Looks very cool!
I can't remember the last time I used Illustrator.
I use Photoshop all the time though, too bad all this talent didn't go into the gimp.
E911 over VOIP is a funny, as in scarey, topic. I can't believe that this is being advertised as something that works. I have had a packet8 phone adapter for almost a year now, and it is the most unreliable P.O.S. I've ever used. This seems like a pretty simple technology, yet the implementation is terrible.
I had to upgrade firmware on my router and VOIP adapter before anything worked, and now sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, I get busy signals on local calls that aren't busy. It's pretty pathetic. I use it for a light use business phone mainly to try it out, and I am very disappointed.
Maybe someday it'll be a little more real, but for now it is criminal that they are advertising this as something to rely on in an emergency.
Not true, a lot of the "crappy" work is made a lot easier by the use of better toolkits - that is, Cocoa. Apple has some big apps written in C/Carbon from the past, but all the tedious system utilities and a lot of the new iApps are all written in Cocoa, which makes it a lot easier, more pleasant and actually fun to write GUI apps in.
The big problem the Linux desktop has is the lack of a real GUI toolkit. Argue all you want, Cocoa and the accompanying tools crush anything available for Linux (or anything else) when it comes to building nice looking apps quickly and easily. If Linux had something like Cocoa + IB + Xcode, you'd see the Linux desktop take off more. Until it happens, or until it gets enough market where people will slave over making decent apps (e.g. Windows), Linux apps will continue to look lame on the monitor. Stuff like Gnome, Qt, haha, what a joke. Sorry, flame all you want, it's true. Linux developers need to wake up, drop the tedious GUI API's, and create some modern tools.
This was a Pascal derivative invented by Control Data Corporation in the 80's. They wrote an entire operating system, NOS/VE, in it. It was a pretty nice system level language. The OS was pretty nice too, nothing like what most people are exposed to today, had a lot of nice security features and was well organized.
A NeXT cube can drive multiple displays, a 4bit grayscale display built onto the motherboard, and one or more NeXTDimension cards which will do 24bit color (up to 32bit internal w/ alpha driving 24bit to the monitor). So doing a color demo w/ a monochrome monitor nearby isn't far fetched at all. Steve typically used a cube w/ NeXTDimension since it was the "hottest" machine NeXT made.
Iron Soldier for the Atari Jaguar. I was living on the 7th floor of an apt. building in Cambridge at the time and would look from the balcony visualizing missles streaming from my shoulders.
We use inefficient heavy vehicles because it is the cheapest way for car manufacturers to design and manufacture cars, it has little to do with safety. Most "improvements" in car manufacturing are actually cost saving measures. Safety is largely tacked on later.
If we ALL drove lightweight cars with smaller engines, better handling and safer passenger compartments we'd all be better off.
We expend an awful lot of energy just hauling around giant hunks of steel, plastic and glass for our egos.
I have to wonder if the diversity of systems was an intentional choice of theirs way back to face these kinds of attacks or if it just grew that way from rapid growth and having their systems spread all over.
They survived the attack and "Oh yea, we MEANT for it to happen that way".
I think it's spin.
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Perhaps he should sit down and try Cocoa out while he's using OS X. ProjectBuilder/Xcode can generate a skeletel application that runs w/ no code. Interface Builder will generate code for your view, you fill in the drawing code. It's pretty damn easy and there are a lot of tutorials.
I think it is far easier for young people to get started these days and they have access to far more powerful tools and OS than the beginners of the past. I didn't get a Unix machine (NeXT) until I was 20, we have 5 year olds using it on a Mac now. The barrier to entry is far lower now than it ever was and it will continue to be.
The real problem is that there are far more people who know programming that you have to compete against for jobs...
The 30-inch Cinema HD Display is so big, it requires the next level of graphics technology. The NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card delivers, with the most advanced graphics engine available for Mac. This card, designed specifically to support the dual link DVI connection, delivers 2560 by 1600 resolution. Even better, it can drive two 30-inch displays, giving you the ultimate creative canvas. This $599 card will be available as a built to order option and as a standalone kit in August 2004
Two DVI ports, each supporting dual link, sounds like they got it right, as usual.
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The Cocotron (cocotron.org) project aims to implement Cocoa in a cross-platform fashion and is under the MIT license.
Isn't the guy who worked on the BeFS working at Apple now?
Order from Chaos : A Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life
Seriously, if you have kids, do them a favor and get rid of a lot of them. My father died and left truckloads of books, it is a curse.
Most of the history's greatest people didn't have electronics. Think about it.
Looks very cool! I can't remember the last time I used Illustrator. I use Photoshop all the time though, too bad all this talent didn't go into the gimp.
E911 over VOIP is a funny, as in scarey, topic. I can't believe that this is being advertised as something that works. I have had a packet8 phone adapter for almost a year now, and it is the most unreliable P.O.S. I've ever used. This seems like a pretty simple technology, yet the implementation is terrible.
I had to upgrade firmware on my router and VOIP adapter before anything worked, and now sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, I get busy signals on local calls that aren't busy. It's pretty pathetic. I use it for a light use business phone mainly to try it out, and I am very disappointed.
Maybe someday it'll be a little more real, but for now it is criminal that they are advertising this as something to rely on in an emergency.
Not true, a lot of the "crappy" work is made a lot easier by the use of better toolkits - that is, Cocoa. Apple has some big apps written in C/Carbon from the past, but all the tedious system utilities and a lot of the new iApps are all written in Cocoa, which makes it a lot easier, more pleasant and actually fun to write GUI apps in.
The big problem the Linux desktop has is the lack of a real GUI toolkit. Argue all you want, Cocoa and the accompanying tools crush anything available for Linux (or anything else) when it comes to building nice looking apps quickly and easily. If Linux had something like Cocoa + IB + Xcode, you'd see the Linux desktop take off more. Until it happens, or until it gets enough market where people will slave over making decent apps (e.g. Windows), Linux apps will continue to look lame on the monitor. Stuff like Gnome, Qt, haha, what a joke. Sorry, flame all you want, it's true. Linux developers need to wake up, drop the tedious GUI API's, and create some modern tools.
I have a Keyhole LT license and was invited to download Google Earth. It's not free, but pretty cheap.
Well said, glad I'm not the only one.
Considering eBay owns PayPal, what is the difference.
This was a Pascal derivative invented by Control Data Corporation in the 80's. They wrote an entire operating system, NOS/VE, in it. It was a pretty nice system level language. The OS was pretty nice too, nothing like what most people are exposed to today, had a lot of nice security features and was well organized.
yea, my mistake, if I could mod you up I would
A NeXT cube can drive multiple displays, a 4bit grayscale display built onto the motherboard, and one or more NeXTDimension cards which will do 24bit color (up to 32bit internal w/ alpha driving 24bit to the monitor). So doing a color demo w/ a monochrome monitor nearby isn't far fetched at all. Steve typically used a cube w/ NeXTDimension since it was the "hottest" machine NeXT made.
Check out Apple's upcoming CoreImage system if you're interested in uses of a video card for things other than video games:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/coreimage.html/
Iron Soldier for the Atari Jaguar. I was living on the 7th floor of an apt. building in Cambridge at the time and would look from the balcony visualizing missles streaming from my shoulders.
You can also get a USB remote control for iTunes on Windows, see www.streamzap.com
Don't forget this is the same guy who owned "mtv.com" back in the day.
http://www.loundy.com/CASES/MTV_v_Curry.html/
I would LOVE to have a wall mounted tablet running iTunes for my home stereo.
We use inefficient heavy vehicles because it is the cheapest way for car manufacturers to design and manufacture cars, it has little to do with safety. Most "improvements" in car manufacturing are actually cost saving measures. Safety is largely tacked on later.
If we ALL drove lightweight cars with smaller engines, better handling and safer passenger compartments we'd all be better off.
We expend an awful lot of energy just hauling around giant hunks of steel, plastic and glass for our egos.
a story about someone who booted Linux on the Disney PC.
"I like your flame job ... I'm just gonna give it a little touch up!"
I have to wonder if the diversity of systems was an intentional choice of theirs way back to face these kinds of attacks or if it just grew that way from rapid growth and having their systems spread all over.
They survived the attack and "Oh yea, we MEANT for it to happen that way".
I think it's spin.
Perhaps he should sit down and try Cocoa out while he's using OS X. ProjectBuilder/Xcode can generate a skeletel application that runs w/ no code. Interface Builder will generate code for your view, you fill in the drawing code. It's pretty damn easy and there are a lot of tutorials.
I think it is far easier for young people to get started these days and they have access to far more powerful tools and OS than the beginners of the past. I didn't get a Unix machine (NeXT) until I was 20, we have 5 year olds using it on a Mac now. The barrier to entry is far lower now than it ever was and it will continue to be.
The real problem is that there are far more people who know programming that you have to compete against for jobs...
From www.apple.com/displays:
The 30-inch Cinema HD Display is so big, it requires the next level of graphics technology. The NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card delivers, with the most advanced graphics engine available for Mac. This card, designed specifically to support the dual link DVI connection, delivers 2560 by 1600 resolution. Even better, it can drive two 30-inch displays, giving you the ultimate creative canvas. This $599 card will be available as a built to order option and as a standalone kit in August 2004
Two DVI ports, each supporting dual link, sounds like they got it right, as usual.
Obviously you've lost touch with games vs. reality.
Which is probably what they're terrified of.