The most important bit of the keynote came near the end: "In 2006 ALL of the Apple products will move to Intel processors."
So that means that even the PowerMac G5, the so called "Pro" machines, are moving to Intel processors?
Over here there is a Congressional Statement of what Carnivor "officialy" does, or is "allowed" to do. One paragraph of this statement:
Carnivore is a very effective and discriminating special purpose electronic surveillance system. Carnivore is a filtering tool which the FBI has developed to carefully, precisely, and lawfully conduct electronic surveillance of electronic communications occurring over computer networks. In particular, it enables the FBI, in compliance with the Constitution and the Federal electronic surveillance laws, to properly conduct both full communications' content interceptions and pen register and trap and trace investigations to acquire addressing information.
gives us the gist of it. So yes this very well be Carnivore in action.
I would recomend this line of backpacks by Samsonite. It has an extra compartment for a MP3 player (with an extra gate for headphones), cell phone pocket on one of the shoulderstraps, separate compartment for notes and stuff. The laptop compartment is very well padded. The whole bag is excelently balanced, so it doesn't keep hitting your legs when you carry it around by it's handle. Really excellent.
Is anyone aware of the extent of this problem on the Mac platform? I know that with marketshare of the Mac platform & all, the Mac isn't as interesting as the PC platform, but I can't believe that there is NO Mac ad- or spyware out there.
I've already done a few searches on the subject but can't seem to find anything. Is the problem non-existant or is nobody aware of the problem? Is this a case of safety through obscurity?
A similar article here. Bottomline, after reading the 2 articles: Adobe is very sensitive about direct competition from Apple. Adobe also fears that Apple might one day start giving away Pro applications for free, which is not entirely impossible because Apple is still mainly a hardware manufacturer. What, about 75% revenue from hardware sales?
Another reason stated in the article on Digital Video Editing is:
"But Premiere Pro is a new application in the sense that it has been completely reengineered, so the jump from Premiere 6.5 to Premiere Pro would have been far more of an investment..."
This announcement seems to follow a consistent trend at Adobe: none of the applications in the digital video editing segment get an OS X version Encore DVD, Audition, now Premiere gets the axe, when will After Effects get the boot?
I work on this 20" cinema display mainly to do page layout, gives a nice and crisp result at 1680 x 1050 resolution and a I also use19" Lacie Electron blue for colour correction and Photoshop work.
And if I may add: nothing comes close, in terms of picture quality, to the Lacie.
Totally agree on this one. And if I may add: the day that AGFA, Creo, Heidelberg or any other serious prepress & print company showcases a LCD monitor for softproofing, that's the day CRT is officialy dead.
The one true reason why I still buy Macs: none of the other machines can run OS X.
Don't get me wrong: I use Wintel and Linux in my studio as well, but nothing comes close to Mac OS X. To me it's the only system that offer something close to luxury on the desktop.
... each other, and generally shout at each other across the room for killing off units... Fantastic, aaaah: such great memories! Warcraft marathons were actually, for us, the cause, or precursor to LAN-parties (how about that for alteration?) Privateer is also one of my favourites. Here was a game which let you do somthing else than just butcher your opponent. You could actually build a career in this game as a trader (well you still had to kill of the occasional pirate, but hey, I sure didn't mind). This game made me realise that not all games were about butchering off opponents. Along with:SimCity Series (anyone?). Man, hours, days, weeks, were wasted playing this game... I mean, I actually cared for my Sims... This is still one of my all time favourites: build, plan & construct in stead of kill, maim & destroy.
So far my very personal history of MindAlteringGames...
One of the games which has affected me most must be Doom. Because it allowed me to play against a real person. I used play hours on end with a friend through a null-modem connection, and this really opened my mind to the fact that games, to me, from that moment on, no longer were solitary activities. At the time this had a huge impact on me: interacting through a computer with another human: unheard of, brilliant!
Second comes Warcraft 2. To me and may of my friends this was the first real multiplayer game. We would gather up with a bunch of friends, team up, backstab
Cool, but still only a mouse, a crude pointing device for primitive man/computer interaction. (Same goes for keyboards.) When did the first mouse appear? Some thirty years ago? Compare that to say, a pencil, which has a much higher evolutionary status.
Pressure sensitive tablets provide more possibilities, although they are still quite simple. Then thers' the line of 3D gloves etc. which are only just emerging technologies.
Fact is that these are all devices one has to learn to work with. Only when the tools of creation become invisible, true creativity can emerge.
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The most important bit of the keynote came near the end: "In 2006 ALL of the Apple products will move to Intel processors." So that means that even the PowerMac G5, the so called "Pro" machines, are moving to Intel processors?
Totally agree.
This "thing" looks more like a doorstop. That's why they put a handle on top, probably.
... to the "immediately on" computer. Boot times reduced to next to nothing will be prove to be a giant leap in the usability of computers, I think.
Over here there is a Congressional Statement of what Carnivor "officialy" does, or is "allowed" to do. One paragraph of this statement:
Carnivore is a very effective and discriminating special purpose electronic surveillance system. Carnivore is a filtering tool which the FBI has developed to carefully, precisely, and lawfully conduct electronic surveillance of electronic communications occurring over computer networks. In particular, it enables the FBI, in compliance with the Constitution and the Federal electronic surveillance laws, to properly conduct both full communications' content interceptions and pen register and trap and trace investigations to acquire addressing information.
gives us the gist of it. So yes this very well be Carnivore in action.
I would recomend this line of backpacks by Samsonite.
It has an extra compartment for a MP3 player (with an extra gate for headphones), cell phone pocket on one of the shoulderstraps, separate compartment for notes and stuff. The laptop compartment is very well padded. The whole bag is excelently balanced, so it doesn't keep hitting your legs when you carry it around by it's handle. Really excellent.
Not only impressive, but it's sooooo cute! My "want-it-now-level" went off the scale on this one...
Is anyone aware of the extent of this problem on the Mac platform? I know that with marketshare of the Mac platform & all, the Mac isn't as interesting as the PC platform, but I can't believe that there is NO Mac ad- or spyware out there.
I've already done a few searches on the subject but can't seem to find anything. Is the problem non-existant or is nobody aware of the problem? Is this a case of safety through obscurity?
What are your experiences & opinions?
I think this must be the official reply from the Adobe spokesperson.
A similar article here. Bottomline, after reading the 2 articles: Adobe is very sensitive about direct competition from Apple. Adobe also fears that Apple might one day start giving away Pro applications for free, which is not entirely impossible because Apple is still mainly a hardware manufacturer. What, about 75% revenue from hardware sales?
Another reason stated in the article on Digital Video Editing is:
This announcement seems to follow a consistent trend at Adobe: none of the applications in the digital video editing segment get an OS X version Encore DVD, Audition, now Premiere gets the axe, when will After Effects get the boot?
Me.
I work on this 20" cinema display mainly to do page layout, gives a nice and crisp result at 1680 x 1050 resolution and a I also use19" Lacie Electron blue for colour correction and Photoshop work.
And if I may add: nothing comes close, in terms of picture quality, to the Lacie.
Totally agree on this one. And if I may add: the day that AGFA, Creo, Heidelberg or any other serious prepress & print company showcases a LCD monitor for softproofing, that's the day CRT is officialy dead.
But since they don't ...
The one true reason why I still buy Macs: none of the other machines can run OS X.
Don't get me wrong: I use Wintel and Linux in my studio as well, but nothing comes close to Mac OS X. To me it's the only system that offer something close to luxury on the desktop.
... each other, and generally shout at each other across the room for killing off units... Fantastic, aaaah: such great memories! Warcraft marathons were actually, for us, the cause, or precursor to LAN-parties (how about that for alteration?)
Privateer is also one of my favourites. Here was a game which let you do somthing else than just butcher your opponent. You could actually build a career in this game as a trader (well you still had to kill of the occasional pirate, but hey, I sure didn't mind). This game made me realise that not all games were about butchering off opponents. Along with:SimCity Series (anyone?). Man, hours, days, weeks, were wasted playing this game... I mean, I actually cared for my Sims... This is still one of my all time favourites: build, plan & construct in stead of kill, maim & destroy.
So far my very personal history of MindAlteringGames...
One of the games which has affected me most must be Doom. Because it allowed me to play against a real person. I used play hours on end with a friend through a null-modem connection, and this really opened my mind to the fact that games, to me, from that moment on, no longer were solitary activities. At the time this had a huge impact on me: interacting through a computer with another human: unheard of, brilliant!
Second comes Warcraft 2. To me and may of my friends this was the first real multiplayer game. We would gather up with a bunch of friends, team up, backstab
I sure hope it doesn't turn into a migraine in stead of migrate.
Go ahead, publish some more prequels and take all of the mystery out of Herbert's Dune universe.
Pressure sensitive tablets provide more possibilities, although they are still quite simple. Then thers' the line of 3D gloves etc. which are only just emerging technologies.
Fact is that these are all devices one has to learn to work with. Only when the tools of creation become invisible, true creativity can emerge.
Illustrated man?
What about an illustrated (living room) wall? Change pattern & color whenever you like. NEVER redecorate.
Or one step further:
Paint your Screen(TM). Easy to apply. Allow 2 hours to dry. Your viewing experience will never be the same!