i'll do you one better, and propose that everyone present live at the "news conference" (so to speak) should have their American citizenship revoked, or at least put on probation, since they don't seem to understand what that entails.
I can't think of a better reason to never get the movie off the ground, it'll mean the end of the phenomenon. Just keep talking about it, like it's in the works.
I assure you I have the exact same problem with Pro Tools. One quicktime update or one.1 upgrade to the OS and the whole thing goes kerfluy. All pro apps have this problem, Apple's, Adobe's, Avid's, everyones. People who run that software have to upgrade more often too, be they Mac or PC users. It's just the cost of doing business if you're in media.
If you were in a lab, particularly one with FCP on the rigs, why was software update turned on, and why didn't you reimage the machines when they pulled the bad update (you did keep a master image, right)? You'd've had this problem if, for example, an internet worm got onto your LAN, Mac, PC or otherwise, or some kid brought in a hard drive with an MBR virus (god how long it's been since I saw one of those!
I used to support a lab with a buncha G3s running Premiere 5.1 on OS9, so I know your pain. Pro apps simply require strictly-maintained environments.
This is interesting. The attitude might come from the perception that Leopard is actually giving users a bunch of new features they really want. Also, all of the machines excluded from this list are at least 5 years old, which is very old for a computer, and most of the people that own Macs are generally up to date within 2-3 years.
People who don't want to upgrade to Vista might be bitching in part because of the perception that it's somehow required, that it's a tax on them computing, which I don't necessarily think it true, but there it is. When a new Mac OS makes you upgrade, it's like telling someone with a 10-year-old BMW they need to buy a new one, and it's probably going to be cheaper than the one you bought before, and the new one will go faster and farther and run on biodiesel. When Microsoft tells you to upgrade, it's like the phone company telling you to buy a new phone, because the new ones come in designer colors, thus the customers have a bit of ambivalence.
Can they please please please rewrite the Finder and the associated Open/Save controls from scratch?
You do know you can just drag a file or folder over an open or save panel, and the panel's browser will jump to where it is, right? I notice some people complain that they can't rename files in the open and save panels, but I admit I don't find this a problem.
Hopefully the leopard finder will at the very least be properly multithreaded.
The Leopard Finder mounts filesystems with multithreaded autofs, and thus now shares and mounted WebDAV directories can be mounted, accessed, and accidentally disappear without causing the whole Finder to block.
In this glorious deregulated California market you can specify green power, just don't complain about the rolling blackouts (which hit you regardless of where you buy your electricity.):P In theory power grid deregulation was supposed to allow you to choose where you got your electricity from, but in practice it meant "as long as you bought it from Enron."
OTOH, It's not just about choosing who runs their lines to you. If you install solar panels on your roof, you'll essentially be buying around 50% of your power from yourself (carbon-free), depending on where you live and how much power you use during the day, though the initial cost is still pretty high. Same goes for a ground-loop air-conditioner, good insulation, really any technology that helps keep the energy you buy on your property. THAT stuff is where the big incentives should be.
Nobody's forcing you to like Al Gore; Insurance Companies are quite convinced they see a lot of downside risk in climate change going forward, and they're the ones that are going to see the bills first.
we deserve what we get -- which is the end of our superpower status
Except suddenly nuclear, wind and solar will have a competitive advantage over coal, oil and gas; there's no luck involved. Energy providers have to compete to provide the lowest cost per kWH, and if carbon costs money, energy producers have incentive to cut it.
Free CO2 in the air is gonna cost somebody a lot of money someday. Collecting a fixed amount for it at the time of origination is a way of containing the risk, since climate change is liable to be more expensive and less predictable.
I don't think anyone has ever discovered a ribosome moving toward a start codon, only toward the end of a DNA chain. Turing machines move in both directions on their tape.
No one has ever discovered a state table on a ribosome.
Ribosomes just copy anyways, they're more like a buffer on a port than a computational unit. Some of the enzymes that walk up and down DNA in the nucleus, patching over errors and controlling expression, on the other hand...
What I want to know is, how do I get ahold of a used Soyuz capsule? It would make just about the most awesome lawn decoration/flower planter possible;).
Or even a little piece of it; something big enough and flat enough to turn into a coffee table. I'm not picky.
Many claims are made in the above post but no numbers or specific citations. I am sensitive to this as an audio dev.
But since Audio seems to be important to you, Vista is the best consumer level OS for Audio/Video, as it implements the most robust Audio stack with realtime sync features that have only been seen in BeOS to date.
Could you be more specific? On OS X (since 10.2) CoreAudio has supported internal audio streams at arbitrary sample rates (any number that can be represented in a 64-bit float) and with up to 32 bit floating-point samples (the default mixers are actually deeper internally). All streams in the system are synchronized to the sample and streams may be linear-PCM, AC3 and all manner of MPEGs. A 3D Mixer AudioUnit with azimuth/altitude, pitch-shifting and reverb effects is available to the developer (in the case of games), or plain stereo/multichannel mixers are available; both have arbitrary numbers of inputs, of any sample rate, depth, or stream type (again synchronized to the sample through the Audio HAL).
But I'm sure Vista is much better, much better in so many ways!. I understand that the DirectShow does a bit with this, but DS is extremely limited unless you try to do stuff outside of the Graph editor, ie you actually have to code something, and then it gets insanely overcomplicated. Also DS is jammed full of DRM; Mac OS CoreAudio, on the other hand, has zero DRM technology built into it.
Go look up Sonar/Cakewalk, they produce some very popular sound software, and they also swear by Vista's new audio features bringing audio quality to new professional level beyond what XP had or what OS X can produce
They really don't have much of a choice, do they? They have to put the best face on the situation, even if there's no real improvement to the end-user experience.
Vista has more drivers for hardware than any other OS 'ever'. Even the 64bit version of Vista has more drivers for hardware than WindowXP 32bit does, and 32bit Vista has almost 2x the driver support already. This is nothing to sneeze at...
I'm not going to handicap Microsoft because they pre-installed a bunch of vendor drivers. Nor because Vista "had core subsystems changed". It's irrelevant to the question of the quality of the audio.
Why ClearType is broken, for those that are unawares. ClearType does optimize for a certain manner of on-screen presentation, but the cost is that font sizes and weight are completely screwed up and what you see is definitely not what will print.
It's only a holy war between people who don't do high-DPI outputs for a living.
And of course OpenType is itself a technology that Microsoft has been heavily involved in supporting, and is basically the de facto standard format for all professional fonts now.
As another pointed out, it's a standard only if you ignore Word documents as a delivery medium, which is a bit impractical (even if desirable).
I wonder where Apple had been if Chris Espinosa hadn't convinced the others that they should get rid of Steve for 12 years:(
$10 in the wallet of each of it's shareholders, maybe. If Jobs hadn't left Apple there'd be no NeXT, and if you have no NeXT, you have no OS X.
Jobs being forced from Apple made him re-evaluate a lot of things and really forced him to improve his business skills; his success had come to him all to easily the first time around.
I wonder where Microsoft would be if Gates had been forced out after Windows NT... Would Bill have started another business, bought a computer animation house, worked his way back to the top? Or would he have just settled for the $100 million or so he would take away? Would Microsoft have gone wayward without him, like Apple did when Jobs left? It's an interesting question. I think some of the problems Microsoft has stem from the fact that Gates and now Ballmer have never known a serious defeat in their professional lives during their stewardship of MS. They can spend billions on a product that never turns a profit and still consider it a success in their minds, and such minds are dangerous. With accounting the way it is, and with Office and Vista pouring fat streams of cash into their company daily, they might be correct, but only despite their ignorance of loss.
Spoken like someone who has never had to implement a multiple-file copy in a GUI. There are many non-trivialities involved.
Even grading them on a curve, OS X is able to do this without too much trouble. I have 6 figures worth of files on my boot drive and I am able to copy it whenever I need to make a copy (yes thru the GUI).
Setting this aside, we read from TFA:
It's only when the user checks the number of files in source and destination that they realize they have a problem.
Have error messages gone out of style, or are the Explorer devs in denial? If the app is running up against a limit or is running out of memory to complete an operation, it should be reporting so, loudly, and providing the user with options.
Global Darkening is actually a moderate problem, though it's actually caused by particulate pollutants in the atmosphere, not sunspots. The amount of light energy reaching the Earth over the last hundred years has been dropping slowly, until recently, when it started going up again -- as dirty pollution has been regulated and replaced with "cleaner" CO2 pollution.
There's a lot of concern among climatologists that global darkening has been masking the effects of global warming, and that as solar radiation on the surface goes up again, the effects of global warming might come upon us more severely and faster than our previous estimates.
I don't speak French, and the Wikipedia article doesn't say it's deprecated, just that you can't compile 64 bit code that links to it. 10.5 does not oblige developers to write 64 bit applications, it runs both.
It'd be pretty hard for Apple to eliminate Carbon, particularly the HIToolkit, the File and Event Managers, Menu Manager, and CoreFoundation (which is part of Carbon: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/newtocarbon/index.html), since it's the only UI-level C API they support for native widgets. All the stuff they've deprecated from Carbon was OS 9 stuff that you don't need to build an application, like the old Font Manager.
Part of the confusion is how Apple defines Cocoa and Carbon.. they really aren't platforms. To most devs, "Carbon" means "I used the C API" and "Cocoa" means "I used the Objective-C API," regardless of what the terms actually mean (I am aware that the two terms have a rather strict definition and people are often surprised to see what frameworks are or aren't included under a particular division. I have never endeavored to understand the distinction however.)
Surely you mean Classic, sir. Carbon is still supported and used happily, it is not deprectated, and if you want a MacOS GUI API in straight C, it's your only game.
Fun fact: During World War II Walt Disney Studios was a major pentagon contractor, taking tens of millions in contracts to make educational films and animations. The studio was declared a vital war resource, and anti-aircraft weapons were installed above the sound stages, and a navy admiral commandeered Walt's office for the duration of the war to monitor the output. The studio was flush with cash for the first time in its history, but Walt never recovered from the experience; he felt that the demands and deadlines of war work had ruined his high creative standards, and he never felt like he devote his perfectionism to film again. It was around this time he started thinking about theme parks. (Along this new line, Disney is now consulted to devise friendly and humanized customs/airport security queues.)
There is a precedent for "artistic" companies getting defense contracts, but then again, the civilian military leaders of the WW2 generation displayed a certain flair and originality, world-wiseness, and appreciation for the power of art.
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Yeah but now there's a document of names he has. If even the slightest infraction befalls these people they can claim it's retaliation.
OTOH these people aren't going to be good for inside information anymore.
He probably has all of his vendor applications in ~/Applications, or /Shared/Applications, which are on the partition he's keeping alive.
i'll do you one better, and propose that everyone present live at the "news conference" (so to speak) should have their American citizenship revoked, or at least put on probation, since they don't seem to understand what that entails.
I can't think of a better reason to never get the movie off the ground, it'll mean the end of the phenomenon. Just keep talking about it, like it's in the works.
I assure you I have the exact same problem with Pro Tools. One quicktime update or one .1 upgrade to the OS and the whole thing goes kerfluy. All pro apps have this problem, Apple's, Adobe's, Avid's, everyones. People who run that software have to upgrade more often too, be they Mac or PC users. It's just the cost of doing business if you're in media.
If you were in a lab, particularly one with FCP on the rigs, why was software update turned on, and why didn't you reimage the machines when they pulled the bad update (you did keep a master image, right)? You'd've had this problem if, for example, an internet worm got onto your LAN, Mac, PC or otherwise, or some kid brought in a hard drive with an MBR virus (god how long it's been since I saw one of those!
I used to support a lab with a buncha G3s running Premiere 5.1 on OS9, so I know your pain. Pro apps simply require strictly-maintained environments.
This is interesting. The attitude might come from the perception that Leopard is actually giving users a bunch of new features they really want. Also, all of the machines excluded from this list are at least 5 years old, which is very old for a computer, and most of the people that own Macs are generally up to date within 2-3 years.
People who don't want to upgrade to Vista might be bitching in part because of the perception that it's somehow required, that it's a tax on them computing, which I don't necessarily think it true, but there it is. When a new Mac OS makes you upgrade, it's like telling someone with a 10-year-old BMW they need to buy a new one, and it's probably going to be cheaper than the one you bought before, and the new one will go faster and farther and run on biodiesel. When Microsoft tells you to upgrade, it's like the phone company telling you to buy a new phone, because the new ones come in designer colors, thus the customers have a bit of ambivalence.
You do know you can just drag a file or folder over an open or save panel, and the panel's browser will jump to where it is, right? I notice some people complain that they can't rename files in the open and save panels, but I admit I don't find this a problem.
Hopefully the leopard finder will at the very least be properly multithreaded.The Leopard Finder mounts filesystems with multithreaded autofs, and thus now shares and mounted WebDAV directories can be mounted, accessed, and accidentally disappear without causing the whole Finder to block.
If it needs 11 dimensions in which to vibrate, how is it still a "string," or how is the model of a string still descriptive?
In this glorious deregulated California market you can specify green power, just don't complain about the rolling blackouts (which hit you regardless of where you buy your electricity.) :P In theory power grid deregulation was supposed to allow you to choose where you got your electricity from, but in practice it meant "as long as you bought it from Enron."
OTOH, It's not just about choosing who runs their lines to you. If you install solar panels on your roof, you'll essentially be buying around 50% of your power from yourself (carbon-free), depending on where you live and how much power you use during the day, though the initial cost is still pretty high. Same goes for a ground-loop air-conditioner, good insulation, really any technology that helps keep the energy you buy on your property. THAT stuff is where the big incentives should be.
Nobody's forcing you to like Al Gore; Insurance Companies are quite convinced they see a lot of downside risk in climate change going forward, and they're the ones that are going to see the bills first.
we deserve what we get -- which is the end of our superpower statusThat was going to happen regardless of anything.
Except suddenly nuclear, wind and solar will have a competitive advantage over coal, oil and gas; there's no luck involved. Energy providers have to compete to provide the lowest cost per kWH, and if carbon costs money, energy producers have incentive to cut it.
Free CO2 in the air is gonna cost somebody a lot of money someday. Collecting a fixed amount for it at the time of origination is a way of containing the risk, since climate change is liable to be more expensive and less predictable.
Minor quibbles:
I don't think anyone has ever discovered a ribosome moving toward a start codon, only toward the end of a DNA chain. Turing machines move in both directions on their tape.
No one has ever discovered a state table on a ribosome.
Ribosomes just copy anyways, they're more like a buffer on a port than a computational unit. Some of the enzymes that walk up and down DNA in the nucleus, patching over errors and controlling expression, on the other hand...
What I want to know is, how do I get ahold of a used Soyuz capsule? It would make just about the most awesome lawn decoration/flower planter possible ;).
Or even a little piece of it; something big enough and flat enough to turn into a coffee table. I'm not picky.
Many claims are made in the above post but no numbers or specific citations. I am sensitive to this as an audio dev.
But since Audio seems to be important to you, Vista is the best consumer level OS for Audio/Video, as it implements the most robust Audio stack with realtime sync features that have only been seen in BeOS to date.Could you be more specific? On OS X (since 10.2) CoreAudio has supported internal audio streams at arbitrary sample rates (any number that can be represented in a 64-bit float) and with up to 32 bit floating-point samples (the default mixers are actually deeper internally). All streams in the system are synchronized to the sample and streams may be linear-PCM, AC3 and all manner of MPEGs. A 3D Mixer AudioUnit with azimuth/altitude, pitch-shifting and reverb effects is available to the developer (in the case of games), or plain stereo/multichannel mixers are available; both have arbitrary numbers of inputs, of any sample rate, depth, or stream type (again synchronized to the sample through the Audio HAL).
But I'm sure Vista is much better, much better in so many ways!. I understand that the DirectShow does a bit with this, but DS is extremely limited unless you try to do stuff outside of the Graph editor, ie you actually have to code something, and then it gets insanely overcomplicated. Also DS is jammed full of DRM; Mac OS CoreAudio, on the other hand, has zero DRM technology built into it.
Go look up Sonar/Cakewalk, they produce some very popular sound software, and they also swear by Vista's new audio features bringing audio quality to new professional level beyond what XP had or what OS X can produceThey really don't have much of a choice, do they? They have to put the best face on the situation, even if there's no real improvement to the end-user experience.
Vista has more drivers for hardware than any other OS 'ever'. Even the 64bit version of Vista has more drivers for hardware than WindowXP 32bit does, and 32bit Vista has almost 2x the driver support already. This is nothing to sneeze at...I'm not going to handicap Microsoft because they pre-installed a bunch of vendor drivers. Nor because Vista "had core subsystems changed". It's irrelevant to the question of the quality of the audio.
Why ClearType is broken, for those that are unawares. ClearType does optimize for a certain manner of on-screen presentation, but the cost is that font sizes and weight are completely screwed up and what you see is definitely not what will print.
It's only a holy war between people who don't do high-DPI outputs for a living.
And of course OpenType is itself a technology that Microsoft has been heavily involved in supporting, and is basically the de facto standard format for all professional fonts now.As another pointed out, it's a standard only if you ignore Word documents as a delivery medium, which is a bit impractical (even if desirable).
Hitting escape reverts the file name on my rig (running 10.4.10). Click on file twice, slowly, type letters, hit escape. The name reverts.
Even if you accidently hit enter, Apple-Z will undo it.
$10 in the wallet of each of it's shareholders, maybe. If Jobs hadn't left Apple there'd be no NeXT, and if you have no NeXT, you have no OS X.
Jobs being forced from Apple made him re-evaluate a lot of things and really forced him to improve his business skills; his success had come to him all to easily the first time around.
I wonder where Microsoft would be if Gates had been forced out after Windows NT... Would Bill have started another business, bought a computer animation house, worked his way back to the top? Or would he have just settled for the $100 million or so he would take away? Would Microsoft have gone wayward without him, like Apple did when Jobs left? It's an interesting question. I think some of the problems Microsoft has stem from the fact that Gates and now Ballmer have never known a serious defeat in their professional lives during their stewardship of MS. They can spend billions on a product that never turns a profit and still consider it a success in their minds, and such minds are dangerous. With accounting the way it is, and with Office and Vista pouring fat streams of cash into their company daily, they might be correct, but only despite their ignorance of loss.
Even grading them on a curve, OS X is able to do this without too much trouble. I have 6 figures worth of files on my boot drive and I am able to copy it whenever I need to make a copy (yes thru the GUI).
Setting this aside, we read from TFA:
It's only when the user checks the number of files in source and destination that they realize they have a problem.Have error messages gone out of style, or are the Explorer devs in denial? If the app is running up against a limit or is running out of memory to complete an operation, it should be reporting so, loudly, and providing the user with options.
Global Darkening is actually a moderate problem, though it's actually caused by particulate pollutants in the atmosphere, not sunspots. The amount of light energy reaching the Earth over the last hundred years has been dropping slowly, until recently, when it started going up again -- as dirty pollution has been regulated and replaced with "cleaner" CO2 pollution.
There's a lot of concern among climatologists that global darkening has been masking the effects of global warming, and that as solar radiation on the surface goes up again, the effects of global warming might come upon us more severely and faster than our previous estimates.
In the words of Saint Homer: "Lisa, I'd Like to buy your rock."
I don't speak French, and the Wikipedia article doesn't say it's deprecated, just that you can't compile 64 bit code that links to it. 10.5 does not oblige developers to write 64 bit applications, it runs both.
It'd be pretty hard for Apple to eliminate Carbon, particularly the HIToolkit, the File and Event Managers, Menu Manager, and CoreFoundation (which is part of Carbon: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/newtocarbon/index.html), since it's the only UI-level C API they support for native widgets. All the stuff they've deprecated from Carbon was OS 9 stuff that you don't need to build an application, like the old Font Manager.
Part of the confusion is how Apple defines Cocoa and Carbon.. they really aren't platforms. To most devs, "Carbon" means "I used the C API" and "Cocoa" means "I used the Objective-C API," regardless of what the terms actually mean (I am aware that the two terms have a rather strict definition and people are often surprised to see what frameworks are or aren't included under a particular division. I have never endeavored to understand the distinction however.)
Surely you mean Classic, sir. Carbon is still supported and used happily, it is not deprectated, and if you want a MacOS GUI API in straight C, it's your only game.
I'd be happy to give one my loft rent free for a year, as long as I get 50% of his book deal ;).
Fun fact: During World War II Walt Disney Studios was a major pentagon contractor, taking tens of millions in contracts to make educational films and animations. The studio was declared a vital war resource, and anti-aircraft weapons were installed above the sound stages, and a navy admiral commandeered Walt's office for the duration of the war to monitor the output. The studio was flush with cash for the first time in its history, but Walt never recovered from the experience; he felt that the demands and deadlines of war work had ruined his high creative standards, and he never felt like he devote his perfectionism to film again. It was around this time he started thinking about theme parks. (Along this new line, Disney is now consulted to devise friendly and humanized customs/airport security queues.)
There is a precedent for "artistic" companies getting defense contracts, but then again, the civilian military leaders of the WW2 generation displayed a certain flair and originality, world-wiseness, and appreciation for the power of art.
(Read it in Neal Gabler's book on Disney).
Here's a link for tethering -- doesn't use proxying, like some others...
http://nsgn.net/better_iphone_tethering/