There's a BIG difference between requiring a license key, and using a phone-home activation mechanism to watchdog how crimin... I mean *your users* use your software.
Also, it should be noted that the OS that the vast majority of Mac users use is Mac OS X, not Mac OS X Server. The former requires NO license key whatsoever. In fact, none of Apple's consumer-level products use license keys.
As far as most Windows-using folks I know are concerned, the one big reason they use the Microsoft OS instead of a Mac is because the games they want to play aren't available for Mac OS X. Not like it would cause a mass exodus or anything, but it would be more ammo for your average Mac evangelist.
Comic Life - lets you make comic strips that look completely professional, multiple frame, lettering, baloon styles, etc.
GarageBand - complete multi-track sequencer for both MIDI and analog audio, hundreds of loops, effects, etc.
iChat - AIM and Jabber client
iDvd - Create professional-quality menus for the video you edit in iMovie.
iMovie HD - Edit the video you've shot with your digital video camera
iPhoto - Full-featured photo viewing, sorting, and correction
OmniOutliner - Quick tool for taking notes, insert images, record audio clips, export tree as DHTML
Preview - All-purpose image viewer for all formats supported by the OS and QuickTime.
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There's no reason to limit development to Flash or Java, because Cocoa is available on the platform.
They'd be stupid not to do a Wii version. The Guitar Hero SG Controller would be much less expensive to produce for the Wii... all you need is a rectangular slot where the Wii Remote snaps in, and then you only have to wire up some buttons. The Wiimote provides all the controller logic, motion sensitivity, wireless electronics, etc. Of course, the retail price wouldn't necessarily be any lower, and the company could make a lot more on every Wii version sold, or pass some of the savings on to the customer.
For the PS3 or XBox, all of that would have to be built into the SG Controller, making it much more expensive. I suppose you COULD find some way to wedge a Sixaxis into the guitar, or something, but that seems pretty messed up.
Since I'm big on respecting the brands these companies develop, I'll point out that "Nintendo Wii" is incorrect. It is simply, "Wii". If you want to throw the maker in there, it should be called, "Wii from Nintendo".
Damn, well, that fills my Geek Quota for about a month... I'm outta here.
As a fellow AOL employee, I wish I had mod points for you, sir.
I'm a member of our Local Search Products team, and I can assure every employee in a far-off branch of the company that AOL is far from dead weight. We make an assload of money with our web products, and our online advertising business is growing faster than anyone else's. Before you speak, check the balance sheet.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing on Woz or any of the judges (well, maybe J. Allard just a little... Mr. Before-And-After himself), I just don't think that the three named judges exactly have their fingers on the pulse of today's Mac user.
I think Honda and Toyota deserve the worst punishment of all, because if those two had gotten behind hydrogen technology when General Motors shared their research with everyone, we'd be able to buy fuel-cell-powered vehicles by now. Instead, GM has been forced to spend time and money developing hybrids of their own so as not to appear behind the curve. In reality, however, they're leaps and bounds ahead.
If anyone deserves to be removed from this list, it's GM. They're the only ones pushing forward the technology that will make no-compromise, zero-emission vehicles a reality.
I told them. The MacBook Pro opened the Dashboard, and showed me the 10-point increase Apple's stock price over the past month. The Mac Mini just sat there grinning silently.
Granted, I had the same concerns about the last Nintendo home console. I also had the same concerns about the DS. I mean, come on, a touch screen? How can *that* be fun?
Well, it IS fun. It's also a smashing success. How do I explain the difference between DS and GameCube? Simple: Iwata Satoru. The man is exactly what the company needed. Under his influence, company is becoming technology- and developer-driven, and that makes for all kinds of innovation. He is understated and quiet, but seems to have his finger on the pulse of what gamers want... and (more importantly) what they never knew they wanted.
The pre-announcement hype affected nearly nobody who will ultimately own the Wii. It's a new ball game from here. It will all come down to Nintendo's PR campaign, which is something Iwata-san has expressed definite concern about. He acknowledges that it will be difficult to convey what the Wii offers to casual gamers and older adults. When a man like him is concerned about a problem, it will be overcome.
Bottom line: I have no reason not to trust Iwata-san, despite the untruths offered by other Nintendo representatives. He's the man in charge, and has proven to me that he knows how to use timing, talent, passion, and craftsmanship to deliver a superior experience. DS is amazing; I can't wait for Wii.
The successful Hydrogen Economy is within our grasp, and I'm disgusted by companies creating new hybrid designs that are still nothing but half-measures in reducing carbon dioxide and particulate emissions. If there's one thing that hybrids have proven, it's that electric car technology can work really well when backed up by an energy-generating powerplant. But if that powerplant is a fossil-fuel burning engine, you're still polluting, and you're not part of the solution.
If hydrogen didn't work, I'd be less vocal. But it does work, and if companies like Honda and Toyota had gotten behind it when GM shared their research, we'd probably have it by now. Quite the opposite has happened: GM has been forced to spend time and effort developing hybrid vehicles so that they don't appear to be behind the curve, when in reality they are leaps and bounds ahead.
Hydrogen works, and will work more smoothly as time goes on. Breakthroughs in photovoltaic cells are making it possible to electrolyze water at a much faster rate without using power from the grid. This means that soon, any gas station with a water supply and exposure to sunlight can make its own hydrogen on site. Larger solar facilities can be set up to create supplies for darker regions and high periods of demand. In the mean time, we can keep Big Oil happy by using the hydrogen they can produce by chemically, cleanly refining fossil fuels to extract as much hydrogen as possible.
The "mini-Hindenburg" stuff is tired and inaccurate: GM's compressed hydrogen tanks can now take a lot more abuse than a gas tank can without exploding (and anything with a enough potential energy will discharge violently when roughed up enough, including the lithium-ion batteries in a plug-in hybrid).
Next year you're going to start seeing the GM Sequel all over the place, and it will become clear that hydrogen works, and hybrids were a stop-gap. By developing/building/supporting/buying hybrid vehicles, you may have helped to reduce your CO2 footprint slightly, but you've ultimately solved nothing.
I was actually just about to post a reply that said something to the effect of, "sounds like something Apple might try to pull. Except that they don't."
The Mac boot chime respects the audio setting, even if completely muted.
This is exactly what I'm hoping for. While I doubt Zune has a chance to "unseat" Apple, they have enough money to become a solid competitor. Nothing spurs innovation like healthy competition.
Bring it, Microsoft. And we'll have none of your shenanigans... let's see you really innovate, and take it to Apple on their turf this time.
they just need to follow the same trail as with Palm
OK, so all they need is for Steve to kill the iPod. That is, after all, how Palm gained dominance. And they got lucky... contrary to popular belief, there was no solid business reason to kill the Newton.
With the release of NewtonOS 2.0, and the zippy MessagePad 2000 hardware, the platform was growing incredibly fast. There were complex apps in development for the handheld that easily topped their Mac-based competitors/counterparts.
Newton, however, was John Sculley's baby, so killing it was a good way to get back at the guy. Steve, after his return to Apple, was even rumored to have smashed a few of them against the wall in anger at a leaked Mac design.
iPod is not going anywhere; Microsoft won't have Palm's luck here.
Oh, sorry! In that case, it's all good. I'm sure there was just the one security hole in Vista, and now it's patched. Microsoft, please continue the securbole.
Ya like that? See what I did there? I combined security and hyperbole. It's mine, don't wear it out.
It's the best kept secret in web application development. The WebObjects frameworks, written in 100% Java, provide myriad front-end presentation objects, and keep your view and controller logic separated nicely. For your model, WebObjects features a back-end called EOF (Enterprise Objects Framework) which provides direct object-based access to the database. It eliminates writing SQL code, even when complex relationships are involved. It's all handled for you.
Lots of large-scale apps are deployed on it, including Apple's.Mac web suite, Walt Disney World reservations.
If you're looking to enjoy writing web apps, check it out; it's free. One catch: you can deploy WebObjects applications on virtually any platform, but the development tools are on Mac OS X.
Developing and publishing a successful, mainstream home console game is a massive undertaking, in terms of both funding and staffing. Hundreds, even thousands of people; millions upon millions of dollars. Many smaller, more innovative development houses are left out in the cold, or relegated to cheaper platforms, like GameBoy Advance.
It's a problem upon which Nintendo has set its sights this time around. Satoru Iwata, Nintendo Corporation's (ex-developer) President has repeatedly stressed how disappointed by the current state of game creation.
Not much is known for sure at this time, but many are speculating that it will be easy to build and sell games for Nintendo's Virtual Console service. Several sources have also speculated that a Wii Developer Kit will cost about US$2,000.00. Now if Nintendo could only somehow help with the other costs of marketing and publishing a new console game, it could bring a lot of cool games to a lackluster industry.
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There's a BIG difference between requiring a license key, and using a phone-home activation mechanism to watchdog how crimin... I mean *your users* use your software.
Also, it should be noted that the OS that the vast majority of Mac users use is Mac OS X, not Mac OS X Server. The former requires NO license key whatsoever. In fact, none of Apple's consumer-level products use license keys.
As far as most Windows-using folks I know are concerned, the one big reason they use the Microsoft OS instead of a Mac is because the games they want to play aren't available for Mac OS X. Not like it would cause a mass exodus or anything, but it would be more ammo for your average Mac evangelist.
Just to illuminate some of these apps a bit:
Comic Life - lets you make comic strips that look completely professional, multiple frame, lettering, baloon styles, etc.
GarageBand - complete multi-track sequencer for both MIDI and analog audio, hundreds of loops, effects, etc.
iChat - AIM and Jabber client
iDvd - Create professional-quality menus for the video you edit in iMovie.
iMovie HD - Edit the video you've shot with your digital video camera
iPhoto - Full-featured photo viewing, sorting, and correction
OmniOutliner - Quick tool for taking notes, insert images, record audio clips, export tree as DHTML
Preview - All-purpose image viewer for all formats supported by the OS and QuickTime.
There's no reason to limit development to Flash or Java, because Cocoa is available on the platform.
They'd be stupid not to do a Wii version. The Guitar Hero SG Controller would be much less expensive to produce for the Wii... all you need is a rectangular slot where the Wii Remote snaps in, and then you only have to wire up some buttons. The Wiimote provides all the controller logic, motion sensitivity, wireless electronics, etc. Of course, the retail price wouldn't necessarily be any lower, and the company could make a lot more on every Wii version sold, or pass some of the savings on to the customer.
For the PS3 or XBox, all of that would have to be built into the SG Controller, making it much more expensive. I suppose you COULD find some way to wedge a Sixaxis into the guitar, or something, but that seems pretty messed up.
Since I'm big on respecting the brands these companies develop, I'll point out that "Nintendo Wii" is incorrect. It is simply, "Wii". If you want to throw the maker in there, it should be called, "Wii from Nintendo".
Damn, well, that fills my Geek Quota for about a month... I'm outta here.
I usually refrain, but this post was damned near unreadable. Punctuation and capitalization are important.
As a fellow AOL employee, I wish I had mod points for you, sir.
I'm a member of our Local Search Products team, and I can assure every employee in a far-off branch of the company that AOL is far from dead weight. We make an assload of money with our web products, and our online advertising business is growing faster than anyone else's. Before you speak, check the balance sheet.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing on Woz or any of the judges (well, maybe J. Allard just a little... Mr. Before-And-After himself), I just don't think that the three named judges exactly have their fingers on the pulse of today's Mac user.
I think Honda and Toyota deserve the worst punishment of all, because if those two had gotten behind hydrogen technology when General Motors shared their research with everyone, we'd be able to buy fuel-cell-powered vehicles by now. Instead, GM has been forced to spend time and money developing hybrids of their own so as not to appear behind the curve. In reality, however, they're leaps and bounds ahead.
If anyone deserves to be removed from this list, it's GM. They're the only ones pushing forward the technology that will make no-compromise, zero-emission vehicles a reality.
According to the Apple Death Knell Counter, as of the date of this posting, you'd have exactly $2.55.
I told them. The MacBook Pro opened the Dashboard, and showed me the 10-point increase Apple's stock price over the past month. The Mac Mini just sat there grinning silently.
Granted, I had the same concerns about the last Nintendo home console. I also had the same concerns about the DS. I mean, come on, a touch screen? How can *that* be fun?
Well, it IS fun. It's also a smashing success. How do I explain the difference between DS and GameCube? Simple: Iwata Satoru. The man is exactly what the company needed. Under his influence, company is becoming technology- and developer-driven, and that makes for all kinds of innovation. He is understated and quiet, but seems to have his finger on the pulse of what gamers want... and (more importantly) what they never knew they wanted.
The pre-announcement hype affected nearly nobody who will ultimately own the Wii. It's a new ball game from here. It will all come down to Nintendo's PR campaign, which is something Iwata-san has expressed definite concern about. He acknowledges that it will be difficult to convey what the Wii offers to casual gamers and older adults. When a man like him is concerned about a problem, it will be overcome.
Bottom line: I have no reason not to trust Iwata-san, despite the untruths offered by other Nintendo representatives. He's the man in charge, and has proven to me that he knows how to use timing, talent, passion, and craftsmanship to deliver a superior experience. DS is amazing; I can't wait for Wii.
The successful Hydrogen Economy is within our grasp, and I'm disgusted by companies creating new hybrid designs that are still nothing but half-measures in reducing carbon dioxide and particulate emissions. If there's one thing that hybrids have proven, it's that electric car technology can work really well when backed up by an energy-generating powerplant. But if that powerplant is a fossil-fuel burning engine, you're still polluting, and you're not part of the solution.
If hydrogen didn't work, I'd be less vocal. But it does work, and if companies like Honda and Toyota had gotten behind it when GM shared their research, we'd probably have it by now. Quite the opposite has happened: GM has been forced to spend time and effort developing hybrid vehicles so that they don't appear to be behind the curve, when in reality they are leaps and bounds ahead.
Hydrogen works, and will work more smoothly as time goes on. Breakthroughs in photovoltaic cells are making it possible to electrolyze water at a much faster rate without using power from the grid. This means that soon, any gas station with a water supply and exposure to sunlight can make its own hydrogen on site. Larger solar facilities can be set up to create supplies for darker regions and high periods of demand. In the mean time, we can keep Big Oil happy by using the hydrogen they can produce by chemically, cleanly refining fossil fuels to extract as much hydrogen as possible.
The "mini-Hindenburg" stuff is tired and inaccurate: GM's compressed hydrogen tanks can now take a lot more abuse than a gas tank can without exploding (and anything with a enough potential energy will discharge violently when roughed up enough, including the lithium-ion batteries in a plug-in hybrid).
Next year you're going to start seeing the GM Sequel all over the place, and it will become clear that hydrogen works, and hybrids were a stop-gap. By developing/building/supporting/buying hybrid vehicles, you may have helped to reduce your CO2 footprint slightly, but you've ultimately solved nothing.
Then use Option-COMMAND-Click. That hides ALL other applications, except the one selected.
I was actually just about to post a reply that said something to the effect of, "sounds like something Apple might try to pull. Except that they don't."
The Mac boot chime respects the audio setting, even if completely muted.
...WiFi, and a bigger screen, it's game over for Zune? And heck, isn't that already in the works?
The rumor mill certainly points to a full-face, touch-sensitive screen; and if Apple wasn't going to include WiFi before, they certainly will now.
Seems like Zune couldn't possibly stand up to that.
This is exactly what I'm hoping for. While I doubt Zune has a chance to "unseat" Apple, they have enough money to become a solid competitor. Nothing spurs innovation like healthy competition.
Bring it, Microsoft. And we'll have none of your shenanigans... let's see you really innovate, and take it to Apple on their turf this time.
OK, so all they need is for Steve to kill the iPod. That is, after all, how Palm gained dominance. And they got lucky... contrary to popular belief, there was no solid business reason to kill the Newton.
With the release of NewtonOS 2.0, and the zippy MessagePad 2000 hardware, the platform was growing incredibly fast. There were complex apps in development for the handheld that easily topped their Mac-based competitors/counterparts.
Newton, however, was John Sculley's baby, so killing it was a good way to get back at the guy. Steve, after his return to Apple, was even rumored to have smashed a few of them against the wall in anger at a leaked Mac design.
iPod is not going anywhere; Microsoft won't have Palm's luck here.
I'd guess that there are at least a few Apple employees who have been looking at quad-core-ready boards for some time now :)
I'm sure the government of Vomania will benefit highly from my URL mistakes.
Oh, sorry! In that case, it's all good. I'm sure there was just the one security hole in Vista, and now it's patched. Microsoft, please continue the securbole.
Ya like that? See what I did there? I combined security and hyperbole. It's mine, don't wear it out.
It's the best kept secret in web application development. The WebObjects frameworks, written in 100% Java, provide myriad front-end presentation objects, and keep your view and controller logic separated nicely. For your model, WebObjects features a back-end called EOF (Enterprise Objects Framework) which provides direct object-based access to the database. It eliminates writing SQL code, even when complex relationships are involved. It's all handled for you.
.Mac web suite, Walt Disney World reservations.
Lots of large-scale apps are deployed on it, including Apple's
If you're looking to enjoy writing web apps, check it out; it's free. One catch: you can deploy WebObjects applications on virtually any platform, but the development tools are on Mac OS X.
Developing and publishing a successful, mainstream home console game is a massive undertaking, in terms of both funding and staffing. Hundreds, even thousands of people; millions upon millions of dollars. Many smaller, more innovative development houses are left out in the cold, or relegated to cheaper platforms, like GameBoy Advance.
It's a problem upon which Nintendo has set its sights this time around. Satoru Iwata, Nintendo Corporation's (ex-developer) President has repeatedly stressed how disappointed by the current state of game creation.
Not much is known for sure at this time, but many are speculating that it will be easy to build and sell games for Nintendo's Virtual Console service. Several sources have also speculated that a Wii Developer Kit will cost about US$2,000.00. Now if Nintendo could only somehow help with the other costs of marketing and publishing a new console game, it could bring a lot of cool games to a lackluster industry.