Re:Secret APIs?
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Excuse me? Apple has not shipped Motion yet and they are already making Core image and Video available now. Yeah a big lead time. What is it exactly you are looking for? Do you really expect them, to release the API before they started work on Motion? They developed the tech for Motion and then saw it would be useful for other developers as a public API and so they released it before Motion has even hit the shelves.
Let's see, if Apple released them earlier, you would be bitching about how buggy they were or that Apple kept on changing the API interface on you.
Why don't you be a man instead of an anonymous coward and sign up for an account?
Re:Secret APIs?
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Um no, considering Apple a history of releasing those Apis once they are mature enough to use. A recent example of this was Core Image and Core video which they had used in motion.
I believe these API's in this case are secret because they are still in flux and not ready to be used. They probably still have bugs and memory leaks in them.
Re:I think we are all missing something here
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Those screens are useful for graphic artists involved in HD content creation you ninny. Exposé and virtual desktops will not help those people much.
It does not work that way with Dell since they don't make the OS. With Apple, the company makes a margin on the hardware and OS is included for free. You only pay for upgrades.
That is not the job of Spotlight but rather the application developer to provide metadata in the file format. I believe that most major developers such as Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft include metadata in their formats.
It might be useful to have an interface in the finder to access/edit this metadata however in Tiger.
Currently, there is a way to tag items with the comments field accessed from Get Info. The rest of the metadata is created in application. Steve Jobs touted Spotlight as working with current applications so it seems they expect the user to be entering in the project name into their document's properties within the application they are using to create it.
Searches by date of would go by file creation/modification times.
I don't see how considering that Spotlight is a search technology that leverages metadata already existing in files on OSX today and this article talks about tagging files with metadata.
The search technology in Spotlight probably is inspired by live query from BeOS but first appeared at Apple in iTunes and later Preview for Panther.
Many former Be Inc. employees work at Apple now and some had worked at Apple before joining Be.
If you look at the feature of Gimp, it is equivalent of Photoshop 5. But if you look at the interface or the workflow support, Gimp falls flat. It's crap son.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great free program but Gimp is no replacement for Photoshop CS buy any stretch of the imagination.
Windows users should look at Jasc's Paintshop Pro or Windows/OSX users should look at Photoshop elements for a cheaper alternative for light editing work.
Are you aware that the Javascript runtime engine in Konfabulator is linked against the Spidermonkey engine from the Mozilla project?
Don't worry, they are not in license violation apparently. It seems that they perform all customizations of the engine and add the system object through inheritance.
Having said that, their project seems to be inspired by work from the Mozilla project and specifically the XML based skins for mozilla.
Now if the engine is largely from the Mozilla project and the concept is taken from Desktop Accessories, and DesktopX, should we really get too upset about this.
If you read Dave Hyatt's responses from his weblog, you would see that they are copying more from Active Desktop than Konfabulator, given that they are going to use new version of Webcore.
I'm a paid user of Konfabulator but I don't see how having widgets always visible is less obtrusive than having them hidden away. I live Konfabulator and I don't regret buying a licence but I like the feature of Dashboard where the widgets don't clutter the desktop.
When Tiger comes out, I plan on using both. Konfabulator will be used for widgets that display weather/stats and Dashboard for interactive Gadgets.
Well if this is true, I don't feel sorry for him at all then. Come on. Sherlock came out first, then Watson appeared as an extension to Sherlock and then Sherlock incorporated enhancements that made Watson obsolete. Should Apple have stopped development on Watson?
Come on people, if you leverage technology of another first, especially as an enhancement to their application, you cannot expect to sell your product forever. Two things will happen, either your product will loose relevance due to a shift in focus or the larger company will reproduce your work in their product.
Java is a standard already. Do you understand that software can be an open standard and yet not open source? Do you also understand that BSD is and Open Source license?
If you want to see an example of a successful open standard created with BSD code, look at TCP/IP. Perhaps you've heard of it?
Is InodoroPereyra another alias for RMS? Honestly, I cannot fathom how so many people don't know that GPL != Open Source as it is one of many open source licenses.
Take a look at Apache and many other Open Source projects which are not GPL'd.
Stop spreading FUD. I dislike MS and there tactics as much as the next guy but the format has not changed for several years now and only when they needed to add new features.
Yeah and linux will never make it as a desktop as long as zealots like you say stuff like this. Not ever programmer out there works on inhouse software.
*Gasp*
Programmers who work on developing software to sell on the shelves, need to get paid "money". They cannot survive on selling "support". How many individual do you think would pay for support anyway?
Do you work for MS? I have a theory thast some of these zealots are actuaslly MS employees paid to make linux look bad.
There is nothing wrong with using some proprietary software.
Ok. Here is the thing. The 128Kbps ACC files on iTMS are not the same as 128Kbps AAC files ripped from a CD let alone crappy 128Kbps MP3. The songs on the iTMS are encoded with a professional quality encoder from the Studio masters. Encoding from a CD would mean you were encoding twice. Once to PCM and again to ACC or MP3.
Re:It Doesn't Show That At All!
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Actually, no it is quite feasible if you do it on a large scale and depending on what you use the cluster for.
Big Mac and the Army cluster are two examples of where a mac cluster can be cheaper.
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Let's see, if Apple released them earlier, you would be bitching about how buggy they were or that Apple kept on changing the API interface on you.
Why don't you be a man instead of an anonymous coward and sign up for an account?
I believe these API's in this case are secret because they are still in flux and not ready to be used. They probably still have bugs and memory leaks in them.
Those screens are useful for graphic artists involved in HD content creation you ninny. Exposé and virtual desktops will not help those people much.
It does not work that way with Dell since they don't make the OS. With Apple, the company makes a margin on the hardware and OS is included for free. You only pay for upgrades.
It might be useful to have an interface in the finder to access/edit this metadata however in Tiger.
Currently, there is a way to tag items with the comments field accessed from Get Info. The rest of the metadata is created in application. Steve Jobs touted Spotlight as working with current applications so it seems they expect the user to be entering in the project name into their document's properties within the application they are using to create it.
Searches by date of would go by file creation/modification times.
If you looked at the webpage, you can.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/
They were good enough for the US Navy subs.
A lot of software for OSX is just a drag and drop install.
The search technology in Spotlight probably is inspired by live query from BeOS but first appeared at Apple in iTunes and later Preview for Panther.
Many former Be Inc. employees work at Apple now and some had worked at Apple before joining Be.
In fact, OS X runs FreeBSD as a personality on top of Mach.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great free program but Gimp is no replacement for Photoshop CS buy any stretch of the imagination.
Windows users should look at Jasc's Paintshop Pro or Windows/OSX users should look at Photoshop elements for a cheaper alternative for light editing work.
Don't worry, they are not in license violation apparently. It seems that they perform all customizations of the engine and add the system object through inheritance.
Having said that, their project seems to be inspired by work from the Mozilla project and specifically the XML based skins for mozilla.
Now if the engine is largely from the Mozilla project and the concept is taken from Desktop Accessories, and DesktopX, should we really get too upset about this.
If you read Dave Hyatt's responses from his weblog, you would see that they are copying more from Active Desktop than Konfabulator, given that they are going to use new version of Webcore.
When Tiger comes out, I plan on using both. Konfabulator will be used for widgets that display weather/stats and Dashboard for interactive Gadgets.
Come on people, if you leverage technology of another first, especially as an enhancement to their application, you cannot expect to sell your product forever. Two things will happen, either your product will loose relevance due to a shift in focus or the larger company will reproduce your work in their product.
If you want to see an example of a successful open standard created with BSD code, look at TCP/IP. Perhaps you've heard of it?
Is InodoroPereyra another alias for RMS? Honestly, I cannot fathom how so many people don't know that GPL != Open Source as it is one of many open source licenses.
Take a look at Apache and many other Open Source projects which are not GPL'd.
Stop spreading FUD. I dislike MS and there tactics as much as the next guy but the format has not changed for several years now and only when they needed to add new features.
*Gasp*
Programmers who work on developing software to sell on the shelves, need to get paid "money". They cannot survive on selling "support". How many individual do you think would pay for support anyway?
Do you work for MS? I have a theory thast some of these zealots are actuaslly MS employees paid to make linux look bad.
There is nothing wrong with using some proprietary software.
But the Studio Master is not.
Are you sure the recent Army cluster announcement and rumors of a mass migration of government systems to macs does not have something to do with?
Ok. Here is the thing. The 128Kbps ACC files on iTMS are not the same as 128Kbps AAC files ripped from a CD let alone crappy 128Kbps MP3. The songs on the iTMS are encoded with a professional quality encoder from the Studio masters. Encoding from a CD would mean you were encoding twice. Once to PCM and again to ACC or MP3.
IIRC, AOL started out as Apple On Line.
Actually, no it is quite feasible if you do it on a large scale and depending on what you use the cluster for. Big Mac and the Army cluster are two examples of where a mac cluster can be cheaper.
I don't know why it was modded to flame bait their predicted G5 update specs were dead on.
Actually, the ASIC and probably other chips are made in IBM chip plants but they are designed by Apple.
If you don't have Mac OS 9, you don't have anything to worry about.