Name one application of Core Image or Core Video that Mac Mini users can reasonably expect their machine to perform.
Well, 4-way video iChat for starters. How about H.264 and edge features of QuickTime 7? Many people use the Mini for HTPC and the marginal video card limits its suitability for this task. It is not just Final Cut Pro that is needlessly hobbled but also iDVD, iMovie, and even the transitions from Keynote are more limited. These are all broad consumer apps. And who know what won't be functional in Leopard? Finally, an underpowered machine benefits more from offloading to the GPU than a high end CPU does!
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/coreimage/
How is a comment about Apples clever pricing for the Nano offtopic on a story that has Nano in the subject line? I should meta-moderate more, but I don't actually want mod points...
One of the examples cited was trying to put way too much content on a single disc. Yes, that made the encoding time and quality unacceptable. Hour long programs are no problem. Your suggestions are too much work and not spouse friendly (one of the prerequisits). Myth TV may be a geeks wet dream, but it is far from ready for prime time.
Apple is quite clever with their pricing. $100 to start, then every $50 after that doubles the storage (or even better). The last upgrade is $100, but then you go from 20GB to 60. At that point, another $100 would buy you a Mac Mini. Another $100 after that gets you a Mini with an iPod Shuffle, and you are back where you started!
One long standing complaint is that iTunes has not been sufficiently compatible with the screenreaders used by the blind. This, in turn, has meant that the various iPods -- even the shuttle with no screen -- are not accessible.
This release, despite the whole digit change, doesn't change this. This is all the more ironic since Tiger now ships with an integrated spoken user interface! Blind folks, as a generalization, are at least as passionate about music and technology as the rest of us. This is a real shame.
Perhaps a bit more useful for most of us, though, is the ability to burn DivX to conventional DVD discs for playback on our existing set-top DVD players. Toast 7 makes it dead-simple to turn a downloaded DivX movie into a DVD you can carry into your living room, kick back and watch.
I haven't collected comics for twenty years, but the last series I did gather was Warrior 1-26, a UK magazine. Among other gems, this contains the first printing of V for Vendetta. They've been kept in bags all this time. I understand that there was a significant trade bubble that made the dot com burst look modest (relative to their respective markets). Is it worth the effort to un-box them, or should I wait another decade to see if my kids get interested? Thanks.
I was just trying to add a hit counter and was modestly surprised that I could not find the syntax documented. I then became astounded at Adelphia's refusal (or, more likely, inability) to explain why they supported FPSE but not cgi scripting when they were running Apache under Red Hat. (That discussion logically followed when they could not point me to resources either.)
Anyway, the broken hit counter is here. Web searches turn up similar problems, but none that I could understand that were outside the context of using FrontPage to make the page.
I would prefer a text-based counter. I have no idea if FPSE can provide that.
Read the disclaimer when you launch Narrator. Even Microsoft doesn't pretend that it has much functionality. Even more ironically, Narrator is not compatible with IE, MS Office, nor Outlook!
It seems to me that operating systems today are farthest behind in serving people with visual impairments.
Actually Windows has been a great boon to novice computer users who happen to be blind. They prefer GUI over CLI for the same reasons as most people: (1) A consistent interface from one application to the next; (2) The ability to gradually and interactively learn an applications capabilities merely by exploring the menus.
Say what you will about Windows, but it is very accessible without a mouse, even without a screen reader.
> From what I've read about blind people using computers
Please, talk to some computer users who happen to be blind!
> a lot of problems come from fancy GUIs
That was true back in the days of MS Windows 3.0, maybe. (And, sadly, seems to be obstacle for *nix.) MS Windows is a boon to screen reader users for same basic reasons as the majority:
(1) Consistent interface from app to app, so learning a word processor teaches you 75% of what you need to know for a spread sheet.
(2) The ability to explore and discover an apps capabilities by navigating through the menus.
Windows is wonderfully useable without using a mouse. This makes it relatively easy for the screen reading software to know where the user's focus is.
Yep, a new Mini Mac with integrated speech cost less than just the leading Windows screen reading software. The bundled magnification feature is also very decent.
If you believe the chatter here -- mostly blind folks burnt out on Windows for the same reasons as everyone at/. -- VoiceOver 1.0 is on par with Jaws and WindowEyes, at least with properly coded OS X apps (just Mail, Safari, TextEdit, and Terminal for now).
Just get 20" G5 iMacs with iSight cameras and bluetooth in as many locations as needed. Pretend they are an internet appliance just for video converencing. In the boss's office he only gets the white no button wireless mouse and iChat AV is the only app. He won't need the keyboard. Cover the Apple logo with a smilely sticker or something.
How about complete re-development from the ground up using xCode2 and Cocoa? It is a dirty little secrert that the current version, something that would be very popular with the blind, is largely incompatible with VoiceOver.
http://www.macvisionaries.com/
Very interesting, perhaps even insightful! The remote you describe fits the news of the tablet patent from last week. Another thing I've pointed out on a few threads is how well most of the OS X GUI works out of the box for high color (24 bit) but relatively low resolution displays (like a TV). Two more pieces of the puzzle fall into place!
My first PowerPC based model was a Performa 6214CD. I was mostly perfectly happy with it until I found it on that Road Apple list! Actually, that was the only computer that ever earned me money $ outside of work. My first kid used that machine with an ADB touch screen, very rewarding. The second toddler got upgraded to Performa 6400/180 as his older sister moved on to a G3 iMac.
Here's a better list of flops...
on
Apple's First Flops
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Here's a nice list of real (ongoing?) flops: LEM Road Apples
They include the G4 Cube which, along with the Apple/// and Lisa, I would argue the only failure was the unrealisticly high MSRP.
An Apple rep at the show gave me a demo of Automator. I wasn't really groking the potential from their little demo which undersells both the power and ease of use.
In about a minute he created a script to download all the recent Images of the Day to a new folder and created a self-running slide show and album for them from iPhoto.
The possibilities for porn surfing boggle the mind.
Yes, your sarcasm was obvious, and misplaced. I trying to make the equally obvious point that you were not giving me enough credit. Some of us were hoping for first hand accounts of the new Tiger features. Those who attended Fose had that chance. Contrary to your apparent belief, there is something to be learned beyond Apple's advertisements!
I don't mean to be ungrateful, but from the title of the thread I started and the more detailed (and stable) link I cited than the one you gave, you might have inferred that I knew the proper name of Apple's spoken interface!
So, are you saying that because Apple has a short QuickTime demo of Dashboard and Spotlight and Automator and a half dozen other "top ten" features of Tiger that there is no point discussing these further?
How do you embed links in/. posts without getting the stupid trailing domain in brackets? like this
Slashdot Mirror
How is a comment about Apples clever pricing for the Nano offtopic on a story that has Nano in the subject line? I should meta-moderate more, but I don't actually want mod points...
One of the examples cited was trying to put way too much content on a single disc. Yes, that made the encoding time and quality unacceptable. Hour long programs are no problem. Your suggestions are too much work and not spouse friendly (one of the prerequisits). Myth TV may be a geeks wet dream, but it is far from ready for prime time.
Apple is quite clever with their pricing. $100 to start, then every $50 after that doubles the storage (or even better). The last upgrade is $100, but then you go from 20GB to 60. At that point, another $100 would buy you a Mac Mini. Another $100 after that gets you a Mini with an iPod Shuffle, and you are back where you started!
This release, despite the whole digit change, doesn't change this. This is all the more ironic since Tiger now ships with an integrated spoken user interface! Blind folks, as a generalization, are at least as passionate about music and technology as the rest of us. This is a real shame.
From: Toast 7 Titanium (First Look) under Video:
I haven't collected comics for twenty years, but the last series I did gather was Warrior 1-26, a UK magazine. Among other gems, this contains the first printing of V for Vendetta. They've been kept in bags all this time. I understand that there was a significant trade bubble that made the dot com burst look modest (relative to their respective markets). Is it worth the effort to un-box them, or should I wait another decade to see if my kids get interested? Thanks.
I was just trying to add a hit counter and was modestly surprised that I could not find the syntax documented. I then became astounded at Adelphia's refusal (or, more likely, inability) to explain why they supported FPSE but not cgi scripting when they were running Apache under Red Hat. (That discussion logically followed when they could not point me to resources either.)
Anyway, the broken hit counter is here. Web searches turn up similar problems, but none that I could understand that were outside the context of using FrontPage to make the page.
I would prefer a text-based counter. I have no idea if FPSE can provide that.
I am surprised that no one here thinks making use of FPSE by hand is an interesting hack.
Thank you. That is exactly correct. I am surprised that no one here sees writing code by hand to make use of FPSE to be an interesting hack.
By visit the page, you mean try the URL for phpinfo.php file? I see the code, so I am SOL. http://home.adelphia.net/~bmss/phpinfo.php
Please, talk to some computer users who happen to be blind!
> a lot of problems come from fancy GUIs
That was true back in the days of MS Windows 3.0, maybe. (And, sadly, seems to be obstacle for *nix.) MS Windows is a boon to screen reader users for same basic reasons as the majority:
(1) Consistent interface from app to app, so learning a word processor teaches you 75% of what you need to know for a spread sheet.
(2) The ability to explore and discover an apps capabilities by navigating through the menus.
Windows is wonderfully useable without using a mouse. This makes it relatively easy for the screen reading software to know where the user's focus is.
If you believe the chatter here -- mostly blind folks burnt out on Windows for the same reasons as everyone at /. -- VoiceOver 1.0 is on par with Jaws and WindowEyes, at least with properly coded OS X apps (just Mail, Safari, TextEdit, and Terminal for now).
Just get 20" G5 iMacs with iSight cameras and bluetooth in as many locations as needed. Pretend they are an internet appliance just for video converencing. In the boss's office he only gets the white no button wireless mouse and iChat AV is the only app. He won't need the keyboard. Cover the Apple logo with a smilely sticker or something.
How about complete re-development from the ground up using xCode2 and Cocoa? It is a dirty little secrert that the current version, something that would be very popular with the blind, is largely incompatible with VoiceOver. http://www.macvisionaries.com/
Very interesting, perhaps even insightful! The remote you describe fits the news of the tablet patent from last week. Another thing I've pointed out on a few threads is how well most of the OS X GUI works out of the box for high color (24 bit) but relatively low resolution displays (like a TV). Two more pieces of the puzzle fall into place!
My first PowerPC based model was a Performa 6214CD. I was mostly perfectly happy with it until I found it on that Road Apple list! Actually, that was the only computer that ever earned me money $ outside of work. My first kid used that machine with an ADB touch screen, very rewarding. The second toddler got upgraded to Performa 6400/180 as his older sister moved on to a G3 iMac.
Here's a nice list of real (ongoing?) flops: LEM Road Apples They include the G4 Cube which, along with the Apple /// and Lisa, I would argue the only failure was the unrealisticly high MSRP.
Well, I got to Fose. I didn't learn anything about VoiceOver, but I did learn something about automator. So sorry Dylan, you are wrong!
In about a minute he created a script to download all the recent Images of the Day to a new folder and created a self-running slide show and album for them from iPhoto.
The possibilities for porn surfing boggle the mind.
Yes, your sarcasm was obvious, and misplaced. I trying to make the equally obvious point that you were not giving me enough credit. Some of us were hoping for first hand accounts of the new Tiger features. Those who attended Fose had that chance. Contrary to your apparent belief, there is something to be learned beyond Apple's advertisements!
So, are you saying that because Apple has a short QuickTime demo of Dashboard and Spotlight and Automator and a half dozen other "top ten" features of Tiger that there is no point discussing these further?
How do you embed links in /. posts without getting the stupid trailing domain in brackets? like this
This was reported on a year ago.