Thanks for that link. I had seen the other pages before but the Developer Connection article gives a lot more detail of the internal workings.
It sounds a pretty neat system and the actual indexing overhead will only be when file is changed.
I am waiting to get a new Mac until next year when hopefully there will be more G5 models at cheaper prices with Tiger pre-installed. Have had 2 years since getting my first Mac (a G3 iBook)which I now use almost exclusively at home and feel the need for a desktop so I can consign the Win boxes to SETI and games only.
I admit to being quite a high mileage motorist (for a Brit). About 22,000 mles a year. But I use a very small car which gets around 45 miles per UK gallon or motorbike, around 57 mpg.
Regretably even in England there is a trend to ever bigger gas guzzlers often only used for shopping and clogging up the rush hour traffic doing the couple of mile school run in a huge 4x4 or MPV ( commonly refered to as a Chelsea Taxi). When you consider the impact of moving 2 to 3 tons around with a barely warm engine doing about 10 mpg under those conditions then you know it can't go on like this much longer.
What are legs for? Or can they barely support the increasingly clinically obese lumps of lard atop them.
To quote the infamous UK politician, Norman Tebbit ":On yer bike!"
Well, as an EU citizen, I for one eagerly await the arrival of our new alien slimeball overlords. Anything is better than the current lot in the White House.
A number of people have mentioned the similarity to the forthcoming STALKER-Oblivion Lost game but you should reference the original prophetic book and later film.
"Stalker" was a film from the great russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky who also did the original version of "Solaris".
It was based on a SF novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky called "Roadside Picnic". This was a very strange, mystical account of a group of people been escorted round a forbiden "Zone" by a local guide (Stalker) in search of a special place deep within. The Zone was supposedly a result of a "Stopover" by aliens who left various artifacts behind although there were analogies to a nuclear wasteland area.
Tarkovsky filmed it in a very polluted industrial town in Russia and this is blamed for the lung cancer he developed. A lot of the crew and cast also later developed cancer. It was his last film and released in the early 80s about 4 years before Chernobyl. It is regarded as being very prophetic of the later events and the images on the russian girls site really evoke memories of the book and film.
I'm also reminded of reading "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" for that lonely feel of it all.
I would love to take a bike trip through that place. And yes, she is one hot biker chick.
Loaaded iTunes 4.1 on my iBook, OSX 10.2.8
Brilliant! Improved responsiveness. Better visualisations.
Decided to load on my PC. Athlon 2400+ dual booting Win 98/2000 so I could share libraries and have the iTunes experience on the PC as well. After the obligratory reboot after install Win 2000 just hangs on startup. Won't even boot in safe mode, command prompt or debug. Still boots Win 98 though. Bollocks!!!!! Good job I use the iBook has the main machine now. Don't know whether to blame Apple, Microsoft or crappy x86 hardware. Looks like reinstall time yet again. Shit!!!
We have had to suffer the indignity of naff remakes of "Get Carter" and "The Italian Job" but this is too much.
I fail to see how Yanks can understand and appreciate the very British blend of irony and self depreciating humour. Don't knock the BBC TV series. The low budget effects fit the subject and humour style very well.
Why does everything have to be totally dumbed down to cater for Yank taste. How about trying to introduce them to a bit of subtlety.
An "Old European"
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Thanks for that link. I had seen the other pages before but the Developer Connection article gives a lot more detail of the internal workings. It sounds a pretty neat system and the actual indexing overhead will only be when file is changed. I am waiting to get a new Mac until next year when hopefully there will be more G5 models at cheaper prices with Tiger pre-installed. Have had 2 years since getting my first Mac (a G3 iBook)which I now use almost exclusively at home and feel the need for a desktop so I can consign the Win boxes to SETI and games only.
I admit to being quite a high mileage motorist (for a Brit). About 22,000 mles a year. But I use a very small car which gets around 45 miles per UK gallon or motorbike, around 57 mpg. Regretably even in England there is a trend to ever bigger gas guzzlers often only used for shopping and clogging up the rush hour traffic doing the couple of mile school run in a huge 4x4 or MPV ( commonly refered to as a Chelsea Taxi). When you consider the impact of moving 2 to 3 tons around with a barely warm engine doing about 10 mpg under those conditions then you know it can't go on like this much longer. What are legs for? Or can they barely support the increasingly clinically obese lumps of lard atop them. To quote the infamous UK politician, Norman Tebbit ":On yer bike!"
Well, as an EU citizen, I for one eagerly await the arrival of our new alien slimeball overlords. Anything is better than the current lot in the White House.
The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat.
A number of people have mentioned the similarity to the forthcoming STALKER-Oblivion Lost game but you should reference the original prophetic book and later film. "Stalker" was a film from the great russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky who also did the original version of "Solaris". It was based on a SF novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky called "Roadside Picnic". This was a very strange, mystical account of a group of people been escorted round a forbiden "Zone" by a local guide (Stalker) in search of a special place deep within. The Zone was supposedly a result of a "Stopover" by aliens who left various artifacts behind although there were analogies to a nuclear wasteland area. Tarkovsky filmed it in a very polluted industrial town in Russia and this is blamed for the lung cancer he developed. A lot of the crew and cast also later developed cancer. It was his last film and released in the early 80s about 4 years before Chernobyl. It is regarded as being very prophetic of the later events and the images on the russian girls site really evoke memories of the book and film. I'm also reminded of reading "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" for that lonely feel of it all. I would love to take a bike trip through that place. And yes, she is one hot biker chick.
Loaaded iTunes 4.1 on my iBook, OSX 10.2.8 Brilliant! Improved responsiveness. Better visualisations. Decided to load on my PC. Athlon 2400+ dual booting Win 98/2000 so I could share libraries and have the iTunes experience on the PC as well. After the obligratory reboot after install Win 2000 just hangs on startup. Won't even boot in safe mode, command prompt or debug. Still boots Win 98 though. Bollocks!!!!! Good job I use the iBook has the main machine now. Don't know whether to blame Apple, Microsoft or crappy x86 hardware. Looks like reinstall time yet again. Shit!!!
We have had to suffer the indignity of naff remakes of "Get Carter" and "The Italian Job" but this is too much. I fail to see how Yanks can understand and appreciate the very British blend of irony and self depreciating humour. Don't knock the BBC TV series. The low budget effects fit the subject and humour style very well. Why does everything have to be totally dumbed down to cater for Yank taste. How about trying to introduce them to a bit of subtlety. An "Old European"