This sounds like the experiments done by Benjamin Libet, in which he found that actions are initiated by the brain before one consciously decides to perform them.
There's gotta be some way to sync it up. If you play audio in iTunes over AirTunes and use the visualizer, the visualizer is always perfectly synced up from what I've seen.
I'm guessing that this is how the Classic environment can blend in so nicely with the MacOS X native environment -- its widgets' behaviors must be different to play well with MacOS X so there must be some kind of "MacOS X" appearance theme to change those behaviors. They probably implemented this type of theming for that purpose and decided to try for a patent on it. Incidentally, that explains the date as well; I think May 1998 was around that time that they started work on the (mostly) seamless Classic environment instead of the MacOS X Server 1.0 style separate application (that was annoying).
I've been using the same Mac since 1997, and probably will be for the next 5 years (my wife won't let me buy a new computer). When I purchased it, it was a ppc 604e 200mhz with 32 megs of ram, 2 gb hard drive. Now, it's a G3 400mhz with 192 megs of ram, and 10gb of total storage space. Some Mac's, like some PC's, can be gradually upgraded. In the worst case you need to buy a new one. However, in the PC "worst case," along with that motherboard and cpu, you probably have to buy new ram, etc. It's rarely as simple or cheap as you make it sound. Incidentally, in my non upgradable Mac I could put a zif g4 into my zif carrier card, i have 2 free pci slots (used one for my rage 128 vr board - 2 monitors!), there are 10 unused scsi IDs (hard drive, cd rom, jaz drive, and cdr are the 4 in use), and I've got 2 free ram slots (I've used 6).
My guess would be that a 32 bit version would be cheaper and useful for the embedded OSs mentioned in the article. They would need to be tweaked to work on the 64 bit chips anyway. PowerPC's biggest market is in embedded devices, after all.
The TrueType digital font format was originally designed by Apple Computer, Inc. It was a means of avoiding per-font royalty payments to the owners of other font technologies, and a solution to some of the technical limitations of Adobe's Type 1 format. Originally code named "Bass" (because these were scalable fonts and you can scale a fish), and later "Royal", the TrueType format was designed to be efficient in storage and processing, and extensible. It was also built to allow the use of hinting approaches already in use in the font industry as well as the development of new hinting techniques, enabling the easy conversion of already existing fonts to the TrueType format. This degree of flexibility in TrueType's implementation of hinting makes it extremely powerful when designing characters for display on the screen. Microsoft had also been looking for an outline format to solve similar problems, and Apple agreed to license TrueType to Microsoft. Apple included full TrueType support in its Macintosh operating system, System 7, in May 1990. Its more recent development efforts include TrueType GX, which extends the TrueType format as part of the new graphics architecture QuickDraw GX for the MacOS. TrueType GX includes some Apple-only extensions to the font format, supporting Style Variations and the Line Layout Manager. Microsoft first included TrueType in Windows 3.1, in April 1991. Soon afterwards, Microsoft began rewriting the TrueType rasterizer to improve its efficiency and performance and remove some bugs (while maintaining compatibility with the earlier version). The new TrueType rasterizer, version 1.5, first shipped in Windows NT 3.1. There have since been some minor revisions, and the version in Windows 95 and NT 3.51 is version 1.66. The new capabilities include enhanced features such as font smoothing (or more technically, grayscale rasterization). Microsoft's ongoing development effort includes the TrueType Open specification. TrueType Open will work on any Microsoft platform and Apple Macintosh machine, and includes features to allow multi-lingual typesetting and fine typographic control.
Well, given fair use, what's the difference between downloading the movie file and recording the TV broadcast? The only thing I can think of is that in the Supreme Court decision, it specifically mentioned being able to view it at a later time, but with streams it's available on demand (unless it gets/.ed). That's kind of reaching, though. Any thoughts?
What is the difference between downloading the video and taping it off MTV? I don't understand the "don't have rights to let people download the original song." Do I not have the right to record it off TV? Because that's exactly what I did. Just wondering.
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This sounds like the experiments done by Benjamin Libet, in which he found that actions are initiated by the brain before one consciously decides to perform them.
I hope he comes out of this alive. He has a history of getting too excited about these things. Will no one think of Jack Horkheimer! Stop looking up!
There's gotta be some way to sync it up. If you play audio in iTunes over AirTunes and use the visualizer, the visualizer is always perfectly synced up from what I've seen.
You mean, "it's just the age, it's just a stage." Sorry, couldn't resist.
The man who knows and knows he knows not is annoying. Slap him.
Call it Mony?
The clone action figures look exactly like the originals but with a mustache and goatee (ala South Park and Tad Ghostal).
I'm guessing that this is how the Classic environment can blend in so nicely with the MacOS X native environment -- its widgets' behaviors must be different to play well with MacOS X so there must be some kind of "MacOS X" appearance theme to change those behaviors. They probably implemented this type of theming for that purpose and decided to try for a patent on it. Incidentally, that explains the date as well; I think May 1998 was around that time that they started work on the (mostly) seamless Classic environment instead of the MacOS X Server 1.0 style separate application (that was annoying).
Man, that description sounds a hell of a lot like OpenDoc. Sigh...OpenDoc.
It's "Dave Barry in Cyberspace." But I still don't remember if that virus description is from it. It sounds quite familiar, though.
Isn't that from Dave Barry's computer book (I forget the name)?
Here's a howto for a fairly new RS/6000 workstation: http://www.stud.ifi.u io. no/~ingvarha/fag/43p/2000/43p.html. I've been thinking about trying it myself.
I've been using the same Mac since 1997, and probably will be for the next 5 years (my wife won't let me buy a new computer). When I purchased it, it was a ppc 604e 200mhz with 32 megs of ram, 2 gb hard drive. Now, it's a G3 400mhz with 192 megs of ram, and 10gb of total storage space. Some Mac's, like some PC's, can be gradually upgraded. In the worst case you need to buy a new one. However, in the PC "worst case," along with that motherboard and cpu, you probably have to buy new ram, etc. It's rarely as simple or cheap as you make it sound. Incidentally, in my non upgradable Mac I could put a zif g4 into my zif carrier card, i have 2 free pci slots (used one for my rage 128 vr board - 2 monitors!), there are 10 unused scsi IDs (hard drive, cd rom, jaz drive, and cdr are the 4 in use), and I've got 2 free ram slots (I've used 6).
My guess would be that a 32 bit version would be cheaper and useful for the embedded OSs mentioned in the article. They would need to be tweaked to work on the 64 bit chips anyway. PowerPC's biggest market is in embedded devices, after all.
Don't take my word for it, take Microsoft's:
http://www.microsoft.com/true type/history/history.htm
A brief history of TrueType
The TrueType digital font format was originally designed by Apple Computer, Inc. It was a means of avoiding per-font royalty payments to the owners of other font technologies, and a solution to some of the technical limitations of Adobe's Type 1 format. Originally code named "Bass" (because these were scalable fonts and you can scale a fish), and later "Royal", the TrueType format was designed to be efficient in storage and processing, and extensible. It was also built to allow the use of hinting approaches already in use in the font industry as well as the development of new hinting techniques, enabling the easy conversion of already existing fonts to the TrueType format. This degree of flexibility in TrueType's implementation of hinting makes it extremely powerful when designing characters for display on the screen. Microsoft had also been looking for an outline format to solve similar problems, and Apple agreed to license TrueType to Microsoft. Apple included full TrueType support in its Macintosh operating system, System 7, in May 1990. Its more recent development efforts include TrueType GX, which extends the TrueType format as part of the new graphics architecture QuickDraw GX for the MacOS. TrueType GX includes some Apple-only extensions to the font format, supporting Style Variations and the Line Layout Manager. Microsoft first included TrueType in Windows 3.1, in April 1991. Soon afterwards, Microsoft began rewriting the TrueType rasterizer to improve its efficiency and performance and remove some bugs (while maintaining compatibility with the earlier version). The new TrueType rasterizer, version 1.5, first shipped in Windows NT 3.1. There have since been some minor revisions, and the version in Windows 95 and NT 3.51 is version 1.66. The new capabilities include enhanced features such as font smoothing (or more technically, grayscale rasterization). Microsoft's ongoing development effort includes the TrueType Open specification. TrueType Open will work on any Microsoft platform and Apple Macintosh machine, and includes features to allow multi-lingual typesetting and fine typographic control.
Well, given fair use, what's the difference between downloading the movie file and recording the TV broadcast? The only thing I can think of is that in the Supreme Court decision, it specifically mentioned being able to view it at a later time, but with streams it's available on demand (unless it gets /.ed). That's kind of reaching, though. Any thoughts?
What is the difference between downloading the video and taping it off MTV? I don't understand the "don't have rights to let people download the original song." Do I not have the right to record it off TV? Because that's exactly what I did. Just wondering.
Here is some more info on what this thing can do: http://www.macintouch.com/ny1999wirel ess.html.
http://www.farallon.com/ products/wireless/skylinespec.html. It's Mac & PC compatible, doesn't say anything about linux or price. Then again, I didn't look very hard.