually I think it makes more sense to keep frequently used docs and directories in the
Dock for apps. Finder window sidebar for directories.
I couldn't be happier with 10.3 -- I installed it on my iBook and it was night and day. I sold it (and my TiBook) Sunday and just got my new AlBook(!) -- very nice.
This is the first time that I can remember that Apple's really hit their stride with BOTH the hardware and the OS simultaneously -- one is usually about 6 months ahead of the other. I can't wait to go pick up iLife tomorrow and play around with Garage Band.
Sorry for the fanboi gush, but I'm really stoked on Apple's product right now -- we'll see how the laptop holds up :-)
1/3 of the current market for Hard Drive-based mp3 players.
That's quice a niche.
Darwin is not OS X.
I'm not going to waste time and space explaining it -- since you were able to use a browser to navigate here, please use it so that you can understand the difference.
Here is a start.
To summarize: about as kind to random Unix software as cygwin...
I guess if you're into random Unix software. Personally, I've got specific Unix software that I'm interested in building on my boxen. No problems so far.
Your comparing OS X, with or without Fink, to cygwin indicates to me that you probably haven't built anything on OS X.
Or that you fell down a flight of stairs.
Your blathering about any free OS overtaking everyone else leads me to believe the latter.
My favorite "hole" in terms of easy to use Linux software is a refusal to adhere to any coherent User Interface Guidelines, which makes using most *free* GUI software a ride down some tweaker's quirky little thought process. At best.
If you think frustrating is fun, more power to you. I think solving problems is a great reward as well, but the problems I get paid to solve should not involve wrestling with my computer. My OS X box just works (tm) whether I'm interacting with Windows or *nix servers and does so much more elegantly than either my XP box or my OpenBSD box. Tracking Linux distros is good for a laugh.
RPMs are the third funniest example of Linux users trying to have their cake and eat it to.
X11R6 is the second funniest.
Whining about Apple's hardware prices and blathering about "commodity hardware" is the funniest.
I am interested hearing about your non-"closed source" CPU -- or does that not count as a "pretty part"?
On second thought, I think your question was probably a troll.
Damn you!