The codecs need to be available as quicktime plugins and they must be compiled as universal or intel binaries. The 3ivx and flip4mac wmv codecs are not yet available as universal binaries. There is a beta of the universal version of the official DivX quicktime plugin though.
I plugged a friend's creative USB audio card into my mac and "it just worked". It showed up under the sound control panel as an output source and it supports 5.1.
I'm sorry, but if everyone else can make a map application that works on all platforms then so can Microsoft. The fact that they've decided to only support IE is so typical... and irritating. I might actually use their site if it worked with Safari. Is that too much to ask?
I have personally purchased two servers from Dell under my companies microsoft select agreement. Both servers had the drives wiped and Linux reinstalled as soon as we received them. Surely those counted as sales of Windows 2003 Server.
So, subtract 12,000 from the microsoft total and add it to the *nix total. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done this.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this exploit can only affect items that the user has rights to. If a script were written to make changes to the system, OSX should prompt you for your password, right?
Apple hardly ever, as in never, moves their prices around. They have a preset price tier and they slide upgraded products into the price points instead of lowering prices on the existing products.
The only case where this wasn't necessarily true was with the PowerBook. The price of the 17" dropped around 500 dollars over the course of a year because of their inability to update the processor. It was stuck at 1.5GHz for over a year.
You're making the common mistake of using market share to measure success. I invite you to compare General Motors or Ford with Porsche. Porsche doesn't have 95% market share, they don't even have 5% market share - yet they are the most profitable car company in the world. Now this is an extreme example, but it's foolish to assume that because Apple doesn't have the majority of the market that they are a failure. Quite the opposite I think...
I doubt apple is planning on dropping Firewire. 99% of video cameras use Firewire and Firewire only. Very few devices have adopted Firewire 800 though, so very few people use it. Not only that, but Firewire trumps USB 2.0 in every single benchmark that I've ever seen.
I'm still disappointed that they dropped it though.
Right you are. Saying that hackers target windows because of it's market share IS sticking your head in the sand. In my opinion, OSX is a bigger target than windows because writing viruses is about fame. Who's going to be more famous, the guy who writes exploit #72,587 for windows or the guy who writes the FIRST exploit for OSX?
To me it sounds like this outrage and alarm is due to the "Just for You" feature of the iTunes music store. I was under the impression that it only made suggestions based on your past purchase history, NOT from which tracks or genres you listen to most often within iTunes.
At first glance, this appears to be the case, looking at the suggestions it provides to me - they're nothing like the music I listen to the most, but closely related to a few tracks that I purchased from the store.
So unless someone has actually caught iTunes sending your listening history back to Apple's servers, I'd call this misguided FUD.
An increase in weight will in fact increase the friction with the road but it will also increase the forward momentum by the same amount. Think about it... what stops better, an empty tractor trailer or a loaded one?
If you take a volkswagen rabbit (very light car, 1700 lbs or so) and do a 60-0 stop test and then redo the test with 500 pounds of weights in the car, it will definitely stop faster empty.
A very light car with properly sized brakes and properly sized tires will stop faster than a heavier one. It will also corner better (take the lotus elise for example).
Both cars & SUVs are made from steel though. Your analogy only works if the SUV cabin is proportionally strong with its increase in weight. If an SUV weighs 2x as much as a car, then the passenger cabin had better be 2x as strong.
Scenario A:
If two objects weighing 1 run into each other at 30 and they have a structural rigidity of 1
Scenario B:
Two different objects weighing 2 run into each other at 30 and have a structural rigidity of 1.5
In Scenario B, the objects (SUVs) has 100% more force and only 50% as much strength. There will be more carnage as a result of this scenario.
If everyone drove cars that weighed 2,000 pounds instead of 4,000 pounds, the roads would be a lot safer. Not only would there be less carnage in an accident, but lighter cars are more agile so there would be fewer accidents per capita.
Every time I find a website that "doesn't support" Safari or Firefox, I send them an email saying that their web developer's are completely incompetent if they can't write code that works in all major browsers.
I dunno if it does any good, but as a web developer, it angers me to no end when I see these messages. I know how easy it is to make CSS and JavaScript work properly for the big 3. I develop using Safari and then check in Firefox and IE afterward. I very rarely have to change anything for FireFox... and that's the ironic part, all of the special hacks and workarounds are for IE specifically.
About a month ago I looked high and low for an open source, multiplatform VoIP solution for our company's LAN. I found a few great jabber servers, but much to my surprise/dismay, I couldn't find any clients that supported voice, only text IM.
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This just raised an interesting question that I hadn't thought about before...
When you compile an ap in xcode as a universal binary, how does a PPC chip compile code for x86 and vice versa?
What is the time difference if you compile your project on the PowerBook as PPC only?
I have a set of bolt cutters that will snap through that lock in 1.5 seconds.
The codecs need to be available as quicktime plugins and they must be compiled as universal or intel binaries. The 3ivx and flip4mac wmv codecs are not yet available as universal binaries. There is a beta of the universal version of the official DivX quicktime plugin though.
I plugged a friend's creative USB audio card into my mac and "it just worked". It showed up under the sound control panel as an output source and it supports 5.1.
I'm sorry, but if everyone else can make a map application that works on all platforms then so can Microsoft. The fact that they've decided to only support IE is so typical... and irritating. I might actually use their site if it worked with Safari. Is that too much to ask?
I have personally purchased two servers from Dell under my companies microsoft select agreement. Both servers had the drives wiped and Linux reinstalled as soon as we received them. Surely those counted as sales of Windows 2003 Server.
So, subtract 12,000 from the microsoft total and add it to the *nix total. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done this.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this exploit can only affect items that the user has rights to. If a script were written to make changes to the system, OSX should prompt you for your password, right?
I digg it! err...
This trojan is compiled as a PPC binary too.
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
Current iMacs have mini DVI connectors on them and can span the desktop onto a second monitor as well as mirror it.
Apple hardly ever, as in never, moves their prices around. They have a preset price tier and they slide upgraded products into the price points instead of lowering prices on the existing products. The only case where this wasn't necessarily true was with the PowerBook. The price of the 17" dropped around 500 dollars over the course of a year because of their inability to update the processor. It was stuck at 1.5GHz for over a year.
It would be unwise for Apple to release a photoshop competitor. Look what happened to the Mac version of Premier when Apple released Final Cut Pro...
"Yet despite all of this, it doesn't succeed."
You're making the common mistake of using market share to measure success. I invite you to compare General Motors or Ford with Porsche. Porsche doesn't have 95% market share, they don't even have 5% market share - yet they are the most profitable car company in the world. Now this is an extreme example, but it's foolish to assume that because Apple doesn't have the majority of the market that they are a failure. Quite the opposite I think...
The post that I was responding too was talking about the size of uncompressed HDV footage.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the formula is:
width * height * bit depth * frame rate = data rate
So: 1920 * 1024 * 24 * 30 = 1415577600 bits per second or 168.75 Mb/s
I doubt apple is planning on dropping Firewire. 99% of video cameras use Firewire and Firewire only. Very few devices have adopted Firewire 800 though, so very few people use it. Not only that, but Firewire trumps USB 2.0 in every single benchmark that I've ever seen.
I'm still disappointed that they dropped it though.
Right you are. Saying that hackers target windows because of it's market share IS sticking your head in the sand. In my opinion, OSX is a bigger target than windows because writing viruses is about fame. Who's going to be more famous, the guy who writes exploit #72,587 for windows or the guy who writes the FIRST exploit for OSX?
Of course! We give all kinds of incompetent idiots driver's licenses. Everything is always designed for the lowest common denominator.
The article is down, so I'm going by the summary.
To me it sounds like this outrage and alarm is due to the "Just for You" feature of the iTunes music store. I was under the impression that it only made suggestions based on your past purchase history, NOT from which tracks or genres you listen to most often within iTunes.
At first glance, this appears to be the case, looking at the suggestions it provides to me - they're nothing like the music I listen to the most, but closely related to a few tracks that I purchased from the store.
So unless someone has actually caught iTunes sending your listening history back to Apple's servers, I'd call this misguided FUD.
Yeah, seriously. I would have settled for ProBook even... but MacBook Pro? wtf!?
I think your logic is flawed.
An increase in weight will in fact increase the friction with the road but it will also increase the forward momentum by the same amount. Think about it... what stops better, an empty tractor trailer or a loaded one?
If you take a volkswagen rabbit (very light car, 1700 lbs or so) and do a 60-0 stop test and then redo the test with 500 pounds of weights in the car, it will definitely stop faster empty.
A very light car with properly sized brakes and properly sized tires will stop faster than a heavier one. It will also corner better (take the lotus elise for example).
While I agree with you, this came to mind:
Both cars & SUVs are made from steel though. Your analogy only works if the SUV cabin is proportionally strong with its increase in weight. If an SUV weighs 2x as much as a car, then the passenger cabin had better be 2x as strong.
Scenario A:
If two objects weighing 1 run into each other at 30 and they have a structural rigidity of 1
Scenario B:
Two different objects weighing 2 run into each other at 30 and have a structural rigidity of 1.5
In Scenario B, the objects (SUVs) has 100% more force and only 50% as much strength. There will be more carnage as a result of this scenario.
If everyone drove cars that weighed 2,000 pounds instead of 4,000 pounds, the roads would be a lot safer. Not only would there be less carnage in an accident, but lighter cars are more agile so there would be fewer accidents per capita.
And the top two posts under apple category are.... http://apple.slashdot.org/
Who cares anyway? IE for the mac has been meaningless since Safari arrived.
Every time I find a website that "doesn't support" Safari or Firefox, I send them an email saying that their web developer's are completely incompetent if they can't write code that works in all major browsers.
I dunno if it does any good, but as a web developer, it angers me to no end when I see these messages. I know how easy it is to make CSS and JavaScript work properly for the big 3. I develop using Safari and then check in Firefox and IE afterward. I very rarely have to change anything for FireFox... and that's the ironic part, all of the special hacks and workarounds are for IE specifically.
About a month ago I looked high and low for an open source, multiplatform VoIP solution for our company's LAN. I found a few great jabber servers, but much to my surprise/dismay, I couldn't find any clients that supported voice, only text IM.