They're practically the same thing in terms of container formats, and they're so extensible it isn't even funny.
Want multiple overlapping video tracks, various text tracks (perhaps one for each language, with the machine auto selecting, or asking the user if you want), SMIL support for web integration, sprite tracks, static picture tracks, built-in realtime effects, user interaction, chapter markers, searchable subtitles, etc? It's all there, and *MUCH* more. most of people don't have a clue how absurdly versatile that format is, it's done everything you've asked for 'since the '90s.
The article mentions "how the DMCA has stiffled competition, innovation, scientific research, and fair use". Frankly I doubt the big media conglomerates that lobbied for the DMCA in the first place have the slightest problem with any of those consequences. If they didn't intend them, it was simply lacked the foresight to do so, not because they wouldn't have intended them if it had occurred to them. When you're on top of the system, almost any change is seen as dangerous.
I tried that, although it was before I installed the replacement-10.2.8 version. And I've tried repairing permissions in single-user mode too. (it doesn't crash, but it doesn't fix the problem either).
This may fix the ethernet problem, I don't know, it didn't affect me, but there were other problems with 10.2.8, www.MacFixIt.com made a fairly extensive list.
This definitely does not fix the crashing problem. (on my beige G3) It can happen at any time, and is sometimes mistaken as an inability to wake from sleep, but you can get it to happen reliably by trying to repair permissions. It outputs the following, then shuts down the display, and needs to be hard-restarted.
2003-10-03 17:36:12 -0400 - Repair of privileges has started We are using special permissions for the file or directory./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util. New permissions are 33261 Permissions differ on./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are -rwsr-xr-x Owner and group corrected on./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util Perm issions corrected on./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util Grou p differs on./private/var/run/utmp, should be 0, group is 1 Owner and group corrected on./private/var/run/utmp Permissions corrected on./private/var/run/utmp
OmniWeb has find&replace, as well as a bunch of other handy text handling features for forum input (inline spell checking, extensible functions with the services menu, etc).
It's MacOSX only though, of course, if you're working in the print industry getting a mac to run it on shouldn't be too hard.
As I understand it, the "Best" mode, which they used to encode the QT AAC clips, was actually optimized for audio with sample rates well above CDs' 44.1khz. For audio that originated on CD, the "Better" setting would have been more appropriate. (this setting does seem really unintuitive, I would hope for better from apple)
I wonder if/how this would have affected the scores.
I was surprised to se QT AAC ranked so low after it recently won a similar test among AAC encoders, was that HE AAC encoder not included in the previous test?
Also, it should be noted that Macs traditionally support more memory than they claim. Apple only announces the ammount you can put in with commonly available DIMM sizes, in this case 1GB.
However, the G5's documentation shows the memory interface can actually handle 16GB not just 8, so if you can get 2GB DIMMs, you will probably be able to use them.
And is there a particular reason why IBM couldn't apply their work towards gcc?
Yes.
GCC rejected alot of their patches. GCC is a cross paltform compiler, the maintainers can be very picky about adding code that only helps one platform.
IBM has contributed quite a bit to GCC, but GCC is not the proper place for a heavily optimised platform-specific compiler effort.
Ever felt like programing your own web browser, but don't feel like writing the code? Well, now you don't have to!
With Cocoa and Webkit, you can make a fully functional web browser without writing a single line of code. Check out the codeless browser From the same wonderful apple engineers who brought you the 13 line text editor.
I'm hoping this kind of ease of creation will lower the bar to making your own browser, and encourage independant programers to innovate in the interface department 'since they don't have to worry about rendering unless they want to.
There are allready some cool applications using webkit, like the live preview window in SubEthaEdit (the amazingly cool text editor formerly known as Hydra), or the japanese NagaraBrowser a webbrowser that can replace your desktop picture.
The difference between browsers on the mac today, and a year or two ago is like night and day. And I have to credit alot of this to the widespread adoption of open source rendering engines. KHTML and Geko have really saved the day for non-windows browsers everywhere.
The shell seems pretty clean to me, especially compared to certain linux distros I've tried, but I suppose that's pretty subjective.
You can do all the apple software updates from the command line, the command is softwareupdate.
And emacs is in the default install in/usr/bin/emacs.
If you'd care to provide some details on why you feel the shell is unclean, I'd be happy to debunk them (assuming they're as mis-informed as the rest of your FUD).
In the mean time, if you don't like the Terminal.app, then use another terminal. IIRC the plain old xterm you said you long for is included with Panther, and included with the various X11 packages available online for older versions of OSX. And there are other more full featured mac alternatives like glterm too.
Since when is 43 watts @ 1.8ghz, (I don't think they ever released the 2Ghz G5's power dissipation number, did they?) in the same league as 103watts?
While it puts out a bit more heat than the G3s and G4s mac users are used to, the G5 is still nowhere near as bad as prescott. The prescott puts out more than doubble the heat.
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And those "well respected sites" are trolling too. Having someone with media connections write a poorly thought out article about an idea that has been debunked countless times over the last decade or two doesn't suddenly make the idea valid. It just makes the 'journalist' in question the real world equivalent of a karma whore; posting things everyone has heard and ought to know better than, in order to bring in readers and generate buzz, even if they are hostile.
Hmm... my mistake. This used to be a problem in the betas, but apparently it got fixed at some point before Safari 1.0, and I just didn't notice because the default left as you type checking disabled. Now if only as you type checking worked for INPUT TYPE="text" fields as well as TEXTAREAs...
I haven't seriously used omniweb since before OSX was released. The speed was just too slow on my admittedly sluggish 233mhz G3. I've got to say, 4.5 is a *huge* improvement in the speed department, but there are still a lot of things I'd like to see improved before I would replace Safari as my everyday browser. (much less. before I would pay for it)
For starters, it needs tabs, I've gotten addicted to them from various mozilla variants and Safari.
Then they need to support java 1.4.1, they're still using the old 1.3.1 carbon version, which just isn't up to par anymore imho. (Although, to be fair Omniweb does seem to work around alot of the problems the old carbon plugin had in Safari, IE, and Mozilla.)
They also need to provide for custom user style sheets, which I couldn't find an option for.
That said, there are some things OmniWeb does really well that I'd like to see in safari. For instance, spell checking forum input as I type without my needing to manually request it (I can't believe they still haven't fixed this in Safari). Also, auto checking and updating bookmarks would be nice.
Alot of other flight sims are games, X-Plane is not. This is a serious piece of software used by alot of professionals to model and simulate prospective aerospace designs. I can't count the times it has been emphasized to me that this is not a game....that said, it's damn fun sometimes.
And children are not qualified to judge where this line is.
Are parrents qualified to judge where the line is? Is their overprotectiveness any less irrational and hormone driven than a child's adventurousness?
Anyone who thinks that children's privacy shouldn't be subject to parental discretion is not a parent.
...And anyone who thinks that children's rights should exist only at the discretion of their parent is not a child.
Of course neither of these generalizations are entirely true, but their dichotomy is meant to illustrate a point.
Ok, first off, where do you see the word "failed" in my post? The closest I see is "doomed".
And how did you miss the term 'prop-up'? As in, it would have failed, but they propped it up for now.
The X-box, may avoid utter failure only because MS is willing to sacrifice lots of money and potential profits to insure they can get a stranglehold on an industry later.
So, your arguments to defend the x-box are as follows: "Because it's still in the market place"
Still on the market, and still loosing money the last I heard. Both on the hardware end, and as the rumors go, on the software end with all the money MS keeps throwing around to insure they have exclusive games.
Point 2: "It's outselling the GC"
I can only assume that you meant to limit this to 'in america', because last I heard the x-box is doing miserably overseas, while the GC is doing somewhat better than it is in the states.
In any case, they're both runners up to the PS2, and being a distant second instead of a distant third is hardly a qualification for success.
Which brings us to point 3: "It's got some great games"
That it does, in point of fact, it's what my post was complaining about. Microsoft has bought some promising games as exclusives for their platform, but even MS can't pay for every game their platform needs. The result is a few good games, but not alot of other choices. I have some friends with x-boxes, and most of them wouldn't have even considered them if it weren't for Halo. (hence, the propping up argument)
And then there are your various claims of hardware superiority, which might have been valid if they didn't end up costing the consumer more money than competing consoles. Hitting a higher price point does not automatically make a platform superior.
As other posters have mentioned, while Halo is by far the best selling X-box game, it's still vastly outsold by games for other platforms.
It really makes be wonder how big Halo could have been if Microsoft had released it for PC/Mac/etc.., as Bungie planned before they got bought, instead of using it to prop up thier doomed console venture.
Has anyone here actually read the patent that the Register article links to? It covers "Multiple personas for mobile devices".
It's a hell of a stretch to go from that patent to fast user switching. The Register even admits it's a inaccurate description of user switching, although they underplay it.
That patent sounds like it would more accurately describe a handheld device that could serve multiple roles (like a mp3 player, a movie player, a camera, a phone, etc) and could rapidly reconfigure it's GUI to accommodate whichever 'persona' the user wanted.
I'd say this is just the Register blaring sensationalist bullshit to get attention (and succeeding wildly since they have a front page/. story now), with only their wild guess as to what Apple is actually patenting.
So they've updated a closed developer beta that only a few thousand people have legally, and this is news?
If you want to talk about closed betas of Apple's upcoming updates, at least talk about the recent one that fixes the screensaver character buffer bug that got plastered all over/. a few days ago. It isn't all that important either, but at least it serves as a good followup.
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They're practically the same thing in terms of container formats, and they're so extensible it isn't even funny.
Want multiple overlapping video tracks, various text tracks (perhaps one for each language, with the machine auto selecting, or asking the user if you want), SMIL support for web integration, sprite tracks, static picture tracks, built-in realtime effects, user interaction, chapter markers, searchable subtitles, etc?
It's all there, and *MUCH* more. most of people don't have a clue how absurdly versatile that format is, it's done everything you've asked for 'since the '90s.
The article mentions "how the DMCA has stiffled competition, innovation, scientific research, and fair use". Frankly I doubt the big media conglomerates that lobbied for the DMCA in the first place have the slightest problem with any of those consequences. If they didn't intend them, it was simply lacked the foresight to do so, not because they wouldn't have intended them if it had occurred to them.
When you're on top of the system, almost any change is seen as dangerous.
Woah, I have a Voodoo II, and an overclocked bus too...
Something tells me this is not a coincidence.
I guess I might as well yank the VoodooII, it's not like I can actually use it under OSX anyway. How do you even know it's not shutting down?
I tried that, although it was before I installed the replacement-10.2.8 version.
And I've tried repairing permissions in single-user mode too. (it doesn't crash, but it doesn't fix the problem either).
This may fix the ethernet problem, I don't know, it didn't affect me, but there were other problems with 10.2.8, www.MacFixIt.com made a fairly extensive list.
./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util. New permissions are 33261 ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are -rwsr-xr-x ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.utilm issions corrected on ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.utilu p differs on ./private/var/run/utmp, should be 0, group is 1 ./private/var/run/utmp ./private/var/run/utmp
This definitely does not fix the crashing problem. (on my beige G3)
It can happen at any time, and is sometimes mistaken as an inability to wake from sleep, but you can get it to happen reliably by trying to repair permissions.
It outputs the following, then shuts down the display, and needs to be hard-restarted.
2003-10-03 17:36:12 -0400 - Repair of privileges has started
We are using special permissions for the file or directory
Permissions differ on
Owner and group corrected on
Per
Gro
Owner and group corrected on
Permissions corrected on
OmniWeb has find&replace, as well as a bunch of other handy text handling features for forum input (inline spell checking, extensible functions with the services menu, etc).
It's MacOSX only though, of course, if you're working in the print industry getting a mac to run it on shouldn't be too hard.
As I understand it, the "Best" mode, which they used to encode the QT AAC clips, was actually optimized for audio with sample rates well above CDs' 44.1khz. For audio that originated on CD, the "Better" setting would have been more appropriate. (this setting does seem really unintuitive, I would hope for better from apple)
I wonder if/how this would have affected the scores.
I was surprised to se QT AAC ranked so low after it recently won a similar test among AAC encoders, was that HE AAC encoder not included in the previous test?
Well, this has *an* update to ssh, I dunno if it's *the* update to ssh.
The version string changes to:
OpenSSH_3.4p1+CAN-2003-0693, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090609f
From:
OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090609f
So it's still 3.4, but it looks like they added some patch.
Also, it should be noted that Macs traditionally support more memory than they claim. Apple only announces the ammount you can put in with commonly available DIMM sizes, in this case 1GB.
However, the G5's documentation shows the memory interface can actually handle 16GB not just 8, so if you can get 2GB DIMMs, you will probably be able to use them.
And is there a particular reason why IBM couldn't apply their work towards gcc?
Yes.
GCC rejected alot of their patches. GCC is a cross paltform compiler, the maintainers can be very picky about adding code that only helps one platform.
IBM has contributed quite a bit to GCC, but GCC is not the proper place for a heavily optimised platform-specific compiler effort.
Ever felt like programing your own web browser, but don't feel like writing the code? Well, now you don't have to!
With Cocoa and Webkit, you can make a fully functional web browser without writing a single line of code. Check out the codeless browser From the same wonderful apple engineers who brought you the 13 line text editor.
I'm hoping this kind of ease of creation will lower the bar to making your own browser, and encourage independant programers to innovate in the interface department 'since they don't have to worry about rendering unless they want to.
There are allready some cool applications using webkit, like the live preview window in SubEthaEdit (the amazingly cool text editor formerly known as Hydra), or the japanese NagaraBrowser a webbrowser that can replace your desktop picture.
The difference between browsers on the mac today, and a year or two ago is like night and day. And I have to credit alot of this to the widespread adoption of open source rendering engines. KHTML and Geko have really saved the day for non-windows browsers everywhere.
Those SPEC scores for the G5 look like the same ones Apple gave when they first announced the G5s.
This article is a dupe.
The shell seems pretty clean to me, especially compared to certain linux distros I've tried, but I suppose that's pretty subjective.
/usr/bin/emacs.
You can do all the apple software updates from the command line, the command is softwareupdate.
And emacs is in the default install in
If you'd care to provide some details on why you feel the shell is unclean, I'd be happy to debunk them (assuming they're as mis-informed as the rest of your FUD).
In the mean time, if you don't like the Terminal.app, then use another terminal. IIRC the plain old xterm you said you long for is included with Panther, and included with the various X11 packages available online for older versions of OSX. And there are other more full featured mac alternatives like glterm too.
Since when is 43 watts @ 1.8ghz, (I don't think they ever released the 2Ghz G5's power dissipation number, did they?) in the same league as 103watts?
While it puts out a bit more heat than the G3s and G4s mac users are used to, the G5 is still nowhere near as bad as prescott.
The prescott puts out more than doubble the heat.
And those "well respected sites" are trolling too.
Having someone with media connections write a poorly thought out article about an idea that has been debunked countless times over the last decade or two doesn't suddenly make the idea valid. It just makes the 'journalist' in question the real world equivalent of a karma whore; posting things everyone has heard and ought to know better than, in order to bring in readers and generate buzz, even if they are hostile.
Hmm... my mistake.
This used to be a problem in the betas, but apparently it got fixed at some point before Safari 1.0, and I just didn't notice because the default left as you type checking disabled.
Now if only as you type checking worked for INPUT TYPE="text" fields as well as TEXTAREAs...
I haven't seriously used omniweb since before OSX was released. The speed was just too slow on my admittedly sluggish 233mhz G3.
I've got to say, 4.5 is a *huge* improvement in the speed department, but there are still a lot of things I'd like to see improved before I would replace Safari as my everyday browser. (much less. before I would pay for it)
For starters, it needs tabs, I've gotten addicted to them from various mozilla variants and Safari.
Then they need to support java 1.4.1, they're still using the old 1.3.1 carbon version, which just isn't up to par anymore imho. (Although, to be fair Omniweb does seem to work around alot of the problems the old carbon plugin had in Safari, IE, and Mozilla.)
They also need to provide for custom user style sheets, which I couldn't find an option for.
That said, there are some things OmniWeb does really well that I'd like to see in safari.
For instance, spell checking forum input as I type without my needing to manually request it (I can't believe they still haven't fixed this in Safari).
Also, auto checking and updating bookmarks would be nice.
Alot of other flight sims are games, X-Plane is not. This is a serious piece of software used by alot of professionals to model and simulate prospective aerospace designs. I can't count the times it has been emphasized to me that this is not a game. ...that said, it's damn fun sometimes.
And children are not qualified to judge where this line is.
...And anyone who thinks that children's rights should exist only at the discretion of their parent is not a child.
Are parrents qualified to judge where the line is? Is their overprotectiveness any less irrational and hormone driven than a child's adventurousness?
Anyone who thinks that children's privacy shouldn't be subject to parental discretion is not a parent.
Of course neither of these generalizations are entirely true, but their dichotomy is meant to illustrate a point.
Ok, first off, where do you see the word "failed" in my post? The closest I see is "doomed". And how did you miss the term 'prop-up'? As in, it would have failed, but they propped it up for now.
:
The X-box, may avoid utter failure only because MS is willing to sacrifice lots of money and potential profits to insure they can get a stranglehold on an industry later.
So, your arguments to defend the x-box are as follows
"Because it's still in the market place"
Still on the market, and still loosing money the last I heard. Both on the hardware end, and as the rumors go, on the software end with all the money MS keeps throwing around to insure they have exclusive games.
Point 2:
"It's outselling the GC"
I can only assume that you meant to limit this to 'in america', because last I heard the x-box is doing miserably overseas, while the GC is doing somewhat better than it is in the states.
In any case, they're both runners up to the PS2, and being a distant second instead of a distant third is hardly a qualification for success.
Which brings us to point 3:
"It's got some great games"
That it does, in point of fact, it's what my post was complaining about. Microsoft has bought some promising games as exclusives for their platform, but even MS can't pay for every game their platform needs. The result is a few good games, but not alot of other choices. I have some friends with x-boxes, and most of them wouldn't have even considered them if it weren't for Halo. (hence, the propping up argument)
And then there are your various claims of hardware superiority, which might have been valid if they didn't end up costing the consumer more money than competing consoles. Hitting a higher price point does not automatically make a platform superior.
As other posters have mentioned, while Halo is by far the best selling X-box game, it's still vastly outsold by games for other platforms.
It really makes be wonder how big Halo could have been if Microsoft had released it for PC/Mac/etc.., as Bungie planned before they got bought, instead of using it to prop up thier doomed console venture.
Has anyone here actually read the patent that the Register article links to?
/. story now), with only their wild guess as to what Apple is actually patenting.
It covers "Multiple personas for mobile devices".
It's a hell of a stretch to go from that patent to fast user switching. The Register even admits it's a inaccurate description of user switching, although they underplay it.
That patent sounds like it would more accurately describe a handheld device that could serve multiple roles (like a mp3 player, a movie player, a camera, a phone, etc) and could rapidly reconfigure it's GUI to accommodate whichever 'persona' the user wanted.
I'd say this is just the Register blaring sensationalist bullshit to get attention (and succeeding wildly since they have a front page
So they've updated a closed developer beta that only a few thousand people have legally, and this is news?
/. a few days ago. It isn't all that important either, but at least it serves as a good followup.
If you want to talk about closed betas of Apple's upcoming updates, at least talk about the recent one that fixes the screensaver character buffer bug that got plastered all over