A better comparison would be with Phase One
"Capture One PRO" software . The emphasis being on RAW files from Canon, Nikon, Olympus and TIFF, I haven't seen if other proprietary formats are supported. It also supports Adobe DNG (Digital Negative format). I would be impressed if it could also handle Kodak DCS Pro Back, Phase One, and Leaf formats. Aperture also supports flattened PSD files with no Alpha channels.
The way I look at it I would use Aperture as a virtual light table. I really like that loop tool and the intelligent stacks organization aids (See the Quick Tours)This is software is meant for the professional to serious photographer and this program is metadata crazy. Great for photographers for stock photography, as well as ones who do weddings, sports, photojournalism...etc. After selecting a handful of images from hundreds to a thousand + images using Aperture, I can see using Photoshop at the end of the of workflow. Where I need Photoshops large array of filters, brushes and text tools. graphics artists won't care about Aperture but professional photographers who now shoot digital will probably love this application.
On a side note I'm glad there is finally a workstation class graphics card for the Mac. I can forsee that stereo based projections,
Powerwalls, and even
CAVEs aren't so far off in the future once you add the genlock/framelock daughter card to the Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 board.
First I think Apple earning only 4 cents for every 99 cent download is very reasonable.
Considering it is Apple who hosts the iTMS (servers, bandwidth and...other over head), R&D for the iPod and they came up with an elegant solution for consumers to gain access to music from a wide variety of labels under one roof.
The record industry is too anachronistic to have the foresight to create this solution
themselves and are still obsessed with selling a solid medium (LPs, tapes, CDs), while treating its customers as criminals and artists as expendable commodities that can ignore paying royalties if they can help it
A brief look at the practices of the record industry reveals that they are the dishonest lot:
Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDsRemember when CDs first came out and people said it was too expensive and the record industry promised that it would go below $10 eventually. Never happened
Music Firms to Look Harder For Artists Owed Royalties
Spitzer announced a settlement in which the nation's five largest recording companies promised to do a better job of tracking down and paying $50 million in unclaimed royalties to thousands of performers.
Finally, last night 2005-Sep-29 on Nightly Business Review (NBR) was a four part series on the music industry. It shows how iTMS allowed one relatively unknown electronica artist sell directly to her consumers with the iTMS . Her music was featured on NPR and then people all over the world wanted to download and listen to her music. Stores like iTMS are the great equalizer from years of abuse from the greedy record labels.
"The Business of Music,"-Part 4: The Down Low On Download Distribution
Grammarian Pro X from Linguisoft is a product that I like using. It comes with the standard grammar, spelling, dictionary, thesaurus, autocorrect features and costs only US$39.95 with a 20% discount for educational buyers. You can also add at no cost the Biotech, Geological, HTML, LaTeX , Latin , Legal, Medical, Technical dictionaries plus several languages.
150 built-in spelling and grammar writing rules compared to MS Office's 26 error corrections.
Checks a large number of homophones--words that sound the same but are spelled differently such as it's for its, accept for except, loose for lose, to for too and two, and many more.
Reference aid displays parts of speech and linear sentence diagraming, to assist with evaluating the right choice of corrections.
Grammarian PRO X reads through your text and analyzes each sentence for potential spelling, grammar, and punctuation problems.
Has much more spelling and grammar checking power than the limited checkers in Microsoft Word(TM) and Microsoft Office(TM)
i was talking about HP and IBM and Sun in terms of non-pc support, eg unix servers. which all three companies sell. their support is very generally excellent
Wait. You're comparing Apple's consumer products to HP, IBM and Sun non-PC big iron Unix enterprise support? i.e. These companies more expensive custom RISC hardware \ flavor of Unix support with their much more expensive service contract compared to Apple's standard consumer AppleCare Protection Plan(APP) ? Isn't that a tad bit unfair or am I the only one here?
If you're going to do that sort of comparison with big iron Unix enterprise system, then you should be comparing
Xserve, Xserve RAID and XSan along with
AppleCare Premium Service and Support plan with AppleCare Service Parts Kit for Xserve
with any Mac OS X Server Software Support: level Select \ Preferred \ Alliance
compared to solutions from Sun, HP and IBM.
I think your earlier post on Apple support been not as good, was certainly not comparing two alike products. If fact you are comparing two different markets altogether.
I happen to be quite pleased with SGI when it comes to their servers with NUMALink
and ccNUMA single image systems. In fact they are the best I've come across, but we are phasing out SGI because their hardware is too expensive and even though their support and response times are excellent. SGI's service contracts cost way too much. So if you are comparing similar Unix enterprise vendors to Apple's consumer level products and service + support you have to ask how much are you paying for your premium Unix enterprise support? I'm baffled by your comparison.
apple's support went into the shitter bigtime in the mid 90's and never recovered
I do not think you have been using Apple hardware since the mid-90's and your evaluation would be 10 years old. My experiences with Apple, Wintel, SGI, Sun, HP hardware is current, since I run all the systems to this very day. Now if you have real data to show Apple's enterprise service support is poor, then you have an argument. However, since Apple's recent foray into the server market is still too early. I doubt you would have any real numbers to show that their support and service is poor compared to the other Unix vendors.
To reiterate my point. I feel Apple's consumer support is quite good and as for their enterprise server market its too soon to tell. Comparing Apple consumer iBooks and iPods (as you did) to Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX workstations is ridiculous in my opinion.
ibm or hp or sun would be a far, far better choice
HP??? You are kidding right. They make great printers but I don't think HP support or the quality of their computers are good at all. We used to have a contract with HP and now they are out
Consumer Report June 2003: Desktop computers Readers report, surveying 39,000 readers Shows Apple with the highest ratings for Repairs. Followed in order by Dell, HP, IBM...etc. Then for Technical Support it was Apple, Dell, Gateway, Sony, HP...etc.
Now in June 2005. Consumer Reports Tech support: Desktops & laptops survey shows for Dekstops it was Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, Sony...etc. And for laptops Apple, IBM, Toshiba, Dell, Gateway, HP...etc.
Based on my own experiences the data above is more or less correct, although I've felt Dell slide in the past two years. Dell used to have better support, but lacked testing their products thoroughly sometimes when the slap together components from five different suppliers. Which brings me to the issue of finger pointing.
We've had to fight PC manufacturers many times when our computers don't work, when the sound card driver causes a BSOD, PNY graphics board genlock doesn't work, when the OEM isn't able to control the OS enough to fix problems. Its frustrating as a customer. As for Sun we've had good experience with them so far. Although one black mark I can recall is for their flagship enterprise servers where having major problems two year ago. Sun traced the problem to memory chips from IBM and tried to differ the blame on IBM. Sun's corporate customers where unimpressed and just wanted the damn enterprise servers fixed. So even Sun can have issues, but less so in my experience.
The Apple software/hardware solution tends to work better and
there are less people for them to blame, so I don't get the run around as a customer. They provide the whole solution and the buck stops with them when I have a problem, unlike other vendors that make me run around.
If Apple does come up with products that don't honor the warranty, which I have not experienced yet. I'm glad that those lawyers are out there to keep the company "honest" when there are legitimate issues with the product. However, your recommendation hasn't convinced me I would experience less problems from another vendor and the data I provided above speaks to that fact.
Sadly this means that I now support any kind of gestapo like tactic that they use to keep the OS locked to their hardware
As a institutional buyer. Mac OSX on unsupported x86 Intel hardware doesn't appeal to me. I want to call someone who is
accountable if something doesn't work. Who tests out the possible drivers, hardware, software all are working smoothly. Not start childish finger pointing that I've experience from other vendors and wasting my time. I'm glad as a system administrator I don't have to deal with product activation on Mac OSX, as with Windows XP. The latest version of Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk AutoCad are also going the way of product activation, which is pretty annoying as a paying customer. All I want is my cloned loadset to work without having to register it every time I modify, upgrade or replace hardware due to failures.
To hackers who have the time and inclination to experiment with Mac OSX on their hardware. Power to them if they figure out a way to make it run on their customized x86 hardware. Businesses and institutions in general don't have that time and in the end its these companies and facilities that by the bulk of the licenses. A few lose copies of Mac OSX doesn't bother me, because it helps raise the platforms awareness as a viable and attractive alternative.
Finding old hardware in my department to go to property disposition is a pain when getting rid of data on old
hardware. First I don't even know if some of the hardware that is ten years older will even start. Then I have to find a floppy or CD that will run on the specific hardware. The easy solution is to open up that computer and rip out that harddrive, then hammer it so the platters are broken. Problem solved.
I do like the fact the on Mac OS X on any System Restore CD or
OSX CD comes with Disk Utility.app, that does either seven or thirty-five random wipes of the disk. Plus the user could use Secure Empty Trash from the very beginning. Waiting for a 20GB to randomly write bits in every sector seven to thirty-five times is general too much of my time. The hammer is a lot quicker.
Signed: The impatient and destructive systems administrator
Protective padded sleeve
Silica gel desiccator bags
Powerbook G4
Power supply for laptop
DVI to DB-15 adapter
8' ethernet cable
Modem cable
S-VHS to Composite video adapter
Retractable mini two button + scroll wheel mouse
iPod 2nd Generation in case
Firewire cable for iPod
Bang & Olufsen A8 earphones and case
512MB Sandisk Titanium Cruzer
Charger for Treo 180
USB cable for the Treo 180
Leatherman Wave and holder
Case for my glasses and microfiber cleaning cloth
A few Pepto-Bismols
A few Imodium A-Ds
A few Benadryls
Airport Express wireless router (when travelling)
Microsoft Office Professional CDs (temporary)
Planner
Some business cards
Folding umbrella
A ballpoint pen
A White Out pen
A green highlighter pen
Mechanical pencil
Eraser pen
Pencil leads HB standard
The Gita paperback
"Labels might lose customers" especially if they are going to jack up the prices more and more. I think 99c per track is my threshold,
other wise I can always return to my immoral and sinful ways. Wonder how much that will help the music industry?
According to the genius Dubey. Only 1% of the market uses MAC.
Damn, didn't know that there was another protocol for identifying
NICs. I've been doing my job wrong all along.
The guy is a first class inflammatory charlatan. Nothing to see here folks lets move on!
To be honest I haven't had time. I wanted to install FreeBSD and try out OpenBSD as well. But I'm just really busy. One system I wish I had the chance to try, but won't be able to due to lack of availability is the Amiga. If I could borrow a machine for a week or two and try it out that would be nice, plus get tips from an old Amiga expert for what indigenous and unique features look for. Perhaps, part of my BSD needs are partially satisfied with running Mac OS X desktop. Blasphemy I know! Maybe when I'll get time in the winter and I'm snowed in.... or maybe email Jordan Hubbard directly and ask when is he and his Darwin team going to implement the concept of Jails for OS X.
You've got to be kidding about viable alternatives in the year 2005. What rock have you been living under all these years?
Mac OS X is a great alternative for Windows the desktop
Linux is an excellent alternative to Unix for the sever market
Linux can do desktops and Mac OS X server can do servers,
but there strengths lie else in the other arena.
If you've never used an other operating system for a decent
amount of time then you have no authority to speak of alternatives. Its like a guy who lives off McDonald 's all his life and then proclaims there are no substitutes to his diet and defends McDonalds for feeding him all his life.
"You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you." What the hell does that mean. How is Microsoft feeding the computing industry, would you care to elaborate. Or would you like me to go through the list of many worthy competitors it has driven under by strong arm monopolistic practices or fines they've had to pay for stealing other's software. Earliest example I can think of historically is Stacker, but there are many many more.
OSes I've installed, used or administrated in the past:
Windows 2003 Server XP/2000/NT ME/98/95/3.0
Mac OS X/9/8/7/6
Irix
Solaris
HP-UX
Linux (Red Hat)
MS-DOS
OS/2
NeXTStep
Be OS
QNX
VAX
AIX
Domain/OS
Acorn Risc OS
BBC Micro
Sorry for the changed USPTO links. I got the links some time back from the Macintosh based websites and the links did work, but they've changed for some reason. Feel like a dufus for not checking the URL before posting. Currently I tried to do some searches but couldn't find those two specific patent filings that I saw in the past.
Finally, one of the last items on my Apple wish list, that gives a multi-button mouse and a X-Y axis scolling for Apple hardware
I currently use a five button Kensington Optical Elite mouse which I highly recommended and costs $15.20. I use buttons four and five to invoke Expose functions like All Windows and Desktop respectively. I wrote a new feature request back in 2004-Oct-11 Bugreporter #383452 "WM: Application switching enhancement from Expose control panel" to allow application switching to be invoked via a hot corner or a programmed extra mouse button in addition to the current application switching done by Command + Tab. Seems like my wishes has been partially answered by the new "Mighty mouse". The question is:
Will they allow application switching via hot corners?
and will they allow third party mice to be programmed to use application switching?
Will all new Apple hardware include this as a standard, a choice between a one button and Mighty mouse, or force customers to buy a single mouse button mouse and the Mighty Mouse as an after option? Personally, customers want choice and
I'd like to see this being standard on all new Apple hardware and for those Apple fans that enjoy the single mouse button the ability to opt for a single mouse button without paying extra.
My biggest wish for a any Mac OS X middle mouse button was to be able to do an X-Y scrolling which I was able to do back in Windows Internet Explorer, Office and Firefox. Strangely, this feature in Windows was not supported pervasively in their OS, but I enjoyed it every much and was reintroduced to it when I started to use the new Powerbook which had scrolling supported in the next-gen trackpads. Kudos for adding that as well.
One of the issues I was going to discuss with my local Apple rep. this month was in the next generation the Intel based Macs must be able to dual boot and have at least a two button mouse with a scroll wheel, if Apple was looking to replace some of our older Dell hardware in our computing labs. Looks like that issue is now moot and I always felt that my requests for the choice of the multibutton mice had fallen on dead ears in the past.
The rumor mills did show some indication that Apple was working on the next-generation mouse from these two patent applications.
My current concern is that the force sensing mouse won't give the haptic feedback necessary, but I reserve judgement until I can get my hands on one. Good job for Apple and I feel that the
company is really starting to listen to its customers, including the rather vocal Slashdotters:)
I prefer H.264 because its specs are better not only in capacity but also in chroma information stored. H.264 can do 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 versus VC-1 of only 4:2:0. Which means color depth information will be superior for H.264.
You have to take this op/ed with a huge grain of salt.
Its like Rob Glaser complaining about iTunes and the iTMS not opening their Fairplay DRM. Linspire may be worried about the long term impact on their own company when Apple starts to sell Intel based Macs which with virtualization could run Windows, Linux, BSD...any x86 compatible OS thanks to Vanderpool.
This quote from him "I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend". Is pure FUD being sown
by the Linspire folks. I think Linspire should focus on competing with the other Linux distros out there. For the last six months report after report has been showing Apple increasing their sales. i.e. PC units sold (+35% from the same quarter last year) and profitability primarily due to the iPod.
I meant Core Video/Image not Quartz Extreme.
The 9200 already drives QE.
What I would like to see in the Mac Mini $499
on
New iBook and Apple mini
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
* G5 processor running at 1.2 GHz
* Radeon 9600 graphics chip with a minimum of 64MB
or anything that drives Quartz Extreme
I think this price range is possible
For those folks who want to pay extra for an elegant and intergrated PVR solution and not the more expensive EyeTV. An ATI Theater 550 Pro video processor with H.264 hardware encoding. http://www.ati.com/products/theater550/index.html
With a new iLife software solution to easily record TV shows (TiVo) and does post processing of these recordings to a small H.264 file to build content for a future video iPod and for video podcasting (a.k.a vodcasting).
Act 1: A quick history on the formation of the Voltron team, the discovery of the ancient castle with its lost advanced technology i.e. Voltron and establish some weak character development
Act 2: Introduce the current despotic galactic overlord looking
to rule the entire system. Lead antagonist looks ugly as sin and suffers from severe halitosis.
Act 3: Some more time fillers like travel to different planets and maybe a pitiful romance with some soppy love interest.
Act 4: Show down with the rogue beast and after an awful dragged out sequence where Voltron is getting the crap kicked out of it,
the famous Flaming Sword is whipped out at the last crucial moment ending the rogue beast in a quartered fashion. I fail to remember is this quartering is done in a big "x" fashion or "+" a crucifix like fashion. Probably the later since Voltron represents all that is good in the bloody universe.
The End.
Discussion point: Why the hell don't they use the Flaming Sword in the very beginning? Seems to be the ONLY weapon that has worked against ALL their adversaries.
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000 and Windows ME
Apple comes out with Mac OS X
Windows XP
Windows 2003
One should ask why Microsoft decided to
name NT 5.1 "XP" abruptly. Coincidence...I think not!
Other small changes to the XP GUI also reflect a Mac OS X influence.
I agree. Apple is poised to make a great home media center, it has
all the important elements it needs in iLife. With hardware to encode MPEG-2 or MPEG-4/AVC realtime, Quicktime 7 and a great piece of Tivo PVR software I'd buy a Mac Mini ASAP. Allow the next gen iPod to play MPEG-4/AVC video and you have content that you can feed your iPod with.
I think the Vista company is trying to protect itself, but it better have
deep coffers if it wants to fight Microsoft in a long lengthy battle.
Back in 1995 Microsoft drove a small Illinois based software company in bankruptcy, that also made a web browser called "Internet Explorer". This small company had registered "Internet Explorer" as a trademark with the USPTO and was waiting to file a global trademark when Microsoft totally ignored this company's claim and buried it in legal costs. The owner of the company eventually had to fire all his staff due to mounting legal costs and
Netscape tried to keep him a float by hiring him as a consultant.
Microsoft settles trademark case
By Dan Goodin
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 1, 1998, 6:15 p.m. PT
Microsoft said it has settled a trademark dispute that
had challenged its use of the name "Internet Explorer"
to market its popular Web browser. Sources close to
the matter say the settlement will have the software
giant paying $5 million for rights to the name.
software developer Dhiren Rana sued Microsoft in late
1995 for trademark infringement a few months after the
company began marketing its new browser under the name
Internet Explorer. Rana alleged that, beginning in
1994, he had applied the name to a competing Web
browser he had designed for SyNet, an Illinois
Internet service provider that has since gone
bankrupt.
Microsoft is more likely to use its rather uninspiring chronological named editions. i.e. Windows 2006 or Windows 2007 than Windowes XP ME. At least Windows Vista is a break away from its dull naming schema and this time doesn't look like its trying to emulate Apple when it abruptly changed its chronological name schema to name its last desktop edition XP, after Mac OS X came out. Then they went back to their old mundane name with Windows 2003 server.
Slashdot Mirror
The way I look at it I would use Aperture as a virtual light table. I really like that loop tool and the intelligent stacks organization aids (See the Quick Tours)This is software is meant for the professional to serious photographer and this program is metadata crazy. Great for photographers for stock photography, as well as ones who do weddings, sports, photojournalism...etc. After selecting a handful of images from hundreds to a thousand + images using Aperture, I can see using Photoshop at the end of the of workflow. Where I need Photoshops large array of filters, brushes and text tools. graphics artists won't care about Aperture but professional photographers who now shoot digital will probably love this application.
On a side note I'm glad there is finally a workstation class graphics card for the Mac. I can forsee that stereo based projections, Powerwalls, and even CAVEs aren't so far off in the future once you add the genlock/framelock daughter card to the Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 board.
The record industry is too anachronistic to have the foresight to create this solution themselves and are still obsessed with selling a solid medium (LPs, tapes, CDs), while treating its customers as criminals and artists as expendable commodities that can ignore paying royalties if they can help it
A brief look at the practices of the record industry reveals that they are the dishonest lot:
Apple earns less than a nickel per iTunes track
States settle CD price-fixing case
RIAA Continues Distributing Dud CDs to Satisfy Settlement
A music industry case study Shows how little the artist makes thanks to middle men like the record industry
Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDsRemember when CDs first came out and people said it was too expensive and the record industry promised that it would go below $10 eventually. Never happened
How Apple saved the music biz
FTC: Labels charged with price-fixing - again
Music Firms to Look Harder For Artists Owed Royalties Spitzer announced a settlement in which the nation's five largest recording companies promised to do a better job of tracking down and paying $50 million in unclaimed royalties to thousands of performers.
Finally, last night 2005-Sep-29 on Nightly Business Review (NBR) was a four part series on the music industry. It shows how iTMS allowed one relatively unknown electronica artist sell directly to her consumers with the iTMS . Her music was featured on NPR and then people all over the world wanted to download and listen to her music. Stores like iTMS are the great equalizer from years of abuse from the greedy record labels. "The Business of Music,"-Part 4: The Down Low On Download Distribution
Wait. You're comparing Apple's consumer products to HP, IBM and Sun non-PC big iron Unix enterprise support? i.e. These companies more expensive custom RISC hardware \ flavor of Unix support with their much more expensive service contract compared to Apple's standard consumer AppleCare Protection Plan(APP) ? Isn't that a tad bit unfair or am I the only one here?
If you're going to do that sort of comparison with big iron Unix enterprise system, then you should be comparing
- Xserve, Xserve RAID and XSan along with
- AppleCare Premium Service and Support plan with AppleCare Service Parts Kit for Xserve
- with any Mac OS X Server Software Support: level Select \ Preferred \ Alliance
compared to solutions from Sun, HP and IBM. I think your earlier post on Apple support been not as good, was certainly not comparing two alike products. If fact you are comparing two different markets altogether.I happen to be quite pleased with SGI when it comes to their servers with NUMALink and ccNUMA single image systems. In fact they are the best I've come across, but we are phasing out SGI because their hardware is too expensive and even though their support and response times are excellent. SGI's service contracts cost way too much. So if you are comparing similar Unix enterprise vendors to Apple's consumer level products and service + support you have to ask how much are you paying for your premium Unix enterprise support? I'm baffled by your comparison.
apple's support went into the shitter bigtime in the mid 90's and never recovered
I do not think you have been using Apple hardware since the mid-90's and your evaluation would be 10 years old. My experiences with Apple, Wintel, SGI, Sun, HP hardware is current, since I run all the systems to this very day. Now if you have real data to show Apple's enterprise service support is poor, then you have an argument. However, since Apple's recent foray into the server market is still too early. I doubt you would have any real numbers to show that their support and service is poor compared to the other Unix vendors.
To reiterate my point. I feel Apple's consumer support is quite good and as for their enterprise server market its too soon to tell. Comparing Apple consumer iBooks and iPods (as you did) to Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX workstations is ridiculous in my opinion.
HP??? You are kidding right. They make great printers but I don't think HP support or the quality of their computers are good at all. We used to have a contract with HP and now they are out
Consumer Report June 2003: Desktop computers Readers report, surveying 39,000 readers ...etc. Then for Technical Support it was Apple, Dell, Gateway, Sony, HP...etc.
Shows Apple with the highest ratings for Repairs. Followed in order by Dell, HP, IBM
Now in June 2005. Consumer Reports Tech support: Desktops & laptops survey shows for Dekstops it was Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, Sony ...etc. And for laptops Apple, IBM, Toshiba, Dell, Gateway, HP ...etc.
Based on my own experiences the data above is more or less correct, although I've felt Dell slide in the past two years. Dell used to have better support, but lacked testing their products thoroughly sometimes when the slap together components from five different suppliers. Which brings me to the issue of finger pointing.
We've had to fight PC manufacturers many times when our computers don't work, when the sound card driver causes a BSOD, PNY graphics board genlock doesn't work, when the OEM isn't able to control the OS enough to fix problems. Its frustrating as a customer. As for Sun we've had good experience with them so far. Although one black mark I can recall is for their flagship enterprise servers where having major problems two year ago. Sun traced the problem to memory chips from IBM and tried to differ the blame on IBM. Sun's corporate customers where unimpressed and just wanted the damn enterprise servers fixed. So even Sun can have issues, but less so in my experience.
The Apple software/hardware solution tends to work better and there are less people for them to blame, so I don't get the run around as a customer. They provide the whole solution and the buck stops with them when I have a problem, unlike other vendors that make me run around.
If Apple does come up with products that don't honor the warranty, which I have not experienced yet. I'm glad that those lawyers are out there to keep the company "honest" when there are legitimate issues with the product. However, your recommendation hasn't convinced me I would experience less problems from another vendor and the data I provided above speaks to that fact.
As a institutional buyer. Mac OSX on unsupported x86 Intel hardware doesn't appeal to me. I want to call someone who is accountable if something doesn't work. Who tests out the possible drivers, hardware, software all are working smoothly. Not start childish finger pointing that I've experience from other vendors and wasting my time. I'm glad as a system administrator I don't have to deal with product activation on Mac OSX, as with Windows XP. The latest version of Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk AutoCad are also going the way of product activation, which is pretty annoying as a paying customer. All I want is my cloned loadset to work without having to register it every time I modify, upgrade or replace hardware due to failures.
To hackers who have the time and inclination to experiment with Mac OSX on their hardware. Power to them if they figure out a way to make it run on their customized x86 hardware. Businesses and institutions in general don't have that time and in the end its these companies and facilities that by the bulk of the licenses. A few lose copies of Mac OSX doesn't bother me, because it helps raise the platforms awareness as a viable and attractive alternative.
I do like the fact the on Mac OS X on any System Restore CD or OSX CD comes with Disk Utility.app, that does either seven or thirty-five random wipes of the disk. Plus the user could use Secure Empty Trash from the very beginning. Waiting for a 20GB to randomly write bits in every sector seven to thirty-five times is general too much of my time. The hammer is a lot quicker.
Signed: The impatient and destructive systems administrator
Protective padded sleeve
Silica gel desiccator bags
Powerbook G4
Power supply for laptop
DVI to DB-15 adapter
8' ethernet cable
Modem cable
S-VHS to Composite video adapter
Retractable mini two button + scroll wheel mouse
iPod 2nd Generation in case
Firewire cable for iPod
Bang & Olufsen A8 earphones and case
512MB Sandisk Titanium Cruzer
Charger for Treo 180
USB cable for the Treo 180
Leatherman Wave and holder
Case for my glasses and microfiber cleaning cloth
A few Pepto-Bismols
A few Imodium A-Ds
A few Benadryls
Airport Express wireless router (when travelling)
Microsoft Office Professional CDs (temporary)
Planner
Some business cards
Folding umbrella
A ballpoint pen
A White Out pen
A green highlighter pen
Mechanical pencil
Eraser pen
Pencil leads HB standard
The Gita paperback
"Labels might lose customers" especially if they are going to jack up the prices more and more. I think 99c per track is my threshold, other wise I can always return to my immoral and sinful ways. Wonder how much that will help the music industry?
The guy is a first class inflammatory charlatan. Nothing to see here folks lets move on!
I must say your powers of prognostication are strong :)
Its officially Windows "Vista"
To be honest I haven't had time. I wanted to install FreeBSD and try out OpenBSD as well. But I'm just really busy. One system I wish I had the chance to try, but won't be able to due to lack of availability is the Amiga. If I could borrow a machine for a week or two and try it out that would be nice, plus get tips from an old Amiga expert for what indigenous and unique features look for. Perhaps, part of my BSD needs are partially satisfied with running Mac OS X desktop. Blasphemy I know! Maybe when I'll get time in the winter and I'm snowed in.... or maybe email Jordan Hubbard directly and ask when is he and his Darwin team going to implement the concept of Jails for OS X.
Mac OS X is a great alternative for Windows the desktop
Linux is an excellent alternative to Unix for the sever market
Linux can do desktops and Mac OS X server can do servers, but there strengths lie else in the other arena.
If you've never used an other operating system for a decent amount of time then you have no authority to speak of alternatives. Its like a guy who lives off McDonald 's all his life and then proclaims there are no substitutes to his diet and defends McDonalds for feeding him all his life.
"You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you."
What the hell does that mean. How is Microsoft feeding the computing industry, would you care to elaborate. Or would you like me to go through the list of many worthy competitors it has driven under by strong arm monopolistic practices or fines they've had to pay for stealing other's software. Earliest example I can think of historically is Stacker, but there are many many more.
OSes I've installed, used or administrated in the past:
Windows 2003 Server XP/2000/NT ME/98/95/3.0
Mac OS X/9/8/7/6
Irix
Solaris
HP-UX
Linux (Red Hat)
MS-DOS
OS/2
NeXTStep
Be OS
QNX
VAX
AIX
Domain/OS
Acorn Risc OS
BBC Micro
Sad isn't it. After getting it in the rear for so long from Microsoft, Dubey-ji starts to enjoy it. Stockholm Syndrome indeed.
Sorry for the changed USPTO links. I got the links some time back from the Macintosh based websites and the links did work, but they've changed for some reason. Feel like a dufus for not checking the URL before posting. Currently I tried to do some searches but couldn't find those two specific patent filings that I saw in the past.
- My biggest wish for a any Mac OS X middle mouse button was to be able to do an X-Y scrolling which I was able to do back in Windows Internet Explorer, Office and Firefox. Strangely, this feature in Windows was not supported pervasively in their OS, but I enjoyed it every much and was reintroduced to it when I started to use the new Powerbook which had scrolling supported in the next-gen trackpads. Kudos for adding that as well.
One of the issues I was going to discuss with my local Apple rep. this month was in the next generation the Intel based Macs must be able to dual boot and have at least a two button mouse with a scroll wheel, if Apple was looking to replace some of our older Dell hardware in our computing labs. Looks like that issue is now moot and I always felt that my requests for the choice of the multibutton mice had fallen on dead ears in the past.The rumor mills did show some indication that Apple was working on the next-generation mouse from these two patent applications.
Mouse having a rotary dial and Mouse having an optically-based scrolling feature
My current concern is that the force sensing mouse won't give the haptic feedback necessary, but I reserve judgement until I can get my hands on one. Good job for Apple and I feel that the company is really starting to listen to its customers, including the rather vocal Slashdotters :)
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry/HD-DVD_Fo rum_resolutions1.htm
I prefer H.264 because its specs are better not only in capacity but also in chroma information stored. H.264 can do 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 versus VC-1 of only 4:2:0. Which means color depth information will be superior for H.264.
This quote from him "I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend". Is pure FUD being sown by the Linspire folks. I think Linspire should focus on competing with the other Linux distros out there. For the last six months report after report has been showing Apple increasing their sales. i.e. PC units sold (+35% from the same quarter last year) and profitability primarily due to the iPod.
I meant Core Video/Image not Quartz Extreme. The 9200 already drives QE.
* Radeon 9600 graphics chip with a minimum of 64MB or anything that drives Quartz Extreme
I think this price range is possible
For those folks who want to pay extra for an elegant and intergrated PVR solution and not the more expensive EyeTV. An ATI Theater 550 Pro video processor with H.264 hardware encoding.
http://www.ati.com/products/theater550/index.html
With a new iLife software solution to easily record TV shows (TiVo) and does post processing of these recordings to a small H.264 file to build content for a future video iPod and for video podcasting (a.k.a vodcasting).
Act 2: Introduce the current despotic galactic overlord looking to rule the entire system. Lead antagonist looks ugly as sin and suffers from severe halitosis.
Act 3: Some more time fillers like travel to different planets and maybe a pitiful romance with some soppy love interest.
Act 4: Show down with the rogue beast and after an awful dragged out sequence where Voltron is getting the crap kicked out of it, the famous Flaming Sword is whipped out at the last crucial moment ending the rogue beast in a quartered fashion. I fail to remember is this quartering is done in a big "x" fashion or "+" a crucifix like fashion. Probably the later since Voltron represents all that is good in the bloody universe.
The End.
Discussion point: Why the hell don't they use the Flaming Sword in the very beginning? Seems to be the ONLY weapon that has worked against ALL their adversaries.
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000 and Windows ME
Apple comes out with Mac OS X
Windows XP
Windows 2003
One should ask why Microsoft decided to name NT 5.1 "XP" abruptly.
Coincidence...I think not! Other small changes to the XP GUI also reflect a Mac OS X influence.
I agree. Apple is poised to make a great home media center, it has all the important elements it needs in iLife. With hardware to encode MPEG-2 or MPEG-4/AVC realtime, Quicktime 7 and a great piece of Tivo PVR software I'd buy a Mac Mini ASAP. Allow the next gen iPod to play MPEG-4/AVC video and you have content that you can feed your iPod with.
Microsoft settles trademark case By Dan Goodin Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 1, 1998, 6:15 p.m. PT Microsoft said it has settled a trademark dispute that had challenged its use of the name "Internet Explorer" to market its popular Web browser. Sources close to the matter say the settlement will have the software giant paying $5 million for rights to the name. software developer Dhiren Rana sued Microsoft in late 1995 for trademark infringement a few months after the company began marketing its new browser under the name Internet Explorer. Rana alleged that, beginning in 1994, he had applied the name to a competing Web browser he had designed for SyNet, an Illinois Internet service provider that has since gone bankrupt.
Microsoft is more likely to use its rather uninspiring chronological named editions. i.e. Windows 2006 or Windows 2007 than Windowes XP ME. At least Windows Vista is a break away from its dull naming schema and this time doesn't look like its trying to emulate Apple when it abruptly changed its chronological name schema to name its last desktop edition XP, after Mac OS X came out. Then they went back to their old mundane name with Windows 2003 server.