Desktop virtualization for things like Windows and Linux/BSD environments, and server virtualization for multiple Mac OS X/Mac OS X Server instances on a single box.
If OSX is built on Darwin, and Darwin is based on Free BSD, and the Xen virtualization software runs on Free BSD, then will Xen eventually find its way into OSX? (if A = B, B = C & C = D, therefore A = D!)
How hard is it to install Linux on an Intel iMac? Are there any binary distributions with installers out? If so, do any include virtualization like Xensource, which could enable you to run both Windows XP and Mac OS X on top of Linux?
If Apple chooses to include Xensource right into a future version of Mac OSX, could Windows XP be installed easily? It would catapult the Mac's market share by removing the major barrier of entry to switch to Apple hardware (lack of software); Apple must be deliberating this strategy right now.
When Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, it was forced to spin off Freehand. At the time the two companies, together with Quark, were the dominant players in the desktop publishing software industry. Freehand was Illustrator's only real competitor on the Mac, and desktop publishing was almost exclusively the domain of the Macintosh, sans FrameMaker on a SGI workstation.
After the acquisition, Adobe was forced to spin off Freehand for anti trust reasons. Macromedia was formed from the combined products of Macromind Director and Aldus Freehand.
Now Adobe is acquiring freehand for the second time. My guess is that Adobe does not really want Freehand and will gladly sell it off. Dreamweaver is the best application Macromedia has, and Adobe wants it as well as Flash. Fireworks is pretty good; Coldfusion and Director are dying.
If Adobe wants to keep Dreamweaver, maybe Adobe can strike a deal to sell off GoLive instead? I am sure they will prefer Dreamweaver over GoLive mainly because of its market share.
The question remains, who will to form a company based on Freehand and GoLive?
I bet 4000 dpi is as high as the scanner goes, so they are just using the highest setting. If HD-DVD is 1080 x 1920 pixels per frame in the future, then this means dropping the resolution by half, assuming each 35mm frame is about 1 inch wide by 1/2 inch high. Scanning at double the output resolution is common practice in digital photography.
More importantly, optics are much more important than resolution when it comes to digital cameras and scanners. A 3 mega-pixel camera with a great lens will produce far better prints than a 5 mega-pixel camera with a cheap lens.
When will there be a consumer film scanner able to capture individual frames of 8 or 16mm reel film? I have a ton of family home movies from my father childhood in the 50's which I would love to put on dvd. If it was cheap to scan individual frames, I could use photoshop or the gimp to batch process them, removing dust and scratches before assembling into a movie. Much better than pointing my camcorder at the projector screen!
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If OSX is built on Darwin, and Darwin is based on Free BSD, and the Xen virtualization software runs on Free BSD, then will Xen eventually find its way into OSX? (if A = B, B = C & C = D, therefore A = D!)
A few follow-up questions:
How hard is it to install Linux on an Intel iMac? Are there any binary distributions with installers out? If so, do any include virtualization like Xensource, which could enable you to run both Windows XP and Mac OS X on top of Linux?
If Apple chooses to include Xensource right into a future version of Mac OSX, could Windows XP be installed easily? It would catapult the Mac's market share by removing the major barrier of entry to switch to Apple hardware (lack of software); Apple must be deliberating this strategy right now.
When Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, it was forced to spin off Freehand. At the time the two companies, together with Quark, were the dominant players in the desktop publishing software industry. Freehand was Illustrator's only real competitor on the Mac, and desktop publishing was almost exclusively the domain of the Macintosh, sans FrameMaker on a SGI workstation.
After the acquisition, Adobe was forced to spin off Freehand for anti trust reasons. Macromedia was formed from the combined products of Macromind Director and Aldus Freehand.
Now Adobe is acquiring freehand for the second time. My guess is that Adobe does not really want Freehand and will gladly sell it off. Dreamweaver is the best application Macromedia has, and Adobe wants it as well as Flash. Fireworks is pretty good; Coldfusion and Director are dying.
If Adobe wants to keep Dreamweaver, maybe Adobe can strike a deal to sell off GoLive instead? I am sure they will prefer Dreamweaver over GoLive mainly because of its market share.
The question remains, who will to form a company based on Freehand and GoLive?
I bet 4000 dpi is as high as the scanner goes, so they are just using the highest setting. If HD-DVD is 1080 x 1920 pixels per frame in the future, then this means dropping the resolution by half, assuming each 35mm frame is about 1 inch wide by 1/2 inch high. Scanning at double the output resolution is common practice in digital photography.
More importantly, optics are much more important than resolution when it comes to digital cameras and scanners. A 3 mega-pixel camera with a great lens will produce far better prints than a 5 mega-pixel camera with a cheap lens.
When will there be a consumer film scanner able to capture individual frames of 8 or 16mm reel film?
I have a ton of family home movies from my father childhood in the 50's which I would love to put on dvd. If it was cheap to scan individual frames, I could use photoshop or the gimp to batch process them, removing dust and scratches before assembling into a movie. Much better than pointing my camcorder at the projector screen!