Well, I have to correct myself, as the difference between the two is indeed not too noticeable ( http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128/result s.html ), although my point technically still stands -- MP3 is 14 years old, why keep trying to optimize it when there's better technology out now?
aacPlus is also known as HE-AAC, which QuickTime and iTunes at this time unfortunately still don't support. Here's some comparisons with HE-AAC as implemented by Nero 6, using 64 kbit/s and 32 kbit/: http://www.rjamorim.com/test/64test/results.html and http://www.rjamorim.com/test/32kbps/results.html .
"Since IBM is hosting this article, I'm not that surprised that this was done. IBM has always seen Apple as a threat, not an ally."
I'm sure you can explain the series of "Using Mac OS X with your Mac mini" articles at IBM then. They don't even mention IBM's commercial compiler and use Apple's provided GCC version.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/libr ar y/pa-macmini1/?ca=dgr-mw01macminip1
"How come no one has figured out how to install Linux on an iPod yet?"
http://www.ipodlinux.org/Main_Page -- they have. A long time ago.
"Respectfully disagree. I see more jaggies and faded-out lines on OS X (Panther, to be fair; my Beige can't run Tiger) than freetype2. Both stomp WinXP;)"
You sure you set it to the right level on Panther (System Preferences -> Appearance)?
"It also makes a lot of difference what fonts you use. Gnome looks best with Bitstream Vera Sans, because that's what it's tested with. Likewise Apple and Lucida Grande."
Certainly the case.
In the end, everyone's eyes work differently, so it's a pointless argument.
I just hope high-DPI displays come soon so we don't need anti-aliasing any more at all.
"It is ironic that after years of complaining about Linux's fonts, that Linux would have the best looking font rendering of any platform."
You've never seen Mac OS X's anti-aliasing, have you.;-)
And yes, I have seen anti-aliasing on Mac OS X using CRTs and TFTs, on Windows XP using CRTs and TFTs, and on GNOME using CRTs and TFTs. GNOME (FreeType2) comes close. Windows XP doesn't. Mac OS X leads.
"Basically WMA and AAC are "superior" to MP3 only in that they have DRM. So. . . From a consumer standpoint, they are actually inferior."
Uh. No. Not only are both WMA and AAC available without DRM -- for either, in fact, having no DRM is the typical case. AAC is just a standard audio format, part of MPEG2 and, in slightly evolved form, MPEG4. It not only beats your LAME MP3 at 128 kbit/s , but is almost as good as the ever-unbeaten Ogg Vorbis. And when in Plus mode (with SBR and other features), it pretty much leaves anyone behind.
I'm running Tiger on not a single machine right now, being a Windows network administrator, not a Mac OS one, but I still know that Dashboard widgets can continue to run while the Dashboard is invisible.
Just edit a widget to remove the "sleep()" call from the JavaScript. Try it.
Except Bonjour has nothing to do with file sharing, nor is it on the same layer. You could implement file sharing on top of Bonjour, and I personally wish someone would, but Bonjour as released by Apple doesn't do anything to that regard at all.
OS X never was "a UNIX" in the first place. Its kernel has little to do with UNIX at all, as it is a mixture between Mach and BSD terminology, with its own bits such as IOKit. UNIX resemblances, but little more than that.
The BSD personality, which feels a lot like a typical UNIX, is entirely optional. The X11 environment, which is typical of UNIX, is entirely optional. A UNIX-style package system is not even included.
The "UNIX part" did not cease to exist, it was just never the pivotal aspect.
Windows has process IDs. There's also several packages available that provide "ls", such as UnxUtils or GnuWin32 (I'm not talking about a layer like Cygwin, I'm talking about native code).
In Mac OS apps, the colon is the path delimiter and therefore not a permitted character in file names. In Unix apps, the slash is.
OS X is in many ways Unix-like, and in many ways not Unix-like. It is similar, but not the same.
The plug-in they are talking about adds a sidebar to IE that communicates with the Bonjour backend to discover FTP and HTTP servers. This needs to be implemented per-browser, of course.
The source code of Bonjour has been available since August 2002, including implementations for BSD and Linux.
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/bonjo ur/ Bonjour Source Code The Mac OS X mDNSResponder source code is available from the Darwin CVS repository. This package includes platform specific code for implementing Bonjour on Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, Linux and VxWorks, and also includes helper applications for browsing and advertising services. Hardware device manufacturers are encouraged to embed the Darwin open source mDNSResponder code directly into their products.
"Nice display of a total lack of knowledge of the NTFS file system."
What? This wasn't about NTFS, and last I checked NTFS was Windows-only; this wasn't about Windows earlier. This was about Entourage's database format, and Entourage is Mac OS-only.
So wtf are you talking about?
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BSD people? Sun? IBM? Anyone else who doesn't believe in software communism?
"...and Dashboard's widgets only update when you pull them into view, which is sort of lame and not at all keeping with the 'dash' idea."
Not true.
Widgets/can/ enter sleep mode when the Dashboard hides (onHide{sleep;}) and then later refresh once Dashboard comes back, but they don't need to. The normal case is that a widget continuusly gets updated, whether the Dashboard is visible or not.
Furthermore, there's a somewhat hidden feature to show a particular Dashboard widget while the rest of the Dashboard is invisible, i.e. make the widget sticky.
"I agree - http is a ludicrous RPC/LPC mechanism - thank god no-one else uses it like that."
On a local computer? No, indeed, it's rather uncommon. Over the internet, that's another matter.
"HTTP for file requests is ridiculous, but of course wanting MS to restructure their Entourage database into 10s of thousands of flat files because Spotlight only supports plain files is the height of reasonableness."
Spotlight also supports databases, as evidenced by Address Book, but indexing single files is much more efficient*. And from a naive point of view, one file == one e-mail message makes more sense than one file == one mailbox, if you think of mailboxes as folders, that is.
*) At least on HFS+, OS X's preferred file system.
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Well, I have to correct myself, as the difference between the two is indeed not too noticeable ( http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128/result s.html ), although my point technically still stands -- MP3 is 14 years old, why keep trying to optimize it when there's better technology out now?
aacPlus is also known as HE-AAC, which QuickTime and iTunes at this time unfortunately still don't support. Here's some comparisons with HE-AAC as implemented by Nero 6, using 64 kbit/s and 32 kbit/: http://www.rjamorim.com/test/64test/results.html and http://www.rjamorim.com/test/32kbps/results.html .
"Since IBM is hosting this article, I'm not that surprised that this was done. IBM has always seen Apple as a threat, not an ally."
r ar y/pa-macmini1/?ca=dgr-mw01macminip1
I'm sure you can explain the series of "Using Mac OS X with your Mac mini" articles at IBM then. They don't even mention IBM's commercial compiler and use Apple's provided GCC version.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/lib
"How come no one has figured out how to install Linux on an iPod yet?"
http://www.ipodlinux.org/Main_Page -- they have. A long time ago.
"Respectfully disagree. I see more jaggies and faded-out lines on OS X (Panther, to be fair; my Beige can't run Tiger) than freetype2. Both stomp WinXP ;)"
You sure you set it to the right level on Panther (System Preferences -> Appearance)?
"It also makes a lot of difference what fonts you use. Gnome looks best with Bitstream Vera Sans, because that's what it's tested with. Likewise Apple and Lucida Grande."
Certainly the case.
In the end, everyone's eyes work differently, so it's a pointless argument.
I just hope high-DPI displays come soon so we don't need anti-aliasing any more at all.
"It is ironic that after years of complaining about Linux's fonts, that Linux would have the best looking font rendering of any platform."
;-)
You've never seen Mac OS X's anti-aliasing, have you.
And yes, I have seen anti-aliasing on Mac OS X using CRTs and TFTs, on Windows XP using CRTs and TFTs, and on GNOME using CRTs and TFTs. GNOME (FreeType2) comes close. Windows XP doesn't. Mac OS X leads.
No, he means IBM, because even with Lenovo owning the manufacturing of those computers, the brand name will continue to be IBM. ;-P
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;-) Display Properties -> Effects
I do like the regular (gray) anti-aliasing, and I have to admit I actually miss it when I use a Win 2k or winXP machine."
So why don't you just turn it on
"So why do poeple like sub-pixel so much?"
I can't imagine you liking pixel anti-aliasing and not subpixel anti-aliasing, as the latter is obviously much less visible.
"Basically WMA and AAC are "superior" to MP3 only in that they have DRM. So. . . From a consumer standpoint, they are actually inferior."
Uh. No. Not only are both WMA and AAC available without DRM -- for either, in fact, having no DRM is the typical case. AAC is just a standard audio format, part of MPEG2 and, in slightly evolved form, MPEG4. It not only beats your LAME MP3 at 128 kbit/s , but is almost as good as the ever-unbeaten Ogg Vorbis. And when in Plus mode (with SBR and other features), it pretty much leaves anyone behind.
I'm running Tiger on not a single machine right now, being a Windows network administrator, not a Mac OS one, but I still know that Dashboard widgets can continue to run while the Dashboard is invisible.
Just edit a widget to remove the "sleep()" call from the JavaScript. Try it.
Ive would probably write in British English, however. His accent certainly is strongly British.
Welcome to iTunes 1.0 ;-)
iTunes always had transcoding features. For obvious reasons, though, they don't work on DRM'd files.
That was introduced with iTunes 4.5, on iTMS's first anniversary, April 28, 2004. :-)
Couldn't agree more. :-)
;-) )
(Gosh, this is Slashdot, and I actually agree fully with another poster?
"I'm saying that OS X's Darwin is derived from BSD (and thus, it's valid to call Darwin a UNIX), and that that is a fundamental part of OS X."
*Part* of Darwin is derived from several BSDs, most prominently FreeBSD, but also in part NetBSD, OpenBSD and even BSD/Lite.
Note that much of Darwin has nothing to do with BSD. Including most kernel components.
"The UNIX is there, and it's non-trivial."
I agree.
Except Bonjour has nothing to do with file sharing, nor is it on the same layer. You could implement file sharing on top of Bonjour, and I personally wish someone would, but Bonjour as released by Apple doesn't do anything to that regard at all.
OS X never was "a UNIX" in the first place. Its kernel has little to do with UNIX at all, as it is a mixture between Mach and BSD terminology, with its own bits such as IOKit. UNIX resemblances, but little more than that.
The BSD personality, which feels a lot like a typical UNIX, is entirely optional. The X11 environment, which is typical of UNIX, is entirely optional. A UNIX-style package system is not even included.
The "UNIX part" did not cease to exist, it was just never the pivotal aspect.
Windows has process IDs. There's also several packages available that provide "ls", such as UnxUtils or GnuWin32 (I'm not talking about a layer like Cygwin, I'm talking about native code).
In Mac OS apps, the colon is the path delimiter and therefore not a permitted character in file names. In Unix apps, the slash is.
OS X is in many ways Unix-like, and in many ways not Unix-like. It is similar, but not the same.
The plug-in they are talking about adds a sidebar to IE that communicates with the Bonjour backend to discover FTP and HTTP servers. This needs to be implemented per-browser, of course.
Hopefully, they will add a Firefox plug-in soon.
The source code of Bonjour has been available since August 2002, including implementations for BSD and Linux.
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http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/bonj
Bonjour Source Code
The Mac OS X mDNSResponder source code is available from the Darwin CVS repository. This package includes platform specific code for implementing Bonjour on Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, Linux and VxWorks, and also includes helper applications for browsing and advertising services. Hardware device manufacturers are encouraged to embed the Darwin open source mDNSResponder code directly into their products.
Yes, it includes launchd, but it doesn't, for example, include any GUI whatsoever.
IOW, aside from a different architecture, it will feel like just another open source BSD-style OS.
"Nice display of a total lack of knowledge of the NTFS file system."
What? This wasn't about NTFS, and last I checked NTFS was Windows-only; this wasn't about Windows earlier. This was about Entourage's database format, and Entourage is Mac OS-only.
So wtf are you talking about?
BSD people? Sun? IBM? Anyone else who doesn't believe in software communism?
I don't know what you're doing with your machine, but my iBook G3 / 700 only waits about 5-10 seconds at the grey screen.
Indeed. GPL'd libraries are useless to the realistic-thinking world.
"...and Dashboard's widgets only update when you pull them into view, which is sort of lame and not at all keeping with the 'dash' idea."
/can/ enter sleep mode when the Dashboard hides (onHide{sleep;}) and then later refresh once Dashboard comes back, but they don't need to. The normal case is that a widget continuusly gets updated, whether the Dashboard is visible or not.
Not true.
Widgets
Furthermore, there's a somewhat hidden feature to show a particular Dashboard widget while the rest of the Dashboard is invisible, i.e. make the widget sticky.
"I agree - http is a ludicrous RPC/LPC mechanism - thank god no-one else uses it like that."
On a local computer? No, indeed, it's rather uncommon. Over the internet, that's another matter.
"HTTP for file requests is ridiculous, but of course wanting MS to restructure their Entourage database into 10s of thousands of flat files because Spotlight only supports plain files is the height of reasonableness."
Spotlight also supports databases, as evidenced by Address Book, but indexing single files is much more efficient*. And from a naive point of view, one file == one e-mail message makes more sense than one file == one mailbox, if you think of mailboxes as folders, that is.
*) At least on HFS+, OS X's preferred file system.