And just after the MHz myth gets put to bed, could this be the beginnings of the... kbps myth...
I'm sure there are people out in the world that would believe a higher encoding rate, even with a poor codec (i'm not saying anything about WMA here, I avoid those files like the plague) will sound better than an excellent codec and a slightly lower bit rate.
Get used to *not* installing drivers for every. single. hardware device.
This one is interesting some times. Where Windows will usually tell you all about something it has just done... "Windows has just finsished installing a new mouse...", the Mac usually won't even offer any feedback, you will have to move the mouse (or do something with the new peripheral) to see if its working, which it does most times.
The G4 iMacs were also shipping with DVD-R drives, requiring the use of a full size drive. It was quite some time before a DVD-R was available as a laptop part, which seems to have been used in the new iMac.
They should at least come out with an apple branded (rebranded) USB tv tuner. They are available on PCs, but not on the mac. I think it would be a great $50-70 add-on option.
Ow! You seem to be thinking like a PC user there, we have Firewire ports which are just so much better for video.
although, how many more places can get away with this tactic? If MS realise someone is not serious about a Linux deployment and decides not to go so low in price. I guess it could end in one of two ways, if the company goes with the Linux deployment and its a failure, good for MS, or its a success then its bad for MS. How scared are they?
In four years, are they going to be able to dig their data out of Microsofts closed formats to even think about a move to Open software?
The city of Munich said something along the lines of, that the biggest advantage of moving to an Open Standards based infrastructure and not leaving yourself at the mercy of one vendor by being locked into proprietary document and data formats.
Somehow, I do not think Microsoft will be so nice in four years time.
Watching the reel reminded me a lot of some of the demos that were coming out of Europe back in the early 90's. Seeing demos like Future Crew's Second Reality got me very interested in "coding" back then.
The primary environment in which a typical Windows system exists has traditionally been hostile especially after the advent of the Internet. While Unix systems share the same environment today, their traditional environments were comparatively trusted: research labs and universities. Similarly, Unix users have had backgrounds differing from Windows users.
So the "Internet" did not exist until after Windows... sigh...
Nice to see one of the developers participating in the forum Jason. But more importantly, is there going to be a release so that we can get our grubby hands on it?
So it is. Thats the first C# code i've seen. I was wondering why something that looked very like Java had a.cs extension. Does the C# spec call for having a capital beginning each method name or is that just the coding style that Jon uses?
actually i've been waiting for the price drop here in Australia seeing though our dollar value has climbed from around US0.50 to around US0.75... hasn't happened yet though...
Its a self-extracting zip for those still wondering. This package seems to be suffering from the include-yet-another-jre problem, so removing the included JRE and linking the system included one (or setting JDK_HOME) will get it to run -- and strip nearly 100Mb off the installation.
The installer fell over trying to install pointbase though.
I've heard this a lot, but check the credits on a recent Pixar release, say Finding Nemo... and it says "Rendered on Sun Microsystems Computer Systems". Also, check out Pixar How Web Do It, there are some pictures of the render farms and they look a lot like Sun E4800s with A5200 arrays to me.
I work for a University further north in Australia and we are installing a wireless network that supports Macs as first class citizens... it helps a lot that I do all the design work and I have a Powerbook. We are using a Cisco VPN solution as they have an excellent client that supports Mac even if its not pretty and Linux as well.
... has also been disabled. This used to cause me no end of pain because a job tracking tool we use has this nice speckled background image -- very nice when viewed in the browser, but when printed produces very large postscript output and a 20 to 30 minute wait for the HP to finally produce some output. It can of course be turned back on by selecting the 'Safari' option in the Print dialog box.
What has been described here sounds very similar to the SSG-SESM solution from Cisco Systems. This has been around for a very long time. I have been part of a project to implement an SSG solution for traffic accounting on a University network. We capture and redirect clients that have not logged in to a login page and once they have been authenticated, their browser continues to the originally requested location.
In other projects this has been implemented as short DHCP leases and a bogus DNS that returns the same address for any hostname asked for. See NetReg2 for more details.
... if all of a sudden, as the company believes that most users inclined to use PCs as entertainment machines in their living rooms are accessing those machines mainly for entertainment-related functions, consumers buying these machines never see a need to actually boot into the Windows Media Center. Could we eventually see Media Center as an optional and pay-for add on?
After a bit of searching, i've found activity at IP Australia. The application titled "System and method for supporting non-native XML in native XML of a word-processor document" sounds scary!
I believe that integrating Windows 2000 into a Kerberos environment requires removing the standard MIT implementation and making sure that that Windows is used as the KDC. The special fields are required by the client when authenticating, not when serving.
Slashdot Mirror
... launching an online music service that does not support the number one portable music player on the market!
And just after the MHz myth gets put to bed, could this be the beginnings of the ... kbps myth ...
I'm sure there are people out in the world that would believe a higher encoding rate, even with a poor codec (i'm not saying anything about WMA here, I avoid those files like the plague) will sound better than an excellent codec and a slightly lower bit rate.
Get used to *not* installing drivers for every. single. hardware device.
... "Windows has just finsished installing a new mouse ...", the Mac usually won't even offer any feedback, you will have to move the mouse (or do something with the new peripheral) to see if its working, which it does most times.
This one is interesting some times. Where Windows will usually tell you all about something it has just done
from apple.com/imac
... but you can make that zero with an optional VESA mount. Hang it from the wall or swing it around on your desk.
So the mounts are already available.
20th Anniversary Macintosh
The G4 iMacs were also shipping with DVD-R drives, requiring the use of a full size drive. It was quite some time before a DVD-R was available as a laptop part, which seems to have been used in the new iMac.
They should at least come out with an apple branded (rebranded) USB tv tuner. They are available on PCs, but not on the mac. I think it would be a great $50-70 add-on option.
Ow! You seem to be thinking like a PC user there, we have Firewire ports which are just so much better for video.
although, how many more places can get away with this tactic? If MS realise someone is not serious about a Linux deployment and decides not to go so low in price. I guess it could end in one of two ways, if the company goes with the Linux deployment and its a failure, good for MS, or its a success then its bad for MS. How scared are they?
In four years, are they going to be able to dig their data out of Microsofts closed formats to even think about a move to Open software?
The city of Munich said something along the lines of, that the biggest advantage of moving to an Open Standards based infrastructure and not leaving yourself at the mercy of one vendor by being locked into proprietary document and data formats.
Somehow, I do not think Microsoft will be so nice in four years time.
Watching the reel reminded me a lot of some of the demos that were coming out of Europe back in the early 90's. Seeing demos like Future Crew's Second Reality got me very interested in "coding" back then.
# msrpm -Ivh iexplore6.234.544.785.123-sp1a.msrpm
The primary environment in which a typical Windows system exists has traditionally been hostile especially after the advent of the Internet. While Unix systems share the same environment today, their traditional environments were comparatively trusted: research labs and universities. Similarly, Unix users have had backgrounds differing from Windows users. ... sigh ...
So the "Internet" did not exist until after Windows
Nice to see one of the developers participating in the forum Jason. But more importantly, is there going to be a release so that we can get our grubby hands on it?
So it is. Thats the first C# code i've seen. I was wondering why something that looked very like Java had a .cs extension. Does the C# spec call for having a capital beginning each method name or is that just the coding style that Jon uses?
actually i've been waiting for the price drop here in Australia seeing though our dollar value has climbed from around US0.50 to around US0.75 ... hasn't happened yet though ...
Its a self-extracting zip for those still wondering. This package seems to be suffering from the include-yet-another-jre problem, so removing the included JRE and linking the system included one (or setting JDK_HOME) will get it to run -- and strip nearly 100Mb off the installation. The installer fell over trying to install pointbase though.
WebObjects?
Now we know where those G5s were bound for.
I've heard this a lot, but check the credits on a recent Pixar release, say Finding Nemo ... and it says "Rendered on Sun Microsystems Computer Systems". Also, check out Pixar How Web Do It, there are some pictures of the render farms and they look a lot like Sun E4800s with A5200 arrays to me.
I work for a University further north in Australia and we are installing a wireless network that supports Macs as first class citizens ... it helps a lot that I do all the design work and I have a Powerbook. We are using a Cisco VPN solution as they have an excellent client that supports Mac even if its not pretty and Linux as well.
... has also been disabled. This used to cause me no end of pain because a job tracking tool we use has this nice speckled background image -- very nice when viewed in the browser, but when printed produces very large postscript output and a 20 to 30 minute wait for the HP to finally produce some output. It can of course be turned back on by selecting the 'Safari' option in the Print dialog box.
What has been described here sounds very similar to the SSG-SESM solution from Cisco Systems. This has been around for a very long time. I have been part of a project to implement an SSG solution for traffic accounting on a University network. We capture and redirect clients that have not logged in to a login page and once they have been authenticated, their browser continues to the originally requested location.
In other projects this has been implemented as short DHCP leases and a bogus DNS that returns the same address for any hostname asked for. See NetReg2 for more details.
... if all of a sudden, as the company believes that most users inclined to use PCs as entertainment machines in their living rooms are accessing those machines mainly for entertainment-related functions, consumers buying these machines never see a need to actually boot into the Windows Media Center. Could we eventually see Media Center as an optional and pay-for add on?
After a bit of searching, i've found activity at IP Australia. The application titled "System and method for supporting non-native XML in native XML of a word-processor document" sounds scary!
I believe that integrating Windows 2000 into a Kerberos environment requires removing the standard MIT implementation and making sure that that Windows is used as the KDC. The special fields are required by the client when authenticating, not when serving.