Amen. They're about as bad as the people saying "when will we ever get this at home?" in the stories about new data transfer speed records like the 14Tbit one a few days ago.
Troll much? I have a Sawtooth G4 with an upgraded CPU to 1.4GHz 1.5GB PC100 SDRAM and I can run the videos completely fine. They look as good as any SDTV rips I've downloaded. Your Powerbook if you even really have one has DDR RAM and a faster system bus than my computer and mine plays videos just fine.
There's more to it than just the core. There's all the rest of the CPU which includes cache(usually shared for dual core while separate on dual CPUs) and the rest of the interconnects for connecting to the motherboard and whatnot.
There's no update manager. It checks in the background to a URL that replies with the current version. App checks own version against this. How hard is that? It's a lot easier than having to write code to tie into some OS managed service. You even say the software provider has to provide the current latest version number. Why not have the application do it itself with probably less than 10 lines of code(Thanks to Cocoa it's really easy) than some other convoluted method. Apple even has an example of how to do this on their developer website.
Most programs have an auto update check themselves. It shouldn't be up to the OS to check every single program for updates it should be the program itself that should notify you of updates.
Bell Canada has their IPTV deployed in some condos in Toronto mostly. They're going very slow with their deployment since last year they had summer 2006 as the completion date and as far as anyone can tell they haven't really deployed much more since last year. They're upgrading their remote terminals but not installing a lot of IPTV over DSL yet. This might have to do with the MS software but I don't know.
I agree. If all the theatres were as good or close to IMAX then it'd be well worth the $12. As it is now all the film based projectors have wobbly images since the film seems to move back and forth a bit in the projector. I know IMAX is film as well but it doesn't happen with their projectors probably because they run the film horizontally.
Of course they don't make HDTVs for computer content. You can watch videos from your computer easily enough since HDTVs I've seen have HDMI which you can get a DVI to HDMI adaptor for. If they made the TVs high enough resolution to use as a computer monitor then they'd be way too expensive. Just look at how much a 30 inch computer LCD is compared to a 30 inch TV even if the TV is LCD as well.
I can't say I'm surprised that it works since it's pin compatible but I think it's good news that this works so easily. It definately bodes well for future upgrades.
Of course I think 90% of the users of Vista know that but MS is getting SOOO far behind schedule they're basically giving up on completing it and just going to release it anyways.
Most of the energy in the oceean comes from the sun not the Earth itself. Until the sun burns out it's not going to be a problem and when that happens we'll have bigger problems assuming we're still on this planet.
Actually it's in the Finder menu as an alternative to emptying the trash. There's regular empty trash and there's secure empty trash which writes over your files multiple times. There's no key combo for it by default but you could probably assign one(haven't tried).
I was thinking about this and how Apple is going to handle people really wanting to delete stuff for sure. They can implement it with the secure delete option. Deleting the file/files that way will not cause them to be stored in the history of files if they do it like I'm thinking.
The Keynote and slide shows over iChat was really cool. I'm not sure that MS has anything comparable to that, but that's really a cool idea. It wouldn't work so well for embedded movies in presentations on most people's broadband connections but I'm sure it'd work great on business connections. It'd be really great for business people especially since they can be in another country(most countries east of North America having much faster internet speeds) giving a presentation to their boss or division.
Spotlight I could see that maybe they took the idea from Vista since that idea has been around for such a long time but I really don't think they copied the idea from TimeMachine since that feature of Vista has only been announced fairly recently I believe. Maybe I'm wrong but I remember just hearing about it on slashdot a few weeks ago at most.
I'm not suggesting they are ignorant just that before blatantly brushing it off that he can read about it and then comment. There's no reason why he couldn't take 2 minutes to look at it to see what the features are. His username is also MSFanBoi so I think he's probably pretty biased(not that I'm not but I don't comment about things I don't know about).
So what if it's out already. Do you see millions of average computer users using it? No, not at all. I'm sure you have to configure the stuff to work and it's probably a nightmare for any non IT admin. Apple brings it to the masses, and Vista supposedly will have this whenever it ships.
Ooooh I'm so scared of Apple with their TCM chip. Apple is using it only for copy protection so all your fear mongering is just FUD. CPUs have had a unique serial number for a long time. There's no abuse of this since it's been implemented on the chips and there's not going to be any in the future. What exactly do you think Apple is going to do on your computer? Steal your CC information, steal your emails to aunt Betty. Watch you spank it on your iSight. jeez.
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Amen. They're about as bad as the people saying "when will we ever get this at home?" in the stories about new data transfer speed records like the 14Tbit one a few days ago.
Troll much? I have a Sawtooth G4 with an upgraded CPU to 1.4GHz 1.5GB PC100 SDRAM and I can run the videos completely fine. They look as good as any SDTV rips I've downloaded. Your Powerbook if you even really have one has DDR RAM and a faster system bus than my computer and mine plays videos just fine.
There's more to it than just the core. There's all the rest of the CPU which includes cache(usually shared for dual core while separate on dual CPUs) and the rest of the interconnects for connecting to the motherboard and whatnot.
There's no update manager. It checks in the background to a URL that replies with the current version. App checks own version against this. How hard is that? It's a lot easier than having to write code to tie into some OS managed service. You even say the software provider has to provide the current latest version number. Why not have the application do it itself with probably less than 10 lines of code(Thanks to Cocoa it's really easy) than some other convoluted method. Apple even has an example of how to do this on their developer website.
Most programs have an auto update check themselves. It shouldn't be up to the OS to check every single program for updates it should be the program itself that should notify you of updates.
I always thought it meant stick your head up your ass so you have an asshat.
Bell Canada has their IPTV deployed in some condos in Toronto mostly. They're going very slow with their deployment since last year they had summer 2006 as the completion date and as far as anyone can tell they haven't really deployed much more since last year. They're upgrading their remote terminals but not installing a lot of IPTV over DSL yet. This might have to do with the MS software but I don't know.
I agree. If all the theatres were as good or close to IMAX then it'd be well worth the $12. As it is now all the film based projectors have wobbly images since the film seems to move back and forth a bit in the projector. I know IMAX is film as well but it doesn't happen with their projectors probably because they run the film horizontally.
Of course they don't make HDTVs for computer content. You can watch videos from your computer easily enough since HDTVs I've seen have HDMI which you can get a DVI to HDMI adaptor for. If they made the TVs high enough resolution to use as a computer monitor then they'd be way too expensive. Just look at how much a 30 inch computer LCD is compared to a 30 inch TV even if the TV is LCD as well.
I can't say I'm surprised that it works since it's pin compatible but I think it's good news that this works so easily. It definately bodes well for future upgrades.
Never heard of hard wood floors?
Of course I think 90% of the users of Vista know that but MS is getting SOOO far behind schedule they're basically giving up on completing it and just going to release it anyways.
Or your Powerbook catches fire on the airplane and you get arrested for being a terrorist.
Most of the energy in the oceean comes from the sun not the Earth itself. Until the sun burns out it's not going to be a problem and when that happens we'll have bigger problems assuming we're still on this planet.
Somewhat similar but shadow copy doesn't work for every change to the file, it only works on a schedule.
Actually it's in the Finder menu as an alternative to emptying the trash. There's regular empty trash and there's secure empty trash which writes over your files multiple times. There's no key combo for it by default but you could probably assign one(haven't tried).
OK, but in that case they don't use the TCM chip at all.
I was thinking about this and how Apple is going to handle people really wanting to delete stuff for sure. They can implement it with the secure delete option. Deleting the file/files that way will not cause them to be stored in the history of files if they do it like I'm thinking.
Sorry, but Apple doesn't even require a serial number so there's no way they're going to be able to do that.
What do you mean by popup folders? Is that different than what they have now with springloaded folders?
The Keynote and slide shows over iChat was really cool. I'm not sure that MS has anything comparable to that, but that's really a cool idea. It wouldn't work so well for embedded movies in presentations on most people's broadband connections but I'm sure it'd work great on business connections. It'd be really great for business people especially since they can be in another country(most countries east of North America having much faster internet speeds) giving a presentation to their boss or division.
Spotlight I could see that maybe they took the idea from Vista since that idea has been around for such a long time but I really don't think they copied the idea from TimeMachine since that feature of Vista has only been announced fairly recently I believe. Maybe I'm wrong but I remember just hearing about it on slashdot a few weeks ago at most.
I'm not suggesting they are ignorant just that before blatantly brushing it off that he can read about it and then comment. There's no reason why he couldn't take 2 minutes to look at it to see what the features are. His username is also MSFanBoi so I think he's probably pretty biased(not that I'm not but I don't comment about things I don't know about).
So what if it's out already. Do you see millions of average computer users using it? No, not at all. I'm sure you have to configure the stuff to work and it's probably a nightmare for any non IT admin. Apple brings it to the masses, and Vista supposedly will have this whenever it ships.
Ooooh I'm so scared of Apple with their TCM chip. Apple is using it only for copy protection so all your fear mongering is just FUD. CPUs have had a unique serial number for a long time. There's no abuse of this since it's been implemented on the chips and there's not going to be any in the future. What exactly do you think Apple is going to do on your computer? Steal your CC information, steal your emails to aunt Betty. Watch you spank it on your iSight. jeez.