Whatever happened to the big push that Apple was going to make with its "Pixlet" codec that it built into Jaguar. I thought it was interesting that there was no mention of it anymore with Quicktime and the big push was behing H.264 HD.
I know Jobs wanted to move Pixar from linux or OS X but I guess that just didn't go anywhere...
So you are saying that you don't feel the need to pay for a business' expenses? You just think all you need to pay for is the cost of the CD and jewel case? Or is even that too much for you?
If they didn't have the marketing, and the videos, then you would never even hear about the bands that you probably listen to. Unless you only listen to classical music.
Need proof? Here are links to successful independent record labels, but you tell me if you've heard of any of their bands?
And there are dozens of dozens of more successful indepedent labels that can't afford the type of marketing and advertising that major labels provide, but would love to if they could.
But with sentiment like yours, the bands will never get the attention or rewards that they deserve.
It is a real testament to the progress that Apple has made in the past few years that a post like this could be made and digested as accurate. Let's look into things....
iPods are only about 3 years old. They have had multiple generations already with different wheels, button configurations, and improvements. Why would they be in need of a MAJOR revision? Probably because in such a short amount of time they have achieved HUGE market penetration and its hard to image what life was like with those crappy pre-iPod mp3 players. What other product has had so much success in such a short amount of time? Perhaps sliced bread...
Powerbooks are getting long in the tooth? Do you mean just the fact that they still use a G4 or the design? The current model of Powerbook was introduced 2 superbowls ago, IIRC, replacing the titanium models. Do you want a G5 laptop? Well you'll have to wait. Intel doesn't launch a new processor and have a laptop immediately available. Why should the expectations be different for Apple/IBM. Speaking of IBM, has the thinkpad design changed drastically at all over the past TEN years? Maybe a little lighter, but I would say that laptop is much longer in the tooth.
Now, how about the fact that you are considering migrating from linux and an MP3 player is one of your major deciding factors. Who deserves that credit? Would you be paining over a Creative 64MB rio mp3 player?
Apple has changed the way people consider their computers and accessories so much over the past 3-5 years, that sometimes people lose track of time and perspective. If you want to migrate to apple here is my advice. Do it today. If it doesn't go well, you can go back immediately. That way you won't lose another night sleep pondering what life would be like in OS X vs. KDE/GNOME (yes I know OS X runs X11, I use it.)
It is so good to see that the end-user can do their own ram installations on the Mac Mini. After all, with one of the main purposes of the machine being cost savings, it would be difficult to achieve with Apple charging $425 for what the other says can be bought for $160 (1GB ram chip).
I have come to the conclusion that I will buying one of these and replacing my lilksys wireless router with it. It's about time I got a legitimate home network setup, and this is a great motivation.
I could have sworn that I had read when firefox was still back at.7 or.8 that Mozilla.org had decided that the new 1.7 branch of Mozilla suite would be based on the current firefox development.
Now most of the replies seem to indicate a reverse course, that the 1.8 suite development will make its way into firefox.
I don't really care either way as long as they keep up the great work.
I had also begun to think that I would never use a "suite" again due to all that bloat, but since I love firefox so much, thunderbird has successfully beaten out outlook express(and hopefully soon outlook), and even the calendar project (which has a long, long way to go) is creating some momentum, it might soon be time to give it another shot, so long as they remain fit and trim and don't bloat up.
This is awesome news about the strength of the G4 iBook. Really continuing to be a strong product, and exceeding what many thought the limitations of the G4 in a notebook would be.
However, There really is no correlation between improved iBooks and the problems that apple face in getting the G5 to stay cool enough for use in the powerbook design. It's just wishful thinking.
I believe that the RIAA is not that concerned about this product because of the quality of a radio broadcast. They don't mind people copying less than CD quality audio (or close to it with mp3). The source is low enough quality for them to allow it.
However, Howard Stern might be upset about this (at least for the next 15 months before he moves to Sirius). People can now auto-record his show, and throw up a torrent file. It's talk radio so the quality won't be an issue. Shouldn't be long before the Stern downloads begin.
If you are using `scp` to transfer the ics file to the server, you dont need/aren't using webDAV, you are just using a web server.
webDAV entails directly writing the file to the server over HTTP.
We have an internal network here at work that is about 80%/20% mac/pc. The main laser printer is attached to a mac and shared over rendezvous. My Mac discovered the printer instantly and i print to it all the time. My PC sitting right next to me had this developer preview installed yesterday, and I immediately fired up the rendezvous printer setup wizard. Only to discover that it told me there were no rendezvous printers on the network.
Why would you pay 9.99 per year for 100 years, when there are services that cost less than that per year for a single year?
Now that the idea is out in the public, Look for competitors to do the same thing, but with prices as low as 3 or 4 dollars a year. Like someone else pointed out, the companies will get more cash up front and might not even have to keep their end of the bargain 75 years from now.
I'd say this comes down to using the right tool for each job. I learned perl well before PHP and resisted using php for a while. Didn't consider it a real programming language, and didn't want to waste time learning a language that was so one-sided (web scripting).
But I was put in a pinch when a clients web host wouldnt let me install perl's dbd::mysql. So used php for the job, saw how few lines were necessary for quick little DB queries and dynamic content, and haven't looked back for jobs like that.
That said, I still think perl is a superior language. It's much more well-rounded. Great for text manipulation and command line jobs. Also, better for larger application development.
to go from 1 billion in debt to 4.8 in cash is a large move even for 6 or 7 years of good business. I'd wait to see this in an SEC filing before i believe it.
Sorry for the very specific question, but when printing UPS labels from the ups.com web site, safari renders the fonts too small and the label isnt hte propersize. so i have to use IE to do it. that sucks of course. I assume its some sort of fornt management issue. Does anyone know if this releases fixed it and/or if i can resolve this issue with some preference setting?
You bring up a very good point about some apps being less CPU intensive. This could be useful for smaller appls that are win only, or even something like soulseek, which i dont support, but the mac versions of this have been lagging, and its not CPU hungry, just bandwidth hungry.
It seriously is a great resource for which printers work with linux. It even exlains how some work partially, fully or not at all.
That said, If you can spring a few hundred dollars, I can't recommend the HP 1300 enough. I tried the 1000 but returned it immediately. Had no memory, and only a windows driver that was stored in rom. terrible terrible. So I upgraded to the 1300 which works great with my mixed OS environment (windows/OS X). and is rated highly on linuxprinting.org
I ordered a bag from gap.com a few weeks ago, and it even came with a padded/removable compartment for laptops. sadly i dont have one, but it the back is a heavy duty messenger style bag. one draw back is its a tad on the bulky size, but not extra heavy, so weight isnt a concern. check it out.
Steve said it was 200 indie labels, but i couldnt read the list from the screen, and i havent found a list of labels anywhere. Anyone have a link to the full list?
Granted it only has 512 of ram, but we all now how cheap ram is these days, and i can max out at 2 GB not 1.5.
It's cool. It's got commodity, but its more money and less power than what apple is selling. And like someone else said, mine will definitely work with panther.
I have my broadband adapter hooked up my a linksys router, and it works flawlessly. When I played PSO that is. Now it just sits there, waiting for a new game to play online.
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Whatever happened to the big push that Apple was going to make with its "Pixlet" codec that it built into Jaguar. I thought it was interesting that there was no mention of it anymore with Quicktime and the big push was behing H.264 HD. I know Jobs wanted to move Pixar from linux or OS X but I guess that just didn't go anywhere...
If they didn't have the marketing, and the videos, then you would never even hear about the bands that you probably listen to. Unless you only listen to classical music.
Need proof? Here are links to successful independent record labels, but you tell me if you've heard of any of their bands?
And there are dozens of dozens of more successful indepedent labels that can't afford the type of marketing and advertising that major labels provide, but would love to if they could.
But with sentiment like yours, the bands will never get the attention or rewards that they deserve.
iPods are only about 3 years old. They have had multiple generations already with different wheels, button configurations, and improvements. Why would they be in need of a MAJOR revision? Probably because in such a short amount of time they have achieved HUGE market penetration and its hard to image what life was like with those crappy pre-iPod mp3 players. What other product has had so much success in such a short amount of time? Perhaps sliced bread... Powerbooks are getting long in the tooth? Do you mean just the fact that they still use a G4 or the design? The current model of Powerbook was introduced 2 superbowls ago, IIRC, replacing the titanium models. Do you want a G5 laptop? Well you'll have to wait. Intel doesn't launch a new processor and have a laptop immediately available. Why should the expectations be different for Apple/IBM. Speaking of IBM, has the thinkpad design changed drastically at all over the past TEN years? Maybe a little lighter, but I would say that laptop is much longer in the tooth.
Now, how about the fact that you are considering migrating from linux and an MP3 player is one of your major deciding factors. Who deserves that credit? Would you be paining over a Creative 64MB rio mp3 player?
Apple has changed the way people consider their computers and accessories so much over the past 3-5 years, that sometimes people lose track of time and perspective. If you want to migrate to apple here is my advice. Do it today. If it doesn't go well, you can go back immediately. That way you won't lose another night sleep pondering what life would be like in OS X vs. KDE/GNOME (yes I know OS X runs X11, I use it.)
I have come to the conclusion that I will buying one of these and replacing my lilksys wireless router with it. It's about time I got a legitimate home network setup, and this is a great motivation.
Now most of the replies seem to indicate a reverse course, that the 1.8 suite development will make its way into firefox.
I don't really care either way as long as they keep up the great work.
I had also begun to think that I would never use a "suite" again due to all that bloat, but since I love firefox so much, thunderbird has successfully beaten out outlook express(and hopefully soon outlook), and even the calendar project (which has a long, long way to go) is creating some momentum, it might soon be time to give it another shot, so long as they remain fit and trim and don't bloat up.
However, There really is no correlation between improved iBooks and the problems that apple face in getting the G5 to stay cool enough for use in the powerbook design. It's just wishful thinking.
I believe that the RIAA is not that concerned about this product because of the quality of a radio broadcast. They don't mind people copying less than CD quality audio (or close to it with mp3). The source is low enough quality for them to allow it. However, Howard Stern might be upset about this (at least for the next 15 months before he moves to Sirius). People can now auto-record his show, and throw up a torrent file. It's talk radio so the quality won't be an issue. Shouldn't be long before the Stern downloads begin.
If you are using `scp` to transfer the ics file to the server, you dont need/aren't using webDAV, you are just using a web server. webDAV entails directly writing the file to the server over HTTP.
We have an internal network here at work that is about 80%/20% mac/pc. The main laser printer is attached to a mac and shared over rendezvous. My Mac discovered the printer instantly and i print to it all the time. My PC sitting right next to me had this developer preview installed yesterday, and I immediately fired up the rendezvous printer setup wizard. Only to discover that it told me there were no rendezvous printers on the network.
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Now that the idea is out in the public, Look for competitors to do the same thing, but with prices as low as 3 or 4 dollars a year. Like someone else pointed out, the companies will get more cash up front and might not even have to keep their end of the bargain 75 years from now.
I'd say this comes down to using the right tool for each job. I learned perl well before PHP and resisted using php for a while. Didn't consider it a real programming language, and didn't want to waste time learning a language that was so one-sided (web scripting). But I was put in a pinch when a clients web host wouldnt let me install perl's dbd::mysql. So used php for the job, saw how few lines were necessary for quick little DB queries and dynamic content, and haven't looked back for jobs like that. That said, I still think perl is a superior language. It's much more well-rounded. Great for text manipulation and command line jobs. Also, better for larger application development.
to go from 1 billion in debt to 4.8 in cash is a large move even for 6 or 7 years of good business. I'd wait to see this in an SEC filing before i believe it.
I agree. I'd wager apple has already given back more to KHTML with its work on safari, than it has to FreeBSD
Sorry for the very specific question, but when printing UPS labels from the ups.com web site, safari renders the fonts too small and the label isnt hte propersize. so i have to use IE to do it. that sucks of course. I assume its some sort of fornt management issue. Does anyone know if this releases fixed it and/or if i can resolve this issue with some preference setting?
You bring up a very good point about some apps being less CPU intensive. This could be useful for smaller appls that are win only, or even something like soulseek, which i dont support, but the mac versions of this have been lagging, and its not CPU hungry, just bandwidth hungry.
You can obfuscate your email addresses, and still allow the users to click on an email address and havethe functionality of the mailto tag
It seriously is a great resource for which printers work with linux. It even exlains how some work partially, fully or not at all. That said, If you can spring a few hundred dollars, I can't recommend the HP 1300 enough. I tried the 1000 but returned it immediately. Had no memory, and only a windows driver that was stored in rom. terrible terrible. So I upgraded to the 1300 which works great with my mixed OS environment (windows/OS X). and is rated highly on linuxprinting.org
I ordered a bag from gap.com a few weeks ago, and it even came with a padded/removable compartment for laptops. sadly i dont have one, but it the back is a heavy duty messenger style bag. one draw back is its a tad on the bulky size, but not extra heavy, so weight isnt a concern. check it out.
Has anyone pointed out that both of these apps run great on OS X? I don't need to ditch windows, or use codeweaver. I just click the icon in the dock.
Steve said it was 200 indie labels, but i couldnt read the list from the screen, and i havent found a list of labels anywhere. Anyone have a link to the full list?
This is just how it will ship. Open it the first time, Preferences menu, default shell /bin/tcsh and you are back where you were before.
Granted it only has 512 of ram, but we all now how cheap ram is these days, and i can max out at 2 GB not 1.5.
It's cool. It's got commodity, but its more money and less power than what apple is selling. And like someone else said, mine will definitely work with panther.
I have my broadband adapter hooked up my a linksys router, and it works flawlessly. When I played PSO that is. Now it just sits there, waiting for a new game to play online.
They mention the open group. I believe that's either SCO, or owned by SCO.