And while we're at it: if the Americans call the "bonnet" of a car the "hood", what do they call a flap of fabric that goes over your head? (I kid, I kid)
You think its indisputable? Fair enough. I think it's arguable that the united States has the 22nd most free and open media community (circus) in the world. Here's a link to a journalist's association that have an interest in these matters:
Re:Reasons for using KDE/Gnome on OS X w/Finder
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KDE Running on Mac OS X
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Don't even get me started on the Finder's utterly, utterly useless "alt-tab" - what a pointless piece of crap. You simply _CANNOT_ switch windows with it, only applications
You're not supposed to switch windows with it: Command-tab to switch applications. Command-` (i.e Command- backtick) to switch windows in the foremost application. And they're changeable in the System Preferences, as is every key board shortcut IIRC, even some application specific ones.
Your points about inconsistency in the Apple interface are valid, and a sore point to the pre-OS X purists (I'm kind of one of them, but OS X now gives FAR more than it ever took away compared to OS 9,8,7,etc.), but RTFMH (Read the fine mac help), or buy a book.
Apple have figured out how to offload a massive amount of processing that would normally be done on the cpu to the gpu. Of course people can say that this has been done several times in the past 5 years, but the point is that AFAIK it hasn't been presented to programmers in a friendly, stable (even if OS dependent) manner. Fer cryin' out loud, Apple are waiting for the opportunity to flick a switch in the OS to allow every application to use this in its rendering path. This'll happen when they consider it stable enough, and when they consider enough of their hardware to support it.
Now that they've worked this out for standard gpus, I'd say Apple is positively itching to do it with the eight 'mini-gpus' basically living inside a stock G5 processor.
So these divisions will look to the programmer like function calls that shoot through data sets at an insane speed. Streaming is the key word: this stuff will be used - as the gpu currently currently can be used in 10.4 - to fling large floating-point data sets around and manipulate them like no current cpu can.
Apple will gobble up Cell processors at the earliest opportunity if they're allowed. How about a Mac Mini without a separate gpu, but with nearly the graphics performance of a machine equipped with an Nvidia 6800? Doing 1080p HDTV? Coupled to their rumoured iDownloadablemoviethingy? For a hundred bucks cheaper than the current Mac Mini? Of course this'll be after they juice their pro stuff up to the max.
Or maybe not. Who knows?
Re:Not just GPL, but also hardware clones at CeBIT
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GPL Violators On The Prowl
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For the love of pete! iPods support mp3 playback. And wavs. From Apple's site for the Shuffle:
'Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV'
And iTunes will convert (undrmed) wmas to something the iPod will play.
Where are people getting this idea that iPods don't support mp3s from?
This isn't an RTFA, as the submitter has already pointed out that the editors changed the link in the submission away from the interesting (to/.ers) article that he actually posted about:
Apple have included a standard interface for creating plug-ins in their new version of their (free!) IDE - XCode. There's even a pic of it in the article, which is here:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight. html
So the question is, in the great slashdot tradition: If there's a plug-in you want, why don't you write it yourself?:)
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And while we're at it: if the Americans call the "bonnet" of a car the "hood", what do they call a flap of fabric that goes over your head? (I kid, I kid)
You think its indisputable? Fair enough. I think it's arguable that the united States has the 22nd most free and open media community (circus) in the world. Here's a link to a journalist's association that have an interest in these matters:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715
You're not supposed to switch windows with it: Command-tab to switch applications. Command-` (i.e Command- backtick) to switch windows in the foremost application. And they're changeable in the System Preferences, as is every key board shortcut IIRC, even some application specific ones.
Your points about inconsistency in the Apple interface are valid, and a sore point to the pre-OS X purists (I'm kind of one of them, but OS X now gives FAR more than it ever took away compared to OS 9,8,7,etc.), but RTFMH (Read the fine mac help), or buy a book.
I'm fairly sure that there were pre-historic wars over drugs.
Apple have figured out how to offload a massive amount of processing that would normally be done on the cpu to the gpu. Of course people can say that this has been done several times in the past 5 years, but the point is that AFAIK it hasn't been presented to programmers in a friendly, stable (even if OS dependent) manner. Fer cryin' out loud, Apple are waiting for the opportunity to flick a switch in the OS to allow every application to use this in its rendering path. This'll happen when they consider it stable enough, and when they consider enough of their hardware to support it. Now that they've worked this out for standard gpus, I'd say Apple is positively itching to do it with the eight 'mini-gpus' basically living inside a stock G5 processor.
So these divisions will look to the programmer like function calls that shoot through data sets at an insane speed. Streaming is the key word: this stuff will be used - as the gpu currently currently can be used in 10.4 - to fling large floating-point data sets around and manipulate them like no current cpu can.
Apple will gobble up Cell processors at the earliest opportunity if they're allowed. How about a Mac Mini without a separate gpu, but with nearly the graphics performance of a machine equipped with an Nvidia 6800? Doing 1080p HDTV? Coupled to their rumoured iDownloadablemoviethingy? For a hundred bucks cheaper than the current Mac Mini? Of course this'll be after they juice their pro stuff up to the max.
Or maybe not. Who knows?
'Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV'
And iTunes will convert (undrmed) wmas to something the iPod will play.
Where are people getting this idea that iPods don't support mp3s from?
This isn't an RTFA, as the submitter has already pointed out that the editors changed the link in the submission away from the interesting (to /.ers) article that he actually posted about:
Apple have included a standard interface for creating plug-ins in their new version of their (free!) IDE - XCode. There's even a pic of it in the article, which is here:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight. html
So the question is, in the great slashdot tradition: If there's a plug-in you want, why don't you write it yourself? :)