I'd also like to add to this that if you read the msdn article "Saying Goodbye to an old friend", Microsoft has submitted the new "safe" methods (called "strsafe functions") to the C/ C++ standards committee to have them included in future versions of C++
The dev boxes are for making sure your software runs on intel. There's a lot of work for some of the developers out there, and they need machines now. P4s are cheap and powerful enough to do the job (without giving away all the fun secrets that Steve will undoubtedly use to fuel his RDF;)) The actual Intel Apple machines you'll start to see won't even be Pentium M - they'll be the next gen chips that aren't on the market yet: Yonah, Sossaman, Merom, and Conroe:)
MacOS X86 will most likely still run only on Macs, and all macs will have BIOS magic that the install discs will look for. I'm sure there will be hundreds of people trying to hack the installer to allow you to install on your XP box, but then there's no guarantee of driver support for whatever hardware components you have (and thus no guarantees of the benefits of the total apple package in regards to stability, etc).
PPC is *not* the reason most people buy Macs; Mac OS X and the overall user experience is. Apple has a knack for making great looking hardware that is paired with easy to use, just as good looking (in most people's opinion) software. They sell the computer as a whole package, as a whole experience. At least 90% of Mac users have little to no idea/ knowledge of what kind of processor they have in their macs, and they just don't care either way. They just want the machine to do what they want it to do, mainly music/ movies/ dvd/ connect to their ipods.
I think this is going to be huge for Apple; Now, people will be able to buy apple products, and if they want, install windows (or *nix) on the machines alongside MacOS X (I believe there is mention by Apple's VP that they won't stop people from installing windows on the new macs if they want to). I'm a windows developer by day, but I use my Powerbook at all other times (daily browsing/ email/ music machine), except for the occasional PC game. Now I can buy a new Powerbook, and a new PowerMac when they go X86 and dual boot. Bam, just like that, I've bought more Apple hardware than I ever would have before, as before I would have needed/ wanted a PC for home-based PC/ windows development and gaming. Now with Apple/Intel (Aptel? Mactel?) I can have both a desktop and portable that fulfills my needs for Mac OS X as much as I want, and Windows when I need it. I am sure I am not alone, and that there are many switchers out there who would want nothing more to buy Apple, but need Windows for one thing or another.
Billg said it was impossible to strip down windows into components (the arguments were centered mostly at the application level - IE, etc) to be used on a PC. One of the problems he was talking about was that, for example, many first and third party applications use the Internet Explorer html control (mshtml.dll, among others) and are nowadays expecting it to be there. Now that these applications are out in the open, MS has an obligation to keep the IE control in the OS.
The Xbox OS is probably supported by the core Xbox team, and not the windows team, as it's at least two generations derived from the windows 2000 kernel that it came from. But don't worry, that still leaves all the branches that you had mentioned, plus a few more for tabletPC (which is just winXP), current service pack changes, etc. Actually, last I recall, the windows trunk was massive, and had many, many smaller branches that are managed by individual project/ feature teams (think a smaller company's whole source tree, complete with nightly builds of their own), who make damn sure that their code works in their team-specific branches before merging up to the main windows trunk.
Actually, I learned at an MS infomational talk back when the Xbox came out that all Xbox games have the entire OS on the game disc, and that is used to load up when the game is inserted in the drive. It's a lot like inserting an OS install disc in your computer and having it boot into the installer (or something like knoppix where it just boots into the OS). Your proposed solution works ok, until you think about how there are hundreds (thousands?) of Xbox titles out there, and each one would need updated libraries/ exes. Telling all your third party devs that they need to go back and create new exes is a LOT to ask. I think you're right on in that the 360 will detect the disc difference, but I'd have to imagine that there's some sort of VirtualPC-type emulation magic going on under the hood, rather than having an online library of all the updated exes ready for download. The 360 should have more than enough horsepower to emulate the original xbox, and MS did buy VirtualPC, arguably the best PC/ Windows emulator for the Mac platform, which is very similar to the 360 from an architecture standpoint.
Safari 1.3 (and 2.0 in Tiger) were in the release slipstream long before Acid2 was unveiled. The screenshots are from his private builds off of the Safari source code at Apple while he fixes the rendering bugs. These changes will most likely (hopefully?) make it into 10.4.x or an out of band release (Safari-specific patch).
They may be losing a large number of their subscribers in the DTV fallout, but at least 70% (if not more) of thier revenue comes from the standalone subscribers and hardware. Even losing DTV as a partner/ customer, they're still in really good shape, not to mention picking up Comcast as a partner/ customer.
I live in the Boston area, one of the first to get the new HD local channels. I am anxiously waiting for this rollout, and if that's the current deal, that's a bloody steal. I'll trade my dTiVo in for a low-capacity HMC (or pay a little more for a high capacity one) in a heartbeat for that price.
I would be *shocked* if Apple didn't have everyone sign NDAs the first day they started work (or even prior, probably comes with the offer letter).
Why shouldn't they go after these news/ rumor sites? What better way to find those that did break the NDAs than to get the information from the people the employees told? For all we know (and most likely), getting the information from the news sites is the only way to stop these leaks.
totally agree. I'm typing this on my 3 year old Powerbook G4/ 667. It's running 10.3.7 with absolutely no problems, and as much as I *want* to put down for a new PB, in reality, I don't need to, as this still does everything it needs/ I want it to, and still feels fast and responsive.
This little baby will probably be running Tiger in about 6 months as well.:)
actually, if you read the recent gamespot article on the HL2 development backstory ("Final Hours"), it mentions that TF2 is still in the works and will be on the Source engine (and most likely available through - you guessed it - Steam).
This time as in Fable? I'll be the first to admit that while it might not have met the insanely lofty expectations, this game has sold well, and was/ is actually pretty fun to boot.
Wait, if Firefox can get better, why can't IE? They're both just code, both have problems, and both have really smart people working on them.
I have nothing for or against either browser. In fact, as part of my job is web design, I *need* both, (and even throw in Safari for fun).
Don't forget that Firefox came from mozilla, which is turn is a rewrite of a once dominant browser in Netscape. That was broke too. IE can be fixed, even if it takes as much as a rewrite.
I can predict where OS X will be next summer - integrated search across the OS and all apps (Spotlight - in Tiger), and a full HW accelerated graphics system for the desktop (Quartz Extreme - available now). That's two out of the big three things that Longhorn is/was touted to have in 2006 (but have apparently been pushed back to a service pack) The other is Indigo, a web services-based communications infrastructure, fyi.
I'd also have to assume that OS X 10.5 will have enhanced usability features that'll knock the socks off of Longhorn, or at least it will if The Steve (or his Reality Distortion Field) has anything to say about it.
and for the record, I own a powerbook running panther and a windows machine. Windows for coding and the occasional game, and the powerbook for daily use.
Frankly, i don't understand. You get no twins games, but you're in the local market, correct? Where are the twins games being broadcast then? As you are in that local market (supposedly), you should get the local channels, which should have some games, and you should also get the Regional Sports Network for that area. Again, if it's not on the local channels, and not on the regional sports network (or blacked out), odds are no one else in the local area, sat or not, are getting these games. can't fault DTV for that.
in regards to the home media option, yes this is a sore spot. I will admit that i would love to have this feature, but then again, no other sat/ cable providers offer this, with the exception of a few small beta tests (mostly in California) for Digeo's Moxi platform.
As for the HD content, sorry to hear you jumped off the dtv wagon. Bravo HD was added about a week ago, and word on the street is that TNT-HD, and inHD1 and 2 (HD PPV) will follow soon, not to mention ESPN2 HD in January. Not counting the Voom-only/ exclusive HD channels, DTV carries or will carry soon, just about every available HD channel out there (plus 100 NFL games this season via Sunday Ticket), so you can't really blame them for a lack of HD content. The big stuff comes next summer - HD locals to the top 50 or so markets (Minneapolis-St. Paul is #14 on the DMA list, so you'd be almost guaranteed to see HD locals next summer) with the rest of the locals being added in 2007.
And on the TiVo side, you find that you feel oblgated to watch stuff that tivo records and that you enjoy? Isn't that the point/ benefit of the TiVo, rather than an issue?
fyi Bravo HD also just started broadcasting on dtv and I believe is part of the HD package.
also, if you are an NFL Sunday Ticket subscriber, you get access to over 100 HD football games this year, even if you don't subscribe to the HD package.
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FWIW, I also have to mention that the upgrade from 2000 to XP was also technically a minor revision (2000 is Windows NT 5.0, XP is Windows NT 5.1).
I'd also like to add to this that if you read the msdn article "Saying Goodbye to an old friend", Microsoft has submitted the new "safe" methods (called "strsafe functions") to the C/ C++ standards committee to have them included in future versions of C++
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"say goodbye":
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
more info on strsafe.h (included in the VC.NET 2003 SDKs and up):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
You're not thinking big enough.
;)) The actual Intel Apple machines you'll start to see won't even be Pentium M - they'll be the next gen chips that aren't on the market yet: Yonah, Sossaman, Merom, and Conroe :)
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The dev boxes are for making sure your software runs on intel. There's a lot of work for some of the developers out there, and they need machines now. P4s are cheap and powerful enough to do the job (without giving away all the fun secrets that Steve will undoubtedly use to fuel his RDF
http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050608.a
MacOS X86 will most likely still run only on Macs, and all macs will have BIOS magic that the install discs will look for. I'm sure there will be hundreds of people trying to hack the installer to allow you to install on your XP box, but then there's no guarantee of driver support for whatever hardware components you have (and thus no guarantees of the benefits of the total apple package in regards to stability, etc).
PPC is *not* the reason most people buy Macs; Mac OS X and the overall user experience is. Apple has a knack for making great looking hardware that is paired with easy to use, just as good looking (in most people's opinion) software. They sell the computer as a whole package, as a whole experience. At least 90% of Mac users have little to no idea/ knowledge of what kind of processor they have in their macs, and they just don't care either way. They just want the machine to do what they want it to do, mainly music/ movies/ dvd/ connect to their ipods.
I think this is going to be huge for Apple; Now, people will be able to buy apple products, and if they want, install windows (or *nix) on the machines alongside MacOS X (I believe there is mention by Apple's VP that they won't stop people from installing windows on the new macs if they want to). I'm a windows developer by day, but I use my Powerbook at all other times (daily browsing/ email/ music machine), except for the occasional PC game. Now I can buy a new Powerbook, and a new PowerMac when they go X86 and dual boot. Bam, just like that, I've bought more Apple hardware than I ever would have before, as before I would have needed/ wanted a PC for home-based PC/ windows development and gaming. Now with Apple/Intel (Aptel? Mactel?) I can have both a desktop and portable that fulfills my needs for Mac OS X as much as I want, and Windows when I need it. I am sure I am not alone, and that there are many switchers out there who would want nothing more to buy Apple, but need Windows for one thing or another.
Billg said it was impossible to strip down windows into components (the arguments were centered mostly at the application level - IE, etc) to be used on a PC. One of the problems he was talking about was that, for example, many first and third party applications use the Internet Explorer html control (mshtml.dll, among others) and are nowadays expecting it to be there. Now that these applications are out in the open, MS has an obligation to keep the IE control in the OS.
The Xbox OS is probably supported by the core Xbox team, and not the windows team, as it's at least two generations derived from the windows 2000 kernel that it came from. But don't worry, that still leaves all the branches that you had mentioned, plus a few more for tabletPC (which is just winXP), current service pack changes, etc. Actually, last I recall, the windows trunk was massive, and had many, many smaller branches that are managed by individual project/ feature teams (think a smaller company's whole source tree, complete with nightly builds of their own), who make damn sure that their code works in their team-specific branches before merging up to the main windows trunk.
My problem is that LiveJournal *is* SixApart, makers of TypeKey. So why not just convert LJ accounts to TypeKey ones?
(it's not that easy, of course, but it would have made more sense to me to use your parent company's SSO technology than to implement a new one)
Actually, I learned at an MS infomational talk back when the Xbox came out that all Xbox games have the entire OS on the game disc, and that is used to load up when the game is inserted in the drive. It's a lot like inserting an OS install disc in your computer and having it boot into the installer (or something like knoppix where it just boots into the OS). Your proposed solution works ok, until you think about how there are hundreds (thousands?) of Xbox titles out there, and each one would need updated libraries/ exes. Telling all your third party devs that they need to go back and create new exes is a LOT to ask. I think you're right on in that the 360 will detect the disc difference, but I'd have to imagine that there's some sort of VirtualPC-type emulation magic going on under the hood, rather than having an online library of all the updated exes ready for download. The 360 should have more than enough horsepower to emulate the original xbox, and MS did buy VirtualPC, arguably the best PC/ Windows emulator for the Mac platform, which is very similar to the 360 from an architecture standpoint.
Safari 1.3 (and 2.0 in Tiger) were in the release slipstream long before Acid2 was unveiled. The screenshots are from his private builds off of the Safari source code at Apple while he fixes the rendering bugs. These changes will most likely (hopefully?) make it into 10.4.x or an out of band release (Safari-specific patch).
oh great, way to ruin the movie, man.
Guess i don't need to wait in this line anymore...
They may be losing a large number of their subscribers in the DTV fallout, but at least 70% (if not more) of thier revenue comes from the standalone subscribers and hardware. Even losing DTV as a partner/ customer, they're still in really good shape, not to mention picking up Comcast as a partner/ customer.
I live in the Boston area, one of the first to get the new HD local channels. I am anxiously waiting for this rollout, and if that's the current deal, that's a bloody steal. I'll trade my dTiVo in for a low-capacity HMC (or pay a little more for a high capacity one) in a heartbeat for that price.
I would be *shocked* if Apple didn't have everyone sign NDAs the first day they started work (or even prior, probably comes with the offer letter).
Why shouldn't they go after these news/ rumor sites? What better way to find those that did break the NDAs than to get the information from the people the employees told? For all we know (and most likely), getting the information from the news sites is the only way to stop these leaks.
What's left? $115M, a measly $57M per year of profits.
;))
I know many a smaller company that would kill for an extra $60 million a year in profit (and growing rapidly, I might add
plus I am sure that Apple isn't complaining that something they planned on using as a loss leader to sell iPods is actually turning a profit.
totally agree. I'm typing this on my 3 year old Powerbook G4/ 667. It's running 10.3.7 with absolutely no problems, and as much as I *want* to put down for a new PB, in reality, I don't need to, as this still does everything it needs/ I want it to, and still feels fast and responsive.
:)
This little baby will probably be running Tiger in about 6 months as well.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.
try that
actually, if you read the recent gamespot article on the HL2 development backstory ("Final Hours"), it mentions that TF2 is still in the works and will be on the Source engine (and most likely available through - you guessed it - Steam).
then turn it off. It's an audio option in the setup.
This time as in Fable? I'll be the first to admit that while it might not have met the insanely lofty expectations, this game has sold well, and was/ is actually pretty fun to boot.
Wait, if Firefox can get better, why can't IE? They're both just code, both have problems, and both have really smart people working on them.
I have nothing for or against either browser. In fact, as part of my job is web design, I *need* both, (and even throw in Safari for fun).
Don't forget that Firefox came from mozilla, which is turn is a rewrite of a once dominant browser in Netscape. That was broke too. IE can be fixed, even if it takes as much as a rewrite.
Indigo FAQ (slightly outdated, but does the trick)
I can predict where OS X will be next summer - integrated search across the OS and all apps (Spotlight - in Tiger), and a full HW accelerated graphics system for the desktop (Quartz Extreme - available now). That's two out of the big three things that Longhorn is/was touted to have in 2006 (but have apparently been pushed back to a service pack) The other is Indigo, a web services-based communications infrastructure, fyi.
I'd also have to assume that OS X 10.5 will have enhanced usability features that'll knock the socks off of Longhorn, or at least it will if The Steve (or his Reality Distortion Field) has anything to say about it.
and for the record, I own a powerbook running panther and a windows machine. Windows for coding and the occasional game, and the powerbook for daily use.
what? it does. it shows them in the status bar. At least mine does in OS X 10.3 (Safari 1.2.3 (v125.9))
or am I looking at the wrong thing? perhaps I need a link with an alt tag to see your complaint?
Frankly, i don't understand. You get no twins games, but you're in the local market, correct? Where are the twins games being broadcast then? As you are in that local market (supposedly), you should get the local channels, which should have some games, and you should also get the Regional Sports Network for that area. Again, if it's not on the local channels, and not on the regional sports network (or blacked out), odds are no one else in the local area, sat or not, are getting these games. can't fault DTV for that.
in regards to the home media option, yes this is a sore spot. I will admit that i would love to have this feature, but then again, no other sat/ cable providers offer this, with the exception of a few small beta tests (mostly in California) for Digeo's Moxi platform.
As for the HD content, sorry to hear you jumped off the dtv wagon. Bravo HD was added about a week ago, and word on the street is that TNT-HD, and inHD1 and 2 (HD PPV) will follow soon, not to mention ESPN2 HD in January. Not counting the Voom-only/ exclusive HD channels, DTV carries or will carry soon, just about every available HD channel out there (plus 100 NFL games this season via Sunday Ticket), so you can't really blame them for a lack of HD content. The big stuff comes next summer - HD locals to the top 50 or so markets (Minneapolis-St. Paul is #14 on the DMA list, so you'd be almost guaranteed to see HD locals next summer) with the rest of the locals being added in 2007.
And on the TiVo side, you find that you feel oblgated to watch stuff that tivo records and that you enjoy? Isn't that the point/ benefit of the TiVo, rather than an issue?
fyi Bravo HD also just started broadcasting on dtv and I believe is part of the HD package.
also, if you are an NFL Sunday Ticket subscriber, you get access to over 100 HD football games this year, even if you don't subscribe to the HD package.
star trek actually has 10 movies currently (Nemesis was also known as Star Trek X.
and Police Academy 8 comes out in 2006