Yeah, I agree. The small office that I used to work in still has a Mac SE tucked under a desk that acts as a Fax server and does some NAT routing. Not bad for a 15+ year old computer.
A more likely explanation is that the "AIM Pay" icon is just the icon that the software uses to represent paying AOL subscribers who are logged on via the AIM software.
In AIM for Mac, I entered my ICQ# into the Sign In box, rather than my AIM login...voila! It logs in perfectly, and shows my number with a little ICQ logo next to it instead of that little globe. I can also add other people's ICQ#'s to my buddy list, and send them messages.
I think they get around the emissions laws in CA because trucks get registered as commercial vehicles now. Look at the license plates of the next few trucks or SUVs that you see.
Most cars on the road have plates of the standard 1ABC234 variety. Trucks however, now have the commercial form, 1A23456.
I believe GTE's policy on this is that they officially only allow 1 IP to be used per customer.
According to their newsgroup, their current position is that the system will allow you to grab more than 1 address, however this functionality may disappear at any time.
While I think that Adobe has solid legal ground to sue in a situation such as this (and will probably win), I'm surprised that they would decide to sue. I've always thought that these sort of "sneak peak" reviews, authorized or not, have increased the hype about a product and as such probably helped sales. True, they might think that they are exposing their new features to the competition, but this probably isnt much of a worry in this case, since photoshop dominates the market.
I'm not saying that rumor sites are right to be doing these, but I guess it surprises me that Adobe takes much issue with it.
You say it can change partition types...does that mean that if I currently have a MacOS partition and a MacOS X Server partition that I used to use for showing MOSXS to customers, I can change the MOSXS partition to LinuxPPC without losing the data on my regular MacOS partition?
Or am I completely off base and I would have to back up, then repartition...
I really love these chips, but it's much more x86-centric than I expected. Low power is all well and good, but that's not really what I see as the great strength of Crusoe...what about other Instruction Sets?
PPC? Sparc? Alpha? Even more intriguing, what about IA-64?
I know that they repeatedly said they could do this sort of thing, and during the Q&A said that Mac compatibility is theoretically possible, but will any of it happen? TM will have to write a whole set of code-morphing software for each ISA. Have they even done any work on these fronts? To me, THIS is the real potential of the Crusoe family.
That said, this type of thing may require more work than just the code-morphing software. For instance, to achieve Mac compatibility, you would need to do a whole lot more than get PPC compatibility. They would have to comnvince Apple to design a whole motherboard/chipset to work with this processor, which means any possible Mac compatibility would be a LONG way off, even if they did manage to strike a deal with Apple. Is this in Apple's best interests? Certainly. A PowerBook with even more battery life would be wonderful. But will it happen? Somehow I doubt it. I assume the same probably holds true for other platforms as well.
This isn't really a "bitch at Apple" issue. Apple doesn't own the Sorenson codec. They simply license it from Sorenson to include in their QuickTime player. Other companies can do the same. Sure, Apple could port quicktime to linux and make you all happy, but a far easier proposal would be that some company that makes an existing player could license the codec.
There are indeed a number of "home networking" products currently on the market that run at around 1 Mbps. These include both phoneline and AC networking products, from major players including Intel and Farrallon. These products are marketed specifically to the home user (and are only slightly cheaper than AirPort). Most of these products have been released within the past few months, and many more will populate the marketplace in the months to come.
I watched the satellite broadcast of Jobs' keynote, and he referred specifically to these phoneline and AC devices in his speech. He cited the advantages of AirPort over these devices as being 1)faster and 2)wireless.
They are NOT claiming 10x better speed than ethernet, but 10x speed over products aimed at the same market segment.
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Yeah, I agree. The small office that I used to work in still has a Mac SE tucked under a desk that acts as a Fax server and does some NAT routing. Not bad for a 15+ year old computer.
I doubt they're planning to charge for AIM.
A more likely explanation is that the "AIM Pay" icon is just the icon that the software uses to represent paying AOL subscribers who are logged on via the AIM software.
Kyle
In AIM for Mac, I entered my ICQ# into the Sign In box, rather than my AIM login...voila! It logs in perfectly, and shows my number with a little ICQ logo next to it instead of that little globe. I can also add other people's ICQ#'s to my buddy list, and send them messages.
I am using version 4.0.1068
Kyle
I think they get around the emissions laws in CA because trucks get registered as commercial vehicles now. Look at the license plates of the next few trucks or SUVs that you see.
Most cars on the road have plates of the standard 1ABC234 variety. Trucks however, now have the commercial form, 1A23456.
I believe GTE's policy on this is that they officially only allow 1 IP to be used per customer.
According to their newsgroup, their current position is that the system will allow you to grab more than 1 address, however this functionality may disappear at any time.
While I think that Adobe has solid legal ground to sue in a situation such as this (and will probably win), I'm surprised that they would decide to sue. I've always thought that these sort of "sneak peak" reviews, authorized or not, have increased the hype about a product and as such probably helped sales. True, they might think that they are exposing their new features to the competition, but this probably isnt much of a worry in this case, since photoshop dominates the market.
I'm not saying that rumor sites are right to be doing these, but I guess it surprises me that Adobe takes much issue with it.
-Kyle
You say it can change partition types...does that mean that if I currently have a MacOS partition and a MacOS X Server partition that I used to use for showing MOSXS to customers, I can change the MOSXS partition to LinuxPPC without losing the data on my regular MacOS partition?
Or am I completely off base and I would have to back up, then repartition...
I really love these chips, but it's much more x86-centric than I expected. Low power is all well and good, but that's not really what I see as the great strength of Crusoe...what about other Instruction Sets?
PPC? Sparc? Alpha? Even more intriguing, what about IA-64?
I know that they repeatedly said they could do this sort of thing, and during the Q&A said that Mac compatibility is theoretically possible, but will any of it happen? TM will have to write a whole set of code-morphing software for each ISA. Have they even done any work on these fronts? To me, THIS is the real potential of the Crusoe family.
That said, this type of thing may require more work than just the code-morphing software. For instance, to achieve Mac compatibility, you would need to do a whole lot more than get PPC compatibility. They would have to comnvince Apple to design a whole motherboard/chipset to work with this processor, which means any possible Mac compatibility would be a LONG way off, even if they did manage to strike a deal with Apple. Is this in Apple's best interests? Certainly. A PowerBook with even more battery life would be wonderful. But will it happen? Somehow I doubt it. I assume the same probably holds true for other platforms as well.
Any thoughts?
This isn't really a "bitch at Apple" issue. Apple doesn't own the Sorenson codec. They simply license it from Sorenson to include in their QuickTime player. Other companies can do the same. Sure, Apple could port quicktime to linux and make you all happy, but a far easier proposal would be that some company that makes an existing player could license the codec.
Hopefully this can clarify:
There are indeed a number of "home networking" products currently on the market that run at around 1 Mbps. These include both phoneline and AC networking products, from major players including Intel and Farrallon. These products are marketed specifically to the home user (and are only slightly cheaper than AirPort). Most of these products have been released within the past few months, and many more will populate the marketplace in the months to come.
I watched the satellite broadcast of Jobs' keynote, and he referred specifically to these phoneline and AC devices in his speech. He cited the advantages of AirPort over these devices as being 1)faster and 2)wireless.
They are NOT claiming 10x better speed than ethernet, but 10x speed over products aimed at the same market segment.