So that tiny partition could be a small bit of flash memory or similar, such as Intel Robinson technology.
Hey does Mac OS X have a boot partition of it's own anymore or is the EFI partition the boot partition? Either way a couple of gig of flash 1 for the EFI partition the other for kernal/core os. That would give you fast boot and a flexable file system.
I would have thought Resolution Independance was a segnificant change that it demand a new name.
Mostly likely applications will need some degree of rework to take full advantage of such technology, sure the aqua layer in the new "Illuminus" system will probably offer some improvement for free, having two names to refer to the new and the old would avoid confusion as well as making a nice marketing name to tie the some what technical concept to.
Not sure who is the unwilling one here? Apple or Microsoft?
For Background: I'm in the last steps of installing measures that mean we can run a VB based Industry app. on our Mac Centric network. The app runs under X11 but the is hosted off a single Windows Box, and fairly well.
Think about how VB.net is used. Alot of the money making for MS from VB flavours as i understand is in enterprise, using it for development of Custom Business Apps, either as Database front ends or standalone. VB ties Enterprise to Windows, if They worked with Apple to support VB in OS X, especially if that support meant a look and feel close to cocoa applications, or even just better than under parrallels, then there is no reason not to have mixed enterprise environments, using Mac's and Windows, ditto on the Linux front. Every Mac sold is at least one windows box not sold as far as Microsoft is cercerned, where Bootcamp doesn't have the same market share issues.
As far as Apple is concerned every Mac sold is a Mac sold. Now this has to be balanced against does it hurt the brand image to lose the point of distinction. If they did support they would be relieing on providing enough compelling Mac features to encourage Mac development. That Said would imagine Apple would be keen to get support but would also understand it would need to be done well.
You know you could just write the app in one of the cross platform libraries or languages. I've heard good things about QT as an alternative for VB styles apps. I understand software like Sketchup is written in Ruby (maybe on rails) and the same code base is used for both Windows and Mac, just the GUI wrapper and compilling differ. Then again cocoa/ xcode can use a number languages, sure Obj-C is main one but that doesn't stop you using the majority of your existing C++ code base for the Mac version.
Hey once you have the Mac app nailed then Linux isn't far off either. or go the other way Linux then Mac.
To answer why write Mac native software have a look at software industry sales numbers. Mac users by good software and in numbers that suggest an installed base much higher than expected. Windows users buy Games, Office and highly specialised custom business databases.
Although technically the iPod can support WMA Apple just choice not to turn that feature on in the chip, i guess they never wanted to give Microsoft money and to offer a different product to market.
Seeing the biggest issue is licencing fees, i wonder if Apple could offer 99c downloadalbe firmwear upgrades. Let the comsummer decide what extra formats they want to use. It would be ironic if Apple licenced "plays for sure" as a one off fee option, now it's dead. It would be a great way to counter the threat, of people stupid enough to buy zune.
I mean if the mirror is going to act like a solar sail, then like a solar sail they would be pushed towards the atmosphere. So you either have to keep pumping energy in to keep them in orbit, or let them burn up (which can't be a good thing for life on earth) and fire new ones in to space all the time.
Seeing you are going making new ones all the time, and putting lots and lots of energy in to each one you might as well just fire them as far as possible towards the sun so you can use a much smaller area. Oh, but then your only going to get what 3-4 days out of each sail before it more to far out of the way.
Oh wait isn't is as stupid as the ice cube thing (thank you Futurama) . You can't use energy to solve our problem of using to much energy, by using more energy. Especially if dig that energy out of the ground then leave the by-products in the atmosphere.
Also a good trick is to hide a valid email address on your website. Even a few different ones obsured in different ways. Then work on the assumption that anything received by any of these addresses is spam.
When is beer every free? I'd really like to be at that place.
Even if my friend buys me a beer (which is about the freeest beer i can think of), then there is the expection i'll buy the next one. Sure good friends don't keep track but still it all evens out in the end.
The "triangle of Expectation" has been used in the construction industry for a long time as well. often the sides are labeled Time, Cost and Quality, but the idea is still the same. I've even seen builders put the diagram in tender submissions.
Some management guru has even gone on to say that for any given project the area of the triangle is always the same. so that the most effective project will be an equal angle triangle. The management guy was from the 70's so the idea has to be at least a 100years older than that.;-)
It is strange that is such a common thing yet it doesn't google an orgin.
Which is why it might be important for Apple to try a spread out a bit. Try and get themselves and iTunes on to the devices that are already connected to the TV, already have the network connection to stream of the Family computer, or hard drive to store there own library.
iTunes for Playstation, or Wii (maybe Xbox but you can't see MS going for it), would have to one of the next things you can happening. Might be politically hard to see Apple/Sony partnership thou.
It's USB fast becoming a sudo-standard for power on low voltage devices. sure it doesn't delivery enough power for say a laptop, yet my phone, iPod, digital Camera all come with a USB cable that not only sync's but charges the batteries.
Then there is Firewire which has a fairly meaty power supply in it top range spec, something like 90W for Firewire 1200. what's more firewire can handle your networking and other contectivity in one cable. would make a great plug for the plane seat.
Oh wait yet another two different cables dongles that promissed to get rid and the tangle but just ended up adding to the mess.
Um not sure why a touchscreen would need to pressure sentitive. After all current screen are touch sensitive to fake the effects of the brush or pen on the screen.
If apple use a multi touch screen that can see (via pixel elements) then it could see the shape of the pen or brush used, no need to fake it with pressure readings. Even better for painting via the screen, as natural as real media. Then again i don't think the device needs to be as good as high end product, but it does have to be better than what's on the market now to turn the people who would consider a Mac tablet into people who would buy a mac tablet.
I think there is a big market who would consider the device that would just laugh and walk away from everything on offer at the moment. Yet again the same could be said of MP3 players the week before the iPod was released.
Hey i'd love to see a mac tablet, i think Apple will do one once their technology check list all sorted out. Personnelly i think it close, but there is a few technologies that need to mature.
This might highlight that i'm a too much of a mac fanboy
Can't firewire do this already? What with Firewire over IP, and IP over Firewire(one cable network) Can you take a standard Firewire controller wire it to an Ethernet plug and get it work. or is it limited to only being accessable to one computer?
Indeed, but i would think the main market for this would be laptops. Where the value is in making the computer useable in the fastest time or lowest battery useage, hopefully both. Something like the UMPC/ PDA type tablet could boot without firing up the hard drive, till you need something on it. Then just use pretty graphics to get the user to not notice the wait (log in screen should do it).
Alot of data is write rarely read often, such as individual track info for media player, and the media player itself. Fire up the harddrive as soon as the user picks the media player app, by the time they have picked a tune the drive is ready to go.
Careful use of what user data goes on flash but backed up to magnetic could mean you have a system that might not even firing up the hard drive for 90% of user activity. Sure you have the max write cycle thing, but a well thought out system is not going to have a big issue with this.
If we don't have a First past the post system then what do you call it?
Each seat is won if 50% of the vote plus 1 vote. If no candidate gets to the post in the first rounds then the lowest one drops out and the second preference of those voters is considered, an so on until the post is reached.
And no we don't have a democracy, we just have a system that's reasonably close to one. After all a bill can be passed by the parliament, with the support of less than 20% of the population.
Our system isn't a true "First past the post" System as discribed by Wikipedia. We have Preference voting, so that after the primary round the lowest candiate drops out and the second preferenece of those voters is considered, and so on until someone does manage to get more than 50% support.
Come on be fair:-) we have first past the post electoral system here, that's been gerrymandered pretty well. So really only 5mil of those people elected the wrong leader. The rest are too young, shuffled into strangely shaped electorates, or just voted down the page.
All i can say for our Pollies If they don't like what's on TV or the Internetthingy maybe they should stop watching Maybe read a good. I could Recommend The Constitution, I think most of them need to brush up on it anyway.
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So that tiny partition could be a small bit of flash memory or similar, such as Intel Robinson technology.
Hey does Mac OS X have a boot partition of it's own anymore or is the EFI partition the boot partition?
Either way a couple of gig of flash 1 for the EFI partition the other for kernal/core os.
That would give you fast boot and a flexable file system.
I would have thought Resolution Independance was a segnificant change that it demand a new name.
Mostly likely applications will need some degree of rework to take full advantage of such technology, sure the aqua layer in the new "Illuminus" system will probably offer some improvement for free, having two names to refer to the new and the old would avoid confusion as well as making a nice marketing name to tie the some what technical concept to.
Not sure who is the unwilling one here? Apple or Microsoft?
For Background: I'm in the last steps of installing measures that mean we can run a VB based Industry app. on our Mac Centric network. The app runs under X11 but the is hosted off a single Windows Box, and fairly well.
Think about how VB.net is used.
Alot of the money making for MS from VB flavours as i understand is in enterprise, using it for development of Custom Business Apps, either as Database front ends or standalone. VB ties Enterprise to Windows, if They worked with Apple to support VB in OS X, especially if that support meant a look and feel close to cocoa applications, or even just better than under parrallels, then there is no reason not to have mixed enterprise environments, using Mac's and Windows, ditto on the Linux front. Every Mac sold is at least one windows box not sold as far as Microsoft is cercerned, where Bootcamp doesn't have the same market share issues.
As far as Apple is concerned every Mac sold is a Mac sold.
Now this has to be balanced against does it hurt the brand image to lose the point of distinction.
If they did support they would be relieing on providing enough compelling Mac features to encourage Mac development.
That Said would imagine Apple would be keen to get support but would also understand it would need to be done well.
You know you could just write the app in one of the cross platform libraries or languages.
I've heard good things about QT as an alternative for VB styles apps.
I understand software like Sketchup is written in Ruby (maybe on rails) and the same code base is used for both Windows and Mac, just the GUI wrapper and compilling differ. Then again cocoa/ xcode can use a number languages, sure Obj-C is main one but that doesn't stop you using the majority of your existing C++ code base for the Mac version.
Hey once you have the Mac app nailed then Linux isn't far off either. or go the other way Linux then Mac.
To answer why write Mac native software have a look at software industry sales numbers.
Mac users by good software and in numbers that suggest an installed base much higher than expected.
Windows users buy Games, Office and highly specialised custom business databases.
No AAC is locking you in with Dobly.
Apple only lock you with their DRM extension, and then only if you buy from the iTunes online store.
Although technically the iPod can support WMA Apple just choice not to turn that feature on in the chip, i guess they never wanted to give Microsoft money and to offer a different product to market.
Seeing the biggest issue is licencing fees, i wonder if Apple could offer 99c downloadalbe firmwear upgrades. Let the comsummer decide what extra formats they want to use. It would be ironic if Apple licenced "plays for sure" as a one off fee option, now it's dead. It would be a great way to counter the threat, of people stupid enough to buy zune.
Surely, mirrors in space is the wrong answer.
I mean if the mirror is going to act like a solar sail, then like a solar sail they would be pushed towards the atmosphere.
So you either have to keep pumping energy in to keep them in orbit, or let them burn up (which can't be a good thing for life on earth) and fire new ones in to space all the time.
Seeing you are going making new ones all the time, and putting lots and lots of energy in to each one you might as well just fire them as far as possible towards the sun so you can use a much smaller area. Oh, but then your only going to get what 3-4 days out of each sail before it more to far out of the way.
Oh wait isn't is as stupid as the ice cube thing (thank you Futurama) . You can't use energy to solve our problem of using to much energy, by using more energy. Especially if dig that energy out of the ground then leave the by-products in the atmosphere.
Of coarse you've had no complains.
Where would they send the complaint, if they can't figure out the address.
Also a good trick is to hide a valid email address on your website. Even a few different ones obsured in different ways.
Then work on the assumption that anything received by any of these addresses is spam.
When is beer every free?
I'd really like to be at that place.
Even if my friend buys me a beer (which is about the freeest beer i can think of), then there is the expection i'll buy the next one.
Sure good friends don't keep track but still it all evens out in the end.
And even then the correct way was a cut and paste quote.
The "triangle of Expectation" has been used in the construction industry for a long time as well.
;-)
often the sides are labeled Time, Cost and Quality, but the idea is still the same. I've even seen builders put the diagram in tender submissions.
Some management guru has even gone on to say that for any given project the area of the triangle is always the same. so that the most effective project will be an equal angle triangle.
The management guy was from the 70's so the idea has to be at least a 100years older than that.
It is strange that is such a common thing yet it doesn't google an orgin.
So in other words...
This doesn't worry Microsoft,..
It means more Xbox 360 sales.
Wouldn't a battery with a battery and a mechanical barometer inside it look suspect on the X-ray, as the bag passes inspection.
If Excel is there for being the killer app that drives Personel Computer use in business, instead of the mainframe/terminal model before that.
Then that place should really be taken by VisiCacl for the Apple II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
Sure in the end Excel won the war for Windows.
VisiCalc Started the trend.
Which is why it might be important for Apple to try a spread out a bit. Try and get themselves and iTunes on to the devices that are already connected to the TV, already have the network connection to stream of the Family computer, or hard drive to store there own library.
iTunes for Playstation, or Wii (maybe Xbox but you can't see MS going for it), would have to one of the next things you can happening. Might be politically hard to see Apple/Sony partnership thou.
It's USB fast becoming a sudo-standard for power on low voltage devices. sure it doesn't delivery enough power for say a laptop, yet my phone, iPod, digital Camera all come with a USB cable that not only sync's but charges the batteries.
Then there is Firewire which has a fairly meaty power supply in it top range spec, something like 90W for Firewire 1200. what's more firewire can handle your networking and other contectivity in one cable. would make a great plug for the plane seat.
Oh wait yet another two different cables dongles that promissed to get rid and the tangle but just ended up adding to the mess.
You mean to say that hasn't been Apple's business plan since Steve said to Steve.
"You know we could build a hobby computer to run this BASIC stuff"
Um not sure why a touchscreen would need to pressure sentitive. After all current screen are touch sensitive to fake the effects of the brush or pen on the screen.
If apple use a multi touch screen that can see (via pixel elements) then it could see the shape of the pen or brush used, no need to fake it with pressure readings. Even better for painting via the screen, as natural as real media. Then again i don't think the device needs to be as good as high end product, but it does have to be better than what's on the market now to turn the people who would consider a Mac tablet into people who would buy a mac tablet.
I think there is a big market who would consider the device that would just laugh and walk away from everything on offer at the moment. Yet again the same could be said of MP3 players the week before the iPod was released.
Hey i'd love to see a mac tablet, i think Apple will do one once their technology check list all sorted out.
Personnelly i think it close, but there is a few technologies that need to mature.
This might highlight that i'm a too much of a mac fanboy
Can't firewire do this already?
What with Firewire over IP, and IP over Firewire(one cable network)
Can you take a standard Firewire controller wire it to an Ethernet plug and get it work.
or is it limited to only being accessable to one computer?
Indeed, but i would think the main market for this would be laptops. Where the value is in making the computer useable in the fastest time or lowest battery useage, hopefully both. Something like the UMPC/ PDA type tablet could boot without firing up the hard drive, till you need something on it. Then just use pretty graphics to get the user to not notice the wait (log in screen should do it).
Alot of data is write rarely read often, such as individual track info for media player, and the media player itself. Fire up the harddrive as soon as the user picks the media player app, by the time they have picked a tune the drive is ready to go.
Careful use of what user data goes on flash but backed up to magnetic could mean you have a system that might not even firing up the hard drive for 90% of user activity. Sure you have the max write cycle thing, but a well thought out system is not going to have a big issue with this.
If we don't have a First past the post system then what do you call it?
Each seat is won if 50% of the vote plus 1 vote. If no candidate gets to the post in the first rounds then the lowest one drops out and the second preference of those voters is considered, an so on until the post is reached.
And no we don't have a democracy, we just have a system that's reasonably close to one.
After all a bill can be passed by the parliament, with the support of less than 20% of the population.
Our system isn't a true "First past the post" System as discribed by Wikipedia.
We have Preference voting, so that after the primary round the lowest candiate drops out and the second preferenece of those voters is considered, and so on until someone does manage to get more than 50% support.
Saddly there isn't a valid No preference.
Come on be fair :-)
we have first past the post electoral system here, that's been gerrymandered pretty well.
So really only 5mil of those people elected the wrong leader.
The rest are too young, shuffled into strangely shaped electorates, or just voted down the page.
All i can say for our Pollies
If they don't like what's on TV or the Internetthingy maybe they should stop watching
Maybe read a good.
I could Recommend The Constitution, I think most of them need to brush up on it anyway.